PARADIGMA LYRICS Skadi (1996) 1. Best Regards (Astral version) 2. Half 3. Witch Hunt 4. Agonized 5. Come Winter (The Skadi Interpretation) 1. Best Regards (Astral version) As I lie here, knowing I will (never) Get away from here (alive) Through death No one can do anything but to wait As I slowly wither from within Soon I won't be able to move - Will I see the land Soon I won't be able to speak - Where my ancestors sleep Soon I won't even be able to think clearly - Will I ever journey home Dying faster, thinking of all things unaccomplished Ideas only I could ever carry through All my dreams discarded before my time was due I will float in to the ever If there is an ever I will only know for sure When it's too late for me to tell you So I'll just give you my best regards 2. Half I died mentally but my body lives on Half a life I lead as I linger on Sorrow I breed and sorrow I feed Half a death I suffer as I try to withdraw My sickness is no disease A mind in hell Can such a thing be revealed In silence I cry out Born dead my plea for relief They speak of sweetness They speak of harmony They speak of romance They speak of felicity Such words are alien to me So let me remain in my domain Leave me be They swarm in sunshine They gather in sweet light Oh let them, let them 3. Witch Hunt The night is black, without a moon The air is thick, and still The vigilantes gather on The lonely torchlit hill Features distorted in the flickering light The faces are twisted and grotesque Silent and stern in the sweltering night The mob moves like demons possessed Quiet in conscience, calm in their right Confident their ways are best The righteous rise With burning eyes Of hatred and ill-will Madmen fed on fear and lies To beat and burn and kill They say there are strangers, who threaten us In our immigrants and infidels They say there is strangeness, too dangerous In our theatres and bookstore shelves Those who know what's best for us Must rise and save us from ourselves Quick to judge, quick to anger Slow to understand Ignorance, prejudice and fear Walk hand in hand 4. Agonized A vision through a moonstill water The story of a long lost child Inside this gruesome blackness This massive hole of emptiness From the ever he could touch the sky Yet as he tried to climb The walls crumbled to dust And inside, the boy appeared I watched him grow, I saw his eyes As he turned away in cries How it hurts And the tears taste like blood From the ever he could touch the sky Yet as he tried to climb the walls They crumbled into dust I ran away from life Through those walls that imprisoned me Within myself, inside my pain and misery As the preludium silenced I wiped away my crystallized tears I wiped them all away 5. Come Winter (The Skadi Interpretation) ...The soughing of the wind The thunder of the avalanches The roar of the waterfalls The howling of the wolves... Come winter, cold and frosty Hold me firmly in your vice With majestic force you hold This world in your white hand Come winter, white preserver Cover my body in white lace O' Skadi Silvery queen of winter Let the summer suffer Its atonement in white Your radiant beauty Envelopes this waste land Making it shine In the grace of your veil Come winter, pure and shining I plead thee for eternal existence You have the might to preserve Life in its slumber Come winter, white preserver Please heed this my last wish On earth O' Skadi Silvery queen of winter Let the summer suffer Its atonement in white Your radiant beauty Envelopes this waste land Making it shine In the grace of your veil O' Skadi Jotunbride of the gods Northern huntress Native of Thrym-heim White huntress; Mother of Freya Enshroud me; Beautiful daughter of frost Where are you - Hidden by years of mist Please come back - Forgotten I am dead 1996 Head Not Found All songs written by Paradigma Produced by Paradigma Engineered by Erik Valderhaug Recorded and mixed on various occasions at Lydkjeller'n Studio