A gateway is a point of entry or exit.
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Dimmu Borgir ( /ˌdɪmuː ˈbɔrɡɪər/) is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. Dimmu Borgir means "dark cities" or "dark castles/fortresses" in Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse. The name is derived from a volcanic formation in Iceland, Dimmuborgir. The band has been through numerous line-up changes over the years; guitarist Silenoz and vocalist Shagrath are the only founding members remaining.
Dimmu Borgir was founded in 1993 by Shagrath, Silenoz, and Tjodalv, the band released an EP in 1993 entitled Inn i evighetens mørke ("Into the Darkness of Eternity" in English). This short EP sold out within weeks, and the band followed up with the 1994 full length album For All Tid ('For All Time' in English) This album featured vocal contributions by Vicotnik of Ved Buens Ende and Dødheimsgard and Aldrahn of Dødheimsgard and Zyklon-B. The initial lineup consisted of Shagrath playing drums with Tjodalv on guitar and Silenoz contributing lead vocals. This line-up changed before the release of Stormblåst (translates to "Storm Blown") on Cacophonous Records in 1996, an album considered by many to be their finest. It is also the last album which features all lyrics written and sung in Norwegian. This album was criticized by Allmusic because of bad sound quality and inaccessibility to wide audience.
Seven people died last night,
The painter paints,
The poet writes.
She knocks a hole in my front door.
She's the one I can't ignore.
She tries to paint a hole in time,
She puts her face right next to mine.
She knocks me out and on the floor.
She's the one I can't ignore.
I've wandered ten thousand years for you,
To see this coming true.
I've been to the outer edge of time,
To try to make you mine.
I've been so far gone,
That there's no need to try redeeming me.
I believe that I'm the greatest of mistakes,
That ever has been made.
Pay no heed to what I say,
Because what I say it has no relevance,
To what you might believe.
I just want to find the truth.
Take the gateway, push her down,
Because in the end she'll only drag you down.
Sucks when I can't remember my own name.
Mary wants to hold my hand,
But when she does it's hard to stand up.
I never thought she'd take my soul,
I'm the one who's lost all control.
Never mind the violent crowd,
Its hard to penetrate my cloud.
I never thought they'd take your soul,
You're the one they can't control.
I've wandered ten thousand years for you,
To see this coming true.
I've been to the outer edge of time,
To try to make you mine.
I've been so far gone,
That there's no need to try redeeming me.
I believe that I'm the greatest of mistakes,
That ever has been made.
Pay no heed to what I say,
Because what I say it has no relevance,
To what you might believe.
I just want to find the truth.
Take the gateway, push her down,
Because in the end she'll only drag you down.
Sucks when I can't remember my own name
I kept walking through the static sound
9 gates appeared and beckoned me to come
Wish I knew where you are
I'm bipolar, yeah I've come to accept it
So many times that I have changed my being
Cure me through love, my dear
Let me fly away from here
Behind which gate do you hide?
I know you're real the way we call each other
Sending secret spiral codes to one another...
I kept walking through the static sound
9 gates appeared and beckoned me to come
Now show me where you are
I'm bipolar, yeah I've come to accept it
So many times that I have changed my being
Cure me through love, my dear
Let me fly away from here
Behind which gate do you hide?
I know you're real the way we call each other
I was on the highway headed east to El Paso
On the road all night, just 300 miles to go
The desert sun was hot it came to claim its toll
You know the road can hypnotize
The sky grew dark, storm winds began to blow
I couldn`t see the road I no longer had control
Kidnapped by an unknown force, journey to its cryptic
source
I tried to resist
Blinded by darkness
Black hole draws me in
Grips my soul and body
Strips my mind of fear
Lifetimes pass away
Death and hate collide
My eyes are witness
My spirit free
Trapped in vortex I grasped infinity
Anything I dreamed became reality
Distant words were mine
Time and space converged
I was a prisoner lost in eternity
Somehow made it back to where I was before
The desert vision died the wisdom in me grew
Earth is but a womb life is our conception
Preparing us for birth into a new dimension
Somewhere in the desert on the open road
Gateway to another void beyond this world
Don`t try to find it, it has no control
Raised in a world
of broken minds
in search of destiny
behind
fighting with the past
within the heads
longing for the memory
of light
I see the digital grace
humans own demise
the gateway to hell
death suits you well
I see the digital grace
don´t trust yourself
past becomes future
this worlds face mated
in digital grace
confused of human lies
sleeper of their own
your hands full of chaos
got a license for denying
another way of fading
the human race
to a new existence
There I sit at the gateway
Wondering how far she might take me
I don't know if what they say
Is it true, I'm gonna live that way
I just need to find my way
Back on home, coming back today
Here I am, back in the zone
The zone of life, always stoned
Now I'm back at the gateway
Wondering if I'm here to stay
I've got scars that used to be veins
It's gone down, I'm insane
I can't seem to get my mind
Screwed on tight, I've got a life to find
Here I am, back in a haze
Enter through the narrow gate,
for wide is the gate and broad is
the road that leads to destruction
and many enter through it,
but small is the gate and narrow
the road that lead to life.
(Matthew 7:13-14)
Will I go past the gate?
Into your righteousness?
I want to be with you.
Help me to live today,
will you find me worthy?
will you find my heart true?