Insomnium - Drawn To Black

Drawn To Black from Above The Weeping World (2006)

Wreathed in silence, laid down in shades
Swathed in regrets, deluded astray
Forgotten in half-light, drawn in despair
Soothed in slumber so dreadful and fair

Rending and searing and twisting my dreams
Alone in the gloom with the nightmares unseen

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done

Worthless the pledges, all vows but lies
Fateful her kisses, where a serpent hides
First beckoned to step from the twilight to glare
Then left in the dark for the demons to share

Only the stars see, only the moon hears...

And quietly the water-lilies sigh
Like the last breath of a weary soul
And the weed sway in the dreary waters
Like a girl's dark hair they wave about

And the black stones under my bare feet
Cold and smooth like her milk-white palm
And the silence which falls upon this shore
Resounds now louder than oncoming storm

For all is gone

(Chorus is taken from Francis William Bourdillon's poem The Night Has a Thousand Eyes)

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[pspvampire]

Everyone please copy this message and post it on every Insomnium vid you can find. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++­++++++++++++++++++++++++++

On the 1st of October 2011, we as Insomnium fans will all watch the video for 'Down with the Sun' to give it more hits and get it to that 1million mark.

Insomnium have written the most beautiful music for their fans and it is time we gave them something back.

[demonholocaust101]

pause at 0:35 bottom right hand corner....batman insomnium

[HeadsOfTriglav]

@MrTrueSkier I agree they are horrible now, but saying they didn't pioneer melodeath is like saying Bathory and Mayhem weren't pioneers of black metal...

[rabidmash]

I always get shivers once the double bass kicks in at the end

[godofplunder]

@TheAnarchist33 Does seem strikingly similar in many ways.

[TheAnarchist33]

@godofplunder This reminds me of The Jester Race CD by In Flames...

[Saif0711]

I love Insomnium so fucking much because their lyrics truly capture my imagination.

[godofplunder]

@MrTrueSkier I have to disagree man, In Flames is still amazing and was a major influence on the genra.

[MrTrueSkier]

@jestervision595 INFLAMES SUCKS SINCE THE COMMERCIALIZED THEMSELFVES, THEY TOTALY CHANGED THEIR ORIENTATION' THEY USED TO BE GOOD BUT NOW THEY SUCK. BY THE WAY IN FLAMES AREN'T MELODIC DEATH METAL PIONNIERS AT ALL.

[MrTrueSkier]

@Firemajestix I think everyone here is already listening to it everyday :O

[MeloDeathKT]

@pspvampire lets try that again, with down with the sun. we'll get those 220.000 views in no time. spread the word, brother!