Dark Tranquillity - Exposures - In Retrospect And Denial Album Lyrics

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Static

nothing of a man was he
his true face of sleep a deception
fell through all the way to the bottom
learned to hold

again we vowed not to hold sacred
but to damn that hollow gaze
unsteady on these shorelines
mute to an unthought scream
another word fell silent
like the static in their eyes
against all fleeing logic
we let our minds go
blank

why define ourselves by misguiding light?
how can we receive the static in their eyes

each blink of light an accuser
each unlit shape an assassin

crawled the outer rim
with his back exposed
the shadows unending
fought off the stares

again we vowed not to hold sacred
but to damn that hollow gaze
unsteady on these shorelines
mute to an unthought scream
another word fell silent
like the static in their eyes
against all fleeing logic
we let our minds go
blank

nullify the ego, stay right back
stay right back
how can we receive
the static?

fear that strangles spirit
denial speaks the truth
fear that strangles spirit
crushes me and you

wicked are the senses, wicked are the words
give me the static

again we vowed not to hold sacred
but to damn that hollow gaze
unsteady on these shorelines
mute to an unthought scream
another word fell silent
like the static in their eyes
against all fleeing logic
we let our minds go
blank

 

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The Poison Well

unless another wall is breaking
nothing can come of this
elusive
against our better judgement
(allow) our image to stand ground
turn around and

break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
nobody ever goes

with ideals as infestations
hinder the radical mind
retune our aim
now it's time for hiding
for it stabs fear in you
so coward

break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
nobody ever goes

a thought to infect you
an idea to perfect you

a flesh to restrain you
no heart to forgive you

the poison well
i dried

break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
nobody ever goes

 

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Misery In Me

we no longer support ourselves
we live through each others tears
we no longer caress, no longer take hold
til this will be over again
the dream is over when all this begins
the past not part of the deal
the failing words i once said to you
you turned and walked out the door

gone
over
i said it's fine
you burn them bridges
and you turn around
around

can't you see the misery in me?
can't you see the misery is me?
don't you know the fear i feel inside?
the misery in me

we no longer sustain ourselves
we live through each other's wounds
let's no longer detain, no longer suppress
pretend to be something we're not
the world is over when all is the same
a companion always there
but you have deceived
when all this is gone
you took back what you already had

gone
over
i said it's fine
you burn them bridges
and you turn around
around

can't you see the misery in me?
can't you see the misery is me?
don't you know the fear i feel inside?
the misery in me

we no longer care if it breaks
it falls on belated pride
we keep on heading inwards
so this might be our only chance
to turn it around

can't you see the misery in me?
can't you see the misery is me?
don't you know the fear i feel inside?
the misery in me

 

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Cornered

there never was a night like this
how could there ever be?
through sweat and velvet misery
the fever-race in me

cornered in symmetrical design
spherelike chrome on a sea enraged
hatred

what the mirror sees
is the clutching at straws
taking us under
the storm of the ocean
this velvety crush
ringcorners, firm in the outrage
synoptic patterns
waves contort
break into these cellular walls

globes of disease
infest my dreams
burning the ends of my veins

pattern and form
the squares cling fast
dance the tide now

could never bear another night
although i know it will come
the freezing ends of what is me
the icing rages free

cornered in symmetrical design
spherelike chrome on a sea enraged
hatred

take hold of the boundaries
on this perimeter sea
burn, enflame the oppressor
and if four was one
in a corner alone
recovering, licking the wounds
delirium coming
the weakness kicks in
reforming, cornered within

 

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In Sight

we are to be something here again
we are to play soldiers now, pretend
we are born inside these endless halls of shame
we are jaded by the error-ways of man

it doesn't make us strong
it doesn't make us strong
the things that i find stranger here
will not let us in
will not let us in
show me, i won't tell
and even if i go today
i won't understand
understand

we are to be something we are not
we are to repeat our faults my friend
we are taken down from sanity's lonely heights
we are shown the downward spiral ways of man

it doesn't make us strong
it doesn't make us strong
the things that i find stranger here
will not let us in
no, they will not let us in
show me, i won't tell
'cause even if i die today
i won't understand
understand

 

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No-One

uncontrolled spaces
lifeless til provoked
deep uncharted oceans
nonexistent til claimed
great raging fires
silent

when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me
the no one is me
me, me, me, me

tall reaching branches
pointless to even try
countless flaming cities
measured without cost
all-seeing eyes
without stories to tell

inside the orchard there's a scent of devilry
as was in my heart
...the sweetness overripe...
rancid in attempt to overcome the shackles
if only the soil could hold

when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me

when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me
the no one is me

when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me
the no one is me

the wide open wound
won't heal without purpose
it never stops
the wide open wound
that never heals
the no one is me
the no one is me

 

