Lyrics: Sundin)



Voice of the Shadow of Beauty - Friden

Voice of the Shadow of Darkness - Sundin



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 within me, the aerial mist sink falling,

slowly traversing the atmosphere calling



A soft breeze whispers slowly

in the valley in my mind

And its breath, both foul and holy

is like the deer to a dying hind;



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

maternal - eternal, blinded by visions

Serenity fades with the darkening of skies

of sunlight nocturnal



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, dark flames dance in grace



Dark flames dance in grace

the grace of Storms



One shadow of beauty,

One shadow of darkness,

Sailing free on the seas 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 sacred, sudden motion

A cascade of lost feathers adrift on the sea



Hark!

A serenade in the tongue of the wind...



The sight of Centuries, so sonorous in the bower,

hovering further athwart a leafy cower

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

And therefore they chose 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;

a friend I greet with open arms

- a brotherhood of deadly harm

...and joy



But time is not eternal, their life-stars not immortal

Setting souls can never pass through the pearly portal

No bliss be given...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?



Depraved of the lust and the treasure of pleasure

which is fuel of life and glory



Silent your dark desires within entirety's light



Solitude...Sanctity...Sanctuary...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 strands of the universe

A chaosvoid's tomb of dead worlds

Hark! What?

Divinity flows in your heart,

cat it alight - the seed of all art



Slowly reborn from a sunless state of mind

Silent, your 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



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 new life-force like goldmade 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 thoughts;

Of beings we feed with the dust of our thoughts

Residing within us, the twofold wheel of life

Of insight created: a triad of Jewels



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