What was denied from poor I thought to be riches I run for them there and then It made me take my due To death I'd plunge with joy My happiness to claim I am pr...

The Devil weds a widow Death another's leftovers Better to lie on a willows Rest on alder boughs Than upon a widow's bed On a used woman's pillow Sweeter the si...

I must be out of my mind as I hear you call My name is even though I can't see you anywhere Surely this feeling is coming from something Someone gave me yesterd...

Better it would be for me And better it would have been Had I not been born, not grown Not been brought into the world Not had to come to this earth Not been su...

(lyrics: J Rechberger) (music: T Koivusaari & E Holopainen) Terror, when the darkness binds your limbs Terror, when the fear freezes your nerves Horror, when th...

AMORPHIS BLACK WINTER DAY EP (1994) AMORPHIS: Tomi Koivusarri Vocals / Rhythm guitar Esa Holopainen Lead guitars Olli - Pekka Laine Bass Jan Rechberger Drums Ka...

I have a mind, a good memory Here's how my life begins I wasn't born from a woman's thighs But from fire I dwell on that dream I don't want that to fade I keep...

Free flowing water The air is so warm It breathes for you It sees through you before the storm And if the lake can't Be the sister To the moon To the river To t...

Many rocks the rapid has A lot of billows the sea More plentiful are my cares Than cones on a spruce Beard moss on a juniper Gnarls upon a pine bark Knobs upon ...

I can hear your yearnings your anguished cries let the nourishment pass you by as it leaves you without without a trace it leaves you without the scars it's a ...

Last day brings the grace For bearers of forbidden name Step into five fold mace As son as father in a frame Someday fire wipes the rain Fears are frozen tears...

(lyrics: trad, Music: Koivusaari, Holopainen, Laine) I went to wash at the shore I went to bathe in the sea and there I, a hen, was lost I, a bird untimely died...

Long evenings full of longing Low-spirited my mornings Full of longing too my nights And all the time the bitterest 'Tis my lovely I long for It is my darling I...

A beautiful day when it's over Clouds high up in the sky A beautiful day when it's over Nobody will bury me In this wicked world the war I live In this wicked ...

Blackness falls on empty calmness the night is full I kissed the frozen sweetness the mist around my grief don't let the past wear you down let go of the life ...

Kiss the devil's mark like a self-denial without temptation she suffers from shame prodigious perversions it's her final dimension feel affection for her longi...

Erosion of life I see It makes the passion burn in me Life it always withers away Death will eternally stay Corpses in their coffins Forever rest in peace? The...

(lyrics & music: E Holopainen) A wave the sound of Noisiu's voice his singing was ever sweet Noisiu's grave has now been made and the accompaniment was mournful...

Nothing is more than too much I'm waiting for the tarnishing touch you wish for the last kiss goodbye like the child that cannot lie I walk away now from you a...

(Lyrics: Holopainen, Music: Holopainen) The mountains of north shall erupt and flames of darkland will rise Hail to one who hails Blood for one who blees O you ...

(Lyrics: Holopainen, Music: Holopainen) Once I had a mind and thoughts was given But nowadays, in this evil age all my sense is somewhere else Once I had a soul...

The god of deception a man with your face see him still wondering searching for your grave needles called luster it's only a one night stand and you are six fe...

Astonishment when I bend over you creep Put a noose around my neck Which side I decide it's my time to reap It's your side wicked and deaf Take me to the place ...

(lyrics & music: E Holopainen) I shall have a son, out of Cornwall shall he come, that shall be a wild boar, bristled with steel he shall be a man most brave an...

Not thirsty am I for the blood Of redeemer of thy greed My hunger can't be satisfied With flesh of thy nazarene No gilded streets of heaven's grace Entice me in...

I climb to the higher ground to see what's behind the sun step on the hands made out of clay the hands of stained mortals all there is and all you'll have bles...

I will never sleep alone (never without you) Whatever you say to me I already know If I said something to you You would take those words There's so much power i...

(Lyrics: trad, Music: Holopainen, Laine) The islander slips into hiding and takes to his heels out of dark Northland the murky house of Sara he whirled out of d...

(lyrics: E Holopainen) (music: T Koivusaari E Holopainen) "The sound of thousand warriors The fields of thousand battles Still, in our hearts we can hear the gr...

There's no existing misery that just fades away faint hearted mindless tracks through the wicked world the world of today and all the people wait too long make...

Fate changed Life healed like a wound How does the kind of life heal That leaves such a scar I cover myself, I uncover myself Now I know how to do things No lo...

Originally performed by Hawkwind In the darkness I will shine, cast no shadows, not define I walk on water, float on air, there's no other to compare I have th...

Originally performed by The Doors You know that it would be untrue; You know that I would be a liar; If I was to say to you; Girl, we couldn't get much higher ...

(lyrics: E Holopainen) (music: E Holopainen, T Koivusaari & J Rechberger) We sail across the sea, In our thoughts we float over mountains All this vanity that w...