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Exposure

rise, i say, yes rise above
'cause evil is as evil does, what evil does to me

down you go to lands below
'cause evil is as evil does, what evil does to me

they who reign in sand
take this brightest strike
in their so called castles
now with walls of glass

i can see, i can see, i can see
all your deeds, all your needs, on your knees
so i'll crack your feeble shell

can you even see the works of what you fear?
'cause evil is as evil does what evil's done to me

further inside, til all you have is mine
evil is as evil does, the evil done to me

dreams, he said
dreams he wore
dreams he wore
dreams he wore
hope, he said
hope he wore
love, he said
and evil he wore

i'll strip you down
i'll tear you down
i'll burden you with tears
i'll bring you down
til nails come off
i'll turn your bed of lies
dreams upon a night
dreams upon your thoughts
dreams upon your fears
and dreams upon your love

blind to your eyes, blind to your mind
'cause evil is what evil does, what evil does to me

taste and you'll see the fruit you took is foul
evil is what evil does, what evil's done to me

you who turn to others
with everything you lack
a face that bears not seeing
then i'll turn my back

i can see, i can see, i can see
all your needs, all your deeds, on your knees
so i'll crack your fucking shell

 

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Yesterworld

Over the moor of mist and through valleys of fate
I fly on my voyage through this moonlit landscape
of re-emerged figments of imagination
I am aroused in sleep....aroused in sleep

Far beyond the gate which reflects in the closed eye
reveal that a dreamscape lies therein
A yearning for a world
where the everlost find their peace
In the pearly gates of dawn
on the astral feed of minds
- envenomed to the bone
forever cleansed from all called wrath
as slumber sneaks upon
and steals the thought of man
all ridden from inner aggression...
A voyage beyond this world
In this paralell to real life
- access lies in dreams
Unveil hidden secrets in our sleep
- the key to what's beyond

In the wake of man we see
essential dreams unfulfilled
Enhance the value of life
engraved words on the page of man

In the presence of the moon
an owl awakes and calls a name
tells a story of a world
accessable only at night...

"This ain't no dream..."

Legend tells of a yesterworld
a dreamscape of strange light
"It's your dream coming true"
Transcendance of the soul
All by the sign of the moon

I am eaten away in mouthfuls by flames
that burn in the errors of our ways
In a night when the sky floats blue
as touquoise, and the stars of silver are twinkling
in their outmost pride

Now from dimensions fallen from the skies
- like the flow of a stream
From my sleep I continue onward
- sleep is just a shape of destiny

Weak sunlight of dawns to come,
dancing swiftly in the shadows
Shimmering, shining in a landscape of dreams

...landscape of my dreams
Dim reflections of the pale
a shade of grey in mind

In the presence of the moon
an owl awakes and calls a name
tells a story of a world
accessable only at night...

"It's your reality..."

Legend tells of a yesterworld
a dreamscape of strange light
"It's much more than a dream"
Transcendance of the soul
All by the sign of the moon

Soon these worlds will be one
and mankind feasts on the sights of it all
I yearn for things to come

Still wrapped in the thrall of slumber
as the mist slippes away to reveal...
And the wind tears a scream from my lips
- I am there....

In the dreamscape I adore
(a moonclad reflection)

 

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Unfurled By Dawn

Time and space unite
era of darkness - we mourn
Times of sorrow despite
our preach is put to scorn...

In ways like these I shall be reborn
to my words I conform
To seek the path of knowledge through time
In a life in a lack of rhyme (or reason)

Subconcious powers flow
- we burn the ways forlorn
Am I in time with forces I am born
Are those disguised
Excuse is being dumb
In spirit fails...

Self realization in supreme conciousness
Explore the self - within a millenia of peace

Reach into the soil of humankind
Bury secrets beneath this hallowed ground

Feel the wind of time now changing
Hear the voice that whispers near

Explore the inner strength within you now
seek deep in your soul - it'll show you how

Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...

"I've seen the void that echo fear"

Fly into this void of inner consioucness
we seek eternally

Greet enlightned ways...
I spead out wings of knowledge
is essential in mournful times like these
Words I repent

Voice from inner self shall lead my way

Former ways of life I repent
to inner consciosness I've ascent
Mortal way of living is the key
Key to the secret it beholds

Come to seek the path with me
in unfathomable harmony
the way life is meant to be
enjoy and just adore life...

Burning desire in thee
letting your soul fly free
No sould shall be the same
burn with a different flame
Sowing the seeds of man
proving the things your can
Seeing the things that'll be
the priors in life I can see

Each of mankind is a star
that will keep on shining eternally

Unveil the hidden unknown things in mind
enchanted over things that you will find

Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...

In affection we loom - a reflection of time
Walless prison, consumed - ignore irrelevance (a rule)

Search the inner self - find the self within
Finding things I've seen in dreams (seeing evermore)
things that' s left unsaid
Surrending to this inner force, feeling no remorse
nothing to forbid

In the empty eyes of the last of mortals
those songs they echo as in halls of the enlightened
Before this dawn of eternal light we stand
once more now as darkness belongs to the forgotten

...to the forgotten

Internal sadness cured through the light
to reach the sadest river in sight
Whispers of molten souls in my ear
on wings of twillight I am born....

Now enthrone thoughts of the past
the embryo of time
Your life lies yet unfolded
'til enlightened ways we see

In my dreams I've seen repention
as in tales that were never told

Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...

 

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Midwinter / Beyond Enlightenment

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

 

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Vernal Awakening

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

 

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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