Midnight Odyssey Silhouettes of Stars 1. The Night Has Come for Me Like restless shadows upon the wind Like memories from a long and hidden past The faceless voices stay with me I know the end approaches When they sing I stand alone Facing towards the trees At night they come for me As many voices They’re overpowering They’ll never set me free As shadows gazing Peer into mind Their hands extending This mark they leave behind When endless torment is all I have left It’s hard to feel the hope of dawn Like innocence, thrown into chains I know death encroaches I know that hymn I stand alone Facing towards the trees At night they come for me As many voices They’re overpowering They’ll never set me free Their song is playing Always in my mind Their mouths gaping This soul I leave behind No fragile sleep will let me escape When nightmares follow, the dry and burning day To face that forest, knowing what’s inside I stand here helpless, blind, barely alive The night it creeps, and takes away the light No daydream lasts, the voices quickly rise I’m left as prey, to the wild ferocious souls An ancient plague, that patiently waits. Follow me, deep into the trees I wander, that hymn i now sing I stand as one Hiding in the trees The night has come for me My many voices Are overpowering You will never be free 2. Magica In ever-reaching Voids of darkness And matter, cold The deepest fears awaken Celestial bodies Obliterate into fragments Darkness binding, it holds Nature’s order in its claws When stars once free Are caught in streams A churning mass Tears at their seams The dying light From fragments small Their magic fades And shines no more Unleash the flow A dying energy And watch the spirits Of Stars, freeze Black silhouettes Dark effigies of life The numerous shadows Remind of what was lost... 3. Cosmic Keys to My Creations & Times (Emperor cover) 4. Sorrow of Daedalus 5. What Was Is No More 6. Fighting the Seraphim 7. Descent 8. The World Tree Burns to Vapour Time itself has swayed For those mighty stand in fear Now man is but a slave To his own filthy lies Dark weeds and mortal flesh Have grown into one The ancient roots have vanished And its branches all dried on the ground The serpent from below Who fed upon the roots Has been fed man’s poison He has consumed it for some time The old dragon shakes the earth And splits the land in two He rises up and sees the tree Its ashes turn to vapour 9. Lost and Forgotten Deeply planted in the minds The ancient roots entangle the soul Its rugged skin is thick Its fleshy core burns And as they twist they suffocate the weeds Planted deeper in the heart But still no leaves grow The weeds are poison to this tree A deadly nightshade from afar It suckles at the roots Draining its very lifeblood A monument succumbing to death Dissolving into time And fading from the eyes Of the ones who hold it dear Death is all it knows This toxic foreign weed The disillusioned minds Grows weak with every thought The weed extracts the dreams And numbs the inner eye And so the tree is lost, forgotten and myth But others are angered At the folly of man As sure as their power rises They quickly fall on their knees And beg to their weed To poison the world some more The tree decays in time Its lifeless as a stone Its roots remain entangled But completely overgrown The eyes don’t ever see For they never really look And so the tree is lost, forgotten and myth But others are angered At the folly of man As sure as their power rises They quickly fall on their knees And beg to their weed To poison the world some more 10. Nocturnal 11. Your Death Is Chosen To feel the sorrow in towers high To kneel in knowledge you soon will fall The flames are cooling too fast The heat from within escapes for the final time Your fears will prove you right No one thing can last forever You built up a world so vast But slowly you began to lose control The stars have begun to float Further from your grasp And slowly darkness takes hold The weight of the void grows within Your radiance falls in silence A sudden collapse awaits Years and eons, all gone Eternity taken, a kingdom now mourned You feel the sorrow You kneel and fall Your flames have frozen You exist one final time Your fears are forever You’ve lost the world You move so slow Your death is chosen 12. The Tempest Entranced Draped in the morning’s rays Eyes like water drops, glisten No spring ever pure Could cleanse the visions portrayed She glances the heavens Trees sway, like flinging arms How quick the sun cowers The tempest claims the day Eyes like drowning fronds Without a sound she is screaming No god takes pity A song plays in her mind Despite the wind’s rage She walks, unnerved and calm The tempest entranced It forgets to unleash the rain Hypnotized by her bold stance The tempest blinded and fooled The winds did not cease for her The menacing clouds were moved As much as it struggled Her image faded in the distance He felt the weight of his sorrow And would flood the lands anew... 13. Dis Pater 14. A Whisper's Emptiness Here in my resting place Amongst the pale moonlight At the distant aphelion of creation The whispers slowly burn Nameless, born of ancients Devolved into a sphere Blighted streams, so alien A land thus far, unseen A cosmic dust consumes The last resistance of my being A veil of darkness stained A mystic cloud of astral screams Nameless, born of ancients Devolved into a sphere Blighted streams, so alien A land thus far, unseen Though a realm of silence remains Motionless, a whisper’s emptiness, Years away, where time’s ticking over Through a gate of blinding shades Hopelessness, whimpers endlessness Voids away, where life blossoms slower Through a void of darkness, it plays Effortless, with formless, malevolence Worlds away, with eyes, growing older 15. Theme of Forest and Firmament From afar these strangers came With fire in their eyes Their swords were jewelled, their shields adorned Their tongues all spoke of lies They burnt our shrines, they killed our gods They took all that we owned They raped our wives and killed the men Some hung and some were stoned But from this day I will return a man so strong and brave I'll claim the land, my stolen home Their blood my father's gave With an army a million strong, I'll march for their glory And they shall fear my name before I sail across the sea I am the storms, that crash into the sea I am the serpent who lurks in waters deep Eternal vengeance, fuels my inner soul A reclamation of all that you stole I am the vermin, that bite at your feet I am the howling, unsettling your sleep And in your visions, you see the flames Death is returning, and wrath is his name [The lyrics are used in the song 'Journey Across the Sea' from The Forest Mourners Demo from 2008]