Opeth
Sorceress
1. Persephone
A beloved name inside my heart
A fleeting glance became the start
A missing word I am still awaiting
A wretched deception I am creating
2. Sorceress
I am a sinner and I worship evil
Blood is thinner but you will never know
Can you confess that you thrive in chaos?
You're a sorceress and your eye is on the lost
But you're dying
It's in your eyes
You're a charlatan
You get everything you wish
You're a harlot
Carry poison in your kiss
Beg forgiveness
With a dagger in your hand
Sow your death seed
And reap the dying lands
But you're crying
It's only vice
Empty vessel
Drained of hope
And none the lesser at the end of
A rope
Have you ever hated like I?
Know I still awaited the absence of lies
Watch your eager tongue
Attack me from behind
Riddle whispers
Bleak futile control
Like a twin sister
Adapting to a role
You're a murderer
Bloodlust increase
You're a harvester
Come close to spread disease
And you're hiding
I hear you cry
3. The Wilde Flowers
Sun hangs high, I turn away
Failure underground
Heart is sick and fever is high
Waiting for a sound
Like a trail of insects to me
I watch them from afar
Feeding, breeding, scheming
Tell me I am wrong
Hiding from discovery
Staring down into the ground
Had they seen the posion in me
A tide of spite wound be found
Moving faster lingering gaze
Feasting on my sanity
A grain of sand against endless waves
A wish for the slaughter of conformity
Blinding light as the flames grow higher
Searing skin on a funeral pyre
Blinding light as the flames grow higher
Searing skin on a funeral pyre
Inside me sleeps a violence waiting to be freed
[Solo: Åkesson]
Blinding light as the flames grow higher
Searing skin on a funeral pyre
Blinding light as the flames grow higher
Searing skin on a funeral pyre
Blinding light and the flames grow higher
Searing skin on a funeral pyre
Should I speak and they'll call me a liar
I'll retreat to my funeral pyre
My sanctuary, a thousand centuries
I'm not waiting, I'm tired of waiting
I'm not waiting, I'm tired of waiting
I'm not waiting, I'm tired of waiting
I'm not waiting
4. Will O The Wisp
When you're tired of waiting and time is not on your side
When you're tired of hating me, you no longer want to hide
You're stuck to the failures of your life
Marred with the sorrows of your strife
And time it waits for no one
It heals them when you die
And soon you are forgotten
A whisper within a sigh
When there's trouble admitting that you have been wrong all along
When the words you have written down reads "everything is gone"
You're stuck to the failures of your life
Marred with the sorrows of your strife
And time it waits for no one
It heals them when you die
And soon you are forgotten
A whisper within a sigh
And time it waits for no one
It heals them when you die
And soon you are forgotten
A whisper within a sigh
When you smother your friendships and take much more than you need
When you can't keep a secret to yourself and points to the source of the deed
You're stuck to the failures of your life
Marred with the sorrows of your strife
And you can never find the satisfaction
When you can't outgrow your false distractions
[Solo: Åkesson]
You know your soul is weighed on the silver scale of deceit and lies
[Solo: Åkerfeldt]
5. Chrysalis
And on the furthest day
When you lay down
Discard your disarray
And your rusted crown
And face the wretched image of you and I
No trust in what you say
You are a dead poison seed
Stronger when you're away
You have nothing that I need
The rhyme has settled in the ghost of a sigh
Nothing now remains
Now you will leave me be
Sunrise into the moonlight
A broken body lies in wait
Your prize won you the stark night
And you made peace with your fate
Blind eyes sensitive only to white light
Reacting just a bit too late
Preying on insecurity
A design of your schemes
A true believer of purity
Must tend to what it means
Or allow its gospel to turn into a lie
You forsake everything you feel
In favor of despair
Immune and blind to everything that is real
In your secret lair
And cast away the captive heart that was thine
And you will go and leave me be
Winter in your soul, building a wasteland
And you tread a thin ice 'neath your feet
Sneering and everyone you would shun
Collecting flowers to your wreath
Lifeline, a river cuts deep in your cold hand
It's changing when you try to breathe
[Solo: Åkesson, Svalberg, Åkesson, Svalberg]
Leave it all behind you
There is comfort in giving up
A seed in barren soil
Might curl up into a coil
Flourish into something new
Give back what you thought was "you"
And give way to all that is new
[Solo: Åkerfeldt]
Leave it all behind you
6. Sorceress 2
Until I take my final breath
In a year or even less
I hope you will give me all your time
And do not forget me down the line
And I will never ask you if you will stay
Or if you will cry when I go away
Until I take my final breath
In a year or even less
I hope you will give me all your time
And do not forget me down the line
And I will never ask you if you will stay
Or if you will cry when I go away
Ice melting into the sea
Your river flowing back to me
And when you take your final breath
In many years from now, no less
I hope you feel a peace at heart
Do not be afraid to kiss the dark
And do not ever wonder if I stayed
My love for you cannot die away
7. The Seventh Sojourn
Hold me in your arms
Never do me harm
Never do me harm
Hold me in your arms
A raging sea in your eyes
Gives away your disguise
Grants me the peace to leave
And finally leave you be
8. Strange Brew
An afternoon walk through the park
I keep to the shadows until it's dark
I am not educated nor free of sin
I carry thoughts of giving in
There is a void surrounding me
No sound, and in the black I can not see
There is a chasm between you and me
You have no face, no body, no words to speak
[Solo: Åkerfeldt, Åkesson]
There is a wickedness in me
I cannot seem to make it go away
I am a spiritual leper, but I can see
A flock of believers gone astray
There is eternal night in my gaze
I am cast out and I am not like you
Find my way on through the haze
I am liquefied in a strange brew
An early morn walk through the park
I look to the sun when it's cold and stark
I blend with the crowd of robot minds
Never a leader, I am always behind
[4x]
A voice through the rain tells me I'm here
A glance from a veil brings me to tears
9. A Fleeting Glance
Up until recently I have been alone
Leading a tranquil life, but never at home
Something had changed and I turned to the wind
That blew through me and told me,
"How long? How long?"
