***Eluveitie***EVERYTHING REMAINS AS IT NEVER WAS***2010***

Otherworld Did we ever change? To be sold into slavery

I still can hear Kingdom Come Undone
Where ere thou hast been, Thousandfold The cries of the raped
here or in yon world manifest. And the bellow of the flames While the noose is tightening
Canst thou tell Sprinkled by the trappings The hymn of absurd death You still sit here on your fleeting
what is, or what was, or what is Of words that make the outlines throne
to come? Blur on the showplace that made Heed the chronicles So busy with your own little feuds
No thing shall last history Of lucrative genocide And your own blinker crowns
and there are things that shall The folk is willed The annals of effaced tribes
never change. To parrot the dished up tale Pages written in blood But we all are Gauls
History is written in blood, The lure of a higher meaning And we are free at least by now
yet are battles really lost Ave Caesar Augustus So take the fucking plunge
on the battlefields? Cheat, you had to create It's done, my friend Rise and unite
Canst thou tell me whence thou An enemy stereotype It's over and done
comest To retrieve your absolution Arise!
and where thou goest A forthy poor excuse for your foray The Essence Of Ashes United we'll stand!
and what is, or what was, or To disengage from the deeps
what is to come? of your encumbrance And it came to pass in those This is v for vengeance
For everything remains as it leaden days This is v for vehemence
never was. Behold That a plain, poor man got This is v for victory
All our gold sick of his yoke of This is v for Vercingetorix
Everything Remains As It Thousandfold condemned soil
Never Was Bereave me! And a foreign empires Let them feel the Gaulish violence
Declined hungry purse Impetuous furor
Who will measure the Truths ensign Time to replace the pitchfork The bite of our blades
dimensions of antumnos? Forever mine! with the sword Let them see our freedom's ensign
Who can tell the gauge of its Bereave me! And sound the anthem of Let us raise our clenched fists in
veil? sheer rebellion pride
Who can manifest the size of March in with ten legions
its maw? Whilst the crucial weapon's not he Enough! What benefit will it be
And infer the value of its pillum Once too often! To save your crowns but forfeit
stones? But the feather held in your hand Enough is enough! your freedom at last?
Penned in blood We are one folk and we can make a
Yet the glowing wick will not Your tall tales rule the forum We strive not for war stand
be quenched Altering it into the battlefield We just crave to have our So lay down your crowns now
The sown fire will never die home Rise and Unite
I, the spectral guise We just seek to have our
What is Evoking these baring fears rights Bestir!
What ever was Pestering your conscript fathers That our fathers used to have Wake up!
What ever is to come I smile at my demise and while I die As one we'll prevail!
What would I cherish the roots of my But we tasted the grime and
What ever should perseverance. blood This is v for verdict
It will remain as it never was We tasted the essence of This is v for valour
Nil ashes This is v for venture
Eternity's past was repeated in This is revolt
time Curtain's up for this lurid age A glowing spark This is kingdom come undone
The eternal knot will be Clear the ring for oppression and Rising up from blazing
unbroken greed flames Quoth The Raven
Whence comes the motion in Welcome to this wasteland To lead the forlorn and the
this picture? Of blight and havoc wroth I am the mystery
Where does the moment go Once known as my home The epitome of hope and And I am the bringer of the
when it steals away? freedom moonless night
Who will pen the pages of the Deleting fulfilled! A daring venture I bear the wisdom arcane
time? Erasing procedure done! A frenetic attempt I, harbinger from the burrowed isle
Who will be the audience when Cleansing complete! When Amandus was slain
the curtains rises? It's done, my friend, The Bagundae still sang Once you break forth
it's over and done! Hearken the flap of my wings
Where do we go. question
mark. There was nothing left I haunt tour fears
What have we become. But the smell of salassian blood Though you don't know of my duty
question mark. Nil and nothing left To lead your path
Whither went what was. But the braying void in our homes Because I'll take you home to rest
question mark. In my black wings enfolding you
Shall there ever be dawn. I never forgot the eyes of the kids
question mark. Wrested from their moms I am the icon sublime
The guide of the voyage For glories extinct The four mighty ones The Liminal Passage
clandestine You waged to evoke The high kings concealed
I sing the verses bewailed My wrath, my weakness [Instrumental]
I, torch of the radiant way And my innermost craving for... Giving birth to the glimmer
within Setlon
Once you step out Gallia Incessantly fostering the
Hearken the strokes of my In the name of my tribe flames... [Instrumental]
wings In the name of my greed
Once you will leave your I became the minion Glowing and blazing Isara
cocoon In the name of the Gauls In the wind of times
I will be there In the name of the kneeled Ever lit [dedicated to Isara]
In the name the fold, the name of the Searching and fathoming
And death will smile his sold Sparks to imbue [Instrumental]
barefaced smile I became Rome's slave Our very souls.
