Songs from the North I, II & III Lyrics Album by Swallow the Sun
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Album Lyrics
1. With You Came the Whole of the World’s Tears
Disc 1 – Gloom
“Saint Peter,
save me and send me down to Hell.
For I will find her there where
moonlight catches her scarlet hair.
Where she sings
and black ravens circle
above her in the burning air.”
Silence your heart
before it tears you apart.
Keep your eyes on the distant thunder,
unfold your wings against the dark.
My heart thrown to the lions,
my soul fed to the wolves.
Arise, arise, arise!
Walk on your altar of sacrifice,
and let the blood run for her.
My heart thrown to the lions,
my soul fed to the wolves.
My body left for the winter,
my eyes for the night.
With you came the
whole of world’s tears.
The space between the heartbeats
is where I felt you.
A small death
each and every time.
My heart thrown to the lions,
my soul fed to the wolves.
Arise, arise, arise!
Walk on your altar of sacrifice,
and let the blood run for her.
I stand straight at the front of
my faith to keep the last of my honour,
but my legs won’t carry me anymore.
Paralysed before
the eyes of a hunter,
I open up my veins for
the parasites to come.
Silence your heart
before it tears you apart.
Keep your eyes on the distant thunder,
unfold your wings against the dark.
My heart thrown to the lions,
my soul fed to the wolves.
Arise, arise, arise!
Walk on your altar of sacrifice,
and let the blood run for her.
My heart thrown to the lions,
my soul fed to the wolves.
My body left for the winter,
my eyes for the night.
“Saint Peter,
save me and send me down to Hell…”
2. 10 Silver Bullets
Burn marks on my chest,
so the arrows won’t miss.
Surrounded by the cupid of Lucifer,
and she who stands on his left side
with her burning spears.
Straight into the heart, my love.
Straight into the heart!
Ten silver bullets but I won’t shed a tear for you,
won’t cry for mercy, none from you!
They always find you in the shadows,
for my heart is a lighthouse of a burning flame.
Straight into the heart, my love.
Straight into the heart!
Would have followed you
down to the depths of Hell,
and saved you from these flames.
Built a bridge over this dark world
that we have created.
Blessed be the ones who do not feel,
for you the heavens are open.
Such is the nature of the heartless!
And for us who tread in the dark
the road goes on forever,
from the sunrise to the sunset
and all through the night.
The serpent’s words I remember well
and the venom she spat.
Unholy offering of fire and lust
was a road straight to Hell.
Blessed be the ones who do not feel,
for you the heavens are open.
Such is the nature of the heartless!
And for us who tread in the dark
the road goes on forever,
from the sunrise to the sunset
and all through the night.
Ghosts and owls
wrapped around my neck,
she led me too far this time.
There’s no Heaven to
help us now, no repent.
Woman is a creator,
man is a destroyer,
or so I thought.
The judgement of our
sins fell upon us.
From the ivory garden of the
Gods to the worms of the earth.
To the worms of the earth!
Blessed be the ones who do not feel,
for you the heavens are open.
Such is the nature of the heartless!
And for us who tread in the dark
the road goes on forever,
from the sunrise to the sunset
and all through the night.
3. Rooms and Shadows
“I walked into the room of shadows
and closed the door behind me…”
Silent walls remind me of my faults,
bleeding paintings of holy colours.
Burnt letters and ghosts from the past
floating through the heavy air
with the ghosts I left behind.
Like the ashes I left behind!
From the cradle of this life
I bleed upon your holiness,
the ones I left behind.
My heart withered with time!
Dead from all this emptiness,
the dark I came to find.
Blind is the mirror
that reflects this art.
From poisoned daggers
and lies it’s been forged.
To carry the weight of the
Devil’s wings is less than
what I carry inside.
I carry inside!
From the cradle of this life
I bleed upon your holiness,
the ones I left behind.
My heart withered with time!
Dead from all this emptiness,
the dark I came to find.
When everything vanishes around you
and slowly slips through your fingers,
and all you have left is pain,
would you do it again?
Alone in this
empty room of shadows.
Alone filled with
memories of nothing.
Would you do it again
and remain the same?
From the cradle of this life
I bleed upon your holiness,
the ones I left behind.
My heart withered with time!
