Opeth

Songs

Advent April Ethereal Benighted Black Rose Immortal Blackwater Park Bleak Circle Of The Tyrant Credence Demon Of The Fall Dirge For November Epilogue	Eternal Soul Torture Face Of Melinda Godhead's Lament Harvest Karma Madrigal Moonlapse Vertigo Nectar Patterns In The Ivy Prologue Remember Tomorrow	Serenity Painted Death The Amen Corner The Drapery Falls The Funeral Portrait The Leper Affinity The Moor The Night And The Silent Water To Bid You Farewell When White Cluster

Advent It was all true A parlour strode, and the night sets forever I stray in the quiet cold And you gird me when I dare to listen Elastic meadow, endless arms of sorrow Lips try to form "because" Trying to adapt to the wilderness Where even foes close their eyes and leave We are inside the glade Every now and then I wipe the dust aside To remember How I drape my face with my bare hands The same that brought me here But you were beyond all help The folded message that wept my name Shadows skulk at my coming We survey the slopes In search for words to write the missing page The tainted dogma Time grows short As the piper plays his tune We are almost there You are beyond all help Dancing into the void We are almost there

The Night And The Silent Water And so you left us Jaded and gaunt, some September Wilted with the seasons But hidden inside the delusion I saw your eyes, somewhere Devoid of death The aura poises amidst (the storm) In solid tears I linger A parlour glade, moonlit sorrow Lonely resting pools Relics of the moon-dogged lake Whisper: "All your words are misgiven" Am I like them? Those who mourn and turn away Those who would give anything To see you again If only for another second Your face was, like the photograph Painted white We did not speak very often about it What does it matter now? Cloak of autumn shroud I gaze, dim ricochet of stars I reckon it is time for me to leave You sleep in the light Yet the night and the silent water Still so dark...

Nectar I arose from the lullaby Enduring yet another tale You tempt me again With your embrace, so tainted Within the night you beckon Cursing me with every glance Bring me through Carry my empty shadow And guide me inside your warped labyrinth To the well of sin I swear I will always love you Leave me speechless Release my yearning The soul I walk is clad with light Drifting moons thrust me with their rays And I fall inside I lament this inheritance Cannot bid farewell The pale face... you went as far as you could And from that moment I witnessed your beauty, felt your death Mine is yours, mine is yours In the wake of dawn The mist of morning linger before it leaves Invisible eyes, red reflection It is you Souling in the midst of the moor

Black Rose Immortal In the name of desperation I call your name A lamentation I sigh Again and again Spiritual eclipse The gateways are closed for me to seek The night... A veil of stars, watching My shadow is born from light The light of the eye, in darkness Over troubled waters memories soar Endlessly, searching night and day The moonlight caresses a lonely hill With the calmness of a whisper I wear a naked soul A blank face in the streaming water It is cold in here Frost scar my coat with dust Eyes attach to your mute portrait We spoke only through thoughts Together we gazed, awaited Hours brought thirst and the rising sun Sunbirds leave their dark recesses Shadows glid the archways Do not turn your face towards me Confronting me with my loneliness You are in a forest unknown The secret orchard And your voice is vast and achromatic But still so precious Lullaby of the crescent moon took you Mesmerised its kaleidoscopic face Granted you a hollow stare Another soul within the divine herd I have kept it The awakenth symbol Hidden inside the golden shrine Until we rejoice in the meadow Of the end When we both walk the shadows It will set ablaze and vanish Black rose immortal It's getting dark again Dusk shuffle across the fields The evening trees moan as if they knew At night I always dream of you

To Bid You Farewell I am awaiting the sunrise Gazing modestly through the coldest morning Once it came you lied Embracing us over autumn's proud treetops I stand motionless In a parade of falling rain You voice I cannot hear As I am falling again Devotion eludes And in sadness I lumber In my own ashes I am standing without a soul She wept and whispered: "I know..." We walked into the night Am I to bid you farewell? Why can't you see that I try When every tear is shed Is for you?

Eternal Soul Torture

Prologue A morning in magenta, the petals fed from the dew. She held her breath for a moment, to pause off the stream. Still clinging to vast, old memories. And I would marvel at her beauty, playing through the rain. The coffin is beautifully engraved. Stained by soil, symbols of death. All of which are stared upon, with porcelain eyes it seems. Some spoke, and it was my turn to go. In death entwined, I could not believe. But it hangs around my neck. A soft breeze passed me by, somewhat warmer for a second. I knew it was the coming of Spring, and thus our APRIL ETHEREAL.

