[99] 33. Pain Of Salvation - Pilgrim / Shore Serenity

[1999] 33. Pain Of Salvation - Pilgrim / Shore Serenity

Pain Of Salvation - One Hour by the Concrete Lake ('98, 2nd)

1. Spirit of the Land  [0:43]

2. Inside [6:12]

3. The Big Machine [4:21]

4. New Year's Eve [5:37]

5. Handful of Nothing [5:39]

6. Water [5:05]

7. Home [5:44]

8. Black Hills [6:32]

9. Pilgrim [3:17]

10. Shore Serenity [3:14]

11. Inside Out [6:37]

Daniel Gildenlöw - Lead Vocals, Guitars

Johan Hallgren - Guitars, Vocals

Kristoffer Gildenlöw - Bass, Vocals

Fredrik Hermansson - Keyboards, Sampling

Johan Langell - Drums, Vocals

with

Katarina Åhlén - Cello

9. Pilgrim

"In fire, we can see our past and our coming. For, as with us and our time, these flames are solely born through the complete and utterly consumption of its surroundings. By which, the fire itself is also condemned to be destroyed. 

Demanding, beautiful and very lethal, it lives itself to death..."

The higher I am reaching - the closer to the sun 

The more I learn the less I know for sure 

For each machine I’m leaving I find a bigger one 

For each step I turn wiser than before 

But it’s burning me... 

Pilgrim, where are you going? 

Pilgrim, your roads turning bleak 

Pilgrim, true to your knowing 

But what will you pay for the Grail that you seek? 

Though these roads seem endless 

And life seems out of reach 

The roads I left were better off unwalked 

If I had just been stronger 

If I had dared to see 

Maybe I would not have had to go this far 

But still I won’t give in... 

Pilgrim, where are you going? 

Pilgrim, your roads turning bleak 

Pilgrim, This quest is your calling 

...the curtains are falling... 

Pilgrim, where are you going? 

And who sets the price on the answers you seek?

10. Shore Serenity

Karachay… This lake in Kyshtym has swallowed nuclear waste for almost fifty years now. Radiation was earlier so high that one hour at the shore of this lake would cause death in just a few weeks. Karachay, the entire lake, is now covered with concrete… 

Don’t disturb me now 

I can see the why, the when and how 

Looking back to see all bridges burn 

I have reached the point of no return 

this is zero 

(Shore Serenity) 

This is all that is left of me… 

A broken man at a broken sea 

To be or not to be a wheel in the big machinery 

That is not the matter of the game 

Just as long as you can sense the frame of the big picture 

(Wheels make The Machine) 

This is all that is left of me 

a broken man at a concrete sea 

But now I know that one cell can kill 

and a big Machine stands and falls with…a wheel…

* Concept album based on a true story about a lake that was filled with concrete to protect local residents from radioactive waste that was dumped there.