Initiating your final anguish Lament*Vên (2003)*
It is not before my arrival Dumnorix, I did quite weep when I Lugdūnon
that you will be led to feel betrayed us all I wonder what we've become...
the natural serenity of leaving To save us all at the threshold of our We set forth A land so full of ritches bought
this world... demise A retinue with blood!
Hear my wings caressing the Be my penance, be my nemesis With steed and cart A land so free, yet chasing for
wind! For I sold my soul... So we roved the land wind...
Hear my cry! Stealthily As we look up to false giant
In the name of Gallia - welcome me, We sallied out emperors
I haunt your fear ferryman! To find new shores We've lost our pride of old, the
Though you don't know my In the name of my greed - welcome As the passage led innocence is gone!
duty me, ferryman!
To lead your path In the name the Gauls Set sail, ye hearts Clan of Elveti
Because I'll take you home to In the name of the kneeled Into the sea of hope Weep for your land
rest In the name of the fold, the name of The druid blessed ....and your children!
In my black wings, enfolding the sold This mount froseen
you. I came to die. We grudged no pains What if we'd still be proud and
We faced distress simple minded?
Sempiternal Embers Yet a glowing wick What if there would not be so much
Kindles fire... blood on our invisible hands?
(Do)minion Glowing and blazing What if there would not be billions
In the wind of times Alike a liminal place to feed the lusts of war?
I, the vermin, the leader, the Ever lit A dormant beacon we faced What if not all these subtile hidden
failure Searching and fathoming The haven foretold injustices?
Brother, I shall not weep when The fire's arcane A fortress of ages to come
you meet your doom Consuming flames What if there would not be a state
Not again shall I be your Sparks to imbue At the rise of a new dawn church
saviour Our very souls Woke the daughter of the sun Built on hypocrisy, instead on
This nation is moribund, you Wafted on black wings faith?
just can't see Pervading the very breath of life Vastly soaring boding skies What if we'd still be a simple clan
We have to align with the Flickering from the depths of eternity of nature
mighty We followed With all its frailties but with some
Lose your soul or lose your life Never asleep The rites of old knowledge of righteousness?
Never extinct As we stock out
In the name of Gallia Not ever ceasing to gleam The ordained new land Druid*Vên (2003)*
In the name of my tribe Never sear We held our breath
In the name of my greed The sempiternal embers As the skies got black Mysteries of life, mysteries of
I became the minion Never profaned And a storm arose death
In the name of the Gauls Never fail A swarm of crows Mysteries of mountain and forest,
In the name of the kneeled Not ever ceasing to refine mysteries of nature
In the name of the fold, the Never forfeit Lo and behold! Mysteries of the sky, mysteries of
name of the sold Never faint The black birds branched out the earth
I became the lie The sempiternal embers A circle wide Mysteries of dreams, mysteries of
In the riven skies love
Brother, I shall not weep The essence of being They lined the nemeton
When you sail to the isles The form of existence Of the fulgent hill Mysteries of the soul, mysteries of
Atlantic or otherworldly Forever inflamed with passion and again, and again, and mankind
Be my sentence, be my Heart of hearts again Mysteries of thoughts, mysteries of
punishment Burning so bright The presage witnessed words
Be the sword to piece my heart Yet clandestine Mysteries of pains, mysteries of
Adiantunne ni exverti healings
You dared to contest Gleaming in the lair Adiantunne di nappisetu Mysteries of answers, mysteries of
My dear-bought crown Of the powers to be mysteries
 Well, how does it feel, the blood on I've been a flower on the
No objectivity lies there to be your hands? green pasture Silence! Those mouths are stuffed
preached, but yet no relativity I hope you had a ball in effacing I've been the song of a bird by truth
No doctrine shall be found on lives! And the vast roar of a bear Hark! At the ruins of the vile I will
my lips, for its thruth I seek to Well, how does it feel, the blood on I am a lump of this vivid soil dance
give your hands? I'm the brother of the trees ... in victory!
