In Flames is a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. Since the band's inception, they have released ten studio albums and one live DVD. As of 2008, In Flames has sold over 2 million records worldwide.
In Flames was founded in the year 1990 by Jesper Strömblad as a side project from his then-current death metal band, Ceremonial Oath. His purpose was to write songs with a more melodic musical direction, something which he was not allowed to do in Ceremonial Oath. In 1993, Strömblad decided to quit Ceremonial Oath due to musical differences and began focusing more on In Flames. That same year, Strömblad recruited Glenn Ljungström on guitar and Johan Larsson on bass guitar to form the first official In Flames line-up.
During 1993, In Flames wrote, recorded, and self-produced their debut studio album, Lunar Strain, in Studio Fredman. Since In Flames did not have a vocalist yet, Strömblad asked Mikael Stanne of Dark Tranquillity to provide session vocals. In 1994, Lunar Strain was released.
Burkina Faso (i/bərˌkiːnə ˈfɑːsoʊ/ bər-KEE-nə FAH-soh; French: [buʁkina faso]) – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest. The country's capital is Ouagadougou.
Its size is 274,200 square kilometres (105,900 sq mi) with an estimated population of more than 15,757,000. Formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta, it was renamed on 4 August 1984, by President Thomas Sankara, to mean "the land of upright people" in Mòoré and Dioula, the major native languages of the country. Figuratively, "Burkina" may be translated, "men of integrity", from the Mòoré language, and "Faso" means "fatherland" in Dioula. The inhabitants of Burkina Faso are known as Burkinabè ( /bərˈkiːnəbeɪ/ bər-KEE-nə-bay).
Burkina Faso was populated between 14,000 and 5000 BC by hunter-gatherers in the country's northwestern region. Farm settlements appeared between 3600 and 2600 BC. What is now central Burkina Faso was principally composed of Mossi kingdoms. These Mossi Kingdoms would become a French protectorate in 1896. After gaining independence from France in 1960, the country underwent many governmental changes until arriving at its current form, a semi-presidential republic. The president is Blaise Compaoré.
I am the past and future
I've been chosen
You think it's over
But I'm ready to go
Yeah, I am what you fear
[Incomprehensible] I have been chosen
The world as you know it just died
It's the end of all time
I am a surprise
Even to myself I'm a genius
Superhero of the computer age
In plastic I'll bury
I am what you fear
I've been chosen
The world as you know it just died
It's the end of all time
Everything you say is denied
I'll be the devil on this ride
Dark clouds in your heaven
Your end has only begun
You can scream but there's no rescue, I promise
I'll make sure that you die in time
I am the maggot
In your infected life
No matter how hard you try
I'll leave without a scar
I am a legend
In your infotainment life
It's when I say it's over
It's you who's been chosen
Everything you say is a lie
I'll be the devil on this ride
Dark clouds in your heaven
Your end has only begun
You can scream but there's no rescue, I promise
I'll make sure that you die in time
Everything you say is denied
I'll be the devil on this ride
You can scream but there's no rescue, I promise
I'll make sure that your dark clouds in your heaven
Your end has only begun
You can scream but there's no rescue, I promise
I'll make sure that you're dead
(Jesper)
Tried of dull ages, I walk the same ground,
collecting the tragedies still
Hollow ambitions in a hollow mind
carried my cross to the hill
And how I lust for the dance and the fire
deep of the nectarine sunset to drink
spill me the wind and its fire
to steal of the colours - I'm the moonshield
Shattered hope became my guide
and grief and pain my friends
a brother pact in blood-ink penned
declared my silent end
Naked and dying under worlds of silent stone
April night-tyme
And we run like muscles through the stagnant nodes of man
Blood-bridges lean towards the gaping synapses
to disarms the stars within us
Hornet Hive-dark
Severed wings in vainless beating
buzz out from inferno of fangs
to disarms the stars within us
We should have been so much more by now
Too dead inside to even know the guilt
Waning Ring-deep a halo of thorns
Sips now down in the sheets of sharp silver
Raindrop hits the leaf changing it's position
slightly on the street next to polls
of monotonous waters He walks
Slipping feet from steps at random He falls
In the space of between his body and the ground
comets cast off their names stellar neurones misfire
Witnesses
inhale the seed
and spit out a million branches
Buds abloom in all directions
frin which events occur
relations and virused meetings
catch fire and explode
In the margin of butterfly wings
entire cycles of evolution
outplayed and faded
sparked away and leaned back into
vacuum-filled nirvana
Between the two of my eyes
feverish fractal scar
Dance like were they on drugs
peyote labyrinth re-mapped exits
A hasty blink
and a million life-to-comes
will never be the same
as they never were
In the kinetic energy of a moving fist
lies a birth-machine for a parallel universe
With the first movement in organic scap
came a bouquet of alternative answers
all different multiplied and re-divided
Coded in the spinal cord of a trilobite
written between the legs on the Meganeura
suburban city maps and dormant dictator semen
I often dream of huge numb buildings
jet-black sinister architecture
being installed when nobody sees
Their appearance so sudden
that few would take notice
And when I wake up
I imagine being crushed by one
imaginating it's weight it's silence
and the absence of excuses for a havoced life
and the priviledge of a 22-kilometers tombstone
Jotun
A body of black
that carried no reflection
defying it's own room
un-earthly egg of decreation
There would be colonies
mushroom-scattered forever out of content
rising spores from a dying world
to pollute and chase away what's left
Sun-white pulverised desert stone
and serpentine lizard mouths
Pales away the pyramids
rewriting 4500 years of history
raping the statue of liberty
outplays the acropolis
inverting the fjords
invades the... skyline to
dream its own existence in one single final word
Jotun
Can we identify them
as the flint buried in our reptile skulls
Originally performed by Depeche Mode
The handshake
Seals a contract
From the contract
There's no turning back
The turning point
Of a career
In Korea being insincere
The holiday
Was fun packed
The contract:
Still intact
The grabbing hands
Grab all they can
All for themselves
After all
It's a competitive world
Everything counts in large amounts
The graph
On the wall
Tells the story
Of it all
Picture it now
See just how
The lies and deceit gained a little more power
Confidence taken in
By a sun tan
And a grin
The grabbing hands
Grab all they can
All for themselves
After all
It's a competitive world
Everything counts in large amounts
The grabbing hands
Grab all they can
[Instrumental]
Welcome here, the squirrel-wheel begins
fasten the left hand belts
Remember not to think too much
and your trip will be numbingly pleasant
Non-caring is the easiest way
but to secure a passage to the second plane
you have to complete level one
Their dead-smile lips turn on their TV
while urban gravestones scrape the skies
Rising over marionette cities and marionette skies
This is episode 666
destination chaos
Rush faster on the one-way lane
The answers so silent
Rusty gods in their machine-mind armours
Grind our souls in the millstone of time
The "deathbed harvest" is a dead man's banquet
of mould ridden bread and black, poisoned wine
And we go... our steps so silent
And we go... our blooded trace
The Jester Race
Calling our to the gathered masses
Their answers so silent
And we go...
Embracing the tools of the neo-wolf age
that speak of a silence and silence alone
Offering the tokens, the reliced idols
To the heirs of the newly raped grounds
Inferior even to the transparent winds
Lesser in motion and sound
And we go...
