- Of Chaos and Eternal Night  
        (Sundin, Johansson, Jivarp)  
  
   This is a tale long to live but alas so short to tell  
by the wind and by time, by everything that flees  
A torment of my liking: exploring extremes  
   All thoughts secluded as fear stalks its blooded soil  
In the winding path where a chain now rattles  
With links merely death can break  
Stains of pride - derelict  
In feverish visions of agonising light  
Pulsating rhythms unpure  
   So pound the drum and strike the chords of chaos  
So scream out to the skies:  
Of Chaos and Eternal Night  
   Never is the dark any threat to my existence  
Comforting ravens claws grip the stars that fell tonight  
THe stealth of infinite beauty  
Nevertheless heaven fell tonight  
   Racing along with the strangled teardrop  
Life's elixir in benevolent lust  
Slit open the throat that is virtue  
Let fire ravage its caverns with joy  
   Ardent but silent in twilight resigned  
Delivered from virtue in vehement plight  
Yet ask not of your vanity  
(The hooved agitator in your creed)  
To let loose all the stars of heaven  
Stray across the vault your seed  
   Concealed cravings must through fulfilment be broken  
Hide no longer behind the veil of unconvincing lies  
   So pound the drum and strike the chords of chaos  
So scream out to the skies  
Of Chaos and Eternal Night  
   I've seen fires waving patterns  
Forging ornaments - hidden from a world of distress  
Grace through hatred  
Of Chaos and Eternal Night  
   In shadows now vengeful waiting out your bitter foe  
The mirror distorts  
   Sinful is the perceiving eye  
Tearless in nondescript form  
Scarlet secrets tell of nightmarish fear  
Illusions that speak of endless night  
A venture in terms of one hazardous journey  
into Chaos and Eternal Night  
   Deliver me from virtue,  
Hidden no more beneath tender veil of lies  
And let 'em all out;  
unseen and sinful  
... Of Chaos and Eternal Night  

- With the Flaming Shades of Fall  
        (Sundin, Johansson, Henriksson)  
  
   Colours burst in wild explosions;  
Fiery, flaming shades of fall  
All in accord with my pounding heart  
Behold the autumnweaver  
   In bronze and yellow dying  
Colours unfold into dreams  
In hordes of a thousand and one  
The bleeding  
   Unwearing their masks to the last notes of summer  
Their flutes and horns in nightly swarming  
   Colours burst within  
Spare me those unending fires!  
Bestowed upon the flaming shades of fall  
   September flies beyond our reach  
As the flames reborn their fall  
October is the art we teach  
With the Flaming Shades of Fall  
   November,  
Robe of prophet - heart of false redeemer  
Night whispers as the flaming shades of fall now die  
   Darkness, wild and unchained  
Towards its heart we plunge  
We must crush the false redeemer  
With the flaming shades of fall  

- Away, Delight, Away  
        (Henriksson, Johansson)  
  
   As false as our minds our eyes refuse to see  
They claw for the falseness in me  
From where all life springs anew  
We are cleansed through the crystal fire  
   Fill me with sound, fill me with hatred  
Let my life bring life to the soil  
The soil beneath my feet  
   Messenger of pain sailing silence  
Commander of my sorrow riding rage  
   Infinity is eternal - never born so it may never die  
Colours speak my name  
Through the crowns I am baptised in the  
First gnawing rays from a blackened sun  
In the name of my blood I curse thee  
Shelter me under the trees  
Spread your twilight wings  
My broken body is dripping with sin  
   Your skin so delicate  
Your undemanding bliss will carry me far  
   I bid farewell to this godforsaken land  
Nevermore shall I return  
I join with the riders on the horizon  
For they are my blood!  
For they are my saviours!  
   They bring me hatred, bring me fire  
They take me down to the land I know not  
Then crush me - Take me down  
Then they build me once more again  
   Slayer of my anger sailing silence  
The angel of my lust  
She is tasting shame  


- Alone   [taken from _Skydancer_, re-recorded with new vocals]  
        (Henriksson, Sundin)  
  
   "Let me die", I cried as the curtain fell  
and I stared in woe at the world before me  
My weeping eyes could not bear to tell  
or the shattered kingdom in ruins before me  
   What became of the lands that were?  
A pearl in the nest of memories  
Forever gone... departed by the minds of man  
   Scavengers, feeding on your mother's blood  
Parasites of life, with my heart I condemn  
your ignorant ways  
   Like the leaves of the high trees  
I wither and fall,  
Borne by autumnal winds  
to my funeral hall  
   I'm all alone in the grip of the silent sadness  
   I have been told to honour life  
and what therein I'll find,  
but if all I see is darkness,  
let me die and wake up blind  
As the gleaming blade before me,  
singing lullabies of loss  
Whispering "Death is your redeemer  
to the Paradise you've lost"  
   Mankind, evoker of inferno  
Let me burn your honoured Crown of Creation  
and dethrone you to ashes for aeons to come  
   Why should I stay here where I do not belong?  
Of weakness burns my within... An empty shell  
   I've lost the way to the sanctity I need  
   I'll greet the dawn that brings no life,  
no frail beams of sun to cleanse the black night  
My mournful roam has ended  
   I hide in the shadows while biding my time,  
sheltered from this world which disorderly rhyme  
with the fury of damnation  
   Once I held in my hand the starlight of Eden  
and the white sky lay open in a soul that was free  
(But the years flew so fast as the shadows were cast  
and I woke up one morning with no reason to be)  
   I'm all alone in the shade of the nameless Sorrow  
I'm all alone within a shadowfire of fear  
   Take me home to whence I came  
Where I'll find light to feed my flame of life  
   Or my heart will die without a whisper of hope...