Insomnium - The Harrowing Years

The Harrowing Years by Insomnium
Across the Dark
2009

LYRICS
This I have learnt:
World forces all of us down
the fleeing years bend our backs
love but smears our hearts

Here I now lie still like a broken bow
soul sullen and rigid
with the will to die
sighing after the days long since gone
cursing every step on this ill-fated trail

"In vain I try (to forget) - In vain I try to (to forgive)
Black bird from evening sky - Raven from heaths of night
come and take my cares - carry away the grief
bereave me of my new woes - rend off these earthly throes
fly them to deepest lakes - to the starlit shores"

This I have learnt:
even the sweetest wine turns sour
we work our fingers to the bone
all our efforts of no avail

Here we all are but troubled guests
on darkling earth
lost echoes that pine away
into the dusk
nothing more than the wind to rely on
nothing more than the death
to comfort us in the end

This I have heard:
all ends in serene sleep
all these sorrows are washed away
as we lapse into the night

But I know it`s a lie

Category:

Music

Tags:

• The
• Harrowing
• Years
• Insomnium
• Across
• the
• Dark
• 2009
• melodic
• death
• metal

[crueltyy]

fcking awesome shit from Joensuu,eastern Finland \,,/

[Rogevine]

This is one of the best tracks i have ever heard.

[InsaneBrain85]

Why you have to check the music allways with another one?

Insomnium is great and if i want to listen to it i´ll do that. On antoher fucking day i want listen to COB i´ll do that and i´ll also say COB is great. Every music is great for themself. Also stop to check a Band with another one!

[tanshaomala]

I cried to this song and I'm not afraid to admit it. Just so heavenly and surreal. 4:16

[4232267]

Screw goth and emo, screw scene PERIOD !!!! metal FTW !!!!

[TheDretch]

@Abbath747 I totally agree dude COB sucks shit imo.

[professorbadass69]

@19wayfarer19 I know this post of yours was a while ago, but hell I'll reply anyways

check out Kalmah, Norther and Mors Principium Est. I don't think they're as amazing as Insomnium, but they're definitely worth listening to.

[Abbath747]

@CaptMorgan1st yeah you're right insomnium is not the typically melo death band in case they've got this melancholy touch which i think is awesome, but i can't stand cob... sry

[Powermachine123]

@CaptMorgan1st Its not because its progressive. It is because its melancholic, and it gives this atmosphere that is indescribable.

Progressive is bands like Periphery or Animals As Leaders

[CaptMorgan1st]

@Abbath747 I like to think insomnium is more "progressive" melodeath, whereas CoB is a bit more conventional in their song structure. both are great in my opinion

[15sukanya]

i got goosebums..:O beautiful...

[leomatosuk]

I have been a In Flames fan since the Subterranean time, when they were far to be famous...In flames is now over for me, their last albums really suck....Insomnium is doing real metal...Hail Insomnium and really hope the Swedish could make albums like that if they haven't sold themselves for the american media!