"Urd" (2012)

1. Epochalypse

2. Roots

3. The Beauty Of Dead Cities

4. The Earthling

5. The Plains Of Memories

6. Mount Regency

7. Frostrite

8. The Winter Eclipse

9. In A Deeper World

10. Age Of Creation

11. My Friend Of Misery

1. Epochalypse

The impact of meteor collisions

sprays rock over desert sand

I've seen the subversion changing our conditions

in the wildfire that scorches the land

A region flooded by horizontal cataracts

drowning in the debris flow

A force that despoils every human artifact

the deep and the shallow

Chains of extinction

in disruption's primordial hall

I hear the roaring legion

of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall

I taste the salt, the seasoning of time

and smell the smoke of lightning's clime

Chains of extinction

in disruption's primordial hall

I hear the roaring legion

of ocean waves

A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky

lashing the shores of hope

I feel the arctic cold

as the elemental hazard

unfolds...

Years turn to decades, centuries to an era

A worldwide crisis opening its caldera

Chains of extinction

in disruption's primordial hall

I hear the roaring legion

of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall

2. Roots
The roots thrust into oblivion

beyond the verge of space

The erodent roots, the evolving loops

thrusts, yet free roaming

There is a horizon folded

blinding leaves of the universe

Throughout the inner core

my quest, my lore

Where the seeds recoil and return

where the potency explodes to burn

Where the roots weave into the branches

where dimensions blend into infinity

Where the seeds recoil and return

where the potency explodes to burn

There is a path running free

quintessential chemistry

Where the rivers recoil and return

fallen stars explode and burn

The branches reach into eternity

beyond the verge of stellar time

The evolving tree, the revolving spree

anchored in me means floating free

No time, no space can ever be

my hive, my home

I belong beyond the stellar dome

Blinding leaves of the universe

3. The Beauty Of Dead Cities

Concrete cracks, gives way to green

forests fall come glass and steel

The beauty of dead cities

the splendor of nature

Glass framed cities

untamed gardens

Wings in the meadow

asphalt hardens

Everything in its place

the duality of the natural order

An unforgiving faceless warder

Powerful green forces gray away

steel constructions lead life astray

The beauty of dead cities

the splendor of nature

Nature regains its natural place

cities absorb their needed space

The duality of the natural order

4. The Earthling

Children, behold the elders falling

hear nature chime, the widow calling

See that moldered face, once gazing

throughout horizons, throughout seasons

Men, behold the nature tolling

hear the depravity of man

See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming

Throughout winters, throughout summers

Nature, the venomous path of man

the existential gravity, the blinder of light

Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun

instinctively oppose, the harvester of light

Elders, hear the mountains calling

behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling

See the downfall, in midst of the havoc

throughout ages, throughout generations

Nature, the venomous path of man

the existential gravity, the blinder of light

Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun

instinctively oppose, the harvester of light

Dwelling the night towards further sight

I am the earthling, bearer of the past

I am the earthling, dwelling the presence

I am the earthling, exploring the future vast

I am the weaver of the Sun

I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun

5. The Plains Of Memories

[Instrumental]

