Opeth - Sorceress lyrics
Tracks 01. Persephone
02. Sorceress 03. The Wilde Flowers 04. Will O The Wisp 05. Chrysalis 06. Sorceress 2 07. The Seventh Sojourn 08. Strange Brew 09. A Fleeting Glance 10. Era 11. Persephone (Slight Return) 12. The Ward 13. Spring MCMLXXIV 14. Cusp Of Eternity 15. The Drapery Falls 16. Voice Of Treason 01. Persephone Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
A beloved name inside my heart
A fleeting glance became the start A missing word I am still awaiting A wretched deception I am creating 02. Sorceress Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
"I am a sinner and I worship evil"
Blood is thinner but you will never know Can you confess that you thrive in chaos You are a sorceress and your eye is on the lost But you are dying It is in your eyes You are a sharlatan and you get everything you wish You are a harlot that carry poison in your kiss Beg forgiveness with a dagger in your hand Sow your death seed and reap the dying lands But you are crying It is only vice Empty vessel drained of hope And none the lesser at the end of a rope Have you ever hated like I? And know I still awaited the absence of lies Watch your eager tongue Attack me from behind Riddle whispers, bleak futile control Like a twin sister adapting to a role You are a murderer, bloodlust increase You are a harvester, come close to spread disease And you are hiding I hear your cries 03. The Wilde Flowers Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
Sun hangs high, I turn away
Failure underground Heart is sick and fever is high I am waiting for a sound (They are) Like a trail of insects to me I watch them from afar Feeding, breeding, scheming Tell me I am wrong Hiding from discovery Staring down into the ground Had they seen the poison in me A tide of spite would be found Moving faster lingering gaze They are feasting on my sanity A grain of sand against endless waves A wish for the slaughter of conformity Blinding light as the flames grow higher Searing skin on a funeral pyre Inside me sleeps a violence waiting to be freed Blinding light as the flames grow higher Searing skin on a funeral pyre Blinding light as the flames go higher Searing skin on a funeral pyre Should I speak and they would call me a liar So I will retreat to my funeral pyre My sanctuary, a thousand centuries I am not waiting I am tired of waiting 04. Will O The Wisp Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
When you are tired of waiting
And time is not on your side When you are tired of hating me And you no longer want to hide You are stuck to the failures of your life Marred with the sorrows of your strife And time it waits for no one It heals them when you die And soon you are forgotten A whisper within a sigh When there is trouble admitting That you have been wrong all along When the words you have written down Reads "everything is gone" You are stuck to the failures of your life Marred with the sorrows of your strife And time it waits for no one It heals them when you die And soon you are forgotten A whisper within a sigh When you smother your friendships And take much more than you need When you can't keep a secret to yourself And points to the source of the deed You are stuck to the failures of your life Marred with the sorrows of your strife And you can never find the satisfaction When you can't outgrow your false distractions You know your soul is weighed on the silver scale of deceit and lies 05. Chrysalis Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
And on the furthest day
When you lay down Discard your disarray And your rusted crown And face the wretched image of you and I No trust in what you say You are a dead poison seed Stronger when you are away You have nothing that I need The rhyme has settled in the ghost of a sigh Nothing now remains Now you will leave me be Sunrise into the moonlight A broken body lies in wait Your prize won you the stark night And you made peace with your fate Blind eyes sensitive only to white light Reacting just a bit too late Preying on insecurity A design of your schemes A true believer of purity Must tend to what it means Or allow its gospel to turn into a lie You forsake everything you feel In favour of despair Immune and blind to everything that is real In your secret lair And cast away the captive heart that was thine And you will go and leave me be Winter in your soul, building a wasteland And you tread a thin ice neath your feet Sneering. And everyone you would shun Collecting flowers to your wreath Lifeline, a river cuts deep in your cold hand It is changing when you try to breathe Leave it all behind you There is comfort in giving up A seed in a barren soil Might curl up into a coil Flourish into something new Give back what you thought was "you" And give way to all that is new Leave it all behind you 06. Sorceress 2 Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
Until I take my final breath
In a year or even less I hope you will give me all your time And do not forget me down the line And I will never ask you if you will stay Or if you will cry when I go away Ice melting into the sea Your river flowing back to me And when you take your final breath In many years from now, no less I hope you feel a peace at heart Don't be afraid to kiss the dark And do not ever wonder if I stayed My love for you can not die away 07. The Seventh Sojourn Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
Hold me in your arms
Never do me harm Never do me harm Hold me in your arms A raging sea in your eyes Gives away your disguise Grants me the peace to leave And finally leave you be 08. Strange Brew Music by Mikael Åkerfeldt, Fredrik Åkesson Lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
An afternoon walk through the park
I keep to the shadows until it is dark I am not educated nor free of sin I carry thoughts of giving in There is a void surrounding me No sound, and in the black I can not see There is a chasm between you and me You have no face, no body, no words to speak There is a wickedness in me I can not seem to make it go away I am a spiritual leper but I can see A flock of believers gone astray There is eternal night in my gaze I am cast out and I am not like you Find my way on through the haze I am liquefied in a strange brew An early morn walk through the park I look to the sun when it is cold and stark I blend with the crowd of robot minds Never a leader, I am always behind A voice through the rain Tells me I am here A glance from a veil Brings me to tears 09. A Fleeting Glance Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
