/ P /Peccatum / Strangling From Within(1999)

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Part One: The black and white was meant for nothing.
          The shadows meant for ALL.

  1. Where Do I Then Belong
  2. Speak Of The Devil (As The Devil May Care)
  3. The Change
  4. The Song Wich No Name Carry
  5. The Sand Was Made Of Mountains
     Part Two: The Carrier of Sorrow transforms
  6. I Breathe Without Access To Air
  7. The World Of No Worlds
  8. And Pray For Me
  9. An Ovation To Art


Where Do I Then Belong

Hail Thee; my brother;
My angel of nothing and all
Why did you welcome your own kin;
Spawn of the ultimate sin
If not with you; where do I then belong?

And even the kingdom of death
Rejected my existence
As a human being
Neither was I to be welcomed
Among Gods nor Angels

I am walking around
In life itself
But as my eyes meet reality
All I can see is death mingled
With misery; And I still walk

Reveal your care
Hear my final prayer;
My darkest call
Confirm to me and for all
Where do I then belong?

The feet of mine
Can no longer walk towards Thine
So my dearest brother; I beg you
To walk, at last, my steps for me
And guide me back to Thee


Speak Of The Devil (As The Devil May Care)

The prepare
Once upon a forest
The expression sought my mind
Yet I could not find
The purpose of its birth
Nor the scope of his dominion

The move
Once upon a blue moon
The state of immortality
Is offered to mankind
Yet I could only
Whisper the name of Thine

The wait
Once upon a time
Yet in the state
Of both mourning and longing
Waiting to proceed
Towards the end of the beginning

The meeting
Once and not for all
There was no withdrawal
I could just let my self
Be carried that way
This was to be my dying star

The end
Once upon the death
The life was not mine to be
My own funeral
Was my surroundings
As the end revealed itself to me

The awakening
Once upon a birth
An adult was to see
The secrets of pregnancy
As I screamed once more
I was made forever be...


The Change

Slowly, as I speak
The clouds darkens behind me
My glance stiffens
And further and further it goes
Too far away is that I crave
The fatal distance kills me
Yet I can never die

The change arise from within
Not from resting in
The past nor kin
It's conquest is to win

Regardless of the mission
I can not show you my vision
Nor can you understand
That my journey ends in shadowland

Slowly, as you speak
The clouds darkens behind you
Your glance stiffens
And further and further it goes
Too far away is that you crave
The fatal distance kills you
Yet you can never die

The black and white
Was meant for nothing
The shadows meant for all
Behold the barriers of
Wisdom call


The Song Wich No Name Carry

The past led me into
The arms of the present
Darkness was made into
Something even darker
While the vague shadow
Was made into a manifesto
And as the axe of truth fell
I died

He shalt be reborn
And in an unknown
Manifestation he shalt
Again wander the earth
As he shalt be reborn

I died, I died again
I died even once more
The soul of mine could
Fly, its wings belonged
to the angel of death
And it showed me the way
Of everlasting raindrops
As I died

As the angelic rain wept
Passed the wings of death
I was again put to the sword
With desire crying for
The tears of the lord
And as much as I longed
No never revealed its secret
The madness where darkness
Transforms into a darker darkness

Drops of rain covered me
And I finally become wet
Tears are dripping from me now
Down to the father of men
Are you my fellow angel
Can inhale the spirits of no
Age and origin
Again...

As she felt the rain she died
She died again and she died even once more

And they shalt be reborn
From where they were forlorn
With the power to destroy
Everything standing in their way


The Sand Was Made Of Mountains

Hvorfor formorket du mitt morke
Hvorfor morkner det I meg?

As I shalt write
Your name in the sand
My own land
Will fade too late
And where do I then hide

The sand was meant
For nothing
The moonlight meant
For all
But resentful too
Giving my betrayal to you

The sand was made
Of mountains
The clouds belonged
To the sky
And grateful too
Having received wisdom
From you


I Breathe Without Access To Air

The wind escapes
The present of mine
Leaving stillness behind
"The state of suffocation
- of suffocation"
I breathe without
Access to air

There is no option
There is no freedom
When abandoned in
The state of manifestation

Once more and once again
My lungs are receiving
The air which nothing brings
"The state of starvation
- of starvation"
Forcing me to strangle
From within


The World Of No Worlds

When I opened my eyes
I could again device
The way I saw when I was;
But I was not yet born
The time of my arise
Was the sunset
And as men was thrown at me
The eclipse became the eye of mine

The eclipse of men caught me
Inside a human pestered earth
Father earth; Holy mother;
Save me from the land of loneliness
And return to me the divined
Gift of solitude

And as men was thrown at me
The eclipse became the eye of mine
I was not able to see the dark
Because of the darkness
While chaos of emptiness
Tormented the voices of silence
And as I fought the voices of time
A crow finally
Revealed before me

A crow finally
Revealed before me
Yet as my eyes fought back the dark
The darkness came to me
The home of men exploded;
The sun fell
And the shadow of Thee
Finally embraced me
The world of no worlds
Was again mine to be


And Pray For Me

I am born
But still not living

And pray for her
When her soul descends

Living the life
Known to mankind

And pray for her
When gloom moves into mourning

Born out of darkness
And sculptured into the shape of
brightness

And pray for her
When the blood of hers reveals

I was set to be
The carrier of Sorrow

And pray for her
When demurity is forced away

Which cluster me into a world
Of specimens for me unknown

And pray for her
When nature betrays her again

I am one of natures mistakes
Not only born decades to late

And pray for her
When you shalt be forced to see
The image of her creation

But not able to survive
Born and killed at the same tide

And pray for me once more
Merely because she was made into
Me...



Ihsahn ([Emperor]) - Vocals and All Instruments
Ihriel - Vocals
Lord PZ - Vocals

All songs written by PECCATUM
Recorded and mixed in Symphonique Studio
between April & September 1998
Mastered at Akkerhaugen Lydstudio, October 1998
Engineered by Ihsahn
Produced by PECCATUM
Vocal co-producer: Kaia Lia Solberg
Mixing co-producer: Torbjorn Akkerhaugen