Lyric discussion by Night Sanctuary 

I believe the words at the beginning of this song to be:

Checkered by the dawn, enslaved in life enthralling Swept up by the mortal waste of my enslaved emotion Aeons on the gloss in argentine pending Concuria stopping and prevail the conquering angina Concuria stopping and prevail the conquering...

That is very good, did you work that out by listening to it? Well done!

I took other a few people's intepretations from the Tristania forum, merged them, then replaced some words with what sounded more accurate in my view.

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