Borknagar Winter Thrice 1. The Rhymes Of The Mountain The mountains chime Avast the relentless rhyme The majesty, the regency Revails the everlasting rivalry Crowned by the haze of history A ferocious tore A regaining core Ordained by the weight of gravity Echoes through the halls of lore Echoes through the halls of lore Crowned by the haze of history The monumental fortress of primal grace Shimmers beyond the horizon astray Vast and wondrouds cast of the glorious Harmony, diversity, adversary The cycle of all The rise and fall Exuberance in waste Depravity Excellence in barren nobility The lore of monumental regency The rhymes of the mountain The cycle of all The rise and fall Exuberance in waste Depravity Excellence in barren nobility The lore of monumental regency Regency The rhymes of the mountain The rhymes of the mountain Vast and wondrouds cast of the glorious Harmony, diversity, adversary Vast and wondrouds cast of the glorious Harmony, diversity, adversary Ordained by the weight of gravity Echoes through the halls of lore The monumental fortress of primal grace Shimmers beyond the horizon astray The cycle of all The rise and fall Exuberance in waste Depravity Excellence in barren nobility The lore of monumental regency The rhymes of the mountain 2. Winter Thrice The sound of the groaning frost Enforce the waves of blinding winters Days of reaping, nights of aghast Seasons aligned, under the wintry sign the groaning, moaning sound of this frost A blinding eternal blizzard Seasons aligned and now under the sign Of crisp eternal winter I have wandered the skies throughout the stellar neck of nowhere I have swarmed the horizon Throughout the eternal fields of everywhere Time and time again From shore to shore, from star to star The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar Upon the ground of rumbling ruins History shattered, moments withering Raving forces of the inevitable I have wandered the skies throughout the stellar neck of nowhere I have swarmed the horizon Throughout the eternal fields of everywhere Time and time again From shore to shore, from star to star The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar Nature, the cast of the future Upon the ground of rumbling ruins History shattered, moments withering Raving forces of the inevitable Reigning unions of the nature the regaining cast of the future From shore to shore, from star to star The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar Horizons that hosts no scenery Starless, unending skies Wakes the beastly void Winter thrice Horizons that hosts no scenery Starless, unending skies Wakes the beastly void Starless, unending skies The dance of stardust stills Drapes the mountain Winter thrice 3. Cold Runs The River Cold runs the river Warm runs my blood The old signs quiver And my mind mountain releases a flood A life nerve in a barren era Raised in the heat of the sun I drink its potion from well and caldera Through earth-veins it flows, forming a canyon Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones The cabals of eternity burn in the night As the watercourse that rinses all stones Unify my path with the river site Cold runs the river Warm runs my blood Groundwater recharge, blood pumping heart Circulation systems refined Streams of wonder, where my torrent starts Time and motion aligned Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones The cabals of eternity burn in the night As the watercourse that rinses all stones Unify my path with the river site As the river of time and nature's crown Face season's last breath and the final exploration Cold runs the river Warm runs my blood The old signs quiver And my mind mountain releases a flood As the river of time and nature's crown Face season's last breath and the final exploration Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones The cabals of eternity burn in the night 4. Panorama Inner landscapes provide the ground for structures Development plans, architectural design nature in it's purest form, the very idea of being alive Intuitions feeds the progression Read me, decipher every word Then multiply the dormant issues Just tear me down, then build me up again Accentuate, proliferate, recreate Vines and trees, new species on cultivated grounds Planned sequences and astonishing leaps Everything grows, everything dies Everything regenerates, slightly altered Blueprints come in three letter systems Inside repeats the outside repeats the inside The distance between what we see and how we see it A perpetual cycle of adjustments Read me, decipher every word Then multiply the dormant issues Just tear me down, then build me up again Accentuate, proliferate, recreate Echoes of what was Resound in what is Between organic structures And inside them 5. When Chaos Calls Shores retreat in disarray melting glaciers lead the demise And connect the rapidly rising tide A ramming fluid out of firm ice A wall of waves and an abyss of water Drench the land, coastal erosion Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter It stirs our inner ocean Shores retreat in disarray Melting glaciers lead the demise A wall of waves and an abyss of water Drench the land, coastal erosion When chaos calls A drowning of the skyline A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls They flood out of pandemonium's shrine We're buried by persistent snowfall It levels out topography When chaos calls A drowning of the skyline A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls No more hinderance for the storm to call Out, to destruction and catastrophe Periodic freezing unsettles Building a kingdom of frost Chaos dressed in a calm pettle Set to efface and exhaust Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter It stirs our inner ocean When chaos calls A drowning of the skyline A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls When chaos calls A rift in earth's core A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls They flood out of pandemonium's shrine 6. Erodent The trails of existence thrust into the future A future that crumbles, riddance by revulsion Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound The ground we walk, the ground we fought Rivers drift into eternity, draining the potency The endless maze, the blinding haze Shimmering uphold the course (the plains we scour, the plains we tear) Waves that rave the coastal line Rain that reaps the breeding soil Wind that pierces the heart of man The fire that burns all creatures around The trails of existence, entwined through history Eras that passed in degenerative haste Grind the roots, withering grounds The ground we walked, the ground we fought Waves that rave the coastal line Rain that reaps the breeding soil Wind that pierces the heart of man The fire that burns all creatures around The ground we walked, the ground we fought A past that holds the dawn of man A march that crumbles stones to sand The vast exploration, the last ravage The prodigies of ruination Erodent A past that holds the dawn of man Erodent A march that crumbles stones to sand The trails of existence, entwined through history Waves that rave the coastal line Rain that reaps the breeding soil Wind that pierces the heart of man The fire that burns all creatures around 7. Noctilucent Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point Eerie and shining clouds, on darkening skies As dust and vapor conjoin Noctilucent 8. Terminus The boundary is my stronghold I push the glacier towards the edge Stepping across the horizon's threshold With unexplored domain to wedge I catch the sun and tame the flares As thunder strikes for a hundred years A climd the hills, they are my stairs To the starry sky and to the ardent spheres Terminus I catch the sun and tame the flares Terminus As thunder strikes for a hundred years The culmination and the foundation First man to the end of the world The gateway and the manifestation Of the borders I expand, in a storm swirled Beyond the branches, deep in the sources I have my home, I have my trust A climd the hills, they are my stairs To the starry sky and to the ardent spheres Terminus Beyond the branches, deep in the sources Terminus I have my home, I have my trust The elemental outline of the universal courses First man to the end of the world While sea and land clash under stellar dust Raised to seek, grown to see The flames of creation and prosperity At the end of the path I build my fortress With pillars of dreams and nature's primeness 9. Dominant Winds The hills erode, a change of landmarks And ancient trees are skinned Of (leaves) branches and the outer bark By an ever blowing wind Its rule and strength lead the rise and fall Insects drift along the sweeping regime At mountainous locations massive rainfall Still, birds follow their inner scheme From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone And by the trade winds of the equator The air flow builds a subtropical gyrator The hills erode, a change of landmarks And ancient trees are skinned Of (leaves) branches and the outer bark By an ever blowing wind From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone Pressure is high but the sun angle is low Dominant winds Pressure is high but the sun angle is low Dominant winds scalp the ridge's crest Cooling and condensation grows It hauls from the north and heads from east to west We're strapped in this blusterous maze Still unaware of its daily toil We'll get a glimpse of its power and pace As we're standing on degraded soil From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone And by the trade winds of the equator The air flow builds a subtropical gyrator Lazare: Vocals, Keyboards Baard Kolstad: Drums Øystein Garnes Brun: Guitars ICS Vortex: Bass, Vocals Vintersorg: Vocals Jens F. 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