There is no trace of me
In their altered blueprints of life
Gaia impaled on their horns and lances
The fumes from her body give chase
As the throng of blind men savour the scent
Dream-dead from Prosaic and hate
Epilogue
Sunwind strokes the ElectroHeart
Ignition roars through the corridors
Stream launching the binary vessels
Vanities in extreme formations
Ride into tomorrow's rigid great face
The machinery outlives the futile scripts
Towards the rich archaic heavens
Towards the lack diorama
You are the artist and the texture
That plays with mantle of the earth
When the bleakest of powders
Lie rooted to the starched stones
And the roots that feed the peaking trees
embrace the sleeping shores
Archaic pearls of sleep and death
The voice of December losing its breath
And the floweryard of white and grey is haunted
White as the down of flaking snow
The heroic emblems of life
Green is the colour of my death
As in winter-guise I swoop towards the ground
Green is the landscape of my sorrowfilled passing
We Are In Flames
Towards the dead archaic heavens
We Are The Mantle and The Texture
(Glenn, Jesper)
I bid you welcome to my world
They call me existence
You have just entered through the gate
to your journey towards eternity
This part I control
In the beggining you'll feel nothing
As I climb beside you
Time will be your master in this laborious part of
human subsistence
This part I control
Black clouds embraces your soul
Slowly passing through repeating lacunas of anguish
When time takes your life
I will transfer you into the bare grip of thinking tranquillity
Voices frilling the emptiness of the dead floating
Seamless across the surface into chilling stillness
Nothing can help you now
You'll never be lone again
You'll never die again
You'll never be born again
The time is now
The time is now
Please, tell me how
Please, tell me how
Set ablaze
Crying
Remembering how it used to be?
Scarred for eternity
(Was it meant to be?)
[Incomprehensible]
Bleeding, regretting
Solitary life
Committing suicide
Seeking sanctuary
From this world, contrary
Stand ablaze
Stand ablaze
Screaming
As the flames caress my face
"I see then nightshade grow" he spoke
And southern hounds awoke at dawn
Sought for the ever-liquid of our craving
Caught by the all embracing nightly sun
Admass - I laugh at your feeble lies - thrash
Hatred in my eyes and in my blood
A scream across the fields - the rivers weep
A vanquished lord upon an oaken throne
Grief inside my flame grasp at my existence
The seal of dawn is broken - fury
Wildfire
A windswept thought
Out in the perimeter where laughs are
No longer heard, screams no longer seen
And life is always lost
Gaze into the skies for they are blind
Blinded by the nightshade of our lust
Grinded to dust
The wolves are here
The beast of the savage lands
They drink my blood
They feast upon my remains
The tears in their eyes betry
Wipped in the eye by the sand
Malicious have light of day obscured
The sun has burned my skin
Open wounds are licked by sand
To be punished by this vortex of scorn
Wrists and ankles are chained upon this land
Drawn through the desert to be their sacrifice
So, this is my golgatha, so this is my grave
The thieves, the liars, the hypocrit scum
I'd slay them if only I could
The endless sand, the blackest land
A cyclone of spinecrushing anger
Meant for me
The overlords of the desert
Not one was meant to be
All human force now flee
Rules of anatomy lost
Through seven songs of rejoice
His name relives his solar voice
Falling into the unknown
Yet he shall feel no harm
Lights shine upon his face
Night exists no longer
In unknown colours they confront him
In soundless tongue they speak his name
Moonred - reaching for life through eternity
Starblack - the brooding silence is frightening me
One elderly custom in timeless guise
In ceremonies of old one, dove now flies
should I defend you for who you are?
the laws are changed and useless!
on their way to a deserted town
where empty windows wave goodbye
a helpless excuse, a falling reality
I'm changed by the shock
and the weight of the punch
a helpless excuse, a falling reality
ragments of a futile being
a puzzle to the noble ones
ignorant and pitiless they stride
the world around me -
spartanic, minimalistic
a helpless excuse, a falling reality
the large scale plan that once where
you've now drained from life
a helpless excuse, a falling reality
wo knows the proper reasons
why it all begins and ends?
ignorant and pitiless they stride
"you are but a form",
the clean, harsh silence passes
"genuine" visions by the noble
Lights are dim
My tearful windows
Through which no emotions pass
Starvation of senses claws my soul
Answer me
Are these walls my only shelter
From the bleeding atmosphere
Take me from these lands
"I deliver thee from this agony
A storm to cleanse thee"
Mine is the right to be
Malestorm of the everlost
This is the curse of...
All is dark
All but one aspect of life
To be shackled
In a shell, so misleading
"These are the shells bestowed upon me"
Pass into the darkened of the midnight
Sounds, faceless lights
Hands tear apart
Dissolve possess
You alone can take my soul
Reach for your razor
Cut through the dawn
See through your inner wrath
Keys shan't open the doors
Behold my heart has stopped
My lungs are laid in the final rest
And still I see and do I feel
Yes, but to earthly eyes I am gone
To the land where legends never die
Take me to the twilight land tonight
Again and again and again in every night
The darkness climbs through my walls
Ever screaming silent to the corrupted ears
Never to any man I will spear
My speech it has no value
Eyes that have seen the sights
Bleed through the ages eternal
I ask no more
A life has just begun
Never will I see the sun
And do I miss it
No, my eyes are black
Emotions fled through eyelids closed
Throne of thorns
Call me by my astral name
Breeding fear through wordless tongue
Heavenly thirst - unspeakable pain
Emptied from all human motion
Confront the faceless wrath
Beckoning silent from a sphere behind space
Through twisted ruins of uncompleted dreams
Sights of towers reaching for the moon
Clawing at the skies - they gonna pull it down
Intensity - I feel the lava rushing through my veins
Stars are reforming - to enter the fourth dimension
Beyond all galaxies
Through timeless aeons of frost
Unearthly hunger - angels descent
The self-inflicted state of mind
A one-man struggle beneath the tower
I think the clock still exist
god just forgot to tap my shoulder
I woke up today
I wish I felt something
The odour of my apathy
just might be true
I wan't to be the things I see
The pilgrim that is me
But I know I ain't that free
The suburban me
Spirits rise and miss the eye
Covered by the stench of judgment
As gods reflection test my pride
I serve the failure that's haunting me
Twisted visions toturing
Who claims to be the one?
That filtered smile
just might be true
"On half-speed, tonight I suffer
Satisfaction brings the unheeded"
Can you hear the message,
as I wrestle with the clouds?
