Pain of Salvation is a Swedish Sweden progressive metal band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the lyricist, chief composer, guitarist, and lead vocalist. Their sound is characterised by powerful, accentuated guitar work, broad vocal range, abrupt switching between heavy and calm passages, intense syncopation, and polyrhythmic experimentation. Another trademark of the band is that each album is a concept album. Some of the topics... [read more] - Dea Pecuniae
I. Mr. MoneyMiss Mediocraty:Hey there sweetie. Don't I know you? I swear I recognize your face... and those beautiful eyes... You know, they say the eyes are the doorway to ones soul... There's a smile. A little...
- Martius / Nauticus II
MartiusI'm at the line - I see it allI am Nauticus nowAnd so much moreI am all you knowI'm at the line - just at the lineAn eternity at the blink of an eyeIn this place called timeI'm everythingEverywhereI am...
- Deus Nova
10.000 DC 1 million people9.500 DC 2 million people9.000 DC 3 million people8.500 DC 4 million people5.000 DC - 5 million people4.500 DC - 6 million people4.000 DC 7 million people3.500 DC 10 million...
- Animae Partus (I Am)
I AmI AmI AmI was not then I came to beI cannot remember not beingBut I may have traveled far, very far, to get hereMaybe I was formed in this silent darknessFrom this silent darkness, by this silent darknessTo become...
- Latericius Valete
2,060 AD: 1.2 Million people...
- Diffidentia (Breaching The Core)
Imago:(I will never submit to all the things you've said god!)No!We're breaching the core - we're breaching the coreWe're breaching the core - we're breaching...To taste itTo touch itCut my handTo crave itEnslave...
- Nihil Morari
"see me" "hear me" "need me" some things will never change "touch me" "heal me" mankind remains the same oceans forests nations now everything bears our name while earth is bleeding nothing will remain nothing...
- Omni
I see us in you NauticusCame so late but I prayAt the last light of dayThere might still be a chanceTo save this beast of clayI see us in you NauticusAs you're drifting alongBuilt to lastYoung and strongWill you find...
- Nauticus (Drifting)
Oh LordOh LordWon't you hear a sinner's prayerOh LordOh LordOh LordWon't you help me find the wayWhen I'm lost and lead astrayOh LordMmm
Oh LordOh LordWon't you help me to stay humbleOh LordOh LordOh LordWon't you...
- Iter Impius
Mr. Money:I woke up todayExpecting to find all that I soughtAnd climb the mountains of the life I boughtFinally I'm at the top of every hierarchyUnfortunately there is no one leftBut meI woke up todayTo a world that's...
- Lilium Cruentus (Deus Nova)
On the Loss of InnocenceMusic, lyric and arrangements by Daniel GildenlöwA Scene in Brown and Yellow:At first I don't know why your presence fills me with uneaseThough I've missed you more than Life itselfI...
- Imago (Homines Partus)
Spring came with awakening, came with innocence and joy.Spring came with fascination and desire to deploy.Summer came with restlessness and curiosity.Summer came with longing for the things we could not be.Take me to...
- Falling
OnceI had a mountain of my ownWith moss and walls and magicAnd a mighty viewA forest of my ownListening to meShowing me its secret paths and trailsGreen with depths and sleeping sunrisesThorns that never cutMy feet...
- Morning On Earth
For as long as I can remember I have wanted toSilence every beating heart; every sound of breathingNow there is something inside of me that aches as I hear youBreathing here when you sleep between these morning...
- Ashes
You claim I don't know you, but I know you wellI read in those ash eyes we've been through hellI've walked with the weakest just to feel strongYou've given your body just to belongLet's burn togetherLet's burn...
- Used
"I am the uncleanThe black drop at the bottom of your cupYou'd better drink or throw me up'Cause I am on your lip and tongueGodI'm not yours as much as you are mineSo let me in to be your lungJust breathe me deep and...
- The Perfect Element
Yesterday found him todayCaught him at his last breathThese walls built to stand come-what-mayLie shattered in the ashesHis skin against this dirty floorEyes fixed on the ceilingHe has stretched those chains of sinFar...
- In The Flesh
She walks these empty streets aloneLooking for something they call "home"Hoping to find some peace of mindSometimes we need to walk aloneShe is set on running awayThough her mom was yelling she must stayA wind beaten...
- Reconciliation
I thought I'd seen hellThought I knew it allNow I know too wellHell is to wake upBut it makes all the differenceTasting the tears in my mouthTaking the weight on my shouldersThe hours and days of your lifeDon't...
