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Returning From Miklagard
01:35
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Behind me the gold and silver
Before me field and plain
The road goes on forever
Invites me once again
No mountain peak ever reached my sky
No golden hall took the will of mine
No wall of stone ever made me stay
No throne of iron led me astray
Across the fields I wander on
Old and weary, the man I set out to become
To the north my heart never once forgot
To the place I still my home
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Cast away to roam alone
Shunned away to roam far from home
Years and years, decades forlorn
Aged and withered I’ve become
Open up the gates, I yearn
A wayward son‘s return
From the wind I feel remorse
From the skies come tears like waterfalls
From the earth a welcome home
My birthsoil long ago
My gravesoil will become
The heavy chains no longer bind
The freedom that I left behind
One journey ends, another one has begun
The land I returned to, to set as the sun
The last rays of light paint the scenery in red
Unseen beauty, my final sunset
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These shores have seen rise and fall of kings
Like the rise and fall of the tide
They have been here long before I was born
And they’ll be here when I die
From the German coastline to the Albion isle
From the tideland to white cliffs high
These shores have been here before I was born
And beneath them I will lie
From the clouded days of Doggerland
They have seen it rise and fall
Before the first man set his foot on land
Northern waves have been standing tall
These shores have seen rise and fall of kings
Like the rise and fall of the tide
They have been here long before I was born
And they’ll be here when I die
Bury me in the northern sea
Once more salt and storm shall be with me
Once more cold water will caress my hand
Before it takes me in like an old friend
Master of every land
Ruling by watery hand
Whatever we build
Can be destroyed
Waves of Storegga
Atlantis sank into your void
Stormbound drifting
Towards my return to the end
Flesh and spirit
Left to dissolve as I descend
One last moment above
A final ray of light meets my eye
My final guide
On my journey below
One last breath, then I go
I, I will become one with ebb and flow
Bring me to the sea, and then let me go
Will you bury me in the northern sea?
Bring me to these shores, then let go of me
I, I will become one with ebb and flow
Forsaking the shore
Into the unknown
I sink yet I soar
Redemption waits below
The waves eternal
Bury me in the northern sea
Once more salt and storm shall be with me
Once more cold water will caress my hand
Before it takes me in like an old friend
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On one side the sea
On one side the sorrow
One covered in green
A sigh on the fourth
Will there be tomorrow
Who will see the sun again
Who will stay behind and die
Who will live to see another day
Who wither and decay
And out of nothing it will rise
And reach out for the skies
This northern Babylon
Evil dwells inside these stones
These walls were built on marsh and bones
These roads are paved with marsh and bones
The dead still dwell these blighted shores
These walls were built on marsh and bones
Luring shimmer, pomp and glimmer
Build upon their bodies cold
Millions haunt this cemetery
Living in this twilight hold
Shadows within shadows
Their stronghold never falls
This spell is cast forever
Their souls bound to these halls
And out of nothing it will rise
And reach out for the skies
This northern Babylon
Evil dwells inside these stones
These walls were built on marsh and bones
These roads are paved with marsh and bones
The dead still dwell these blighted shores
These walls were built on marsh and bones
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With empty eyes and heart forsaken
Counting down the days to come
Future dies, no chances taken
What could have been is gone
Door by door keeps closing down
Have they even once been open?
Not for me, not for me, no
Lost in darkness...
Your sun will never shine for me
Never burn for me
Never turn for me
It just revolves for you
Beware it’s all for you
I’m merely there
I am so tired of empty stares
Of glowing flares that pass me by
Heading towards their destination
I remain the one denied
There’s not a smile you have for me
No hate, no love, no sympathy, no
No words to share, no words to say
I’ll just stay here, you go your way
Lost in darkness…
Your sun will never shine for me
Never burn for me
Never turn for me
It just revolves for you
Beware it’s all for you
I’m merely there
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A Servant To The Tide
08:39
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I took the coldest wave
Withstood the deathly tides
I drift towards my watery grave
Bereft the power to defy
Another stream
Another dream forsaken
Nothing but a dead ashore
Or a sunken bait
A fate concealed forevermore
A piece of flotsam hits my shoulder
And I grab the weathered plank
Head and hands above the surface
Freezing waters in my lungs
There's no alacrity
The torrent pulls me deeper down
Frost from a million needles
And the water's rope unyielding
And the water's touch alluring
As the sirens call me
When my footprints touch the shore
Seek the waves that I adore
When my time has come to go
Inside this billow
I am servant to the tide
Nothing but a token
Played out as a sacrifice
Sun beyond my back
As the stream devours me whole
Deus Ex won't come
I’ve played my role
Now the abyss calls me home
As numbness lifts my spirit
From this liquid agony
I send my final thoughts
The tides will set me free
When my footprints touch the shore
Seek the waves that I adore
When my time has come to go
Inside this billow
I am servant to the tide
Nothing but a token
Played out as a sacrifice
When the last of us is gone
To serve the tide and fade forever
When I leave to be no more
Will I even be remembered
As starlight in the sky
A remnant of past beauty
Remain as guiding light
To shine forever
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