the fans were whirlin'
like the blades of a 'copter
liftin' into the skies above some foreign land
soaked with the bodies of so many friends.
Johnny waved
he was on his way home
he waved goodbye to his comrades in arms,
and all the twisted things he'd seen.
he waved goodbye
and the blades hit
something
maybe just Fate, but the blades hit
the 'copter went up in flames
and Johnny never went marchin' home
Johnny never went marchin' home
they took his name
and they carved it on a slab of marble
with several thousand other names
all the fallen idols
the apples of their mother's eye
just another name
meanwhile
back on that burning shore
Johnny's comrades stood speechless
they looked with uh-uh-uh-uh disbelieving eyes
as those bits of metal and the embers
the embers of his eyes
fanned out into the air
black dust
flames
oh Johnny! some day they'll make a movie about you
and in the making of that movie
some mad apocalypse
it will become even stranger than the simple act
just a boy going up up up
just a boy going up
in flames in the smoke
just another life
just another breath
and who'll remember
oh eternity now
as eternal as a sheet of marble
eternal as a slab on a green hill
and your name
and all your fallen brothers
and all the ones not cut
all the ones remembered only in the hearts
a mother a father a brother a sister a lover a son a daughter
shall not shall not fade shall not fade
your ancestors salute you
and the gods of your ancestors salute you
having having been formed by the minds of your ancestors
the gods of your ancestors salute you
having been formed by your ancestors
the gods of your ancestors salute you
they draw you in they draw you through
they draw they draw you through that golden door
mornin' boy [come on in boy]
we remember you
we conceived of you
we conceived of your breath
we conceived of the whole human race
and we conceived it to be a beautiful thing
like a tulip bending in the wind
sometimes it comes back to us
in the form of a handful of dust
comes back in the form of a smitten child
our raped daughters, ah the broken bones
souls cleaved from hearts
they come back to us
and our hands are filled with their rotting tissues
but we turn not our backs
we press our lips
into their cancer into the dust into the remains of each one
and that love is there and will greet you, will greet you
mornin' boy [come on in boy]
it's eternal love
well here, go ahead, run through that flame
awww man, running through your mind
you took a cat, you took a life, you took it by the tail
and you swirled it around your head
and you thrashed it, you smashed the life out of it
and you knew that it would be your own
but you wanted to feel, you wanted to feel it die
because you know you would feel your own
you would feel your own
but you're remembered!
you're remembered!
you're remembered DEAD!
you're remembered DEAD!
you're remembered DEAD!
we remember
we remember
we remember
everything
die bugger, die bugger, die bugger, bugger die, die bugger die.
Memento Mori
Who wants to separate
The world we know from our beliefs
And who sees only black and white
Distinguish loss from sacrifice
Some day we may come to peace
With the world within ourselves
And I will await you
Until I close my eyes
When your time has come
You know you'll be lonely once again
And the final winter comes to us all
Life is treacherous
But you're not the only who must pretend
We're a second in time
We're the last in the line
Of the prey that walks the earth
Good and evil combined
I am the god in my own history
The master of the game
I may believe if she would come to me
And whisper out my name
Sometimes I wonder where the wind has gone
If life has ever been
Sometimes I wonder how belief alone
Can cut me free from sin
When you close your eyes
Mementos of summer retrieves your mind
Like a drizzle afternoon cleans the air
When the winter blows
You're glad you remember you really tried
And it comes to an end
Even winter... life fall
And we all have our beliefs
Pray for mercy for all
I am a man without a mystery
The deal is done within
I will embrace the coldest winter breeze
And pay for every sin
[Helena]
VICTORIA, NON PRAEDA
MEMENTO MORI
[Mephisto]
UNA VOCE... VOLO, NON VALEO
DULCE ET DECORUM EST
PRO PATRIA MORI
MEMENTO MORI
[Ariel]
So subservant in your embrace
No more denial
No run away
This is the final
My last recall
And that's the price for what we learn
The more we know the more we yearn
Cause we're so alone
I am a man without a mystery
The deal is done within
I will embrace the coldest winter breeze
The journey can begin
I'm still the god in my own history
I still believe that she will come to me
And whisper out my name
Some day we will come to peace
And reach beyond behind the lies
And I will await you
I am the moment, the soul
The moment that ends it all
I am the second, the will
The serpent, the one you last recall
The living pulse of nightmares
Is on my side
With the shadows I fade into you
A secret promise of leaving
Blanking your eyes
When you look for me try for once inside
In the sleep of cruelty
The old sounds of you and me
I am the moment, the soul
The moment that ends it all
I am the second, the will
The serpent, the one you last recall (You are lost)
The ones so long forgotten
Now at your side
Their spirits travel from me into you
A rush of waters then afterlife
The wind in the trees
Yours is the fight in this minute dark
I am the moment, the soul
The moment that ends it all
I am the second, the will
The serpent, the one you last...