Where has the sun gone from us Where is the moon lost to us The moon will not gleam at all Nor will the sun shine at all Death opens it?s mouth The son of the ...

You live only for yourself Or send your soul to the heaven's grace Been weak as the autumn leaves Or strong as the growing seed Swallowed into the black Search ...

Feel the ground the mourning soil close your eyes and lay confront the passage of time eternity which you cannot betray barter away this haziness down to eart...

Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense Who say that music reckon that the kantele Was fashioned by God Out of a great pike's shoulders From a water-dog's hook...

As a rot to rape the spring sown seed A plague sprang forth of his tracks Churns ran red when cows milked blood And famine cracked poor backs Who would hear a ...

Old folk remember And those today learn How before their time Life was different here: Without the sun people lived Groped about without the moon With candles ...

I, I woke up The God of fire woke me up At the edge of burning ground I'm, I'm damned To put out the fire My hand is a trap for that fire It won't surprise me ...

In his eyes The evil spirit rise Turns to darkness with Satan's name "As the time is right Dead bodies rise up from their graves And when the time comes near O...

I hear you hear your worthless speech unheard and sensational feeding my comprehension let me see beyond all additional show me something real something low an...

Bathed in the rust of moon Is the death beds lullaby Sung so softly with the stars Reflected in her eyes It's the blaze that beckons men Into the woods, of bea...

That's what my sister says And during that day Came spring and summer Oh, when did you fly here? It was you I found The same flesh and blood (My flesh) It was ...

My soul is bleeding I feel so small Afraid that this will never end I can't understand the pain in my bones I sleep through another trance Climb over the rainb...

Far from here, a house forsaken on lands of yesterday The silence of the night has crept in As weeping of the women, as thoughts of solitude As sadness and as g...

(lyrics: E Holopainen) (music: E Holopainen, T Koivusaari & OP Laine) True Celtic power from the cape of Cornwall Cry of hope, angels cry This was omen, our sig...

A day's light told me of my son's fate The sun showed the way, grim and severe Pulled under the raging waters, my child Sank in the drowning currents, my son,my...

From the mystic dream of a nighttime I saw the clarity of my days From the gates of longing Looked for the familiar glow The death of my wife's slayer Brought n...

From my world the sun faded And the moon from my sky was gone with stars I came home to a bleak room of sorrow Forsaken house, place of grief, in solitude I li...

I let you take this breeding sorrow you're too close to see as the pride inside of you is smashed to smithereens this fire hunts the soulless and the weak burs...

What the thrush toils at The partridge asks for The hapless one takes The troubled one steals Puts upon a spade Sets on a runner Hides under a door Shields with...

You have a woman here One made of stone You made her for yourself You piled her up Made a stone face Stone fingers and eyes There's no room beside her For anot...

What the thrush toils at The partridge asks for The hapless one takes The troubled one steals Puts upon a spade Sets on a runner Hides under a door Shields with...

Where have you been,where have you been My son, my merry son? On the seashore, on the seashore Mother, my darling one And what have you been doing there My son...

(Lyrics: trad, Music: Martenson, Koivusaari, Holopainen, Laine) A bird flew out of Lapland an eagle from the North East One wing ruffled the water and the other...

(lyrics: E Holopainen) (music: T Koivusaari) As I sense their steel, As I see the mighty one, As we all gather once again the gods of war summon us summon us No...

(lyrics: J Rechberger) (music: E Holopainen, T Koivusaari & J Rechberger) We have to know, we have to see Religions so many, which one of them are so real, That...

The calloo's spirits are low Swimming on the chill water But the orphan's are lower Walking down the village street The sparrow's belly is chill Sitting on the ...

(lyrics: E Holopainen) (music: T Koivusaari) In his eyes The evil spirit rise Turns to darkness with Satan's name "As the time is right dead bodies rise up from...

In my dream smoke followed me As on fire the whole world had been To the yard I walked in Up the frontstep and opened the door Cranes flew over to the North As...

Forging the future from the timeless stone Oh let me know how far I can go Answering the questions that no one ever asks Float through the sea of madness And fa...

Sorrow is my bread And tears I drink as wine Oblivion my happiness Ground under teeth of time For cold be the stone When frost ve devoured the land Consolation...

Spring came in one day The clouds in front of the moon Tore themselves to shreds So that two moons passed in one night Winter went and spring came And the clou...

No longer I was breathing No more bleeding Inside the urn Under a soil and black stone Under a soil and black stone And I was listening And felt no pain To the...

For the cold pale women I leave some of my goodness I leave the veil of sin And let go my dreams (pre-chorus:) Eternity follows me everywhere Your words so ho...

[lyrics: E Holopainen] [music: T Koivusaari & E Holopainen] As the sun falls down And the swell crashes into the shore The great warriors of doom and wind Ri...

In the vale where I once listened out for the light Where the little birds warble The ptarmigans babble And my heart looked about for some rest from its trouble...

Withered be the flower Long past it's prime and bloom Forgotten on the stony bed This silent hillside tom For coppered be the grip Of this wooded land A crude c...