Borknagar True North 1. Thunderous Up high and far away, where the air is clear A vast horizon shimmers The cold wind seems to carry the light away As the earth's rotation closes the day Beyond the towering peaks Recurring shadows bow deep Into the raging rivers The ground runs cold and hard Throughout the dark season Roots grow deep in order to keep Clinging to the gusty plains The wind hushes the earth to sleep. The ebb and flow of growth and regression Seasons build, seasons tear down The northern hammer Keeps beating, beating Hear the echoes rumble Summers reveal, winters conceal The thunderous sky oversees it all Up high and far away, where the air is clear Vast horizon call The mighty force of winter Shapes a merciless scenery Throughout the dark seasons Roots grow deep in order to keep Clanging to the gusty plains The wind hushes the earth to sleep. The ebb and flow of growth and regression Seasons build, seasons tear down The northern hammer Keeps beating, beating Hear the echoes rumble Across the thunderous sky 2. Up North There´s a place where the Summer will be As a legend long gone set free And this warms me beautifully Where the sun cast shadows at night Where the day and evenings are bright The place where i belong Up North! Where the pine trees meet the sea Where the stormy sky will sing for me The place i wanna be Up north Fall my favorite season Death and rain and rain and rain Falling leaves and fallen stars As fallen men go back to start Death as life we hail Alone but not alone we sail Death give life and lead the way All energy remain Then Winter its you and me The winter is home to the dead alone With you i´ll sleep with ease Take a moment to reflect and be Who you are and you are just another icebergs tip at sea You will melt eventually And the ocean will rise and the sun crystallize you for the aftermath to see The spark of true eternity Clean as a new start set me free In your wisdom i`m lost what do i know of frost But i trust you know lost is lost Winter she is unforgiving as faith And then Spring you will shake Speed the circle and brake And create and create and create And the circle is now complete No end for an end to meet Nothing is obsolete Up North no end no end for an end to meet no end no end for an end to meet 3. The Fire That Burns The fire that burns The light that governs the heat Igniting the passion, the eternal appetite For things to come, For thoughts to create The spark that glimmers So that visions appear in a flash Initiating the chain reaction, Culminating in the very fuel That drives us on The independent nature of man A creator and destroyer Deeply rooted, widely spread The will to strive, the need to push The fire that burns and devours The relentless determination, The adventures of the mind And the conquest of the flesh Rise to the summit in perpetual motion The will to thrive, the will to leap Above the highest peak The will to swim Beneath the lowest deep 4. Lights When the dotted lights Crawl like bugs On the canvas high above All I love And the answer's in my sheets I forget about tomorrow And my sorrow Leave it to the great painter To open the world and my mind Leave it to my mind To expand on his creation Freedom exists on a greater scale Beyond the dome above In the morning light In the morning light The air vibrates With awareness So now that you see me A servant in the snow And now that you hear me I broke free long ago I took the world and broke it up To force it down I picked the pieces up And wore them like a crown And my light shone through forever And the sky would never hold And my light shone through forever And the sky would never hold I took the world and broke it up To force it down I picked the pieces up And wore them like a crown My heroes They all died so long ago My heroes All died so long ago 5. Wild Father's Heart Awakened by a thumping heart growing in his chest Impulse of generations free sounding in on men Calling him all ready To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above There's a time a time for all No man's in memory Eyes are glowing Life and possibility Wild father's heart There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above Reason and reverence Lot of flowing him and knows who follows Wild father's heart Driven by natures excellence Wild father's Wild father's heart There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above 6. Mount Rapture Mankind's constructed fallacy Aggressively upheld a reality Fit for an age without questions. But these constructions of delusion now crumble And the candour of nature prevails Over eons of irrationality A new complexity rises Crashing waves violently force themselves Into stagnant waters of old As progression descends, Serving us evolution on a plate Mankind's infancy is over Our vision is finally clear We've reached the summit, The zenith of our mountain And the clouds of delusion Are finally beneath us Mount rapture crumbles Fashioned worlds corrode, Stale ignorance implodes Reality shines through The bewilderment of old Man derives from the great old blue From mankind's disavowal Grew confusion, grew delusion In a haze From human curiosity and logic, Reason and clarity are born 7. Into the White They left it all behind Crawling through the snow Every peak a spear piercing the sky In the twilight glow The blinding white Swallowed them whole The freezing wind drained them of all life Then left them cold Still somehow A faint signal A point of focus Breaks the monochromy Life in a flash of red Pushing the white death Aside for just a little longer Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Heat is white and they can not find their way Back into reason, into their lives (Into the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) When there's nothing left to save But an empty shell You sink into the white You sink into the white (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness So the winter finally brought them home Into the white Into the white Into the white Into the white 8. Tidal The ancient trails ahead Beat through the barren plains Wandered by man and beast Since the dawn of time Towards the sun, towards the moon They strode, As do I To claim our stellar home - under the dome We have walked these paths before, We are standing on the shoulders Of our fathers, of our mothers, And their world of lore The olden seas bellow, Raging as they beat the shore Lifting me with a threat into calmer waters, Leading me towards my haven, towards the sands Our ancient retreat underneath the stars We have sailed the seas before We reached them through the rivers, Through the icy waters of the moors And age-old peaks above In our chase through the steep ravines We have sought to see, we have strained to be free We have charged towards smooth waters, Towards new horizons and our land of old Under the stellar dome I have seen these lights before The moon, the stars, Our place within the lore 9. Voices There are voices - in the air There are voices - in the air They always find me, oh they find me No matter where I go There are voices - in my head There are voices - in my head They won't leave me, never leave me No matter where I go There are chains now - in the field There are chains now - in the field There's no freedom, no freedom There's no freedom in the field There are voices - in the air They always find me - in the air There are voices, oh there are voices No matter where I go There are voices - in my head There are voices - in my head They won't leave me, they won't leave me No matter where I go And there are chains now - in the field Yes there are chains now - in the field So there's no freedom, no freedom There's no freedom in the field There are voices - in the air There are voices - in the air They always find me, oh yes they find me No matter where I go I will lay there - in the field With the voices - in the air When I finally draw my last breath I will lay there - in the field When I finally stop to breathe When I finally stop to breathe All the voices - all the voices Will only linger in the field Will only linger in the field Will only linger in the field 10. Wild Father's Heart (Instrumental Demo Version) 11. Up North (Demo Version)