In the sleep of cruelty
The old sounds of you and me
And for a moment it's gone
The beauty of it all
I am the second, the fall
The logic of it all
I am the moment, the soul
The moment that ends it all
I am the second, the will
The serpent, the one you last recall
Hunters will be hunted
Blood spilled for blood
In my mind
Your end is justified
No exceptions
No acceptance
No forgiveness
Your merciless sport
Blood spilled for blood
Your blood for their blood
Blood spilled for blood
In the name of recreation
I deny
I deny it
I've heard it said
That life is a series
Of trade-offs
Your life for theirs
Seems only fair
Your life for theirs
Seems only fair
Narrative fear.
A fever is dancing in stride – metronome memory.
Hypocrisy here is painting a portrait that's dripping with crass composition.
Fumbled trust, the father is dead, cathedrals are burning.
Lies fuel fires, fear burns red.
Now I'm cold, is this over?
Going inside of our, going inside of our heads.
When we whisper, "Danger, danger," pull the lever, turn the page
and I burn better in the morning.
Heartlessness narratives. Christ, where'd you go?
Impassioned, abandoned. Why, you were wrong.
This will die out.
Narrative fear.
A fever is dancing in stride – metronome memory.
Hypocrisy here is painting a portrait that's screaming, "The silence of dying."
Fumbled trust, the father is dead, cathedrals are burning.
Lies fuel fire, fear burns read.
Going inside of our, going inside of our heads.
When we whisper, "Danger, danger. Pull the lever,"
and I burn better in the morning.
Heartlessness narratives. Christ, where'd you go?
Impassioned, abandoned. Why, you were wrong.
[Talking]
Heartlessness narratives. Christ, where'd you go?
Impassioned, abandoned. Why, you were wrong.
We've forgotten how to read, we've forgotten how to believe.
The text has gone dark, the author recedes.
We've forgotten how to read, we've forgotten how to believe.
[Lyrics by Anders Jacobsson]
Another day has passed by,
Ah, what was the question
Oh yeah, momento mori
It means remember it's inevitable that we will all die
It sounds quite depressing when said so raw and direct
But it means don't hang yourself on a material life
But that gets dropped when I'm bop on shopping day
Am I shallow, am i hung up on such wrong ways
Yes I am shallow and loving every wrong play
If love is blind then why do we all buy lingerie
I've got nothing in my life away from the studio
So when I'm loose I end up consuming dough
Memento mori, memento mori
It's latin and it says we must all die
I tried it for a while but it's a load of boring shit
So I buy buy buy buy buy buy
If I start to think of life I have prangs of paranoia
Pull one stripey shirt off a racks or another
Overthink my fate grasping a pastel jumper
Panic buy a flight home, prang though actually sober
Change my mind and fly back into vegas
Buy more pastel shades and some famous labels
Frame the ferrari through the day with the mayhem
Just to forget about the race in my head
I don't really care about the luck and the look
But driving a ferrarri is fucking book
Memento mori, memento mori
It's latin and it says we must all die
I tried it for a while but it's a load of boring shit
So I buy buy buy buy buy buy
I think if I could see me now from my growing past
I'd Hate the shirted cunt that seems to be so fucking flash
I reckon from the threadsI think all I think's about cash
But my manager tells me I ought to think about cash
It's like people don't know the eighties started
My car just keeps carding with the card machine
You don't regard the old you, driving a ferrarri
Mine's the driving license through Nevada at speed
I never think about money
In fact I have no idea how much money I have
Memento mori, memento mori
It's latin and it says we must all die
I tried it for a while but it's a load of boring shit
So I buy buy buy buy buy buy
Chilly 'n carmen air sips as I'm parting her hair
But I'm an asbo drinker I want to be chilly parkair
But asbo drinkers just don't dig my art and my flair
Even if they dig my asbo driving, past their carlight flair
Sometimes when I my diamond trinkets with my whores
I know I've strayed a bit from my old sins and my walks
But then I laugh out loud that my car still fucking talks
Ah, what was the question
Oh yeah, momento mori
It means remember it's inevitable that we will all die
It sounds quite depressing when said so raw and direct
But it means don't hang yourself on a material life
But that gets dropped when I'm bop on shopping day
Am I shallow, am i hung up on such wrong ways
Yes I am shallow and loving every wrong play
If love is blind then why do we all buy lingerie
I've got nothing in my life away from the studio
So when I'm loose I end up consuming dough
Memento mori, memento mori
It's latin and it says we must all die
I tried it for a while but it's a load of boring shit
So I buy buy buy buy buy buy
If I start to think of life I have prangs of paranoia
Pull one stripey shirt off a racks or another
Overthink my fate grasping a pastel jumper
Panic buy a flight home, prang though actually sober
