IN FLAMES – Zombie Inc

Truth serves them embrace
And defend her case
Part flattery, part threats
“For those who cling to this
Dominion will partake in its fall”

With his silence, he passes the
Judgement over them
“With your feverish signs of force
You’ll make them and yourself to
Believe that he still retains his full power”

As a platform for divine foundations,
You want to make them suck

Shallowness and beauty
Was all that concerned her body
But the soul, her divine guest
Were thrust to the bottom

Surrendered to the sect
That has risen from its womb
“For those who cling to this
Dominion will partake in its fall”

IN FLAMES – Your Bedtime Story Is Scaring Everyone

Find time and play with innocence
Like you ever would
I don’t see you make any sense
I guess you deliver misery
Just like you should

1 o’clock and you paint the skies grey
It’s not your fault We’re the ones who betray
But how can you say it with such ease
You want to take a stand or just wanna please

Your bedtime story is scaring everyone
But you make me understand
The evil that man do
The evil that man do

IN FLAMES – Worlds Within The Margin

Raindrop hits the leaf changing it’s position slightly on the street
next to polls of monotonous waters He walks Slipping feet from
steps at random He falls

In the space of between his body and the ground
comets cast off their names stellar neurones misfire

Witnesses
inhale the seed
and spit out a million branches

Buds abloom in all directions
frin which events occur
relations and virused meetings
catch fire and explode
In the margin of butterfly wings
entire cycles of evolution
outplayed and faded
sparked away and leaned back into
vacuum-filled nirvana

Between the two of my eyes
feverish fractal scar
Dance like were they on drugs
peyote labyrinth re-mapped exits
A hasty blink
and a million life-to-comes
will never be the same
as they never were

In the kinetic energy of a moving fist
lies a birth-machine for a parallel universe

With the first movement in organic scap
came a bouquet of alternative answers
all different multiplied and re-divided

Coded in the spinal cord of a trilobite
written between the legs on the Meganeura
suburban city maps and dormant dictator semen
marked their way through time

IN FLAMES – Where The Dead Ships Dwell

The picture slowely fades
Walls are closing in
And there I was, cursing the ground
Unable to understand

I won’t let the world break me
So I need to change direction
Nothing special I’m far from perfect
Light the way for me

Feel I was running an endless mile
Last time it burns
And I’m dying inside
All of this will turn to ash
A change for a piece of mind

Walking where the dead ships dwell
These are shores I left behind
Streets were getting smaller
And I have to leave

Feel I was running an endless mile
Last time it burns
And I’m dying inside
All of this will turn to ash
A change for a piece of mind

All I hear is noise
Heart so false
So guess, I took it for granted
I know I went too far
I won’t say I’m sorry
I got what I deserved
I got what I deserved

Feel I was running an endless mile
Last time it burns
And I’m dying inside
All of this will turn to ash
A change for a piece of mind

Feel I was running an endless mile
Last time it burns
And I’m dying inside
All of this will turn to ash
A change for a piece of mind

IN FLAMES – Versus Terminus

When all is said and done
We’ll know what’s right, what’s wrong
But does it matter then
When all is said and done

When all is dead and gone
We’ll know who lost, who won
But does it matter then
When all is dead and gone

See everything go
End of all things
The life that we know
Shift your point of view
You’ve been warned
This one way ticket is for you

When all the lights go out
We know what life’s about
But does it matter then
When all the lights go out

When all that’s left is lies
We’ll see nothingness and realize.
But does it matter then
When all that’s left is lies?

IN FLAMES – Vanishing Light

Vanishing light
The end of a compromise
In fury, in rage
A dream will diminish

Behind enemy lines
Learn to survive
Find a way to clone
Make friends and a place to call home

Take a picture and jump before we crash [x2]

Slide away
Learn your ways and fire when ready
This is a race
To no mans land
But who knows the direction?

You’re on the easy route
Money up front?
There’s no doubt

Take a picture and jump before we crash [x2]

Slide away
Learn your ways and fire when ready
This is a race
To no mans land
But who knows the direction?

It’s so sad
But pay no mind!

Take a picture and jump before we crash [x2]

Slide away
Learn your ways and fire when ready
This is a race
To no mans land
But who knows the direction?

IN FLAMES – Trigger

Have we lost the spark or a guide?
What’s the latest on the screen?
Can’t be too late to turn around
I need all the help from you

I need to find
Something to blame for a long lost time

[Pre-Chorus:]
I am running from something that I don’t know
I am searching for something, which way to go?
I am trying to separate what’s real
I’m running in a wheel

[Verse:]
Is it dark or is it bright?
What’s the latest on the screen?
Please tell me my name
I haven’t checked it today

[Chorus:]
From green to red our days pass by
Waiting for a sign to tell us why
Are we dancing all alone?