I'm on the way to succumb,
It just might be true
Geology is digging through my brain
a manta engulfing the world
to throw it up once again
to a guild of a lifted dagger
Neo-wolf but older again
than the Lupus itself
linked its fur to the gyroscope of time
a collection of failures
A diabolical sequences of stabs written in cunning stone
from the fossilised of thieves our lives dies
I see the nursing all-mother
spitting out a trail of termites
in the mouth of her first-born hope
breast ripe with smog-filled rebellion
Apathy dressed in violence
white insectoid legs
curse her lips and mouth
[Instrumental]
I am the past
Future
I've been chosen
You think it's over
But I'm ready to go
I am what you fear
I've been chosen
The world as you know it just died
It's the end of all time
I am a surprise
Even to myself I'm a genious
Superhero of the computer rage
In plastic I'll bury
I am what you fear
I've been chosen
The world as you know it just died
It's the end of all time
Everything you say is denied
I'll be the devil on this ride
Dark clouds in your heaven
Your end has only begun
You can scream but the re's no rescue
I promise I'll make you sure you die in time
I am the maggot
In your infected life
No matter how hard you try
I'll leave without a scar
I am a legend
In your infotainment life
It's when I say "it's over"
It's you who's been chosen
The thoughts of yesterday forgotten
I like the way this new skin feels
Bring me splinters of tomorrow
Collect the parts where I win
Against the grain
Against the odds
I'll rise and I won't trip again
The dawn of a new day never looked
As good as this
Concrete breath and dust filled tears
A one way ride to inner peace
I never thought I'd join the others
Those who use the dice to solve
Against the grain
Against the odds
I'll rise and I won't trip again
The dawn of a new day never looked
As good as this
truth serves them embrace
and defend her case
part flattery, part threats
"for those who cling to this
dominion will partake in its fall"
with his silence, he passes the
judgement over them
"with your feverish signs of force
you'll make them and yourself to
believe that he still retains his full power"
as a platform for divine foundations,
you want to make them suck
shallowness and beauty
was all that concerned her body
but the soul, her divine guest
were thrust to the bottom
surrendered to the sect
that has risen from its womb
"for those who cling to this
[Instrumental]
Consume all the obscene
Persuade the most hideous and ugly
Under every pile and stone
A rebirth for you to find
Freedom is to be able to go in any direction
So take the uncertain path
One foot in the open
Ten feet ahead
Build your own ladder
And don't lie to yourself
Secrets left above the grave
(It?s not for one to keep)
You?re all so self destructive
Spend more time with the broken
(See what became of their mistake)
You know you're lost when you feel transparent
Be at one with the wind
Even if it?s a struggle
Make this your priority
Open all your senses to new impressions
Act like all that was has vanished
One foot in the open
Ten feet ahead
Build your own ladder
And don?t lie to yourself
Secrets left above the grave
(It?s not for one to keep)
You?re all so self destructive
Spend more time with the broken
You know you lost when you feel transparent
One foot in the open
Ten feet ahead
Build your own ladder
And don?t lie to yourself
Secrets left above the grave
(It?s not for one to keep)
You?re all so self destructive
Spend more time with the broken
(See what became of their mistake)
You know you're lost when you feel transparent
You know you're lost, you know you're lost
Reaching depth of clarity
I'm not supposed to be like this
I should be on the top of the world
Is anybody out there like me?
I followed something's missing
Self control forcing me down
Whispers consume the air
Above her I'm endless
When the rain comes falling
I'll freeze, I'm so afraid
When things start to flood me
I will drown in seconds
(Chorus)
Fear - there's a way out
Touch of red - Break away
Nothing has it all
Bury the place I've been
I fear there's a way out
As if I ever had a choice
All in the hands of the energy
Once again I feel the quicksand
Swallow me, tonight I won't struggle
(Chorus)
The weak in me should know
I'm as sober as I could be
(Chorus)
Spinning further deeper
I know you're out to try me
I'm not in this to be a slave
I push the dirt
Make me feel
Locate what swallows life
Night bird you build my world
And then I close my eyes
And then I close my eyes
Judge me now
Used to be afraid to let it show, bow down
great king in my own mind
Everything's in place
So much brighter from today
Drown the monster
Make all bad dreams go away
Whatever it takes to keep your hands free
Open scars
The quiet place
All the bridges fall to the ground
and you say you sacrificed
And then I close my eyes
And then I close my eyes
Judge me now,
Used to be afraid to let it show, bow down, bow down
A king, in my own mind
Everything's in place
So much brighter from today
A king in my own mind
Judge me now
A king in my own mind
Judge me now
The king in my own mind
Judge me now
Used to be afraid to let it show, bow down, bow down
A king, in my own mind.
Everything's in place
So much better from today
A king in my own mind...
[instrumental]
the great word of blessendness
and a feeling of ease
a cup of the well of freedom
and life we joyfully drink
inside, all was new, but outwards
nothing had changed
an escapade,
then to the altar to
evaluate all parts
of the great mystery
but all remains
on the same spot,
no signs of a new season
in my hand is a new word,
but the word is still
without a body
a hidden life-stream that
swells in the deep
will soon give the word
(Instumental)
a sad song it was,
through renewal it brought
and a month seems sometimes shorter
than a half nights longing
hidden and hard are the reasons for war
polar twist, invert and flea
I can't dissolve this feeling of mine
but patience will unlock the door
and the maps of reasons re-written for me
when the wait is over and the punishment is due
each day I crawl to the hall of the giants
and I beg for mercy -
and I beg for mercy in vein
one night is a mare - two is worse
egoism dictates human relations
a world where fashion outshines morality
here success is written in blood-red colours
designed by the thirst for power
gather the faithful and propose a toast
to the epoch of indifference
an all to ordinary story
with aftertaste so bitter
forced to be someone I don't want to be
I'm losing myself. sinking deeper down
I'm caught in the world wound web
a time represented by the void
an excuse without content
stuck in the abyss of existence
with a content void of excuse
an all to ordinary story
this is my story
with an aftertaste so bitter
sinking deeper down
I'm caught - I'm cage
I'm selling heavenly sketches
A world out of my mind
Ready to explode in purity
To fill the wholes inside
An ever moving stream
With glowing rays of light
Emotions tied to past lies
And I know I should let go
Tamed with confidence of a brighter future
I found a flame in the burnt out ashes... burn out, burn out
Fueled these new shores burn
Dark past lies cold
Shadow, my sweet shadow
To you I look no more
Another dawn collapses
Do I need to be reminded?
A glimpse of my safe home
A path to hide all anger
In circles I catch
A torch carried by the immortal
From depths that I created
In vain echoes fade
[Instrumental]
Since the day of my departure
I've been stumbling through reality
I play my symphony in reverse
In search for that special path
Be gentle to the tear in this I
Lonesome arms, lost its wings again
Buy me a trip to the moon
So I can laugh at my mistakes
I can see the end from here
From this perspective it looks kind of silly
Satellites and astronauts
Tell me there are greater things ahead
Make me feel like a man
A silent cry from the middle of hell
I - the irony - I promise, I'll be mature
So please, invite me to your shelter again
Been hiding since I heared "never"
Take me back to yesterday, I need to grow
Steal my mask and make me pay
I need a new skin
I'm going insane
I can't tolerate your sadness
cause it's me you're drowning
I won't allow any hapiness
cause everytime you laugh, I feel so guilty
"I blame the needs that you feed
cause selfish eyes would not see"
Am I forced to have any regret?
I've become the lie, beutiful and free
In my righteous own mind
I adore and preach the insanity you gave
Sell me the infection, it's only for the weak
No need for sympathy, the misery that is me
No need for sympathy, it's only for the weak)
On bleeding knees I accept my fate
I've lost the ability to paint the clouds
cause it's me you're draining
I'm stuck in this slow-motion dark day
cause everytime you run, I fall behind
"Far away is a place where I hide
the truth that have to be locked away"
And so I hear my voice again
The tale of the bitter man, here I am
Shake the silence and hear what it says
The tranquil pride that become the lie
I'll always belong to the shadow
Don't show me new results
I will never enter your heaven
Make the most out of my dirty cell
Creeps infected by control
That's what put me in here
Dig deep don't think you ever get to the
place where they buried me
The last glimpse that I have
Fragments, pieces of some things valuable
even though it doesn't make sense anymore
I release my last year
My frustration
My conversation
Why are we even here? the abuse
That we use
I do not longer care
The cold worms and me
We are all right
We are free
The dead light inside
Fuel to new seed
New world I hide
When there are only my bones
Please put them in use
Want to be part of a new dawn
The day darkness disappears
Don't release these chains
Never been closer to myself
All your mistakes run though
As I realize what we become
The end is here to bid farewell
I'll turn to ash and hear them sing
Songs about my emotions dead and alone
Don't make an effort you don't know me
anything
I can be as angry as I want to be
Just watch me burn (need to be motivated)
I think you're way too cold
Just watch and learn
I'll never sleep here anymore
My house is not my home
I like you better dead
I'm better off alone
Destiny, will you cure me?
