Glasmannen lyrics

Glasmannen – The Glass Man
Fourth song on Svavelvinter's full-length-album Mörkrets Tid.
English lyrics translation and explanations below.
Album available at Dimout Production.
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The Glass Man is about a wandering, seemingly immortal wizard with semi-transparent skin. He's been travelling the world under many names since ancient times, founding nations in his ambition to create the beautiful and everlasting, but everything he does inevitably leads to disaster. Shagul from the song Death's End was an apprentice of the Glass Man.

Swedish lyrics
Du steg ur dimmigt hav

när boken blev till kött

Ditt ord oss branden gav

ett hopp ur bilden fött

Vi levde av ditt namn

Vi brann med ordens makt

Vår färd stod utan hamn

Vår lust blev all vår jakt

Er aska nu ur min hand

Var boning mald till sand

Jag driver från land till land

förvittrar varje band

Ur varje stad och by

min låga sveder skyn

Volterra stal en evig vår

Astrumal, drömmen om ett land

Omegon, varje slag han slår

Golabag fann sin grav i sand

Allt jag är

allting som jag var

aldrig mer en vandring utan kval

Det jag såg

det jag måste se

allt för den mörka drift jag bär 

som aldrig gör mig lycklig mer igen

Kom led oss i vårt krig

Låt egg bli fjäderns fall

Ditt liv till svärdet vig

Låt döden bli vårt kall

Sug skönhet ur var träl

Töm ådror på all kraft

Till Laabnes höga väl

drick evighetens saft

Längs väg från världens rand 

vart fotspår står i brand

Ur varje stad och by 

min låga sveder skyn

Må ditt minne äta sina skuggor

Du ska till slutet 

alltid vara ensam med din smärta

English lyrics

You rose from misty sea

when the book turned into flesh

Your word gave us fire

the hope born from an image

We lived by your name

We burned from the power of words

Our journey had no port

Our lust was all we craved

Your ash pours from my hand

Each house is ground to sand

I drift, land to land

withering each bond

Out of every city and village 

my flame scorches the sky

Volterra stole eternal spring

Astrumal, the dream of a land

Omegon, each blow he strikes

Golabag found his grave in sand

All I am

everything I was

never more a painless walk

What I saw

what I had to see

due to my dark yearning 

that never again leaves me satisfied

Come lead us to our war

Let steel cut the feather

Wed your life to the sword

Let death be our calling

Suck beauty from each slave

Drain all power from veins

To the heights of Laabne

drink the sap of eternity

On roads from the worlds rim 

each footstep is on fire

Out of every city and village 

my flame scorches the sky

May your memory eat its shadows

Until the end 

you’ll travel alone with your pain

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The spoken words at the end of the song is a curse laid by the Glass Man on one of the main characters in the novels.