Tristania (MCD, 1997)



Midwintertears

Shadowcast upon my heart
endark... thy bleak midwintertears
condemned to mourn in silence
The pale moonrise in her eyes
Serene... like a frozen stream
the flowing beauty in thy tears

I crave for thee my once beloved
Beyond... the veils of darkness lost
where now thy roses wrapped in dusk
Tears... flowing through thy dreams.

Dark enchantress
I suffer thy fullmoonnights
Trespass my undesired darkness
Tears... flowing through thy dreams

Dark enchantress
the seventh fullmoon rise
I drown in dusk and dark rivers

Summon all my dreams
like roses on your epigraph
written in my tears
thy sorrow and my bleeding heart

She comes so serene
my fallen beauty crowned with leaves
Take me to thy dream
Thy candle will forever burn in me...

Pale Enchantress

Dark... thou embrace my bleeding heart
My dreams... uniting our tearful eyes...
Enchanting
At night... I kiss the serpent in thy tears
For years... thy sorrow I've mourned

Harken my moonchilds cry
Yearning for another night
Mourning my once beloved
Mesmerized and ravendark

[Vibeke:]
Come to me with ?
Die for love in thy tears
Don't leave me in dusk
And moonlight....

My pale enchantress of the night
At last my candle's burning down
The wintermoon is shining bleak
[Vibeke:] bleeding time, walk from life
For thee my enchantress

Enchanting all my dreams
A beauty and her flood of tears
Nightfall embrace my heart
Mesmerized and ravendark

[Vibeke:] All my fears are striking me
My pale enchantress of the night
[Vibeke:] Nightfall is here, but for thee...
I desire thee

Fearful I walk with thee... through dusk
Through winds of loss... Her beauty and her
Flood embrace my bleeding heart
Tearful I fall with thee... at last
Lead me there... to where thy shadows cast

They dance in velvet darkness lost

Rise... bleak winterfullmoon
Rise...

[Vibeke:] Thee in sleep desire fullmoon light

In life... I kissed the serpent in thy tears
For years... thy sorrow I mourned...

[Vibeke:] Come, see my garden of delight...

Cease To Exist

A velvet breath of life
Enchants the garden of delight
Her voice within these winds
The flower so serene
Her cold and silent wail
Descend like midsummer rain
Bury my heart in thine
A taste of heavens wine

Beneath a full moon bright
She comes with gowns flowing wide
With blood-like lips of faun
Enchanting eyes of dawn
Towards the moon she gaze
A lonely tear runs down her face
For all she lost in life
Buried so deep inside

Leaves...
Dance in her precious Eden
Where she lies deep
Her loss in life engraved
In dusk and angel tears

Enlight in night within me
Lead me there
To where my heart lies buried
Beneath the seven seas

Widow's Weeds (1998)



Evenfall

Call thy name at nightfall
Reach out for thee life's rose
Cast thy veils at sunset
Trespass the waning in my halls
Prosperous beauty
Embraced by Eden's heart
Call thy name out tearful
Reveal to me thy deepest loss

[choir:]
Domini
Supratono
Sepultu

Cast... make haste my savage wall
For an end
Thy savage... bleak night
In life thy tears grow scarlet

[Vibeke:]
For thee my beloved
We shall freeze
There for this life with thee I bequeath
Like a promise bevaild by the sea
I still love in decidety(?)

Come desired nightfall
Enchant my grievous loss
Life bewailed at sunset
Trespass the shadows in my heart
Arise before me
Bequeath thy grievous loss
Dark at heart I mourn thee
Replace the vigour she once lost

Pale Enchantress

Dark... thou embrace my bleeding heart
My dreams... uniting our tearful eyes... enchanting
At night... I kiss the serpent in thy tears
For years... thy sorrow I've mourned

Harken my moonchild's cry
Yearning for another night
Mourning my once beloved
Mesmerized and ravendark

[Vibeke:] Come to me, with your serenity
My pale enchantress of the night
[Vibeke:] Nightfall died, in thy tears
At last my candle's burning down
[Vibeke:] Burning leaves entranced in morning light
The wintermoon is shining bleak
[Vibeke:] Bleeding time, walk a line
For thee my enchantress

Enchanting all my dreams
A beauty and her flood of tears
Nightfall embrace my heart
Mesmerized and ravendark

[Vibeke:] All my tears have enshrined my moonlit sea
My pale enchantress of the night
[Vibeke:] Nightfall's here, but to me
I desire thee

Fearful I walk with thee... through dusk... through winds of loss...
Her beauty and her flood... embrace... my bleeding heart...
Tearful I fall with thee... at last... lead me there...
To where thy shadow's cast... they dance... in velvet darkness lost...

Rise... bleak winter fullmoon

Rise!

[Vibeke:] In sleep desire for the light

In life... I kissed the serpent in thy tears
For years... thy sorrow I've mourned

[Vibeke:] Dance in the garden of delight

December Elegy

May thou carry me to the sea
Like autumn leaves... heaven wither
Savage is the winter prevailing within
I fall for thee... Sorrow entreating me
Makes me leave heaven

[Morten:] Breed my night like tears of sorrow
Creep with life the days that morrow
Thee scent like snow

I find thy lilies there of snow
Where once I died... weeping for thee
Everlasting seems the strife ascending within
Falling for thee...
Darkness confounding me
Makes me leave life

[Morten:] Breed my night with thy sorrow

[Vibeke/spoken:] Examinate this pain like snow
Driven far from my efferly loss
Enter this extended night of sorrow,
Pain,flowing tears...

Breed my woe
Descend with broken wings
Midwinternight inside
Merged by life... like thousand
Frozen tears
Come melt the ice... maytime...

Midwintertears

Shadowcast upon my heart
Endark... thy bleak midwintertears
Condemned to mourn in silence
The pale moonrise in her eyes
Serene... like a frozen stream
The flowing beauty in thy tears

I crave for thee my once beloved
Beyond... the veils of darkness lost
Where now thy roses wrapped in dusk
Tears... flowing through thy dreams.

[Vibeke:]
Silent she comes through the night
Desiring a silver light
Leaving, with dusk in her eyes
Descending from paradise

[Morten:]
All of us,
Souls she abuses,
Can only be achieved through death

Dark enchantress
I suffer thy full moonnights
Trespass my undesired darkness
Tears... flowing through thy dreams

Dark enchantress
The seventh fullmoon rise
I drown in dusk and dark rivers

Summon all my dreams
Like roses on your epigraph
Written in my tears
Thy sorrow and my bleeding heart

She comes so serene
My fallen beauty crowned with leaves
Take me to thy dream
Thy candle will forever burn in me...

Angellore

When summer's gone flee my angel
Winterwinds they might lead you far away
Beyond the pale horizon, a greaven silence
Over dreams to my heart yet not remain

[Vibeke] Oh please believe
It's in her eyes
[Vibeke] It is inside
It's in her heart, the same relation from which
I once led astray
[Vibeke] Oh please believe
It's in her eyes
[Vibeke] It is inside
It's in her heart, the same delightful place
I once felt in you

Angellore revered at dusk
For thee I rose, now descend all alone
Rise for me, soothe my heart
So wide a sea, may I overcome

[Spoken] Into the night strays an angel
So lost and tearful all astray

Into the night strays an angel
So lost and tearful all astray
Lo where's the pale horizon
Oh where is dyingness
You reach for me beyond so wide a sea

[Vibeke] Oh please believe
It's in her eyes
[Vibeke] It is inside
It's in her heart, the same desire
I feel burning in me
[Vibeke] Oh please believe
It's in her eyes
[Vibeke] It is inside
It's in her heart, the same desire from
The empty pain within

Rise for me, soothe my heart
So wide a sea, may I overcome

[Vibeke] Deep as the sea, wailing secrecies are burning in me
For a dream I once desired
I bequeth my sorrow and I regret to thee
Cannot cross that wide a sea

Angellore revered at dusk
For thee I rose, now descend all alone
Rise for me, soothe my heart
So wide a sea, may I overcome

My Lost Lenore

For thy promise bewailed
By her raveneyes
By her beauty and a scarlet sunrise
May thy river bury her silvertears
A fallen angel... enshrined in moonlit seas

[whispering:]
Dancing heart I mourn
My lost desire
Dancing heart I mourn
Rape the soul forever

Leaving vitality
So serene breeds my darkness
Entreating winterwinds
Though I leave... I embrace thee

Winternight
Conceal thy precious angellore
I secrete my soul
Under thy wings of sorrow
Dark I embrace thy eyes
Wander lost on life's narrow path
I reveal my heart
To this beauty dressed in dark

[whispering:]
When my shadows devotedly cast
My moon will rise with lost

Grieving raveneyes
Falls asleep with the sunrise
Delightful midsummer breeze
Though I leave... I await thee

Winternight
Conceal thy precious angellore
I secrete my soul
Under thy wings of sorrow
Dark I embrace thy eyes
Wander lost on life's narrow path
I reveal my heart
To this beauty dressed in dark

Grant me thy last midsummer breeze
May thou ascend from endless sleep
... my desire
Dance me above thy moonlit seas
Glance yearningly into the deep
A cold and weary night

Widwinternight
Descending me like flakes of snow
I embrace the cold
For a life that morrows
Dark I embrace thy heart
Wanderer lost beyond veils of dawn
I conceal thy loss
Enthralled in life yet still I mourn
My lost Lenore...

Wasteland's Caress

I mourn thee by dusk
I mourn thee by dawn
Crave for thy gloss
To seek the silent glades beyond
Precious a glance
Thy veils now unfold
Tearfull she dance
Into this nightfall I behold

Grieve at night
Thy bereavement and thy loss in life
Grieve by day
Thy devotion and thy pass away

Beyond the veils of dawn
From where she Siren calls

[Vibeke:] This inside of me,
Inside of me is lost,
Inside of me at dawn
??

The sunset seize within as I walk
Through velvet dusk and dawn
Condemned to rise and fall
So grievous through the night she calls
The beauty I once lost
I mourn thee my beloved

Far beneath thy heavens lost
Where I once pale and cold
Beheld thy rarest rose...