Dead from all this emptiness,
the dark I came to find.
4. Heartstrings Shattering
See the ghost I have become,
save the prayers for the living ones.
Feel the dark that I’ve become,
send your crows into the light
to fill the skies and dim the sun.
Cast the shadows on my side,
fulfil the oath of the broken ones.
Hallowed halls of setting suns
lost in the vacuum of this heart.
Hear my heartstrings shattering
as tombs open before me,
and she sang:
“Bury my heart!
Cover it with the coldest stones,
so it will suffer longer.
Like I did in your arms…
Your arms!”
You led me into the darkest night,
to the deepest shades with
your heart open wide.
Into the battle with
death on your shoulder.
Like a templar knight
with God on his side,
straight into the arms
of your enemy.
Through the flames
with fire in her eyes.
Saints, have mercy upon us!
Cast the shadows on my side,
fulfil the oath of the broken ones.
Hallowed halls of setting suns
lost in the vacuum of this heart.
Lost in the vacuum of this heart!
You led me into the darkest night,
to the deepest shades with
your heart open wide.
Into the battle with
death on your shoulder.
Like a templar knight
with God on his side,
straight into the arms
of your enemy.
Through the flames
with fire in her eyes.
Saints, have mercy upon us!
See the ghost I have become,
save the prayers for the living ones.
Feel the dark that we’ve become,
send your crows into the light
to fill the skies and dim the sun.
“Bury my heart!
Cover it with the coldest stones,
so it will suffer longer.
Like I did in your arms…
Your arms!”
5. Silhouettes
I painted my heart black
just to cover the darker shades.
Framed by tears so thick from
ashes, oil and blood.
Winter solstice night but in
my soul the dark won’t step aside.
Increased with these long stretched
hours from seconds to years.
Until years become centuries!
Lonely silhouettes moving on
the wall like wounded birds,
with their crooked black claws
dancing around my throat.
Wounded in the hands of winter,
I froze to death for her.
Outcast from her embrace
I bled to death for her.
But I shall return,
I will haunt her in her dreams.
I rise like a morning star,
strike down the holy ones who
betrayed their hearts for the crown
that melted over their eyes.
I shine like the north star,
and blind their weak eyes.
Fill them with my sorrow,
and curse them in my arms.
You threw me down the throat of Hell,
tied my hands and burned me with your tongue.
Drowned me in the nothingness,
into the abyss of your poison well.
Lonely silhouettes moving on
the wall like wounded birds,
with their crooked black claws
dancing around my throat.
Wounded in the hands of winter,
I froze to death for her.
But I shall return,
and sing you back to sleep.
I rise like a morning star,
strike down the holy ones who
betrayed their hearts for the crown
that melted over their eyes.
I shine like the north star,
and blind their weak eyes.
Fill them with my sorrow,
and curse them in my arms.
6. The Memory of Light
From the Heavens above,
through the silent twilight she fell.
Blinding light of a falling star,
or wings ablaze?
I watched her sleeping away her pain
under the eyes of her crows.
The dark grew around her like
the shadows as the sun went down.
I offered her salvation from
this place of woe and thorns.
Washed her wings so black from ashes,
and hid away her horns.
Wipe away your black tears,
welcome the darker times.
The day of tomorrow is
for the chosen ones.
From the fires of yesterday
until the Hell of tomorrow,
the memory of light is all we have.
The fear in her voice
kept echoing in my mind like
the cries of a lost child who knows
she won’t last through the night.
Under the stars of the open sky
she gazed into the night.
Wondered why she fell below,
abandoned by the light.
The ballet of shooting stars above,
she watches them in tears every night.
Her wings chained down to earth,
unable to leave.
I’m the guardian of her Hell,
the one to remind her that
love will get you here.
Wipe away your black tears,
welcome the darker times.
The day of tomorrow is
for the chosen ones.
From the fires of yesterday
until the Hell of tomorrow,
the memory of light is all we have.
I watched her sleeping away her pain
under the eyes of her crows.
The dark grew around her like
the shadows as the sun went down.
From the Heavens above,
through the silent twilight she fell.
Blinding light of a falling star,
or wings ablaze?
7. Lost & Catatonic
Failure, victim, nothing,
bleeding, losing everything.
