TIAMAT

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CLOUDS

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[ typed in by Bob Witlox (bobw@stack.urc.tue.nl) ]



1. In A Dream 5:12

2. Clouds 3:40

3. Smell Of Incense 4:30

4. A Caress Of Stars 5:27

5. The Sleeping Beauty 4:10

6. Forever Burning Flames 4:23

7. The Scapegoat 4:57

8. Undressed 7:08





Tiamat: Johan Edlund - vocals & rhythm guitar

Thomas Peterson - lead guitar & acoustic guitar

Kenneth Roos - keyboard

Niklas Ekstrand - drums

Johnny Hagel - bass guitar





IN A DREAM

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(Music: Edlund, Ekstrand,Peterson. Lyrics: Edlund)



In a dream

I'm climbing the clouds

I touch a subdued sky

With my bare hands



In a dream

Let me drag you through my world

My kingdom for your thoughts

What is in your mind



When the night is to rouse your desires

In a dream

And the world of darkness whispers

In a dream

Be prepared to leave your reality

In a dream

Wake up to a game called life

In a dream



In a dream

I stand naked on a hill

I am looking down at me

Trying to touch my cold skin



In a dream

In a pool of blood

Evil is as pure as innocence

Evil is as pure as love



When the night is to rouse your desires

In a dream

And the world of darkness whispers

In a dream

Be prepared to leave your reality

In a dream

Wake up to a game called life

In a dream





CLOUDS

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(Music: Peterson,Ekstrand,Edlund. Lyrics: Edlund)



If I walk on the water today

Will people worship me tomorrow

Will my name be spread faraway

To give people both strength and sorrows



Look into my cristal ball

I have got news for you my dear

There is a god inside you all

But he is hidden in your deepest fear



Step outside the clouds that hide you

The black clouds that cover you



Listen fools, a dream I send

If you make the madness end

Else I shall a nightmare call

To do harm within you all



You call me Satan, I call me sin

I breed in you but you have locked the door

Open yourself and you shall win

And you'll not even need me anymore



Step outside the clouds that hide you

The black clouds that cover you





SMELL OF INCENSE

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(Music: Edlund,Peterson. Lyrics: Edlund)



The smell of flowers, the smell of grace

If I could only find such a wonderful place

The place not known before you die

A paradise above the skies



The smell of incense takes me high

Way up high where eagles fly



If I close my eyes I see it clear

The visions are whispering in my ears

The smell of pain, the smell of death

The odour that is my last breath



The smell of incense takes me high

Way up high where eagles fly





A CARESS OF STARS

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(Music: Peterson,Edlund. Lyrics: Edlund,Hannah Stja"rnvind)



I was your fear and you were my fate

I wanted you near but I bred your hate

You left me for dead, deep down in the mud

With scars of my head, in my heart and my blood



On my head, in my heart and my blood

On my head, in my heart and my blood



"A caress of stars

A silhouette in the twilight sky

The daybreak sets on silver seas

My name echoes through crimson hills



On the horizon, where seas meet clouds

A scenery shimmers beyond reality

I glance a world as a recent lit star

I am swallowed by universe"



A vacant eye caught the last moonlight

A wish to die to be shining bright

As a star to light your way

To where we are not led astray



Where we are not led astray

Where we are not led astray



"A caress of stars

A silhouette in the twilight sky

The daybreak sets on silver seas

My name echoes through crimson hills



On the horizon, where seas meet clouds

A scenery shimmers beyond reality

I glance a world as a recent lit star

I am swallowed by universe"



Deep in death

Wrapped in the morning deauty

Comes close my love

My dearest sister and friend





THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

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(Music: Hagel,Edlund. Lyrics: Edlund)

(Dedicated to Hannah Stja"rnvind)



Alone I sit, I wonder why

You dream of love and so do I

But in your sleep you cannot see

This pain which is always haunting me

What I need I'll never feel

This world is for me unreal

So I drink to darkness with a candle lit

And through the whole night alone I sit



The sleeping beauty

She stops the bleeding

She stops the bleeding in my soul

She is fresh air in this stinking world



The more I drink, the more I see

That suicide could be the key

To the place called paradise

Where pain not dwells, not hate nor lies

But if I look beyond all this

I reckon something I would surely miss

Because in my dreams I rule my life

And the sleeping beauty is my wife



The sleeping beauty

She stops the bleeding

She stops the bleeding in my soul

She is fresh air in this stinking world





FOREVER BURNING FLAMES

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(Music: Ekstrand,Peterson. Lyrics: Edlund)



Rip out my heart and put it on the table

Read my life in the blood

I am waiting to answer your suffering pleas

As a deathly silence does curtail my remains



In the river of tears ruins blood from my eyes

Yet another morning is emptying my veins

Alone I seek, a tiny groove I stalk

In the river Lethe I slowly drown



Empty screams

To fill a new world

A place I've missed



Bodies are courses where maggots are turning

Souls are flames that are forever burning



Raging flames cover my corpse

Far from identity and remembrance

But the shades of my mind are still carrying

Colours of most beautiful kind



Around the cenotaph I am scattered

I am in the air you breathe

Let us forget me for awhile

And I bet you'll remember me no more...



Empty screams

To fill a new world

A place I've missed



Bodies are courses where maggots are turning

Souls are flames that are forever burning





THE SCAPEGOAT

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(Music: Ekstrand, Peterson. Lyrics: Edlund)



If you are trying to interpret me

You're trying to put me down, you'll see

The dreams I have, you do not know

Don't make me the scapegoat on your stupid show



...Then I turn to you and say



"I worship Lucifer"



Friends turned out to be "never been friends"

Liars don't listen, do not comprehend

Make up great stories, I'm the principal character

Hand in hand with "evil" and "sinister"



...Then I turn to you and laugh



"I worship Satan"



My dreams were not worth it, I was told

By the people who want me to release what I hold

For all of you I sing this song

I you don't understand, my laughs will last long



...And I shall turn to you and say



"I worship the devil"





UNDRESSED

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(Music: Edlund,Peterson. Lyrics: Edlund)



Not aware of what you've buried

You feel comfotable that way

You're living in a smaller world

That is sometimes far too small

Then you'll come to me

Asking to share my world with you

And maybe sometimes I do

But never again for my own sake



The girl opened her mouth

I opened my veins

The girl opened her heart

I opened a door to another world



I opened a door to another world



I opened a door to the entirety

I opened a door to the entirety



Lonely in a cell

I still hear the voices of the wind

And rule at times great areas

Greater than you'll ever know

This moment leaves no time to think

The past is always limited

But in my dreams dwells everything

And never again shall I let you in



The girl opened her mouth

I opened my veins

The girl opened her heart

I opened a door to another world



I opened a door to another world



I opened a door to the entirety

I opened a door to the entirety