1. The Dragon Lies Bleeding

[Stromblad / Cans]

Ride through the valley in thunder and rain
The battle is raging, redeem this domain
The castle of Eden lies silent above
Darkness surrounds us, away we must go

I look through the eyes of the world
I see there's a stranger among us
Awaiting a sign from above
To conquer the power and the glory

Enter the battle, our will to enchain
bringing us forward, defeating the pain
Into the meeting with swords made of steel
We're standing together, the secret reveals

I look through the eyes of the world
I know who's the stranger among us
Awaiting a sign from above to conquer
To conquer the power and the glory

Come across to the promised land
Close your eyes I will take your hand
Through the river of steel we'll go
When the dragon lies bleeding

Above the glory we'll carry on
Now the time has come to return back home
The setting sun illuminates the dead
On the battlefield it's shining red

Silent lies Eden on top of the moor
We're fighting with honor protecting our Lord
The last one survivor lies bleeding, I kneel
Into his heart I settle the steel

I look through the eyes of the world
There is no stranger among us
we march through the end of the world
in search of the power and the glory

Come across to the promise land...

2. The Metal Age

[Stromblad / Dronjak / Cans]

Icy water on my hands
The roar of thunder everywhere
I close my eyes, I realize I'm far away from home
In the twilight zone, the shadows mourn

Out of the night came the shining...(from)
The metal age

Ivory towers conceal my eyes
Caught up in a long lost time
Where no one speaks, at liberty, they guard their destiny
To forge the steel, they will reveal

Out of the night came the shining...

I'm falling into the breach
I'm a stranger in this land, I'm falling

Standing strong , the brave and the elder
With scars seldom forgotten, above it all
Come with us, offering shelter from the icy wind that shiver
Come with us to the twilight zone

You're welcome to The metal age

Hear the bell begins to chime
The moonlit skies burst out in flames
The time has come, it must be done, let the power be unchained
By the force within, let the war begin

Out of the night came the shining...

3. Hammerfall

[Stromblad / Dronjak / Cans]

Silent screaming, you're on your own
Balancing on a blade
Between what's right and what is wrong
Don't loose your faith, don't sit there in silence
Show your strength, let's hail the metal Gods,
Bare your heart

All for one, our burning hearts will live forever
One for all, together standing strong

Hammerfall - we will prevail
Hammerfall - let us hail

Hammerfall - we will prevail
Hammerfall - let us hail

We share a dream, the future is ours
A Metal Heart is hard to tear apart, heed the call
A flash of light calls out the providers
We run this race, but we will never crawl, all hail
Hammerfall

All for one, our burning hearts will live forever
One for all, together standing strong

Hammerfall - we will prevail
Hammerfall - let us hail
Hammerfall - we will prevail
Hammerfall - let us hail

Just follow your heart, don't listen to the crowd
The wisdom, the voice is calling from inside
The time long forgotten will soon come again
Prepare for the meeting, the Gods of Metal reign

4. I Believe

[by Cans / Stalfors]

Is is too late to go in peace, I wonder how
how these things did start anyway
Maybe too late to find a way, when the
trail of grief is marked with memories

Now when you're gone, the warmth
of the sun seems so faraway

I believe - in everything I see, every
second is a miracle for me
I believe - after sunshine comes the
rain, and when it's pouring down
the only thing I feel is pain

I walk alone through shapeless dreams
my only home is the wasteland that I cross
I close the door and turn the key
those days of joy are barely memories
Now when you're gone, your star will
shine on, wont you shine for me

I believe- in everything I see, every
second is a miracle for me
I believe- after sunshine comes the
rain, and when it's pouring down
the only thing I feel is pain

5. Child Of The Damned

[by Bill Tsamis]

You made me see right past myself, well beyond
my fears, realized I'm synchronized, far beyond my years
I'm so guard unto them, I serve unto their souls
now that I'm addicted, my hunger only grows

I'm a child of the damned, I follow where I go
rigging to the cross, as holy as a whore
I'm just a child of the damned

Witches coven, the time has come for those sabbatical
years, revelation is the message, for all in all to hear
Prophets slayed, mankind arrayed into mass submission
evil's here, the lord of hell gives you the proposition

I'm a child of the damned, I follow where I go
rigging to the cross, as holy as a whore
I'm just a child of the damned

Give away your life goals, your meaning and ambition
it means nothing to you, after all it's superstition
Do not be afraid, the world is near the end
is it better to rule in hell, than it is to serve in heaven?

I'm a child of the damned, I follow where I go
rigging to the cross, as holy as a whore
I'm just a child of the damned

6. Steel Meets Steel

[by Dronjak]

Back in 1095, when the call to arms came
we had the red cross sown on
Sent to save the holy land and crush the infidels
with strength from above

STEEL MEETS STEEL

On towards victory we march, the guiding star
lead us to the battle field
There, the heathens were subdued, and in the end
we forced them all to yield or die

STEEL MEETS STEEL

In July in '99, the Holy City was stormed and won
Jerusalem was freed, we thanked the lord for our glory

We, the Templars, have survived by honor and pride
and the blessing of the sword
The quest of the war, forever sung
to the sound of steel meets steel

STEEL MEETS STEEL

7. Stone Cold

[by Stromblad / Dronjak / Cans]

Outcast a time of war, when mankind lost control
of life and death, under surveillance

I watch the children pray, while god just turns away
out in the ruins they seek shelter
These streets were once my home, but those
golden days are gone, now I'm fighting to survive

Stone cold, man or machine
Stone cold, the end of our dream

The word is on the street, it's kill or to be killed
with no exception you are on your own

We should have seen it all along, the writings
on the wall, tell me what have we become

Stone cold ...

Who do you believe in now, when the prophecy
came true, the final deja vu

These streets were once my home ...

Stone cold ...

8. Unchained

[by Stromblad / Dronjak / Cans]

Undying nightfall, a king with no crown
dethroned, imprisoned in chains
Duel the black horse, the Swordsmen must kneel
condemned to serve within the shadows
Put 'em next to their King

Out of the fire and into the night
a handful of brave men appeared
Crimson thunder running through their veins
a bond that will last forever
Nothing's stronger than ...

Brothers in arms are fighting tonight
the Forces of steel meet again
born in the fire, they look to the sky
power of metal unchained

Time has come, break out of these chains
FIGHT! proud for your kingdom
Behind the defenders the king marches on
by divine intervention
They are fighting with ...

Brothers in arms are fighting tonight
the Forces of Steel live again
born in the fire, they look to the sky
the power of metal unchained

Past many nights they fought on
and by the moonlight the battle was won
but still the black horse is running
knowing were the power will lead

Brothers in arms are fighting tonight
the Forces of Steel live again
born in the fire, they look to the sky
the power of metal unchained

9. Glory To The Brave

[by Dronjak / Stromblad / Cans]

Snow is falling down on this glorious land
colors fading, turning into white again
To fallen heroes angels sting, they cry their winter tears
endless mourning days will turn to years

So this is goodbye, I take leave of you and
spread your wings and you will fly away now, fly away now

Nothing on earth stays forever
but none of your deeds were in vain
Deep in our hearts you will live again
you're gone to the home of the brave

Every solemn moment I will treasure inside
even though it's hard to understand
that a silent wind can blow that candle out
taking everything leaving the pain far behind

You call out my name, but your voice is fading
into the wind, embraced, you'll fly away now, fly away now

Nothing on earth stays forever
but none of your deeds were in vain
Deep in our hearts you will live again
you're gone to the home of the brave

My eyes are closed I feel you're faraway (so close)
far beyond that shining star
I know you'll find what you've been fighting for
far beyond that shining star

Down on bended knee I pray, bring courage to these souls
make 'em live forever in the heart of the bold
So I say farewell my friends, I hope we'll meet again
when my time has come to fall from the grace

So this is goodbye, I take leave of you and
spread your wings and you will fly away now, fly away now

Nothing on earth stays forever
but none of your deeds were in vain
Deep in our hearts you will live again
you're gone to the home of the brave

[Dedicated to the memory of Klas Fors]

10. Ravenlord

[Bonus track, Stormwitch Cover]

Grey morning, dawn won the fight
Daylight drives away the night
Fog's rising out in the fields
The birth of winter is in sight
Dark shadow's fall from the sky
They alight on gallows tree
Black feathers, amber beaks
Waiting for their Deity
Leaves are spinning 'round
Lost and never found
When the King takes the Crown
Can you feel
The autumn wind blowing
Ravenlord is coming to stay
Can you hear
The passing bell tolling
Ravenlord - takes you far away
Sharp talons, pinions of ice
They obscure the new-born day
Hot breathing freezes to snow
Piercing caws lead you astray
Leaves are spinning 'round...

1. Roads

Disagreements ‒ they have killed the fire
Understanding ‒ forever's flown far away
Life's repressing ‒ all of my desires
Hopelessness ‒ eternally held at bay
Fading to grey

I have seen the path I need to follow
Time to energize
Today lasts only till tomorrow
And a king will rise

Bitterness ‒ so cruel it is out of my league
Loneliness ‒ I fall a thousand fathoms deep
Anger is ‒ dwelling in my restless mind
Here I stand ‒ both deaf and blind
But never I'll surrender!