Failure, victim, nothing,
bleeding, losing everything.
I was never the one,
in their eyes no one will.
I am lost and catatonic!
I laid them all to rest,
the demons inside of me.
I am lost and catatonic!
Bury my heart
in your icy womb.
I am lost and catatonic!
Away from the light
into earth’s silent tomb.
I am lost and catatonic.
Choking, cursing, shattering,
blame, blame, blame!
Burning, cutting, I’m vanishing,
shame, shame, shame!
Walls are closing in,
they’re staring.
Shade’s still chanting!
Run, do it, done?`
Break your wows of trying,
let them suffer in longing,
be remembered for nothing.
I was never the one,
in their eyes no one will.
I am lost and catatonic!
I laid them all to rest,
the demons inside of me.
I am lost and catatonic!
Bury my heart
in your icy womb.
I am lost and catatonic!
Away from the light
into earth’s silent tomb.
I am lost and catatonic.
Felt the pain
but I numbed it down.
Crowded streets
but no one’s around.
These kingdoms of dust,
these empires of loneliness.
We are lost and catatonic!
Walk through me you all.
Curse you, you heartless.
We are lost and catatonic!
Failure, victim, nothing,
pain, pain, pain!
Cutting, Burning, I’m vanishing,
shame, shame, shame!
I was never the one,
in their eyes no one will.
I am lost and catatonic!
I laid them all to rest,
the demons inside of me.
I am lost and catatonic!
Bury my heart
in your icy womb.
I am lost and catatonic!
Away from the light
into earth’s silent tomb.
We are lost!
8. From Happiness to Dust
It’s getting late my old friend,
it’s time to go now.
Say goodbye to all we had
and set these torn sails away.
You broke me down to pieces
like you always did,
I’m ready to sleep now.
This tomb of my heart turned happiness to dust,
days changed to lifetimes of promises and rust.
All friends around me from happiness to dust,
and I’m ready to go now where I won’t be lost.
Happiness to dust!
Have you come to take me home,
last rays of the evening sun?
With the dream to where I belong,
to the meadows of unsung songs.
I’m scarred for lifetimes in here,
worn down in these battles.
I’m ready to sleep now!
I dragged all these shadows behind me
until they grew into a part of me,
but I never wanted it to happen.
All the steps I took, I took
them for the happiness of others.
But they all burned me down,
burnt like an emtpy book.
I unfolded my wings to their darkness,
stepped into all those rooms of shadows,
took those silver bullets to shield their hearts.
But I’m too wounded now
from these battles.
Please let me fall into a
sleep of beauty for a while.
It’s getting late my old friend,
it’s time to go now.
Say goodbye to all we had
and set these torn sails away.
Worn down in these battles,
I’m ready to sleep now!
This tomb of my heart turned happiness to dust,
days changed to lifetimes of promises and rust.
All friends around me from happiness to dust,
and I’m ready to go now where I won’t be lost.
Disc 2 – Beauty
9. The Womb of Winter
(Instrumental)
10. The Heart of a Cold White Land
From the shadows inside of me
to the light that shines in me,
I will be like an arrow.
And the fire that lights the night,
these shadows within the light,
I will be like an arrow.
This heart of a cold white land
in the dark of the endless nights,
and the light of summer that never dies
in these songs from the north.
From the cradle of the ice
to the tomb of the night,
I will sleep in your arms.
And the beauty of the eye,
a horizon guiding light,
I will keep in my heart.
These skies of the winter stars
arise to the frozen night,
and the light of summer that never dies
in these songs from the north.
In these songs from the north!
Sky, earth, stars,
lakes, moon, trees.
These skies of the winter stars
arise to the frozen night,
and the light of summer that never dies
in these songs from the north.
In these songs from the north!
11. Away
Arise with the new dawn’s hour,
breathe in the air so blue.
Nightmares of yesterday’s sorrows,
disappear into the light anew.
Here today, gone tomorrow, it will be.
Leave your ghosts behind for a while.
Night came with warm tears,
now the drops of morning dew.
Arise with the new dawn’s hour
and let your eyes reflect the dark.
Away with the first light of the day,
let it wash your tears away today
and all that will remain.
Nothing here
will stay the same!
Nothing here
will stay the same!
