Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery

DARK TRANQUILLITY

THE GALLERY (1995)

  1. Punish My Heaven
  2. Silence, And The Firmament Withdrew
  3. Edenspring
  4. The Dividing Line
  5. The Gallery
  6. The One Brooding Warning
  7. Midway Through Infinity
  8. Lethe
  9. The Emptiness From Which I Fed
10. Mine Is The Grandeur...
11. ...Of Melancholy Burning

DARK TRANQUILLITY

THE GALLERY

1. PUNISH MY HEAVEN

We are the outstretched fingers
That seize and hold the wind

The strangeness of awakening
In an oh so silent world
Breathlessly waiting
For the first proud beams of light
Because of the hours
The shadows never fall
My sky has forsaken me
My desperation grows

Bring me the light
In the fires that never ends
The dawn will never come
Punish my heaven

That's right

We have arrived
At the outermost crossroads
The charge of cosmos
At our atmospheric skies
Will cause our fall
Our downfall

If I had wings, would I be forgiving?
If I had horns
Would there be flames to shy my smile?

Hymns of loss are heard
From the masses in the streets
Praising the last of days
I punish

Bring me the light
In the fires that never end
The dawn will never come
Punish my heaven

The charge of cosmos
Charging us from unearthly distance
I challenge the universe
It's the choice between heaven and hell

My soul bears all the weight of mountains
As mankind weaves its silent end
Can there be no forgiveness?
I curse the heaven above me
As the light sinks through my outstretched fingers
Fading in my open arms

Make each tear in my bare hands
A lifetime in hell
On this last day of light
When our autumn leaves fell
And as heaven itself commands me
Out of its lair
I fear not
My face lined with darkness
I'll go!
I'll go!

2. SILENCE, AND THE FIRMAMENT WITHDREW

Make all the cold trees mourn
The branches frozen in sightless motion
Waving, reaching for the whipping rain

There was silence
And the firmament withdrew
Revealing all, shapelessly, swiftly

In carmine and crimson stood flaming the sky
The relics of myths that exploded and died

Dismantle the sun and stars in their rise
And rend from the skyline
The black in our eyes

The skyline so empty
All but one, non-existent

Words were not, nor gesture, thought or life
The skydancers laid slain and old
The firmament in perpetual withdrawal

Lux aeterna
Sing unto the world.

3. EDENSPRING

Time conceals itself in error
When all is turned to lie
Oh blissful rapture flee from me
The liquid light shares its grandeur
Spring of Eden shall never run dry
Creation holds its breath

Tomorrow is no friend of mine
Drench logic, drench judgement
Awake, every sense is new

For we know no tomorrow
And yesterday appears in fragmented reform

What now must burn
Shall with newfound strength emerge
Drift through my eyes
Bacchi gates bid me welcome

Drench logic, drench judgement

So drink, yes drink from the fountain everlasting
Drown

With these eyes the land can no longer deceive us

He cried into nothing with the voice of his soul
New logic brought upon the remains of his land
The land deceives
Bacchi gates bid me judgement

Drench logic, drench judgement
Awake, every sense is new

For we know no tomorrow
And yesterday appears in fragmented reform.

4. THE DIVIDING LINE

Strangelove
Dance the dividing line

Dance the dividing line

We shall burn, we shall burn the earth
We shall burn, we shall burn our lives

For the tallest tree shall battle most
The wind it leaves the week behind
The storm that you denied me
Shall force your world to fall
Your castles made to tremble
With foundations based upon a lie

The storm that you denied me
Sweep the undivided truth
His mind shall not of thoughts be tempted
Nor words can heal his bleeding scars

We must burn our minds

For the tallest tree shall battle most
The wind it leaves the week behind
The storm that you denied me
Shall force your world to fall
Your castles made to tremble

Colours collide with the world of his beliefs
Bring back the storm of distant years
Tumbling, trembling as there is no waking up
There is no dividing line as logic now fails

Stream upwards, rage against them all
Speak of words hidden in your song
Mere mortals strive for length in numbers
There's no dividing line

For the tallest tree shall battle most
The wind it leaves the week behind
The storm that you denied me
Shall force your world to fall
Your castles made to tremble
With foundations based upon a lie

As the writer defies the empty page
The empty mind its feed shall seek

Pass on to the frail and mindless
Now what sanity discards
The storm shall sweep the weak of heart
And tear your castles down
Crush the very foundations
On which your faith is based
Torn across the dividing line.

5. THE GALLERY

Come and dance through my vanity's halls
Welcome to my exhibition

Ornaments fall
The fate of my art, condemned
And the creative seed
That grows to the tune of the harvest song
Embody my lifelong passion
Intertwine with the structures of my art
Those empty frames staring at me

One lonely portrait covers the lovestarved canvas
In honour of the birthless rebellion within me

Every picture holds a tale
Every shade tells of a thousand words

The artistry of, of living chaos
Is pictured in the poets tears
Because everything burns
The final concept
Is all but a thought away

Be gone, you foul enchantress of decay!
My thoughts and words will come to right
In my chambers where chaos conveys
Kneel down to my desire

Deep in the vaults of my carnal agony
Emptiness! Orchestration through colours

The gallery

To never return to my guidance
Burning my art.

