DARK TRANQUILLITY "TRAIL OF LIFE DECAYED" demo '91. BEYOND ENLIGHTENMENT (lyrics: Sundin) Now oppression stalks the remnants of compassion, brewing hatred to surface in wicked actions Cloaked in peace and mercy, force their false confessions Sentenced am I dying, cleansed from all salvation "Defy our accusations and a certain death you'll meet A fool denies the obvious, and fools we shall defeat" All sanity now vanquished, ever mould beyond control My guilt stands yet unproven though they still demand my fall Demand my fall Blood runs beyond enlightenment at inquisition's hands Vicious burn the fires swiftly out of hand Now my fate lies in their "hands of liberation" forming law and justice into obscuration leading lies ensuring my life ceased in fire, In the name of peace, to cleance my dark desires "You stand accused of herasy and all what that implies With darkened minds you summon those who're fallen from the skies" Envenomed bleed their poisoned hearts, the power they've abused A deadly game of envy in which my life I'll lose Blood runs beyond enlightenment at inquisition's hands Vicious burn the fires swiftly out of hand Shackled, fettered - choking as I drown Fooled and tortured - confess comitted crimes Shackled, fettered - choking as I drown Fooled and tortured - confess comitted crimes Sentenced by superstition - my innocense denied Truth is strange than fiction - religious genocide Alone in blind desperation, I face my mournful death In flames I meet termination, but my memory will be left VERNAL AWAKENING (lyrics: Sundin) Enthroned through this age of confusion an urge, the weakness and flooy since aeons emerged, Created life in fetters from cradle to grave A future in darkness with mankind enslaved Trail of life decayed - wasteland whall prevail Hatred lies in store - chaos evermore So runs the spiel from where lives are found and lost: "Learn from past failures - prevent to pay the cost" Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm When our time spells an end to our ruling of this earth, will a wasteland remain? Will all life cease to be by the wicked ways of man - his enfeebled domain? Nature left in flames - Suffering, now to maim Cataclysm at hand - unveiled unto man So runs the spiel from where lives are lost and found: "Progression in spirit eliminates all bounds" Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm Hallow minds start to burn with the flaming shades of fall let disorder arise! An avenge to be brought to the ones who graveled earth hides now cloaked in disguise Blind deception, mass confusion - interbreeding dark illusions Tumbelling, falling, brings conclusions - constant fatal life-corrosion Autumn - beckons forth the winter - rising gloom in hand Raging with bleak coldness 'til vernal light commands Final chapter closed - world devoid of use Failure brings despair - death reveals its lair Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm VOID OF TRANQUILLITY (lyrics: Sundin, Stanne) In orbit they pass around you - the memories from abandoned past Images from within your mind bring unknown feelings into your veins Delve into thy twillight past, a voyage done before The borderland 'twixt life and death - existing evermore Emerging from material guise - an ever-living soul Thy spirit lives forever more, in spite of aim or goal The forces of your vital mind deteriates vagely as you're about to pass away The darkness that surrounds you fades... You reach out to touch, to feel the eternal forgivness for thy impure soul Desperation fills your mind - approach the centre Centre of infernal salvation and infernal death Enter to the plain of life, to knowledge loomed through time An ever-living certainty where life is formed to chime Foolishness and wisdom walk gently hand hand in hand Embraced in darkest universe as contraries blend as one Fear fills your mind on this ongoing journey journey to a thousand secrets untold Credlous at first to this place of wonder Wonder's so real - it could be an illusion Through dark veils of destiny - Realm of shades revealed Through dark veils of destiny - Infinite life concealed Your soul now levitates slowly and below your body fades Your conciousness remains but thy skin will soon rot away Visions from an obscure rality appear as your soul departs This once so undisturbed and now frail and feeble world Brought forth, the abyss now appears - foulmouthed temptations call me near Dark visions laughing over me - if swollowed I will cease to be Tempted to this world beyond - eager to break the bond The sacred promise of an earthly stay - now broken as you writhe in dismay Come to where all life descends in brimful harmony Cautious, interlacing, they engrave what they shall be All bounds cannot be broken or confusion will prevail - lifeless dark eternity of chaos and despair Indescribable light descends between spheres Spheres that behold that nondescript fear Thought of the sins that were done in the past the past is forgotten and the present will last Through dark veils of destiny - Realm of shades revealed Through dark veils of destiny - Infinite life concealed Floating through these halls of light, emotions burst within Pure beauty of divinity enrobes remaining sin Alone, enthralled, I bow this force, paternal majesty Freed from anguish, freed from hate - into my destiny Into the void of tranquillity Through the rise and fall of worlds, one greater mind prevails Conjuring new creations as it watches the old ones fail Eternal coil of time and place - reality and tale The answers to all questions hide within this astral vale Passed through tranquillity - aeons now flow away Claimants of destiny - death can no more hold sway Forced to return - departure of soul Material world - arrival as told