Thorns Vs. Emperor
Original Version Double CD Version Rerelease Version 1. Emperor - Exördium 3:00 1. Emperor - Exördium 3:00 1. Emperor - Exördium 3:00 2. Thorns - Æerie Descent 8:34 2. Thorns - Æerie Descent 8:34 2. Thorns - Æerie Descent 8:34 3. Emperor - I Am 5:04 3. Emperor - I Am 5:04 3. Emperor - I Am 5:04 4. Emperor - Ærie Descent 6:06 4. Emperor - Ærie Descent 6:06 4. Emperor - Ærie Descent 6:06 5. Emperor - Thus March The Nightspirit 5:40 5. Emperor - Thus March The Nightspirit 5:40 5. Emperor - Thus March The Nightspirit 5:40 6. Thorns - Melas Khole 6:31 6. Thorns - Melas Khole 6:31 6. Thorns - Melas Khole 6:31 7. Thorns - The Discipline Of Earth 7:40 7. Thorns - The Discipline Of Earth 7:40 7. Thorns - The Discipline Of Earth 7:40 8. Thorns - Cosmic Keys 6:12 8. Thorns - Cosmic Keys 6:12 8. Thorns - Cosmic Keys 6:12 9. Thorns - You That Mingle May 2:48 10. Thorns - The Discipline Of Earth (pre-production mix) 6:45 11. Thorns - Ærie Descent (pre-production mix) 6:28 --- Disk Two: Thorns 1989-91 Rehearsals: The Trøndertun Tape & Grymyrk --- 1. Ærie Descent 5:00 2. Funeral Marches To The Grave 5:18 3. Lovely Children 3:29 4. Fall 2:20 5. Thule 6:52 6. Fairytales 4:02 7. Home 6:43 8. You That Mingle May 2:40 total time 48:47 total time 1:25:15 total time 64:48
Exordium [Music & arrangements: Ihsahn & Emperor] I am The Emperor Aerie Descent [Music by S.W. Krupp and SA Titan, lyrics by S.W. Krupp] You sought cures that never were That cripples the bile in your veins The moon shone with a fuller red And the skin stretched pale on your bones Offering all it's untender care The form took home in your souls I Am [Music & Arrangements: Ihsahn & Emperor] [with themes from "Fall" by Thorns] Death I am The Emperor I am The Emperor I am The Emperor I am The Emperor Aerie Descent [Music & lyrics: Snorre Ruch] By the moons, heist, and all of the light Above the earth he rode He seeks that which never was And never to become The moon rose it was crimson in color It lighted some coming form That once crushed so many of them It ever comes again And again, and again And again, and again And again, and again The moon shone with a fuller red Was it cursed to be drawn to the earth? What once has been shall be no more Dead in graves is heist It is In graves [Spoken:] Oh lord I kneel before the secret council I form these reckonable words of iniquity For my enemies be against me And they have led ways for my soul to be consumed together Defend me from he that rises up against me Save me from he that raids our homes and follows my path below the frozen moon For he lay in wait for my soul And desires to take it down a firey pit Heist descends to the world Fed alone by our souls See your perished form So by the stone it crushed their faith Their kingdom lost The moon rose it was crimson in color To remain What once crushed so many, alone It ever comes again And again, and again And again, and again And again, and again Thus March The Nightspirit [Original music & arrangements: Ihsahn] [Classical arrangement & performance: Ihsahn] [instrumental] Melas Khole [Music and lyrics by S.W. Krupp)] You must ? a purpose for your pain And are you the one that hope repeatedly betrays? Have you lost your way? ? company ? moral left behind I Am ? Melas Khole Hope is a serum that never heals The Discipline Of Earth [Music by S.W. Krupp and SA Titan, lyrics by S.W. Krupp] The dead sink to hell Upheld by strings of gold hang the sacred stars in the sky The dead sink to hell Deep down in the black slime of this earth restless limbs are at work Deep down beneath the dark tar of this land decrepit lungs crave air A thousand empty eyes endlessly seeking the invisible stars Cosmic Keys [The original "Cosmic Keys To My Creations & Times" by Samoth & Ihsahn. Re-written by S.W. Krupp] I have seen the secrets Of creation and time The key is to be found In a deterministic principle. I used the key Of fourth dimension And I found that Time is movement. One can turn direction Of the omnicalculation Then all mathematics Are possible to reverse. I have seen the secrets To the nature of life Life is pattern, repetition. Lyrics in plain text format