Chase this rolling stone and see
Has it gathered greener moss?
One bridge lies ahead of me
Will it burn before I walk across?

I feel Like ‒ I'm walking towards the twilight now
Soothe me ‒ in my constant tiredness
Engines push me ‒ rapidly straight
Through the clouds
And erase ‒ my emptiness
Drown my pain for good now

2. Incinerate

Follow the fire
Follow the sword
Leave only death
And praise the false lord
Hunting the spirits
Chasing the fools
Raging for purity
Anyone to seduce

Chop all the mortals
Steel finds flesh
Shatter their bones
Eye to eye
Rape all their highness
No reaction
Flatten their homes
A lifetime gone by

Tell me will my hate someday perish?
Will the wrath still hunger for this one bliss?

Incinerate ‒ Incinerate ‒ Incinerate
Right now insanity is rising
Misleading lines ‒ forgotten
lives ‒ colourless nights
Infinity is calling me
Incinerate ‒ Incinerate ‒ Incinerate
My agony will never end
Misleading lines ‒ forgotten
Lives ‒ colourless nights
Only darkness I can see

Flourish the cancer
Deep in their lungs
Unveil the toxic
Genetic expanse
I am the radiance
No one can see
Turn water sour
For always to be
Infiltrate mortals
No reaction
Mutate their bones
Eye to eye
Swim in the bloodstream
Light in the tunnel
Breaking the nodes
A lifetime to day

Tell me will my hate someday perish?
Will the wrath still hunger for this one bliss?

Incinerate ‒ Incinerate ‒ Incinerate
Right now insanity is rising
Misleading lines ‒ forgotten
lives ‒ colourless nights
Infinity is calling me
Incinerate ‒ Incinerate ‒ Incinerate
My agony will never end
Misleading lines ‒ forgotten
Lives ‒ colourless nights
Only darkness I can see

One day my hate will perish
I'll defeat the seeds of sorrow
No more hungering for this one bliss
Taking off into a bright tomorrow

Incinerate ‒ Incinerate ‒ Incinerate
Right now insanity is rising
Misleading lines ‒ forgotten
lives ‒ colourless nights
Infinity is calling me
Incinerate ‒ Incinerate ‒ Incinerate
My agony will never end
Misleading lines ‒ forgotten
Lives ‒ colourless nights
Only darkness I can see

3. Poison Awaits

Why cause our passion to run and hide
Drown it beneath the rising tide
And cause it shatter upon this earth
Refuse the wonder of this birth?

Sweet sound of yesterday
Wet lot forbidden fires
And the dark snake of sin
Was coiling deep within

Our hearts were lead astray
Climbing walls of desire
Your poison now awaits
It lurks beneath the skin

Why cause our passion to pay the price
To turn our hearts as cold as ice
And hide behind such filthy lies
To toss our hopes towards the sky

Sweet sound of yesterday
Wet lot forbidden fires
And the dark snake of sin
Was coiling deep within

Our hearts were lead astray
Climbing walls of desire
Your poison now awaits
It lurks beneath the skin

On we strive to a new tomorrow!
Close my eyes, dreams are on my side
Glowing beams shattering my sorrow!
Forevermore ‒ surrounded by the light

Sweet sound of yesterday
Wet lot forbidden fires
And the dark snake of sin
Was coiling deep within

Our hearts were lead astray
Climbing walls of desire
Your poison now awaits
It lurks beneath the skin

[2x]
Sweet sound of yesterday
Our hearts were lead astray
Sweet sound of yesterday

4. Seeds Of Sorrow

I listen to the whispering waves
The whispering waves of unconditional love
With my feet on earth, my head above

The night's echo of myself
A shadow that will flow forevermore
And I have never fell this way before

Once again the thought of you
Permates my skin
You're living in my bones now
I cannot calm the voices from within

Once again my heartache rose
From its silent slumber
Autumn leaves they sweep my soul
Too many tears to number

And black rains fall
Emotions rise tonight
No chance to keep them under
Wherever I shall wander ‒ I'm lost

The night it sleeps
Deep in my skin ‒ tonight
No chance to find a reason
The origin of treason

Once again the seeds of sorrow
Can't be cast aside
There is no bright tomorrow
Autumn rides upon the blackened tide

Once again I drink to fall
A portion I must bear
I feel it live and breathe inside
Dead leaves turn to ash, but I don't care
They turn to ash, but I don't care

And black rains fall
Emotions rise tonight
No chance to keep them under
Wherever I shall wander ‒ I'm lost

The night it sleeps
Deep in my skin ‒ tonight
No chance to find a reason
The origin of treason

Eternal darkness ‒ fall from grace
Deep inside I'm hurting with desire
Hopes and dreams will soon be lost in space

And black rains fall
Emotions rise tonight
No chance to keep them under
Wherever I shall wander ‒ I'm lost

The night it sleeps
Deep in my skin ‒ tonight
No chance to find a reason
The origin of treason

5. All Is Vanity

Work and lofty dreams vanish in dust
All that once was gold now turns to rust

Each new jewel surpassed by the next
All is in vain ‒ all is vanity
False desires make your life complex
All is vain ‒ all is vanity

On the verge of insanity
You're trapped in this web of vanity
Bury your novel expressions
Bury your hopeless passions

Embrace the status and display the crest
All is vanity
You live a life of emptiness
Purity is meaningless

Reveal yourself, keep sailing to the ends
Embrace purity
You only take it as a game
'cause vanity is your name

Life's an uphill climb
One seldom find a rope
Redemtion's not in sight
But do not kill your hope

Health of mind and body, all seems lost
All is in vain ‒ all is vanity
Into a sea of fire and disgust
All is in vain ‒ all is vanity

Bring forth the sumptuous delights
Tickle my senses, devour the moment
Abstinence has become a sacrilege
Admire the feast ‒ never eat

Embrace the status and display the crest
All is vanity
You live a life of emptiness
Purity is meaningless

Reveal yourself, keep sailing to the ends
Embrace purity
You only take it as a game
'cause vanity is your name

[4x]
All is ‒ all is vanity
All is ‒ in vain

6. Black Throne

I whisper and moan
My life seems sealed
Time to face my misery
And my mind flees into
Wounds hat never healed

I coast aside my pretty fears
And I forsake the known
I am on a trip
In search of my black throne

Can I endure the rain?
Can I stand the pain?
Day after day my fate tore me up inside
The rope is cut
Eyes forever shut
I am falling!
Falling!

What I used to feel?
What I used to need?
I don't know who this is from who
I need to be feed

Ghosts keep haunting me
In my shattered soul
And they make it heir abode
Take my self control

Afraid to realize
It's not an unknown farce
I need to be the one to exorcise me

And as a blind man I would dance
Days and years passed by
But there's a whisper
From the soul that hides

Can I endure the rain?
Can I stand the pain?
Day after day my fate tore me up inside
The rope is cut
Eyes forever shut
I am falling!
Falling!

What I used to feel?
What I used to need?
I don't know who this is from who
I need to be feed

Ghosts keep haunting me
In my shattered soul
And they make it heir abode
Take my self control

Spark my screams ‒ there's no deliverance
Darkness falls ‒ there's no deliverance
Haunt my dreams ‒ there's no deliverance
Hell doth rise ‒ there's no deliverance

Can I endure the rain?
Can I stand the pain?
Day after day my fate tore me up inside
The rope is cut
Eyes forever shut
I am falling!
Falling!

What I used to feel?
What I used to need?
I don't know who this is from who
I need to be feed

Ghosts keep haunting me
In my shattered soul
And they make it heir abode
Take my self control

Take my self control
And as a blind man I would dance
Take my self control
My fate tore me up inside

7. A Dual Pact

When in pain I try to find
A different plain on which to set my mind
To distract it from this downword vibe
And thereby avoid the lie
The rushing tide has no remorse
It might hold me if I cross its course
But the suction of its waves
Has taken many a mind to grave

Last shred of hope.
I cling to as I float.
Through the lightless night...
And here comes the tide...

Grave and dark ‒ a dual pact
Overpowering the ones who locked
The energy to pull out of such mire
Their very souls torlured by fire

High tide ‒ in my soul
No more darksome thoughts uproll
Past are days when I was feeling numb
Till the turn of tide will come

When the tide is in I run
Wash away my sins I come undone
Trying to ignore the Sirens' call
And into the void I fall
The rushing tide has no remorse
It might hold me if I cross its course
But the suction of its waves
Has taken many a mind to grave

All panic's banned,
Inhale and take a stand,
Walk with me tonight
But here comes the tide...

Daylight returns ‒ but nevermore
Returns the wanderer to the share
One last time allures the Siren's calls
And eternal darkness falls...

