Shadow Duet Lyrics - Skydancer - Dark Tranquility

Lyrics: Sundin 

Voice of the Shadow of Beauty - Friden 

Voice of the Shadow of Darkness - Sundin 

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 within me, the aerial mist sink falling, 

slowly traversing the atmosphere calling 

A soft breeze whispers slowly 

in the valley in my mind 

And its breath, both foul and holy 

is like the deer to a dying hind; 

Wordless - yet in soul so true 

Nameless - 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 

maternal - eternal, blinded by visions 

Serenity fades with the darkening of skies 

of sunlight nocturnal 

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 

the grace of Storms 

One shadow of beauty, 

One shadow of darkness, 

Sailing free on the seas 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 

Rising like swans in a sacred, sudden motion 

A cascade of lost feathers adrift on the sea 

Hark! 

A serenade in the tongue of the wind... 

The sight of Centuries, so sonorous in the bower, 

hovering further athwart a leafy cower 

A shelter for those whose time's wind make them wither 

And therefore they chose 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; 

a friend I greet with open arms 

- a brotherhood of deadly harm 

..and joy 

But time is not eternal, their life-stars not immortal 

Setting souls can never pass through the pearly portal 

No bliss be given...nor 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? 

Depraved of the lust and the treasure of pleasure 

which is fuel of life and glory 

Silent your dark desires within entirety's light 

Solitude...Sanctity...Sanctuary...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 strands of the universe 

A chaosvoid's tomb of dead worlds 

Hark! What? 

Divinity flows in your heart, 

cat it alight - the seed of all art 

Slowly reborn from a sunless state of mind 

Silent, your 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 

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 new life-force like goldmade 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 thoughts; 

Of beings we feed with the dust of our thoughts 

Residing within us, the twofold wheel of life 

Of insight created: a triad of Jewels 

(A thin leaf of the life-tree's truth)