IN FLAMES LYRICS

1. 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 be too proud to show the wounds
Will forever wander alone through the years?

But I won't let you near
Begging, 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

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

[Solo]

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

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

But I won't let you near
Begging, 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

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...

Yeah!

2. Ordinary Story

Egoism dictates human relations
A world where fashion outshines morality
Is written in blood-red colours
Designed by the thirst for power

Gather the faithful and propose a toast
To the epoch of indifference
Gather the faithful
Gather the faithful and propose a toast
To the epoch of indifference

An all-too-ordinary story
With aftertaste so bitter, so bitter
Forced to be someone I don't want to be
I'm losing myself, sinking deeper down
I'm caught in the world wound web

A time represented by the void
An excuse without a content
Stuck in the abyss of existence
With a content void of excuse

Gather the faithful and propose a toast
To the epoch of indifference
Gather the faithful
Gather the faithful and propose a toast
To the epoch of indifference

[Solo]

Shah!
Oh, it's ordinary story
An all-too-ordinary story
This is story, this is my story
Aftertaste so bitter, so bitter

Losing myself
Sinking deeper down
I'm caught, I'm cage, I'm gone

An all-too-ordinary story
With aftertaste so bitter, so bitter
Forced to be someone I don't want to be
I'm losing myself, sinking deeper down
I'm caught in the world wound web

3. Scorn

I perish. Nobody will know
As my mouth remains still
My heart awaits me, filled with gravel
As the pain grows with each touch

Since I marked her out from my tower
Reality focused through forbidden lenses
She owns enough of preciousness
A penalty given by the source

I perish. Nobody will know
As my mouth remains still
My heart awaits me, filled with gravel
As the pain grows with each touch

But I still have no choice
Through the hinders frighten
A labyrinth closing at the edge of space

She owns enough of preciousness
A penalty given by the source

But they never allow
She's shut for all beings but one

[Solo]

I give my scorn, my threat

Since I marked her out from my tower
Reality focused through forbidden lenses
All right

She owns enough of preciousness
A penalty given by the source

4. Colony

In your world, the day is no threat
In my world, there is an absence of light
"Genetic superior cell"
Controlled by the fathomless and unbearable

A radical new form of plastic and rage
Biologically optimized
But with a strangling pulse

In your world, you find me worthy
In my world, I parachute my life
A virtual drugstore
Populated by the fathomless and unbearable

Machine, meat and blood
In an intimate relationship
The new superior
More effective than all the preceding

When we can no longer cry and reality is torn
Then it's easy to forget
That the responsibility lies on us all

[Solo]

When we can no longer cry and reality is torn
Then it's easy to forget
That the responsibility lies on us all

In your world, the night is no threat
In my world, the darkness transforms to a vision of hell
Populated by fathomless and unbearable

5. 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 judgment 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 wanna...
As a platform for divine foundations,
You want to...
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, yeah

[Solo]

Surrendered to the sect
That has risen from its womb
For those who cling to this domination
Will partake in its fall

As a platform for divine foundations,
You wanna...
As a platform for divine foundations,
You want to...
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

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

6. Pallar Anders Visa

[Instrumental]

7. Coerced Coexistence

Jah!

I'll take you on a ride
As a part-owner to my pain
Our ideals they collide
Coerced coexistence

I fought the world today - postpone my birth again
We stumble on and on but bound to die alone

Pine - I'm selling my soul today
Pine - I need some sympathy

This infiltrates my brain
"In the sunshine the sun is mine"
Pitiless wanderer
Close your eyes and bow your head

Grotesque thoughts in a line
Threw my wings into the blazing sun
Smile stretched on old trees
Eternal grinning jester masque

Pine - I'm selling my soul today
Pine - I need some sympathy

Don't hurt a fly they all sing
We are just ants in a great big play
Commercialize – infect – annihilate - progress
Visualize – inhale – pretend - betray

[Solo]

I'll take you on a ride
As a part-owner to my pain

Pine - I'm selling my soul today
Pine - I need some sympathy

Don't hurt a fly they all sing
We are just ants in a great big play
Commercialize – infect – annihilate - progress
Visualize – inhale – pretend - betray

8. 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 flee

I can't dissolve this feeling of mine
But patience will unlock the doors
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?

[Solo]

Each day I crawl to the hall of the giants
Each day I crawl to the hall of the giants

9. Behind Space '99

Call me by my astral name
Breeding fear through wordless tongue
Heavenly thirst - unspeakable pain
Emptied from all human motion
Confront the faceless wrath

Beckoning silent from a sphere behind space
Through twisted ruins of uncompleted dreams
Sights of towers reaching for the moon
Clawing at the skies - they gonna pull it down

Intensity - I feel the lava rushing through my veins
Stars are reforming - to enter the fourth dimension

Beyond all galaxies
Through timeless aeons of frost
Unearthly hunger - angels' descent

We are entering dimensions behind space

[Solo]

Beyond all galaxies
Through timeless eons of frost

10. Insipid 2000

Should I defend you for who you are?
The laws are changed and useless

On their way to a deserted town
Where empty windows wave Goodbye
A helpless excuse, a falling reality

I'm changed by the shock
And the weight of the punch
A helpless excuse, a falling reality

Fragments of a futile being
A puzzle to the noble ones
Ignorant and pitiless they stride

The world around me -
Spartanic, minimalistic
A helpless excuse, a falling reality

The large scale plan
That once where you've now drained from life
A helpless excuse, a falling reality

Who knows the proper reasons,
Why it all begins and ends?
Ignorant and pitiless they stride

"You are but a form",
The clean, harsh silent passes
"Genuine" visions by the noble ones
For the noble ones

[Solo]

"You are but a form",
The clean, harsh silent passes
"Genuine" visions by the noble ones
For the noble ones

11. The New Word

The great word of blessedness
And a feeling of ease
A cup of the well, of freedom and life

We joyfully drink inside all was new
But outwards nothing had changed

Ah

An escapade, then to the altar
To evaluate all parts of the great mystery
But all remains on the same spot,
No signs of a new season

In my hand is a new word,
But the word is still without a body

[Solo]

A hidden life-stream that swells in the deep
Will soon give the word a second face

In my hand is a new word,
But the word is still without a body
In my hand is a new word,
But the word is still without a body

12. Man Made God

[Bonus Track, Instrumental]








IN FLAMES LYRICS