6. Mount Regency

Behold the northern plains

the entwined wintry mountains

Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold

the greatest column, the bearer of the sky

The winds are stirring and blurring

the seditious omen of erosion

A frozen spear of disharmony

the shattering yet celestial notion

Through the forests, wandering

Through the valleys, hasting

Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding

The summit, the release of mind

The winds are stirring and blurring

the seditious omen of erosion

A frozen spear of disharmony

the shattering yet celestial notion

The rough side of the mountain

climb the bastion of existence

Hail this mountain, cherish these paths

the vast outskirts, the verge of existence

Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode

Behold the northern plains

Behold the wintry mountains

Hail this mountain, cherish these paths

the vast outskirts, the verge of existence

Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode

The momentum of horizon

the call of Mount Regency

7. Frostrite

Moving through fields

away from the great sea

up to the barren and cold

The wind gathers might

as the last trees passes out of sight

I plunge into the blight

Frozen landscape

see me, feel me

Awe strikes where even the air bites

and ice ceaselessly survives

Blue shades on white

announcing the rite taking place here tonight

Fading to black then explode in attack

hits the blazing northern lights

Spellbound I fight

the chaos, the colors painted in flight

And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite

of this call from the other side I rise

My mind at ease

war harvest peace

Blood, fire

death cannot freeze

My father's gods

grant wisdom and odds

this is their gift through the bond

A spearhead, a zeal

I know what is real

to no one, nowhere I kneel

Frozen landscape

touch me, heal me

Awe strikes where even the air bites

and ice ceaselessly survives

8. The Winter Eclipse

A long gone presence unfolds

through the eye of the winter eclipse

Where the moments of history hold

the shadows of a vast ancestral cast

This path walked by generations

eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun

Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons

the everlasting continuance

Of time, space and diversity

the bias of cosmic regency

manifested by the vast complexity

The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow

The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow

The cogency of reason, the reversion of future

The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation

Ruinous and regenerative

the hive of an oscillating existence

Resounds through the halls of silence

rebounds under the dome of origin

Ruinous and regenerative

the hive of an oscillating existence

Of time, space and diversity

the bias of cosmic regency

manifested by the vast complexity

through the winter eclipse

This path walked by generations

eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun

Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons

the everlasting continuance

A long gone presence unfolds

through the eye of the winter eclipse

Where the moments of history hold

the shadows of a vast ancestral cast

9. In A Deeper World

Deify the universal coherence

existence

The progeny of subsistence

bearer of man, the heirs of amend

Soak into the stellar magnitude

Rise towards the sky

In a fiery union with nature

as one with every creature

Rove the windy mountains

fall of man, drain in the sand

Rise towards the sky

In a fiery union with nature

as one with every creature

Rove the windy mountains

fall of man, drain in the sand

...in a deeper world

Deify the universal coherence

10. Age Of Creation

[Limited Edition Digipack Bonus Track]

Through the wind of inquisitiveness,

A total view travels the ray of nature's benevolence

From the nest of fragments wholeness once flew

To set out a striking confluence

Where eye meet the biospheres ability

Chaos and order shaded by equilibrium

In coherence with progression's liberty

to form an intrinsic dictum

The practice of the mountain

A symbolic father and volcanic fountain

Refined by time and knowledge

A tower for future generations

Illuminating the age of creation

As we build a world with mind, hand and heritage

Until we mount the philosophical throne

Bowing to the lords of this ecotone

Where a chaotic substance condenses into solid black

An old servant in the play of havoc

Painting land over craters grounding

A creator now numb by man's eager pounding

The prominent pillars, the pyramidal peaks

Map impressions in the chamber of exploration

And keep them safe from a sun to bleach

sculpting inner elevation

The practice of the mountain

A symbolic father and volcanic fountain

Refined by time and knowledge

A tower for future generations

Illuminating the age of creation

11. My Friend Of Misery

[Limited Edition Digipack Bonus Track]

[originally by Metallica]

You just stood there screaming

Fearing no one was listening to you

They say the empty can rattles the most

The sound of your own voice must soothe you

Hearing only what you want to hear

And knowing only what you've heard

You, you're smothered in tragedy

And you're out to save the world

Misery

You insist that the weight of the world

Should be on your shoulders

Misery

There's much more to life than what you see

My friend of misery

You still stood there screaming

No one caring about these words you tell

My friend, before your voice is gone

One man's fun is another's hell

These times are sent to try men's souls

But something's wrong with all you see

You, you'll take it on all yourself

Remember, misery loves company

Misery

You insist that the weight of the world

Should be on your shoulders

Misery

There's much more to life than what you see

My friend of misery

You just stood there screaming

My friend of misery
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