Illnath Lyrics

Album: Unknown

Temporary Borders Lyrics

Whispered words beneath the floating autumn leaves

 Flying softly on the southern breeze

 Fragments of light between the branches and trees

 I wish I would stay here forever

 

 The sun is sinking behind mountains of old

 Brushing faintly clouds of red and gold

 

 Night-time's flinging a vast veil of velvet across fields and forest

 Trespassing the havens of daylight's temporary borders.

 I knew my game could gain me but grief, the fairy tale was on though brief

 Trespassing the havens of secrecy's temporary borders.

 

 Scratching the surface of times seemingly forgotten

 Of you who once were mine betrothen

 Digging 'neath layers of emotions now rotten

 I feel myself slip away

 Nostalgic entertainment tingled by the past

 You were the one to be mine at last

 But now my memory's ever fading so fast

 Keeping emotions at bay

 

 Here I sit, and memories unfold

 My feelings are hollow, I'm feeling so old

 

 [Female]

 "I feel it fade away and cry tears in solitude"

 Trespassing the havens of night-time's temporary borders

 As shadows collapse in the mating of day and night, crows are circling in 

 ominous flight

 Trespassing the havens of my own temporary borders (temporary borders)

 

 [Solo]

 

 I tried... I tried hard to believe

 Thinking of us has left me but grief

 I cannot look ahead, the past is all I see

 Moments together, but time's a thief

 

 Shadows recurring from times long since passed

 Our time and now in a perfect contrast

 

 [Female]

 "As I see you sitting by my grave

 I feel your presence, but can't say a word

 Your heart and love, patient and brave

 But my soul is too late for you to save"

 

 I am probably a fool still thinking of you

 Night after night...

 There's not much else I can do

 For neither myself nor you

 Maybe I should leave and never come back to this place...

 But I know too surely that I'm only fooling myself

 I'm only fooling myself

 

 [Temporary borders - Comments]

 

 [I had just joined illnath, got their lyrics and listened through all the music which was going to be on the CD. I was like a kid in a candy-store, and got to work that very evening at Tobias place with a lyric piece (which Tobias also participated strongly on). The lyrics I had received had some qualities, but mainly, I thought, I could do them better. The guys had already read some of my lyrics and pointed out 'Frozen constellations', 'Bring down the witching hour' and 'By the hands of violent winter' as the only songs they did not want to change.]

 

 [I guess the idea of a gothic romance in a moody black metal song is not very original. I assume I wanted to make a presentation of our own gothic romance song, and at the same time I enjoy writing these kind of lyrics, even though, as mentioned, they do not give much to the black metal scene today.]

 

 [Partly based on the coming summer (it was written sometime in may, I think), partly based on my poor lovelife and strange feeling of suddenly being in another country doing music with people I didn't know a week ago. I alone, yet somehow welcome and at calm here. Just like the narrator in the song. It was also a good possibility to use Lena's vocals.]

 [- Narrenschiff]