IN FLAMES – The Jester Race

Rush faster on the one-way lane
the answers so silent

Rusty gods in their machine-minds armours
grind our souls in the millstone of time
the “deathbed harvest” is dead man’s banquet
of mould ridden bread and black, poisoned wine

And we go..our steps so silent
And we go..our blooded trace;
The Jester Race

Calling our to the gathered masses;
their answers so silent

And we go..

Embracing the tools of the neo-wolf age
that speak of silence and silence alone

Offering the tokens, the reliced idols
to the heirs of the newly raped ground
inferior even to the transparent winds
lesser in motion and sound

And we go..

There is no trace of me
in their altered blueprints of life

Gaia impaled on their horns and lances
to fumes from her body give case
as the throng of blind mind savour the scent,
dream-dead from prosaic and hate

Sunwind strokes the electroheart,
ignition roars through the corridors,
stream launching the binary vessels

Vanities in extreme formations
ride into tomorrow’s rigid great face
The Machinery outlives the futile scripts
of our dying jester race

IN FLAMES – My Sweet Shadow

I’m selling heavenly sketches
A world out of my mind
Ready to explode in purity to fill the holes inside

An ever moving stream with glowing rays of light
Emotions tied to pass lies and I know I should let go

Tamed with confidence of a brighter future

I found a flame in the burnt out ashes… burn out, burn out!

Fueled, these new shores burn, dark past lies cold
Shadow, my sweet shadow, to you I look no more

Another dawn collapses
Do I need to be reminded
A glimpse of my safe home
A path to hide all anger

I found a flame in the burnt out ashes… burn out, burn out!

Fueled, these new shores burn, dark past lies cold
Shadow, my sweet shadow, to you I look no more

In circles I catch
A torch carried by the immortal
From depths that I created
In vain echoes fade

Burn out!

Fueled, these new shores burn, dark past lies cold
Shadow, my sweet shadow, to you I look no more

Fueled, these new shores burn, dark past lies cold
Shadow, my sweet shadow, to you I look no more

Fueled, Dark past lies cold
For you I look no more

IN FLAMES – Moonshield

Tired of dull ages, I walk the same ground,
Collecting the tragedies still
Hollow ambitions in a hollow mind
Carried my cross to the hill

And how I lust for the dance and the fire
Deep of the nectarine sunset to drink
Spill me the wind and its fire
To steal of the colors – I’m the moonshield

Shattered hope became my guide
And grief and pain my friends
A brother pact in a blood-ink penned
Declare my silent end

Naked an dying under worlds of silent stone
Reaching for the moonshield that once upon us shone

And how I lust for the dance and the fire
deep of the nectarine sunset to drink
spill me the wind and its fire
to steal of the colors

I’m the… I’m the… I’m the…
I’m the moonshield

IN FLAMES – Metaphor

[Verse:]
You stole my pure intention
You are the sickness in between
Let me in, I’ll bury the pain

You taught me to be sad at you
You almost made me take it all
Let me in, I’ll bury the pain

You bend me and you shake me
You beg me then you break me
Let me in, I’ll bury the pain

You made me feel like a sinner
Now you fear you’ll die alone
Let me in, I’ll bury the pain

[Chorus:]
The sickness that you are
The plague that made me starve
You think you can show me how I’ve come this far

I feel it’s taking over
Everything falls dark
Break me open
The desperate cry

IN FLAMES – Lunar Strain

For there is a purpose and reason
Beyond all human apprehension
The shrieking silence in the blackness of space

For there is a knowledge more complex
Than life on this planet
A knowledge in tune with the progress of stars

Lunar strain

All across the milky way
Life suffers defeat
Life that once was treasured

What once was nothing
Has blossomed into form
Once it was I that was nothing
But now they say I will die

All across the galaxy
Life suffers defeat

Lunar strain

From nothingless to reality
As we see it
From nothingless to life
My dismal tears of anguish
Bleed into one with the songs of my heaven
Loneliness is pain

Emptiness is power, loneliness is pain
Serenity is might
Yet we shall be honoured
In the starforsaken night

Astral strain
All around my silent moon
Life suffers defeat

Astral strain

For there is a purpose and reason
Beyond all human apprehension
The shrieking silence in the blackness of space

IN FLAMES – Liberation

I know what it takes to break you
You know I never sleep
Just because you made them think
Doesn’t mean the world will fall into place

Took some time but now you know
Tomorrow is too late
Close your eyes, walk with me, I set you free
And everything you ask for

I’ll find a way and I return I should
I have to see those who do not know
Rest in peace, I’m coming for you
And I will be, I will be with you tonight

If today was your last day, would that change a thing
You probably believe what you told them
Leave each moment like your last
I Close your eyes, walk with me, I set you free
And everything you ask for

I’ll find a way and I return I should
I have to see those who do not know
Rest in peace, I’m coming for you
And I will be, I will be with you tonight

I’ll find a way and I return I should
I have to see those who do not know
Rest in peace, I’m coming for you
And I will be, I will be with you tonight

I’ll find a way and I return …
I have to see those who do not know
Rest in peace, I’m coming for you
And I will be, I will be with you tonight

IN FLAMES – Land Of Confusion

I must’ve dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They’re moving in, into the streets

Now did you read the news today
They say the danger’s gone away
But I can see the fire’s still alight
Burning burning, into the night

There’s too many men
Too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go around
Can’t you see this is the land of confusion

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth living in

Ooh Superman, where are you now
When everything gone wrong somehow
The men of steel, men of power
Losing control by the hour

This is the time, this is the place
So we look for the future
But there’s not much love to go around
Tell me why this is the land of confusion

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth living in

I won’t be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We’re not just making promises
That we know we’ll never keep

Too many men
There’s too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go around
Can’t you see this is the land of confusion.