Trust, will you age with me?
Hear me scream as I face tomorrow
Your vision may be in colour, but you look >OPAQUE<
In these times we should be learning but with you I'll always fail
I need to save myself before I drown
It took so long to see
The world your mind creates
It pushes me under
I must've dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving in-to the street.
Now did you read the news today
They say the danger's gone away
But I can see the fire's still alight
There burning into the night.
There's too many men
Too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Can't you see
This is a land of confusion.
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in.
Ooh Superman where are you now
When everything's gone wrong somehow
The men of steel, the men of power
Are losing control by the hour.
This is the time
This is the place
So we look for the future
But there's not much love to go round
Tell me why, this is a land of confusion.
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in.
I won't be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We're not just making promises
That we know, we'll never keep.
Too many men
There's too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Can't you see
This is a land of confusion.
Now this is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth fighting for.
This is the world we live in
And these are the names we're given
Stand up and let's start showing
Just where our lives are going to.
Cre-age-aeon new beginning held in infinite vacuum
Biotronic test-world free of inscription
devoid of the echoes of man
noble savage cyborg
In the cold ceremonial perfection
more radiant than the sum of suns
with each and every attribute
of animal machine and man
Dystopia ElectroHeart
the grotesque and the linear
took one final giant blow
into the Ram of what is us
Installing awaiting the restoration of unsequenced chaos
We've only seen the outlines of the beggining
and this core the slowly moving raptor
will make the very notion of Hell
It hurts to think
Can't get the sums together
Would you draw my bitterness
Make the pictures fade
Could it be that I see
What's beneath when we fall
The truth in ever
I'm scared that I will be
The sentence is light
But my eyes see a different world
And all I do is turn into flames
Will time open my vault
New solution, I'm begging
Break the fuse that holds me back
The I is lost in me
But I am ready to give you The M,
It might even be the E
As I begin to search for I
The I is lost in me
Distract, push me in another direction
This wall that I stare into
It's getting old
Give me faith to reach for the new
Pull me apart and do me all over
I'll need a re-make
To make up for my mistakes
The I is lost in me
But I am ready to give you The M,
It might even be the E
As I begin to search for I
The I is lost in me
What if I stop to care?
What if I let you fall?
What if I stop to care?
What if I let you fall?
The I is lost in me
But I am ready to give you The M,
It might even be the E
As I begin to search for I
The I is lost in me
Behold the heart of mine in flames
A top the highest mountain
Below the darkest depths
In the valley of hate I wander
My frost bitten heart is set ablaze, set ablaze
Ravage my soul
Plunder my mind
Branded by thunder, fire and ice
Trampled in fury by hordes of the light
I am crushed by the hand of my sky
My sky has forsaken me
Rivers of crimson lead me now
Trail of fire
In a place of fire eternal
Left in flames
Scattered in a world of thorns
Torn from my earthly self
Aggrieved in tears and bitterness
I fall beyond stars, beyond stars
Ravage my soul
Plunder my mind
Branded by thunder, fire and ice
Trampled in fury by hordes of the light
My fiery heart is stronger than ever
It's stronger than ever before
We were one in words
You finished my sentences
I can never attract tomorrow
It pushes me aside
I sink in waters deep
Your presence kept me floatin'
Far from depths where secrets lie
Maybe in another lifetime
I could be the first you meet
I once read a poem
Held my breath
But that moment's gone
First time I felt life somewhat hurts
Need an option, a reason and some hope
Yell at me, I want to be your light that shines
But my ground's shakin' and I might fall
I wish that I could say
I wish that I could be your
Evil in a closet
Yell at me, I want to be your light that shines
But my ground's shakin' and I might fall
I wish that I could say
I wish that I could be your
(2:26)
(Instrumental)
Will we find a solution
When we add all the numbers?
Like they are supposed to be?
But no is close, start all over
If we fail our expectations
We will fall into the deepest void
Is there a limit to how many times
We will dust ourselves off?
The mystery of time
Listen to me, carefully
The mystery of time
It's you and me
That's all we need
Would you choose supremacy
If it led to isolation?
Could you handle the solitude?
Would you still prefer the throne?
The mystery of time
Listen to me, carefully
The mystery of time
It's you and me
That's all we need
Could it be a new day?
Fear in me so deep
You push me out, I feel far
The absence, close to me
The otherside I crawl
You push me out, I fall
Heal my wounds with everything
Away you complicate me
Sick of cycles, drop to zero
A while just like last times
My least favourite re-run
Sick of cycles, I bounce in grey
Escape familiar home
Memories remains alone
Reality trapped inside
The wicked descend - I hide
Testing higher mentality
I conquer myself through this
A furious path to walk
New space does exist beyond
In silence I dwell
Displeased
Remain with the seed of unfulfilment
"Try to remove obstacles as they appear" my master said
"Don't look too far, you'll stumble before you're even there"
Will we find a solution
When we add all numbers
Like they are supposed to be?
No one close, start all over
If we fail our expectations
We will fall into the deepest void
Is there a limit to how many times
We will dust ourselves off?
The mystery of time
Listen to me, carefully
The mystery of time
It's you and me
That's all we need
Would you choose supremacy
If it led to isolation?
Could you handle the solitude?
Would you still prefer to the throne?
The mystery of time
Listen to me, carefully
The mystery of time
It's you and me
That's all we need
The mystery of time
Listen to me, carefully
The mystery of time
To slit the grinning wounds
from childhood's Seven Moons
The palette stained with
the ejaculated passions
(of forbidden, hedonistic colours)
Strike from the omnipotence; all-seer all-deemer
And haunt my severed county
with your dripping secret games
You picked the unripe lilies
Deflored and peeled the bleeding petals
made known to me
The grainy stains, the crimson lotus
of the Black-Ash Inheritance
The semen feed of gods and masters
The worms still in me, still a part of me
Racing out from leaking rooms
Swoop from broken lungs to block the transmission
To put an end to the nomad years
(Gelotte, Stromblad)
(Instrumental)
(3:45)
(Instumental)
Held down, strangled and abused
Cut down to half a member
Left with his hand tied
Everything points in the wrong direction
All the joy disappeared
The negative has penetrated
Once he was in control
What's left, the faintest laughter
We're out of focus, we've lost control
I blame our ego and you call me names
You're told that you are trapped below
And dark signs helped to prove
You gotta reach further
For what life shall provide
Feeling pressure from the fold
He believes the dream is over
Drained blue eye, scorching fire
The whole meaning becomes undone
We're out of focus, we've lost control
I blame our ego and you call me names
You're told that you are trapped below
And dark signs helped to prove
You gotta reach further
For what life shall provide
We're out of focus, we've lost control
I blame our ego and you call me names
You're told that you are trapped below
And dark signs helped to prove
You gotta reach further
For what life shall provide
People like you
You live in a dream world
You despise the outside
And you fear you're the next one
It's in your dream
There's just one question
Should I kill?
Or should I be left behind?
Sick and tired
Of all your complaints
This is the hour
We bring it down
I've come to realize
Every little glimpse, you fade
I was told that I could fly
When least expected, cloud connected
You seem to be
So introverted
How come we fail?
