Insomnium - Heart like a Grave
Original Version 2CD Version 1. Wail of the North 3:05 1. Wail of the North 3:05 2. Valediction 5:05 2. Valediction 5:05 3. Neverlast 4:46 3. Neverlast 4:46 4. Pale Morning Star 8:58 4. Pale Morning Star 8:58 5. And Bells They Toll 6:01 5. And Bells They Toll 6:01 6. The Offering 5:00 6. The Offering 5:00 7. Mute Is My Sorrow 6:02 7. Mute Is My Sorrow 6:02 8. Twilight Trails 7:06 8. Twilight Trails 7:06 9. Heart like a Grave 7:05 9. Heart like a Grave 7:05 10. Karelia 7:49 10. Karelia 7:49 --- Bonus Disk --- 1. The True Morning Star 3:06 2. Karelia 2049 6:43 total time 60:57 total time 1:10:45
1. Wail of the North Under these cold northern stars Songs are filled with sorrow Brief is the time of summer winds Moon is sad as the night Here the callous frost slowly crawls inside the hearts Here the winter's breeze will break the purest soul Grown on this rimed soil we've learnt to rue and yearn Grown in these bleak woods we've learnt to forsake our dreams And again, the mourning unfolds before me Like an open black grave (Like an open black grave) 2. Valediction Underneath the blackest soil I lay down my warm, beating heart And deep beneath the frozen ground I bury down my deepest thoughts Because the road I've chosen Is free of fortune and desire Or the mundane toil and worry Because the trail I've taken Leads down into the darkest shores Where the stars have passed away Tonight, the world is burning Black smoke hides the skies Tonight, dark clouds rising up Swirling, shadows engulf the land Shadows engulf the land By the side of forsaken path I leave behind my old shadow Into the deep under these shores I drown my broken memories Because the road I've chosen Is free of fortune and desire Or the mundane toil and worry Because the trail I've taken Leads down into the darkest shores Where the stars have passed away 'Cause tonight, the world is burning Black smoke hides the skies Tonight, dark clouds rising up Swirling, shadows engulf the land Shadows engulf the land For something to change Something has to give For something to grow Something has to yield (I kiss the light goodbye) 'Cause tonight, the world is burning Black smoke hides the skies Tonight, dark clouds rising up Swirling, shadows engulf the land Shadows engulf the land 3. Neverlast When you revel and feast Bask in victories When you ravish the crown Claim the godly reward Do not forget the lurking crows Sitting on the gallows Looming against the sky Waiting for your demise Soon on the scaffold The king will stand For the mirth and glory Will never last For the love and ardor Will never dure When you behold her glow Fairness and the grace When you can feel her warmth Blazing right beside you Do not forget the unkind fate Doom that hangs upon you All here is meant to end It's only temporary Even the fairest flower Will soon die For everything is meant to end Nothing here is built to last When you long to touch the sun Grab the sphere of divine clouds Don't forget that if you reach the utmost peak Then the fall down shall hurt even more 4. Pale Morning Star Long is the trail of the day Into the lap of the evening dusk Sweetest the hour of sleep For I am weary of sorrow and pain Into the tender night I now lapse Into the slumber so sound and deep Arching over the ravines of time Bridge into the shrouded lands For you left before me My pale morning star Now you walk in undying light And I'm still chained in this rimed soil When twilight wreathes my senses The heavenly ones will linger here Right here by my feverish side The ghosts of those I loved Gone is the cruelest longing now Undone this grief of mine For you left before me My pale morning star Now you walk in undying light And I'm still chained in this rimed soil And still I can sense you Still I can hear your voice Still I quiver under your touch Celestial shine in your hair Empyreal crown upon your brow Radiance blurs my teary eyes Broken is the sphere of the body As the spirit will ascend Broken is the sphere of the body As the spirit will ascend Over the infinite boundaries Over the gulches of death Once you carried me From the night into the sun And now I follow your steps Into the unseen land Sore are these weary eyes When I pass into the light Blinding the eternal glow After the long path in the dark Wide awake amidst the dream I stand by your side I tremble before your gleam My pale morning star I stand by your side My pale morning star 5. And Bells They Toll Lonely path across the marshland Leads to a forlorn grey lodge Grey like the misery Empty, abandoned For the lone dweller is now gone Ailment and poverty was her lot Only guest ever