Beyond Dawn - "Life's Sweetest Reward" (album: "Revelry", Misanthropy Records, 1998)

will love leave you senseless

attached to your dreams

in your bittersweet, selfish aroma

paint you hysterical with your ideals

in your own erotic coma

will love leave you trembling alone in your bed

caressed by your skin and your body

scared of the lights of future sunsets

regretting you ever had memory?

will love turn your shyness into verbal disgrace

unable to lie or invent

as pride equals pain, you harden your face

your lips never spoke what they meant

will love paint your eyes red

consuming their faces

hoping they would understand

you watch as they're fading into different places

still wishing you were one of them?

(Ξεκίνησαν το 1992, με αφετηρία το black metal όπως πολλοί Νορβηγοί. Και όπως άλλοι τόσοι, το παράτησαν κρατώντας μόνο τη μινιμαλιστική εμμονοληψία. Το κομμάτι είναι, για μένα, ότι καλύτερο έγραψαν ποτέ. Δεν με θυμάμαι ποτέ, ποτέ, να ακούω αυτούς τους στίχους χωρίς να εισπνέω καπνό. Πάω να την πέσω, έχουμε εκπομπή αύριο.)