Sirenia An Elixir for Existence 1. Lithium And A Lover When all my demons set their sails and my mind is riding the last train Down a one-way track to the final station Destination Devastation A thousand demons at my door screaming at my crumbling walls My river's bleeding, my fields are burning My world has stopped turning I will be your lithium and I'll be your lover Give me something for my mind something for the pain inside A remedy, a cure for life An elixir for this manica of mine Give me what I'm deep in need of a sanctuary beyond this cruel world A peerless cure-all to recover Like lithium and a lover... 2. Voices Within Darkness drapes my weary eyes drape the void that grows inside And I can't take this veil away I can't find the strength I tried to shield my scenery tried to set my mind free This life has brought me to my knees Devastation unleashed Whispers...calling on the wind Like voices calling from deep within Shivers...all down your spine I'm the void that rides your aching mind Nightfall seems to come my way and it seems as if to stay A shadow haunts me from the past Will it forever last? A voice is calling in the wind yon the horizons, and from within I deem the thought, shall I abide these ghastly wispers inside? Whispers...called you on the wind Like voices called you from deep within Wither...wane adown the line I'm the void that rode your aching mind... 3. A Mental Symphony Sleep in the fire, in thorns and decay Dreams and desires they have all been a waste I'm getting closer, so close to awake So close to what life's been, yet still so far away Dancing through days... where the pain ascend in a thousand ways Dancing through nights... where the darkness strikes me from inside Dancing through life... where its strife enshrines all my desires Dancing through death... a dance with the devil and a flirt with the dead Leaving the fire, abandon the flames Lost in denial, all your life's been in vain Life growing colder, it's closing in on you I know you're going down, but there's no more I can do Calm me down to the sound of my insanity Voices screaming, astral dreaming A mental symphony... 4. Euphoria I feel the magic rushing in I feel the heavenworks ascend like a sun within All my travail is on the wane A lucid bliss sets in, and the world sails away I'm cold seed I'm your sweetest leaf I'll ease your mind I'll set you free My queen come rise in me Hallucination or a dream ascendancy? I cry come bring me on a high We'll watch the angels fly, then we'll ride the crimson sky Hear you screaming out in hours of living hell And the void inside you've carried it so well Seems like living now gets harder every day Seems like you don't care for life the same way Winds of euphoria and lucid needs A call, a desire deep inside of me A hope yon all loss and broken dreams An ephemeral walk in elysian fields A new dawn is rising within me I ride the ninth cloud in the seventh dream A haven yon life and it's cruelty If life will pass me by, then so be it... 5. In My Darkest Hours In my darkest of hours I yearn for the light my life devours Winter's at hand In search of a key, a door, an end Hear my voice, don't quail inside the void nor fear the sound of winter winds around In my darkest of nights I yearn for the dawn to bring me alive How to ascend? while you hold the key that shield my end Hear my voice, it's calling on the dawn Ascend to fall, but never to withdraw Winter nights...I hold them inside I stand to fall, giving in on life as a whole Winds of time...won't mend my sombre mind I can't deny that I'm on a closing way down Morning star...shining from afar your radiance diminish every day now Evening star...you've lost your stalwart Your skies endark like my mind, my soul and my heart Come take my hand and lead me on towards the end The darkness in me devours the strength I craved for all these years These feelings I have never shown remain unknown I really don't know if I'm that strong... These secrets I have held inside through all my life I guess I'll shield them till I die... 6. Save Me From Myself Save me now before my world falls Save me now from myself before the dawn Save me now I'm at the reaper's door Can't you see you hold the key to set my mind free... 7. The Fall Within One moment I froze in life I tried to grasp the time That moment seized to be revealed my destiny Once you were a shining star I've watched you from the fields afar The brightest of them all descend to face its fall How can I sleep? when I don't know whether I live or dream And how can I weep? when I don't know if the pain I feel is real I stand upon the fall I'm giving in on all I watch the sun's decline for one last closing time The sundown share my thoughts of you The winter moon bewail you too You still remain to me a pending mystery Voices are calling beyond the dawn where life and dream seems as one Moments and aeons pass before your eyes while you stand frozen in life Years all have passed now, since you gave in on the world of living Awaiting your strength there, upon the fall to put an end to it all... 8. Star-Crossed A wanderer in time comes strolling through my mind It seems she lost her way It seems she led astray The sun sets in her eyes A lunar moon arise Her life all seems in vain A mystery...arcane Summer's on the wane My life it seems so frail Descend again to the sombre fields of pain Winter's on a rise I've held it's cold inside through all my life like a star-crossed winter child A waning silvereye A starless winter sky No scent of morning dew Her tears all frozen through This wanderer comes my way All aeons seems as days A sea so deep and wild A star-crossed winter child Dusk creeping upon us The dawn...ne'r to appear The nightfall weeps along thus it's the darkness that we fear Fall for me lost angel I'll fall for thee as well To the world we're only strangers like a winter's chill in hell... 9. Seven Sirens And A Silver Key [instrumental] An Elixir for Existence was written, composed and arranged by Morten Veland. All instruments performed and programmed by Morten Veland, except violin, by Anne Verdot. The voices on this opus belong to: Morten Veland: growls Henriquette Bordvik: female vocals Kristian Gundersen: clean male vocals +The Sirenian Choir consisting of: Sandrine Gouttebel, Emmanuelle Zoldan, Emilie Lesbros, Damien Surian and Mathieu Landry. Produced and mixed by Terje Refsnes and Morten Veland in Sound Suite Studios, France, during September and October 2003.