the nightly frost that crept inside Brief were the moments of bliss and gladness For on this hoar peatland no joy will live And bells they toll In cold morning light Once there was a fleeting time When sky was less dark for a while And the one that she adored Walked her across the churchyard Flowers bloomed and bells they tolled Hopeful was the spring's tone But on this barren marshland No gladness will ever last Here the nightly frost will creep inside the hearts Here the brittle flowers will die before their time And soon came the day, when bells they tolled again For her dearest one, beneath the stones now lies Under the churchyard sleeps 6. The Offering On through the burning night The fever and the fear Against the gates of death I pound, I wail, I cry With broken voice and heart I demand a bargaining I offer all I have This blackened soul of mine That once was pure, unspoilt That once was fair Hear me now Open up your hinges Let me enter Receive my soul Let me lapse into the dusk Into soothing shadows Gladly I will step down Redeem the one I love On through the scalding nights The anguish and despair Against the gates of death I claw, I wilt, I starve It would be just and fair To let this old man fade away Accept this sacrifice This doomed soul of mine It would only be right To take this soul My offering It would only be fair To let my dearest live Still walk this earth 7. Mute Is My Sorrow How could there be laughter left in these songs How could there be mirth and joy in this world For what am I now anymore But a wretched old bard Weary and torn For all of those dreams have withered and died For all of those hopes have vanished into night No grace in this voice anymore But a wretched old bard Forlorn and torn But there was ever only one The one that I would hold The one that I still long Mute is the sorrow of mine Voiceless the yearning inside Dark is the path in the end Sore are the wounds I hide Once there was a time when they all praised my name Once there was a time when hearts turned to me For even the birds hearkened to my song That quivered in the wind Echoed through the night But where is the glory, the gold and fame now But where is the crown that once blazed on my brow Not one by my side anymore This wretched old bard Unsung and torn And after all the years that go by I remember the one The one that I still look for Only for her I would play my tunes Only for her I would write these words Only to her I would sing But she never hearkened to me 8. ​Twilight Trails I rue the day The day I turned the tides I made a grave mistake Left from your side Now I am lost in the shadows' lap Straying on this downward road Now I am left in the woods of woe Roaming these twilight trails You asked me to stay But I closed the gate behind me Bright lights beyond the trees The gleam above the skyline In vain I tried to reach In vain I sought And too late I comprehend It was just illusion I've spent all those years chasing Something I once had Long time ago I cannot find my way home I cannot find the way to you (Anymore) With a black shroud over my eyes I don't see the skies or the earth I don't see if the moon will die Or the sun turns cold A dreary path that weaves down below Into the hidden abyss of the evenfall And here I stand on the darkened shore Forgotten man at the edge of the world For what is there left for me anymore But to languish and slowly fade away Regret and penance only friends by my side When I sink into the void of the night I lapse… (I lapse…) Descend… Alone… 9. Heart like a Grave Sound of the waves Song of the woeful wind Beauty of yearning The tune of my heart For once there was a time When I sat by your side And right before our eyes The world was open wide Days of youth Not long since gone Never return To return again But a long slow desert left anymore The waning years of Heartache and regrets And yet the wind sing They sing the fairest tune I hear the waves sigh They sigh out from pain And since you set out To reach for your hopes and dreams I'll stay here helpless and in sight For these wounded wings I never left this barren soil Where all my wishes slowly fade away Days of youth Not long since gone Never return To return again But a long slow desert left anymore The waning years of Heartache and regrets Do you still remember? Would you still believe That this blackened soul of mine Was once untarnished? Years of disappointment and disillusion All I see in the mirror now Is an old man with heart like a grave Do you still remember? Would you still believe That this blackened soul of mine Was once untarnished? 10. ​Karelia instrumental Lyrics in plain text format