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AGALLOCH LYRICS
"Ashes Against the Grain" (2006)
1. Limbs
2. Falling Snow
3. This White Mountain on Which You Will Die
4. Fire Above, Ice Below
5. Not Unlike the Waves
6. Our Fortress Is Burning... I
7. Our Fortress Is Burning... II - Bloodbirds
8. Our Fortress Is Burning... III - The Grain
1. Limbs
The texture of the soul is a liquid that casts a vermillion flood
From a wound carved as an oath; it fills the river bank a sanguine fog
These arms were meant to be lost! Hacked, severed and forgotten
The texture of time is a whisper that echoes across the flood
It's hymn resonates from tree to tree, through every sullen bough it sings
These boughs were said to be lost! Torn, unearthed and broken
Earth to flesh, flesh to wood, cast these limbs into the water
Flesh to wood, wood to stone, cast this stone into the water...
2. Falling Snow
The water pours its embracing arms around the stone
Decay drips from the unquiet void where the ice forms, where life ends
The stone is by the crimson flood, swallowed
The red tide beyond the ebon wound, contorted
My sacrifice bids farewell in this river of memory... a wave to end all time
Red birds escape from my wounds and return as falling snow
To sweep the landscape; a wind haunted, wings without bodies
The snow, the bitter snowfall
You wish to die in her pale arms, crystalline, to become an ode to silence
In the soul of a mountain of birds, fallen
The cascading pallor of ghostless feather
The snow has fallen and raised this white mountain on which you will die
and fade away in silence
3. This White Mountain on Which You Will Die
4. Fire Above, Ice Below
The woeful silence and wind's reflection
Of your body's pale ode, an icy fortress of blood and ages
Sky fire above, ice below the hearth
Fall away from me to that citadel at the end of time
Where death sleeps and dreams of your buried pain
There has never been a silence like this before
There will never be an ode like this again
5. Not Unlike the Waves
Aurora swims in the ether
emerald fire scars the night sky
Amber streams from Sol
are not unlike the waves of the sea
Nor the endless horizon of ice
Aurora swims in the ether
emerald fire paints the twilight
Heidrun bleeds the golden nectar
for the raising sun and the moon
The midnight wolves who watch over the dawn
Solstafir!!!
6. Our Fortress Is Burning... I
7. Our Fortress Is Burning... II - Bloodbirds
The god of man is a failure
Our fortress is burning against the grain of the shattered sky
Charred birds escape from the ruins and return as cascading blood
Dying bloodbirds pooling, feeding the flood
The god of man is a failure
And all of our shadows are ashes against the grain
8. Our Fortress Is Burning... III - The Grain
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