DISMAL EUPHONY LYRICS

album: "Autumn Leaves - The

Rebellion Of Tides" (1997)
1. An Autumn Leaf In The Circles Of
Time
2. Simply Dead
3. A Thousand Rivers
4. Mistress Tears
5. Carven
6. Spire
7. In Remembrance Of A Shroud
8. Splendid Horror
 1. An Autumn Leaf In The Circles Of
Time

[Music & Lyrics by Kristoffer Austrheim]

With neither speech nor portrayals

He gazed up towards infinity's face
And as aloft the circles he rose,
A sudden breath of dark forgotten dreams
came true

For never had he entered the fiery gates,

The mirror passage entry, to another
 existance... to another plane
With neither speech nor portrayals
He gazed up towards infinity's face

And as aloft the circles he rose,

A sudden breath of dark forgotten dreams
came true
Above the circles emerged another
dream...
For no man of mortal shell could know,
where or when this planet existed...

He drifted and saw stars, sweep across the

sky...
He saw suns perish... he saw visions rise
from emerald darkness...
And lunar moonlit seas
A thousand years and then a thousand
moons...

2. Simply Dead

[Music by Kristoffer Austrheim.]

[Lyrics by Ole Helgesen]

A passion of tears...
Close my soul... as i reach for your caress
Let me die in your flesh
While the heavenly bodies burn out before
your eyes

Let me die and die again !

Taste my blood with emotional lust

Let your touch embrace my mind
Show me a hidden path to the source of
wisdom
You are the rose on my grave

Traces of flames made of ice

Never, never... never !!!
No, no !!!
Iaaahhhi

My river in which the dawn never shows

...Is hope hiding
Blood of my past... is still dripping
Simply dead !!!

Show me a hidden path to the source of

wisdom
You are the rose on my grave...
 You are the rose on my grave...

3. A Thousand Rivers

[Music by Kristoffer Austrheim & Ole

Helgesen.]
[Lyrics by Ole Helgesen]

Thousands of years have passed, still we

do not know
Oh tell me, please tell me, what lies
beyond our comprension
We are nothing but autumn leaves swirling
in the circles of time
Haunted by the shadow in our past

Time won't sweep away, our deepest scars

of memories
It will carry them along eternally
Betrayed by the enigma of existence
Yet, we admire this insignificance

Oh shameful (shameful)
Pathethic (pathethic)
The Fairy's Voice (duet Vocals-Keys)
dum - dum dum dum dum - dum dum dum
- dum dum dum
dum - dum dum dum dum - dum dum dum
- dum dum dum

(uhmm)
Shhh !!!

Listen carefully, to the sound of an evening

breeze
And the sound of a thousands rivers,
strugging towards the sea
But all is so dead and silent
Yes, this way it's got to be

[sound of thousands rivers]

Time won't sweep away, our deepest scars

of memories
It will carry them along eternally
Time won't sweep away, our deepest scars
of memories
It will carry them along eternally
Time won't sweep away, our deepest scars
of memories
It will carry them along eternally...
 4. Mistress Tears

[Music & Lyrics by Kristoffer Austrheim]

I have deserved all tounges to speak their

bitterness over me
The lake of my treasures darken, being
blown with the wind
I have deserved all tounges to speak their
bitterness over me
The lake of my treasures darken, being
blown with the wind

As the earth does weep, the sun being set

Each flower moistened like a... like a
melting eye
I have deserved all tounges to speak their
bitterness over me
The lake of my treasures darken, being
blown with the wind

Her circled eye enforced by sympathy

Of those fair suns set in her mistress sky
Who in a salt-waved ocean quence their
light
Which makes the maid weep like the dewy
 night

Grief dallied with no law or limit knows

Deep woes roll silent like gentle wind
Behold the thorns hidden under each rose
Distress like dumps when

Time is kept with tears

I have deserved all tounges to speak their
bitterness over me
The lake of my treasures darken,
eternally !!!

5. Carven

[Music by Kristoffer Austrheim, Ole

Helgesen & Elin Overskott.]
[Lyrics by Keltziva]

A world like this

We never before have seen
A prism in which the shadows are all
dispelled
"The light is scarpened ! All that remains is
the light"
We do not seek to be source of your spells
of sadness
I seek and i find my power to creation,
deliberation to expulsion
Do not sense, but see, my falsification
We are not so far away from home, we are
leaving again...

Are you the one who will bleed my tears...

or will bleed my tears
Or will my enchantement burst once
again ?
Burst under your horrific words ?

"As long as there is life... there is hope for

an end...
as long as there is life... there is hope for
an end"

While i know this, i do longer know all

there is, the taste of blood...

6. Spire

[Music & Lyrics... it's a mistery...]

[Norwegian Lyrics]
 Jeg dyker rottene til min egen vrede, og
ser mine spirer gro
I en kamp mot minegen glede, prover jeg a
slikke mine sar
Da jeg ikke lenger lot dem drepe
Og jeg sa kilden til minegen ro
Skal minegen spire av meg selv
Bli til en mektig skog

7. In Remembrance Of A Shroud

[Music & Lyrics by Kristoffer Austrheim]

We who run from the presence of the sun

By the voived bitter gleam chasing
darkness like a dream
All with weary tasks fordone 'scape the
serpents tounge
All with weary tasks fordone 'scape the
serpents tounge

To catch the shadow, let the substance fall

(in remembrance of a shroud)
Like the sun's bright beam entangled in
melancholy
 (in remembrance of a shroud)
Entangled in the black roars of an image's
stream
(in remembrance of a shroud)
Of an-of an-of an image's stream
(in remembrance of a shroud)

Now i find hideousness in mind shall i

disturb this hallowed house ?
I have been sent with dusk before to sweep
the dust behind the door
I have been sent with dusk before to sweep
the dust behind the door
Put the wretch that lies in woe in
remembrance of a shroud
the match agreed - with flames admired

8. Splendid Horror

[Music by Ole Helgesen, Kristoffer

Austrheim & Frode Clausen.]
[Lyrics by Ole Helgesen & Kristoffer
Austrheim]

To these pale spectres dwelling in the

blackness of my sins
I behold her swirling tounge floating in my
swart lake
I can almost touch her limbs

Cloaked beneath her woes, i found my

nothingness
withered among the pity.. it was dead

Splendid horror, splendid horror

Splendid horror, splendid horror

The blood-red water drives me into ecstasy

I scream of pleasure as i crawl down to her
Even though they fainted, there is really
nothing to fear !!!

[now go till 8.03 of the song and ear the

rest...]

Band Line-Up :
Ole Helgesen (Vocals, Guitars);
Frode Clausen (Guitars);
Kristoffer Austrheim (Bass, Drums);
Elin Overskott (Keyboards, Synths, Piano);
Keltziva (Female Vocals).