Change my mind and fly back into vegas
Buy more pastel shades and some famous labels
Frame the ferrari through the day with the mayhem
Just to forget about the race in my head
I don't really care about the luck and the look
But driving a ferrarri is fucking book
Memento mori, memento mori
It's latin and it says we must all die
I tried it for a while but it's a load of boring shit
So I buy buy buy buy buy buy
I think if I could see me now from my growing past
I'd Hate the shirted cunt that seems to be so fucking flash
I reckon from the threadsI think all I think's about cash
But my manager tells me I ought to think about cash
It's like people don't know the eighties started
My car just keeps carding with the card machine
You don't regard the old you, driving a ferrarri
Mine's the driving license through Nevada at speed
I never think about money
In fact I have no idea how much money I have
Memento mori, memento mori
It's latin and it says we must all die
I tried it for a while but it's a load of boring shit
So I buy buy buy buy buy buy
Chilly 'n carmen air sips as I'm parting her hair
But I'm an asbo drinker I want to be chilly parkair
But asbo drinkers just don't dig my art and my flair
Even if they dig my asbo driving, past their carlight flair
Sometimes when I my diamond trinkets with my whores
I know I've strayed a bit from my old sins and my walks
But then I laugh out loud that my car still fucking talks
I feel awful for a bit but at least I'm not poor
It happens nearly every night
I walk circles to find my feet and challenge expectations made of me
It's all brown and red and white and green
Those memories in the head replayed explode in colors perfectly
I come home when I feel ready
Throw my sweatshirt on the back of the chair
and sit until the breathing comes in shallow and slow
I make circles with the stars
Cause sitting seems so senseless it's the sitting
that makes me stagnant it makes me sick
I won't apologize for all my lives
And I expect no one to stand by them
Don't ask what I do I'll say no more than you
But not as much as I want and far more than I can prove
Dawns best spent on mainlines
Paralleling rivers strong with breeze I can't catch but I retain
Are transitions made with ease for you
When you wake up and don't know where you are
can you laugh and take the moment as your own
Why keep trying to belong
Why make commitments with people who tomorrow won't remember your name
or your face or all you are
I always rise up with the dawn
Cause morning means I've beat death and I'll kill the day alone
or with those I love and that's all
I won't apologize for all my lives
And I expect no one to stand by them
Don't ask what I do I'll say no more than you
Not as much as I want and far more than I can prove
Do you remember mistakes made
Do you really feel joy and pain or are you content now to simply sit there numb
I know I can't stop the ticking
But I won't let time defeat me or take my ambitions or goals
or rob me of all my wants and all I've done
All dressed as what you hate
Just waiting around to wait wondering exactly
what is meant or why it is too much bare
Fuck that challenge what you've made
Leave nothing undone or unsaid beat the day remember your death
I won't apologize for all my lives
And I expect no one to stand by them
Don't ask what I do I'll say no more than you
[Instrumental]
[Instrumental]
Look in my eyes
tell me what you see
a glimpse of life's misery
left in the dark
like a little boy
no more mom and dad's pride and joy.
Don't ley me live in solitude
don't let me die in solitude.
Listen to me; as I sing my song
tell me what I have done wrong
left in the sandpit a broken toy
no more anyone's pride and joy.
Wayward and cold
there's no place for me
no one to grant me my plea
left in despair
I'm a little boy
There's a place in my heart
you will never see
a cold and lifeless garden the graveyard of my soul
black clouds kill the light
a twisted soul's delight.
Eternal darkness
my secret garden.
The seasons they might change
but cold winds blowing still nursing seeds of hatred
the only thing that spring black clouds kill the sun
the twisted soul has won.
A bible black deceiver
the judas of our time
blinded eyes can't see
[instrumental]
Lost and lonely, fed on fears
silent crying, no one hears
I'm abandoned, lost my faith
a bitter taste of my tears.
I am lost, forever lost
can't you heal me?
I am burning, cannot hide
I am nothing, lost my pride
stumbling further on the path
where my last hope slowly died.
I have struggled for too long
now I'm weaker, not so strong
give me guidance, give me strength
take my hand cause we belong
am I lost, forever lost?
Is this for real
what is this thing that I feel?
I'm so confused
control I lose
I'm being abused.
Save me from myself.
Upon the psycho's path
upon the psycho's path.
Some say insane is sane
it may damage your brain
I say nothingness reign
am I myself, if not who am I?
behold I change
before your eyes,
I'm changing shape.
Did you hear that voice that whispered?
as I elbowed through the crowd
that's my disembodied spirit
even silence is too loud...
