Der Songtext des Liedes "Vernal Awakening" von Dark Tranquillity lautet:
Enthroned through this age of confusion an urge
the weakness and flooy since aeons emerged,
Created life in fetters from cradle to grave
A future in darkness with mankind enslaved
Trail of life decayed - wasteland whall prevail
Hatred lies in store - chaos evermore
So runs the spiel from where lives are found and lost:
"Learn from past failures - prevent to pay the cost"
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
When our time spells an end to our ruling of this earth,
will a wasteland remain?
Will all life cease to be by the wicked ways of man
- his enfeebled domain?
Nature left in flames - Suffering, now to maim
Cataclysm at hand - unveiled unto man
So runs the spiel from where lives are lost and found:
"Progression in spirit eliminates all bounds"
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
Hallow minds start to burn with the flaming shades of fall
let disorder arise!
An avenge to be brought to the ones who graveled earth
hides now cloaked in disguise
Blind deception, mass confusion - interbreeding dark illusions
Tumbelling, falling, brings conclusions - constant fatal life-corrosion
Autumn - beckons forth the
winter - rising gloom in hand
Raging with bleak coldness 'til
vernal light commands
Final chapter closed - world devoid of use
Failure brings despair - death reveals its lair
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm