BORKNAGAR

The Olden Domain The Eye Of Oden Up there on the mountain, above all fire, The fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, Only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin' havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens Wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls Upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, The fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair __________ The Winterway Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway __________ A Tale Of Pagan Tongue The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence __________ To Mountains Rove I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky __________ Grimland Domain The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" __________ The Dawn Of The End Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin' soon Strike the flowers' last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes The Archaic Course Oceans Rise Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era __________ Universal Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course __________ Witching Hour In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way __________ The Black Token Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core __________ Nocturnal Vision The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It's force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all __________ Ad Noctum Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it's line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I've been down below And I've been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it's cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight __________ Winter Millenium Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence Quintessence Rivalry Of Phantoms The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It's the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner's kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It's the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean's son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight __________ The Presence Is Ominous Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comflicts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die __________ Ruins Of The Future Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told __________ Colossus From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it's treshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature's core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite __________ Inner Landscape Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation __________ Invincible I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existnece I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom __________ Icon Dreams The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light __________ Genesis Torn Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance __________ Revolt I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world Empiricism The Genuine Pulse The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse - the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse - entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse - dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse __________ Gods Of My World "The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul' connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you'll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you'll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine __________ The Black Canvas The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature's sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky's a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack __________ Matter & Motion Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws , climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside __________ Soul Sphere The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations' adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations' adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom __________ Inherit The Earth The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth __________ The Stellar Dome "Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome __________ Four Element Synchronicity Glomeration of the four´s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day´s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth´s production While fire is fed by air´s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth´s ability Nature´s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth´s production While fire is fed by air´s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth´s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day´s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop __________ Liberated From every human complexity And nature's twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we're cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we're blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation's the king of our dreams To know: what's our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are __________ The View Of Everlast Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it's rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos' directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos' directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast