Amorphis

Tear dimmed rememberance
In a womb of time
Breath upon me
Possessed by the passion
Fate will set you free
Infertile
Chased be the precious
When flesh is an enemy
Fair weather man

(pre-chorus:)
Step aside from the way of a better man than you
So you fall at his feet he’s the one who betrays you
It’s the servants devotion for the decay
Stand up

(chorus:)
There are no flowers on your grave
There are no chains
There I keep chanting for the forgotten name

Why you feel so empty
And still have everything
It’s fullfilment
I’ve got more companions
When I’m all alone
Flesh is fetching

Astonishment when I bend over you creep
Put a noose around my neck
Which side I decide it's my time to reap
It's your side wicked and deaf

Take me to the place I can sleep
Wipe away all misery
Turn my path away
From the mind tearing tragedy
Consuming range of vision
I can see they decline
It's a state of execution
I fly free tonight

*New moon laughs on it's own
Without compassion
I crawl through the realms unknown
And kneel to the
:goddess of the sad man:(4 times)

Inhale all mists from the shadows
And hide before the dawn
Face your mortal horror
You won't be reborn

Is he a proud man or just a fraud
Fooling himself with losers talk
Punished to eternal vanity
It's thy destiny to cry for purity
You infidel slime
I grace insanity

satisfy my agony
I know what my goddess needs
I bet there's something wrong
inside my psycho creep
fire burns within her eyes
take me to the deadly ride
I remember how she was
when she choked on her own pride

*Repeat

We craved the light from the darkness
It's a morning of misfortune
The dawn of a mankind
Listen to me instead of a blind folk's speak
Forget the mature plan
We are but humans you'll see

(chorus)
I can hear the silence
See invisible emptiness
Tarnish the halo of your guidance
And the night is over

That women in grief
Luxurious Gehenna
And what I have become
What I have done to you
Listen to me instead of a blind folk's speak
Forget the mature plan
We are but humans you'll see

(chorus)

(chorus

Once I was there
Standing outside
Looking in
Beside my window
Smiling face, shattering
It's an old man's pride
That climbs over understanding
It wasn't your child
That I was hurting

(pre-chorus)
And I turn my back to the world
Well I don't care
What can I say if I see you all as dead

(chorus)
Under the dying sun it comes
Weaving fear but I have none
I know that mushroom cloud
Won't come very near
What do you have to believe in
And all the poison you breathe in
The crystal heart shatters within

Once I was there
Standing outside
Moving in
Inside my window
Crying face, shattering
Take all that you have
And leave the rest now for today
It's the old folk's sign
That took away for chastity

(pre-chorus)

(chorus

She's riding on a crimson wave
Truth sat on her shoulder
Planets before melting face
The keys for the wounded
Sinking into underground
Please the one who wants it
Something is pulling you down
It's not the cravings why you need it

(pre-chorus)
It's a rush hour inside my head
Don't wanna share the anguish
And I will take it away from you
Before you can change it

(chorus)
That bastard hallucination's pushing me
Like a damned I walk over
Touch the sky when it's burning red
Standing the ground I have chosen

Shivering in outer space
There's no one who can hear you
Getting into different state
It's like getting nowhere
Gathering all those fears and fails
There's no one who can see you
Someone is pulling you down
It's not the cravings why you need it

(pre-chorus)

(chorus

How does it feel
Blessed to receive
Be modest and forgiving
How does it feel
You can try to hate me
But you’re only hurting yourself

(chorus:)
Drifting in your shady memories
Where to go when sorrow breeds
Let the fear run through
Breath in black and stiffling air
All those words they disappear
No need to rest it’s too early to die

You don’t have to say
Why rue for that day
When you’ve open up your eyes again
Now it’s your fate
Face your heart ache
You wish to make it unreal

(chorus)

For the cold pale women
I leave some of my goodness
I leave the veil of sin
And let go my dreams

(pre-chorus:)
Eternity follows me everywhere
Your words so hollow won't go anywhere
Distant shadows disappears
It searches the gate beyond the stars

And there i can see her again

(chorus:)
Tell me why you have to be so pure and wrong
And i'm alive to be here

Is it just an omen
Is it me walking blindly
I will find the answer
When i wake up from my dream

(pre-chorus)

And there i can kill her again

(chorus)

So many years i've been fading
And closed the doors behind
Pay that price if you lost it all
The end is not the past recall

(pre-chorus:)
Waiting for the enclosening darkness
And there you will be the light
As it's carved in your soul
Step out from your mould

(chorus:)
The captured mind is a captured state
But only free will has it's sustain
You burn away all you once loved
Now it's time to turn away

It's all too clear you've been hiding
Nothing to tell but lies
Feel shame when you distain it all
Your stand is not the past recall

(pre-chorus)

(chorus)