8. Torn To Shatters

And I wrap my arms around me
And think of times gone by
I used to share my fate with you
Wrapped in a robe of fire

Inhale ‒ exhale
All that matters ‒ torn to shatters

Having trusted you before
Made my desolate past live again
My earth-born spirit breathe again

I will search forevermore
Through the wind, the waves, the mist, the rain
Your smile is in my tears again

And I drift through empty days
I feel like a puppet on a string
I hear the songs you used to sing

I count the seconds, time unwinds
Walking in the shadows of my mind
Dissolved in thoughts, I melt into you

But the years and memories wither into a scroll
Unfathomed sorrow resonated within my soul

And from my heart, I'll pour this song,
Of endless struggle, still it made me strong
Because these roars of love
Reach towards the sky

Silently I close the door
Pondering words I somehow cannot say
Shutting the world far away

Set me on fire with your glow,
Feels like nothing i have felt before
Earth's last its balance I can fly

9. No Promise In The Heavens

And I am still waiting
For clean to come yet he's not there
He's killing dreams out in the sea

I feel like ‒ I can't breathe
Life's ‒ crushing down on me
Heavy salt will wash away my sin

No one left ‒ I could blame it on
No more hope ‒ all is said and done
Life seems sealed ‒ as the night breaks in

And rears mount the horizon
And blackened is the night
The world has drowned in cries

I search for many years
He is all cherished all my life
I roamed behind the veil of night

The essence of life ‒ it should never be lost
Thrown to be beast ‒ to be mighty tossed

I I give myself away ‒ on this blackened day
I give myself away to you!

The world is drowning...
The world has drowned in cries...

10. Striving For Fire

Searing until we are swallowed by fire
Trying to reach out for the beaming,
Seductive light once we get
Burned ‒ and here comes the night

We all dreamed of touching the sun
Of being more than we could ever be
Our wings now lie floating on a dead sea

We're following what's hopeless
We're striving for the fire
We're wondering with memories
Caught in the night's desire

We're following the blind men,
Our wings have come undone
And atom follows atom
Unwinding in the sun

No boundariesn when it comes to real passion
No dimensions and no dreams we cannot climb
Creating a universe outside of time

Just keep flying keeping your dead down
Ready for motion, your throat
Stripped bare of moons
Maybe tomorrow your name
Will be carved in stones.

I cannot saw the seam
It faded with my dream
Live a life extreme!

Oblivious to ‒ the downward spiral
And time keeps wandering onward,
It keeps it us at pace
When are we gonna wake up
And find our resting place?

11. Timeless Skies

Hearts of darkness start to burn
And each man will rise in glory
Sacred grounds will give them birth

Strip myself of centuries
Fleeing into timeless skies
Weights and standarts are extinct

As disciple I'll return
The sands of time will tell my story
Spread my wings renew this earth

And our fears rolled on
And the days lay dead
And interia's gone ‒ tonight

See the light!
I'm longing to start over ‒ a am free
Feel the light
Obliterating mankind's history

I walk ‒ along those broken walls
In faith ‒ inhale the newborn day
I fly ‒ though nemesis has come
In faith ‒ across those timeless skies

Walk in faith along those broken walls
Walk in faith ‒ inhale the newborn day
The newborn day

Hearts of darkness start to burn
And each man will rise in glory
Sacred ground will give them birth
Hearts of darkness start to burn

12. King In The Sun

I visioned one more better day
To close the fever away
Before the sun was to move on

Dreams less complete
Love left alone
Until the breaking of down
From Eden we have flown.

And I've come to realize each passing day
That we blindly threw our bliss away

How long must I fall before I can rise?
For I am a kind in the sun ‒ here I come!
How far must I walk to touch the sky?
But still I come undone

Am I dead, am I alive
Show me the essence of life
Before I am to move on.

The single truth I couldn't scorn
Arrogance made me forlorn
And still a kind was born.

Walk with me through the storm
The chill dies away
And my message will bloom

I am king in the sun
I won't surrender in the presence of doom

For I have light
And no more gloom circles my soul

But I've come to realize this final day
That joy and hope at last have come my way!

1. Disbeliever

We are living in an unrefined world
Where wonders fall as soon as they rise
The shadows haunt the deaf and blind
You are one of them,
'Cause you are a disbeliever

Living in a world ruled by demons for
Breaking the pure wings of our angels who flee and conceal
They're damned to silence

Lore ends now

Now they resign and toss ideas away
While cold pelting rains descend - washing brains

Deadlocked, hidebound, desperate
You all disbelieve
No trust in the unseen
You don't dream

Echoes heard far-off
They witness past achievements
But they left no light
To guide us through this nightmare
Burning scars, we are baptised heretics
Rumors fly like swirling leaves and spread

Losing our belief in unseizable
Values once esteemed and adored
Now they flee and conceal
They're damned to silence
Lore ends now

But I believe
Leave and resign and toss ideas away
While cold pleting rains descend - washing brains

2. My Burden

We are the tyrants within
This is my burden to carry

Poison in the veins of gracious earth
Creeping mean disease, a bleeding flow

This world is a dirty pool and we sink
Ist es das was Ihr wollt oder nicht versteht
So kanns nicht enden
Wir sind Verderben
And this is my burden

Loud horns trumpet the end
Sounds of perverted disharmony
We are the tyrants within
This is my burden to carry

Roaring voids of night
Season of unreason
Bloodstained, angels unshrouded
My burden to carry
Schandwerk, schreiende Nacht
Blutraub, ihr saugt weiter
Bohrt tief, tief ins fleisch
Ihr labt Euch am Untergang

Evil feeds you
Lights are dimming
Sleep well

This is the end
Das ist das Ende

3. Ultimate Darkness

Pride and credit
In a meaningless world
Don't be greedy
For the wishes of the mob
Spinning round for dirt

Losing grip, but you're not the only one
Here I am...
I'm alone and you are too
Silent night, wonderfully deaf and blind

Noise dies away, this stinking rebel of men
For this is darkness and stillness and peace

Darkness tonight
All your broken visions true
You are a stranger to this world, me too
Darkness today
Because this is our way
And the night it heals your tears and letdowns now

I've seen days so black
And will see more
Your pain and disdain
I know it so well...

Walk and smile cause you are not a dancer
Like those who dance to sounds of coins and gold
Not your world - primitive and rude

Noise dies away, this stinking rebel of men
For this is darkness and stillness and peace

Burning spirits rising high and I see
Yes I see, yes I see a flower in you
When I stare at you I see the dullness gone by
I am not alone

4. Biting Cold

You turned to senseless stone
I can't breathe in your ears anymore
I never knew the tide of life

It's time for leaving
I'm not believing in you anymore
Your needles in my heart
My nonexistent trust I must endure
I yearn for sympathy
Und doch beruhr ich kalte nur

It's a biting cold
Living flame shining dead
It's my next defeat
It's a biting cold again
It's a biting cold
Striking mights and maybes even more
A useless thing called life
It's a biting cold again

My hollow hand holds the past
Where your hand once was placed
Just the shell of a life
I once have lived with you

Now I know the taste of tears
They cut my soul in two
Like a knife, sharpened knife
Like a bloody sharpened knife
Cut me...

Losing my bright illusions
I will resign, become a rusty wreck
My nonexistent trust I must endure
I yearn for sympathy
Und doch beruhr ich kalte nur

You divided us forever
I will never ever heal

5. The Dark One

Darkness - In every line and word i'm singing
Demons - Haunting me whenever I think

Nightfall - A dying man
Nightfall - Yes i am
Beasts inside me roar
The dark one is my name

Allright, here's the dark one speaking
I introduce my mental world to you

Breaking living nothingness
That's what I will do - be careful!

My words are in your hands
And they measure good and bad
Maybe they attract you
But you should read between the lines

I rule the night, it's my home, I welcome you
Die Nacht ist mein, und ich lad dich herzlich ein
I hunt the light, for more than one decade
'Cause i am the dark one, the dark one I am

Selfhood - I hate you
Dullness - and you too
I decry you all
For dark one is my name

Hey you, do you hear my words
I hope you do, and feel it too

Blaming mortal selfishness
That's what I will do - I mean it!

This is my other side
I'm not only a dark one,
As I have a pulsing heart
For all who care

6. Save Me

I ask, does someone hear me?
Listen... Yes, I mean you
Yes, I'm a fragile warrior
And I wander towards the unknown

Unknown, insecure, pathless mornings
Lost, my compass
Lost, I'm hopeless
Lost, I'm drowning
Save me!

