Black River Amorphis

Shadow tormenting my soul The curving neck of the swan The slow turning of a bird’s head So white its plumes and feathers Its breast like the moon in water Silent and tranquil it moves On the river

The White Swan Amorphis

I set out on a longest road To seek the answers from Death I set out to the black sacred stream To seek out and shoot a white swan On desolate and stony paths From a mountain to a vale I reached

Greed Amorphis

streets of heaven's grace Entice me in thy speech No holy mother doth condone All your pillage war and greed But know thee that all oceans worth Of waters turned holy Won't change the course of river

Shaman Amorphis

lies, no falsehood or deception I send you plagues unnumbered Destruction upon your house I lay to waste your treasure I slay your fairest daughter The queen of north told of the way The road to river

BLACK EMBRACE Amorphis

Terror, when the darkness binds your limbs Terror, when the fear freezes your nerves Horror, when the pain climbs up your veins Darkness, creeping under you skin Moment of life, when we all have t...

Silent Waters Amorphis

My strength is not enough, my powers failed me I need the heavens’ help, I ask for thunder’s force I plead for you, oh lightning, forge an iron tool A magic rake for dragging a river for my son..my

BLACK WINTER DAY Amorphis

Like the flat brink of a cloud Like a dark night in autumn A black winter day No, darker than that Gloomier than an autumn night

MOON AND SUN Amorphis

us Where is the moon lost to us The moon will not gleam at all Nor will the sun shine at all Death opens its mouth The son of the Northlander Camo to look, to listen "There beyond the river

Morning Star Amorphis

You live only for yourself Or send your soul to the heaven's grace Been weak as the autumn leaves Or strong as the growing seed Swallowed into the black Search for entrace Chorus: Wathc to the

CARES Amorphis

Drag my cares away Carry off my griefs For no horse can draw No iron-shod jerk Without the shaft-bow shaking off The cares of this skinny one The sorrows of this black bird

Forever More Amorphis

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 run through Breath in black

Drifting Memories Amorphis

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 run through Breath in black

ELEGY RELIEF Amorphis

'Tis my lovely I long for It is my darling I miss My black-browed one I grieve for.

WARRIORS TRIAL Amorphis

into the shore The great warriors of doom and wind ride high Silent is the silence, the only breathing of horses sound, Cold northern steel, shining blade, pleases us And we all live under the black

Sign (Bonus Track) Amorphis

sap Dripping scarlet flow, so slow They know it to be an emblem of death A sign of destruction They recognize the end of a friend The agony of a man and son They look at the brush Remember the black

Grieve Stricken Heart Amorphis

chorus:) Grieve stricken heart Calls upon you Grieve stricken heart My only look you fools I love my misery too I'm the one to see your collapse I'm on the side of destruction On the side of black

A Servant Amorphis

What was denied from poor I thought to be riches I run for them there and then It made me take my due To death I’d plunge with joy My happiness to claim I am prepared to face the war Under the black

I Of Crimson Blood Amorphis

I am of crimson blood Nought shall hold me Mirror mine the dark of night Reflects me in water Ablaze are my eyes My soul consumed by woe My braids weaved by the wind An image, black in my mind

Weaving The Incantation Amorphis

for me I’m ready for my end My hair I comb down With resin into braids I’m ready to ascend My will burning high Summon strength from the night I equip myself, to warfare I prepare I put on my black

The Way Amorphis

Forging the future from the timeless stone Oh let me know how far I can go Answering the questions thet no one ever asks Float through the sea of madness And face the everlasting task So lonely to...

Smithereens Amorphis

I let you take this breeding sorrow you're too close to see as the pride inside of you is smashed to smithereens this fire hunts the soulless and the weak bursting out the madness in me and throug...

Tuonela Amorphis

Sorrow is my bread And tears I drink as wine Oblivion my happiness Ground under teeth of time For cold be the stone When frost ve devoured the land Consolation is no gift Of winter's icy hand Cho...

Shining Amorphis

My soul is bleeding I feel so small Afraid that this will never end I can't understand the pain in my bones I sleep through another trance Climb over the rainbow From here you can see so much I ne...

Divinity Amorphis

Last day brings the grace For bearers of forbidden name Step into five fold mace As son as father in a frame Chorus: Someday fire wipes the rain Fears are frozen tears whisper Things that no one h...

Higher Ground Amorphis

I climb to the higher ground to see what's behind the sun step on the hands made out of clay the hands of stained mortals all there is and all you'll have bless the one who cannot cry there is no ...

