Amorphis 1994 "Tales from the thousand
lakes"
1. Thousand Lakes
(2:04)
2. Into Hiding
(3:46)
3. The Castaway
(5:33)
4. First Doom
(3:52)
5. Black Winter Day
(3:51)
6. Drowned Maid
(4:23)
7. In The Beginning
(3:38)
8. Forgotten Sunrise
(4:54)
9. To Fathers Cabin
(3:50)
10. Magic And Mayhem
(4:28)
THOUSAND LAKES
Music : Martenson
INTO HIDING
Lyrics : trad.
Music : Holopainen, Laine
The islanger slips into
hiding
and takes to his heels
out of dark Northland
the murky house of Sara
he whirled out of doors
as snow
arrives as smoke in the
yard
to flee from bad deeds
There he had to become
someone else
he must change his shape
as an eagle he swept up
wanted to soar heavenward
the sun burnt his cheeks
the moon lit his brows
THE CASTAWAY
Lyrics : trad.
Music : Martenson, Koivusaari, Holopainen, Laine
A bird flew out of Lapland
an eagle from the North
East
One wing ruffled the water
and the other swept the
sky
its tail skimmed the sea
It flutters, it glides
it looks, it turns round
'Why, man are you in the
sea
fellow, among the
billows ?'
Lead : Holopainen,
Koivusaari
FIRST DOOM
Lyrics : Holopainen
Music : Holopainen
The mountains of North
shall erupt and flames
of darkland will raise
Hail to one who hails
Blood for one who bleeds
O you mistress of northland
queen of darkland
I may wash my hands of
the
evil master's blood
For that is no man's doom
which I bring
that is child's doom
and it shall be the First
doom
BLACK WINTER DAY
Lyrics : trad.
Music : Martenson
This is how the lucky
feel
how the blessed think
like daybreak in spring
the sun on a spring morning
But how do I feel
in my gloomy depths ?
Like the flat brink of
a cloud
like a dark night in autumn
a black winter day
no, darker than that
gloomier than an autumn
night
DROWNED MAID
Lyrics : trad.
Music : Koivusaari, Holopainen, Laine
I went to wash at the
shore
I went to bath in the
sea
and there I, a hen, was
lost
I, a bird
untimely died :
Let not my brother
ever in this world
water his war-horse
upon the seashore !
Waters of the sea
so much blood of time
fishes of the sea
so much flesh of mine
Such the death of the
young maid
end of the fair little
hen
IN THE BEGINNING
Lyrics : trad.
Music : Holopainen, Laine
I have a good mind
take into my head
to start of singing
began reciting
We seldom get together
and meet each other
on these poor borders
the luckless lands of
the north
Those words we have got
from the North's furthest
fields,
from the heaths of Kalevala
FORGOTTEN SUNRISE
Lyrics : Holopainen
Music : Holopainen
Once I had a mind
and thoughts was given
But nowadays, in this
evil age
all my sense is somewhere
else
Once I had a soul
I was one with my god
But now I am abandoned
banished from these lies
Long my tale's been in
the cold
for ages has lain hidden
I know how to bewitch
fire
and how to fame flames
I know how to banish worms
and turn snakes away
TO FATHERS CABIN
Lyrics : trad.
Music : Holopainen, Laine
O old man, good god
careful man of heaven
keeper of storm clouds
make misty weather
and create a tiny cloud
in whose shelter I may
go
MAGIC AND MAYHEM
Lyrics : trad.
Music : Holopainen
Hey there, tiny wench
my perpetual serf
put stew in a pot
bring water for the guest
Before we part
before your neck is broken
you strike first
son of the north
AMORPHIS is
:
Tomi Koivusaari - vocals, rhythm guitars
Esa Holopainen - lead guitars
Olli-Pekka Laine - bass
Jan Reehnerger - drums
Kasper Martenson - keyboards & Moog
All music arranged by
AMORPHIS
Lyrics are based on Finnish
national pole book Kalevala
Most of the lyrics are
translated by Keith Bosley
All keyboard section composed
by Martinson
All clean vocals &
speech by Ville Tuomi
Recorded and mixed at
studio SUNLIGHT september 1993
Engineered by Tomas Skogsberg
& AMORPHIS
Produced by Tomas Skogsberg,
AMORPHIS, William J.Yurkiewiez jr.,
Matthew F.Jacobson and
Markus Steiger