Ihsahn - Sub Ater Lyrics
Crushed between the teeth
Of a drunken poet's smile
He retches the blood
To slight amusement
And laughs with a limp
Along his guilt-ridden path...
Ihsahn - Rec Lyrics
A long day
A can of worms
Way past the expiry date
The healing has come too far
Think and scream
Simultaneously...
Ihsahn - M Lyrics
Philanthropist
Misanthrope
Parasite
Grief, hope
(how many?)
Coward, brave
Kill, save
Sanctimonious
King, slave
(how many?)
Sacrifice
Sacrilege
Give, take
Conquer, wait
(how many?)
Truth, lie
Laugh, cry
By h...
Ihsahn - Catharsis Lyrics
To drain the blood
From his face
This black stinking oil
And scorch the prints
Of everything
On these cold hands
To [...] the dead
From the jaws
Of this treacherous call
Ashes of the earth
And the mouth
To [...]
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Ihsahn - Pulse Lyrics
I don't know what I fear
The most
What I am
Or what I'm not
Too proud
Too ashamed
Incompatible
With myself
Cold, invincible
Siamese twin
By every dawn
New nights begin
The chemistry
Of the fallen soul
T...
Ihsahn - Homecoming Lyrics
I have tried so hard
To regain my faith
In man
Yet, I fail again
To uphold this
Deception
His collective truths
Are far too salt
I return instead
To the Heart and Self
And say:
"Unutterable and nameless
Is th...
Ihsahn - NaCl Lyrics
Perhaps the fight is over
The bloodstains surely indicate a major loss
Who knows what swollen idiot stumbled out of this arena with an oversized belt
Or maybe I'm the bigger fool who nurture every fight and every loss
Keeping t...
Ihsahn - See Lyrics
The eyes
Secretly disappear
Like escaped prisoners
Through a forest
Held under water
In the night
The eyes
Secretly disappear in the night...
Ihsahn - Regen Lyrics
More like a gesture
Acknowledging the coldness
Of its touch
I pull myself closer
Around the neek
As to contain myself
From disappearing
In the flux
And the heavens roll violently
Over golden waves
And rust-red hands
Dr...
Ihsahn - Monolith Lyrics
It was never
The icy winds of the heights
But the coldness of the world
That hardened my foundation
Whether your approach
Is that of praise or blasphemy
The construction of my being
Will remain the same
If my soaring p...
Ihsahn - Emancipation Lyrics
The open air
Atop this mountain
Welcomes my hungered voice
Yet - in the echoes
Of my indulgence
I hear a calling from below
Silent cries
To my solitude profound
In too deep
There is no return
For the soul unbound
...
Ihsahn - Hiber Lyrics
Upon the edge of winter's chasm
The seeds of evil flowers grow
And a sleeping giant curls below
In fever burning nightmare spasms
I rest upon this trembling ground
And in my bones they resonate
And thus, alike, we lie in wa...
Ihsahn - After Lyrics
Like clandestine
Dreamsborn sheep
Winter occupy the plains
And this is the after, the ending events
Ghosts through deathclouds
Swarm the heavens
Like swarming vultures
And this is the after
The ending events
This is the af...
Ihsahn - A Grave Inversed Lyrics
Sandstorm
Breach of burning skies
Unyielding tempest of eternity and timeline
(chaos) all consuming sanctuary of reigning fire
Sacred heart of frozen soil
Unholy
Apocalyptic death cloud
[?]unbarred...disputed...not held...auth...
Ihsahn - Recollection Lyrics
The play for years of speed
Killers, romantic dreams
Oh misanthrophy
The play memories
Killers, romantic dreams
Oh the misanthrophe
Deep down the shame
Knowing day will only lie
Fabricated lullaby
But now it seems that all...
Ihsahn - On The Shores Lyrics
Just like secrets, twisted alibis, for empty graves
Unlike manors, cut and burned, a thousand times
Not like ours, coiled in coffins, weeping echoes
Weeping echoes
Not by statues, golden monuments, war houses of worship
Unli...
Ihsahn - Austere Lyrics
Black silhouette upon a darkened azure scenery
Cold hand receives this battered stone
This battered stone...
Twilight caress the windswept features
Unyielding shadow blacker still
Its shadow blacker still
All the wise dead...
Ihsahn - My Heart Is Of The North Lyrics
I have felt the hunger
The restless howling call
To lift my gaze across the seas
And seek out foreign shores
Yet, for all riches
They may bring forth
The undeniable remains
My heart is of the North
Beyond horizons
Th...
Ihsahn - The Grave Lyrics
He hammers the earth with a shovel
Anger thunders with every strike
Inside his skull
A funeral
A cold-blooded murder
He hammers the earth with a shovel
Yet, his grave was empty from the start
Someone or something
To forget
...
Ihsahn - The Barren Lands Lyrics
These are barren lands
Austere and cold
Desert night
Of frozen time
Endless fields of ragged earth
Has lost is trail
The blood of war
Cold lair
Howling winds of sand
Hunger, violence, solitary, godless
This scen...
Ihsahn - The Paranoid Lyrics
(...) slow-motion
(...)
