Enslaved "Isa" 2004 Tabu Records
1. Intro: Green Reflection 00:51
2. Lunar Force 07:03
3. Isa 03:46
4. Ascension 06:45
5. Bounded By Allegiance 06:38
6. Violet Dawning 03:49
7. Return To Yggdrasil 05:39
8. Secrets Of The Flesh 03:36
9. Reogenesis 11:58
10. Outro: Communion 00:56
Total playing time 51:01
Recorded at Grieghallen Studios,
Produced by Sir Duperman, Pytten and Enslaved
Features guest appearances from:
Dennis Reksten doing synths on the album (El-Regn)
Nocturno Culto on "Isa" (Darkthrone)
Ofu Kahn on "Ascension" (Red Harvest)
Abbath on "Lunar Force" (ex-Immortal)
Stig Sandbakk on "Ascension" and "Return To Yggdrasill" (A Boy Named Sue).
Intro: Green Reflection
[Instrumental]
Lunar Force
Farewell my brother
Farewell my foe
May death embrace you
Your blood in the darkness flow
You were never meant to rule
Never to light up my father's throne
May you suffer deep below
You tried to deprive (me of) my rightful crown
Fallen, defeated, tricked by Beore
The Lunar Force
Behold the sorcerer when you're
Impaled by the sword
Farewell my brother
Farewell my friend
May she have pity with you
We did not wish for your life to end
The day will be bleak when
The Old One arrives
The ring betrayed by his treacherous mind
Defeated by Beore, the Lunar Force
Isa
Been standing here for ages
Watching the valleys blossom and burn
The pyres of yesterday smells of losing you
Preserved we are, portraits (in the glass depths)
I picked up the shattered mirror, put them in water
Cold as my dreams
Isa: Still - Standing - Empowered
Isa: Watching you die, with tears of ice
Isa: Detached - Silent - Ecstasy
Isa: We are the dead
We arrived here from different spaces
Bidding the wooden shrines farewell
Concealed within dead lips lies the rope
That forged us then tore us to shreds
Distant opposite assembly at the shores
They're telling me it's time to let go
A time to burn, a time to build
With your own hands a room within that room
Bring it all towards that centre and tremble
Bring her back from the shadows and kiss her
Retrieve the sword from the abyss
Hold back the tidal wave
Isa: Still - Standing - Empowered
Isa: Watching you die, with tears of ice
Isa: Detached - Silent - Ecstasy
Isa: We are the dead
Ascension
Staring across the void, seeing eye to eye in folded space
I see you with the colours and frenzy of the sacred rooms
We've met in those dreams, ice blue water ran towards the green sky
The gods spoke to us in their infancy
Suns waiting for us to smittem them with the flames of our disease
And we did so laughing, giving birth to sunrises in our wake
Never in need of sleep, nor in need of truth
I would never have stayed in this darkness, and we could ascend
The taste of ash, no stars above-No green grass below
The last words set ablaze as we saw the inner imagery
How it all came alive when we no longer reached for it
How it all rose and overwhelmed the speechles (us)
In this house without words we came to be one
In these books without text we found the way
A path along a faded memory, without the fear of finding home
We would never have stayed
We would never have stayed
We would never have stayed in this darkness
We would never have stayed
We would ascend
Bounded By Allegiance
Brought here by sorrow
Raised in depths of fear
Consuming sanity
Feasting on the joy of May
Surrounding the trembling mind
Surrounding the troubled soul
Strength failed to tame the serpent
The offspring of laughter and sadness
Saved by the power of its kin
Obeying the whispering chaos
Pulsating underneath your skin
Fasting 'till the end of time
Denying all peace within
Fearing the freedom it never feels
Bounded by allegiance
To long gone sanity
It lurks deep below
Emerge at the last step
Ascension
Staring across the void, seeing eye to eye in folded space
I see you with the colours and frenzy of the sacred rooms
We've met in those dreams, ice blue water ran towards the green sky
The gods spoke to us in their infancy
Suns waiting for us to smittem them with the flames of our disease
And we did so laughing, giving birth to sunrises in our wake
Never in need of sleep, nor in need of truth
I would never have stayed in this darkness, and we could ascend
The taste of ash, no stars above-No green grass below
The last words set ablaze as we saw the inner imagery
How it all came alive when we no longer reached for it
How it all rose and overwhelmed the speechles (us)
In this house without words we came to be one
In these books without text we found the way
A path along a faded memory, without the fear of finding home
We would never have stayed
We would never have stayed
We would never have stayed in this darkness
We would never have stayed
We would ascend
Bounded By Allegiance
Brought here by sorrow
Raised in depths of fear
Consuming sanity
Feasting on the joy of May
Surrounding the trembling mind
Surrounding the troubled soul
Strength failed to tame the serpent
The offspring of laughter and sadness
Saved by the power of its kin
Obeying the whispering chaos
Pulsating underneath your skin
Fasting 'till the end of time
Denying all peace within
Fearing the freedom it never feels
Bounded by allegiance
To long gone sanity
It lurks deep below
Emerge at the last step
Violet Dawning
I am a part of the darkness
Used to watch from afar
Sensing the violence of morning
And breathing. And waiting for nothing
Devouring the spirit, grinding the heart
There are good things in the burning fields
There's peace in the slaughtered flesh
There's life in the frozen seeds
I'll dream in the deserts
And comfort the thirst for seeing
The violet dawn in the distance
Beckons me to steal its light
I'll wait for you here
I'll wait for you here
I'll wait for you here
I'll wait for you here
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