BORKNAGAR LYRICS

1. Epochalypse

The impact of meteor collisions
sprays rock over desert sand
I've seen the subversion changing our conditions
in the wildfire that scorches the land

A region flooded by horizontal cataracts
drowning in the debris flow
A force that despoils every human artifact
the deep and the shallow

Chains of extinction
in disruption's primordial hall
I hear the roaring legion
of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall

I taste the salt, the seasoning of time
and smell the smoke of lightning's clime

Chains of extinction
in disruption's primordial hall
I hear the roaring legion
of ocean waves

A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky
lashing the shores of hope
I feel the arctic cold
as the elemental hazard
unfolds...

Years turn to decades, centuries to an era
A worldwide crisis opening its caldera

Chains of extinction
in disruption's primordial hall
I hear the roaring legion
of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall

2. Roots

The roots thrust – into oblivion
beyond the verge of space
The erodent roots, the evolving loops
thrusts, yet free roaming

There is a horizon folded
blinding leaves of the universe
Throughout the inner core
my quest, my lore
Where the seeds recoil and return
where the potency explodes to burn

Where the roots weave into the branches
where dimensions blend into infinity
Where the seeds recoil and return
where the potency explodes to burn

There is a path running free
quintessential chemistry
Where the rivers recoil and return
fallen stars explode and burn

The branches reach into eternity
beyond the verge of stellar time
The evolving tree, the revolving spree
anchored in me means floating free
No time, no space can ever be
my hive, my home
I belong beyond the stellar dome

Blinding leaves of the universe

3. The Beauty Of Dead Cities

Concrete cracks, gives way to green
forests fall come glass and steel

The beauty of dead cities
the splendor of nature

Glass framed cities
untamed gardens
Wings in the meadow
asphalt hardens

Everything in its place
the duality of the natural order
An unforgiving faceless warder

Powerful green forces gray away
steel constructions lead life astray

The beauty of dead cities
the splendor of nature

Nature regains its natural place
cities absorb their needed space
The duality of the natural order

4. The Earthling

Children, behold the elders falling
hear nature chime, the widow calling
See that moldered face, once gazing
throughout horizons, throughout seasons

Men, behold the nature tolling
hear the depravity of man
See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming
Throughout winters, throughout summers

Nature, the venomous path of man
the existential gravity, the blinder of light
Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun
instinctively oppose, the harvester of light

Elders, hear the mountains calling
behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling
See the downfall, in midst of the havoc
throughout ages, throughout generations

Nature, the venomous path of man
the existential gravity, the blinder of light
Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun
instinctively oppose, the harvester of light
Dwelling the night towards further sight

I am the earthling, bearer of the past
I am the earthling, dwelling the presence
I am the earthling, exploring the future vast
I am the weaver of the Sun

I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun

5. The Plains Of Memories

[Instrumental]

6. Mount Regency

Behold the northern plains
the entwined wintry mountains
Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold
the greatest column, the bearer of the sky

The winds are stirring and blurring
the seditious omen of erosion
A frozen spear of disharmony
the shattering yet celestial notion

Through the forests, wandering
Through the valleys, hasting
Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding
The summit, the release of mind

The winds are stirring and blurring
the seditious omen of erosion
A frozen spear of disharmony
the shattering yet celestial notion

The rough side of the mountain
climb the bastion of existence

Hail this mountain, cherish these paths
the vast outskirts, the verge of existence
Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode

Behold the northern plains
Behold the wintry mountains

Hail this mountain, cherish these paths
the vast outskirts, the verge of existence
Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode
The momentum of horizon
the call of Mount Regency

7. Frostrite

Moving through fields
away from the great sea
up to the barren and cold

The wind gathers might
as the last trees passes out of sight
I plunge into the blight

Frozen landscape
see me, feel me
Awe strikes where even the air bites
and ice ceaselessly survives

Blue shades on white
announcing the rite taking place here tonight
Fading to black then explode in attack
hits the blazing northern lights

Spellbound I fight
the chaos, the colors painted in flight
And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite
of this call from the other side I rise

My mind at ease
war harvest peace
Blood, fire
death cannot freeze

My father's gods
grant wisdom and odds
this is their gift through the bond

A spearhead, a zeal
I know what is real
to no one, nowhere I kneel

Frozen landscape
touch me, heal me
Awe strikes where even the air bites
and ice ceaselessly survives

8. The Winter Eclipse

A long gone presence unfolds
through the eye of the winter eclipse
Where the moments of history hold
the shadows of a vast ancestral cast

This path walked by generations
eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun
Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons
the everlasting continuance

Of time, space and diversity
the bias of cosmic regency
manifested by the vast complexity

The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow
The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow
The cogency of reason, the reversion of future
The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation

Ruinous and regenerative
the hive of an oscillating existence
Resounds through the halls of silence
rebounds under the dome of origin

Ruinous and regenerative
the hive of an oscillating existence

Of time, space and diversity
the bias of cosmic regency
manifested by the vast complexity
through the winter eclipse

This path walked by generations
eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun
Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons
the everlasting continuance

A long gone presence unfolds
through the eye of the winter eclipse
Where the moments of history hold
the shadows of a vast ancestral cast

9. In A Deeper World

Deify the universal coherence
existence
The progeny of subsistence
bearer of man, the heirs of amend

Soak into the stellar magnitude
Rise towards the sky

In a fiery union with nature
as one with every creature
Rove the windy mountains
fall of man, drain in the sand

Rise towards the sky

In a fiery union with nature
as one with every creature
Rove the windy mountains
fall of man, drain in the sand

...in a deeper world

Deify the universal coherence

10. Age Of Creation

[Limited Edition Digipack Bonus Track]

Through the wind of inquisitiveness,
A total view travels the ray of nature's benevolence
From the nest of fragments wholeness once flew
To set out a striking confluence

Where eye meet the biospheres ability
Chaos and order shaded by equilibrium
In coherence with progression's liberty
to form an intrinsic dictum

The practice of the mountain
A symbolic father and volcanic fountain
Refined by time and knowledge
A tower for future generations
Illuminating the age of creation
As we build a world with mind, hand and heritage

Until we mount the philosophical throne
Bowing to the lords of this ecotone

Where a chaotic substance condenses into solid black
An old servant in the play of havoc
Painting land over craters grounding
A creator now numb by man's eager pounding

The prominent pillars, the pyramidal peaks
Map impressions in the chamber of exploration
And keep them safe from a sun to bleach
sculpting inner elevation

The practice of the mountain
A symbolic father and volcanic fountain
Refined by time and knowledge
A tower for future generations
Illuminating the age of creation

11. My Friend Of Misery

[Limited Edition Digipack Bonus Track]
[originally by Metallica]

You just stood there screaming
Fearing no one was listening to you
They say the empty can rattles the most
The sound of your own voice must soothe you
Hearing only what you want to hear
And knowing only what you've heard
You, you're smothered in tragedy
And you're out to save the world

Misery
You insist that the weight of the world
Should be on your shoulders
Misery
There's much more to life than what you see
My friend of misery

You still stood there screaming
No one caring about these words you tell
My friend, before your voice is gone
One man's fun is another's hell
These times are sent to try men's souls
But something's wrong with all you see
You, you'll take it on all yourself
Remember, misery loves company

Misery
You insist that the weight of the world
Should be on your shoulders
Misery
There's much more to life than what you see
My friend of misery

You just stood there screaming
My friend of misery







BORKNAGAR LYRICS