I've seen a place where hearts cannot be
Bought or just borrowed
I've seen the sun hidden in your soul
Shining on me

Restless, but so tired, aimless, fortune
Laughs about me
Laughs and fools me
Laughs and spoils me
Wreckage

I shout, where can I find you
Tell me where have you been
Anchor, you'll be my rescue
Tearing me out of this living downstream

I've seen a place where hearts cannot be
Bought or just borrowed
I've seen the sun hidden in your soul
Shining on me
When the night casts it's shadow and eats
My gladness
Shining on me like a guardian
Covers me, warming me in this coldness
My whole life

7. Speak Silence

Lost, misguided minds, feverish dumb
I wonder how your life will end one day
Your soul is caught in a smiling web of sins
You bring the world to it's knees, again and again

Speak silence, the knife is mine

The knife is mine, your emptiness
Devouring life as stars are waning overhead
You celebrate with demons in your home
You put the world to an end, that's why I say:

Speak silence! You're just walking shades
Go away, back into your mental cage
Live silence! Keep your demons locked
in your mouth, and your head, go away
Speak silence!
There's no cure for your disease
Denn Du bist Mensch, and humans never learn
Live silence! I pierce my bloody knife
in your mouth, and your head, in your veins

Speak silence, the knife is mine
Speak silence, silence

Mine, mine, this knife is mine
You walk towards the end
Feel the coldness in your veins
Down, down, now you get down
Your body crumbles
This fiery pulse of sin now stops to beat
This knife is mine, the pain is your's
Your broken dreams complete
This knife is mine, hurting deep
Again and again I say:

The sun has set and I enjoy the void
Without you the silence is so sweet
All living beings are sinking down
The sky is vacant and I smile
Speak silence when I smile
Speak silence in my loneliness

8. Next To Nothing

Two rushing shades meeting face to face
Dull procedures come and go every day

A thousand tricks and one thousand smiles but
Life is not profound

An endless tide of ideas and belief
It's a mess, 'cause nobody thinks or feels
The sky laughs loud, entertainment for free
We are nothing

Gain, all we gain is trivial nonsense next to nothing
Our merit is: failing whenever we can
We are so precious...
But I say, we are next to nothing!
We are nothing, next to nothing, we are nothing

A friendly smile hiding misunderstandings
I see your mask but your soul I can't find

A thousand lost days, two thousand new ones
Tunnels light or dead end

Another night and even more days to come
And I've to look into mortal faces
It's just an act of regret and farewell
We are nothing

I look at you and wonder
Is it me whom I see
I am one of those mortals too
I'm lost as well as you

Where is my sympathy
I'm not one of those
Who're loving life, loving life eternally

9. Follow Me

All black nights, all promising days
Silence speaks loud and clear to me
I long for reason
Your healing for living

All things I've done, have failed so badly
Ideas and plans look at me and laugh
All I need is clarity
A voice that whispers "follow me"

Guide me to your shore
Leave my ruins behind
Show me the way to light
I will follow you
Whereever you go, whereever you are
I will follow, give me a sign

My way, is no way anymore
It lulls me, breaks and just throws me away
Anger builds a mental wall
But will it ever break, ever break

Finally lurking void revealed it's aims
Finally my life is nowhere
All I need is clarity
A voice that whispers "follow me"

I should run away, but to where, I don't know.
I gaze at a netherworld cause my mind went blind
Anger builds a mental wall
But will it ever break, ever break

10. The Fall

It's the fall
You are damned to live your life in wastelands
It's the fall
In a world where weak ones are left alone

Dreams, all your dreams
All your dreams are buried in mounts of sand
Breathe, breathe the dust
Breathe the lifeless dust of nature's revenge
Now you see all damage we have done
You lost all you had and will lose even more, even more…

Fall, fall, it's your fall, forever
Last days of Gaia
Fall, fall, never end, it's your fall
The future lies in your hands
Fall, fall, it's your fall, forever
Your adventure's just begun, little hero
Win the game or... forever fall

Feel, do you feel
Do you feel the corruption haunting you
Live, will you live
Will you live the perversion like others do
Now you see all damage we have done
You lost all you had and will lose even more, even more…

Fall, fall, it's your fall, forever
Last days of Gaia
Fall, fall, never end, it's your fall
The future lies in your hands
Fall, fall, it's your fall, forever
Your adventure's just begun, little hero
Win the game or... forever fall

I, I’ll believe, I'll believe in you
You will find your way
Even if you walk alone
You will fight, you will fight, you will fight, you will fight - or will you...

Fall, fall, it's your fall, forever
Last days of Gaia
Fall, fall, never end, it's your fall
The future lies in your hands
Fall, fall, it's your fall, forever
Your adventure's just begun, little hero
Fall, fall, never end, it's your fall
Win the game or... forever fall

11. Endless Night

Living a life without light
I found my endless night

Evil, when will you lose your wings?
I bathe in glowing coals
I live my saddest hour
Hiding my joy, no escape, iron cages

Anger for I know all is lost
It's my night, endless night
But I'm not falling
'Cause I stand proud until the end
When lights descend,
And smiling is no more
In my own endless night

Peace ends at the moment
Where self-longing begins
Pain is running straight down my shoulders
Break-up, fires ignite
We burn, will be gone
We are imprisoned in halls of shame

This lonesome place keeps me inviolate
Beautiful rain pouring from broken skies
Treetops bending down with a sigh

This is an endless night
Hope for relief is gone
You wear a gloomy shroud
Hiding the sinning world

12. Sleep Sleep Sweetheart

The night-wind swallows you
Eats you up in lust and smiles, silently
Sleep, sleep, sweetheart
Dream and forget our misery

A mortal fever haunts the dying earth
Our hearts and souls stand still and wince
I can't save your day,
Rescue won't take your hand,
So sleep the day away
Sleep, my dear
And our god hides in calm

I whisper while your eyes are shut
And don't see this hell on earth

Sleep, sleep sweetheart, never wake up
You are not made for this world's grinning pain
Shining eyes, they are no more, sleep well
Veins getting cold and the shadows lurk, shadows lurk

I long for new born lights divine and pure
A clearing rain to wash our dirt away
A mortal fever haunts the dying earth
Our hearts and souls stand still and wince

Content dance the snakes
For their work now's completed
Their poison creeps

I whisper while your cheeks turn cold and silence grabs your breath

Total playing time 49:03

Released 2005 by Massacre records
Music by Stefan Hertrich and Thomas Herrmann
Lyrics by Stefan Hertrich

1. Dying Land

the last bird from a scattered flock
seeks shelter in a tree
alone amongst the lonely woods
he will cry when noone hears
he will fall when noone cares
palls of grief hanging in the clouds
what must go wrong, so that we see
there's not enough to make us stop

we are the devils of a dying land
what evil spirit holds us here
we wear a careless mask
making friends with death
we are devils of a dying land

mankind took all nature's pride
mercy out of sight
demons dark around us swarm
forests' last time
the short last sound of singing birds
we don't know what it means
will we ever know?

a world where iron shells
can kill men's blood
a world of emptiness,
a dying land

2. Fly into the Night

Inside of you
Tears of pure frustration
Cascading down your heart
What could fill your restless soul
You may never know
You may never know

Come inside my painless world
Inside eternity
Open up your mind
And take a ride
Fly into the night

Broken, wounded world
Broken, wounded minds
No place for you to live
Liar's fires burn
Melting ice of trust
Endless filthy days
Laugh of evil lust

Fly:
Come inside my painless world
Inside eternity
Fly:.
Open up your mind and take a ride
Fly into the night

I will find the light and bring it back to you
Hope is by your side
liar's fires gone

3. Where Will I Go

so many questions
but no answers about me
where is my home
in my head it drones

where will I go
senseless wandering
no open door
nowhere to return
where will I go
where do I belong
where's the end of my way
where will I stay, where will I go?

My life is hopeless
Nowhere to turn
Where do I fit in
Where do I belong
I don't follow footprints
I wanna make my own
Wherever I go
There was someone else

The answer to this quest of life:
Will I find my way
To refresh my soul
Exchange for promises and hope
I'm wandering in tears,
New perspectives I will find

4. Can't Explain

shadow-veiled, passing years
i can't see the sun
where's the land of friends?
darkness conquers us
when the dawn of night begins
deep beneath my chilling fears
lives the ocean of my tears
i don't understand the world
bodies frozen, love stands still
as the sun was doomed
and i turn to look to you
there are no words i can use
i can't explain the goings of the world
dark and cold
i can't explain misery
i can't explain cruelty
i can't explain success of lying
i turn away
anger pounds, sorrow surrounds
i can't stand this pain
neverending emptiness
everyday we look away
we are all alone

i am sorry
i can't explain
cruelty
misery

5. Life

in a maze of feelings
i lost myself
my colored window
now piece of broken glass
i can't stand it anymore
but i always do
how much more i'll have to give?

life's a neverending story
of disappointment
hunger yearns, greed is turning
good to bad

i wish so much to tell
but noone hears
i'm always wondering
how much more all take from me
taking this, taking that
again and again
simple hated life
nothing will remain

let me be
when will i be free?
crumbling walls i wanna see
i am sick of useless stories
now it's time for me to worry
worry about me

6. Hear Me

a bloody rusted nail
piercing through my veins
no light to change eternal night to day
here human life has no worth

i never found what i was looking for
do you hear me when i cry
i never know what to search
will you find it when i'm gone?

do you hear me when i cry
no you don't
chaos, madness, many sighs
in a world without hope

my mind's not filled with things to come
time runs away under my feet
a part of me has gone and died
life's going on and will do when i'm gone

7. Souls Unite

you're waiting for the gates
to be raised
when you walk through
your life will change
time after evil
hour after fear
it's the moment in life
when souls unite
...souls will unite
when you close your eyes
souls will unite
then the sun will rise
summer's might

i will give you the key
open the gate to me
the sun will rise
let our souls unite

emptiness is driving you
tunnels you are wandering through
your thoughts will set you free
from your private misery
i want you to see my world
i will wait for you within
you will walk on flowered dreams
mile after mile

someday the sun will warm your face
and heat your soul
when you sit happily in the sand
and unite with the stars