Lost tales of pain and sorrow
Obscured by time
Unseen the tearshed follow
Rhyme after rhyme
Tales of misery
Words of misery
Lost for evermore
Lost in nevermore
Lost words by sad and hollowed
Voices decline
Untold but still enticing
Thoughts to entwine
Tales of misery
Words of misery
Lost for evermore
Lost forever
Somewhere in blackened eons
Memories will stray
Unheard in timeless silence
Shrouded they'll stay
Tales of misery
Words of misery
Lost for evermore
Lost in nevermore
Tales of misery
I've stood in time, wind and rain
I had no feelings or name
But I can see, I can hear
the voice of death is shouting in my ear.
Making war, making love
you know what I'm thinking of
how many times the traps are set
ou can't remember and I can't forget.
Can you see me now?
Can you feel the pain?
Can you heal the scars on me?
Light within my heart
hope within my soul, is dying.
I bid farewell to words of myth
when cries of anger sound again
my tears of shame cut like a knife
how can I justify this life?
My mind is searching for reasons why
a time to live, of die
if we had now, what we had then
lost horizons might return again.
[instrumental]
I stand alone on this cold, stormy shoreline
no one can tell the secrets in keep
out from the seeming real
rise silent scry (?)
trying to find nothing but peace.
Marching on
the caravan of souls
they're marching on;
the caravan of souls.
Soul's caravan
seems to walk upon water
shapeless in make
beyond descriptions reach
friends taking you
what is this that I feel
joy and relief, I'm eagar to join.
I'm not alone on this cold, drowning shoreline
alive without end; far from my domine
I can't believe my eyes as I turn around,
leaving behind the footprints in the sand.
Marching in the caravan of souls.
It's the breath taking you
it's the caravan of souls.
You don't know what you've done
you're heartless
like a serpent with virtuous eyes
you're a crawling lie
just a fool's disguise.
Crown of thorns
perpetuate your lies today
to make my dignity decay
like a G-point of your hate
I am the scapegoat you create
I'll never wear your Crown of Thorns.
I don't care what you've done
you're spineless
words so blameful are shameless false
tell me, what are you when your conscience calls?
Crown of Thorns
you don't know where I have been
and you don't know what I have seen
you can't feel what I have felt
and you can't go where I have dwelt
[Instrumental]
Crown of thorns [8x]
You don't know what you've done
You're heartless
Like a serpent with virtuous eyes
You're a crawling lie
Just a fool's disguise
Crown of thorns [2x]
Perpetuate your lies today
To make my dignity decay
Like a G-point of your hate
I am the scapegoat you create
Crown of throns
I'll never wear your
Crown of thorns
I don't care what you''ve done
Your spineless
Words so blameful are
Shameless false
Tell me what are you when
Your conscience calls?
Crown of thorns [2x]
You don't know where I have been
And you will see what I have seen
You can't feel what I have felt
And you can't go where I have dwelt
Crown of thorns
I'll never wear you
Crown of thorns
From my black tongue words of scorn
out of darkness my ways were born.
I can still fear their presence
the thoughts within my mind
frail dreams of wayward essence
a deal that's you unsigned
so mean, unclean and godless
the roots I'm scared to find
their needs are often heartless
like truth that's long declined.
Strange and vain are the feelings
as my mind can flow free
these unpleasant revealing
can they really be me?
My thoughts will pull me under
life spinning round and round
where will it stop I wonder?
No trace of solid ground like seconds into hours
my days are passing by
I'll climb an endless tower
Silent storm clouds
slow they came, in god's name
bold and blinded
we're the same, still no shame.
Is this our fall from grace
is this our final trace
is this the end of time
in this eleventh chime.
The crown of nature
pagan fools, pagan rules
a lost creation
seals the womb, seals the tomb.
In your dreams
the sights they submit
these shadows will constantly glow.
Deeper you fall
into the pit
where madness will constantly flow.
Twisting your mind
a vision obscure
the islands will silently crawl
(silently crawl)
Into the unknown
sleep my child
sail the seas of neverland
deep within your soul
wayward child
morbid fears are close at hand.
Close your eyes
the moment is here
it's time to face what you fear.
Something weird, evil it senses
unseen but strong is its presence
drowning in fear of things to come
time is short, the threshold is near.
Insanity reigns
in dark hidden what's left
reality the outcome is clear
(the outcome is clear)
they are closing in.
Fade away - into the unknown.
Fade away - sail the seas of neverland.
Fade away - deep within your soul.
Do you believe that all is lost,
when we close our eyes, to die?
The thoughts we thought, the words we spoke
tell me - is there a reason why?
When all is done
our moment in time is done
when all is done
when nothing remains.
Do you believe our souls survive
to live on lucky clouds above?
Or do you fear, when our time is up,
something evil awaits below?
And you better believe it...
I do believe that all is lost when we close our eyes and
the songs we sang, the deeds we've done
Come rain, come shine, no lie of mine.
