Track #7 of our debut album "Skydancer" (1993). Support the band directly - buy from darktranquillity.bandcamp.com OFFICIAL SITES: www.darktranquillity.com / dtofficial / dtofficial MERCH: darkt.merchlandshop.com
Most possibly the best melodic death metal band ever existed. Dark Tranquillity are the pioneers on this genre either we like it or not! Amazing musicians and excellent composers....Not to mention the absolutely poetic lyrics....Just total RESPECT!
[lyrics: Sundin] \Voice of the Shadow of Beauty\ - sung by Anders Fridèn /Voice of the Shadow of Darkness/ - sung by Mikael Stanne \shadows play in my wilderness' mindscape they seek\ /one spiteful and wicked one humble and meek/ \a windswept pale landscape of edified thought\ /two frictional forces a triad have brought/ \woven\ /a soft breeze whispers slowly/ \within me\ /in the valley of my mind/ \the aerial mists sink falling\ /and its breath both foul and holy is like the deer to a dying hind/ \slowly traversing the atmosphere calling\ /wordless, yet in soul so true/ ameless, yet it lives in you\ /shapeless like the purity of pain/ \lawful when all fear is slain\ -one shadow of beauty caressing the flowers the paleness of winter reflects in her eyes- \deity of stardom\ /enticer of stardoom/ \so soft and so silent\ /maternal - eternal/ \serenity fades\ /blinded by visions of sunlight nocturnal/ \with the darkening of skies\ /one shadow of darkness a shade of deep hate a wanderer's spectre with fury ablaze in sheets of sharp silver laid youthful to die reborn into vengeance dark flames dance in grace dark flames dance in grace in the grace of storms/ \one shadow of beauty\ /one shadow of darkness/ \sailing free on the sea within my mind\ \surging dark oceans perpetual waters creator of life and reclaimer of souls\ /mother ocean/ \watching the deep fjords uneasily moving\ /whipping the white waves towards the cold air/ ising like swans in a scarred, sudden motion\ /a cascade of lost feathers adrift on the sea/ \hark\ /a serenade in the tongue of the wind/ \the sighs of the centuries, so sonorous in the bower hovering further athwart a leafy cover\ /a shelter for those whose time's wind make them wither and therefore they choose to guide this time-wind hither alas, in tune with the tide of time i was, but I'm not nor I'll be with its pride yes, aeons have flown but more is to come for I know time/ \but time is not eternal, their life stars not immortal\ /a friend that I greet with open arms/ \setting souls can never\ /a brother soul of deadly harm/ \pass through the pearly portal\ o bliss be given\ /and joy/ or joy\ /flowing down the gates of hell fire/ \i cry for you...\ /don't spill your tears for me but for your kit and kin/ \my scions of light?\ /deprived of the lust and the treasure of pleasure which is the fuel for life and glory/ \silent your dark desires within entirety's light\ -solitude sanctity sanctuary sanctum, sanctum, sanctum (tranquility) \hear me /you who hold the fate of stars in hand before creation's eye I stand my soul set free/ in summerland\ \mighty the strand of the universe\ /a chaos void tomb of dead worlds/ \hark\ /what?/ \divinity flows in your heart cast it alight, the seed of all art slowly reborn from a sunless state of mind\ /silent, you fool/ \a cradle of roses embedded in stillness and shade\ /silent, you fool thine words are untrue remember Endymion's crestfallen tears serene art the gods, yet pain is their way he touched by the heavens his hellfire nears a silent divinity, now see your body of air/ \free now your heavenly body of air\ \come bathe in the rays of the all-seeing one holding the fate of all life in both hands breathing life-force like gold made from sand\ /my winged steed of moonlight black stallion of thunder we rode above the greenish earth and tore the green asunder/ \but what you left bleeding destroyed a soulforsaken world and your deeds of sharp silver decoyed a mindforsaken herd\ \a duet of shadows\ a duet of shadows \a duet of thoughts\ a duet of thoughts \of beings we feed with the dust of our thoughts residing within us the two-fold wheel of life of insight created: a triad of jewels\ a thin leaf of the life-tree's truth
@@tokeypokey Saw them last year. He actually did much better in the older songs than in the new ones. So I'm sad to say that he actually just doesn't want to
Old school melodeath are almost close to none these days. I miss those days where it was purely death metal with more melody. Instead we get boring melodic music with growls in our present time.
In Flames and Dark Tranquility are shells of their former selves, but other than that, old school melodeath bands are still dope. Also, to add on to what Love Metal said, Wintersun, in my opinion, is the BEST band out today.
Lo! Ve. Friends, it seems that I find myself inextricably cleft between a shadow of beauty and a shadow of darkness. Two serenades interlaced and intertwined in fevered phantasm. One for the night, One for the uncontroll. Wherein lies balance? No! Where? The inner light and its twisted reflection. Eye find no beauty lies When staring through smuged lenses. Logic! Chaos! Logic! Yet with one thought - Merging the mundane and the magic- The entire construct of sorrow's architect May be left in the slience in between - what only you know - By our state of trust In the tranquillity that lie Beyond enlightenment. Hark! Now is the time For our vernal awakening. All sought in mine faeryland forgotten - Alone in mind - Is borne of chaos and eternal night. Skywards! Bearen of crimson winds To where fires cannot feed Surface the infinite And realize "I am " out of gravity Find life unfurled by dawn. The misery in me Fueled by perpetual ego drama Encaged in still moving sinews Leave the Gallery of Yesterworld With ye I plea It's all the same None of this was ever built to last. The emptiness from which I fed When nightfell on the shores of time Lost midway through infinity The momentary bliss Is my friend of misery The bringer of torture I, deception So Away! Delight! Away! Endtime hearts Are but apathetic To the static of the darkness outside. When the world screams at the clearing of skies- haunted by oblivion dreams- yield not to the lies of the Enemy My dear friends Undo control.