Now this is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth fighting for

This is the world we live in
And these are the names we’re given
Stand up and let’s start showing
Just where our lives are going to

IN FLAMES – Leeches

Leeches.
Like leeches
“In ignorance we trust”
If you say this way, I’ll take that way
Fuel for the fire on which I thrive

Spit me out
I’m glad I don’t belong
Save me the speech (I know)
You’ll be forgotten and gone

It burns, it rips, it hurts

Leeches, they preach to us
Words of wisdom from blocked minds

Spit me out
I’m glad I don’t belong
Save me the speech (I know)
You’ll be forgotten and gone

It burns, it rips, it hurts

They make you believe your turn
The chance of a lifetime,
How does it feel to be alive?

A tear for the poet that can’t be heard
(And) praise the artist that steals

IN FLAMES – Jotun

I often dream of huge numb buildings
jet-black sinister architecture
being installed when nobody sees
Their appearance so sudden
that few would take notice

And when I wake up
I imagine being crushed by one
imagining it’s weight it’s silence
and the absence of excuses for a havoced life
and the priviledge of a 22-kilometer tombstone

Jotun

A body of black
that carried no reflection
defying it’s own room
un-earthly eggs of decreation

There would be colonies
mushroom-scattered forever out of context
rising spores from a dying world
to pollute to chase away what’s left

Sun-white pulverised desert stone
and serpentine lizard mouths
Pales away the pyramids
rewriting 4500 years of history
raping the statue of liberty
outplays the acropolis
inverting the fjords
invades the N.Y. skyline to
dream it’s own existence in one single final word

Jotun

Can we identify them
as the flint buried in our reptile skulls
or the time-bomb coded in our dna

IN FLAMES – In Search For I

It hurts to think
Can’t get the sums together
Would you draw my bitterness
Make the pictures fade

Could it be that I see
What’s beneath when we fall
The truth in ever
I’m scared that I will be

The sentence is light
But my eyes see a different world
And all I do is turn into flames

Will time open my vault
New solution, I’m begging
Break the fuse that holds me back

The I is lost in me
But I am ready to give you The M,
It might even be the E
As I begin to search for I
The I is lost in me

Distract, push me in another direction
This wall that I stare into
It’s getting old
Give me faith to reach for the new
Pull me apart and do me all over
I’ll need a re-make
To make up for my mistakes

The I is lost in me
But I am ready to give you The M,
It might even be the E
As I begin to search for I
The I is lost in me

What if I stop to care?
What if I let you fall?

What if I stop to care?
What if I let you fall?

The I is lost in me
But I am ready to give you The M,
It might even be the E
As I begin to search for I
The I is lost in me

IN FLAMES – I’m The Highway

I am my deepest shadow,
Something I can’t ever neglect,
Rise above these ashes,
Or fall and fade away

In dark moments, I know better,
Within destruction, I see clearly

[Chorus:]
From here to new grounds,
Suppose I will be doing it alone,
With a smile through black design
Fearless of your conviction

Staring into truth, I am the highway,
Existence, care for me in all
Your everlasting complications

In dark moments, I know better
Within destruction, I see clearly

[Chorus]

Forget the promised land,
There was never an invitation,
Today I create my own,
Before there was sorrow
And lack of attention

[Chorus]

IN FLAMES – Goliaths Disarm Their Davids

Bible arm on social hell
Spins its downward spiral
With each year of unprogression
A fine of failure is added
Closer than ever to the edge
A feat in resident martyrs
Strong objects track my body,
My body down

Eyes, disappearing rebirth of light…
Between a labrynth of errors
And the key to the suicide era
Digging through the graves of giants
Words fly to me
A lonely road, like a promise
Failing miserably
Running through like an alphabet of hate
To shake the entire organism closer than ever,
Ever to the edge

Eyes, disappearing rebirth of light…
Between a labrynth of errors
And the key to the suicide era

I kill for the code to disarm this mess
Of psychotic chaos that once I mixed up myself

Disarm

IN FLAMES – Fear Is The Weakness

At least you could’ve tried
It is way past time and we’re scattering ashes
You take everything inside, please hear me out
You, you are leaving me with scars

Fear is the weakness in all our thoughts
It’s sad to see you go
It’s not meant to be easy but you drag us down
Burning of the evidence close

The same road for far too long
It’s not meant to be
We are losing identity
Faith has been denied, let’s not pretend
This is the first time, we just don’t belong

A world, do you perceive
All turn cold, and no one cares for anyone
Waiting for the final blow
Do you have faith at all?
One more day, then we fade away