8. Rain of Revival

a gentle rain came down on all
falling down upon the world
washing away our sins
tears that cleanse the soul
and soothe the pain
rain of revival

rain of revival
running down my skin
no past's survival
remaining in my heart
rain of revival
remembrance washed away
my past's denial
i'm challenging the day
i'm sailing on the sea of change
conquering new lands
coasts of new adventures
unknown tasks, unknown fears
better than remaining here
i'll leave the world behind
rain of revival

will you join my walk
to new dimensions
i'll take your hand
to change your life

9. Forever Stay

the hours are slipping by
i stare into the night
into my deep blue sea
of unforgotten memory
i paint your face
into my mind
and kiss your tears away
for me there's only you

i want you here, forever stay
my heart torn in two
i'll hold you close to ease your pain
'cause i feel it too

we are two souls in moonlit autumn nights
rebelling hearts on wings of gentle smiles
peaceful earth and star-filled skies
no demon, devil, ghost will make us cry

i want you here, forever stay
my heart torn in two
i'll hold you close to ease your pain
'cause i feel it too
forever stay and save the day
forever stay

10. Waiting

the frost invades
the day's growing dark
lock your doors
misery arrives
black, silent smiles
passion is chained
hatred is born
love forlorn

waiting for the time
when sunbeams touch my face
feel its warm embrace
waiting for the time
when flowers rise again
growing over pain

forests burning bright
fire finds new home
the air blows hot
drying fruity minds
ashes fall like snow
burying our souls
my warning cries
were never heard

waiting for the time
when words will win again
spirit, thought and soul
waiting for the time
when jealousy will die
waiting for the time

spirit under ice
empty veins of blood
all ears are closed
all mouths are locked
murderers of word
murderers of thought
rivers flood down my cheeks

11. Every Day

i'm looking now where i have been
i try to see where i will go
this are two ways shrouded in fog
what is my existence's sense?
every day i'm wondering, will there be a change?
every hour, a loss of power - every day
every day i'm wondering, will something new begin
time is flying, minutes dying - every day

unsure of my heart, unsure of myself
wondering silently of what could be
i ask you now: is this life?
meaningless, a senseless, useless way

shattered nerves, but here i stay, every day
i will move on, the journey never ends

12. It Shall End

winds on winter fields
in the smokey sky
wandering storm
storming war
demons' lust in starving lands
the years are filled with lies and tears
no twinkling stars in distant skies
our fear is masked with careless smiles
where are the gods, where is their might
nightmares guard our life
they are lost in the midnight air
forever lost
love can't fill their empty lungs with breath

will there be salvation, a ray of grace
as soon as grief began it shall end

it shall end
while i stand
it shall end as soon as it began
it shall end
silent fading
it shall end
give us back understanding

1. Forever Darkness

In the fire of the sunken sun
fast as ravens, bullets, thoughts I run
I inhale the golden oil
and I fear forever darkness
Nights come, bringing snow
Forever darkness in my soul
Black, cold days will never cease
when the ground shakes and the light falls
Look into Your heart
Do You see the ruins of what we felt before?
Look into Your heart
Forever darkness in my soul
Do You see the ruins of what we felt before?
Look into Your heart
Do You feel it?
Do You see the ruines
of what we felt before?
Sickening lives the fallen man
This is our world
Here the snake gets her poison
to kill innocense in paradise
Lies come, spirit's gone
devil's might has won
Black cold days will never cease
when the ground shakes and the light falls

2. I Deny You

Would You like to go for a walk?
Essential for You...
May I introduce You to my words:
Small amusements give You joy
You don't think about it's sense stupid guy...
I deny You, I despise You
You're the one 'bout whom I laugh
Go to hell now, get a move on!
Follow my advice!
I deny You, I despise You
You're the one whom I regret
Go to hell now, get a move on!
I'll show You, go to hell!
Truth it has no value for You
You keep up appearances
Shut Your gob, now I am talking!
A fat lot You know about the truth
Now our ways will seperate forever
Forget my words and live the world
You live Now it's time to say good-bye to You
Walk Your path again and keep a fool!

3. Counting Moments

This is the day
When grief pours freezing over me
Like rushing mighty floods
To drown the flame burning in my eyes
Freezing coals in my soul
I ask myself, how came these things to pass?
Sometimes unexpected seconds just arrive too fast
Counting moments always change my life
Counting moments when joy or tears arrive
Counting moments I never will forget
Sudden, unexpected things come to pass
I'll never enter dreams of Eden anymore
The low last edge of the universe
Now all hope's destroyed images burst
Perspectives gone and past
Dreams devide and break
Sudden movements piercing through my life
Unforeseen joy or tears arrive

4. Can't Find You

I'm standing at the coast
and I listen to the waves
I'm searching for a place
to anchor my heart
But the water is too deep
to find You
I'm drifting away
washed to the shore
Sand in my eyes
I can't find You
I'm searching stone for stone
I'm diving blue for blue
I'm diving deep in You
but I can't find You
Waters wash my soul
I listen to the waves
telling stories far from home
They live and breathe and break
they're washing clear my soul

5. Autumn

My heart is crushed
It's lying there and growing cold
Summer's sunset falls
Sunlight flees away and dews of night arise
Rainy autumn moves my heart
Flowers welking welk my joy
Clouds come rolling over
they depress me, overrun me
They overshadow my heart
Autumn comes apace, a last warm glance sighing to me
Now grey vails between the earth and sea
Birdless branches in the wind
Leaves they found their death in coldness
Naked trees in the frost of night
yearning for the sun again and again
Waters laying still in transparent fog
Lakes of blue covered with ice
to sleep their winter-sleep

6. Rain

When the day comes You wish it dark
Life's black window of Your soul
When the day comes
You wish I'm dead
Black temptation in Your head
When Your lies come I wish You're gone
The pulse of Your veins under ice
When I look into Your heart I find a desert
where You let hot rain falling burn
I'm walking down this dying land
step by step, walk for walk
The autumn rain rains on my life
drop for drop, tear for tear
When the day comes You wish it dark
Life's black window of Your soul
Let the hot rain falling burn
Tell Your heart it has to learn
Let the hot rain falling burn
Keep Your thoughtful land alive

7. Hopelessness

I'm looking through my window and I see
a lonesome star lost in the night
I'm looking through my window and I see
midnight's gloomy forest, it's mighty trees
The new-moon winter-bright
overspread with phantom light
Cold winds are knocking at my door
Should I open'
Welcome to my broken heart, I invite You
I'll show You hidden dreams, just explore
Dreams that yearn for sunny days
Dreams that search for hopeful ways
Realize my deepest dreams!
When the cold winds visit me
my wishes freeze, illusions flee
Hopelessness, it fills my soul
Hopeless ways I'm walking down
I'm sitting here, no window there
No lights I see I'm waiting for
Dreams that yearn for sunny days
Dreams that search for hopeful ways

8. Left Alone

A shining star it sinks
and spreads it's last silver rays
A short glance and then escape
to universal spheres
The last sinking star leaving us
and with it the last remaining truth
Mankind stained itself with sin
Wisdom changed to cold, we hunted everything
The last fleeing star says good-bye
We're left in loneliness
Stars we cannot buy
We're left alone
without warmth, without light
The stars, the moon they leave tonight
God is out of sight
We're left alone
without heart, without soul
We're left alone in fields of gold
The sun, the stars, the moon
returning home to God
Crying about the earth
We're lost in emptiness of space,
we're lost in emptiness of sense
Wounds we have to close
before the last wise thought perishes

9. Downwards

I'm walking down this way
without an aim, without a course
I sometimes find an open door
to rooms that show me trivial thoughts
I see wastelands in Your heads
without ideas, without respect
I blame mankind
Your road leads downwards
into sinful life
Down and down the steps You fall
Tears they fall like springing rain
down onto the poisoned earth
Thoughts that love the routine life
push me out of Your door
A tree's my friend just loving me
despite it's wounds bleeding free
And the sun is blind,
happy rays are gone
The tree is dead...
I blame mankind

10. Cold Under Water

I dive into the sea
to realms of unknown blue
I break the surface
to drown in nothingness
Calm before the storm
Storms drowning everything
Floods drowning all
You're sinking down
Water, deep, blue, cold
The sea's calling You
Floods drowning all
Blue dimensions
Water, deep, blue, cold
destroying all
And the flood's destroying all
And the world is sinking down
Blue dimensions over us
Our world is dying
Black clouds appear
and the rain falls
Lands under water
they sink into forget
Cold under water
lies the wreck called mankind

11. Many Wills

I'm lying on my bed now
No morning gives me promise
of a glorious day
Will happiness return'
I overdrink the day
I overdring the night
I'm drinking forth myself
abroad to an empty loss
down to a sunless sea
to drown in my own misery
Will my happiness return'
Will the night lay to rest?
Future-expectations there?
Hopeful promise anywhere?
Will my happiness return?
Will the night lay to rest?
Will the rainbow bridge my ways?
Will there be glorious days?
I'm a stranger for the world
Nevermore to dance
Isolation in my rooms
Oh hell that I was born
Too many wills that don't come true
No chance to realize
The final countown, final flight
to false illusions, astral suicide
I'll stop my sadness, use the key
to the outlet of my misery

1. Dancing With The Lion

I dare my life lay down to sleep
To be ashes for each wind that blows
Life shall not rule me anymore
I am damned, so forlorn

I will dance with the lion
I will dance

I wished in silence that it were not me
I the one to whom now danger lights
It's time to go now
I'm walking fast
To face the challenge,
My last task

I will dance with the lion
I will dance

2. Cold

Your hand ran over me
I got your sympathy
But now you broke my neck
I feel it in my head
I see it in your eyes
I feel it in my head

See, you're feeling cold
It's cold inside of you
I'm almost sure
You don't know what you do

But now I turn from you
Don't want to be your fool
Nomore for you to beg

See, you're feeling cold,
It's cold inside of you
My frozen heart nomore for your to feel

Cold... cold... cold

Receive but what you give
In your my devil lives

I wish you all the worst

You feel it in my head
I see it in your eyes
You feel it in your head

3. Echoes Of Tomorrow

Never did I feel a truer grief
Full of regret an failing

I hear
Echoes of tomorrow
My heart to borrow
I wish to lose
My past

I won't live and
Love my misery
So I can't choose
But break the day

I hear
Echoes of tomorrow
They take my sorrow
To burst away
My past

Tomorrow
Tomorrow
Echoes of tomorrow

I hear
Echoes of tomorrow
They take my sorrow
To burst away
My past

4. Cosmic Shining

My cosmic shining
Condied with ice

My cosmic shining
Candle my light!

