Candlemass - King Of The Grey Islands lyrics
Tracks 01. Prologue
02. Emperor Of The Void 03. Devil Seed 04. Of Stars And Smoke 05. Demonia 6 06. Destroyer 07. Man Of Shadows 08. Clearsight 09. The Opal City 10. Embracing The Styx 01. Prologue Music by Leif Edling
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02. Emperor Of The Void Music by Leif Edling
I am the king, of the great islands of grey
Windswept and scatted, bent and confused My castle is my ruin, the mouldering grave Where the memory fades along with the mourning cry of the mother Who counts the wounds, who sees the hunger, the flight of denial The fibres the nerves, the raptures and bursts, from arteric to cell Continuously repeating, the hymn of life and death And the wholy whore, desecrated in desperation I am the king. The ruler of the grey Islands I'm the emperor of the void I am grey. The weakened ruler of these islands. I'm the emperor of the void I stand before destruction, touching the stone of my realm So dignified...unmerciful, without empathy You saw my birth, an ornament in your grain You see my death, terrible and divine 03. Devil Seed Music by Leif Edling
100 devils, follow me 'round
From the craters of chaos to the promised land Thick black choirs, voices to guide me Demon heralds sitting beside me A little seed planted eats through your soul You're not worthy when you're afraid and alone Without warning it stars to grow Spreading sickness inside your bones I am freezing, and I shake How much more of this shit can I take Yes I'm crazy, with flies in my mind Hellish dreams, espace I must find The devil's round the bend Churns me down with fire And I kill a friend Sorrow, devastation My glasshouse cracks in two Panic, desperation I die for you Devil seed The evil seed is growing The cancer stream is flowing The evil heart is granted Satan's will is planted Still around facing the hopeless Too much pain, and no way out Once again doing the pointless All these voices continue to shout 04. Of Stars And Smoke Music by Leif Edling
The monumental sleep
With the sunrise at my feet Where's the altar of the gods, The wrath and the floods? All is in vain Of stars and of smoke I am Of shade and of light With dragons in every hand I'm wading through life From nothing I cam before, To nothing I go I heard that wise man said: "From presence to silence...we flow" The rainbows in the sky Soon their colors die I see the birds of prey They've been circling here all day It's always the same We live the eternal dream The big and cosmic scheme A part that all play To stand the last of days It's all just a game Of stars and of smoke I am Of shade and of light With dragons in every hand I'm fading through life From nothing I came before, To nothing I go I heard that the wise man said: "From presence to silence...we flow" 05. Demonia 6 Music by Leif Edling
In my left pocket, spot of all that dies,
A cage of the vile. 13 keys, 13 locks, to the sick and strange that calls out to me. I crept through the palace archways Psychotic and deranged oh lord Enchanted and estranged inside It's midnight for days and days and days I took demonia, in a week or two So vicious and cruel. Evil empire, so perverted Expanding, outstanding thrill I crept through the palace archways Psychotic and deranged oh lord Enchanted and estranged inside It's midnight for days and days and days Are the lords of repulsion true oh true? Did you find the demons, did they find you? It's not from eden it's not from hell The evil that's demonia 6 I rise, and then I fall And i walk, and I crawl And i am sore and i am whole Really wonderful, really beautiful, The cloak of the vile My euphoria, got no phobia, I was chained as a child I crept through the palace archways Psychotic and deranged oh lord Enchanted and estranged inside It's midnight for days and days and days Are the lords of repulsion true oh true? Did you find the demons, did they find you? It's not from eden it's not from hell The evil that's demonia 6 06. Destroyer Music by Leif Edling
Land of thousand needles
Land of cripple and lame So much self indulgence And so much shit in my brain The people under the staircase And all the vomit in hell Parading here on my doorstep I just want to get well You walk amongst us, a majesty of wrath Chaos and cleansing, one man world war A mind on kill mode, expressionless face Brain like a child, fuck the human race There in the spotlight you grin And the slaughter of delight begins Oceans of limelight you drink And society fall in a blink You are the destroyer of the world Destroy the destroyer I'm plagued with disease And soon we'll all be Praying on our knees I am injected, with venom and your piss My life is hatred, I spiral down the abyss A mind on kill mode, expressionless face Brain like a child, Fuck the human race And there in the spotlight I grin Let the slaughter of delight begin Oceans and limelight I drink And my dreamworld fall in a blink I am the destroyer of the world 07. Man Of Shadows Music by Leif Edling
2 o'clock, the basement doom shift
Afternoon and you dig in the black ditch Comatose, turned off's the light switch Collector of grief, full scale deathwish Everyday, a grey and sad day I dip my love in soul pain And still looking for things to detest Beware of the love that you'll regret And I'm sitting here with my arms around me, arms around me I'm a bit surprised that you haven't found me, haven't found me On top of mount failure, damned and ignored I nurse the depressions'.... I know what I've lost Anti-social process, with razors in the closet On a suicidal mission, whatever the cost The Lord of grief, '....no relief The Lord of grief'''.no relief Man of shadows The clouds bear your name And your thought fade to grey'. With Days in shadow The dark is the same But's a whole different day for the'.. 08. Clearsight Music by Leif Edling
We sat the sails, in July
Knew too well it was final goodbye At the helm, there I stood Like a tree, awaiting the flood Over the sea and under the stars We searched the shores both near and so far Crossed the last line, the rim of the world To find reality, life, death and birth Clearsight....Fearflight....The tears light Cleartsight....Sheer night.... Near blight Clearsight....Clersight....Clearsight Didn't know, what to find There was no water, we could not return Sailed the deserts, of the seas Four years... human debris Over the sea and under the stars We searched the shores both near and so far Crossed the last line, the rim of the world To find reality, life, death and birth Clearsight....Fearflight....The tears light Cleartsight....Sheer night.... Near blight Clearsight....Clersight....Clearsight We fled the shallow, the modern decline The ship of fools, a cursed bark of pine ...compass...dead, as sea and sky met We reached the end at the cliffs of regret HMS Clearsight, ghost of the sea Drifting the oceans forever unfree In to the storms, the rain and the mist We still sail the dreams from the deepers grave there is Clearsight....Fearflight....The tears light Cleartsight....Sheer night.... Near blight Clearsight....Clersight....Clearsight Twilight.... Twilight.... Twilight 09. The Opal City Music by Leif Edling
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10. Embracing The Styx Music by Leif Edling
Blood runs free, down the river
I'm the weeper, the life beriever I cross the Styx, with coins...onyx Without the trumpets and horns and pyres (The) final curtain, death is certain Harpys sing, my soul is hurting Razors, rope, mountains of dope Does it matter, there's no hope Empracing the Styx Life is floating out, wave after wave Empracing the Styx I sail with Charon this day Embracing the Styx Life is floating out, wave after wave Embracing the Styx Me, my wrists and a blade In times of eternal darkness In times of peace and embrace When the minstrel of atrophy mock us There's need for love and there's need for death Too late for understanding Too late for your tears I wait for the last descending To the opal city and the flaming stairs I surrender, I return to dust It must end here, in daze and dusk So I cry, for all of us And I smile, as I die..... A small breeze in time Waiting and waiting, for a moment of truth and a sun Dreaming and dreaming, 'til the dreams were crushed by our hands (smothered to sand) Great thoughts of a triumphing giant Was given these golden-brown wings A man who was an ant an a lion Died on the isle of the king |