I hope the gold you've won bestows a chthonian lot of this earth
Drus, Animongaro your delight! They don't heed the eternal
Lover of God Breathe this dream, and let I can see the fruits
I give the love, that I am given ...standing at the top of all the ruin your soul inhale it! of a spirit putrescent
With the truth against the world you have left... Bare and naked, let us dance
watch our wives remigrate with on the meadows The ogre burning heretics
Through the mysteries of life, I crooked backs... the cleansing stake
wander on my path Revel within this nature I'm not daunted by distress
And seek to give some wisdom, ...Of Fire, Wind & Wisdom which we're all a part of. for all lie in inanity.
that I am given Free this wolf forever! but some stretched out their hands
This little flame of mine. I will ...the endless knot .... the holy grove... Free this child! Indui uelui and touched the awen.
always let it shine ...the threshold ... the place beyond... cantla canamos.
For all who wander, to the ...I enter, like a newborn child.... The Endless Knot
glory of the mystery Tegernakô
Embracing the eternal As the shore is not sea nor land,
Like a consuming fire A folk of cheeriness and like the time between the times
the knowledge grows strength where the dawning is not day nor
Spirit (2006) when it's cleft content with the life they night
Your Gaulish War Though still patchworked lived you are between the worlds....
yet flooding So-called barbarians yet with
Fraught with so much greed, the creating touch eyes cleared Endless circle, bearing my
imperial needs. washing away the vile. for what they truly need and footprints
Satisfy your hunger for might what damn not With fast-sure-hand you guide my
and blood! Embracing the ancient steps
With greedy claws the eagle while trees gently whisper free and plain
flew those intimate Ans so I trod on your endless paths
Leaving chaos and widows on longed-for words Barbarians, farmers and And travel on throughout eternity
his hunt. The greet wheel savages In these labyrinths of life
is still revolving counted as ignorant and Not to know what the next step will
We do not accept to bear the with untouchable sovereignty uncivil bring
half-moon on our feet so invulnerable. But told to bow before the
Nor to bow, to the laurel emperors throne And so I trust in your endless paths
wreath! Into the sacred grove I drown they were at least not venal And travel on throughout eternity
The endless knot In these labyrinths of life,
"Haec terra mea est" - the urge draws me into True and plain freedom - of Not to know what the next step will
of your own want the fire of hearts, the place beyond this natures clan bring
spurring the horse towards the Then I'll be born True and plain pride - of this
devastating aint. then I'll be renewed Celtic clan You keep the worlds aligned
It's the pauper that accrouches - True and plain dignity - You bond b'tween soul and flesh
bared indigence ...naked spirit ... bare... Tegernako! You draw to the heart of hearts
Your need should cost Spirit. With wisdom beyond fate
unnumbered lives! Not for riches, not for sway
The Song Of Life not for economic benefits Endless knot, bearing my footprints
might and riches you have met they the emperors With fast-sure-hand you guide my
sought, I've been fire, fed by the four winds requirements steps
willing to pay the price in I've been water in the stream for freedom can't be bought.