Nothing here
will stay the same,
not even this pain!
Here today, gone tomorrow,
it will pass with time
and leave its mark on you.
Embrace this early hour,
silent trees and still horizon.
You will find it here when
the wind lifts your broken wings.
Arise with the new dawn’s hour
and let your eyes reflect the dark.
Away with the first light of the day,
let it wash your tears away today
and all that will remain.
Nothing here
will stay the same!
Nothing here
will stay the same!
12. Pray for the Winds to Come
Wind across the barren land,
lift my wings from the desert sand.
My spirit is broken but not my hands
to write these lines in the sand.
Deceivers, unbelievers!
Fall on your knees and pray
for the winds to come.
Undying and defying north!
Winter bless your child,
I’m coming home!
Sun burns my eyes in this strange land,
vast fields of sand from where I stand.
My ships are gone but the sea will
carry me under your skies.
Deceivers, unbelievers!
Fall on your knees and pray
for the winds to come.
Undying and defying north!
Winter bless your child,
I’m coming home!
The starlit night sky
with unknown patterns above,
abandoned on these far away shores.
Left alone with the memory
of the trees, the snow and lakes.
Tonight I will catch the wind
and escape this land of burning sun.
Deceivers, unbelievers!
Fall on your knees and pray
for the winds to come.
Undying and defying north!
Winter bless your child,
I’m coming home!
Wind across the barren land,
lift my wings from these desert sands.
Deceivers, unbelievers!
Fall on your knees and pray
for the winds to come.
Undying and defying north!
Winter bless your child,
I’m coming home!
13. Songs from the North
Oh Mother North, eyes like blue sapphires.
I’m lost in your wilderness, in your arms.
From your love my heart has been forged.
Eternal nights to everlight, to winter’s throne.
Niin laulut Pohjolan kun sammuu, hiipuu hiljaa.
Hallatar kun viljaa lyö, ja yö tuo kuninkaan tuon talven maan.
Niin routaan kaivetaan, lepoon oman maan.
Ja laulut Pohjolan mukaan vain saan.
Oh Mother North,
lakes like blue sapphires.
Under your skies into the wild
I drown my sorrows.
Niin laulut Pohjolan kun sammuu, hiipuu hiljaa.
Hallatar kun viljaa lyö, ja yö tuo kuninkaan tuon talven maan.
Niin routaan kaivetaan, lepoon oman maan.
Ja laulut Pohjolan mukaan vain saan.
At the midnight hour of sacred light,
the magic of these woods so alive.
The shadows of the giants in a silvery
dark light from the snowy trees ahead.
And their slow march closer
to the flaming night skies
to touch the tail of fire.
But their roots hold the secrets,
these melodies, echoes from the past.
Nothing here will last!
But the songs from your journey
you will bury with your heart.
Niin laulut Pohjolan kun sammuu, hiipuu hiljaa.
Hallatar kun viljaa lyö, ja yö tuo kuninkaan tuon talven maan.
Niin routaan kaivetaan, lepoon oman maan.
Ja laulut Pohjolan mukaan vain saan.
14. 66°50’N, 28°40’E
(Instrumental)
15. Autumn Fire
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8…
9 times I breathe in the holy air before
I open my eyes to summer’s dying flare.
The autumn fire, the arches of rust,
this hallowed aisle.
Cathedrals of trees where the altars
are burning, the smoke of October leaves.
Father Winter is calling his herd aloud
and we are the crows who fly.
From the aisle of autumn fire we arise,
over the lakes and trees we draw the night sky.
With our wings we paint the vast horizons
and the stars, the stars upon the northern skies.
Blinded by the midnight sun,
in this land we were born.
Now racing the clouds towards
the winter’s thorn.
And we fly…
From the aisle of autumn fire we arise,
over the lakes and trees we draw the night sky.
With our wings we paint the vast horizons
and the stars, the stars upon the northern skies.
We turn our heads towards the setting sun,
the beauty and the light of the one who will
be gone so soon fade into her hiding.
And the season of rust
will soon harvest the living,
so we can be reborn again.
From the aisle of autumn fire we arise,
over the lakes and trees we draw the night sky.
With our wings we paint the vast horizons
and the stars, the stars upon the northern skies.
