by Agalloch on album Marrow of the Spirit

Written in the waters... (voice of the dead) "Our shadows seep into the dusk like cranes that melt into the pool; a black lake in which they descend pale ghosts caress the nidstång in the dark its f

by Agalloch on album Pale Folklore

Oh dismal mourning I open my weary eyes once again My life has been left hollow And ashes have filled the gorge of my within Last night I hope and wished I'd die in my sleep But no catharsis was grant

by Agalloch on album The Mantle

Like snowfall, you cry a silent storm Your tears paint rivers on this oaken wall. . . Amber nectar, misery ichor . . .cascading in streams of hallowed form For each stain, a forsaken shadow You are t

by Agalloch on album Pale Folklore

I saw the nightfall... It called to me like a river of shadows It sang to me with the cries of a thousand ravens that blackened the sky as they took flight I shall never trust the sun again, Eridanis

by Agalloch on album Pale Folklore

Oh dismal mourning... i open my weary eyes once again my life has been left hollow and ashes have filled the gorge of my within last night i hoped and wished i'd die in my sleep but no catharsis was g

by Agalloch on album Pale Folklore

Oh dismal mourning... i open my weary eyes once again my life has been left hollow and ashes have filled the gorge of my within last night i hoped and wished i'd die in my sleep but no catharsis was g

by Agalloch on album The Serpent & The Sphere

I have arrived at the corridor of infinity; the great hall where the ages are kept Behind ancient ash and primordial iron The past is a mirror... aeons exist in a myriad cast The vale before me; my ow

by Agalloch on album The Serpent & The Sphere

"Teach me your mood, o patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. Leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age. No fear to die." "My allegiance is with the inner self The dark celes

by Agalloch on album The Serpent & The Sphere

Cast away in solitude between the divide of dimensions Frozen in timeless aura, a catalyst of colors The abyss... I was born in the fibers of oblivion; the saturnine keeper of mystery and malevolent p

by Agalloch on album The Serpent & The Sphere

The firmament above the horizon of history, Heathen fires burn the ancestral night. Esoteric figures move across the Arcane plateau with their symbols engraved in the sky. The astral plane and the li

by Agalloch on album The Serpent & The Sphere

Towers... Deity forged architecture Swirling in and out of form Enveloped in the arms of dark matter Towers... mercurial and flowing... My work is done Pillars... From an antediluvian bane Collapsin

by Agalloch on album Marrow of the Spirit

Written in the waters... (voice of the dead) "Our shadows seep into the dusk like cranes that melt into the pool; a black lake in which they descend pale ghosts caress the nidstång in the dark its f

by Agalloch on album Marrow of the Spirit

Blue textures cascade downward to the base of the monolith Like brush strokes on a canvas of souls Two arms reach out a cloak of silent nihil Revenants untouched by the scythe They are lost in the dar

by Agalloch on album Where Shade Once Was

Where shade once was, the oak tree in a sprawl Of death no longer writhing against the wind. The people say: "I see now. It was tall." And here and there slight nests of spring now find Themselves de

by Agalloch on album Whitedivisiongrey

Here I sit at the fire Liquor’s bitter flames warm my languid soul Here I drink alone, and remember A graven life, the stain of her memory In this cup, love’s poison — For love is the poison o

by Agalloch on album Faustian Echoes

[Faust:] "I, Johannes Faust, do call upon thee, Mephistopheles!" [Faust:] O growing Moon, didst thou but shine A last time on this pain of mine Behind this desk how oft have I At midnight seen thee r

by Agalloch on album Ashes Against the Grain

The god of man is a failure Our fortress is burning against the grain of the shattered sky Charred birds escape from the ruins and return as cascading blood Dying bloodbirds pooling, feeding the flood

by Agalloch on album Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves, The brilliant moon and all the milky sky, And all that famous harmony of leaves, Had blotted out man's image and his cry. A girl arose that had red mournful li

by Agalloch on album Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor

...It was not long ago when I had fallen from this mortal world, lost in dream flight to pierce the horizon as a bird... Is this life the pillor I must bear? To grow in this wretched world? ...With h

by Wappenbund on album A Way to the Empire of Light