Lyrics for Perdition City
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Ok, I've transcribed them by ear, and if anyone could help me correct them I'd be very thankful.
Thanks in advance guys.
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Lost In Moments
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[Norweigian]
What's the meaning of this voyage?
To talk in a dream
So many bends and these years we've been together passed
And all this time she was tremendously excited
About everything she saw
Everything we had talked about
Every detail of every moment that had passed
Ready
One, two
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Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses
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I remember walking, one side of town to the other
Alone one night in January... or February
It's like in an old movie from some other land
It lasted for hours
Only streelights
And the grating of gravel in pedestrian subways
I remember some trees which stood black and naked
Weather-beaten hollows of snow
With sparse lumps of ice,
Been scraped off by the wind alone
And on the stairs before I left
One of the girls had surprisingly given me a kiss
Stung in the cold long after
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We Are the Dead
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Ghosts present, ghost music in the radio at night,
when you can't sleep, in the line of shadows
around the glowing red eye.
Voices that talk and talk towards nothing,
so that nothing's hollow role shall not slide
in on the scene in the solitary theater.
And the voices laugh loud, so the candles flicker
and go out, without noticing how dark it becomes.
And he who records the voices of the spirits
of the dead. On the tape filled with buzz and
cosmic noise you can hear their remote voices
form German words; they say: Wir sind die Toten,
which is true, whoever they might be.
The total inaccessibility of silence, it shines in the
wall-mirror when you've left, and disappears
when you return. No silence in death's silence.
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Dead City Centres
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You’re taking a ride to the underworld
Where death lurks in dark corners
And trouble is never far away
Wild gangs rule by fear and prey on the weak
Lone killers haunt the highways
And dark forces move through the shadows
In this lowlife realm of freaks and psychos
Only the tough or the streetwise survive
And you might be big, but to stay big
You’ve got to keep moving, stay sharp and hit first
Enter a deadly future where no prisoners are taken
And the killing never stops
Enter the underworld
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Nowhere/Catastrophe
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You fly, or rather float, drift
Through an enormous dark room
A room of noises
Endless shimmering glissandi
Crackling pizzicato
Coal black, turbulence holes of bass drones
But otherwise empty
No planets, no meteorites
If anything, perhaps fine dust clouds of exploded music
You float there, somewhere between pleasure and fear
In a piece of time you can't determine
You're everywhere but in the present
Hey you disappear further and further
Into these incalculable rooms
And your personality fades away
Your features evaporate, your body decomposes
And your last thought is that you have become a noise
A thin, nameless noise among all the others
Howling in the empty dark room
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Thanks in advance guys.
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Lost In Moments
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[Norweigian]
What's the meaning of this voyage?
To talk in a dream
So many bends and these years we've been together passed
And all this time she was tremendously excited
About everything she saw
Everything we had talked about
Every detail of every moment that had passed
Ready
One, two
--------------------------------------
Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses
--------------------------------------
I remember walking, one side of town to the other
Alone one night in January... or February
It's like in an old movie from some other land
It lasted for hours
Only streelights
And the grating of gravel in pedestrian subways
I remember some trees which stood black and naked
Weather-beaten hollows of snow
With sparse lumps of ice,
Been scraped off by the wind alone
And on the stairs before I left
One of the girls had surprisingly given me a kiss
Stung in the cold long after
---------------
We Are the Dead
---------------
Ghosts present, ghost music in the radio at night,
when you can't sleep, in the line of shadows
around the glowing red eye.
Voices that talk and talk towards nothing,
so that nothing's hollow role shall not slide
in on the scene in the solitary theater.
And the voices laugh loud, so the candles flicker
and go out, without noticing how dark it becomes.
And he who records the voices of the spirits
of the dead. On the tape filled with buzz and
cosmic noise you can hear their remote voices
form German words; they say: Wir sind die Toten,
which is true, whoever they might be.
The total inaccessibility of silence, it shines in the
wall-mirror when you've left, and disappears
when you return. No silence in death's silence.
-----------------
Dead City Centres
-----------------
You’re taking a ride to the underworld
Where death lurks in dark corners
And trouble is never far away
Wild gangs rule by fear and prey on the weak
Lone killers haunt the highways
And dark forces move through the shadows
In this lowlife realm of freaks and psychos
Only the tough or the streetwise survive
And you might be big, but to stay big
You’ve got to keep moving, stay sharp and hit first
Enter a deadly future where no prisoners are taken
And the killing never stops
Enter the underworld
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Nowhere/Catastrophe
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You fly, or rather float, drift
Through an enormous dark room
A room of noises
Endless shimmering glissandi
Crackling pizzicato
Coal black, turbulence holes of bass drones
But otherwise empty
No planets, no meteorites
If anything, perhaps fine dust clouds of exploded music
You float there, somewhere between pleasure and fear
In a piece of time you can't determine
You're everywhere but in the present
Hey you disappear further and further
Into these incalculable rooms
And your personality fades away
Your features evaporate, your body decomposes
And your last thought is that you have become a noise
A thin, nameless noise among all the others
Howling in the empty dark room
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Verago
Member
Great job, man!