16. Before the Summer Dies
We fall like leaves from
the skies, down with the sun.
North winds are taming her down,
chased away for a lifetime.
Into the twilight,
away with the light.
We are the children who
stare into the night.
We are the ones, the children
of the setting sun.
We are the ones who pray
upon the fading light!
We are the ones, the children
of the setting sun.
We are the ones who pray
upon the night!
Summer is fading like time
runs through your fingers.
And night will harvest us down
before the words of goodbye.
Into the twilight,
away with the light.
We are the children
who stare into the night.
We are the ones, the children
of the setting sun.
We are the ones who pray
upon the fading light!
We are the ones…
We fall like leaves from
the skies, down with the sun.
And storms will arrive and
harvest us down, down with the sun.
We pray for the night
to give us one more sunrise,
to shine from our eyes
before the summer dies.
Disc 3 – Despair
17. The Gathering of Black Moths
Hell is here where storms are drawing near,
we are black moths separated from the core.
Chased away into the night to the farthest shore
where storms rip our wings apart.
We circle around the flame,
holding on to the light of Hell
that glows for us.
In our name of pain and betrayal,
this is our home on the farthest shore
where the bells toll fear.
We are the black moths
circling around the flame.
The distant lighthouse in the raging storm,
the glow of the safe harbour we will never reach.
Like a compass without the north we are lost,
ever changing course from home, forever lost.
For our sins we are cursed to stay here,
for all the wings we left behind burned and broken.
Now the ones to hold the blackest ones!
On our backs they keep us alive
in this world of the dead
but not to be remembered,
only in all evil.
We are the black moths
circling around the flame.
For a thousand years of suffering,
a price from the life we left behind.
Thrown into the loneliness of this last shore.
From the life all promises
into the abyss of souls parted.
We are the black moths separated from the core,
chased away into the night to the farthest shore
where storms rip our wings apart.
And the calm is only to remind
us of our black hearts,
the one that beats no more
won’t hurt anyone evermore.
Now I am finally home where I belong.
Flying into the flame of Hell
every night just before the sunrise.
To burn to ashes just to form again
for a new night of suffering,
to remain what I was, the evil
again and again…
18. 7 Hours Late
Forgive me father,
I was 7 hours late and now you’re gone.
But I made it next to you as I promised,
dressed you for your last journey.
I’m dead to you now,
still holding the words
that were left unsaid.
Couldn’t burden you with the
sorrows that crushed my chest.
Couldn’t find the right time to share
those words why the days passed away.
I’m dead to you now and will be until
my own heart sees the fallen veil of night.
Until the curtains open for me to walk the same
moonlit silver trail, I always will be 7 hours late.
Carrying the pain of knowing that you never
knew why we both went through the days apart
but with the same shadows in our hearts.
I can’t never tell you why I wasn’t
there until they bury me in the same soil,
until we meet again I will be 7 hours late.
These rooms of shadows
echoes on these walls,
this empire of loneliness.
Still feeling the presence,
your soul still lingering here for a while.
And the dark that pours in through
the night-side window,
and the light that fades into the woods,
Like fireflies dancing between the rusted trees,
the light that escaped from my side.
Glowing in the woods, waving its last goodbye
until its gone, and then it’s dark!
19. Empires of Loneliness
A lonely shape at my door as death walked in,
turned his grey face toward me.
No eyes but his stare pierced my soul,
no words but I knew his reasons well.
Nothing here for me,
just a burden to others.
I followed his slow steps
quiet sighs straight into the night.
Through these streets of flashing lights
shapes with eyes like shadows and stares so hollow.
Nowhere to go but lower from here,
deeper down into the fear and hopelessness.
Hell everywhere around me,
so why would I have anything
to lose if I follow?
Through this city of
long shadows we walked
this world of empty souls.
Kingdom of fear
and hearts so lost,
abandoned by the light.
Cells of empty shells,
filling their insides
with promises of something,
anything.
These grey towers around me,
climbing toward the night sky,
reaching for the clouds.
Like birds so black high above
with their all seeing eyes,
the halo of their stares.
And these concrete walls with dim
lights that are covered with curtains,
and within are those stairs just
leading down to the depths of Hell.
This carnival of everything,
yet we have nothing but this
horror of our existence.
