Amorphis is a Finnish Finland metal heavy metal music band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other types of genres, which include metal heavy metal music , progressive metal, and folk metal. They frequently use the Kalevala, the Epic Poem of Finland, as a source for their lyrics. [read more] - Moon And Sun Part Ii: North's Sun
Go, look at the moonAnd inspect the sun!Now they are in the skyRight in their old placesHail, moon, for gleemingFair one for showing your faceDear sun for dawningAnd daylight for coming up!Dear moon, you're out from...
- Moon And Sun
Where has the sun gone from usWhere is the moon lost to usThe moon will not gleam at allNor will the sun shine at allDeath opens its mouthThe son of the NorthlanderCamo to look, to listen"There beyond the river is...
- And I Hear Your Call
[Kingston Wall cover]I must be out of my mind as I hear you callMy name is even though I can't see you anywhereSurely this feeling must be coming from somethingSomeone gave me yesterday as I searched for youAnd I hear...
- The Brother Slayer
Where have you been, where have you beenmy son, my merry son?On the seashore, on the seashoremother, my darling one.And what have you been doing theremy son, my merry son?I have been watering my horsemother, my...
- My Kantele (acoustic)
Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsenseWho say that music reckon that the kanteleWas fashioned by GodOut of a great pike's shouldersFrom a water-dog's hooked bones:It was made from griefIt's belly out of hard daysIts...
- Levitation
[Hawkwind cover]In the darkness I will shine, cast no shadows, not defineI walk on water, float on air, there's no other to compareI have this fascination, no cause for deviationIt's called levitationThere's no cause...
- Warriors Trail
As the sun falls downand the swell crashes into the shoreThe great warriors of doom and windride highSilent is the silence,the only breathing of horses sound,Cold northern steel, shining blade, pleases usAnd we all...
- The Pilgrimage
In his eyesThe evil spirit riseTurns to darkness with Satan's name"As the time is rightdead bodies rise up from their gravesAnd when the time comes nearOh, I see the prince of glory"Holy monthSacred houndsUnder the...
- Black Embrace
Terror, when the darkness binds your limbsTerror, when the fear freezes your nervesHorror, when the pain climbs up your veinsDarkness, creeping under you skinMoment of life,when we all have to choose,which way to...
- Vulgar Necrolatry
Erosion of life I seeit makes the passion burn in meLife it always withers awayDeath will eternally stayCorpses in their coffinsforever rest in peace?There sleeping with the aspergillusis this justice to the dead?The...
- Exile Of The Sons Of Uisliu
A wave the sound of Noisiu's voicehis singing was ever sweet...Noisiu's grave has now been madeand the accompaniment was mournfulFor him I poured out - hero of heroes,the deadly drink that killed himDear his short...
- Signs From The North Side
True Celtic powerfrom the cape of CornwallCry of hope, angels cryThis was omen, our sign, predictionDistant gate, gothic graveThrough ages our clan still remainIn this proud land I grew up strong,My tears are flowing...
- The Gathering
As I sense their steel,As I see the mighty one,As we all gather once againthe gods of war summon us...summon usNorth wind blows to our valleymen with ships, with swords, with honourTheir horses between flames,their...
- The Lost Name Of God
We have to know, we have to seeReligions so many, which one of them are so real,That it makes us to believe ?Crushing the chains of faithTo find the way of immortality,We're hiding behind the crossTo find...
- Grails Mysteries
I shall have a son,out of Cornwall shall he come,that shall be a wild boar,bristled with steel...he shall be a man most brave andnoble in thoughtThou shall kneel for him,for every man shall humble in front of our...
- Misery Path
We sail across the sea,In our thoughts we float over mountainsAll this vanity that we could hideThe truthThe truth is to be aliveand to live your life in fear by hateand create our own godsWe all ourselves are...
- Karelia
"The sound of thousand warriorsThe fields of thousand battlesStill, in our hearts we can hearthe great hymn of Karelia."
- Sign
((Bonus Track))
Far from here, a house forsaken on lands of yesterdaythe silence of the night has crept inas weeping of the women, as thoughts of solitudeas sadness and as griefIn a dim deserted room a token left on the tablea...