I´ve listened to the music while reading your lyrics and they sounded correct to me.
Just one really small detail: I think the first line in "We are the dead" says
"Ghost´s presence, ghost music in the radio at nights" (instead of "ghost present").
Btw, are you sure that the wispering at the beginning of "Lost in Moments" is Norwegian? I´m not sure, but I think I get some short phrases like "long way", "madness" or "...and nice"(?). But I might be totally wrong! The words are just too silent and drowned by the sax to get them properly...
Thanks for sharing this!
I´ve listened to the music while reading your lyrics and they sounded correct to me.
Just one really small detail: I think the first line in "We are the dead" says
"Ghost´s presence, ghost music in the radio at nights" (instead of "ghost present").
Btw, are you sure that the wispering at the beginning of "Lost in Moments" is Norwegian? I´m not sure, but I think I get some short phrases like "long way", "madness" or "...and nice"(?). But I might be totally wrong! The words are just too silent and drowned by the sax to get them properly...
Thanks for sharing this!
NAD
What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
Thanks for the Nowhere/Catastrophe lyrics! I've searching those for months and months ever since I got the CD!
Just messing around, and I thank you for the transcription. I will print them out and sing along with delightful glee this eve.
Just messing around, and I thank you for the transcription. I will print them out and sing along with delightful glee this eve.
Blue Moon
Staring at the Sun
When you listen closely to Future Sound of Music, there are lyrics too, muffled in the background. But I guess they are totally impossible to understand properly. Kind of frustrating...
IcemanJ256
Dark Overlord
wow, I never knew the lyrics were so interesting and good, especially on Nowhere/Catastrophe. I guess I haven't payed much attention to the lyrics, even though I've listened to it so many times...
Here's another one...
Ulver - Gnosis
(found on: Metamorphosis EP 1999)
Science - The new aristocracy
Progress - The world is on the march
Why shouldn’t it turn too?
It’s the vision of numbers.
We are moving towards the Spirit.
Certainly deserted: It’s the voice of the oracle, what I say.
Understand, and not knowing how to express myself without using hidden words.
I prefer to remain silent
(original excerpt from Arthur Rimbaud’s “Bad Blood”
Science! The new nobility! Progress. The world progresses!
Why shouldn’t it turn as well?
It’s the vision of numbers. We advance towards the Spirit.
It’s quite certain: it’s oracular, what I say. I know, and unaware how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather be mute
Ulver - Gnosis
(found on: Metamorphosis EP 1999)
Science - The new aristocracy
Progress - The world is on the march
Why shouldn’t it turn too?
It’s the vision of numbers.
We are moving towards the Spirit.
Certainly deserted: It’s the voice of the oracle, what I say.
Understand, and not knowing how to express myself without using hidden words.
I prefer to remain silent
(original excerpt from Arthur Rimbaud’s “Bad Blood”
Science! The new nobility! Progress. The world progresses!
Why shouldn’t it turn as well?
It’s the vision of numbers. We advance towards the Spirit.
It’s quite certain: it’s oracular, what I say. I know, and unaware how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather be mute
IcemanJ256
Dark Overlord
NFU
I like pie.
IcemanJ256
Dark Overlord
it could make sense... it was scraped off by the long duration of winter... nevermind :[jeanreno said:Which makes zero sense.
Kains D
Am I my brother's keeper?
Blackened Rainbow
Member
Blackened Rainbow said:
Holy shit, I posted this thread in 2003, talk about megabump. Blackened Rainbow, those look like the same lyrics I posted a year and a half ago in this very thread, looks like someone submitted them to darklyrics for me. Oh well.
Blackened Rainbow
Member
i did not check the date man...
i just saw topic and write..
if that lyrics is your lyrics mail to darklyrics. they must write your name under it...
take care.
i just saw topic and write..
if that lyrics is your lyrics mail to darklyrics. they must write your name under it...
take care.
No problem.
I would email them but after listening to Perdition City again I can hear things I missed back then. I may make a few corrections. I also looked around with Google and it seems these lyrics have spread to many sites. Next time I'll make sure they're right.
If anyone wants to help out with fixing these up, please let me know.
I would email them but after listening to Perdition City again I can hear things I missed back then. I may make a few corrections. I also looked around with Google and it seems these lyrics have spread to many sites. Next time I'll make sure they're right.
If anyone wants to help out with fixing these up, please let me know.
Danny7468
Member
Yeah, this is the official one: http://www.jester-records.com/ulver/. Not much information there though.
Kains D
Am I my brother's keeper?
jeanreno said:
jeanreno said:
Like the Norweigian stuff? I'm dying to know what does it mean.
On a similar note: Does anyone can understand what Trickstah is singing in Christmas? My speakers are dead (pun-intended) and let's add that I suck at understanding lyrics...