You crossed the line
You remember my name
Time runs backwards
As long as you are heading that way
in your world, the day is no threat
in my world, there is an absence of light
"genetic superior cell" controlled
by the fathomless and unbearable
a radical new Form of plastic and rage
biologically optimized
but with a strangling pulse
in your world, you find me worthy
in my world, I "parashoot" my life
a virtual drugstore populated
by the fathomless and unbearable
machine, meat and blood
in an intimate relationship
the new - superior -
more effective than all the preceding
when we can no longer
cry and reality is torn
then it's easy to forget
that the responsibility lies on us all
in your world, the night is no threat
in my world, the darkness
transforms to a vision of hell
I'll take you on a ride
as a part-owner to my pain
our ideals they collide
coerced coexistence
I fought the world today - postpone my birth again
we stumble on and one - but bound to die alone
pine - I'm selling my soul today
pine - I need some sympathy
this infiltrates my brain
"in the sunshine the sun is mine"
pitiless wanderer
close your eyes and bow your head
grotesque thoughts in a line
threw my wings ånto the blazing sun
smile stretched on old trees
eternal Brining jester masque
don't hurt a fly they all sing
we're just ants in a great big play
commercialize-infect-annihilate-progress
I really don't have anything to say
Just pass me by
Don't ask me the same questions
Just deny I'm there
Like the time around me
This room is filled with nothing
Fell awkward in a place with many
Leave this space to me
I channel the pain through this
The paper, the pen, your eyes
To stare into what's next
It frightens me
No control, no reward
I'm in circles again
Still and breathless
I don't care what's behind
To you I look for energy
To catch my breath again
The world looks old to me
Tonight I drink myself sober
Soon this could be over
Tale a picture of the pale
New morning knocking
Feels just like always
Pen down my regrets
I reach to you again.
Take a knife and carve it in
Want to see your faults
As a part of your pretty skin
Everyone has a tragedy
I want you to wear yours in pain
Oblivion can no longer shade you
Reminder as a tattered tissue
Bleak silence
Errors stigmatized in you
A weak worn out friend
There's nothing left for me
Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice
You're so far
Behind be my hero
Drift away
Save yourself
Don't end up zero
Cause i'll look the other way
I will crawl into your vault
Pass snakes and old rotten thoughts
Leaving a hotbed of virulence
Your world inside slowly redesigned
Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice
You're so far
Behind be my hero
Drift away
Save yourself
Don't end up zero
Cause i'll look the other way
Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice
(x2)
You're so far
Behind be my hero
Drift away
Save yourself
Don't end up zero
Cause i'll look the other way
I am one with the world tonight
I am proud to be this far from you
You say that you have no regrets
But I know that you do
You told me someone stole the eye
I know him too
I've come to the conclusion, yes I know
That between black and white
There is no room for two
The scale, it might seem wide
But there's no need to be blind
Between black and white there is no room for two
I leave all the grey behind
I see clear, I know that I'll find
You claim that you are innocent
But tell me who ain't
You think that you're going to be saved
There's no such thing as a saint
I've come to the conclusion, yes I know
That between black and white
There is no room for two
The scale, it might seem wide
But there's no need to be blind
Between black and white there is no room for two
Black and white
There's nothing in between
Black and white
Nothing's what it seems
I've come to the conclusion, yes I know
That between black and white
There is no room for two
The scale, it might seem wide
But there's no need to be blind
Between black and white there is no room for two
Call me by my astral name
Breeding fear through wordless tongue
Heavenly thirst - unspeakable pain
Emptied from all human motion
Confront the faceless wrath
Beckoning silent from a sphere behind space
Through twisted ruins of uncompleted dreams
Sights of towers reaching for the moon
Clawing at the skies - they gonna pull it down
Intensity - I feel the lava rushing through my veins
Stars are reforming - to enter the fourth deminsion
Beyond all galaxies
Through timeless eons of frost
Unearthly Hunger - angels decent
We are entering dimensions behind space ...
Byond all galaxies
Through timeless eons of frost
Call me by my astral name
Breeding fear through wordless tongue
Heavenly thirst - unspeakable pain
Emptied from all human motion
Confront the faceless wrath
Beckoning silent from a sphere behind space
Through twisted ruins of uncompleted dreams
Sights of towers reaching for the moon
Clawing at the skies - they gonna pull it down
Intensity - I feel the lava rushing through my veins
Stars are reforming - to enter the fourth dimension
Beyond all galaxies
Through timeless aeons of frost
Unearthly hunger - angels descent
We are entering dimensions behind space
The other side of the platinum door
another day in quicksand
Still feel close to nowhere
I hope this is the right way
How come you see me as an enemy?
We just think in different words
I see beauty in dead flowers
I let the tide show me what's next
But all you do is fade away
There's no shame in being the fool
I've been to places you'll never find
The empty plate that you call home
Won't bring glimmer to future year
By myself, staring into space
You're just bored of the silence it makes
Instrumental.
Hopeless times approach
Just give into the chaos
Strangely I find comfort here
Impatient and curious of what may come
...And so the rampage begins
Against the headache I can't win
[Chorus:]
Drain Me
Keep me in the dark
I don't want to take part
Prefer to be forever numb
Nothing great can come out of this
But I'm hostage to myself
I fear I might collapse on the razor's edge
And I fear I'll realize when it's too late
...And so the rampage begins
Against the headache I can't win
[Chorus]
Sleepless again
I need to ease my mind
And kill what burns inside
Sleepless again
I can't win
Stole my pure intentions
You are the sickness in between
Let me in, I'll bury the pain
You taught me to be sad as you
You almost made me take it all
Let me in, I'll bury the pain
Bend me and you shake me
Make me then you break me
Let me in, I'll bury the pain
You made me feel like a sinner
You fear you'll die alone
Let me in, I'll bury the pain
The sickness that you are
A plague that made me starve
Do you think you can show me
How I've come this far?
The sickness that you are
A plague that made me starve
Do you think you can show me
How I've come this far?
I feel it's taking over
Everything falls dark
Break me open, the desperate cry
The sickness that you are
A plague that made me starve
Do you think you can show me
How I've come this far?
The sickness that you are
A plague that made me starve
Do you think you can show me
I used to adore you
The lies made sense somehow
Gave myself away without a fight
But betrayal claims its price
At first I was scared
Not used to murders mind
But there was something beautiful
So powerful, different, so divine
Pushing the faith
Build on our rage
Falling ideals
Broken seals
March to the shore
You are a killer
Is it something that's always been there
What's the distance in this cage?
Oh, I'm glad we [Incomprehensible]
I love to release the rage
But everything has its end
I've done my deed
The final bullet was always meant for me
Pushing the faith
Build on our rage
Falling ideals
Broken seals
March to the shore
You are a killer
But everything has its end
I've done my deed
The final bullet, always meant for me
Falling ideals
Broken seals
March to the shore
You are a killer
Falling ideals
Broken seals
March to the shore
Shame marries the guilt
introduces itself to the
concept of total loneliness
Sensations repressed
make friends with
Suicidia and
here the leeches begin to
suck away the lust for life
Thus
Escape takes lead
into a world unknown uncontrolled by all
where border are erased and potential infinite
Chosen cells glands and transmittors
blast the body with joy
Astral feet running
up to dimension covered with gold
stairs of glowing ectoplasma
safir onyx and buzzing vibrations
A dead man banquet
food for the gods
There's only 1 real world
our earth is but a shadow
Created from a child's heart a living jewel
from now on abode for a soul in its setting
sutting the bloodline
re-tie the bleeding roots
to a heavenly ship of glass
and let it drift in passive arrogance
I demand nothing, but I want it all
what privilege do we have under the sun,
that gives us the right to the throne?
species come and go, but the earth stands forever fast
all river runs towards the sea, but the sea is never full
to discover the loneliness and be to proud to show the wounds
will forever wander alone through the years
but I won't let you near
begging for you to understand
the fear that lives in my soul
which is an untouched spring
read, what is written on the silent mouth
what is written in the soul
for which is written in the shining silence
we all have to read
my body will be bent from the burdens
when the shaking floor of life-force
reveal its chasm underneath
Save all your prayers
I think we're lost today
There's no morning after
No one's around to blame
Well I'm not afraid to bleed
But I won't do it for you
A star among the hypocrites
The melody of our time
So say goodbye to the world
We are the dead that walk the earth
Scream your lungs out
Wait for laughter
You don't have to wait forever
Here's the next disaster
What decides when you've lost the war
When the first man falls
Or when they've erased it all
We're too numb to feel
The downfall starts right here
Hold your breath and swim
Swallowed by life's tear
In times of make believe
No one really seems to care
Maybe I should care less
'Cause I will die too
So say goodbye to the world
We are the dead that walk the earth
Scream your lungs out
Wait for laughter
You don't have to wait forever
Here's the next disaster
What will it take for us to realize
The more we provoke
Winter will come twice
Save all your prayers
I think we're lost today
There's no morning after
No one's around to blame
Scream your lungs out
Wait for laughter
You don't have to wait forever
It's the next disaster
Scream your lungs out
Wait for Laughter
You don't have to wait forever
People like you
You live in a dream world
You despise the outside
And you fear the next one!
It's in your dream
There's just one question
Should I kill?
Or should I be left behind?
Sick and tired
Of all your complaints
This is the hour
We bring it down!
I've come to realise
Every little glimpse, you fade
I was told that I could fly
When least expected,
Cloud Connected!
You seem to be
So introverted
How come we fail
With all that is given?
You crossed the line
You remember my name
Time runs backwards
As we're heading that way
I've come to realise
Every little glimpse, you fade
I was told that I could fly
When least expected,
Cloud Connected!
I've come to realise
Every little glimpse, you fade
I was told that I could fly
When least expected,
When all is said and done, we know what's right what's wrong
But does it matter then when all is said and done?
When all is said and done, we know who's left of one
But does it matter, then when all is dead and gone?
Seeing everything go, there's no more things alive
That we know
Shift your point of view, you be warned
There's a one way ticket for you
When all the lights go out, we know what that's about
But does it matter then when all the lights go out?
When all that's left is lies, there'll be nothing left to realize
But does it matter, do they know they left its lies
Seeing everything go, there's no more things alive
That we know
Shift your point of view, you be warned
There's a one way ticket for you
When all that's left is lies, we'll see nothing left to realize
But does it matter, do they know they left its lies
Seeing everything go, there's no more things alive
That we know
Shift your point of view, you be warned
Someone in "The Attic",
Building a strange machine.
Never really see him,
But I think he works all day.
Blinded by the world outside,
I stay inside.
Hardly know my name,
But it's getting better by time.
I saw something in the mirror,
Someone's watching me.
If I hide in "The Attic",
I will never get to me.
I found some rope on the floor.
I have to build a trap.
So I start on my machine,
As we build a brand new planet
Lets reconstruct and get it straight
Unlock forgotten skills
Travel to a new dimension
Souls from the dark seduction
We are the new invention
We're the settlers of year zero
Let's reconstruct and take it back
Leaders of our time
Heading for a downfall
The threshold of revolution
The last freedom call
Blanked out fire etched on the display
The seas are deep, you better swim
Don't go numb
Collect the word, add some gold and give it back
The seas are deep, you better swim
Don't go numb
From a thousand branches
Spreading the new voice
As we're heading for the throne
Connect, evolution will begin
Leaders of our time
Heading for a downfall
The threshold of revolution
The last freedom call
Blanked out fire etched on the display
The seas are deep, you better swim
Don't go numb
Collect the word, add some gold and give it back
The seas are deep, you better swim
The pictures only fades,
Walls are closing in.
There I was,
Cursing the ground,
Unable to understand.
I won't let the world break me,
So I need to change direction.
NOTHING SPECIAL AND FAR FROM PERFECT!
Light the way for me!
(I see... the Dead... They're Dancing...)
FEEL I WAS RUNNING, AN ENDLESS MILE~!
LAST YELLOW BURNS AND I'm DYING INSIDE!
All of this will turn to ash, and change for a peace of mind.
Walking "Where The Dead Ships Dwell", these are shores I left behind.
STREAMS ARE GETTING SMALLER, AND I HAVE TO LEAVE!
FEEL I WAS RUNNING, AN ENDLESS MILE!
LAST YELLOW BURNS AND I'm DYING INSIDE!
All of this will turn to ash, and change for a peace of mind.
All I hear is noise.
Parts unfold so guess I took it for granted.
I know I went too far.
I will say I'm sorry.
I got what I deserve, I GOT WHAT I DESERVE!
FEEL I WAS RUNNING, AN ENDLESS MILE!
LAST YELLOW BURNS AND I'm DYING INSIDE!
All of this will turn to ash, and change for a peace of mind.
FEEL I WAS RUNNING, AN ENDLESS MILE!
LAST YELLOW BURNS AND I'm DYING INSIDE!
Tell me which side I'm on
Approaching constant failure
Tell me which side I'm on
(What's friend or foe?)
Approaching constant failure
Between love and hate
Which path to follow?
How can I keep balance in this race?
Come faith, I'm dying slowly
In many ways I'm the burden
That divides us from the light
In many ways you're the halo
That keeps my spirit alive
Temptation, if you could reave a part
In me you evoke the dark away
Now free me and watch me heal
Tell me which side I'm on
Approaching constant failure
Between love and hate
Which path to follow?
How can I keep balance in this race?
Come faith, I'm dying
Bemused by the trials and tribulations in force of my life
Fly from here but as the chosen pessimist
Carve my name in stone
Carve my name in stone
(Bemused by the trials and tribulations in force of my life
Fly from here but as the chosen pessimist)
How can I keep balance in this race?
Have we lost the spark or a guide?
What's the latest on the screen?
Can't be too late to turn around
I need all the help from you
I need to find something to blame for a long lost time
I am running from something, I don't know
I am searching for something, which way to go?
I am trying to separate what's real
I'm running in a wheel
Is it dark or is it bright?
What's the latest on the screen?
Please tell me my name
I haven't checked it today
I am running from something, I don't know
I am searching for something, which way to go?
I am trying to separate what's real
I'm running in a wheel
From green to red our days pass by
I'm waiting for a sign to tell us why, are we dancing all alone?
Collect some stars to shine for you
And start today, there are only a few, the sign of times my friend
Avoid infinity? Are you for real?
Just scratch the surface and you will find
Something to blame for a long lost time
From green to red our days pass by
I'm waiting for a sign to tell us why, are we dancing all alone?
Collect some stars to shine for you
And start today, there are only a few, the sign of times my friend
Just scratch the surface and you will find
Something to blame for a long lost time
From green to red our days pass by
I'm waiting for a sign to tell us why, are we dancing all alone?