April Ethereal It was me, peering through the looking glass. Beyond the embrace of Christ. Like the secret face within the tapestry. Like a bird of prey over the crest. And she was swathed in sorrow, as if born within its mask. Her candlelight snuffed, the icon smiled. Emptiness followed in her wake. I could clasp her in undying love. Within ghostlike rapture the final word was mine. She faced me in awe. 'twas a token of ebony colour. Embodied in faint vapour. Wandering through April's fire. Compelled to grasp and to hold the one that was you. I will endure, hide away. I would outrun the scythe, glaring with failure. It is a mere destiny I thought, a threshold I had crossed before. The rain was waving goodbye, and when the night came the forest folded its branches around me. Something passed by, and I went into a dream. She laughing and weeping at once: "take me away". I don't know how or why, and I'll never know WHEN.

When Red sun rising somewhere through the dense fog. The portrait of the jaded dawn who had seen it all before. This day wept on my shoulders. Still the same as yesterday. This path seem endless, body is numb. The soul has lost its flame. Walking in familiar traces to find my way back home. So there I was. Within the sobriety of the immortals. A semblance of supernatural winds passing through, The garden sighs, flowers die. The gate was closed that day, but I was bound to carry on. She could not see me through the windows. In dismay, strangest twist upon her lips. Graven face, she said my name. Once inside I heard whispers in the parlour. The gilded faces grin, aware of my final demise. And I cried, I knew she had lied. Her obsession had died, it had died. When can I take you from this place? When is the world but a sigh? When is death our lone beholder? When do we walk the final steps? When can we scream instead of whisper? When is the new beginning, and the end of this sad MADRIGAL.

Madrigal Our abode 'mongst the stars is waiting, long enough for our last breath of life. You stare at nothing, right through me, at times resembling the Devil's concubine. And me, I am the idol that would long to caress your eyes until they would open no more. I would comfort you if I only could, but as we all know by now... I am just thin air. Unaware as you are of my presence, you are losing yourself. Hiding within THE AMEN CORNER.

The Amen Corner White summer. So far have I gone to see you again. Hiding your face in the palm of your hands. Finding solace in the words I do despise. You snatch at every sound. And even though you believe that I am shackled within death, memories are tainted with paleness. Crestfallen still. Those eyes... empty like a barren well. It was the only task I would undertake. To reap the harvest that was mine. The seed that had sprung into a florid meadow, and left me helpless in your embrace. The bond we never spoke of, once stark and enticing, now slowly smouldering to dust. The celestial touch, from grey to black. A fathomless void enclosing. Unwritten secrets beneath the cobwebs. I can not endure. And so I rose from my sleep. The moon turned away its face. Overture of the long, black night begins... something you said: "Eerie circles upon the waters". Until now we have shared the same aura. My ashes within your hands. My breath in the sepulchral mound. You know that your night is my day. The final spark that blew life into me, the DEMON OF THE FALL.

Demon Of The Fall Silent dance with death. Everything is lost. Torn by the arrival of Autumn. The blink of an eye, you know it's me. You keep the dagger close at hand. And you saw nothing. False love turned to pure hate. The wind cried a lamentation before merging with the grey. Demon of the fall. Gasping for another breath. She rose, screaming at closed doors. Seductive faint mist forging through the cracks in the wall. I shan't resist. In tears for all of eternity. She turned around and faced me for the first time. Run away, run away. Just one second, and I was left with nothing. Her fragrance still pulsating through damp air. That day came to an end. And she had lost in me, her CREDENCE.

Credence Deserted again. You speak to me through the shadows. Walking in closed rooms, using cold words. Captured by the night, the yearning escapes from my embrace. Strange silhouettes whisper your thoughts, scream your sadness. And they all turned away, unable to face more of this death. Credence in my word. Written in dust, tainted by memories. I confess my hope, recognize my loneliness. Your laughter weeps the truth. Push me into the corners. Confirming the epitaph of my soul and displaying the once unknown KARMA.

