DARK TRANQUILLITY
"TRAIL OF LIFE DECAYED" demo '91.
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
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
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
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