Collect some stars to shine for you
And start today, there are only a few, the sign of times my friend
From green to red our days pass by
I'm waiting for a sign to tell us why, are we dancing all alone?
Collect some stars to shine for you
And start today, there are only a few
From green to red our days pass by
Collect some stars to shine for you
Let us try to think, try to paint the picture.
Living on, have to feel this way.
(Looking for something to believe in...)
Looking for something to believe in,
I think I've done my time. (My time~)
One by one the pieces fall,
Tell me what it is to believe.
YOU CAN TELL, CHANGED BY THEIR FACES.
THERE ARE ALWAYS SIGNS!
I am JUST STILL A POST-SOUL,
GRAB A PIECE OF LIGHT!
Give me tending, I can't handle everything,
You'll never understand me. (LIGHT~! )
And I don't care what you think, (LIGHT~! )
Or maybe I do!
(One by one the pieces fall...)
One by one the pieces fall!
Tell me what it feels to believe!
YOU CAN TELL, CHANGED BY THEIR FACES.
THERE ARE ALWAYS SIGNS!
I am JUST STILL A POST-SOUL,
GRAB A PIECE OF LIGHT!
GRAB A PIECE OF LIGHT! (LIGHT... ~)
YOU CAN TELL, CHANGED BY THEIR FACES.
THERE ARE ALWAYS SIGNS!
I am JUST STILL A POST-SOUL,
GRAB A PIECE OF THE LIGHT!
YOU CAN TELL, CHANGED BY THEIR FACES.
THERE ARE ALWAYS SIGNS!
I am JUST STILL A POST-SOUL,
It's best to go, while I collapse
It's not a false alarm
The ashes settle in
Well, I guess we are the insane
As we ignore the mirror's truth
Should I join the feast?
Should I acknowledge the leash?
The future in captivity, I'm not who I'm supposed to be
Without even trying
Well, let this light explode
The bleeding, we deceive them
Fuel the lies, they try to hide the reason
We should live by a loss, call the swarm
Feed them another false hope
Without even trying
Let this light explode
Without even trying
Find the exit sign then disappear
Without even trying
Let this night explode
Without even trying
For all the times you left me bleeding
Clouded, weakened [Incomprehensible] by the haze
Cut off my pride, enough to forgive you
Reconcile, back to square nothing
It seems I lost my direction
Don't have the strength to let it slip
Have no desire for the shore
Just let me play here for some time
Spent some quality time
With the demon of mine
"I like the way you struggle
But you know I'm here to win"
Is this, how I want to spend my days?
Shadowed, it fears me, my utopia
Try to find some peace to destroy
These are my sins, I'm heading to fall
Never understood though I accepted
All the weakness that I discover
You gave me a place to hide and lost the key
Drowned my head just to see it sink
Spent some quality time
With the demon of mine
"I like the way you struggle
But you know I'm here to win"
Spent some quality time
With my borrowed smile
The gleam is replaced
Rip me open and erase me
Spend some quality time
With the demon of mine
"I like the way you struggle
But you know I'm here to win"
Spent some quality time
With my borrowed smile
The gleam is replaced
I cannot frame, that's why I lose control
I aim, I stumble and I fall
Our adaptation can't be faithful
Your world does not attract me
This is the end, you see
There's no more truth in me
As if you would deserve it
You are my enemy
I can't ignore the way you make me bleed
I hate when you throw my thoughts against the wall
Got to wake up and make a stand
The desperation forces another mistake
I count again, I know who to blame
My life in vain, who said I was sane?
I count again, I know who to blame
My life in vain, who said I was sane?
Follow your instinct, it usually takes you home
Don't let these words tear you down, down
You see me hanging by the end of the rope
I tell you
Slow, I go and the wait seems to be over
All that I know is that my life
Has become such a waste for you
I blame and run, sadly all too often
I dive into the day without your sympathy
I tend to try but lack the focus
Becoming a distant memory
What once was, is quickly forgotten
All wrapped up inside
Delete all resemblance
I feel your relief
Slow, I go and the wait seems to be over
All that I know is that my life
Has become such a waste for you
Follow your instinct, it usually takes you home
Slow, I go and the wait seems to be over
All that I know is that my life
Has become such a waste for you
Slow, I go and the wait seems to be over
All that I know is that my life
My tears fall like rain
From the long lasting pain
When I look into your eyes
My heart just dies
Beauty divine
I hope you'll be mine
Open your arms
For all time
All dressed in white
Bringer of light
Spend time with me here
All through the night
Beauty divine
Your tears taste like wine
Come to me, here
For all time
My spine shivers with the touch of your lips
My pale skin turns red when we kiss
Piercing your nails deep in my back
As I slowly kiss your ivory neck
I started to cry after hours of joyful sin
My tears turned to roses as they embraced your skin
I gathered them to a bouquet of most beautiful flowers
A bouquet of secret and ancient powers
My amber heart started to glow
As I died really slow
My tears fall like rain
From the long lasting pain
When I look into your eyes
My heart just dies
Beauty divine
I hope you'll be mine
Open your arms
For all time
All dressed in white
Bringer of light
Come to me, here
All through the night
Beauty divine
Your tears taste like wine
Come to me, here
One lie was all it took, everything ended right there
You didn't seem to care one lie
I walked away, weight on my shoulders was heavy
Barrel to my head
Will you give me a good excuse?
Will you let me just die right here and now?
I can't think of another way
But I'm open to any good advice
Everything is falling apart
Trying hard to be strong and smart
One day was all it took
Start to get back on my feet, heart begin to beat
One week, I'm feeling great dancing around in the street
Feeling young and free
Will you give me a good excuse?
Will you let me just die right here and now?
I can't think of another way
But I'm open to any good advice
Everything is falling apart
Trying hard to be strong and smart
Will you give me a good excuse?
Will you let me just die right here and now?
I can't think of another way
But I'm open to any good advice
Will you give me a good excuse?
Will you let me just die right here and now?
I can't think of another way
Compassion, confession, it's all a compromise
Dedication, domination, please, define the lines
Irritation, innovation, paired up to succeed
Totaliation, termination, fake skills and greed
Surrender to nothing, or run as far as you can
I'm trying to, hold on to what I believe in, but my heart is in a coma
Aggression, attention, a need to be seen
Directed, disrespected stand in line to be thankful obscene
Surrender to nothing, or run, as far as you can
I'm trying to, hold on to what I believe in, but my heart is in a coma
Surrender to nothing, or run, as far as you can
I'm trying to, hold on to what I believe in, but my heart is in a coma
Spanning, further deeper
I know you're out to try me
I'm not in this to be a slave
Push the dirt, make me feel
Locate what swallows life
Night bird to build my world
Then I close my eyes
And then I close my eyes
Judge me now
Used to be afraid
To let it show, bow down
A king in my own mind
Everything's in place
So much brighter from today
Drown the monster
Make all bad dreams go away
Whatever it takes
To keep running free
Open scars
The quiet place
The bridges fall to the ground
And you say you sacrificed
Then I close my eyes
And then I close my eyes
Judge me now
Used to be afraid
To let it show, bow down
A king in my own mind
Everything's in place
So much brighter from today
A king in my own mind
Judge me now
The king in my own mind
Judge me now
The king in my own mind
Judge me now
Used to be afraid
To let it show, bow down
A king in my own mind
Everything's in place
So much better from today
In a disaster story
A central conflict of primal rage
Usual sort of desperation
Characters remain the same
Never cut you out, I cut you in
Feeding on life's leftovers
I am writing to you
You should realize, it hurts in me too
Walk on broken glass
Is the pain safe at the end?
