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Epistle No. 81 Lyrics

Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
Band
Album

Ancient Dreams

(1988)
TypeAlbum (Studio full-length)
GenresDoom Metal
LabelsActive Records
Ranked#52 for 1988 , #3,103 all-time
Album rating :  87.5 / 100
Votes :  8
8. Epistle No. 81 (4:37)
Track rating :  88.8 / 100       Votes :  4       [ ]
Mark how our shadow, Mark Movits mom frere
One small darkness encloses
How gold and purple that shovel there
To rags and rubbish disposes

Charon beckons from tumultuous waves
Then trice this ancient digger of graves
For thee ne'er grapeskin shall glister
Wherefore my Movits come help me to raise
A gravestone over our sister

Even desirous and modest adobe
Under the sighing branches
Where time and death, a marriage forebode
Twixt beauty and ugliness ashes

To thee ne'er jealousy findeth her way
Nor happiness footstep, swift to stray
Flitteth amid these barrows
E'en enmity armed, as thou seest this day
Piously breaketh her arrow

The little bell echoes the great bells groan
Robed in the door the precentor
Noisome with quiristers prayerful moan
Blesses those, who enter

The way to this templed city of tombs
Climbs amid roses yellowing blooms
Fragments of mouldering biers
Till black-clad each mourner,
His station assumes
Bows there deeply in tears
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Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
Ancient Dreams - Album Credits
Members
  • Messiah Marcolin : Vocals
  • Lars "Lasse" Johansson : Guitars
  • Mats "Mappe" Björkman : Guitars
  • Leif Edling : Bass, Lyrics (tracks 1-7), Songwriting (tracks 1-8)
  • Jan Lindh : Drums
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