Karma And as they say, grief is only able to possess. The rotting body clad in ancient clothes is left behind with a wave of the hand. I have gone away. The bed is cold and empty. Trees bend their boughs towards the earth. And nighttime birds float as black faces. It was the hand reaching out through the mirror. Unknown and scarred by life... the luring eyes, you had never seen. You have nothing more to find. You have nothing more to lose. The cold season drift over the land. They all huddle in the brown corners. Some would settle for less. The castles were all empty, asleep. Long awaiting their king. Beckoning round the bend. Amidst the forest one would hear that I had been there. Draped within a fate I could not change, and always welcoming Winter's EPILOGUE.

Epilogue There it was. The final destiny. A sunrise that never came, still the nightlamp that never faded away. Farewell was the word, and the afterglow was the brave morning. Rising and telling everyone about the beauty of its PROLOGUE.

Circle Of The Tyrant (Celtic Frost cover) After The Battle Is Over. And The Sands Have Drunken The Blood. All That There Remains. Is The Bitterness Of Delusion. The Immortality Of The Gods. Sits By Their Side. As They Leave The Walls Behind. To Reach The Jewel's Gleam. The Days Have Come. When The Steel Will Rule. And Upon His Head. A Crown Of Gold. Your Hand Wields The Might. The Tyrant Is The Precursor. You Carry The Will. As The Morning Is Near. I Sing The Ballads. Of Victory And Defeat. I Hear The Tales. Of Frozen Mystery. Your Hand Wields The Might. The Tyrant Is The Precursor. You Carry The Will. As The Morning Is Near. The New Kingdoms Rise. By The Circle Of The Tyrants. In The Land Of Darkness. The Warrior. That Was Me. Grotesque Glory. No One Will Ever See Them Fall. And Hunts And Wars. Are Like Everlasting Shadows. Where The Winds Cannot Reach. The Tyrant's Might Was Born. And Often I Look Back. With Tears In My Eyes. Grotesque Glory. No One Will Ever See Them Fall. And Hunts And Wars. Are Like Everlasting Shadows.

Remember Tomorrow (Iron Maiden cover) Unchain the colours before my eyes Yesterday's sorrows tomorrow's white lies Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher I shall return from out the fire Tears for remembrance and tears for joy Tears for somebody and this lonely boy Out in the madness, the all-seeing eye Flickers above us to light up the sky Unchain the colours before my eyes Yesterday's sorrows tomorrow's white lies Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher I shall return from out the fire

The Moor The sigh of summer upon my return Fifteen alike since I was here Bathed in deep fog, blurring my trail Snuffing the first morning rays Weary from what might have been ages Still calm with my mind at peace Would I prosper or fall, drain the past The lapse of the moment took its turn I was foul and tainted, devoid of faith Wearing my death-mask at birth The hands of God, decrepit and thin Cold caress and then nothing I was taken away from my plight A treason bestowed to the crowd Branded a jonah with fevered blood Ungodly freak, defiler Pale touch, writhing in the embers Damp mud burning in my eyes All the faces turned away And all would sneer at my demise Outcast with dogmas forged below Seared and beaten, banished from where I was born No mercy would help me on my way In the pouring rain nothing is the same Vows in ashes I pledge myself to no-one Seethed and spiteful All shudder at the call of my name If you'll bear with me You'll fear of me There is no forgiveness in these eyes For any of you but one Dispel the mist for now Melinda is the reason why I've come She is waterdrops over the pyre A thistle in my hands Stained and torn, aged and brown Virtuous shell with defiled innocence I awoke from the miasma Passing swiftly through the moor This is here, waters stir And in the distance all that was lost If you'll bear with me You'll fear of me You'd never leave me to A fate with you

Godhead's Lament Marauder Staining the soil midst of stillness Beloved fraternity to an end Red eyes probe the scene All the same stilted for the beholder Depravity from the core Handcarved death in stoneladen aisles I hide the scars from my past Yet the sense my (mute) dirge This is when it all falls apart White hands grasping for straws Sly smile, poisoned glare behind Undisguised manmade nova Mute cry, don't dare to tread Searing beams tracking you down Adoring what never has been Some will bring with them all they have seen Searching my way to perplexion The gleam of her eyes In that moment she knew Thought I could not leave this place On this imminent day As I've reached the final dawn To what's gone astray What would they care if I did stay No-one would know What would they care if I did stay No-one should know Still brooding, soothing calm That rigid, twisted face Blank godhead, tear my name Lost virtue, frantic lust Searching my way to perplexion In crumbling faith I saw her Bearing her pain in the wilderness The gleam of her eyes In that moment she knew