The eye of the sun is nomore blind
The dawn of a new day reborn?

My cosmic shining
My fallen star
I am falling
Lying afar

I walked uproad in showers
Down the rivers of the windfall light
In the garden where the shapes of night
Celebrate my fever

I feel my fever, I see me dying
Heal my fever, my cosmic shining

I see my dying, my cosmic shining
Don't you see me dying
My cosmic shining?

5. Journey To The Spirit World

This day forms more and more my wish to enter unknown paths
I desire light on my way to the spirit world
I wish to enter spirit worlds, a dreamland full of coloured words

Dreams, now they rage, how they roar!
Thoughts, pulsate and break the gate
Light me the way to sharpened dreams then I will smile all days 'till end

6. Give Me Light

The birds love in the shade
Sweet smiles the night
All creations slept and smiled
...never will it be!

Give me light, give me pride, beam on me

Away the vapour flew
Shining beams of love
Sweet dreams, pleasent beams
But I'm bereaved of light

Give me light, give me pride, beam on me

Angels in the sky, the give me light
They beam forth brightness on a darkened world
A holy angel, he guards my bed
Reach me your mighty hand!
I can't choose but grief destroy

The birds in the shade
Sweet smiles the night
All creations slept and smiled
...never will it be!

I gave my heart away
Weeping tears on infant's tear
Sweet dreams form a shade
Happy silent moony beams!

7. Fusion

[Instrumental]

8. Flying Together

You love the world I own
Where all our hate is blown
Away to distant spheres
I call our real life

Flying together
Flying togehter
Flying together
Into my dreamy world

We'll walk among the clips of fire
The heat to feel
We'll wander all night long
In lands of dreams

Flying together
Flying togehter
Flying together
Into my dreamy world

Please fly together
Please fly with me
We'll fly together
Into my dream

We'll see magic summer rain
Your skin to cool
I'll show you hidden spheres
I, the mental traveller

9. Echoes Of Tomorrow (Acoustic)

10. Spiral Of Mystery

Twilight flowers wait for their rise
Building thorns of defence
In the sunset with it's sovran shine

Thorns, I hear them grow
Their might to show
Proud in their form
They desire light

Spiral of mystery
No heart, no eyes of man can see

Welcome to the fields so wide
Too nice to be mine...

Thoughts too high for one like me
Here I meet with thinks new born

For never were these things
So like a dream
My heart is overcharged
Here it will be left
I wish to drown in deamscapes like this

Storm in me me, burn!
Life in me, strive!

11. Desire

See, I fall for you
Feel the hurts
You do
My world seems
To fall apart
I stand alone

You burn in me
You beat in me
Desire
You are my
Pulsing heart
You beat

Tears in darkened
Stillness
Thunder

Rain in me
I, I long for you
I stay alone

I still feel for you
Feel the hurts
You do
You
You punish me
Free me

You
You burn in me
You, my fire
You
My pulsing heart
Beat, desire!

1. Craft Her Spell

Enchanting mights overhelming me
with skin pale as fiery snow
and eyes dark as night...
My growing heart-bleeding...

I craft her spell
A rising fountains of lust
One more staring glance
and my favour will never rust!

I am armed to suffer with quietness of spirit
Soft stillness with the touch of night's sweet harmony
She seeks my life
Her love drops a gentle rain from heaven
A day when the sun is did
Give me light, give light
by these blessed candles of the night
The night methinks is the daylight sick

2. Fall Whatever Falls

I wished Your heart was grown
to shoot an arrow to me down
You made waste of all I have
The worst everfall I serve

I only think that You forgot me
I hope You see what You did to me
Such a harm a wind will do at sea
I leave you now with better company

Go, tenderness of years
no sighing sign she hears
Fall whatever falls
sweet flowery welkin' call
Fall whatever falls
sweet flowery welkin' call
See I keep the day,
cure overnights so grey

There are many keys, but wherefore should I go?
No sign of hearts, but You breathing now
I'll leave to hang myself, pity on my loss
Meadows never crossed,
winter now at hand!

"I am honey-mouthed, but I don't talk
You smell my feelings as You walk"

You have the choice
to make me blessed or cursed
Soft Your bright voice
Scorn running time and make it worse

3. Self Pity Sick

Can I hold You all night long?
I feel You shake, a deed so wrong,
wrong in my head
Vino two for one today
Kiss this bleeding curse away
Realscapes today

Iron in the air, Your tongue in my mouth
Twilight-essence hair when the moon goes south
A breeze of sugar-breath
so sweetly pale, pale as death
Blood-copulate her will
Her aim my heart to kill

Self pity sick, flowers salty sweet
Self pity sick, love desire's benefit
Self pity sick, flowers salty sweet
Self pity sick, feelings blind

I starve the daily world aside
Wild things leading me tonight
But I feel dreamscape die
the bygone night denied
My soulgates open, streaming tears
The money-voice she only hear
His aim the pleasure of himself
Love and extasy she gave

Flowers salty sweet, love desire's benefit
Feelings blind, leave this weird place behind

I will load You for one kiss untrue
I don't open my lips for one loving kiss

4. You Will Come

I seek for You, take my leave, so fare You well
I lost all hopes, truth may come to light and die
And for my love I pray You, wrong me not
Let us all ring fancy's bell, ding, dong, bell!

Such as I am now for myself alone
My eyes still look, look as swift as Yours
I pray You cure my mind that's drenched with blood
A dancing heart, but not for joy

No power in the tongue of man
My deeds upon my head crushing
head crushing mad,"God sort it all"
You shall deem Yourself loaged in my heart
Sick is my head, let it bleed, desire to die!

I will lend You sorrow, borrow none
I never serve Your mind, I say "no way"!

"Remember You were mine,
'cause You obeyed my wine
My favour stopped to bleed,
over now my greed!"

And You will come, I never serve Your mind
And You will come and leave Your world behind

"I fly away by night, to higher steps of might
The thorns You stand upon, they never will pass on!"

5. That Kills My Heart

A comoran devouring time
In great streams rains the joy of mine
My blood speaks to You in vein
Fare well until we meet again!

You knocked onto my fate
alighted at my gate
My wife that was, my son that is
Keep faith onto Your chance

I'm glad at heart, make war breed peace
piercing thru myself to meet
Lend me Your hand that kills my heart

Let me to find You still, devil cross Your will
You stand pleased with all
I say:"Hear Your fall!"

Pardon me, stars, I never felt it until now
O sighful thought, drown her broked soul!

Your life passed thru so hard
I pay it when You part
Won't have a serpent-bite
Not fighting forth tonight...

God, I will set You forth
Great glory in my horse
I creep in dream-maids ears
My weakened voice to hear

6. Be Ever Heard

Long time ago my work began
Completed now, when I'm a man
I drunk the wine of paradise
Much force I gained with many sighs

"Now You cease away, You come to me
You leave Your world with grim and cry out loud"

I really know the uses of the world
The voice I always hear, be ever heard!

I won't stop here, but gently pass
I will sink ere night be passed
I happy child of earth was I
bright as a star in our skies!

Cold astral stars, eternity
Now there may come new days to me
Now motionless like bleeding ice
I sing like wind short lives and dies
Short lives and dies!

7. Walk In Me

My loveless eyes, they look on You
They break the crystal seas so blue
A smile for which my feelings sigh
This pain could teach me how to cry

Your heart once passed so desolate
Must fly at least from ease to hate
So many summer flowers there
So many shadows love could share

Love's image upon earth without it's wings
I feel releaved when sorrow flows...
My days so few have passed away
Dark tree, still sad...