- Shaman
Mother wept for her sonshe wept and sanganxiously pndered fatehis and her ownA sun's ray, in through the eyeglimmered in the room of mindchanging the woman shapesorrow fled her faceFrom the shaman into shamanFrom the...
- Weaving The Incantation
A mind dejected, blood boiling with angerthe storm of the warpath, now sings in my heartyour pleadings, useless, I now shall disregardI'll leave you to weep and to fear for meI'm ready for my endmy hair I comb...
- A Servant
What was denied from poorI thought to be richesI run for them there and thenit made me take my dueto death I'd plunge with joymy happiness to claimI am prepared to face the warunder the black soilI'm righteous if I so...
- Enigma
On his trail the stones grewhe was led astrayforces strange he had to facemagic unseenwhen he asked he was not answeredbut he would not yieldwhat he asked for was not givenTo a whirling mass of watersthe mountains of...
- Towards And Against
I have known the arcane loreon strange roads such visions metthat I have no fear nor concernfor hatred and obstacles of this worldBy stone-shooed wanderer I am taughtmy visions from fiery eyed iron-armed chanterI know...
- The White Swan
I set out on a longest roadto seek the answers from DeathI set out to the black sacred streamto seek out and shoot a white swanOn desolate and stony pathsfrom a mountain to a valeI reached the shore and saw it...
- Her Alone
Only one can make me do my good deedsonly one and the shadow of that oneonly one can make me do my evil deedsonly one and the shadow of that oneHer alone I will lend my ear toonly her will I obeyher alone I will...
- Silent Waters
A day's light told me of my son's fatethe sun showed the way, grim and severepulled under the raging waters, my childsank in the drowning currents, my sonMy strength is not enough, my powers failed meI need the...
- I Of Crimson Blood
I am of crimson bloodnought shall hold memirror mine the dark of nightreflects me in waterAblaze are my eyesmy soul consumed by woemy braids weaved by the windan image in my mindLeave I must now with hasteme who tires...
- Black River
Still searching for my way, the right way to bestill pondering what I've doneI'm still thinking what I've said, still finding from withinand all that I know is still not enoughI'm being held by the oneshadow...
- The Orphan
The calloo's spirits are lowSwimming on the chill waterBut the orphan's are lowerWalking down the village street.The sparrow's belly is chillSitting on the icy boughBut my belly is more chillAs I step from glade to...
- Weeper On The Shore
In the vale where I once listened out for the lightWhere the little birds warbleThe ptarmigans babbleAnd my heart looked for some rest from its troubleI cast my eyes downward upon the seasideAnd a fair young girl on...
- My Kantele
Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsenseWho say that music reckon that the kanteleWas fashioned by a godOut of a great pike's shouldersFrom a water-dog's hooked bones:It was made from the griefMoulded from sorrowIts...
- Cares
Many rocks the rapid hasA lot of billows the seaMore plentiful are my caresThen cones on a spruceBeard moss on a juniperGnarls upon a pine barkKnobs upon a firHusks on a grass-topBoughs on a bad tree.Drag my cares...
- Elegy
Long evenings full on longingLow-spirited my morningsFull of longing too my nightsAnd all times the bitterest.'Tis my lovely I long forIt is my darling I missMy black-browed one I grieve for.There's no hearing my...
- Better Unborn
Better it would be for meAnd better it would have beenHad I not been born, not grownNot been brought into the worldNot had to come to this earthNot been suckled for the worldIf I'd died a three-night-oldBeen lost in...
- Relief
[Instrumental]
- Song Of The Troubled One
What the thrush toils atThe partridge asks forThe hapless one takesThe troubled one stealsPuts upon a spadeSets on a runnerHides under a doorShields with a bath-whiskThe farmer hammersAnd tempers his spearsMarries off...
- On Rich And Poor
Old folk rememberAnd those today learnHow before their timeLife was different here:Without the sun people livedGroped about without the moonWith candles sowing was donePlanting performed with torched.At the time we...