Couldn’t find more reasons
to pray for a better tomorrow,
all I achieved was just more distance.
From my dreams, my hopes,
and from the light of the
morning that I separated myself
from so long ago.
So I followed his slow steps and quiet sighs
to the place I loved most as a child.
Where I chased my dreams and waved to the
passing trains the miracles of life.
And here back on those same tracks
I stand again, being so much less.
Now alone holding nothing within
but this empire of loneliness.
The low rumbling sound of a train
in the distance, its blinding eye in the dark.
Ready to swallow you whole,
left in pieces like my wounded soul.
And here back on those same tracks
I stand again, being so much less.
Now alone holding nothing within
but this empire of loneliness.
Then from the dark a small
glimmering light did appear,
with the trembling wings of a butterfly
it shone a light into my night.
A halo of a childish hope
reaching from somewhere
long since gone…
I held my breath
and it landed on
my arm and asked:
“Is there still anything worth reaching for?”
And my heart said no.
“Any light or goodness in you worth holding on to?”
And my heart said no.
I closed my eyes, got on my weak knees,
and breathed in the dark glow.
As her wings turned to ashes,
from ashes to a black moth.
I heard the sirens
and screaming of the iron.
And my heart still said no.
This carnival of everything,
yet we have nothing but this
horror of our existence.
Couldn’t find more reasons
to pray for a better tomorrow,
all I achieved was just more distance.
From all of my dreams, my hopes
and from the light of the morning.
So I followed his slow
steps and quiet sighs
to the place I loved
most as a child.
And there back on those
same tracks I stood again.
Now alone holding nothing within
but this empire of loneliness.
20. Abandoned by the Light
I anchored my heart
into the depths of this sea,
with this ship made out of fears.
Its crew plagued with the curse
that comes with the daylight,
and pours its black flood on me
when the night arrives.
On this sinking hearse I stand
made of bones, blood and horns.
Sails of this ghost ship left
at the mercy of these storms.
I tore the demons out of me but
the night always brought them back.
They painted my skin with their shadows,
and cut me with their blades.
I was drowned under their will until
I knelt like a sheep under wolves’ eyes.
They made me stare straight into the fire
until I heard all the cries of pain in the aether.
But in the flame I
saw myself burned alive,
burned alive with her.
Please save me, Saint Peter!
On this sinking hearse I stand
made of bones, blood and horns.
Sails of this ghost ship left
at the mercy of these storms.
Flags ripped apart by the
winds that felt like thorns.
No land and no home in sight,
I am abandoned by the light.
The purest form of pain,
my heart pulled apart by ebony horses
unaware of their powers.
Gentle in their calmness until their
eyes lit up like the fires of Hell,
or was it just a reflection of mine?
On this sinking hearse I stand
made of bones, blood and horns.
Sails of this ghost ship left
at the mercy of these storms.
Flags ripped apart by the
winds that felt like thorns.
No land and no home in sight,
I am abandoned by the light.
21. The Clouds Prepare for Battle
The black winds lift
my wings on my command!
I turn my eyes to the north,
against the distant flaming sky,
the pressure of the air and the weight
of the clouds on the horizon.
I have no more fear
in me nor tears to resist,
I rise above you and take
your throne of fear.
I turned my wings towards the dark and your armies,
threw my soul into the eye of the storm to feel your force.
But you were less than nothing as an enemy of mine,
I arose through the shadows and the fires of Hell.
To look you straight in the eye
in this stillness before the storm,
one more time before I raise my hand.
As these clouds prepare for battle
under my command.
I rise through the clouds with wrath in my eyes,
through the temples of the skies, under the stars,
upon the night sky, above the living and the dead,
through the black night of the souls into the fiery throne.
This darkness grew my wings too
mighty to break, too strong to fall.
I have no more fear in me nor tears to resist,
I rise above you and take your throne.
Through the black night of the
souls into the fiery throne.
I turned my wings towards the dark and your armies,
threw my soul into the eye of the storm to feel your force.
But you were less than nothing as an enemy of mine,
I arose through the shadows and the fires of Hell.
To look you straight in the eye
in this stillness before the storm,
one more time before I raise my hand.
As these clouds prepare for battle
under my command.
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