DESCRIPTION:
"Sea of Sleep" with lyrics from the latest Lucifer Was album "Morning Star" with 5 original members, written in 1972: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRZH1vOPAgE
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Lyrics, written-by Thore Engen:
The crown of creation the salt of the earth
One is all for all one is worth
We came to this garden this beautiful land
Hand in hand it all got out of hand
Like castles made of sand
And candles in the wind
We are fragile as straw
We got so little time
Still we go
We go on and on
The crown of creation the root and the core
Blessed with all nice but all need a little more
We are masters of good but better at bad
We've had it all but lost all we had
Like castles made of sand
And candles in the wind
We are fragile as straw
We got so little time
Still we go
The crown of creation the jewel in the crown
Made of love and dust from the ground
The crown of creation is hard to bear
But still we need to love and to care
Like castles made of sand
And candles in the wind
We are fragile as straw
We got so little time
Still we go
We go on and on

Composer of "The Crown of Creation" - Thore Engen,
performed by
Lucifer Was and Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra

Line-up on "The Crown of Creation":
Thore Engen, guitars and vocals
Jon Ruder, vocals
Deb Girnius, flute, vocals
Einar Bruu, bass
Kjell Tinius Ivanov, bass
Rune Engen, drums
Arne Martinussen, B3 organ, mellotron, keyboards
Andreas Sjo Engen, guitars
Freddy Lindquist, guitars, keyboards, programming

Tracks:

Wonder (Ruder-Engen)
The storyteller's corner
Three Hammers (Koch-Engen) The big ideas thrown about
Unformed And Void (Engen)
Before the beginning
By A White Lace (Engen)
Creations are a-happening
Beggar's Bowl (Koch-Engen)
A new world of hopes and possibilities
Rising Sun (Engen)
A day on earth/A day in the life with freedom and temptations
Try Me (Engen)
Judgement Day/The bad conscience - asking for forgiveness
The Crown Of Creation (Engen)
Must admit and aknowledge
Phase II: The Final Things To Come/ Escathology:
Moments (Engen)
Hanging around and looking back
Bethanian Theme (Engen-A.E. Sjo Engen)
The spiralling tunnel
Burning Beautiful Flowers (Koch-Engen)
Finally Doomsday-Final solution/ OK or?
Cabris Sans Cornes (Engen-Lindquist-Koch)
Judgement: The goat has no horns. It must be a lamb?
When The Phoenix Flies Away (Engen)
Further onwards to the great unknown
Into The Blue (Engen)
Storyteller's summary of a life
Three Hammers Plus (Koch-Engen-Ruder)
Now, put the work down and rest some...

with
Michala Petri - alto and soprano recorders
Jan Stigmer - violin

The choir on 12. track:
Deb Girnius
Jon Ruder
Andreas Sjo Engen
Astrid Elisabeth Sjo Engen

All orchestral music arranged by Dagfinn Koch

Lucifer Was homepage:
http://www.luciferwas.org/index.html
http://www.luciferwas.org/discography.html#crown
http://www.luciferwas.org/images.html

Conversation with Thore Engen:
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=65724

Jon Ruder:
http://www.reocities.com/Area51/Dimension/3978/JonR.htm

Thore Engen's website:
http://www.reocities.com/Area51/Dimension/3978/ThoreE.htm
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/thore.engen?fref=ts

Lucifer Was is a Nordic prog rock band strongly influenced by early seventies guitar, flute and vocal-oriented melodic progressive heavy rock.
Band leader Thore Engen's lyrics have a mystical flair, and all the albums so far are part of a larger poetic cycle on the fall of the angel Lucifer.