6. THE ONE BROODING WARNING

Devoid of life
Far from the strengthening force
From which it feeds
The unbroken silence swear allegiance to thee
Behold the answers that darkness sets free

Freedom beyond the enslavement

Never let loose upon the world
Can we forgive the enchanter
That dance beyond the skyline dark
The stains of fire, the one begotten ancestor
To one of far greater strength
Starvation divine

For he shall stand no taller than the flames
That is his feed
Let us not go gently
Into the endless winternight
We are but strangers
Acting on our fragmentary perception

Perception is the lie of the misled
Things are not what they appear
So swear by your deception

There shan't be fire, nor shall the flame
Quench the desire to reign
With fear of its dawning appears now in sight
The one brooding warning
Stands clearer than light

Devoid of life
Far from the strengthening force
From which it feeds
The unbroken silence swear allegiance to thee
Behold the answers that darkness sets free

Freedom beyond the enslavement
Never let loose upon the world
Can we forgive the enchanter
That dance beyond the skyline dark

There shan't be fire, nor shall the flame
Quench the desire to reign
With fear of its dawning appears now in sight
The one brooding warning
Stands clearer than light

For he shall stand no taller than the flames
That is his feed

Reach out for the light.

7. MIDWAY THROUGH INFINITY

Wings of fire burn the night
Slumbering eyes their great flares shall greet
Let the past cling on its futile self
And may the present rush for the future's glare

Grave to cradle
Cradle to grave
So infinity clash
Grave to cradle
Cradle to grave
In twofold matter

Two forces gone full circle
Never shall one of the other grow fond
Join me, the time is upon us
He spoke and in fury we flew

Far beyond the limits of time
Disown the borders of life itself
Crafted and moulded all in one form
Split up and scattered in the world that we own

Grow towards me
Beknight the strength of the symbiosis
Backwards striving
Counterparts with different eyes have observed
Of time unconditional
Of time unconditional

Grave to cradle
Cradle to grave
So infinity clash
Grave to cradle
Cradle to grave
In twofold matter

Tell of the days to come
Tomorrow remembered
Your yesterday, my future

Recollection of the day
Delusions cast where dead trees sway

The sabre that separates
Is the candle that burns both ends

Born from death you now confront me
Back to death with my life I take you
Die more with each movement of mine.

8. LETHE

Give me the drink of the fluid
That disintegrates
And lend me the sweet balm and blessing
Of forgetfulness, empty and strong
Lethe
Lethe

Hold me near, unravel the stars
As I speed through the heavens
And speed through the night
For you are my blade and my rope
Your are my
Your are my Lethe

Your are my own

In currents of cobalt
You storm through my heart
To sever, to puncture
Memories that burn
Let sweep through the arteries
In sharp stabs of pain
Your talonlike fingers to kill me again

In currents of cobalt
You storm through my heart
To sever, to puncture
The memories that burn
Let sweep through the arteries
In sharp stabs of pain
Your talonlike fingers to kill me again
Kill me again
Kill me again and again

Steal me, invade me and charge me again
Again and again and again
For I burn and I shudder
Burn with each movement of

So, cleansed through a floodlight
I appear, reforged and reborn
Caressed by the sweet balm and blessing
Of forgetfulness, empty and strong
Lethe

Hold me near, my one friend and guide
As I drown through your fingers
Drown through your love
For you are the life that I hate
You are my
You are my

Drag me down, in passionate sighs
With the ocean above me
And flames in my eyes
And grant me a life I can live
Without...

Take me away
Take me away

From the life that I hate.

9. THE EMPTINESS FROM WHICH I FED

Silence in shivering solitude
Obligations pressure for all to bear
All the pitiful answers, the innocent lies
Can mere words fill
The emptiness from which I fed?

The emptiness from which I fed?

Be gone, oh yielding evidence of greed
Safe now in the other shore
Behind the emptiness from which I fed

Can silence be shared?
If so, can the perception of silence
Fit into the frame which is represent
The unity for which we stand?
The confines representing a timeless sacrifice
No eye can of silence tell lie
No eye can of silence tell lie

Silence, yet the absence of sound
Does not feed me
The essence of beauty alone
Fall silent to lingering charms
Brought forth be the sun
Shed light on the emptiness

The emptiness from which I fed?
What can be extracted from nothing
What can be found within the emptiness

Be gone, oh yielding evidence of greed
Safe now on the other shore
Behind the emptiness from which I fed

Brought forth be the errors of our ways
As is denial so is contempt
Introspective to all but one
Tear apart the flames
No eye can of silence tell lie

How can I even begin
The battle where no one wins
From answers I now flee
I now flee
I now flee

Screaming out to no avail
Have I become what for so long I have dread
The missing pieces
Must now be replaced

What eyesight fails to grasp
Is the emptiness from which I fed
The emptiness.

10. MINE IS THE GRANDEUR...
Instrumental

11. ...OF MELANCHOLY BURNING

Jackal aches for pain beyond me
Bestiality beckons
The anger set free
For there is no pain greater than thine
For there is no gain but the fury inside

Desolated since derived
Torn screaming from the gaping wound

Always be cherished
The grandeur of melancholy
Outward reprisal
Swear by your throne

Fallen words shall grieve thee
The grandeur of melancholy

Frailty, thy name is weakness
Vengeance, thy name is pain
Storm through the still glowing night
Ember eyes beyond reason shall see
Beyond reason shall see

Flee from the safety of the sheltering sky
See all but logic, so vengeance shall be
Mine is the grandeur of melancholy
Oh burning
Oh burning

Charge into uncertainty's promised land

Always and never
Always and never, feel the nail

Cursed, cursed
Oh essence of the night, guide me
Cursed, cursed
Oh sweet revenge, heal me

Frailty, thy name is weakness
Vengeance, thy name is pain
The nail

The jackal aches for pain beyond me
The storm that now grabs me
Is the storm of my soul
For there is no pain greater than mine
For there is no gain but the fury inside

Once so bereaved
But never so suppressed
Charge and split up the anger
Wake up the jackal
Let out his wrath

Always and never
He spoke of his pain
Always and never
You are the nail
You're the nail

Always be cherished
The grandeur of melancholy
Always and never
You are the nail

You are the nail
You are the nail.

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