Insomnia

(Lyrics by Blecher, Music by Ahlgren & Westesson) Kill me now Pain grows inside Carnal damnation arise Devotion untunes my mind As I step towards the light of deception My heartbeat finds its pace To be held high and burned again The beguiling song of Babylon Calms my mind to a state of enthrallation Gods to the sky, grown men will cry No more will we suffer from this threat of indignation The deepest thoughts, for the strongest minds My hollowed soul, marked with the sign of lies Salvation's the key, to a mutual waste of time Lionize them all, they'll bring some sunshine in to sacrifice us all The names have been written on the wall, to stand there forever Fabrication has deceived us all The beguiling song of Babylon Calms my mind to a state of enthrallation Gods to the sky, grown men will cry No more will we suffer from this threat of indignation But still we're standing, Reaching out helpless, trying to embrace the sky Rejection of time Just a quicker path on the big road to die Dissection of the fate draped red in blood The darkness will speak the truth again Finding out that there's nothing left inside Waiting, 'cause the promises were made Lightning strikes hard, your time has come Bury your lies, better not to be found no more Mysteries lie now ten feet below ground Let this be your place where you die Your misinterpretations die with you A whole population wiped out No end to the bloodstreams that will flow From your faith, from your hearts, from your misrepresented minds Hollow grounds!

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 24, 2025

(Lyrics by Wallin, Music by Ahlgren, Westesson & Blecher) Faithless gathered in the pouring rain - a crescendo of voices driven to the edge Wishing for complete serenity of the mind - a beautiful mosaic missing a piece. Eternal loss, forever engraved in the soul. Loveless, lifeless, lustless - Is this what all will become? I see dark clouds looming ahead on our journey is there no end to this search? Morbid visions of relentless slaughter, frozen tears and pain. Terrifying destruction, but all in vain... As dusk falls quiet birdsong echoes in the wind, broken by a piercing shriek... The rising sun disperses mists over a battlefield, shines on our epitaph, and we are gone. Faithless gathered in the pouring rain - a crescendo of voices driven to the edge, wishing for complete serenity of the mind. Stench of decay, emanating darkness allowing no sight flickering whispers of madness and the gathered masses hear the flapping wings of death Cries of despair echo through the void. Loveless, lifeless, lustless - Is this what all will become? I see dark clouds looming ahead on our journey is there no end to this search? Morbid visions of relentless slaughter, frozen tears and pain. Terrifying destruction, but all in vain... Despite the strife to erase, unite and pacify, we reach the point of no return. The rising sun disperses mists over a battlefield, shines on our epitaph, and we are gone. Sacred visions all depicting unation ridiculed or met with derision Hopefilled prayers of what could have been are labelled as insanity Hope might not yet be lost all will not have to end Hearts not yet turned to dust will know there is a way The dawn brings to light a whole new world, shattered and broken All hopes of a different outcome, have been forsaken Faithless gathered in the pouring rain - a crescendo of voices driven to the edge Wishing for an instantaneous relief, with the blackened sky admitting no escape The last remains, shattered to infinity. Loveless, lifeless, lustless - Is this what all will become? The rising sun disperses mists over a battlefield, shines on our epitaph, and we are gone. We're gone...

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 24, 2025

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(Lyrics by Ahlgren, Music by Ahlgren & Sånesson) Through emptiness we walk And see the unseen Facing the world of the lost The beauty in my dreams Appears in front of my eyes The moments I wish could remain Forever, in the empty moments of life The moonlight shadows hunting in the night As we see the nocturnal emptiness in the sky (so high)... Imprisoned by the memories of the past That we wish we could forget We hide the fear inside ourselves And close our eyes in despair Defying what was meant to be Our destiny and inner pain We take the future in our hands It will go on, will never end Searching for another new dimension A place where we can hide Together in an endless dream we fly Alone in the mighty sky A phenomenon you'd call fiction But a vision so magic to me I can see them passing by Mortals devoured by pain And the emptiness in their souls Will they ever find a way? A way that leads to the gates of the unknown The key that opens the thousand dreams of yours Close your eyes and follow the stream Reality falls down into oblivion Raise your hands and feel the beauty Illusions can change themselves into nightmares Look in the mirror what do you see? I can see the colours of silence Deep inside the mysteries of night You hypnotize yourself in the twilight air Can you feel the other side Rising inside your mind Afraid you fall asleep You scream you want to hide Losing all your control Nightmares grow in your soul Confused you try to run Away, you're so alone Beautiful is daylight When it breaks upon the sky It shows the way back to your outer life Disenchanted you are, but only for the day The night will soon embrace you It might be your last play in this world...

