Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Shadow Duet, artist - Dark Tranquillity. Album song Skydancer, in the genre Date of issue: 29.08.1993
Record label: Clandestine
Song language: English
Shadow Duet |
| 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) |