Grasped in the holy land
So beautyful shy-dark eyes
Last eve in beauty's circle
left Your scattered shafts of light

Sleep at noon with branches overgrown
I can't enliven dying men
'cause God takes back his gift
Beat the twilight into flakes of fire
Glow with the glow that slowly crimsoned all

"through all my memory I found a way
I walked in thoughts, today they walk in me"

8. Spirits

I am one of these dumb wise men
So I've much ado to know myself

I don't know how to get clear
with all the depths I owe
Thru the hour-glass they flow
I don't know the free and offered light
The lighting of my being is as bright

If I break the day, what would I gain?
To hold a candle lighting shame?
I desire no delight, no more delight
All knowledge is now burning in my eyes

You promise me blush life
I stand for sacrifice
I wish You all the joy that You can wish
Spirits dull at night
I think You are denied
The light we see is burning in my eyes

I don't show teeth in way of smile
I only see the hour-glass how it runs
By yonder-moon I swear You do me wrong
With my own hands I strike You honour down

9. Nevermight

Truth may one day smile
Now I think scorn to sigh
You fear by pale-white shown
Heavy spellcraft grown...

All pride is welkin's pride
and so is Your?
I have the power to cut
My will still wills!
My eyes shall be the stream
Visional floating scream
I breathed a secret vow
Leasure serves me now

I never was on sorrow's side
Never felt a heaven-fight
Never was my dagger out of grace
Never love before my face

You can't overstare the mightiest
eyes that ever looked
I hope You come within my gates
You have to think about my might
'cause You are none by this good light

Falconbridge - nevermight
Your lusty mind so coldly iced
Hell befall Your mask!
Fallen face so fast

10. Senca

I lost more I ever gained
far away, far away...
Thunder die, heartache cry
Star-crossed light never meant far, far away...
Whisper trance-enchants and fear!

Light and fags, hope and fear
Start to think and start to hear
my voice soft, wit and charm

Off I rise, twilight-path
Never saw such trembling harm
Cut-tongued spheres to appear
falling down so fresh and free

Flat my voice, wake or sleep
I have met within my dreams
Never feel a calm so deep

How can grief break the wall
to my long, long promised way?
But my sake I will break,
break in pieces never seen

Senca, nevermore...

Beauty, pleasure, youth
which one will I choose
to uphold my wounds?
Beauty, pleasure, youth
two of them to lose
to avoid my tomb

11. Hold Me

[DIGI Bonus]

Leaves all night and day
Clouds with colors grey
But I still delight
Mirror's magic sight

When the moon is overhead
I cross nights forever sad
Snow and fire-love I see
Love I see

I use my brain, now I see
The wild stream brought me far away
Witchcraft's aim is what I need

Rivers drowning lands
Paleness, swan-like ends
Wandrers searching light
From morn to night

And I grew both deaf and blind
Damned to leave - unskilled to find
Dark shores no ships has ever seen
Ever seen

The leaves upon my fallen life
Before I reached the calling side
Reading magic books I died

Hold me - hold me
to reach heaven, not hell
Free me - free me
from cold eyes' farewell
Hold me - hold me
is my wisdom here?
Free me - free me
from my deep, dark fear

1. Witchful Spirit's Care

I gave her eyes my own to take
and round she turned my sake
My hands in need
and gave herself indeed

I met a girl down in the meads
A fading rose was on her cheeks
Her honey eyes dreaming wild
Full beautiful, a fairy-child

And on the floor she's all alone
I sit upon this cold, grey stone
And I dream my time away
yet conversing as I may

And the stars through the spears
My heart waters full of tears
Run in blood down the wall
for another give you ease
Do you know who made you?
You are called by what you do
Into spheres, spheres we see
Joy reduces to misery

I feel my strenght to fade
Almost asleep, my only sake
She spoke the words, used the clue
"I love you true..."

And the fields, black and bare
The eternal winter's there
Fed with cold, fearless hands
in a rich and fruitful land

And the sun does never shine
Joy another loss of mine
In what distant deeps or skies
burned the fire of your eyes?
Never end...

2. Lysander

Neglest me, lose me
only give me leave
unworthy as I am
to follow your grief

Therefore the moon
the governess of floods
pale in her anger
washes all the air
Fall in the fresh lap
of the crimson rose
The human mortals want
their winter cheer

Love takes the meaning
in love's conference
So that but one heart
we can make of it
The stary welking
covers you anon
with dropping fog
as black as acheron

Thorny anger, be not seen
come not near out fairy-queen
For night's swift dragons
cut the clouds
I tary for the comfort of the day
Fair love, I see, I forgot our way

Stand steel, you ever moving spheres
in misery noone will hear
And they shoot chillness to my heart
I can't break the midnight sigh

3. Love's Heavy Burden

Under love's heavy burden do I sink
Can I go forward, when my heart is here?
I cannot be here, here and there,
there and here for You and I
are past our dancing days

I like the lightning
which does cease to be
ere one can say "I see"
Beauty too rich for use
for earth too dear
Did my heart love till now?
I forswear!

Regions near me seemed all alone
My mutual cry she never heard again
Now sadness is beloved, and love we gain
Alike bewitched by charm of looks

Night, sable Goddess,
from your ebon throne
Every eye is fixed on you alone
I thank you, moon, for showing me the way
Trip away, make me stay, meet me all
by break of day

You made mine eyes and merry tears
Oh, grim-looked night, the way you fear!
Full many flowers born to blush unseen
And waste their sweetness now
sure their last gleam

Trip away, make me stay,
meet me all by break of day
Heaven hell shadow-dancer
heatened blood makes holy hands unclean

Mine eyes look sad,
And grim-looked night away
Stare around the sphere
to blush unseen-your tears

When you turn away
Leave me out of the end
Turn your insane out
Leave me, it you will

Away from light steals forth my soul
I want give cure as know
But love's a smoke with fume of sighs
So swallow down and rise, autumn rise

4. The Sealing Day

I look upon myself and curse my fate
Shall I compare you to a winter's day?
Pull down your vanity, I say pull down
A world of made is not a world of born

I all alone beweep my outcast state
and my eternal spring is shall not fade
Some safer world in depths of wood embrace
The stars move still with sound of glace

And all the air a solemn stilness holds
My ear is much enarmoured of your silent notes

What angel wakes me from my flowered bed?
Oh, you have killed my sleeping fairy-land
I pray you gentle mortal, sing again
I'm wandering till truth makes all things plain

By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn
to stay but here awhile most radiantly

How glorious once above thy sphere
and all the air
Heaven's matchless king does glance
methought he is there

5. Forgetfulness

And I seek sweet favours carved in gold
And I bare the light my breath to hold
Early seen unknown, but know too late
How came this gentle concord?
Can you tell me was it fate?

I cross the entrance, push the door
to crawing sadness hurting more
I see I hear the trembling sphere
Come and pass, alas, stay here!

And I breathed such vows love used to swear
It's too rich for earth too dear
Now sadness is beloved and love we gain
I see me I see you and all I know is
hurt is lying plain

I pity silence sad
I enjoyed the vital light
Oh, that she knew, knew I did
God alone in grievance lies
I thank you for your cries
I leave you now.I leave you now

When I feel my insane blue
I dive into the sea of you
and hope to drown by falling down
Weapons out to pierce my grief
I hide my blade alike in peace
Drop the curtain, I will leave

I don't care, I don't go
I don't leave you when you will
I don't care, I don't go
When you cease my love to kill

Burning ice and wondrous flaming snow
And I see more devils hell can hold
I will leave the break of day
No more passion, no more lust
and only fume of sigh will stay

6. Like To A Silver Bow

Once I wrote her name upon the sand
but came a wave a washed it away
Again I wrote in with a second hand
but came a tide, made my plans prey

Who so list to think? I know where is a sign
I am of them that furthest come behind

Yet may I, by no means, my weared mind
draw from my thought, but as they flee
ashore, fainting I follow, I leave off
therefore, since in net I seek to hold
the wind

The sweet season, that bud and bloom
forth brings
The summer has come, for every spray
now springs
With green had clad the hill and ehe
the vale
The nightingale with feathers new
she sings

"Vain man" she said "that dost in vain
assay, a mortal name so to immortalise,
for I myself shell like to this desay
and ehe my name be wiped out likewise"

7. Chariot Wheels

Leaves by night and day
Webs with colours gray
But she still delights
mirrors magic sights

When the moon was overhead
The red-crossed knight forever kneeled
like the branch of stars we see
She loosed the chain, down she lay
The broud stream brought her far away
I am part of all she met

Rivers drowning lands
gleams untravelling hands
Wandering if I might
from morn to night

Cause I grew both deaf and blind
Damned to win, unskilled to find
Dark shores no ship's ever seen

The leaves upon her falling light
ere she reached upon the tide
Singing in her song she died

Hold me - to reach heaven from hell
Leave me - from cold eyes farewell
Hold me - in sounds royal cheer
Leave me - leave my palace here

When we fall, when we fall
below cold thunder's upper deep
When we fall, when we fall
her eyes so hard beneath the sea
When we fall, when we fall
subdue me to the useful good
When we fall, when we fall
to drown in sadness'brotherhood

8. The Bolt Of Cupid Fell

When fourty nights shall beside you brow
and dig deep wounds in your beauty now
Your youth's proud livery so gazed on me
tomorrow will be darkened sealed

Look how a bird lies tangeled in a net
Pure shame and awed resistance made him fred
So fastened in her arms the favoured lies
She found more beauty in his varied eyes

Cut is the brunch that might be grown
with you faith, the treasure of your lusty days

Then being asked where all your beauty lies
I say it to your deep-sunken eyes
"As if the dead the living should exceed
possessed by heavens heart and hand"

He burns with basful shame
She with her tears does quench the maiden
burning off her cheeks
Then with her windy sighs and golden hands
to fain and blow them dry again she seeks

Look how a painter would surpass his life
His art with nature's workmanship at strife
In limmming out a well-proportioned steed
as if the dead the living should exceed

9. Night Mislead

With how sad steps you climb the skies
How silently, how pale your face
What may it be, that even in this place
that busy archer his arrows tries?