Your helping hand is killing me
If you see me suffer it's not your victory
Sadistic forms of new way discipline
Like i love myself i love to sin

(pre-chorus:)
And i want more
And i want it low
Of course you wont forgive me
But i wont crawl

Look out for number one
I pray on you it has begun
Let the night stand one thousand years
Longstanding ,everlasting
Breathless masquerade
I'm your devil in disguise

(pre-chorus)

(chorus:)
Grieve stricken heart
Calls upon you
Grieve stricken heart
My only look you fools
I love my misery too

I'm the one to see your collapse
I'm on the side of destruction
On the side of black and i love to sin
Mentally transmitted disease
Rotten wretched attraction
And i love myself

(pre-chorus)

(chorus)

Your helping hand is killing me
If you see me suffer it's not your victory
Sadistic forms of new way discipline
Like I love myself I love to sin

*And I want more
And I want it low
Of course you wont forgive me
But I wont crawl

Look out for number one
I pray on you it has begun
Let the night stand one thousand years
Longstanding ,everlasting
Breathless masquerade
I'm your devil in disguise

*Repeat

**Grieve stricken heart
Calls upon you
Grieve stricken heart
My only look you fools
I love my misery too

I'm the one to see your collapse
I'm on the side of destruction
On the side of black and I love to sin
Mentally transmitted disease
Rotten wretched attraction
And I love myself

*Repeat

**Repeat

Tear dimmed remembrance
in the womb of time
breath upon me
possessed by the passion
fate will set you free
infertile
chaste be the precious
when flesh is an enemy
fair-weather man

(pre chorus)
Step aside from the way of a better man than you
so you fall at his feet he's the one who betrays you
it's the servant's devotion for the decay
stand up

(chorus)
there are no flowers on your grave
there are no chains
there I keep chanting for the forgotten name

why you feel so empty
and still have everything
it's fulfillment
I've got more companions
when I'm all alone
flesh is fetching

(pre-chorus)

(chorus)

(pre-chorus)

How does it feel
Blessed to receive
Be modest and forgiving
How does it feel
You can try to hate me
But you're only hurting yourself

(chorus)
Drifting in your shady memories
Where to go when sorrow breeds
Let the fear run through
Breathe in black and stifling air
All those words they disappear
No need to rest it's too early to die

You don't have to say
Why rue for that day
When you've open up your eyes again
Now it's your fate
Face your heartache
You wish to make it unreal

(chorus)

(chorus)

Forging the future from the timeless stone
Oh let me know how far I can go
Answering the questions that no one ever asks
Float through the sea of madness
And face the everlasting task
So lonely to wander
So sad to be alone
In the mist of the unknown
Trying to fool myself with dreams that never come true
So hard to stand my ground
Never again never again
will I fail will I fail

Chorus:
Will you tell me not to wait
Tell me to live for today
As the flowers wither
I will forget my pain
Since the stars have shone
The devil has shown me the way

Repeat chorus

In the morning mist
By [the] waning moon
Through the woods she set on foot
With a sacred blade
Cut the berries down
Dug up the dreaded mandrake root

“Tread my path to summer’s end,
This bequest I leave you”, she says
“You will see what could be evergreen
Turn to copper and fade to gray”

By the standing stones
Atropine eyes smiled at me
Sitting in a sluggish vertigo
Sands of time form another dream

No love without sacrifice
No life springs without decay
The final kiss is a wormy one
In soil’s cold caress, to rest we’ll lay

Where have you been,where have you been
my son, my merry son?
On the seashore, on the seashore
mother, my darling one.

And what have you been doing there
my son, my merry son?
I have been watering my horse
mother, my darling one.

Why is there blood upon your feet
my son, my merry son?
My horse stamped with its iron shoe
mother, my darling one.

Why there is blood upon your sword
my son,my merry son?
I have stabbed my brother to death
mother, my darling one.

What now of you, where will you go
my son, my wretched son?
To other lands to foreign lands
my dame, my darling one.

When will you be returning home
my son, my wretched son?
When all the world to judgment comes
my dame, my darling one.

Better it would be for me
And better it would have been
Had I not been born, not grown
Not been brought into the world
Not had to come to this earth
Not been suckled for the world

If I'd died a three-night-old
Been lost in my swaddling band
I'd have needed but a span of cloth
A span more of wood,
But a cubit of good earth
Two words from the priest
Three verses from the cantor
One clang from the bell

Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense
Who say that music, reckon that the kantele
Was fashioned by a god
Out of [a] great pike’s shoulders
From a water-dog’s hooked bones:
It was made from the grief
Molded from sorrow

Its belly out of hard days
Its soundboard from endless woes
Strings gathered from torments
And its pegs from other ills
Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense

So it not play, will not rejoice at all
Music will not play to please
Give off the right sort of joy
For it was fashioned from cares
Molded from sorrow.