MEMORY GARDEN LYRICS

1. Carved In Stone

[Words: A. Looström Music: T. Björn, A. Looström, S. Berglund]

Come and burn with me
I have something you must see
The imitation of being
Can be so revealing
Like a tug in a floodgate
In the leash breeding on hate
Our ancestors did the same
Just another face and another name

A vapid taste of onus
It's our eternal penance
Swept away with the flood
Awakening in knee deep mud
Our darkest day like marionettes made of clay
Turned from a calm dreamer
Into a panicing screamer

I will be forever, forever carved in stone

A darkening era has come
For a moment I was done
Seek and ye shall find
As the time groans in my mind
This road to nevermore turns and wind
The way to our own kind

I will be forever, forever carved in stone

2. Awkward Tale

[Words: A. Looström Music: T. Björn, A. Looström, S. Johansson, S. Berglund]

I know where it is but can't find the right way to it
Listening and watching all the time and reading the writ
Wrong me hard, can't think clearly enough to work
A step forward is a step closer to berserk

Tapestry of the truth makes me a wakeful weirdo
The first wedge in a solid foundation

Throw my head back, in a minute I will crack
The mirror never lies, a reflection shows me a wreck
A billowy feeling turns everything back to zero

Tapestry of the truth makes me a wakeful weirdo
The first wedge in a solid foundation

Our own personal jesus collects his ovation
This drunken frenzy broke into a beautiful, beautiful world
For the gathering to a gigantic herd

Tapestry of the truth makes me a wakeful weirdo
The first wedge in a solid foundation
Tapestry of the truth makes me a wakeful weirdo
The first wedge in a solid foundation

3. Shadow Season

[Words: A. Looström Music: S. Johansson, A. Looström]

It falls slowly in a gentle silver rain
Try to figure out, try to figure out
Touch the edge and go insane it will remain
Without a doubt, without a doubt

A handful of something demonic
Holds so very harrow
A gesture from the evil and twisted
An alley so narrow

It seems like something unusual
Figment of the imagination
Croon the harmony of the fall
Welcome satanic domination

A handful of something demonic
Holds so very harrow
A gesture from the evil and twisted
An alley so narrow

4. Tragic Kingdom

[Words: A. Looström Music: T. Björn, A. Looström, S. Johansson, M. Wead]

Protected from the maze, the outside world
Empty eyes, distorted face
Without mental penetration from the wicked civilization

This isolated cold asylum an unforgiving salvation
She's a prodigy so very pure and delicate

Take her away to a place she can stay
Away from this gateway to madness

Turmoil feelings comes in random
A princess from the tragic kingdom
Given shelter from decline
Not a taste of life nor wine

Beyond all recognition, a piece a thing
The art of suffering
Today'll be yesterday tomorrow
In this chamber of sorrow

Take her away to a place she can stay
Away from this gateway to madness

5. The Sum Of All Fear

[Words: A. Looström Music: A. Looström, T. Björn, S. Johansson]

It's time to go to bed again
Another sleepless night in sweat and pain
I can't face it again and again
I hear them they are everywhere

A razor-blade on my wrist again
I would rather bleed to death than hear it
Another sleepless night
Seconds of waiting to exhale

Legions of the lost approaches again
Another sleepless night in sweat and pain

Convicted to fear night and hour
Where is my strenght where is my power
Twisting and turning for some peace of mind
At dawn I leave it all behind

Try to turn on the light but I can't move
The insomnia crushes me with it's massive weight
This distorted nights makes me wait and wait
For a new morning, a new sunrise

Legions of the lost approaches again
Another sleepless night in sweat and pain
My fear is here

6. Split Image

[Words & Music: T. Björn]

Time's running out for you, my friend
Can you hear them closing in
Your fear is what makes them live and breed
It's an obsession which you feed

They rip your flesh apart and watch you bleed
The ultimate pain is what you feel
Frustration is rising, I can tell
Another day is another hell

Tell me now, spin my wheel
Were they not or were they real
Hear me someone, let me know
Why my mind won't let me go

You're tripping closer to the everlasting blur
So, are you happy with your new white suit, sir

Divided in two, it's them and you
Divided in three, one part is me
They've always been there for you to blame
Will you ever figure out we are the same
Too much time has passed
You cannot even win your own created game

Just like a ghost haunting it's own grave
We're dancing this deadly waltz with not a step to save

Existance of an imbecile
Bring me down, enjoy the thrill
Something's here behind my eyes
Draining my sense and telling me lies

You're tripping closer to the everlasting blur
So, are you happy with you new white suit
The toil is tightening and reality occur
Who can be happy in this white suit, sir

7. Outward Passage

[Words: A. Looström Music: T. Björn, S. Johansson, K. Johansson]

I followed a sign, a pattern that bends
On the roads with abrupt ends
Just leave me hanging upside down
The blind is leading the blind
And I stared through the window of the world

A painting without a frame
From an artist without a name
A brush with the colours of the invisible
A blind is leading the blind
And I stared through the window of the world

Pin me down with nails
On an outward passage someone sails
It will never ever make sense
Life time prisoners behind this fence
And I stared through the window of the world
And I stared through the window of the world
I stared myself blind

Pieces of dreams become reality
Pieces of reality become dreams

And I stared through the horror
And I stared through the horror of the world

8. Wasteland Foretold

[Words: S. Johansson Music: S. Johansson, A. Looström, T. Björn]

Come sail with me my friend, my love
Let's leave this shadowed shoreline
A silent night we left it all behind
We are on our life's decline
I sing to you this silent lullaby
It's so peaceful, embraces you so
Though we walked a thousand labyrintz
You have never left my side

Up through the clouds
I will follow you were ever you go
And as you walk upon the water
My heart starts to glow
Our garden of memories unfold

Deep in our minds a vision is shown
A glimmering garden of light
Where we are now forever we'll stay
We're honoured, our memory remain

In holy ground so deep we lay
So near each others side
With you my love I've found the way
I'm forever blessed, forever blessed
I've found my way

We have found our homeland
A wasteland of glory we see
Don't mourn what's left behind
We enter this graceful place
Our memory garden foretold

9. Amen

[Words: A. Looström Music: T. Björn, S. Johansson, A. Looström]

Percieve an awakening so acquainted
Floating and drifting so absorbing
Not affected by anything nor anyone
Malicious shadows have been chased away
From almond coloured remedy so pure
Engrave prejudice of calm and silence
Premonition for deep mental illness
Vague feelings for the destination
Thaw with sulphur smelling sensation

Significant silence brings rapture
Plateau of glass in shimmering mauve
Wreathed with a stale relic of dust
Plunged in aversion from apathy

Scented of somnolent abstracts
Admission to something so ominous
A twinge from covet submerge
Stigmatize to poisonous unity

An eternity so eternal
Stretch beyond euthanasia
The palace of conjectures
Contains archaic abhorrence
That will truly converge

From the light of the moon and in the deepest of shadows
Strange things take place to shape our faith
The predetermind downfall approaches like an arch-enemy
Read the spiritual alms for the ordinary
For the pitty ones who are drowning
Read them their amen







MEMORY GARDEN LYRICS