THE GATHERING Amorphis

As I sense their steel, As I see the mighty one, As we all gather once again the gods of war summon us... summon us North wind blows to our valley men with ships, with swords, with honour Their h...

Day Of Your Beliefs Amorphis

I can hear your yearnings your anguished cries let the nourishment pass you by as it leaves you without without a trace it leaves you without the scars it's a day of the ruins the time of your rel...

Veil Of Sin Amorphis

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...

KARELIA Amorphis

"The sound of thousand warriors The fields of thousand battles Still, in our hearts we can hear the great hymn of Karelia."

MAGIC AND MAYHEM Amorphis

Hey there, tiny wench My perpetual serf Put stew in a pot Bring water for the guest Before we part Before your neck is broken You strike first Son of the north

Planetary Misfortune Amorphis

I hear you hear your worthless speech unheard and sensational feeding my comprehension let me see beyond all additional show me something real something low and dramatical when all this sinful gli...

Nightfall Amorphis

As a rot to rape the spring sown seed A plague sprang forth of his tracks Churns ran red when cows milked blood And famine cracked poor backs Who would hear a lament sad Under the bright blue sky ...

Alone Amorphis

Tear dimmed rememberance In a womb of time Breath upon me Possessed by the passion Fate will set you free Infertile Chased be the precious When flesh is an enemy Fair weather man (pre-chorus:) ste...

THE CASTAWAY Amorphis

A bird flew out of Lapland An eagle from the North East One wing ruffled the water And the other swept the sky It's tail skimmed the sea It flutters, it glides It looks, it turns round "Why...

DROWNED MAID Amorphis

I went to wash at the shore I went to bathe in the sea And there I, a hen, was lost I, a bird Untimely died Let not my brother Ever in this world Water his war-horse Upon the seashore! Waters of ...

Mourning Soil Amorphis

Feel the ground the mourning soil close your eyes and lay confront the passage of time eternity which you cannot betray barter away this haziness down to earth this sparkling distress thereafter ...

WEEPER ON THE SHORE Amorphis

In the vale where I once listened out for the light Where the little birds warble The ptarmigans babble And my heart looked for some rest from its trouble I cast my eyes downward upon the seaside ...

Withered Amorphis

Withered be the flower Long past it's prime and bloom Forgotten on the stony bed This silent hillside tomb For coppered be the grip Of this wooded land A crude cold gauntlet Hides the boney hand T...

Ethereal Solitude Amorphis

Blackness falls on empty calmness the night is full I kissed the frozen sweetness the mist around my grief don't let the past wear you down let go of the life that haunts you tonight don't let the...

Crimson Wave Amorphis

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...

MOON AND SUN PART 2 Amorphis

Go, look at the moon And inspect the sun! Now they are in the sky Right in their old places Hail, moon, for gleeming Fair one for showing your face Dear sun for dawning And daylight for coming up!...

Summer's End Amorphis

In the morning mist by the waning moon through the woods she set on foot With a sacred blade cut the berries down Dug up the dreaded mandrake root Chorus: Tread my path to summer's end This beques...

IN THE BEGINNING Amorphis

I have a good mind Take into my head To start of singing Began reciting We seldom get together And meet each other On these poor borders The luckless lands of the north Those words we have got Fr...

Shatters Within Amorphis

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:) ...

TO FATHERS CABIN Amorphis

O old man, good god Careful man of heaven Keeper of storm clouds Make misty weather And create a tiny cloud In whose shelter I may go

Far From The Sun Amorphis

Nothing is more than too much I'm waiting for the tarnishing touch you wish for the last kiss goodbye like the child that cannot lie I walk away now from you and your sun it goes down from you as ...

AGAINST WIDOWS Amorphis

Death another's leftovers Better to lie on a willows Rest on alder boughs Then upon a widow's bed On a used woman's pillow Sweeter the side of a fence Then a widow's flank Softer the side of a gro...

Killing Goodness Amorphis

There's no existing misery that just fades away faint hearted mindless tracks through the wicked world the world of today and all the people wait too long makes them hate too much foolishness fill...

THE ORPHAN Amorphis

The calloo's spirits are low Swimming on the chill water But the orphan's are lower Walking down the village street. The sparrow's belly is chill Sitting on the icy bough But my belly is more chil...

ON RICH AND POOR Amorphis

Old folk remember And those today learn How before their time Life was different here: Without the sun people lived Groped about without the moon With candles sowing was done Planting performed wi...