Eternal dark is my shrine
the sun might shine outside but in my heart death hides
I'll take your hand, end your stride
I'll lead you through to the other side.
Into a world so old
into a world so cold under a blackened sky
this is a world foretold I belong here
under my blackened sky there is no sun in sight
under my blackened sky you belong here.
Come shine, come rain, true words of mine.
Let's go my friend, please follow
when you're out of this world you're way beyond sorrow
your time in life has past and gone
I bid my last wits a sad goodbye
sundown's closing in
there are secrets the dreamland keep
more than meets the eye.
Eyes deceiving, false conceiving
thoughts misleading fear's exceeding.
It's the things you see
and the things you don't
it's the things you hear
and the things you won't.
Dancing shadows upon my wall
nightmares are closing in
they have won if I fall asleep
then I'm surely lost.
The walls are bleeding
painful breathing
They sat beneath the moon-lit sky about the night
...appeared, then vanished; wrapped in the woolskin
from chill and
the ones whose proudest lost thier will to live.
What on Earth, make these for your...
struggling onward through the freezing wind.
A time of storm swept means
awoke their hearts of inherited hatred
so for evermore these words of old
its meaning would soon unfold
trapped in that winter world of waiting.
Of what were the questions?
What were they waiting for?
This... at the monolith.
The mystic days of doom
foretold in tales
as hammered by some runes
from father to son
forfathers were in tune
at the gallows gate
enchanted by the moon
and a thousand questions
about the monolith's make
Eternal moments, endless...
its... were seldom spoken
therefore the oath was never broken.
At the first sight of peoples he's gone...
its meaning,... into the air/earth
I stand alone on this cold, stormy shoreline
no one can tell the secrets in keep
out from the seeming real
rise silent cry (?)
trying to find nothing but peace.
Marching on
the caravan of souls
they're marching on;
the caravan of souls.
Soul's caravan
seems to walk upon water
shapeless in make
beyond descriptions reach
friends taking you
what is this that I feel
joy and relief, I'm eagar to join.
I'm not alone on this cold, drowning shoreline
alive without end; far from my domine
I can't believe my eyes as I turn around,
leaving behind the footprints in the sand.
Marching in the caravan of souls.
It's the breath taking you
Little Anne was not an angel
she was not even close
spread her legs for any stranger
little anne didn't care for much.
Little Anne was not a nice girl
did it al for a thrill
just think she'll go all the way
little Anne had no back up trade
(I'm not a bad girl).
Deep in her mind a vision of fortune
but sin after sin, won't bring her to heaven
she closes her eyes; don't think of tomorrow
the life she despise; the tension just follows.
Little Anne's not an angel
she's lost, forever gone
took the path of least resistance
Little Anne was a decrepit
Little Anne's not among us
she went to meet her saviour
no heavenly feast awaits her
Little Anne had no behavior.
Will she ever guess the way?
She's to be free; oh Little Anne.
Little Anne's not freezing
though the season is turning colder
no more will she freeze again
Little Anne won't get any older.
Little Anne's not in heaven
she will never be blessed
slit her wrists left it all behind her
A rainy morning, another day
the shadows dancing their weird ballet
their waltz surrounds, they're closing in
my thoughts are drifting, delivering...
another morbid tune.
Their fast cadenza bewitches me
my world is fading how can this be?
I hear myself it's a strange ordeal
the tune I play what can it conceal?...
another morbid tune.
Sweetly whispering it takes control of my body and my soul
trying so hard to entice my mind to leave my sanity behind
drifting deeper into depths unknown
I work my fingers to the bone
I try to play with passion, grace and style
to hit the note that I will beguile.
The veils of conscience will fade to grey
enchanting notes, they lead me astray
the room is spinning its turning fast
Dawn of darkness' unbroken beams
blinds their eyes and steal their dreams
torch-lit figures against the black
runs bezerk, the way they've planned the attack.
Close your eyes so you can't see-heathendom,
only sinners bleed
brace yourselves, embrace your sense-heathendom, be no infidels
shield your ears so you can hear-heathendom, armageddon's near.
They are many, but they are weak
we are few but we are strong
dark decievers by lightning struck
spineless creatures runs amock
odin's punishment when betrayed
I can see in darkness, I'm not afraid.
My kinsmen were no sinners until they began to follow someone elses will
who are those who know what is best for us
evangels or angels, spreading their gospel...
from heaven sent by the king of kings to save us from our selves and mortal sins
god knows forgiveness
it's humans who fail in life death and other morbid tales of wonders and walks upon water
nothing but sorrow is what they've brought here
whether with or against the new messiah
foes shall be cleansed in the lake of fire!!
Grant me strength to carry its weight
a pagan's yoke of bondage
inherited faith in unison with hate
hear my heathen prayer.
