\Voice of the shadow of beauty\ - sung by Anders Fridèn

/Voice of the shadow of darkness/ - sung by Mikael Stanne

\Shadows play

In my wilderness' mindscape

(They seek)\

/One spiteful and wicked

One humble and meek/

\A windswept pale landscape

Of edified (thought)\

/Two frictional forces

A triad have brought/

\Woven\

/A soft breeze whispers slowly/

\Within me\

/In the valley of my mind/

\The aerial mists sink falling\

/And its breath both foul and holy

Is like the deer to a dying hind/

\Slowly traversing the atmosphere

Calling\

/Wordless, yet in soul so true/

\Nameless, yet it lives in you\

/Shapeless like the purity of pain/

\Lawful when all fear is slain\

-One shadow of beauty caressing the flowers

The paleness of winter reflects in her eyes-

\Deity of stardom\

/Enticer of stardoom/

\So soft and so silent\

/Maternal - eternal/

\Serenity fades\

/Blinded by visions of sunlight (nocturnal)/

\With the darkening of skies\

/One shadow of darkness

A shade of deep hate

A wanderer's spectre with fury ablaze

In sheets of sharp silver

Laid youthful to die

Reborn into vengeance

In the grace of storms/

\One shadow of beauty\

/One shadow of darkness/

\Sailing free on the sea within my mind\

\Surging dark oceans

Perpetual waters

Creator of life

And reclaimer of (souls)\

/Mother ocean/

\Watching the deep fjords uneasily moving\

/Whipping the white waves towards the cold air/

\Rising like swans in a scarred, sudden motion\

/A cascade of lost feathers

Adrift on the sea/

\Hark\

/A serenade in the tongue of the wind/

\The sighs of the centuries, so sonorous in the bower

Hovering further athwart a leafy cover\

/A shelter for those whose time's wind make them wither

And therefore they choose to guide this time-wind hither

Alas, in tune with the tide of time

I was, but I'm not

Nor I'll be with its pride

Yes, aeons have flown

But more is to come

For I know time/

\But time is not eternal, their lifestars not immortal\

/A friend that I greet with open arms/

\Setting souls can never\

/A brothersoul of deadly harm/

\Pass through the pearly portal\

\No bliss be given\

/And joy/

\Nor joy\

/Flowing down the gates of hell

Fire/

\I cry for you...\

/Don't spill your tears for me

But for your kit and kin/

\My scions of light?\

/Deprived of the lust and the treasure of pleasure

Which is the fuel for life

And glory/

\Silent your dark desires within entirety's light\

-Solitude

Sanctity

Sanctuary

Sanctum (sanctum)

Sanctum- (tranquility)

\Hear me

/You who hold the fate of stars in hand

Before creation's eye I stand

My soul set free/

In summerland\

\Mighty the strand of the universe\

/A chaosvoid tomb of dead worlds/

\Hark\

/What?/

\Divinity flows in your heart

Cast it alight, the seed of all art

Slowly reborn from a sunless state of mind\

/Silent, you fool/

\A cradle of roses

Embedded in stillness and shade\

/Silent, you fool

Thine words are untrue

Remember Endymion's crestfallen tears

Serene art the gods, yet pain is their way

He touched by the heavens

His hellfire nears

A silent divinity, now see your body (of air)/

\Free now your heavenly body of air\

\Come bathe in the rays of the all-seeing one

Holding the fate of all life in both hands

Breathing life-force

Like gold made from sand\

/My winged steed of moonlight

Black stallion of thunder

We rode above the greenish earth

And tore the green asunder/

\But what you left bleeding

Destroyed a soulforsaken world

And your deeds of sharp silver

Decoyed a mindforsaken herd\

\A duet of shadows\

A duet of shadows

\A duet of thoughts\

A duet of thoughts

\Of beings we feed

With the dust of our thoughts

Residing within us

The two-fold wheel of life

Of insight created: a triad of jewels\

(A thin leaf of the life-tree's truth)