Borknagar
True North
1. Thunderous
Up high and far away, where the air is clear
A vast horizon shimmers
The cold wind seems to carry the light away
As the earth's rotation closes the day
Beyond the towering peaks
Recurring shadows bow deep
Into the raging rivers
The ground runs cold and hard
Throughout the dark season
Roots grow deep in order to keep
Clinging to the gusty plains
The wind hushes the earth to sleep.
The ebb and flow of growth and regression
Seasons build, seasons tear down
The northern hammer
Keeps beating, beating
Hear the echoes rumble
Summers reveal, winters conceal
The thunderous sky oversees it all
Up high and far away, where the air is clear
Vast horizon call
The mighty force of winter
Shapes a merciless scenery
Throughout the dark seasons
Roots grow deep in order to keep
Clanging to the gusty plains
The wind hushes the earth to sleep.
The ebb and flow of growth and regression
Seasons build, seasons tear down
The northern hammer
Keeps beating, beating
Hear the echoes rumble
Across the thunderous sky
2. Up North
There´s a place where the Summer will be
As a legend long gone set free
And this warms me beautifully
Where the sun cast shadows at night
Where the day and evenings are bright
The place where i belong
Up North!
Where the pine trees meet the sea
Where the stormy sky will sing for me
The place i wanna be
Up north
Fall my favorite season
Death and rain and rain and rain
Falling leaves and fallen stars
As fallen men go back to start
Death as life we hail
Alone but not alone we sail
Death give life and lead the way
All energy remain
Then Winter its you and me
The winter is home to the dead alone
With you i´ll sleep with ease
Take a moment to reflect and be
Who you are and you are just another icebergs tip at sea
You will melt eventually
And the ocean will rise and the sun crystallize you for the aftermath to see
The spark of true eternity
Clean as a new start set me free
In your wisdom i`m lost what do i know of frost
But i trust you know lost is lost
Winter she is unforgiving as faith
And then Spring you will shake
Speed the circle and brake
And create and create and create
And the circle is now complete
No end for an end to meet
Nothing is obsolete
Up North
no end no end for an end to meet
no end no end for an end to meet
3. The Fire That Burns
The fire that burns
The light that governs the heat
Igniting the passion, the eternal appetite
For things to come,
For thoughts to create
The spark that glimmers
So that visions appear in a flash
Initiating the chain reaction,
Culminating in the very fuel
That drives us on
The independent nature of man
A creator and destroyer
Deeply rooted, widely spread
The will to strive, the need to push
The fire that burns and devours
The relentless determination,
The adventures of the mind
And the conquest of the flesh
Rise to the summit in perpetual motion
The will to thrive, the will to leap
Above the highest peak
The will to swim
Beneath the lowest deep
4. Lights
When the dotted lights
Crawl like bugs
On the canvas high above
All I love
And the answer's in my sheets
I forget about tomorrow
And my sorrow
Leave it to the great painter
To open the world and my mind
Leave it to my mind
To expand on his creation
Freedom exists on a greater scale
Beyond the dome above
In the morning light
In the morning light
The air vibrates
With awareness
So now that you see me
A servant in the snow
And now that you hear me
I broke free long ago
I took the world and broke it up
To force it down
I picked the pieces up
And wore them like a crown
And my light shone through forever
And the sky would never hold
And my light shone through forever
And the sky would never hold
I took the world and broke it up
To force it down
I picked the pieces up
And wore them like a crown
My heroes
They all died so long ago
My heroes
All died so long ago
5. Wild Father's Heart
Awakened by a thumping heart growing in his chest
Impulse of generations free sounding in on men
Calling him all ready
To climb the peaks to reach the sun
To rise above
To rise above
To climb the peaks to reach the sun
To rise above
To rise above
There's a time a time for all
No man's in memory
Eyes are glowing
Life and possibility
Wild father's heart
There is a time a time for all
To rise above
To rise above
There is a time a time for all
To rise above
To rise above
Reason and reverence
Lot of flowing him and knows who follows
Wild father's heart
Driven by natures excellence
Wild father's
Wild father's heart
There is a time a time for all
To rise above
To rise above
There is a time a time for all
To rise above
To rise above
6. Mount Rapture
Mankind's constructed fallacy
Aggressively upheld a reality
Fit for an age without questions.
But these constructions of delusion now crumble
And the candour of nature prevails
Over eons of irrationality
A new complexity rises
Crashing waves violently force themselves
Into stagnant waters of old
As progression descends,
Serving us evolution on a plate
Mankind's infancy is over
Our vision is finally clear
We've reached the summit,
The zenith of our mountain
And the clouds of delusion
Are finally beneath us
Mount rapture crumbles
Fashioned worlds corrode,
Stale ignorance implodes
Reality shines through
The bewilderment of old
Man derives from the great old blue
From mankind's disavowal
Grew confusion, grew delusion
In a haze
From human curiosity and logic,
Reason and clarity are born
7. Into the White
They left it all behind
Crawling through the snow
Every peak a spear piercing the sky
In the twilight glow
The blinding white
Swallowed them whole
The freezing wind drained them of all life
Then left them cold
Still somehow
A faint signal
A point of focus
Breaks the monochromy
Life in a flash of red
Pushing the white death
Aside for just a little longer
Hear them calling you...
(Floating in the white)
Hear them calling you...
(Floating in the white)
Heat is white and they can not find their way
Back into reason, into their lives
(Into the white)
Hear them calling you...
(Floating in the white)
Hear them calling you...
(Floating in the white)
When there's nothing left to save
But an empty shell
You sink into the white
You sink into the white
(....white)
Into the nothingness
(....white)
Into the nothingness
(....white)
Into the nothingness
(....white)
Into the nothingness
So the winter finally brought them home
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
8. Tidal
The ancient trails ahead
Beat through the barren plains
Wandered by man and beast
Since the dawn of time
Towards the sun, towards the moon
They strode, As do I
To claim our stellar home - under the dome
We have walked these paths before,
We are standing on the shoulders
Of our fathers, of our mothers,
And their world of lore
The olden seas bellow,
Raging as they beat the shore
Lifting me with a threat into calmer waters,
Leading me towards my haven, towards the sands
Our ancient retreat underneath the stars
We have sailed the seas before
We reached them through the rivers,
Through the icy waters of the moors
And age-old peaks above
In our chase through the steep ravines
We have sought to see, we have strained to be free
We have charged towards smooth waters,
Towards new horizons and our land of old
Under the stellar dome
I have seen these lights before
The moon, the stars,
Our place within the lore
9. Voices
There are voices - in the air
There are voices - in the air
They always find me, oh they find me
No matter where I go
There are voices - in my head
There are voices - in my head
They won't leave me, never leave me
No matter where I go
There are chains now - in the field
There are chains now - in the field
There's no freedom, no freedom
There's no freedom in the field
There are voices - in the air
They always find me - in the air
There are voices, oh there are voices
No matter where I go
There are voices - in my head
There are voices - in my head
They won't leave me, they won't leave me
No matter where I go
And there are chains now - in the field
Yes there are chains now - in the field
So there's no freedom, no freedom
There's no freedom in the field
There are voices - in the air
There are voices - in the air
They always find me, oh yes they find me
No matter where I go
I will lay there - in the field
With the voices - in the air
When I finally draw my last breath
I will lay there - in the field
When I finally stop to breathe
When I finally stop to breathe
All the voices - all the voices
Will only linger in the field
Will only linger in the field
Will only linger in the field
10. Wild Father's Heart (Instrumental Demo Version)
11. Up North (Demo Version)
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