human lives! And a drop of dew on the culm Slania (2008)
I've been clay in the hands of a potter The Dance Of Victory
False and fallacious, killing and I've been rosin of a tree Primordial Breath
omnivorous And a leaf, by the breeze carried The most heinous con
depleting the value of human away refuge of evil The calling wind on my face
life! cloven tongues that speak of Waving from the summoning of
But we always knew: You I've been a child of seven spirits truth giants
came with fortune I've been an eagle in the skies With false, specious words That heals my soul
and one day you'd come with And the swashing fish in the lough they sold what can't be
steel! fulgent bought The virile fragrance of alpine tor
I've been star in the loosing sky Acherontic saints of holy The blowing breath of this fold
We did not accept to bear the I've been a tear in the wind sales. That dreams me
half-moon on our feet! And a word within paean
A tort that pays it wage death? Damn bloody lies Pervading every single nook of
Burn me alive existence
 20 years I have walked your barrows Like disaffected legions Darkness roaming the land
Veidon anatlâ Years of emulous youth taken, lure Long dead the skylarks chant
Trireinos koilon monis pantos I followed the path of the wise I wonder what lies, what The dark vis usurped command
Volevos kaion moricus threat or promise To impart the sallow robe
Ni têrsos tenkos sves nâus- There it all was sown Persuaded them to leave their
anatia The inspiration home so far away Sure a new light will come
In litaviâ votno-ûrâ Removing the seven seals ...did they really know? The lifewheel is rotating onward
Mê anatlô There it was revealed Given is the promise
Enigma of freedom As the carnyx roared aloud Thus assertive we wear on
Qe tebô lama deivos skver- Unclosing an unseen door. I quaked not, yet just asked
ollos myself Life-given impellent, devoted to
Gray Sublime Archon How their hearts took the the sublime round.
[English translation:] bait,
I raise my hand against ye, thief! These sweetened words of Slanias Song
Mumbling breath For we're accustomed to receive, bitter essence
Flowing through the loins of Not to give hostages Grim battles
my pain Hear these words! deeds are overt! Face to face with nameless Against countless foes
Plashing at the havens foes Have steeled you
Of homeless sailors As chaos evolves Scorching words, unspoken From the shores of the Rhine
Mooring their soulships at the In worthless lies lorn To the top of the Alps,
urgrounds shore Unheard quests remain the Your fair meadows,
I breathe in A crucial congress ashes of the dead Your rank heathlands
At saônes banks
And touch the hand of the all- Forsooth we'll bear the brunt The choirs of bards
pervading Gray Sublime Archon I've been Upright in life or in death Sing the glory
called Yet still the countless cries Of the undying names
Laden with the burden of this Through all these years I bore up echo Of fallen heroes,
life Now may we all stay the course In silenced caves of nothing. That gave their lives,
The barque sails through This day Their blood
endless waters The Somber Lay For the freedom of their fatherland.
Deep and dark I raise my hand against it all
I question now, did I fail? A murky presage roaming Oh Sovereignty of my fathers
Yet gestated pristinely and free Or retain our dignity the land Oh land of my countrymen!
Escorting to the biding warmth And shelter of this defilement? To silence the skylarks chant From your root sprang
Of the womb The somber kiss is at hand A glorious nation
To impart the crimson robe Of dure heroes.
"I'm a bard do you not
vouchsafe my secrets to slaves Heed the darksome maid Oh dulcet blossom of the living
I am a guide a judge if you sow Bloodstained Ground Dancing across this equinox world!
you will labour" To relegate persistence Oh my fatherland, oh my Helvetia!