- Against Widows
The Devils weds a widowDeath another's leftoversBetter to lie on a willowsRest on alder boughsThen upon a widow's bedOn a used woman's pillowSweeter the side of a fenceThen a widow's flankSofter the side of a...
- Silver Bride
From the mystic dreams of nighttimeI saw the clarity of my daysFrom the shades of longingLooked for the familiar glowThe death of my wife's slayerBrought no comfort to meNo shape for lonelinessFor a dreamA queen of...
- From The Heaven Of My Heart
I who have forged the heavensI also have my kingTo northland I was sentI was cast to distant PohjolaEnforced by my king's spellsHis orders undeniedFrom the small crumbs of earthFrom a fleece of summer eweFrom a memory...
- Separated
From trails of wolvesFrom paths of bruinFrom fen-depths and mountain windsRaised into the light I wasSeparated apart I wasI am of airI am waterI am of fireAnd earth I amThe lore of airThe waters wisdomFire awareThe...
- Majestic Beast
In the bowels of rocky mountainA fiery bird I forgedForged from iron, from molten steelA flaming eagle majestic beastOn the wings of my eagleTo black river I flewTo the dale of the deadTo the stream that grinds all...
- Sampo
Sparks sent flying, my mind thunderingThe room of my heart flashing to the skyThe flaring of fumes fill my sensesPervade this room and this spaceThe days they blend into the nightsThe moon, the sun uniteOrder of stars...
- Godlike Machine
To a strange land, land of PohjolaI took my gift, I received it from the godsI melted the knowledge of heavenFrom the pieces of my heart I built a golden millI made the heavens, I delivered themI gave the horn of...
- From Earth I Rose
Darkness was my lightMuteness was my tongueDeath was my lifeMatter was my spiritI am a brother to the fireTo fire a brother I amFrom breasts of maidens threeI drank the black milkDevoured the white milkI swallowed the...
- Skyforger
Inside this nonexistenceI know very clearlyThe directions, all the pointsOf every potential quarterI forge my wisdomInto an arc surrounding allI forge my heartbeatTo a dome all heavens wideI know the sun and the...
- Sky Is Mine
From my world the sun fadedAnd the moon from my sky was gone with starsI came home to a bleak room of sorrowForsaken house, place of grief, in solitudeI listened to my heart beatingThe faint rush of my bloodI listened...
- Highest Star
Under the vault of heavensI stood alone, waitingThe blaze of silver shining in my eyesMy hands of gleaming goldThe red of iron in my veinsThe blue of steel in my bonesThe sparkle of blackness of coal in my hairMy...
- My Sun
Slowly turns the key of timeIn the lock of promises brokenIn mute silence of my spaceI crouch under my yearningThe works of my gods receding nowEvade my grasping handsHer hair I would long to adornWith glowing...
- Course Of Fate
Got a maid from the lands of northA wife from lands of strangeThe work of gods was at last replacedBy days and nights of menShe wakes beside meShe stands by meShe stares at our skyShe lives our livesIn the beginning...
- To Fathers Cabin
O old man, good godCareful man of heavenKeeper of storm cloudsMake misty weatherAnd create a tiny cloudIn whose shelter I may go
- The Castaway
A bird flew out of LaplandAn eagle from the North EastOne wing ruffled the waterAnd the other swept the skyIt's tail skimmed the seaIt flutters, it glidesIt looks, it turns round"Why, man are you in the seaFellow,...
- Forgotten Sunrise
Once I had a mindAnd thoughts was givenBut nowadays, in this evil ageAll my sense is somewhere elseOnce I had a soulI was one with my godBut now I am abandonedBanished from these liesLong my tale's been in the coldFor...
- In The Beginning
I have a good mindTake into my headTo start of singingBegan recitingWe seldom get togetherAnd meet each otherOn these poor bordersThe luckless lands of the northThose words we have gotFrom the North's furthest...
- Black Winter Day
This is how the lucky feelHow the blessed thinkLike daybreak in springThe sun on a spring morningLike the flat brink of a cloudLike a dark night in autumnBut how do I feelIn my gloomy depths?A black winter dayNo,...