Fear is the weakness in all our thoughts
It’s sad to see you go
It’s not meant to be easy but you drag us down
Burning of the evidence close

The same road for far too long
It’s not meant to be
We are losing identity
Faith has been denied, let’s not pretend
This is the first time, we just don’t belong here

(The same road for far too long)
It’s not meant to be
We are losing identity
Faith has been denied, let’s not pretend
This is the first time, we just don’t, belong

IN FLAMES – Evil In A Closet

We were one in words
You finished my sentence
I could never attract tomorrow
It pushes me aside

I sink in waters deep
Your presence kept me floating far from depths where secrets lie
Maybe in another lifetime I can be the first you meet

I once read a poem
Held my breath but that moment’s gone
First time I felt life somewhat hurts
I need an option, a reason and some hope

Yell at me, I want to be your light that shines
But my ground is shaking, and I might fall
I wish that I could say, I wish that I could be your evil in a closet

Yell at me, I want to be your light that shines
But my ground is shaking and I might fall
I wish that I could say, I wish that I could be your evil in a closet

IN FLAMES – Everything Counts

The handshake
Seals a contract
From the contract
There’s no turning back
The turning point
Of a career
In Korea being insincere

The holiday
Was fun packed
The contract:
Still intact

The grabbing hands
Grab all they can
All for themselves
After all

It’s a competitive world
Everything counts in large amounts

The graph
On the wall
Tells the story
Of it all
Picture it now
See just how
The lies and deceit gained a little more power

Confidence taken in
By a sun tan
And a grin

The grabbing hands
Grab all they can
All for themselves
After all

It’s a competitive world
Everything counts in large amounts

The grabbing hands
Grab all they can
Everything counts in large amounts

IN FLAMES – Only For The Weak

I can’t tolerate your sadness
Cause it’s me you are drowning
I won’t allow any happiness
Cause everytime you laugh, I feel so guilty, I feel so guilty

Am I forced to have any regret
I’ve become the lie, Beautiful and free
In my righteous own mind
I adore and preach the insanity you gave to me

Sell me the infection, it is only for the weak
No need for sympathy, The misery that is me

I’ve lost the ability to pain the clouds
Cause it’s me you’re draining
I’m stuck in this slow-motion dark day
Cause everytime you run, I fall.. Behind, I fall behind

And so I hear my voice again
The tale of the bitter man here I am
Shake the silence and hear what it says
The tranquil pride that become the lie

Sell me to infection, it is only for the weak
No need for sympathy, the misery that is me

Sell me to infection, it is only for the weak
On bleeding knees, I accept my fate

IN FLAMES – Everdying

Die
Tragedy, cursing me
Bloodlust, crying, never dying
Bloodlust, crying, never dying

From the cold, shadowed waste
Evil grasped my soul and took my hand

Left alone and filled with desire
A spawn of evil and eternal fire

Timeless, immortal, everlasting hate
Timeless, immortal, everlasting hate
Hate…

Drinking the wine
An act out of love
Consumer of lives
You’ll join us tonight…

Behold immortality
A dark eternity
Eternity, eternity…

Drinking the wine
An act out of love
Consumer of lives
You’ll join us tonight

IN FLAMES – Enter Tragedy

Twisting turn
Falling off the edge again
need some space
need disgrace
I’m confused but I’m engaged

I need for you to pick me up
when I fall down
There’s so much more we can go for
but I can’t control my selfish ways

Enter tragedy
Slash my soul
Why is it part of the plan?
do you question me?
I question you!

who’s that man in front of me
im not voted I can’t see

There’s so much more we can go for
but I can’t control my selfish ways

Enter tragedy
Slash my soul
Why is it part of the plan?
do you question me?
I question you?

they said her apathy brings me to life
I know it’s strange and it’s dranning me
I’m tired
I’m fed up
of this life

I’m tired
i’m fed up
of this life

Enter tragedy
Slash my soul

Why is it part of the plan
do you question me?
I question you!
I question you!

IN FLAMES – Embody The Invisible

I demand nothing, but I want it all
What privilege do we have under the sun,
That gives us the right to the throne?

Species come and go, but the earth stands forever fast
All river runs towards the sea, but the sea is never full

To discover the loneliness and to be proud to show the wounds
Will forever wander alone through the years

But I won’t let you near
Begging for you to understand
The fear that lives in my soul
Which is an untouched spring

Read, what is written on the silent mouth
What is written in the soul
For which is written in the shining silence
We all have to read

My body will be bent from the burdens
When the shaking floor of life-force
Reveal its chasm underneath
If only one could be two steps ahead

IN FLAMES – Dismiss The Cynic

[Verse:]
Will we find a solution
When we add all the numbers?
Like they are supposed to be?
But no is close… Start all over!

If we fail our expectations
We will fall into the deepest void
Is there a limit to how many times
We will dust ourselves off?

[Chorus:]
The mystery of time
Listen to me, carefully
The mystery of time
It’s you and me
That’s all we need

[Verse:]
Would you choose supremacy
If it led to isolation?
Could you handle the solitude?
Would you still prefer the throne?