What did I close in here? As the bleak darkness grows
Inis Mona I can't remember ever shedding tears Your woman and maids
o'spite A cryptal impellent, devoted Noble and fair,
Welcome to the land of On this ground, cropping up the fatal to the sublime round Your highest men
questions frontline To this bravesong
Welcome to the isle of lore Beholden for the boons of They join in
Where the veil came crumbling Like a soot-blackened palisade yet light The sword in my hand
down Impelled, void and abulic Retreating into quietness Stand up and sing:
Legions delineate an omnious skyline We harken the somber lay
There it all began, We sing the somber lay Tarvos
The germination As lifeless demons without soul
Unveiling a cryptic door These insentient hosts abide Close your eyes and heed and In a virgin world primeval
There it was revealed Engulfing war monger get away from vide A newborn bullcalf emerged
Hopes and aspirations here! Then you shall see Wondrous and celestial
Unclosing an enthralled door The sphere revolves as it's Three cranes to be its witness and
Trod ye the path of vast deceit? promised droves
Escalate the sense Every piece of evidence was a lie Its honour mantled the face of the
Enhancing to join the dawn The war, the threat's a hyping fake Flames flickering deftly earth
To move figures on the board! To banish the nipping air
I close my eyes, Inis Mona The dark time is at hand A blessing unleashed to the earth
And reminisce of those palmy Stain bibractes ground! Lighted by bardic chant Unseathed the embodiment of life
days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona What do you see in me? Heed the darksome maid Tarvos - the embodiment of life
As long as I breathe Do you breathe-in dreams? To enwrap all in bleakness Tarvos - the genesis of time
I'll call you my home What spurred you to come here? A dark veil o'silence
An oneiric picture of beeing... As quiet insight buds The earthy heathlands roamed by
esus
Questing condign sacrifice Sown into deep darkness She hasn't come to crush
A divine yearning hushed by The grain has to die, perish to bestow your bones, nor tear your
the prodigy new life flesh.
Three cranes to wake up the She has come to steal your
slumbering taur A vis major painting a rapturous view sanity with just one glance.
To warn him 'gainst the Heralding a vivid thema
imminence of a huntergod Voveso In Mori
ravenous Heed, it's like calling the rain [English translation:]
It's like bearing in pain
"A drawn struggle through Like embracing life an decaying in In the ocean of my tears I
innominate days death drown.
As ultimately the sword of esus Heed, it's like calling the rain Howling winds are bending
Pierced the bulls heart It's like the caress of a mother my mast
Three cranes to lament as its Like life to go withered, a perennial and my longing deepens with
blood laves pneuma every dram.
Creation wept under an I will not forget what I arose from
eclipsing sun Welcome, my shore
As gloom descended upon Decidual the forests proclaim Welcome, silent wave
world The glory primal, the rapturous In the ocean of my tears I
Three cranes to catch a drop of supremacy drown.
blood Vanquishing the vile
And leave far away..." Burgeoning beyond, bearing the
essence of life
A blessing depraved from the
world Crave for the rapture again
As snow fell for the first time Long for the pristine light
on earth

Three cranes returned Elembivos

Pouring out the blood
To the ground of tarvos' death The light, the life, the strength, the
And out of nothing harvest, gratefulness
The soil sacrified, the divine In four moons the antlered on will go
bull was reborn to rest
Under a newborn sun nature
rejoiced Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
Thus spring came back on earth (2009)
Overcame the brumal reign
Through esus came back Sacrapos - At First Glance
To fell the bull, the eternal
cycle has begun [Spoken:]
In a contented manner she sits by the
Tarvos - will always be slain bonfire sanctimoniously thanking you
Tarvos - ever to be reborn for the hospitality.
again Her treacherous intentions as cold as
the occasional drafts of wind piercing
your back.
Calling The Rain
You mistake the twinkle in her eyes
A nexus fruition for pure warm-heartedness, and have
Whirling cognition no premonition of their effect on you.
Ulterior, the failing of words
A bleak smile flickering on her lips,
A pageant to leave me she beholds you with algid
bewildered satisfaction, as in her sinister mind,
Lurch at the sight of the you become her prey, her treasure,
clandestine ascendancy the sacrifice on the alter of her own
Pervading anima lust.
An awe-struck principle, an
adytum to find our home Cursed and sacred, this arcane
exercise, disembodied fiend waving
Long for the rapture again through her gaze.
Crave for the pristine light Being a virtuoso of deceit and
perfidiousness, she leaves you with
Vastness engulfing the soul no chance of escape from what is
Unfurling this truth, an orbit in happening in your mind.
sovreignity