- Drowned Maid
I went to wash at the shoreI went to bathe in the seaAnd there I, a hen, was lostI, a birdUntimely diedLet not my brotherEver in this worldWater his war-horseUpon the seashore!Waters of the seaSo much blood of...
- Magic And Mayhem
Hey there, tiny wenchMy perpetual serfPut stew in a potBring water for the guestBefore we partBefore your neck is brokenYou strike firstSon of the north
- Into Hiding
AmorphisTales From The Thousand Lakes (1994)Into HidingThe islander slips into hiding and takes to his heels out of dark Northland the murky house of Sara he whirled out of doors as snow arrives as smoke in the yard...
- First Doom
The mountains of NorthShall erupt and flamesOf darkland will raiseHail to one who hailsBlood for one who bleedsO you mistress of northlandQueen of darklandI may wash my hands of theEvil master's bloodFor that is no...
- Smithereens
I let you takethis breeding sorrowyou're too close to seeas the pride inside of youis smashed to smithereensthis fire hunts the soulless and the weakbursting out the madness in meand through all the that fear I have...
- Planetary Misfortune
I hear youhear your worthless speechunheard and sensationalfeeding my comprehensionlet me see beyond all additionalshow me something realsomething low and dramaticalwhen all this sinful glitteryis still too much to...
- Killing Goodness
There's no existing miserythat just fades awayfaint hearted mindless tracksthrough the wicked worldthe world of todayand all the peoplewait too longmakes them hate too muchfoolishness fills this empty spacemisgiving...
- Day Of Your Beliefs
I can hear your yearningsyour anguished crieslet the nourishment pass you byas it leaves you withoutwithout a traceit leaves you without the scarsit's a day of the ruinsthe time of your reliefit's a day of the...
- Higher Ground
I climb to the higher groundto see what's behind the sunstep on the hands made out of claythe hands of stained mortalsall there is and all you'll havebless the one who cannot crythere is no nightthere is no...
- Evil Inside
Kiss the devil's marklike a self-denial without temptationshe suffers from shameprodigious perversionsit's her final dimensionfeel affection for her longingslamentation for no reason whydeep mistrust over matterseduce...
- Ethereal Solitude
Blackness falls on empty calmnessthe night is fullI kissed the frozen sweetnessthe mist around my griefdon't let the past wear you downlet go of the life that haunts you tonightdon't let the silence take the...
- Mourning Soil
Feel the groundthe mourning soilclose your eyes and layconfront the passage of timeeternity which you cannot betraybarter away this hazinessdown to earth this sparkling distressthereafter you calling me hallowedbarter...
- Far From The Sun
Nothing is more than too muchI'm waiting for the tarnishing touchyou wish for the last kiss goodbyelike the child that cannot lieI walkaway now from youand your sunit goes down from youas I walkaway now from youand...
- God Of Deception
The god of deceptiona man with your facesee him still wonderingsearching for your graveneedles called lusterit's only a one night standand you are six feet underdead by your own handas you lost your...
- Goddess (Of The Sad Man)
Astonishment when I bend over you creep Put a noose around my neck Which side I deside it's my time to reap It's your side wicked and deaf Take me to the place I can sleep Wipe away all misery Turn my path away From...
- Grieve Stricken Heart
Your helping hand is killing me If you see me suffer it's not your victory Sadistic forms of new way discipline Like I love myself I love to sin [pre-chorus:]And I want more And I want it low Of course you wont...
- The Night Is Over
We craved the light from the darkness It's a morning of misfortune The dawn of a mankind Listen to me instead of a blind folk's speak Forget the mature plan We are but humans you'll see [chorus:]I can hear the silence...
- Shatters Within
Once I was there Standing outside Looking in Beside my window Smiling face, shattering It's an old man's pride That climbs over understanding It wasn't your child That I was hurting [pre-chorus:]And I turn my back to...
- Alone
AloneTear dimmed rememberance In a womb of timeBreath upon mePossessed by the passionFate will set you freeInfertileChased be the precious When flesh is an enemyFair weather man [pre-chorus:]step aside from the way of...
