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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Black River Amorphis

Still searching for my way The right way to be Still pondering What I’ve done I’m still thinking what I’ve said Still finding from within And all that I know Is still not enough I’m being held

Towards And Against Amorphis

I have known the arcane lore On strange roads such visions met That I have no fear nor concern For hatred and obstacles of this world By stone-shoed wanderer I am taught My visions from fiery-eyed

The Smoke Amorphis

In my dream smoke followed me As on fire the whole world had been To the yard I walked in Up the frontstep and opened the door Cranes flew over to the North As I walked on dry And passed through a grove

Grieve Stricken Heart Amorphis

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

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

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

CRAIL'S MYSTERIES Amorphis

he shall be a man most brave and noble in thought Thou shall kneel for him, for every man shall humble in front of our lord I stood upon the sand of the sea and the great wind told me to carry on

Sign (Bonus Track) Amorphis

Far from here, a house forsaken On lands of yesterday The silence of the night has crept in As weeping of the women As thoughts of solitude As sadness and as grief In a dim deserted room A token

SONG OF THE TROUBLED ONE Amorphis

What the thrush toils at The partridge asks for The hapless one takes The troubled one steals Puts upon a spade Sets on a runner Hides under a door Shields with a bath-whisk The farmer hammers

LEVITATION Amorphis

In the darkness I will shine, cast no shadows, not define I walk on water, float on air, there's no other to compare I have this fascination, no cause for deviation It's called levitation There's

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

Goddess (Of The Sad Man) Amorphis

Astonishment when I bend over you creep Put a noose around my neck Which side I decide 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

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

Enigma Amorphis

On his trail the stones they grew He was lead astray Forces strange he had to face Magic unseen When he asked, he was not answered But he would not yield What he asked for was not given A shape

God Of Deception Amorphis

The god of deception a man with your face see him still wondering searching for your grave needles called luster it's only a one night stand and you are six feet under dead by your own hand

Greed Amorphis

blood Of redeemer of thy greed My hunger can't be satisfied With flesh of thy nazarene No gilded streets of heaven's grace Entice me in thy speech No holy mother doth condone All your pillage war and

THE BROTHER- SLAYER Amorphis

On the seashore, on the seashore mother, my darling one. And what have you been doing there my son, my merry son? I have been watering my horse mother, my darling one.

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 Tread my path to summer's end This bequest I leave

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

ELEGY RELIEF Amorphis

Long evenings full on longing Low-spirited my mornings Full of longing too my nights And all times the bitterest.

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 bequest

Weaving The Incantation Amorphis

A mind dejected, blood boiling with anger The storm of the warpath now sings in my heart Your pleadings useless, I now shall disregard I leave you to weep and to fear for me I’m ready for my end My

Alone Amorphis

pre-chorus:) step aside from the way of a better man than you so you fall at his feet he's the one who betrays you it's the servants devotion for the decay stand up (chorus:) there are no flowers on

CARES Amorphis

Many rocks the rapid has A lot of billows the sea More plentiful are my cares Then cones on a spruce Beard moss on a juniper Gnarls upon a pine bark Knobs upon a fir Husks on a grass-top Boughs

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.

MOON AND SUN Amorphis

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 is hero walking" He took one step and

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

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

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 through

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

FORGOTTEN SUNRISE Amorphis

Once I had a mind And thoughts was given But nowadays, in this evil age All my sense is somewhere else Once I had a soul I was one with my god But now I am abandoned Banished from these lies

BLACK WINTER DAY Amorphis

This is how the lucky feel How the blessed think Like daybreak in spring The sun on a spring morning But how do I feel In my gloomy depths?

Shaman Amorphis

Mother wept for her son She wept and sang Anxiously pondered fate His and her own A sun’s ray, in through the eye Glimmered in the room of mind Changing the woman shape Sorrow fled her face From

MISERY PATH Amorphis

We sail across the sea, In our thoughts we float over mountains All this vanity that we could hide The truth The truth is to be alive and to live your life in fear by hate and create our own gods

WARRIORS TRIAL Amorphis

As the sun falls down and the swell crashes 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

Her Alone Amorphis

Only one can make me do my good deeds Only one and the shadow of that one Only one can make me do my evil deeds Only one and the shadow of that one Her alone I will lend my ear to Only her I will

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

SIGH FROM THE NORTH SIDE Amorphis

prediction Distant gate, gothic grave Through ages our clan still remain In this proud land I grew up strong, My tears are flowing all around The wind is twisting my sorrow I still believe in truth and

FIRST DOOM Amorphis

The mountains of North Shall erupt and flames Of darkland will raise Hail to one who hails Blood for one who bleeds O you mistress of northland Queen of darkland I may wash my hands of the Evil

Shatters Within Amorphis

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

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

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

Divinity Amorphis

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 heras Cry now, cry now for me again Tomorrows pride and