On request from countless fans all around the world, here are finally the lyrics for the three bonus tracks released so far (the Japanese bonus track for "The Perfect Element I" is instrumental). Keep in mind that these lyrics were written by Daniel when he was 16 years old, and "Beyond the Mirror" was also part of a concept called Twilight Voices, and may be a bit difficult to grasp taken from its context. 

Anyway, enjoy.

Never Learn to Fly
(Music and Lyrics by D.Gildenlow)

Bonus track on the Japanese version of "Entropia" 1997.

When I was a little child
I once found a bird lying on the ground
It would not ever fly again
I held the bird up in my hands
I shed my tears over the lovely song
that not longer could be heard

Never learn to fly

With dirty hands I dug a hole
and gently laid the bird to rest in soil:
a wound in the tearstained mud
My tears wore rain as I revealed the secrets of a tree
A cross of bark
to speak through wooden grains:

"never learn to fly"

I sang a song which I remembered my grandma used to sing for me when I was sick and laid in bed
Then I cursed that day for showing me my own mortality
For then I knew that all that lives turns cold
Cold and dead

 and now
    time has 
        passed by
            beneath my wings

(kristoffer gildenlöw)

That was then I’m older now
but still I can’t forget that rainy day
I raged against the ending times
Though some day soon my son will maybe 
find the tree I cleansed of skin
No chain-sling will ever climb it’s rotten limbs
And when the time has come for me to die
I want to lie beside that bird

Never learn to fly

When I was a little child…
  I once found myself 
    dying on the ground
      and now I’ll never 
        …fly…

COMMENTS: I still love the lyric of this song, especially the twist when it turns out that, in his struggle to resist the death of the little bird, the child causes the death of the tree instead. I can still recognize those everyday difficulties - it is hard to honor life and nature without understanding its conditions. However, we should never stop trying.  /Daniel Gildenlow

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Timeweaver’s Tale
(Music and Lyrics by D.Gildenlow)

Bonus track on the Japanese version of "One Hour by the Concrete Lake" 1998.

The Timeweaver’s abode is deep under ground
As interweaving history he us creates
He weaves in eternity not to be found
The Elder’s legend that braids our fates

Hoary and hollow-eyed, older than sun
Abiding his destiny to reverberate time
There’s no one to remember how it began
In rooms filled with candles he reverberates time

Timeweaver, tell me my history that I’ve been searching so
Timeweaver, reveal the mystery that I’ve been letting grow

He once was given his mission by three:
The Holy, The Sacred and The Ancient Dream
He doesn’t exist for those who don’t believe
He’s nothing but stories for those who don’t deem

Hoary and hollow-eyed, older than sun
Abiding his destiny to reverberate time
There’s no one to remember how it began
In rooms filled with candles he reverberates time

Timeweaver, tell me my history that I’ve been searching so
Timeweaver, reveal the mystery that I’ve been letting grow

Spider's webs decorate dusty shelves lightened by old candles glow
Ancient prescriptions from times that don’t even exist
In memories

(D.Gildenlöw/Both/D.Gildenlöw/Hallgren)

Guarded by spells he reincarnates time
Gives birth once again to a century’s child

Hoary and hollow-eyed, older than sun
Abiding his destiny to reverberate time
And now I can remember how it began
In rooms filled with candles I reverberate time

Timeweaver told me a history I didn’t want to know
Timeweaver revealed the mystery – two became one to grow!

Timeweaver…
…time…will…be…here…now…and…

Now!

COMMENTS: I wrote this song in Italy, Riva del Sole, when we were on holiday with the family in spring 1990 (I was 16 at the time). It was originally called "Taleweaver's Call" but I changed that after just a few weeks, because it somehow reminded me of "tail waver's call" which made me think in the lines of "Lassie barks for help". Anyway, the original recording from 199...3? is more than 9 minutes long. Two whole passages were left out during the re-recording - by mistake. However, we kept it that way, because it felt quite good with a shortened version for a bonus track. The original version is on the "Ashes" CD-Rom for the Limited Edition of "The Perfect Element I". /Daniel Gildenlow

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Beyond the Mirror
(Music and Lyrics by D.Gildenlow)

Bonus track on the Japanese and South American version of "One Hour by the Concrete Lake" 1998.

Through a dusty window I watch the clouds draw near
A lovely vision of my doom
The sunlight’s fading – reflections start to dim
Through the dusty window in this room

I’m walking through my memories as I’m staring through the glass
I have to claim I’m innocent
Though I can’t remember what I’ve done these past few nights
I can’t be the one that Father Kane believes I am

I see myself now, in the dusty glass
All wired up in this chair
My face is foreign and my weary eyes are black
I see myself through that stare

Eternal alleys that lead to walls hidden behind unlocked doors
I claim the handle, I need to see
Even though I’ll surely be afraid of what I may find…

…beyond the mirror!
(Inside the circle)

I walk through mazes of cold corridors
Searching for the core of my mind
My heartbeats reach out to find another pulse
That once was bound and confined

The two different heartbeats, becoming one
Are causing the coalescence of my soul
A quiet outcry – a silent scream – is filling me as I am driven back
From shadows that dwell…

…beyond the mirror!
(Inside the circle)

(Hallgren/D.Gildenlöw/Both/Hallgren/D.Gildenlöw/Both)

My world is frozen as I’m staring through the glass
Gazing through the window at my memories
Not longer foreign
Though I somehow wish…they were

The glowing fingers of a violent raging sky
In search for evil find a path
They rush through my veins, they invite my pulse to die
They end my life with frenzied wrath

Amidst the shadows of whisper land
I feel that something’s binding me to life
Confined in nowhere by no ones hand
I realize the pact is unfulfilled
I’m trapped on the edge…

…beyond the mirror!
(Inside the circle)

COMMENTS: This song was initially called "Inside the Circle" and was a very odd philosophical contemplation that I wrote when I was merely 16. Later the lyric was changed and the song, otherwise intact, replaced "Burned by Lightning" (oh, those were the days) in the Twilight Voices concept. We kept everything as close to the original as possible when we re-recorded this track in 1998. /Daniel Gildenlow

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