- Idioglossia
It all comes back to meFace to the floorHeart in my mouthMy forehead hits the pavementAgain - numb - againSharing this humilityA circle of humanityMomentarily black in meImmomentarily blackSo blackMemory leave me...
- Dedication
I watched you dieThough you had always been thereSince I first came into this worldOutside people smileI ask - why this deep blue sky?When you have left this world todayDoes it not know when to weep?All my life I've...
- King Of Loss
Mother, at my first breathEvery paragraph was setAs I inhaled the scent of debtMother, that first stolen airOn papers saying I'm not mine"We crown you, the King of Loss...Better get on your feetBest be one of usBetter...
- Her Voices
Looking at you I see her faceThrough all these years, just waitingIt all catches up to you when you slow downI'm back in that yard, tasting that shameOf pushing her down, Of kids and her games...their strongholdsWe...
- Song For The Innocent
This world is what we can giveScarred from the way we livedAll those dreams we shared for youHow I wish they could come trueWe dreamed of a world in peaceBut killed for a life of easeNow we leave the wounds for...
- Second Love
Day after dayNothing's changed you're far awayBut I need you to know that I can't sleep anymoreBy the nightsNight after nightThe stars are shining so brightThough our pain is larger than the universe tonightI want you...
- This Heart Of Mine
I lie awake watching your shouldersMove so softly as you breatheWith every breathe you're growing olderBut that is fine if you're with meI pledge to wake you with a smileI pledge to hold you when you cryI pledge to...
- A Trace Of Blood
Touching ground Going home to those I missSafe and sound Weeks of exile turn to blissBut there's something in her voice When she is calling meA trace of blood to lead meThrough roads of agony With blood taste in my...
- Undertow
Let me goLet me goLet me seek the answer that I need to knowLet me find a wayLet me walk awayThrough the UndertowPlease let me goLet me flyLet me flyLet me rise against that blood-red velvet skyLet me chase it...
- Chain Sling
"Please let me be yours please never leavePlease stay here close to meAll love we shared where is it now?Please let me be better than I wasPlease don't give up on usThe thought of leaving you - I don't know how""I can...
- Thorne Clowns
[japanese bonus]I dream my dreams at night - my life's a cartoon of black and whiteI'm sick of this paint on my face!I'm always the one to make the show - a laughing clown, wings black as a crowI carry this large mind...
- Ending Theme
And so I find myself here once again - first step down Remedy LaneBudapest you tore my world apart - well, here I amWorn with rope ends on my mind, torn with blood scarred in my eyesBut now I'm back to shake that from...
- Rope Ends
She is still young...Another day of emptinessThis life is wearing her downThe room around her is a messHer children safe with her momShe is still young but feeling oldTwo children with different fathersShe sits on the...
- Beyond The Pale
And *** was always there from when I was only eight years - tempting me leave thirstySweat, skin, a PULSE divine to balance this restless MIND - it seemed so wonderfully physicalOh the BLOOD, the lust, the bodies that...
- Of Two Beginnings
She is twelve I'm only tenburied in this soft mountain of pillowsParents awayShe asks me have I been touchedHave I done the thing with anyone yetSilence - a shy noAnd there is nothingThat we'd rather shareThan that...
- This Heart Of Mine (I Pledge)
I lie awake watching your shouldersMove so softly as you breatheWith every breathe you're growing olderBut that is fine if you're with meI pledge to wake you with a smileI pledge to hold you when you cryI pledge to...
- Fandango
Watch them dance...She is intimacy - a wonder of closenessFighting hypocrisy - a lonely child thatNever could believe, yet never give upOn life's insanityUnderstanding is all, she fails to find itShe can never fallAll...
- Waking Every God
Ticking... Ticking... Wishing... wishing...Standing here in Buda trying to explainTo myself and to the girl besideWhy I feel so weightless and free from all my painTelling yourself that you're here insideFor the wind...
- Home
'The white man, he comes and goes. He can go. ...But that's our homeland forthousands of years. That's our home, and we will never leave. No matter howcontaminated it gets. We live there! We have always lived there...
- Beyond The Mirror
Through a dusty window I watch the clouds draw nearA lovely vision of my doomThe sunlight's fading - reflections start to dimThrough the dusty window in this roomI'm walking through my memories as I'm staring through...
- Inside Out
'30 years ago, society believed that no price was to high, we thought thatindustry could come at any cost. We cannot afford to pay that price anymore.'So finally my journey endsAnd through this wound my soul can...