If magic mist shall vanish it must be over my dead body
faithful breath, the breath that I breathe
The fallen and graceless, the twisted and odd
like outcasts from heaven, abandoned by god
they're wakeless in daylight, evoked by the night
when sneaking in shadows, they're well out of sight.
Wayward angels
burned by light, blessed by night
nocturnal seed, unholy breed.
Creeping and crawling,
the shapeless and vague
what's unseen by mankind still feared like the plague
their spirits are strong and your flesh is so weak
who dares to get close when their find is there keep.
Keep all of your lights lit when huddled in fear
the ancient and timeless, abstracted still near
if silence at twilight might lead you astray
You get me loose
I want ya, that's all I do
You leave me loose
I want ya, that's all I do
Make love to me right now
Love me till I'm down
You make me groove
I want ya, that's all I do
You let me groove
I want ya, that's all I do
Make love to me right now
Love me till I'm down
Who are you?
Your magic is strange and new
Who are you?
I want ya, that's all I do
Make love to me right now
Love me till I'm down
Make love to me right now
Light, light fades to grey
Time, time slips away
Time slips away
Endlessly
Graced by the veils of my mind
Endlessly
Endlessly
Graced by the veils of my mind
Endlessly
Life, life found a way
Dreams, they came to stay
They came to stay
Endlessly
Graced by the veils of my mind
Endlessly
Endlessly
Graced by the veils of my mind
Endlessly
Free, free from my pain
Flee, flee the mundane
Tear the mundane
Endlessly
Graced by the veils of my mind
Endlessly
Endlessly
Graced by the veils of my mind
Endlessly
Endlessly
Graced by the veils of my mind
Endlessly
Endlessly
Graced by the veils of my mind
My father was undergoing surgery
his heart had failed him so terribly
the operation was very dangerous
I felt so helpless I thought of God.
I prayed my father would not die
I prayed that he would be just fine
I prayed to god to see him through
I prayed and I believed in you.
When I was struck by harsh reality
it opened up my eyes so I could see
while I was sitting there in the waiting room
there was only one thing I could do.
Please God forgive my sins, please let my father live
please God hear my prayers.
I prayed and he did not die
I prayed and now he is just fine
I prayed and God saw him through
Trapped in the dawn
and the air is bitter cold
the clouds don't feel the sun, behold.
Fear of God
and the angels sing no more
a dying will submit
with hope.
They learn the truth
unholy tears won't save their breed
forever damned, let the sinners flee.
Fallen from grace
the evil in your heart
had made you face the... unfold.
Infedels, enchanted from above
just send you straight to hell, foretold.
As the shadows pass the moon
Unholy tears won't save your breed
I've sailed on crimson seas
I've wandered endless planes
I've seen beyond the stars
I've there but still I'm here.
Free your imagination
and all secrets within
use your imagination
and you'll travel within.
I've chased the rainbow's end
I've touched its hidden gold
I've tasted the serpents kiss
it's sour but still so sweet.
Free your imagination
and all secrets within
use your imagination
and you'll travel within.
Open up your mind
see what lies within
close your eyes and fly
our journey will begin.
You fly above the clouds
you grace an angel's wing
you fly like peter pan
like a bird but still a man.
Free your imagination
and all secrets within
use your imagination
Lost in labyrinths
trapped on threshold to reality
an invisible twin
a short-cut to insanity.
The loyal best friend that I dreamed up
took advantage of vastness of weak spots
I had nobody and neither did he
so I let him share my body-weird idea
dethroned its master with a cloth of confusion
this disembodied thing has grown out of proportion
we've come to far to stop now,
I got everything to gain
Living your life in such a rush
you have so much to do, time is not enough
never a thought about that day
when you'll be dead and gone and passed away.
Memento mori, remember death
memento mori, your final breath
life is not forever, never forget
memento mori, eternal rest.
You feel afraid to face the end
it's much easier to just pretend
that you will live forever more
but no one does and that's for sure.
Working so hard to reach your dreams
feeling invincible of so it seems
you deep on buying things you need
no need for anything to rest in peace.
The day you die it's all too late
no second chance to change your fate
enjoy the time while your alive
Oh god, I wish the morning came
I still hear them (behind my door)
they're singing in the dark
a creation infernal, unholy overture.
In the shadows of my attic
Morpheus, my deadly friend
I'm begging thee, please leave me be.
Oh god, I wish the morning came
I still hear them
the twisted shapes I dread
concealed yet so present
in timeless hours drowned in fear for the sandman
I'm waiting in the dark
I'm giggling and laughing
a libretto of the damned.
Oh god, I wish the morning came I still hear them
from every angle burning eyes
godless hatred, a gathering grotesque.
Beyond my mind, a frightful kind
giggling, squirming, twisting, turning
I fear the shadows upon the wall
reaching for me, they touch my soul
I hear their voices shisper in the wind
oppressing my mind, make me lose control.
