Whispered words beneath the floating autumn leaves   Flying softly on the southern breeze   Fragments of light between the branches and trees   I wish I would stay here forever      The sun is sinking behind mountains of old   Brushing faintly clouds of red and gold      Night-time's flinging a vast veil of velvet across fields and forest   Trespassing the havens of daylight's temporary borders.   I knew my game could gain me but grief, the fairy tale was on though brief   Trespassing the havens of secrecy's temporary borders.      Scratching the surface of times seemingly forgotten   Of you who once were mine betrothen   Digging 'neath layers of emotions now rotten   I feel myself slip away   Nostalgic entertainment tingled by the past   You were the one to be mine at last   But now my memory's ever fading so fast   Keeping emotions at bay      Here I sit, and memories unfold   My feelings are hollow, I'm feeling so old      [Female]   "I feel it fade away and cry tears in solitude"   Trespassing the havens of night-time's temporary borders   As shadows collapse in the mating of day and night, crows are circling in    ominous flight   Trespassing the havens of my own temporary borders (temporary borders)      [Solo]      I tried... I tried hard to believe   Thinking of us has left me but grief   I cannot look ahead, the past is all I see   Moments together, but time's a thief      Shadows recurring from times long since passed   Our time and now in a perfect contrast      [Female]   "As I see you sitting by my grave   I feel your presence, but can't say a word   Your heart and love, patient and brave   But my soul is too late for you to save"      I am probably a fool still thinking of you   Night after night...   There's not much else I can do   For neither myself nor you   Maybe I should leave and never come back to this place...   But I know too surely that I'm only fooling myself   I'm only fooling myself      [Temporary borders - Comments]      [I had just joined illnath, got their lyrics and listened through all the music which was going to be on the CD. I was like a kid in a candy-store, and got to work that very evening at Tobias place with a lyric piece (which Tobias also participated strongly on). The lyrics I had received had some qualities, but mainly, I thought, I could do them better. The guys had already read some of my lyrics and pointed out 'Frozen constellations', 'Bring down the witching hour' and 'By the hands of violent winter' as the only songs they did not want to change.]      [I guess the idea of a gothic romance in a moody black metal song is not very original. I assume I wanted to make a presentation of our own gothic romance song, and at the same time I enjoy writing these kind of lyrics, even though, as mentioned, they do not give much to the black metal scene today.]      [Partly based on the coming summer (it was written sometime in may, I think), partly based on my poor lovelife and strange feeling of suddenly being in another country doing music with people I didn't know a week ago. I alone, yet somehow welcome and at calm here. Just like the narrator in the song. It was also a good possibility to use Lena's vocals.]   [- Narrenschiff]