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With Hearts of flesh and walls of stone
Be the sons of Adam and daughters of Eve
Light a candle for every broken dream
and all the world will burn
Smoke arises from tall red chimneys
And carry witness of an early grave
Broken arrows and smothered limbs
Tell me who am I to my next of kin?
like this father one day realize
that the son he used to be
is the one that stands before him
absorbing every blow
So “love wins” yet another dismay
while with indifference we’re watching our children decay
our absolution is swollen and hollow
The killing kind that reeks of disease
Death, a gesture towards heaven
Not mere serenity or a felicity of expression
But a solemn gravity tugging towards life
This basic human feature
Of a creation gone astray
The robe was torn apart
as lots were cast that night
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White, red,
Black and pale
Conquest, war,
Famine and death
Reaching in, cutting out
Deep inside
Beyond layers of diversions, a faceless grin
A stream of vengeance, tainted brown
Dripping down from my wounds of shame
It takes a village to raise a child
But where does this leave us
In a world of children
the fate of man?
Give me
Karma
Upon a bed of ashes
Give me pain
and laughter
To temper indifference
For my people are foolish, they don’t know me
They are blinded children, they don’t know me
They have no understanding from the gallows we sigh
I don’t know him
For my people are foolish they do not know me
They are stupid children and they have no understanding
They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good
I looked on the earth, and it was waste and void
And to the heavens, they had no light
I looked on the mountains, and they were quaking
All the hills moved to and fro
I looked and there was no one at all
And all the birds of the air had fled
I looked and the fruitful land was a desert
And all the cities were laid in ruins
Before the Lord
Before his fierce anger
in this best of all possible worlds
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Starlight
04:42
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From the shores of a distant cosmic memory
I count the stars of every human soul
Who among them can tell me what it takes
To heal these barren desert lands
To wash away the blood red sand
A heavy burden
Facts on the ground
Remind us of the debt we owe
To every child in time
So I’m counting stars
To weave dreams of narrower paths
To take us from
These cold and empty rooms
Forgive these worn out words
Softly kissing your ears
And all the broken Promises
Deceivers of hearts
I’m counting stars to weave dreams of narrower paths
To take me from these empty rooms
Into where I can see
I am sorry for all the empty worn out words
Softly kissing your ears
And all the promises made
To take hold of hearts
To make it easy to forget
To live and still know
To count the stars in every soul
And now you know
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4. |
Anthem
05:41
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Who is this worn out sad old man
Staring at me from the mirror?
In anger he speaks to me
in whispers, then through sighs
“all those years they got the best of me”
Tomorrow will all be different
A chance to make things right
Tomorrow we'll pay our dues
The dawn of new born lies
One day I will testify
And all the world will know
because hopes and dreams are made of this
and one day it will show
Before I die
I’ll do the things once spoken of
Yet the promises of yesterdays
keep piling up from below
Next year will be different
I can feel it drawing near
A Belief in all that brought us here
A Belief that things will change
Our future is brought forth by
the trembling hands
and the words remain the same
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5. |
Hallways of Sadness
04:40
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I walk alone
upon cold and rusty rails
to new found places
where choice still stand
to be made up and worn out
to where warring possibilities
Fight over obsessions
Come join me to where lovers gaze
in wonder from bottomless depths of solitude
Conquering grain by grain, hand to mouth
these shores of euphoric harmony
far away from those ivory towers
of long dead men
pursuing wretched ideals out of reach
dead out of touch with their own humanity
Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l'etterno dolore
Struggling their way up countless steps
up ragged hills, like moths to flame
This, an elegy for desperate hearts
eager to be heard
Dying to be served –
dying for the world that sold them so cheap
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Red (pt. I)
02:36
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Red (pt. II)
05:10
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Caught in the torrents
Of right and wrong
Of good and bad
Where life atones
Pulling me down towards the bottom
To where masters serve as slaves
To the source of hope of dreams of change
The seed of life that never grows
To the dead end road of a life gone by
The one last hit that will lead us all home
Take me there beyond what’s known
take me far away
cause I’m buried here in days that were
And yearn the great escape
Pull me down towards the bottom
To where masters serve as slaves
I catch a glimpse
of maybe slowly passing by
Out of reach, out of time
Out of tune, out of life
Reveal to me
The mysteries of life
Play me now the symphonies
Of self-control gone blind
Play me the melody
Of bitter tears turned to dust
Play me like you’ve never played before
Play me until it ends
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8. |
Fra Jord til Støv
06:19
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De høye fjell og dype daler
Folkehav og dyreliv
Vitner om vårt arvelodd
Drømmen om livet i visshet om døden
For livet slik det er
Har sitt opphav i deg
Som i din viljes frihet
valgte oss frem
Ikke fordi du måtte
men ville det slik
Fra nød i overflod
vi beskuer din himmel
Mellom tro og tvil
fra jord til støv
I sorg og glede
vi lever under din himmel
Mellom tro og tvil
Fra jord til støv
Bare slik ser vi lengre
bortenfor alt slit
Til veiens ende
ditt himmelrik
For livet slik det er
har sitt opphav i deg som
I din viljes frihet
valgte oss frem
Ikke fordi du måtte
men ville det slik
Bare slik ser vi lengre
fra jord til støv
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DALIT Norway
From its conception in 2006 and throughout the years, epic crunching metal wrought with somber melodies has been the trademark of the band. Blending the raw and ice-cold nerve of the Scandinavian black metal scene with a distinct nod and apt sensitivity towards the melancholic touch of the British doom scene of the nineties. ... more
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