DARK TRANQUILLITY LYRICS Tranquillity (1992 DEMO) 1. Midwinter (Intro) 2. Beyond Enlightenment 3. Vernal Awakening 4. Void Of Tranquillity 5. Unfurled By Dawn 6. Yesterworld 1. Midwinter (Intro) [Instrumental] 2. Beyond Enlightenment [lyrics: Sundin] Now oppression stalks the remnants of compassion, brewing hatred to surface in wicked actions Cloaked in peace and mercy, force their false confessions Sentenced am I dying, cleansed from all salvation "Defy our accusations and a certain death you'll meet A fool denies the obvious, and fools we shall defeat" All sanity now vanquished, ever mould beyond control My guilt stands yet unproven though they still demand my fall Demand my fall Blood runs beyond enlightenment at inquisition's hands Vicious burn the fires swiftly out of hand Now my fate lies in their "hands of liberation" forming law and justice into obscuration leading lies ensuring my life ceased in fire, In the name of peace, to cleance my dark desires "You stand accused of herasy and all what that implies With darkened minds you summon those who're fallen from the skies" Envenomed bleed their poisoned hearts, the power they've abused A deadly game of envy in which my life I'll lose Blood runs beyond enlightenment at inquisition's hands Vicious burn the fires swiftly out of hand Shackled, fettered - choking as I drown Fooled and tortured - confess comitted crimes Shackled, fettered - choking as I drown Fooled and tortured - confess comitted crimes Sentenced by superstition - my innocense denied Truth is strange than fiction - religious genocide Alone in blind desperation, I face my mournful death In flames I meet termination, but my memory will be left 3. Vernal Awakening [lyrics: Sundin] Enthroned through this age of confusion an urge, the weakness and flooy since aeons emerged, Created life in fetters from cradle to grave A future in darkness with mankind enslaved Trail of life decayed - wasteland whall prevail Hatred lies in store - chaos evermore So runs the spiel from where lives are found and lost: "Learn from past failures - prevent to pay the cost" Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm When our time spells an end to our ruling of this earth, will a wasteland remain? Will all life cease to be by the wicked ways of man - his enfeebled domain? Nature left in flames - Suffering, now to maim Cataclysm at hand - unveiled unto man So runs the spiel from where lives are lost and found: "Progression in spirit eliminates all bounds" Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm Hallow minds start to burn with the flaming shades of fall let disorder arise! An avenge to be brought to the ones who graveled earth hides now cloaked in disguise Blind deception, mass confusion - interbreeding dark illusions Tumbelling, falling, brings conclusions - constant fatal life-corrosion Autumn - beckons forth the winter - rising gloom in hand Raging with bleak coldness 'til vernal light commands Final chapter closed - world devoid of use Failure brings despair - death reveals its lair Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm 4. Void Of Tranquillity [lyrics: Sundin, Stanne] In orbit they pass around you - the memories from abandoned past Images from within your mind bring unknown feelings into your veins Delve into thy twillight past, a voyage done before The borderland 'twixt life and death - existing evermore Emerging from material guise - an ever-living soul Thy spirit lives forever more, in spite of aim or goal The forces of your vital mind deteriates vagely as you're about to pass away The darkness that surrounds you fades... You reach out to touch, to feel the eternal forgivness for thy impure soul Desperation fills your mind - approach the centre Centre of infernal salvation and infernal death Enter to the plain of life, to knowledge loomed through time An ever-living certainty where life is formed to chime Foolishness and wisdom walk gently hand hand in hand Embraced in darkest universe as contraries blend as one Fear fills your mind on this ongoing journey journey to a thousand secrets untold Credlous at first to this place of wonder Wonder's so real - it could be an illusion Through dark veils of destiny - Realm of shades revealed Through dark veils of destiny - Infinite life concealed Your soul now levitates slowly and below your body fades Your conciousness remains but thy skin will soon rot away Visions from an obscure rality appear as your soul departs This once so undisturbed and now frail and feeble world Brought forth, the abyss now appears - foulmouthed temptations call me near Dark visions laughing over me - if swollowed I will cease to be Tempted to this world beyond - eager to break the bond The sacred promise of an earthly stay - now broken as you writhe in dismay Come to where all life descends in brimful harmony Cautious, interlacing, they engrave what they shall be All bounds cannot be broken or confusion will prevail - lifeless dark eternity of chaos and despair Indescribable light descends between spheres Spheres that behold that nondescript fear Thought of the sins that were done in the past the past is forgotten and the present will last Through dark veils of destiny - Realm of shades revealed Through dark veils of destiny - Infinite life concealed Floating through these halls of light, emotions burst within Pure beauty of divinity enrobes remaining sin Alone, enthralled, I bow this force, paternal majesty Freed from anguish, freed from hate - into my destiny Into the void of tranquillity Through the rise and fall of worlds, one greater mind prevails Conjuring new creations as it watches the old ones fail Eternal coil of time and place - reality and tale The answers to all questions hide within this astral vale Passed through tranquillity - aeons now flow away Claimants of destiny - death can no more hold sway Forced to return - departure of soul Material world - arrival as told 5. Unfurled By Dawn [lyrics: Stanne] Time and space unite era of darkness - we mourn Times of sorrow despite our preach is put to scorn... In ways like these I shall be reborn to my words I conform To seek the path of knowledge through time In a life in a lack of rhyme (or reason) Subconcious powers flow - we burn the ways forlorn Am I in time with forces I am born Are those disguised Excuse is being dumb In spirit fails... Self realization in supreme conciousness Explore the self - within a millenia of peace Reach into the soil of humankind Bury secrets beneath this hallowed ground Feel the wind of time now changing Hear the voice that whispers near Explore the inner strength