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In Mourning - Afterglow lyrics



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01. Fire And Ocean

Music by Tobias Netzell, In Mourning
Lyrics by Pierre Stam, Björn Pettersson
The sun is falling down,
Light of heaven has declined,
Downward falling, ending this day
In vast smoke and blazing fire.
The surface trembling
With fear of what’s to come.
Chaos spreads the water,
In hunger the deep ocean roars.

Ingesting the sun,
Darkness feasts on the daylight.
Clouds of smoke
Is discovering the earth and waves.
A spiral from the darkened flame.

The sun keeps falling,
Swallowed by the sea,
Rushing through the water.
Sinking ever deeper,
Diluted flame of the skies
Shattering the ocean floor.
The passage to the core.

Fire and ocean,
Earth and sky collides.
Fire clashes with water,
Leaving the canopy
Without its brightest light.
Fire and ocean,
Earth and sky collides
Fire clashes with water,
Leaving the canopy
Without its brightest light

Extinct star penetrates the ground,
Crushing towards the center of the earth.
The flickered out fire of hope devoured
By the darkness of the underworld.

Fire and ocean,
Earth and sky collides
Fire clashes with water,
Leaving the canopy
Without its brightest light
Fire and ocean,
Earth and sky collides
Fire clashes with water,
Leaving the canopy
Without its brightest light

02. The Grinning Mist

Music by Tobias Netzell, In Mourning
Lyrics by Pierre Stam, Björn Pettersson
No light can survive forever.
The absent sun left a hole in the sky,
Clutching to the hungering waves.
Empty the throne of the father star,
Empty and vast is the sky.
Dragged to the sea by the great below,
Leaving the world to eternal night.

No flame burns forever,
No glory lasts.
Under siege by the night,
And so the day falls defeated.

The fire that burn has faded,
Faded away from the sky.
Eternal shadows drown the land,
The moon new ruler of the day.
Vast and still is the ocean,
Great devourer of the above.

The king of stars is dead,
Struck by the dagger of night.
A grinning mist rules the surface,
The father of stars has fallen.
No one has traveled this far,
An emptiness with no horizon.
The king has fallen.

Struck by the dagger of the cold night
The father of stars has fallen
A grinning mist rules the surface
The one king of stars is dead

No flame burns forever
No glory lasts
Under siege by the night
(Under siege by the night)
And so the day falls defeated

The king of stars is dead,
Struck by the dagger of night
A grinning mist rules the surface,
The father of stars has fallen
No one has traveled this far,
An emptiness with no horizon
(The king!) The king has fallen

03. Ashen Crown

Music by Tobias Netzell, In Mourning
Lyrics by Pierre Stam, Björn Pettersson
Faded body of stone,
Cracking shell of the earth.
Fallen giant of sky,
Entering a realm of ancient fire.
The sleeping ashes of old,
Awakened by the fallen sky.
Rising from rest,
The ritual flame,
Reviving the sun – reviving the sun with new power.

The howling fires will burn
Through the heart of stone.
A new king will rise
Through the ash and soot.

Dancing ritual flames,
Calling the sun, calling the sun back to life.
A new dawn will come,
Let the new star rise,
With the unclean fire.
To reclaim the throne of the skies.
Ashen crown.

Let the new star rise
To reclaim the throne
Coronated again
With the ashen crown.
Let his heart forever burn (let his heart)
Let his heart forever burn...

Forever a burning heart,
Flame of eternal pyre.
Fallen giant of the sky,
Set to reach the surface.

Let the new star rise
To reclaim the throne of the skies
Coronated again
With the ashen crown of timeless
Let his heart forever burn
Never shall rest

04. Below Rise To The Above

Music by Tobias Netzell, In Mourning
Lyrics by Pierre Stam, Björn Pettersson
A tower of flames and fire carries the newborn sun
Above was once his home,
From below now rises to the heavenly throne

A tower of fire and flame carries the newborn sun
Above was once his home, from below now rises to the throne
Lost the path so long ago, left the past into hiding
The new light is cold and casting shadows that linger

Red light gushes over land and sea,
Opening a floodgate of iniquity
To reconquer this fading earth,
The below rises to the above

Creeping upon us all, feasting on the sanity of man
The insurrectionary ascending the canopy
A new domain, bedarkened by the emperor.
The emperor, the emperor, the emperor
Below rise to the above

Creeping upon us all, feasting on the sanity of man
The insurrectionary ascending the canopy
A new domain
All bow down!
Bedarkened by the emperor
Bedarkened by the emperor
All bow down!
For this is a new age
The fire of death is among us now

05. The Lighthouse Keeper

Music by Tobias Netzell, In Mourning
Lyrics by Pierre Stam, Björn Pettersson
The journey became so much more than the inside
Forced upon a task that was the endless battle

The colossal landscapes spreads before his feet
To withhold the reverence, watcher of the waves
After dwelling in hesternal darkened shadows
Renewed by strength from the ancient realm of stars

The weight of oceans was lifted from him
He was the guardian of the sea
The weight of oceans was lifted from him
A demission to the specter within (within)

Brick by brick building a fortress on the rocks of the new shore
Stone by stone with the strength of the old ones
The coral legions new hands became creators of the last outpost
(To the land of oceans) with a flame from the stars
The keeper brought light to the darkened sea

For the brother once among the stars (the stars)
For carrying (carrying) the weight of oceans

The colossal landscapes spreads before his feet
To withhold the reverence, watcher of the waves
After dwelling in hesternal darkened shadows
Renewed by strength from the ancient realm of stars

For the earth (for the earth) and the sky to see
For a faithful brother once among the stars (the stars)
For carrying (carrying) the weight of oceans

For the earth (for the earth) and the stars to see (the stars)

06. The Call To Orion

Music by Tobias Netzell, In Mourning
Lyrics by Pierre Stam, Björn Pettersson
Let him with clear eyes see what has become of the world
With his feet on a burning shore, gazing again to the horizon

Never setting sun,
New ruler embodied in an ancient king (embodied in an ancient)
Transforming sky and ocean to eternal fire (to eternal fire)

A new sun – of ancient flame
A new age – in ancient fire

Let the voices of the ancient ones echo again (echo again, echo again)
Gather again sons of the sky, the summoning is upon us

Call out to the burning ones
Lead by the guider of stars
Let the lighthouse burn (let the lighthouse burn)
With the fires of hope
Starguider descend, descend again for the final clash
May fire dance with fire
In one last destructive battle

A new sun – of ancient flame
A new age – in ancient fire

Let the voices of the ancient ones echo again
Gather again sons of the sky, the summoning is upon us

Cut your strings and fall down from the dark
The sleeping hunter rises in the falling hour

Never setting sun,
New ruler embodied in an ancient king (embodied in an ancient)
Transforming sky and ocean to eternal fire (to eternal fire)

Call out to the burning ones
Lead by the guider of stars (lead by the guider of stars)
Let the lighthouse burn (let the lighthouse burn)
With the fires of hope (with the fires of hope)
Starguider descend, descend again for the final clash
May fire dance with (may fire dance with fire)
In one last destructive battle

07. Afterglow

Music by Tobias Netzell, In Mourning
Lyrics by Pierre Stam, Björn Pettersson
The incarnation of Hades.
Sailing a crimson river.
Governing the newborn earth.

Behold the tormentor’s creation.
Sculptures of ember
In the afterglow gallery.
In the midst of perdition
Lies the voyagers' path.

With the aid of the shadows
In hiding, the legion withdraws
A barren fate
In the hands of the keeper

Behold the tormentor's creation
Sculptures of ember
In the afterglow gallery
In the midst of perdition
Lies the voyagers' path