- Captured State
So many years I've been fading And closed the doors behind Pay that price if you lost it all The end is not the past recall [pre-chorus:]Waiting for the enclosening darkness And there you will be the light As it's...
- Veil Of Sin
For the cold pale women I leave some of my goodness I leave the veil of sin And let go my dreams [pre-chorus:]Eternity follows me everywhere Your words so hollow won't go anywhere Distant shadows disappears It...
- Crimson Wave
She's riding on a crimson wave Truth sat on her shoulder Planets before melting face The keys for the wounded Sinking into underground Please the one who wants it Something is pulling you down It's not the cravings...
- Drifting Memories
How does it feel Blessed to receive Be modest and forgiving How does it feel You can try to hate me But you're only hurting yourself [chorus:]Drifting in your shady memories Where to go when sorrow breeds Let the fear...
- Forever More
I walk down to the seashore To bury my hate I wait till the morning of the mourning But it's too late Down to the seashore Through the illuminous gate You wait for tomorrow but today is today No one can understand my...
- House Of Sleep
I will never sleep alone, never without youWhatever you say to me, I already knowIf I said something to you, you would take those words....There's so much power in those words You don't know, you don't know nothing...
- Stonewoman
You have a woman here, one made of stoneYou made her for yourselfYou piled her up, made a stone faceStone fingers and eyesThere's no room beside her for another womanA live and breathing oneIt makes me sad to see you...
- Shining Turns To Grey
Shining Turns To GreyShow me the way I am your next turnDamage done, it's time to burnCrying eyes I can't still seeThrough up in loudYou want to be:It's too lateThe end of the prayThis shining turns grey - too...
- Follow Me Into Fire
Follow Me Into The FireWith every step I cast damnationNo will to live the prose of existenceThis fleeting molder 't walk of faderRe-stream dead senses unlive is pastFollow me into fireReveal the soul ablazeSwallow me...
- Shining
My soul is bleedingI feel so smallAfraid that this will never endI can't understand the pain in my bonesI sleep through another tranceClimb over the rainbowFrom here you can see so muchI need someone to take me...
- The Way
Forging the future from the timeless stoneOh let me know how far I can goAnswering the questions thet no one ever asksFloat through the sea of madnessAnd face the everlasting taskSo lonely to wanderSo sad to be...
- Nightfall
As a rot to ***the spring sown seedA plague sprang forth of his tracksChurns ran red when cows milked bloodAnd famine cracked poor backsWho would hear a lament sadUnder the bright blue skyThat's sung in hovels dark...
- Morning Star
You live only for yourselfOr send your soul to the heaven's graceBeen weak as the autumn leavesOr strong as the growing seedSwallowed into the blackSearch for entrace[Chorus:]Wathc to the eyes of morning starBeckon...
- Withered
Withered be the flowerLong past it's prime and bloomForgotten on the stony bedThis silent hillside tombFor coppered be the gripOf this wooded landA crude cold gauntletHides the boney handTears once warmed the...
- Rusty Moon
Bahted in the rust of moonIs the death beds lullabySung so softly with the starsReflected in her eyes[Chorus:]It's the blaze that beckons menInto the woods, of beaten pathIs the sight of the fire thatNo maiden's eyes...
- Divinity
Last day brings the graceFor bearers of forbidden nameStep into five fold maceAs son as father in a frame[Chorus:]Someday fire wipes the rainFears are frozen tears whisperThings that no one herasCry now, cry now for...
- Summer's End
In the morning mist by the waning moonthrough the woods she set on footWith a sacred blade cut the berries downDug up the dreaded mandrake root[Chorus:]Tread my path to summer's endThis bequest I leave you she saysYou...
- Tuonela
Sorrow is my breadAnd tears I drink as wineOblivion my happinessGround under teeth of timeFor cold be the stoneWhen frost ve devoured the landConsolation is no giftOf winter's icy hand[Chorus:]Upon a crust of snowI'll...
- Greed
Not thirsty am I for the bloodOf redeemer of thy greedMy hunger can't be satisfiedWith flesh of thy nazareneNo gilded streets of heaven's graceEntice me in thy speechNo holy mother doth condoneAll your pillage war and...
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