within you now seek deep in your soul - it'll show you how Join us - in this quest to satisfy Join us - and none shall mortify I've seen the light unfurled by dawn I've seen the blackest ways we scorn We shan't conform - we shall remain... "I've seen the void that echo fear" Fly into this void of inner consioucness we seek eternally Greet enlightned ways... I spead out wings of knowledge is essential in mournful times like these Words I repent Voice from inner self shall lead my way Former ways of life I repent to inner consciosness I've ascent Mortal way of living is the key Key to the secret it beholds Come to seek the path with me in unfathomable harmony the way life is meant to be enjoy and just adore life... Burning desire in thee letting your soul fly free No sould shall be the same burn with a different flame Sowing the seeds of man proving the things your can Seeing the things that'll be the priors in life I can see Each of mankind is a star that will keep on shining eternally Unveil the hidden unknown things in mind enchanted over things that you will find Join us - in this quest to satisfy Join us - and none shall mortify I've seen the light unfurled by dawn I've seen the blackest ways we scorn We shan't conform - we shall remain... In affection we loom - a reflection of time Walless prison, consumed - ignore irrelevance (a rule) Search the inner self - find the self within Finding things I've seen in dreams (seeing evermore) things that' s left unsaid Surrending to this inner force, feeling no remorse nothing to forbid In the empty eyes of the last of mortals those songs they echo as in halls of the enlightened Before this dawn of eternal light we stand once more now as darkness belongs to the forgotten ...to the forgotten Internal sadness cured through the light to reach the sadest river in sight Whispers of molten souls in my ear on wings of twillight I am born.... Now enthrone thoughts of the past the embryo of time Your life lies yet unfolded 'til enlightened ways we see In my dreams I've seen repention as in tales that were never told Join us - in this quest to satisfy Join us - and none shall mortify I've seen the light unfurled by dawn I've seen the blackest ways we scorn We shan't conform - we shall remain... 6. YESTERWORLD [lyrics: Stanne] Over the moor of mist and through valleys of fate I fly on my voyage through this moonlit landscape of re-emerged figments of imagination I am aroused in sleep....aroused in sleep Far beyond the gate which reflects in the closed eye reveal that a dreamscape lies therein A yearning for a world where the everlost find their peace In the pearly gates of dawn on the astral feed of minds - envenomed to the bone forever cleansed from all called wrath as slumber sneaks upon and steals the thought of man all ridden from inner aggression... A voyage beyond this world In this paralell to real life - access lies in dreams Unveil hidden secrets in our sleep - the key to what's beyond In the wake of man we see essential dreams unfulfilled Enhance the value of life engraved words on the page of man In the presence of the moon an owl awakes and calls a name tells a story of a world accessable only at night... "This ain't no dream..." Legend tells of a yesterworld a dreamscape of strange light "It's your dream coming true" Transcendance of the soul All by the sign of the moon I am eaten away in mouthfuls by flames that burn in the errors of our ways In a night when the sky floats blue as touquoise, and the stars of silver are twinkling in their outmost pride Now from dimensions fallen from the skies - like the flow of a stream From my sleep I continue onward - sleep is just a shape of destiny Weak sunlight of dawns to come, dancing swiftly in the shadows Shimmering, shining in a landscape of dreams ...landscape of my dreams Dim reflections of the pale a shade of grey in mind In the presence of the moon an owl awakes and calls a name tells a story of a world accessable only at night... "It's your reality..." Legend tells of a yesterworld a dreamscape of strange light "It's much more than a dream" Transcendance of the soul All by the sign of the moon Soon these worlds will be one and mankind feasts on the sights of it all I yearn for things to come Still wrapped in the thrall of slumber as the mist slippes away to reveal... And the wind tears a scream from my lips - I am there.... In the dreamscape I adore (a moonclad reflection) 6. Yesterworld [lyrics: Stanne] Over the moor of mist and through valleys of fate I fly on my voyage through this moonlit landscape of re-emerged figments of imagination I am aroused in sleep....aroused in sleep Far beyond the gate which reflects in the closed eye reveal that a dreamscape lies therein A yearning for a world where the everlost find their peace In the pearly gates of dawn on the astral feed of minds - envenomed to the bone forever cleansed from all called wrath as slumber sneaks upon and steals the thought of man all ridden from inner aggression... A voyage beyond this world In this paralell to real life - access lies in dreams Unveil hidden secrets in our sleep - the key to what's beyond In the wake of man we see essential dreams unfulfilled Enhance the value of life engraved words on the page of man In the presence of the moon an owl awakes and calls a name tells a story of a world accessable only at night... "This ain't no dream..." Legend tells of a yesterworld a dreamscape of strange light "It's your dream coming true" Transcendance of the soul All by the sign of the moon I am eaten away in mouthfuls by flames that burn in the errors of our ways In a night when the sky floats blue as touquoise, and the stars of silver are twinkling in their outmost pride Now from dimensions fallen from the skies - like the flow of a stream From my sleep I continue onward - sleep is just a shape of destiny Weak sunlight of dawns to come, dancing swiftly in the shadows Shimmering, shining in a landscape of dreams ...landscape of my dreams Dim reflections of the pale a shade of grey in mind In the presence of the moon an owl awakes and calls a name tells a story of a world accessable only at night... "It's your reality..." Legend tells of a yesterworld a dreamscape of strange light "It's much more than a dream" Transcendance of the soul All by the sign of the moon Soon these worlds will be one and mankind feasts on the sights of it all I yearn for things to come Still wrapped in the thrall of slumber as the mist slippes away to reveal... And the wind tears a scream from my lips - I am there.... In the dreamscape I adore (a moonclad reflection)