11. Phantasma De Luxe

[Music & Lyrics: Edlund]

This dole crowner gallows me
As this mere welkin hallowed be
Whereupon I trick and train and tire
To limn my umbered love in fire
Before this noble mare bewrays
As I clearly see it decays
In debile coil of smoke suspires

May our last orison quickens as we
Are drumbling near this poize of free
Quell me maculate slowly dyer
Case my remains with sharpened brier
Atone me to my throes curtail
To dim and dire fields I vail
And my eale's but a slumbering lier

Then so lingered here but none
To buckle back what had begun
In molten aeons caged desire
Dared phantasma us much higher
Ceased to milch the clover flower
Neither raindrops nor my lover
Shall restore what has been done
When we're all keeled in freezing sun

12. Mount Marilyn

[Music & Lyrics: Edlund]

The threne my love that opens now
In cattle blood of aery brow
Con that life's a dream not to affy
As embodied matter love will die

You twinkle still in Argentine
When I palmy dout the rapid din
To force the mure, the pain I hide
As you're not longer by my side

Mazed I helmed this crater deem
Stranger than a stranger seems
Wished to shroud the sortance leer
And yarely wink the eyes of fear

Splay the moon that foolish be
And let the sunshine raving me
Beyond the love I do behold
A ken I saw, a fane of gold

I'd peize in pounds our insane blend
And phantom laid a smile I send
Eke an ounce of purple fire
And fairy eyes no longer twire

Would fain to stalk the colour fields
But tickle I shall stark lonely yield
Merely in drowning water clay
As anguish wears but shades of grey

To retain the chains of elder squire
I'd prune the funeral skies denier
Once in awhile he still appeals
To remind you all it's still for real

Breathing smoke and fire

But the face of evil that haunted us
Was never ever present thus
The cupid rainbow ties an orb
In which every demon shall absorb

Do you think I care?
Do you really think I care?

13. A Deeper Kind Of Slumber

Robin goodfellow
Dianae, my muse
Morpheus in my heart
Your sand in my veins
It's a deeper kind of slumber
What is universe anyway
But a pouch of silver coins
The intense breathing
Of a dying animal
A foreboding of afterlife
Master keys in oaken chest
The somewhere is mine
And from there I'll continue
All I asked for was a little love
Meet me on the other side
Where as a rose I will wake
Though blind I'll follow every step you take
Dianae, my muse
Dianae, my solitude
Cease to exist, rise to exist no more
It's a deeper kind of slumber

Brighter Than The Sun (MCD, 1999)



1. Brighter Than The Sun
2. Children Of The Underworld

1. Brighter Than The Sun

we could wander in the garden of Eden baby
we could do anything tonight, maybe
we could even touch the sky
if we just get up on our feet and try
we could wander in the garden of Eden baby

will you settle for the bull`s run
for the second best of fun, we're turning
for the fire of a handgun
burns brighter than the sun, we're burning

any colour you like as long as it`s black
you could have anything if you just give it back
you could be a celebrity like me
it won`t change anything as you will see
any colour you like as long as it`s black

[Lyrics and Music: Johan Edlund]

2. Children Of The Underworld

We are the children of the underworld
We are the children of the long lost dream
We lie in wait for our time to come
Floating on a neverending stream

Make no stay
Meet us all by break of day

We are the masters of decadence
We are the rulers of the deep
We aim for the final lucidity
The pristine, twentyfour carat sleep

Make no stay
Meet us all by break of day

[Music & Lyrics: Edlund]

Skeleton Skeletron (1999)



1. Church Of Tiamat
2. Brighter Than The Sun
3. Dust Is Our Fare
4. To Have And Have Not
5. For Her Pleasure
6. Diyala
7. Sympathy For The Devil
8. Best Friend Money Can Buy
9. As Long As You're Mine
10. Lucy

1. Church Of Tiamat

no candycoloured paradise
no stary blackholed eyes
no more dreams of neverend
through embers only dark descends

no more comatose sleepwalking
no feeble sideshow toungetalking
not even crucified you`d get that far
nor escape the shining mourningstar

no lies shall opiate your senses
no spying glasses with shaded lenses
nor suns that burn a brighter tint
just lucid weaves in pristine mint

no more angels in the snow
no more hunting high and low
no more water in our veins
to seek out gold from grains

no fight to win or loose
no single path to choose
no second comind at all
just a simple rise and fall

2. Brighter Than The Sun

[Music & Lyrics: Edlund]

we could wander in the garden of Eden baby
we could do anything tonight, maybe
we could even touch the sky
if we just get up on our feet and try
we could wander in the garden of Eden baby

will you settle for the bull`s run
for the second best of fun, we're turning
for the fire of a handgun
burns brighter than the sun, we're burning

any colour you like as long as it`s black
you could have anything if you just give it back
you could be a celebrity like me
it won`t change anything as you will see
any colour you like as long as it`s black

3. Dust Is Our Fare

there is a time when some of us are healed
there is a time you`re clean and undersealed
there is a time it almost looks like fun
there is a time for the bullet of a gun

no one here drinks water
none of us is sane
if you pretend you`re my daughter
we do it again and again
no one here is praying
`cause no one here is god
and every word we are saying
might as well be put in blood

there is a time when worms revel in me
there is a time for a pigfaced reality
there is a time and it`s usually the afternoon
there is a time and I hope it will be damn soon