Collect some stars to shine for you
And start today ’cause there’s only a few
A sign of times my friend

[Verse:]
My friend avoid infinity
Are you for real?

Just scratch the surface
And you will find
Something to blame for a long lost time

IN FLAMES – Transparent

Consume all the obscene
Persuade the most hideous and ugly
Under every pile and stone
A rebirth, for you to find

Freedom is to be able
To go in any direction
So take the uncertain path

[Pre-Chorus:]
One foot in the open
Ten feet ahead
Build your own ladder
And don’t lie to yourself

[Chorus:]
Secrets left above the grave (It’s not for one to keep)
You’re all so self destructive
Spend more time with the broken (see what became of their mistake)
You know you’re lost when you feel transparent

[Verse:]
Be at one with the wind
Even if it’s a struggle
Make this your priority

Open all your senses
To new impressions
Act like all that was has vanished

IN FLAMES – The Quiet Place

Spinning further, deeper
I know you’re out to try me
I’m not in this to be a slave
Push the dirt, make me feel
Locate what swallows life
Night bird you build my world

..and then I close my eyes
..and then I close my eyes

Judge me now
Used to be afraid to let it show, bow down
A king in my own mind
Everything’s in place so much brighter from today

Drown the monster
Make all bad dreams go away
Whatever it takes to keep your hands free
Open scars, the quiet place
All the bridges fall to the ground and you say you sacrificed

..and then I close my eyes
..and then I close my eyes

Judge me now
Used to be afraid to let it show, bow down, bow down!
A king in my own mind
Everything’s in place so much brighter from today
A king in my own mind

Judge me now
A king in my own mind
Judge me now
A king in my own mind

Judge me now
Used to be afraid to let it show, Bow down, bow down!
A king in my own mind
Everything’s in place so much brighter from today
A king in my own mind

IN FLAMES – The Hive

April night-tyme
And we run like muscles through the stagnant nodes of man
Blood-bridges lean towards the gaping synapses
to disarms the stars within us

Hornet Hive-dark
Severed wings in vainless beating
buzz out from inferno of fangs
to disarms the stars within us

We should have been
so much more by now
Too dead inside
to even know the guilt

Waning Ring-deep
a halo of thorns
Sips now down in the sheets of sharp silver
to disarm the star within us

IN FLAMES – The Chosen Pessimist

Tell me which side I’m on
Approaching constant failure
Tell me which side I’m on
(Who’s friend or foe?)
Approaching constant failure

Between love and hate
Which path to follow?
How can I keep balance in this race?
Come faith, I’m dying (slowly)

In many ways I’m the burden that devides us from the light
In many ways you’re the halo that keeps my spirit alive

Temptation
Play the good or evil part
With me, you evoke the dark
Erase the free will and watch me heal

Tell me which side I’m on
Approaching constant failure

Between love and hate
Which path to follow?
How can I keep balance in this race?
Come faith, I’m dying…

Amused by the trials and tribulations
If I survive I fly from here
But as the chosen pessimist

I carve my name in stone
I carve my name in stone

Amused by the trials and tribulations
If I survive I fly from here

How can I keep balance in this race?
Come faith I’m dying…

IN FLAMES – The Attic

There is someone in the attic
Building a strange machine
Never really seen him
But I think he works all day

Blinded by the world outside
I stay inside
Hardly know my name
But it’s getting better by time

I saw something in the mirror
Someone’s watching me
If I hide in the attic
He will never get to me

I found some rope on the floor
I have to build a trap
So I started on my machine
I’m never to be seen

IN FLAMES – Swim

As we build a brand new planet
Let’s reconstruct and get it straight

Unlock forgotten skills
Travel to a new dimension
Solace from the dark seduction
(Take heed) we are the new invention

We’re the settlers of year zero
Let’s reconstruct and take it back

Leaders of our time
Heading for a downfall
The threshold of revolution
(Take heed) the last freedom call

Blanked out fire etched on the crystal display
The sees are deep
You better swim
Don’t go numb
Collect the word, add some gold and give it back
The sees are deep
You better swim
Don’t go numb

From a thousand branches
Spreading the new voice

As we’re heading for the throne
Connect, evolution will begin

IN FLAMES – Starforsaken

Wipped in the eye by the sand
Malicious have light of day obscured
The sun has burned my skin
Open wounds are licked by sand

To be punished by this vortex of scorn

Wrists and ankles are chained upon this land
Drawn through the desert to be their sacrifice

So this is my golgatha, so this is my grave
The theives, the liars, the hypocrit scum
I’d slay them if I only could

The endless sand, the blackest land
A cyclone of spinecrushing anger
Meant for me