(Lyrics by Ahlgren, Music by Ahlgren & Blecher) A pattern composed in the darkest den Those moments will never be again Now when the winter has come then my memories they guide me to an ancient dimension A time full of tears where the winter-queen showed me the light of deception Traces of a midwinter drama impossible to erase Your face so eternal, my nightmares so infernal a sphere full of pure tyranny Seduction in fire and darkness a nymphchild not of this world Covered with skin like an innocent bride she is dressed for her pleasures, sin and delight Have you felt a cold desire? The beauty in my dreams is the darkest soul, my pain and my disease... Tears like the purest waters frozen in thy eyes Try to hide the weakness that dwells behind the grace When the old man has spoken all promises are broken the daylight has fallen into the deepest night Where thy snake-eyes are watching your fingers are touching the skin of the beloved ones See the queen descending in grace down from her throne She desolates those weak souls who cross her bloodstained path Tragedies surrounding the beauty of the night Frozen are the waters where she seduces the blind I hear the thousand whispers and screams from the unknown I feel the mighty presence from the spirits in her gown Devoured and embraced, I stand alone with fallen grace The sky is turning grey, I see the bleakness of it all The waters are turning to frozen ice I realize it's the tears from a million cries Those old memories are now fading away For the last time, the last farewell is said When the old man has spoken all promises are broken the daylight has fallen into the deepest night Where thy snake-eyes are watching your fingers are touching the skin of the beloved ones My dreams are no longer my pain growing stronger I feel the power of the midnight storms All roses are burning the flowers are turning to ice in the presence of her light I remember the voice in the night The face is so eternal, but the memory is gone... Traces(x5) of a midwinter drama, Erased!

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 24, 2025

(Lyrics by Ahlgren, Music by Ahlgren, Westesson & Sånesson) As I enter the world of dreams and of chaos I suddenly feel the presence of eyes A reminder of the eternal pain engraved in my soul with filth and scorn Heretic she was when she spellbound my eyes temptation and beauty, (so) fulfilled with lies She knows how to rape those souls of weakness and leave the cadaver in brutal despair Endless nights of passion I thought it was my fate Fatal betrayal, all promises were broken Entirely I fell for thee, imprisoned by thy grace Frozen in deception, I bleed in misery Nightlike silence, emptiness I feel Lost in remembrance, my tears full of grief Enslaved by the memories, can not escape from those moments of joy that I wish could remain The sun is no longer the bringer of light My soul is like snow in the winter night Velvet darkness surrounding me as I stand alone in this tragedy Within these walls built of ebony tears I fear the unknown Every step I try to take becomes five steps in reverse In my mind, a nightlike silence only memories remain I can not erase thy picture so naked and plain Now a thousand days have passed but those crimson eyes still last This silent mourning seems to have no end Another day in fire, another night in pain Victim of a pure desire Yeah yeah, my soul is in a hearse forgotten and erased I thought it could be everlasting, never dying There were so many things to tell instead you showed me hell Innocence is pure imagination, hypocrisy... This is eternal the eyes so infernal I feel the coming of new tragedy Once you have fallen you can not arise I surrender under a bloodred sky A slave under thy lust, her beauty a disguise The bringer of nightlike silence has come Dressed for the twilight journey The spellbinding beast has been released

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 24, 2025

(Lyrics by Westesson, Music by Ahlgren) From the tragedy of reality of all that is, that lives to die The tragedy of you and me of your emotions of my cry Another morning beneath the cold sun the sun that only I can see Another morning in hope for euphoria where you and I will be Where you look at me with the same eyes that follow you on Where you think of me with the same thoughts as those awakening me Same as those awakening me From the tragedy of reality of all that is, that lives to die The tragedy of you and me of your emotions of my cry Another morning beneath the cold sun the sun that only I can see Another morning in hope for euphoria where you and I will be And I used to ride beyond the horizon beyond the cold winds of your voice beyond the glaciers of your shoulders beyond all boundaries of universe! Beyond all boundaries of life beyond all boundaries of universe beyond all boundaries of life! Where the beauty of a thousand dreams is cast upon me, like a tidal wave of gold to reach the shore Where it feels as if I can't reach any longer On the edge of all that we can see or touch Undefinable waters not yet sailed by intentions that would cause our love to fail. In diplopia I see what was meant to be the moon and the stars in the darkened eve In diplopia I see what I want to see To rise above the shroud of singularity enforced upon me the moon and the stars and the sun of thee But as night turns into morn and as I turn into me A dream turns so forlorn and you turn out to be fantasy Are those my silhouettes walking by your side? Are they the ones that seem to be casting shadows in the light? For long I've known that you are the one Why won't you see the morning sun?

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 24, 2025