Black blood runs through my heart
the stream of hatred, the never-ending tide
black blood runs through my heart
the seeds of hatred grow so deep inside.
Falling apart, this can't be true
still there is time, I'm telling you
falling apart, embraced by hate
go while you can, it's not too late.
Their voices are calling out my name
strong is the urge, too much to tame
inviting me to share my mind
leave all my senses way behind.
I hear their singing thier symphony
a blaphemous concerto out of key
I will join their choir, I will sing the lead
I bid my last wits a sad goodbye
sundown's closing in
there are secrets the dreamland keep
more than meets the eye.
Eyes deceiving, false conceiving
thoughts misleading fear's exceeding.
It's the things you see
and the things you don't
it's the things you hear
and the things you won't.
Dancing shadows upon my wall
nightmares are closing in
they have won if I fall asleep
then I'm surely lost.
The walls are bleeding
painful breathing
the night's impending, a fright unending.
A simple boy of common strain
a low bread without class
soil his name and spit at him
just laugh and turn away
a little boy who's lost his pride
a little boy who's dignity died.
No fairy tales can cheer him up
as life just fed him lies
no summer sun can bring him warmth
nor light to wilted eyes
he is a puppet upon a string
he will dance if you will sing.
Painful yearning...
relentless turning...
Life's a painful stride
Shameful tears I'll hide
Step by step a limping gait
Mile after mile a faithless state
Stumbling on through thick and thin
Through the shadows and within
The longest race can not be won
The loser's trail I walk upon
I'm a wayward child
Pure but yet defiled
Day by day a friendless age
Yea rafter year an ageless race
Stumbling on through thick and thin
Through the shadows and within
The longest race can not be won
The loser's trail I walk upon
Stumbling on through thick and thin
Through the shadows and within
The longest race can not be won
The loser's trail I walk upon
Stumbling on through thick and thin
Through the shadows and within
The longest race can not be won
Memento mori...
monku wo itte iru uchi ni
ichinen ga owatte shimattara
kanashimi sae mo waite konai deshou
uwasabanashi wo shiteru uchi ni
jinsei ga owatte shimattara
nikushimi sae mo waite konai deshou
muimi na koto wa hitotsu mo nai keredo
kino nuketa saida mitai na no mo yada
hajikeru youna yoin no mannaka de
saigo no ichinichi wo mukaetai
furi shiboru youni ikinakereba
inochi wa tsukai kiranakereba
ai nara tsutae nuite ikanakereba
nuke kara no youna hibi wo tada
tsuki yaburu youni
kekkyoku no tokoro
zetsu nozoni shigami tsukaseteta no wa
hoka no dare demo nai boku jishin darou
kekkyoku no tokoro
koukai ni mayoi umaseteta no wa
hoka no dare demo nai boku jishin dayo
kanashikute utai hajimeta hi no koto
ureshikute utai tsuduketa hi no koto
mukiatte kureru anata ga iru koto
itsuka utai oeru hi ga kuru koto
yurikago no naka de mita yume to
saigo no hikari wo tsunageru
katachi ni wa naranai yuu utsu da to ka wo
konagona ni dekiru oto wo sakaseru youni
donna ikimono mo hajimari to owari
futatsu no aida de kako to mirai wo mochi
ima dake wo ikiru kako ni wa ikirarezu
mirai wa aimai de ima dake wo ikiru
tada yoku naru youni
tada yoku naru youni
itsuka wa chiru mono to shitteta
sore demo sakitai to negatta
hito no yume ga hakanai no da to sureba
sono toori na no kamoshirenai
tada , doko made na no ka to kikarereba
doko made mo na no da to kotaeru
shinzou ga inochi wo uchi narasu kagiri
fubuki no youna kunou wo tada
kakiwakeru youni
ureshikute utai tsudukete kita koto
Sometimes you think you're untouchable
Just look behind you, you are but a man
Sometimes you think things can't get worse
Just look behind you, you are but a man
So eat, drink and be merry
For tomorrow you may be dead
Eat, drink and be merry
For tomorrow you may be dead
The struggle for life you know never ends
So look behind you, you are but a man
Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief
Look behind you, you are but a man
So eat, drink and be merry
For tomorrow you may be dead
Eat, drink and be merry
For tomorrow you may be dead
Realise we share the same fate
Understand your own mortality
Our lives are getting shorter every day
Pretty soon there will be no you and me
So eat, drink and be merry
For tomorrow you may be dead
Eat, drink and be merry
For tomorrow you may be dead
Sieze the day, you know it's gonna end
Look behind you, you are but a man
Dance footloose across the earth
And look behind you, you are but a man
So eat, drink and be merry
For tomorrow you may be dead
Eat, drink and be merry
Bandage, our broken bodies, on these tightropes we're walking.