(...)
(...)
This smell of isolation
A hall of mirrors multiplying
Grotesque features of a golden idol
Melting fast in the fires of confession
And the shame feeds the anger feeds the shame
Dim lights...
Ihsahn - Departure Lyrics
(...)
Descending backwards
Through the sleepless black
Washing the fire inglare
The small (...)
Breathing with emptiness
Filled with collumns of winter and night
The stinging sensation remains
Of hungry eyes, nurturing the p...
Ihsahn - And He Shall Walk In Empty Places Lyrics
Of all rejected creatures unloved
Of all who defy the predestination
That divides mankind
Into the saved and damned
He was the first
The lurking punishment
With blood he did reveal
Death
And trough the ages run
A river ...
Ihsahn - Tacit Lyrics
Magnetic emptiness
Drew me into cathedrals of silence
Only to see them collapse and fall
Like promises on the frozen ground
And as the dust settled
My hands reached out to ash clouds and ruins
Eagerly, like onto strings
To fee...
Ihsahn - Arcana Imperii Lyrics
There was always a presence
In the tantalizing shadows of your dreams
An enigmatic whisper
Resonating though your very being
And now you have come too far
The paths you followed here are gone
This is the black, this is the ni...
Ihsahn - In Rites Of Passage Lyrics
The room fell still, submerged by time
The chatter drowned in liquid hours
If ever words were obsolete
The vibrant air would speak
There is conduct
Like honour among thieves
There is grace
Within the fearful eyes of thos...
Ihsahn - The Eagle And The Snake Lyrics
I crawl through mud and secrecy
To reach the edge of sanity
And fall... through cleansing air
Clashing down into the sea
We - between the eagle and the snake
Beyond what is real and what is fake
Between the eagle and the snake
...
Ihsahn - Crooked Red Line Lyrics
Stranded at the borders of perception
Onto a blackened heaven, washed ashore
In voluntary exile from deception
A peaceful mind, alas, a heart at war
A solitary voyager upon uncharted land
Left beaten on the rock, nowhere to go
...
Ihsahn - In The Vaults Lyrics
Screaming
Into a void of disbelief
Bleeding slowly
The victim of a narcissistic blow
Life can be so unforgiving
Yet, what is there really to forgive?
All you really have to do is...
Longing for the hopeless
Loosing all...
Ihsahn - Called By The Fire Lyrics
The sky is clouded and grey like a mirror
Dreams of celestial bliss buried deep
An invisible web of whispers
Spread out over dead-end streets
Silently blessing the virtue of sleep
I'm still
Called by the fire
My spirit...
Ihsahn - Threnody Lyrics
He lies quiet now
In the nothing
And there is no epitaph
No stone
Yet - his legacy flows
Like a river
Walker of barren paths
Seer of night
Friend of shadows
A carrier of light
And his legacy flows
Like a river...
Ihsahn - Alchemist Lyrics
Again I find myself in this narrow chamber
And my kettle simmers with the same old brew
Now turning sour
There must be more to this than chemistry
As my soul burns with fever
Instinctively I do repeat the simple formula
&q...
Ihsahn - Until I Too Dissolve Lyrics
The early hours
Of this late autumn dawn
All ready taste of winter
Cold mist rise
From blinding waters
Gracefully into the light
And I can choose to watch
Absorb this careless beauty
Without restrictions make it part o...
Ihsahn - Mass Darkness Lyrics
In a world of haunting mirrors
Your eyes should have been closed
Instead you lost your shadow
To become, like them, a ghost
Immersed within a mist of death
You withered in the light
And left your disillusioned soul
To tremb...
Ihsahn - Invocation Lyrics
Come suffering, Apocalypse
Release the fires of Hell
I call upon destruction and despair
Here the days of slumber end
I beckon the night to live and overcome the fear
Come sin, come shame congregation of contempt
I bid you we...
Ihsahn - Scarab Lyrics
As the sun returns
From the shades of night
So am I reborn from my own corruption
I invoke the consuming fire
And from the ashes mould
The renaissance of my decadent self
At the dawn of my rebirth
The heart is overflowin...
Ihsahn - Elevator Lyrics
Night comes with a smell of murder
And shadows fall long on my trail
Such are the hazards of my craft
All lights disperse
And the devil takes me down
There is panic in my fascination
Like soothing wine is my despair
Grac...
Ihsahn - Introspection Lyrics
Time, dissolves before my eyes
I know, the graves, they always try to hide
Then, what are graves to me?
Their sins are not infectious
I claim immunity to their disease
Oh, the serpent coils
Again I will consume the fire
To pur...
Ihsahn - Citizen Lyrics
Citizen!
Whence came your voice
Your right to speak?
Is there a purpose to your tongue
And gnawing teeth?
I ask thee;
How deep and hollow
Is your mouth?
What lie is too decayed
For you to stomach?
With humility and ob...
Ihsahn - Something Out There Lyrics
(...)
(...)
Like a statue (...)
With no more room for (...)
Slowly taken down by age
Going back through every page
Something old, something new
Something borrowed, something blue
They like a monument's (...)
(...)
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