Silenced the voice of my heart now for years
I was perplexed by a fleeting blank stare
Biding my time until courage had built up inside me
Then came clean
"Or am I wrong"
[Solo: Åkerfeldt]
I spend all my days contemplating my will
For the weak shall inherit the earth
When it's still
A government bid for my life
I was sold as a cog in a machine
"I walk the line"
A fleeting glance again
Tells me everything
Took a chance in vain
Drawn to a futile idea
A pursuit of happiness
As the storm rolls in
An idol of helplessness
Paved the way and then gave in
I met with my mother and I asked her why
For ten years or more she would never reply
Suddenly she said we're all born to die
Gave me purpose
Freed me
"How simple it can be"
But it's fading away from my mind
There's another "me" waiting behind
[Solo: Åkerfeldt]
But it's fading away from my mind
There's another "me" waiting behind
10. Era
There is a sign in the rain
Every now and again
It's a symbol of hope
In the midst of a catastrophic episode
In the hour of death
There is a spiritual wealth
When we dance through the rain
And form the signs once again
If even for a second
I hear a voice on the air
It has a warning to share
"Do not believe what you see.
You cannot perceive what you feel."
But if I do what I am told
And shun the spirit I hold
I am no longer a human
And I will not shift with the sands
[2x]
The end of an era
One starts anew
You know the devil
He lives in you
There are moments of doubt
When I do not know what to do
And giving in is the only way out
When there is too much shouting
About how I should choose
Incapacitated, I am left behind
In a sea of hatred I go blind
A storm is coming, I hide away
In the years of need reason leads astray
[Solo: Åkesson]
[2x]
The end of an era
One starts anew
You know the devil
He lives in you
11. Persephone (Slight Return)
The years went by with disquieting grace
A past obsession sunk without a trace
I moved into winter and found my home
As my boiling blood had turned to chrome
12. The Ward
I am going away
I am going down
Sifting through a memory
Before it fades away
Adolescent secrecy
A million words astray
I cannot remember happiness
I thrive within the dark
The security of a loneliness
Is a veil that keeps my calm
By the way, I am doing fine
I have a place to stay, just behind the sunshine
And by the way, I do not need sympathy
I have a place to lay
I have more than you can see
I walk the streets alone at night
It helps to ease my mind
I lay me down come the morning light
And leave all woes behind
13. Spring MCMLXXIV
On a wind that is sailing through the morning
I have cut the harness off of my heart
On a tide that's rising with the dawning
I find I belong inside the dark
And when the waves roll in to cover me in shame
I avoid another sign of the efforts made in vain
I am just another ripple in the current of an age
Another crossed out name on another wrinkled page
Carry me home
There is a dream that tells me I am haunted
It comes to visit every fortnight or so
I wake up having lost all I have ever wanted
And a bleak apparition wants what I hold
And when the waves roll in to cover me in shame
I avoid another sign of the efforts made in vain
I am just another ripple in the current of an age
Another crossed out name on another wrinkled page
Carry me home
Should it disappear, should it go away
Would it mend the wounds I bare, the wounds of love
Could it reappear like a familiar tale?
Like a broken friendship that snuffs the moonlight above
All music is by Mikael Åkerfeldt with the exception of "Strange Brew" written by Mikael Åkerfeldt & Fredrik Åkesson.
All lyrics are by Mikael Åkerfeldt.
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