The overlords of the desert
Not one was meant to be
All human force now flee
Rules of anatomy lost
Rage into the extreme

IN FLAMES – Square Nothing

For all the times you left me bleeding
Clouded, weakened by the haze
Cut of my pride, enough to forgive
Reconcile, back to square nothing

It seems I lost my direction
Don’t have the strength to let it slip
Have no desire for the shore
Just let me play here for some time

Spend some quality time with the demon of mine
I like the way you struggle but you know I’m here to win

Is this how I want to spend my days?
Shadowed, it fears me, my utopia
Try to find some peace to destroy
These are my sins, I’m heading to fall
Never understood though I accepted
All the weakness that I discover
You gave me a place to hide and lost the key
Drowned my head just to see it sink (to the bottom)

Spend some quality time with the demon of mine
He said “I like the way you struggle but you know I’m here to win”
Spent some quality time with my borrowed smile
The gleam is replaced, rip me open and erase me

Spent some quality time with the demon of mine
I like the way you struggle but you know I’m here to win”
Spent some quality time with my borrowed smile
The gleam is replaced, rip me open and erase me

IN FLAMES – Sounds Of A Playground Fading

You can find all you need
The message is in the silence
Whisper words to calm your mind
Reach inside another playing come-around
It answers

We are ghosts of the concrete world
Genetic codes of a dying breed
Will I be left behind
Sounds of a playground fading

Staring into bright lights
I am what I’ve done
It is useless to hide
An empty chamber
Guess I was part of a plan

We are ghosts of the concrete world
Genetic codes of a dying breed
Will I be left behind
Sounds of a playground fading

We’re running out of time
Can’t seem to recognize
What put us here in the first place
Counting down the days, beginning of the end

We are ghosts of the concrete world
Genetic codes of a dying breed
Will I be left behind
Sounds of a playground fading

IN FLAMES – Sober And Irrelevant

Used to be original,
But now I tremble in fear
I am like everyone else
And that buries me

Is this how it feels
To reach rock bottom
Want to know how it feels to be forgotten?

[Chorus:]
I’ve become the distance,
I am the sober and irrelevant,
I don’t feel part in this,
What is there to believe?

I’m not asking for much, just a moment
A chance to pick up the pieces
Happiness, please, come home

What if it ends right here
How do I change it?
Hoping to find a saviour
I’ve lost my way

[Chorus]

Is this how it feels
To reach rock bottom
Want to know how it feels to be forgotten?
Hoping to find a saviour
I’ve lost my way

[Chorus]

IN FLAMES – Satellites And Astronauts

Since the day of my departure
I’ve been stumbling through reality
I play my symphony in reverse
In search for that special path

Be gentle to the tear in this I
Lonesome arms, lost its wings again

Buy me a trip to the moon
So I can laugh at my mistakes
I can see the end from here
From this perspective it looks kind of silly
Satellites and astronauts
Tell me there are greater things ahead

Make me feel like a man
A silent cry from the middle of hell
I – the irony – I promise, I’ll be mature
So please, invite me to your shelter again

Been hiding since I heard “never”
Take me back to yesterday, I need to grow

Steal my mask and make me pay
I need a new skin
I’m going insane

IN FLAMES – Ropes

How much can we take before we care to settle?
Thought we were set for a perfect scene
Everyone is waiting for a failure
Something I can’t please and justify
The void within my eyes
Everyone is waiting for something they cannot have

Why don’t you drop your guard
I’m on my knees
You got the mindset of a killer
And it will not take you far
If I had the answer would that make you stay?
This is the time and place it is your moment of fate

If this would be your last breath
Would it change a thing?
Dive head first into the fire

If you just let me I’ll find a way
To ease your mind and for you to stay
And I will untie your only ropes
It’s hard for me but believe me, I’m trying

What are you longing for?
What are you longing for?
What are you longing for?

If I had the answer
Would that make you stay
This is the time and place
You are waiting for something you cannot have

If this would be your last breath
Would it change a thing?
Dive head first into the fire

If you just let me I’ll find a way
To ease your mind and for you to stay
And I will untie your only ropes
It’s hard for me

If you just let me I’ll find a way
To ease your mind and for you to stay
And I will untie your only ropes
It’s hard for me, believe me, I’m trying

IN FLAMES – Resin

A sad song it was,
Through renewal it brought
And a month seems sometimes shorter
Than a half nights longing

Hidden and hard are the reasons for war
Polar twist, invert and flea

I can’t dissolve this feeling of mine
But patience will unlock the door
And the maps of reasons re-written for me
When the wait is over and the punishment is due
Each day I crawl to the hall of the giants

And I beg for mercy -
And I beg for mercy in vain
One night is a mare – two is worse
How can I manage three?