Up until recently I have been alone
Leading a tranquil life, but never at home Something had changed and I turned to the wind That blew through me and told me "How long, how long?" Silenced the voice of my heart now for years I was perplexed by a fleeting blank stare Biding my time until courage had build up inside me Then came clean "Or am I wrong" I spend all my days contemplating my will For the weak shall inherit the earth when it is still A government bid for my life I was sold as a cog in a machine "I walk the line" A fleeting glance again Tells me everything Took a chance in vain Drown to a futile idea A pursuit of happiness As the storm rolls in An idol of helplessness Paved the way and then gave in I met with my mother and I asked her why For ten years or more she would never reply Suddenly she said we are all born to die Gave me purpose Freed me "How simple it can be" But it is fading away from my mind There is another "me" waiting behind 10. Era Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
There is a sign in the rain
Every now and again It is a symbol of hope In the midst of a catastrophic episode In the hour of death There is a spiritual wealth When we dance through the rain And form the signs once again If even for a second I hear a voice on the air It has a warning to share "Do not believe what you see" "You can not perceive what you feel" But if I do what I am told And shun the spirit I hold I am no longer a human And I will not shift with the sands The end of an era One starts anew You know the devil He lives in you There are moments of doubt When I do not know what to do And giving in is the only way out When there is too much shouting About how I should choose Incapacitated, I am left behind In a sea of hatred I go blind A storm is coming, I hide away In the years of need reason leads astray The end of an era One starts anew You know the devil He lives in you 11. Persephone (Slight Return) Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
The years went by with disquieting grace
A past obsession sunk without a trace I moved into Winter and found my home As my boiling blood had turned to chrome 12. The Ward Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
I am going away
I am going down Sifting through a memory Before it fades away Adolescent secrecy A million words astray I can not remember happiness I thrive within the dark The secrecy of a loneliness Is a veil that keeps my calm By the way, I am doing fine I have a place to stay, just behind the sunshine And by the way, I do not need sympathy I have a place to lay I have more than you can see I walk the streets alone at night It helps to ease my mind I lay me down come the morning light And leave all woes behind 13. Spring MCMLXXIV Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
On a wind that is sailing through the morning
I have cut the harness off of my heart On a tide that is rising with the dawning I find I belong inside the dark And when the waves roll in to cover me in shame I avoid another sign of the efforts made in vain I am just another ripple in the current of an age Another crossed out name on another wrinkled page Carry me home There is a dream that tells me I am haunted It comes to visit every fortnight or so I wake up having lost all I have ever wanted And a bleak apparition wants what I hold And when the waves roll in to cover me in shame I avoid another sign of the efforts made in vain I am just another ripple in the current of an age Another crossed out name on another wrinkled page Carry me home Should it disappear, should it go away Would it mend the wounds I bare, the wounds of love Could it reappear like a familiar tale? Like a broken friendship that snuffs the moonlight above 14. Cusp Of Eternity Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
A child of autumn was born
Into a world of deceit and death And a land of ice A break of bonds would take her away And install a sense of loss and eternal sorrow She walks across the country She holds her head up high in the rain A mother is screaming for help And she turns around to stare At a scene from her memory She is hiding a wish in her heart That flows through her blood always And it's culled from a dream That someone is waiting to say her name And call her to his side at the cusp of eternity 15. The Drapery Falls Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
Please remedy my confusion
And thrust me back to the day The silence of your seclusion Brings night into all you say Pull me down again And guide me into pain I'm counting nocturnal hours Drowned visions in haunted sleep Faint flickering of your powers Leaks out to show what you keep Pull me down again And guide me into Ah ah ah Ah ah ah Ah ah ah Ah ah ah There is failure inside This test I can't persist Kept back by the enigma No criterias demanded here Deadly patterns made my wreath Prosperous in your ways Pale ghost in the corner Pouring a caress on your shoulder Puzzled by shrewd innocence Runs a thick tide beneath Ushered into inner graves Nails bleeding from the struggle It is the end for the weak at heart Always the same A lullaby for the ones who've lost all Reeling inside My gleaming eye in your necklace reflects Stare of primal regrets You turn your back and you walk away Never again Spiralling to the ground below Like autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away Waking up to your sound again And lapse into the ways of misery 16. Voice Of Treason Music & lyrics by Mikael Åkerfeldt
The mist is sleeping on the water
And winter is hiding in my heart Thorns in my eyes are slowing me down I can't pass through to the other side She knows I'm the one who sought her But when we fall, we'll fall so hard She holds a secret and won't show me how How to break the riddle in her eyes This is treason of the mind and soul Death is no reason why you would go Inside the ghost of love is laughing It mocks the footsteps where I go It tells me nothing has been lost It whispers: "you've seen darkness before" In time the hurting will subside And longing is overthrown What's left is a void that grows inside And the echo of a failure This is treason of the mind and soul Death is no reason why you would go Have you ever had the feeling of a sorrow inside? Have you ever been the reason why a hope subsides? Have you ever seen the aftermath of giving up? Have we given up? Is it over? Have you given up? Is winter hiding in your heart? |