Ophthalamia A Journey In Darkness Avantgarde Music (Ita) - 1994 Recorded in spring 1993 at Unisound Studio (Sweden) Produced by Ophthalamia Engineered by Dan Swanö Line-up : IT : guitars Shadow : vocals Winter : drums Mourning : bass All female vocals by Axa A Cry From The Halls Of Blood / Empire Of Lost Dreams I live in the thoughts where the shadows no longer dance and where my tears fall into the colours of the lonely dreaming crying songs that my works are. The melancholy clouds of my feelings float away in the tide of faces which the soul of mine is. I wonder about life even though death is close and as my lost life falls into its definitive end... the light won't save me. Tired is the blood of mine and my brain will not speak no more. I'm living in a prison of flesh and my heart won't answer my calls. I'm shaking as I'm crying and as I feel the last drops of my life leave my useless cold body to walk the night... I'm one with the night... I AM Enter The Darkest Thoughts Of The Chosen / Agony's Silent Paradise (whisper) I am the face and blood of knowledge (whisper) I am the pure heart of wisdom I smell the night sing its sleeping ancient lullaby and the non-existing star horizon burnt its candle Find the dark in my eyes I'm not and I'm all I'm the end of the beginning (whisper) What do my eyes hide ? I hear the winter breathe and spread his message of cold and the clouds change their eyes and forget the time I feel the skin of the trees listen and walk away and the moon dreams and I hear its eternal call I taste the depths of the sea in my eyes and fly and the lips of dust play its song forevermore I sea the colours of the world disappear in the mist and the bright tear of my smell fear the morning Journey In Darkness / Entering The Forest I'm kneeling down on the forest's deiny ground sun of the infinite sky doesn't reach me here Oh darkness embrace me blood stop circulating the mist surrounds me as I'm falling away my trance My blackened teeth chew at the air we breathe (whisper) lean its shapeless nothingness from the holy spirit Poisoned I am by his holy feeble godness (whisper) I spit him out in a bloody flood of phlegm Their world is turned inside out I take their lips to my mouth The people lies in articulo mortis I spread my wings and fly away I'm the face of the night in which you all will drown I'm the power the almighty dark everlasting strength my body was for a moment cold and left alone still my breath is a sick unken smell (repeat verses 2 & 3) Shores Of Kaa-Ta-Nu / The Eternal Walk (part II) Flying through the night sky among the stars the air caresses my naked soul I've reached Ophthalamia's darkest parts the evil desolate shore The icy water whips the ancient rocks I see the black blooded sea of Ragiih-Nib the mountains of Makubu-Keen have guided me oh stars now hear my scream Give... me... the... Sign... Shores of Kaa-Ta-Nu (whisper) Give me the Sign The water raised above me and the sky died oh lord of all accept my soul... Take me keep on searching son maybe you'll succeed so cold everlasting night here I am Give... me... the... Sign Try to find the keys of wisdom Sathanas will guide your quest and when you'll have found'em the chosen place is for you A Lonely Soul / Hymn To A Dream Atmosphere of nothingness, nevermore pride A useless existence, cast to the outer side Searching since ages, to find a clue To enter a state, joining what's true Lost and unable, to break itself out Forever to drift, where no one hears his shout Little Child Of Light / Degradation Of Holyness (whisper) Little child of light, so full of life so bright (whisper) you saved people from sin, and everything they kept within Love and joy you taught, and had your foolish followers caught as they were weak and left behind, esaily fooled by your leader kind you told them to have faith, in a god so good and great a heaven they would see, if they death would meet with thee So when hate grew in the air to fight it you said you dare with the holy ghost at your side defeat instead of pride Shadows from darkness came unleashing the wrath no one can tame holy blood were spilled on the ground and with this all goodness drowned oh little child of light... you did die that night But in the first hand they should live with the intention of goodness give degradation of their will you thought evil was so easy to kill The sky has frozen to ice, and from the ground the dark ones rise your cross is still in heavens sign, but the inverted one is mine we'll make known, that the words you spoke, were promises you broke (repeat verses 3 & 4) Castle Of No Repair / Lies From A Blackened Heart My castle of blood beyond deepest sorrows lies distant clouds its grey tower puncture the sky (whisper) the pain My skin the gloomy ground will not swallow thee the echoes of my black heartbeat falls forevermore (whisper) living further My heart it cries it slowly dies castle of no repair (whisper) stop the pain This Is The Pain Called Sorrow / To The Memory Of Me (whisper) This paper have gone creased of all these dripping tears of mine (whisper) but I won't change it so that you'll see my grief The grey cloudness heaven weeps in its painfull anguish the mistfilled morning outside is paralysing my mind my eyes are like to fading ravens on a snowfilled sky my features are as dying and fading as the rivers of love This is the pain called sorrow my scream echoes in the night this is the no-tomorrow my useless everlasting fight (whisper) reality bleeds Snowdressed whispers gently fall down on silent ground if visions in beauty ...ahh under the stars the ancient trees watch my cry the horizon is filled with black bird singing moaning songs as my last breath caresses my lips... watch me leave Who lays a thought on me now as I lie here forgotten ? my eyes memories have been wiped away the speech of my mouth can't be awaken no more my hair which once played with the wind have stopped it's game Don't wake me up ! I Summon Thee, Oh Father / Death Embrace Me I sit in loneliness and watch the meaning of my past. It dances and twitches then it lays down and dies. I see the morning sky tremble and then it open and begin to cry as night falls and darkness fills my room... whispering thoughts haunt me, my candle burns low. Can I find my fate ? Can I be one with my desire ? The perchment of my future burns fast and I burn myself badly in my futile attempt to save it. The black blood of my heart weeps, in every tear a part of myself. I have features of youth but a soul of age. Why can't I see the web of lies my life is based upon so I can cut them and become one with the sky ? I long for the harmony... the peace within me. I wish to see myself in the burning light of truth and no longer be a victim of hate. I search for the purity in me... I search in my blood... I open my vein to see what ever it may be. And as the red rivers of my life flow from its tunnels and caves... I see lies and falseness die. I'm fading away, drowing in a thick mist of burning ice. I'm showered in the blood of dying hate and I feel pure. I'm taken to the breast of my truth and I'm reborn.