Leave me, on love, which reachest but to dust
And you, my mind, aspire to higher things
Grow rich in that which never takes ryst
What ever fades but fading pleasure brings

Verbreitte die Stahlen, gib'mir Deine Macht
die die Wolken besiegt und dasLicht mir bewegt
durch den Fruhling des goldnen belebenden Blickes
Ich suche den Weg in der Dammerung schwer

And let the day be time enough to mourn
Let waking eyes suffice to vail their scorn
The shipwreck of my ill-adventured youth
Without the torment of the night's untruth

10. My Worldly Task Is Done

Falling, falling into the hole
Starfall, starfall-to the horizon

This hateful imperfection on her eyes
They swell like orient pearls
Why should they stay?
Pressed by love to go

You don't speak as you think
it cannot be!
Your vows to her and me
How shall we find the concord
of your night and day

And I go, oh spite, oh hell,
to vows that would consis
of the wind
So sorrow's heaviness
does heavier grow
Give me your hands of we be friends

Oh peace will not harbour me
since night's swift dragons
cut the skies

Night and silence, are you there?
Weeds of chillness he does wear
So awake when I'm gone
To heaven's breaking fields I come

11. Winter Noon

Well, my kind, in silence sad
trip we after what we read
We the globe can compass soon
swifter than the wandering moon

I look to like
if looking liking prays
I gather thorns
seek night to happy days

On life's vast ocean do we sail
I pity myself, cause passion is the gale

Tears augmenting the fresh morning-dew
I know my grievance or be much denied
Mistempered sorrow, fear me not!
You dreamt a dream tonight and so did I

And since you wove dreams of joy and fear
which made me terrible and dear
But I arose and saw the dawn
when light rode hight and was gone

1. Dream Recalled On Waking

...and after a many summer dies the swan
It withers slowly in thine arms
All night long amorous anthems sung
It's tears on your cheek, history of the fall

Sweet is the breath of night
With charm of earliest birds
Close over us, the silver star, thy guide
Dying embers, our only light

But see the many-coloured prime retired to rest
Thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies
Honour and beauty are but dreams
Big alike with wounds and dart

Like fiery dews that melt
The swan's soul into boughs does glide
Flaming swords forbiddeth, they banish me from you
Remembrance of a bitter loss

Ruined love, when it's built anew, grows fairer,
More strong, far greater
While glory crowns so many hatreds crest
Waking, thou wert in thy nakedness
...and after a many summer dies the swan

2. In Broken Images

Grotesque fairyland-astray
With fine falling snow
this myth now melts away
Through bloody archways
it flows upstream to see
this heartache parching me
Burns my gaiety, taking down it's golden mask
My tears ooze away on drifting soil

Through peace I stride and flee
Your musing thoughts caressed by fear
I hear some nightingales, they sing
My withered dreams to heal

Beauty's rose should never die
My grief lies onward, joy behind
But nature calls it to be gone
So tired with my woe...

Stormy gusts of winter's day
For restful death I beg
Ere that sun doth wake
Drown my sins, black memory!

Freezing have I felt
what dark days seen in sleep a king
Mounted on the wind your bareness
comes to touch the seals

Stormy gusts of winter's day
For restful death I beg
Ere that sun doth wake
Drown my sins' black memory

For never resting time leads summer
on my heart is slain
Within this would which iron did impress
there will a river whispering run
The very birds are mute
The dread the winter's near
Their sings, they wet my eyes
Drown my world with weeping earnestly

Too hot the eye of heaven shined
Anon, the tunnel I will find
Praise deep vermilion in the rose
What tree or stone doth want a soul?

Light, thy picture in my sight
It's held within his hands
It's grounded in my heart
Disguised in bridal veils

Morning shadows wear away
How many mornings have I seen?

3. Above The Edge Of Doom

Don't drink the wine, it could be blood
This torrent could be thine
Turbid water cannot gleam
Your amity to truth departs

The moonlit sky is lightning up in lands where
shadows dream my thoughts

I want to deny my frown
This war starves out my faith
it naughts my peace
Weed stamps on it's guilt, it crumbles off
Ere you were born was beauty summer's dead

Find the first conceit of love there bred
Faith falling...
No bitterness that I have bitter thing
Doom's calling

Whatever midnight hath been here
The flames of love I cannot view
So glid my path with thine eyes
Winter's cold falling deep

Make glad seasons as thou fleets
through crystal brooks where silence heats
Winning, when I saw myself to lose
Ruined love is built anew

On thorns rose stand
Two mourning eyes thy face
Bashful dreams, my soul is fled
where late sweet birds sand

Solicit your evil minds
wandering through the morning fog
Through the grove where trees conceal the light
Through the leaves, through fallen snow

My tears on your skin
but water cools not pain
from my soul which in thy breast doth lie
(It's useless shine it may forbear,
the weeping days to chase)

Find the first conceit of love there bred
Faith falling...
No bitterness that I have bitter thought
Doom's calling...

4. A Charm For Sound Sleeping

My loveless eyes, they gaze on thee
They break the crystal of the sea
That smile for which my feelings sigh
This pain could teach us how to die

Your heart once left thus desolate
Must fly at least from ease to hate
So many summer-flowers there
So many shadows love might (share)

Love's (image) upon earth without its wings
I feel relief when sorrows flows
My days though few have passed below
(Dark tree,) still sad… (when other's grief is fled)
Grasped in holy hand (of mystery)
So beautiful shy, dark eyes… (flashing free)
Last eve in beauty's circle (proudly gay)
Let thy scattered shafts of light (play)

Sleep at noon with branches overgrown
You can't enliven dying man for god takes back his gift
Beat the twilight into flakes of fire
Glow with the glow that slowly crimsoned all

Through all memory I found a way
I walked in thoughts, today they walk in me

1. Last Dream

Laughter of the night devours your life's brightness
Virgin is singing – apparition of your death
exterior of the dark's standing deep in fern
white robe's waving in fog like her pitch-dark hair
your past was grey, your future is black
tears of extinct days stream through her eyes
blood over your tomb

She begins to cry, the master of the dead
holds a cross towards the sky
her empty eyes turn red, ardor is her soul
I hear this screaming flame

Ashes to ashes, blood to blood
condemnation, dust to dust

The bloody, black full moon
illuminates her skin
deadly pale it shines
reflecting at your grave
beyond the shades of sun
where pleasure's obsolete

I stride into a cryptic faint
ashore benighted thoughts

Your past was grey, your future is black
tears of extinct days stream through her eyes
blood over your tomb

See the wind abate
your dreamland life now ends
downpour leaves the clouds
raindrops touch your skin
grass will grow on your vault
comply with the night

Unveil this appearance,
it's your deceased wife
walk through untrod glades
The undefeated low will end...

Define forsaken joy
domestic close behind shadows prowl in the dark,
messengers of god
a modest epitaph carved in your stone
what have they written,
your will never know

2. Frozen Tears

Follow then rain into the end of paradise
where the eternal dark's crying so near
cold wind plays with my minds
when the fog appears and lovely words
will change to screams

When I sleep I mount and fall
untrue flowers sprout and die

Feelings stained with blood
They don't endure this chill
engrained in deepest grief
silent, sad farewell

The daybreak drowns in my tears
a last spark mirrors on blackened seas
feeble waves whisper through the night
in the calm I saw angel die...

I cry – left alone
my grave – I can't evade
now I watch the stars
and silence crawls to me
my frozen tears will fuse and
leave my helpless eyes
implied I wait and stare
a view into my past

I cry – left alone
my grave – I can't evade
sniff a glacial breath of fear
weariness befalls your eyes
sadness thrives on lonely thoughts
they never fade away to dust
raven moves his wings
it flies into eternal sleep
thorns will bar the path to wake pain is bounding me, obfuscating me
I will find the dawn – redemption from my grief
fear is blazing up and penetrating me darksome thoughts now close my eyes
mischief is bright – shadows on my doom
can't prevent my death.

3. Atoned For Cries

I feel greed, ungracious oath
through current flows, through solitude
your stroke my cheek, this weird voice
a misty night where my lute cries

This distant sounds they flee from me
conceal my dread, black nebula
I may observe the pouring rain
perpetual wind they groan...

Irresolute they blow asleep
the curse the torch-lights scare
they bring along the roaring chimes
timidity sneers in your face

Extinguish the submissive light
shining through the exit of obscurity
I light the frozen fervor with my breath
nourishing the ancient fire
shettered in the lonely, tepid sphere
precipice into affliction
I'm walking through invisible gates
taking up the burden of ferocity
the twilight atones for cries
warm sunbeams take refuge
I roam through the meadow
I search the execrable dawn
I revere the fearsome side
crown of thorns adorn my soul

Words we sow and cries we reap
cold will bloom, but will it pass...

4. Lucu Perditus

[Instrumental]

5. Atoned For Cries (Rough Mix)