Kaikkivaltiaan peili [English translation]

Alone stands the conqueror before the throne

And the heavenly guard stand by

Force-field wings fold, head is cocked

As the falling king's gaze is met

"Destroyer of Worlds, God of the Quick

Bearer of the Sky-Dome, the Golden Mountain

Those are only names and names are taken away

If you'd fall upon your face, what shall that save?"

Mind is clear, like a razed table,

Yet something flows, a scent of memories

First memory quite timid, quite dim

A secret door hidden in my heart

Second memory, hazy like a distorted image

Of faces and the landscapes beyond

Third memory: integers and numbers and metrics

Fourth memory dark and perilous way.

And a voice seems to tell, calming and serious

Like a friend, safe yet so long lost

"The body a map, pain only a compass,

points of light a mission it says":

I remember the great book under the holy seal,

that the great-mothers bore to the new sky

I remember allies, wars, voyages

New deals, I remember

Myself only as I remember nightmares

Then collapse all realms, all of them

Ruler's names fade all to nothingness

Systems fail, on their lips great words die

And in the ruins the breath of winds fly

And even though I so live, all is scattered in time

Blown upon winds solar, of stars yet to die

Minds still learn the message of vastness,

Silence of speechless stars.

Was it love, hate, that once flowed through me,

Life, its fabric, in it a thread I was

Useless the moments and all that is in me?

So the mortal defies the face of darkness.

• Artist:CMX
• Album:Talvikuningas