- Black Hills
'They tell all the people of Europe, it's a good, clean industry, it's agreat way to save the world. But I'm here to tell you that now they'reknocking on our door because they can't find any place to store the...
- Timeweaver's Tale
The Timeweaver's abode is deep under groundAs interweaving history he us createsHe weaves in eternity not to be foundThe Elder's legend that braids our fatesHoary and hollow-eyed, older than sunAbiding his destiny to...
- Handfull Of Nothing
'In time of war the first casualty is truth.' 'What broke in a man when hecould bring himself to kill another?'We've seen it before but safe on our suburb screensNow I am here in the fleshA witness of war in this...
- New Years Eve
'Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly.'So once againAnother New Year's Eve will ease our painFaith for the fewAnd rites that will make us so braveSo newWe laugh and we cheer for a Happy New...
- The Big Machine
'...and he actually held up the weapon before our eyes, and there, dressedin a suit and tie, he smiled and told us with pride in his voice that "thismodel was largely represented in the Gulf war!".He was so very...
- Pilgrims
'In fire, we can see our past and our coming. For, as with us and our time,these flames are solely born through the complete and utterly consumptionof its surroundings. By which, the fire itself is also condemned to...
- Shore Serenity
Karachay: This lake in Kyshtym has swallowed nuclear waste for almost fiftyyears now. Radiation was earlier so high that one hour at the shore of thislake would cause death in just a few weeks. Karachay, the entire...
- Inside
'What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God andhumanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered,and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to theAxis...
- Spirit Of The Land
[Music: D.Gildenlow]Sit for a while, why rush?The beauty is all around.The red sky of the morning,the different colours of the landscape,the freshness of the breeze.So sit for a while and restwith the spirit of the...
- Water
Ground water moves very slowly. While water at surface can be measured inmeters per second, the ground water will more likely be measured in metersper year! Contamination of the ground water causes severe damage for a...
- Nightmist
Cold winter winds blow away autumn leaves now. Misty world fades away before my blinded eyes - WHY? Now when I stand at the end of the line, I cling to life when I shoulddecline. I always thought I would welcome this...
- Leaving Enttropia
walk with me and see the world I see it is our home it's where we all belong life is flair a brittle dress we wear a fleeting sigh but though pointless it may seem...live as death were but a dream you don't have to...
- Circles
...now he's counting time in beggings and bottles fading away beneath oldnews so he's lost some faith, but still there are fire deep inside that hemust drench to numb ...deep inside, that he must drench to numb...
- People Passing By
[Daybreak:]A September sun emerges through clouds, chasing across the sky. Thoughts are evoked behind detached eyes but people are just passing by:With smiles for protection. Unable to see behind the creature that he...
- Revival
An eye for an eye. A tear for a tear. A lie for a lie. The weak dress in hatred to hide their fear. We cling to symbols for our mind - hour by hour we're losing us.Defenceless for the weak to bind - second by second...
- Oblivion Ocean
Sleep is too quiet dreams are too painful truth is the bed of this ocean of lies. Sinking through layers of untouched oblivion soaking from spirits but still far too dry. Losing all barbed fences Lucid - no defenses...
- Stress
(watching corners and crossing watching all the red lights watching thestress watching beggars and bankers and rushing cars I'm drowning in thismess)Help me! Rescue me! Save me! Set me free! (watching all the stress)...
- Never Learn To Fly
When I was a little child, I once found a bird lying on the ground. It would not ever fly again. I held the bird up in my hands, I shed my tears over the lovely song thatnot longer could be heard. Never learn to fly....
- To The End
(Sorrow turned into hate. Anger became a thread, to climb with faith. Tasting the life she shed)"Time will heal" they told him - just if theyknew his pain. "Time kills!" he whispered. Not a word: they watched him...
- Winning A War
Once there was a world out on these fields, that was untouched. Grateful for its love we thanked the earth that gave so much. And oh, I loved it so! Once there was a pair of eyes, unbroken just like my heart....
- Plains Of Dawn
"I'm here now, by your side" Sheltered from the cold, a soldier guards a boy. Clocks are cutting as times pass by their pain (bringing release through the book on his knees) (keep trying, keep trying, keep dying...
- Foreword
WALK WITH ME! There are worlds to see! Listen to me now - You. Listen to me now - You. Do my words mean more to hear when I am standing here? On a stage like all your silly idols do! Open up your eyes - all. Let your...
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