Nightfall By The Shore Of Time Lyrics - Dark Tranquility

[lyrics: Sundin] 

A shimmertrace of divinity lost 

in the beckoning midnight vault 

(We are) lulled within the wake 

of a cold November's nightfall 

Nightfall... 

A communion of life and eternity, 

of Races scattered in the depths 

of the universal dark 

Above us minds went sailing free 

and blossomed in the vast nocturnal sea 

Paragon of beauty, 

Oh, spark of Creation; 

We march to the rhythm of the Night 

Starborn flew the Dove of Man 

in the eventide of life, 

whose wonders crowned 

our yesterdays with light 

Fire - Earth - Water - Wind 

We lived beneath the waning moon of truth 

And danced in hunger for the Powermind 

(of Youth) 

Like the dark to a dying Flame; 

Sweepingly embracing its grieving remains 

Defiantly blazing the black that awaits 

Counting the days 'til the new Age awaits 

Times' lustful cyclones arise, 

Piercing the fairest of Skies 

In elysian awakening of spiritual glory 

we see what our history belies 

Meadows of Asphodel 

Burning in the hunted dawn 

Tragedies die among fiery flames 

as the firewood of Wisdom is sawn 

Our Guardians were blind 

My lightbringer ephemeral 

Within the heart of all; 

A cold and dusky melancholy night, 

as ever sullied the fair face of light 

Whose seeds of life they grind 

To dust, of vapour is our mind 

...evermore 

Paragon of beauty, 

Oh, spark of Creation; 

We march to the rhythm of the Night 

Nightfall by the shore of time, 

a tidal wave of fire and woe 

Swept away with the last of life 

the core of the enigma as bestowed 

Our crystal spirits melt to flow 

the mountainside along 

To join as one with seas of old 

in symbiotic songs: 

"Communion... Within the Oversoul 

of the Universe" 

We are but fragment of Eternity, 

pale shadows of what we'll once be 

In life's outer regions I will find 

the foremost Tranquility 

Chanting the odes of Magonia 

A soulstream in flight to the Otherworld 

...to the Otherworld