Benighted Come into this night Here we'll be gone So far way From our weak and crumbling lives Come into this night When days are done Lost and astray In what's vanished from your eyes What came and distorted your sight Saw you benighted by your fright Come into this night Your plight alone Carry your weight You are flawed as all of us Come into this night Your only home It's never too late To repent, suffer the loss Come into this night When you're able To undo your deeds And atone with your lonely soul Once you're into this night All minds are stable Forget all your needs Lose the grip of all control

Moonlapse Vertigo Kept warm by the light of the lantern Lost sight of everything tonight My presence blacken their patterns A pock in the healthy and calm Their scorn behind your back My promise would put them down No trace of reverence left Immemorial fire in their eyes I would perish at the given signal At the slightest touch from my soul Tainted prophet in flesh For all the plagued and lost Dripping sin decision in stalemate Dare to feel death at hand Surprised me with its voice Through the forest came the morn Across the leafy pathway Their deeds smeared in blood For all to behold The council of the cross Must have sensed my coming The pest through the air With despise for squalor Lashing out at the poor I turned away my eyes In pallor escape from the end Fading time to leave from here And less to fulfill my task She would be safe and firm Nothing of this is in vain Taken away from stifling grace And saved from the past

Face of Melinda By the turnstile beckons a damsel fair The face of Melinda neath blackened hair No joy would flicker in her eyes Brooding sadness came to a rise Words would falter to atone Failure had passed the stepping stone She had sworn her vows to another This is when no one will bother And conceded pain in crumbling mirth A harlot of God upon the earth Found where she sacrificed her ways That hollow love in her face Still I plotted to have her back The contentment that would fill the crack My soul released a fluttering sigh This day fell, darkness nigh I took her by the hand to say All faith forever has been led astray I returned for you in great dismay Come with me far away to stay Endlessly gazing in nocturnal prime She spoke of her vices and broke the rhyme But baffled herself with the final line My promise is made but my heart is thine

Serenity Painted Death Returned from a hibernal dream Voices fell like marble No longer by my side Gone, all that would linger Ripped from my embrace Melinda reflected in shafts Red line round her neck Met the earth in silence White faced, haggard grin This serenity painted death With a halo of bitter disease Black paragon in lingering breath Saw her fading, blank stare into me Clenched fist from the beautiful pain Darkness reared its head Tearing withim the reeling haze Took control, claiming my flesh Piercing rage, perfect tantrum Each and every one would die at my hand Choking in warm ponds of blood At last, weak and torn I went down Drained from strength, flickering breath Came with the morn The wayward in conscious state Flanked and barred in destiny's end Underneath with hope in laches Swathed in filth. any would betoken Starlit shadows on the wall Finally there to collect me From the bowels of sin

White Cluster Still it came passing by The pieces weaved together rose the sun And fooled me with another day The knocking messenger called for my life Sealed the spell of my scrawny body Soil to skin, my next of kin Damp air grasped, stole the words And greeted me with a hiss This is forgiveness, so I know Once I repent I seal the lid I slither for you, and I'm dying I find trust in hate They wear white for me Seemingly jaded and lost I forge myself into your dreams And here I am your life Hangman clutching at his tools I will come for you The noose is tied Murmur through the crowd Plunging into anywhere but here Cloak captured sighs of relief As the primal touch brought me back And the last thing I did see is still here Beckoning right behind me

The Leper Affinity We entered Winter once again Naked, freezing from my breath Neath the lid all limbs tucked away This coffin is your abode from now and onwards Your body is mine to avail Such a tragic sight you are Slave under my creed Spurring me with those tears I am beyond death Midst a dreaming affinity Saving strength now, faint whispers Come erotic communion in its splendour Fever mirrored ghosts Night time consolation, cross the line Draw murder into art Sleep inside through days In the wake of this relief Shivering, longing for more Insanity at its peak Love me to my death Lost are days of Spring You sighed and let me in Keep the beast inside Shackled within my hide Screaming out too late Losing to my hate Grew together with your skin And paced the trails of sin Your gaze covered with virgin snow Rigid features It's the shallow deeds who is to blame Deafening shrieks pierced the night A step from oblivion Moving into the dim lights Hiding within a reverie It was worth it for the wait alone