I don't ever think we can make it across this open sky alone.
My fingertips are frozen until the point of forgetting where I'm from.
But sometimes the dead can't forget like young lovers.
Tip your cups, to the late night writing binge/
Of stagefright, another playwrite dies again/
I reach for great heights and play my violin/
On my vocal chords where the great whites hide within/
Im neglectin' broken veins and the ventricles that
break/
When I'm hiding what I feel in a Texas Hold 'Em face/
I better fold that ace, and find a past time/
Pride has flat-lined and my pedastol's at stake/
Reality's orphan kid, casualty abortion vict'/
Journalist of worth, personality contortionist/
My claws scrape the granite/
Scratchin' pain poems in hallways I'm trapped in/
I think of Colepaugh taking his final breath/
And the bullets that he lodged in David McDonald's
chest/
I swear to god that I felt the bullets too/
In a homicide, suicide I sing the ocean blues/
Hear the sounds, of a thousand broken spirits/
A man who wouldn't lie and a crowd who won't endear it/
Confessions of a clown thats sounding so sincere when/
He always faced the ground, wrote it down in quotes and
lyrics/
I've got a ghost, but he never stays in touch/
Another hole to dig and another grave to love/
Another fifth is gone, another day that sucks/
Another dream is dead as the summer fades to dusk/
I gotta find the time of day when I'm awake and no/
I'm not afraid to migrate and hide away alone/
And every single song I make is another piece of my/
Peace of mind, if I fall in line and swallow pride I'll
(choke)/
On rum and cokes, I'm runnin' low on beer and weekend
booze/
Just to ink a song and singalong right here to sing to
you/
I'm out of love and tired and I'm sounding uninspired/
When I'm drinking 'til I puke without a single reason
With a one one two, when I con-front you/
When I do all the things that the fuck ups do/
Come to another place, undo lovin' mistakes/
When Im summonin' something abundant I'm lovin' instead
of just runnin' away/
A-way to look past this is gaze through look glasses/
Semantics passions practiced actions and thats it when
I catch wind in an-tics/
(I wrote this for you Phoenix... listen)
Every single night I pray my letters form a kiss/
And it blows through the wind until it rests upon her
lips/
A metamorphosis that the butterflies imagine/
In undecided fashion when weather storms emit/
She settles scores with this and I just sit enchanted/
As fireflies dance until her wish is granted/
I listen frantic to melodies of heartbreak/
It feels so temporary but she's telling me its always/
I'd die in hell so my angel's not alone/
And I'd swim inside her blood for a fatal drop of hope/
Just to prove our engagements are soluble/
and dance to the chorus when the rain hits the
solitude/
And breaks into molecules, thats her/
Another piece of me that feels but can't hurt/
I stand firm, in this apocalyptic breeze/
Until I finally fall apart and then my confidence is
breached/
I started yours,
As will I end,
For all we are
A moment stolen
Rather than given,
Torn from the hands
Of a boundless whisper.
There is no shame.
There is no peace.
And in vision
A greater whole,
A closing earth,
And there is so much left
Lost in the swarm deteriorating with the bset of them
But every sweet breath
Breathes the question
Will you be too cold to hold my hand?
Or will you just let go?
I know when you say forever it's like broken glass on your velvet voice
Tear a hole in forever and die in your arms
So I invite you to walk the fire
Burn your beautiful fingers
Pierce this delicate skin
Arms tied behind your back
Torch this fucking town
Burn every memory
Burn it down
And let the ashes dry your tears
Redemption
Ignite this wretched monument
With unwavering stride
We will leave it all behind in a beacon of flames
If for one precious moment I could rest my tired eyes on you
In this bellicose world my eyes are blurred and you're all I see
Let the past be forgotten
The years have worn our hearts callous
Standing before you impoverished
All I am
For you I would seize the knife
Lay down this white cloth and offer my veins
Distill the life in me
But still every dying gasp breathes the question
Will you be too cold to hold my hand?
Will you just let go?
I know when you say forever it's like broken glass on your velvet voice
A cold dead center
The stale air infects our lungs
And I find myself drawn to the flames of your last irresistible blaze
Signs that as long as I'm breathing I'm yours
What can you do if life turns into blue?
There's nothing you can do
Oh yes, it's true
You just sit along with alcohol
Bugs in the head flew like waterfall
Sleep along under the night birds' song
Dream and dream but everything just come and go
I dont care the sunshine anymore
I just try to close the door
I dont need the sun to shine anymore
Push my self to ignore
What can you do if your life gets blue?
There's nothing you can do
Oh no, what can you do?
Scream aloud in the crowd
You know what I thought
Oh God take me out
Getting high in the bed
Smoking last cigarrettes
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