Bleak Beating Heart still beating for the cause Feeding Soul still feeding from the loss Aching Limbs are aching from the rush Fading You are fading from my sight Break of morning, coldness lingers on Shroud me into nightmares of the sun Moving I am moving closer to your side Luring You are luring me into the night Crying Who is crying for you here Dying I am dying fast inside your tears Plunging towards bereavement faster yet Clearing thoughts, my mind is set Devious movement in your eyes Moved me from relief Breath comes out white clouds with your lies And filters through me You're close to the final word You're staring right past me in dismay A liquid seeps from your chest And drains me away Mist ripples round your thin white neck And draws me a line Cold fingers mark this dying wreck This moment is mine Help me cure you Atone for all you've done Help me leave you As all the days are gone Night falls again Taking what's left of me Slight twist, shivering corpse Ornated with water, fills the cracks Clasped in my limbs by tradition This is all you need

Harvest Stay with me a while Rise above the vile Name my final rest Poured into my chest Pledge yourself to me Never leave me be Sweat breaks on my brow Given time ends now Spirit painted sin Embers neath my skin Veiled in pale embrace Reached and touched my face Into the orchard I walk peering way past the gate Wilted scenes for us who couldn't wait Drained by the coldest caress, stalking shadows ahead Halo of death, all I see is departure Mourner's lament but it's me who's the martyr

The Drapery Falls Please remedy my confusion And thrust me back to the day The silence of your seclusion Brings night into all you say Pull me down again And guide me into pain I'm counting nocturnal hours Drowned visions in haunted sleep Faint flickering of your powers Leaks out to show what you keep Pull me down again And guide me into There is failure inside This test I can't persist Kept back by the enigma No criterias demanded here Deadly patterns made my wreath Prosperous in your ways Pale ghost in the corner Pouring a caress on your shoulder Puzzled by shrewd innocence Runs a thick tide beneath Ushered into inner graves Nails bleeding from the struggle It is the end for the weak at heart Always the same A lullaby for the ones who've lost all Reeling inside My gleaming eye in your necklace reflects Stare of primal regrets You turn your back and you walk away Never again Spiralling to the ground below Like Autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away Waking up to your sound again And lapse into the ways of misery

Dirge For November Lost, here is nowhere Searching home still Turning past me, all are gone Time is now The omen showed, took me away Preparations are done, this can't last The mere reflections brought disgust No ordeal to conquer, this firm slit It sheds upon the floor, dripping into a pool Grant me sleep, take me under Like the wings of a dove, folding around I fade into this tender care

The Funeral Portrait You wait by the window Morning's breath on the sill Idle hands given another try So you wait and you savour the moment Outside the canvas turned white Ruby eyes in the fog Rain washing clean all the sins A liquid gown that covers all Your loathe turns endless Opened mirage soothes your sense Locked on the pinnacle The best secret within Like a derelict child Heart burning for a stranger Ascending to the meek Flock round the liars in awe Caked to the soil beneath Fear me when we meet Turn away in admiration My firm grip round the nucleus of joy Enough of this You will leave me now You will see it now Perish at my hands Close to you Tangled up in hair Fresh stigma looks Shall I take you with me And it is cold Ruby eyes in the fog It is me And you are just like them all Stained by the names of fathers I'm greeting my downward fall Leaving the throes to others

Patterns In The Ivy No lyrics

Blackwater Park Confessor Of the tragedies in man Lurking in the core of us all The lasy dying call for the everlost Brief encounters, bleeding pain Lepers coiled neath the trees Dying men in bewildered soliloquies Perversions bloom round the bend Seekers, lost in their quest Ghosts of friends frolic under the waning moon It is the year of death Wielding his instruments Stealth sovereign reaper Touching us with ease Infecting the roots in an instant Burning crop of disease I am just a spectator An advocate documenting the loss Fluttering with conceit This doesn't concern me yet Still far from the knell Taunting their bereavement Mob round the dead Point fingers at the details Probing vomits for more Caught in unbridled suspense We have all lost it now Catching the flakes of dismay Born the travesty of man Regular pulse midst pandemonium You're plucked to the mass Parched with thirst for the wicked Sick liasions raised this monumental mark The sun sets forever over Blackwater park

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