All the elements in life's complexity
Make our struggle infinite
Never cut you out, I cut you in
Feeding on life's leftovers
I am writing to you
You should realize, it hurts in me too
All the elements in life's complexity
Make our struggle infinite
Never cut you out, I cut you in
Feeding on life's leftovers
I am writing to you
You should realize, it hurts in me too
As I cut you in
Feeding on life's leftovers
I am writing to you
Leeches
We are creatures
We leave her as we trust
If you say this way
I will take that way
'Til for the fire will it die, fry
Spit me out
I'm glad I don't belong
Save me the speech
You'll be forgotten and gone
It burns
It rips
It hurts
Leeches
They preach to us
Where's the wisdom from the crowd
Spit me out
I'm glad I don't belong
Save me the speech
You'll be forgotten and gone
It burns
It rips
It hurts
They made you believe
Your turn
The chance of a lifetime
How does it feel to be alive?
Let's hear it for the bullet
That can't be heard
Pray to yours that I steal
Spit me out
I'm glad I don't belong
Save me the speech
You'll be forgotten and gone
It burns
It rips
It hurts
They made you believe
Your turn, it hurts
The chance of a lifetime
I say goodbye to you all at once -
I don't dare to face you all alone.
I went from wreckage to world class
with a box of t-shirts and some records to sell,
but times have changed - I have to defend my actions.
The foundation crumbles and I have to leave.
Thanks for everything - I couldn't ask for more...
I am my deepest shadow
Something I can't ever neglect
Rise above these ashes
Will fall them fade away
In dark moments I know better
Within destruction I see clearly
From here to new grounds
Suppose I will do it alone
Will fight through that design
Feel this of your conviction
Well, staring into truth
I am, thy way
Existence careful made
In all your everlasting well, complications
In dark moments well, I know better
Within destruction I see clearly
From here to new grounds
Suppose I will do it alone
Will fight through that design
Will feel this of your conviction
Forget the promised land
There was never an invitation
Today I create my own
Before there was sorrow and lack of attention
From here to new grounds
Suppose I will do it alone
Will fight through that design
Bible arm on social hell
Spins its downward spiral
With each year of unprogression
A fine of failure is added
Closer than ever to the edge
A feat in resident martyrs
Strong objects track my body
My body down
Eyes, eyes
Disappearing rebirth of light
Between a labrynth of errors
And the key to the suicide era
Digging through the graves of giants
Words fly to me
A lonely road, like a promise
Failing miserably
Running through like an alphabet
Of hate
To shake the entire organism
Closer than ever, ever to the edge
Eyes, eyes
Disappearing rebirth of light
Between a labrynth of errors
And the key to the suicide era
I kill for the code
To disarm this mess
Of psychotic chaos that once
I mixed up myself
Disarm
Eyes, eyes
Disappearing rebirth of light
Between a labrynth of errors
I know what it takes to break you
You know I never sleep
Just because you made them think
Doesn't mean the world will fall into place
Took some time but now you know
Tomorrow is too late
Close your eyes, walk with me, I set you free
And everything you ask for
I'll find a way and I return...
I have to see those who do not know
Rest in peace, I'm coming for you
And I will be, I will be with you tonight
If today was your last day, would that change a thing?
You probably believe what you told them
Leave each moment like your last
Close your eyes, walk with me, I set you free
And everything you ask for
I'll find a way and I return........
I have to see those who do not know
Rest in peace, I'm coming for you
Twisting turn
Falling off the edge again
Need some space
Need disgrace
I'm confused but I'm engaged
I need for you to pick me up when I fall down
There is so much more we can't go for
But I can't control my selfish ways
*chores*
Enter tragedy
Slash my soul
Why is it part of the plan
Do you question me?
I question you!
Whos that man infount of me
I'm not voted I can't see
There is so much more we can't go fourth
But I can't control my selfish ways
*chores*
Enter tragedy
Slash my soul
Why is it part of the plan
Do you question me?
I question you!
They said her apathy brings me to life
I no it's strange and it's draning me
I'm tired
I'm fed up
Of this life
I'm tired
I'm fed up
Of this life
*chores*
Enter tragedy
Slash my soul
Why is it part of the plan
Do you question me?
I question you!
A mass illusion
Blind men in a line
They smother their fires with gasoline
A strangers contribution
Everybody's on the run
No clue where they are heading
A spineless attempt
Have we lost it completely?
It always ends up in a mess
A liar's ambition, praised like a king
Every day in every way we are getting weaker
You won't go far with the life that you're living
Every day in every way we are getting weaker
Slow and calculated
Afraid of the sleeping well
Never ever reach the goal
A liar's ambition, praised like a king
Every day in every way we are getting weaker
You won't go far with the life that you're living
Every day in every way we are getting weaker
A liar's ambition, praised like a king
Every day in every way we are getting weaker
You won't go far with the life that you're living
Remind me
I'm golden
The fortress above the sun
Why don't you spend nowhere with me
Follow the river and the path of the ones
Write our names on the shore
Forever - I can't find
Struggling in a world undefined
Decide how you want it to be
I'm not eternity
Fly into the distant
Disappear for a while
I can't make sense of this
But we're here today (feeling) alive
It starts to fall apart
Let me take control
Reminisce
The days and nothing more
Something I will find again
Deliver us
Can't hear the words you say
But it doesn't really matter
I give the world to you
If you just...
Fly into the distant
Disappear for a while
I can't make sense of this
But we're here today (feeling) alive
Fly into the distant
Disappear for a while
I can't make sense of this
At least you could have tried,
It is way past time and we're scattering ashes,
You take everything in sight.
Please hear me now,
You, you are leaving me with scars.
Fear is the weakness in all of us.
It's sad to see you go,
As I was meant to be easy,
But you drag us down.
Bury all the evidence cold...
The same road for far too long...
As it meant to be, we are losing identity.
Faith has been denied,
Let's not pretend,
Is this the first time, we just don't belong?
One world, do you percieve?
All turned cold, and no one cares for anyone.
Waiting for the final blow,
Do you have strenght at all?
One more day, then we fade away...
Fear is the weakness in all of us.
It's sad to see you go.
As I meant to be easy,
But you drag us down.
Bury all the evidence cold...
The same road for far too long...
As it meant to be, we are losing identity.
Fate has been denied,
Let's not pretend.
Is this the first time, we just don't belong?
(The same road for far too long...)
As it's meant to be, we are losing identity.
Faith has been denied,
Let's not pretend.
It's hard to believe
You could be such a disease
I no longer separate what's real
Hope that fate will find me safe
All my reflections laugh at me
You made me hide my name
It just feels bad to say
That there will be another day
What you wanted was impossible to define
The words I hear are of scrambled letters
Guess it's been there for years
Never let me know, I was alright
What you wanted is a mystery to me
The words I hear are of scrambled letters
Guess it's been there for years
Never let me know, I was alright
Building a room with no doors
Is this the last of me?
Wring the rag for the last few drops
Falling into infinity
What you wanted was impossible to define
The words I hear are of scrambled letters
Guess, it's been there for years
Never let me know, I was alright
What you wanted is a mystery to me
The words I hear are of scrambled letters
Guess it's been there for years
Never let me know, I was alright
What you wanted was impossible to define
The words I hear are of scrambled letters
Guess it's been there for years
Never let me know, I was alright
What you wanted is a mystery to me
The words I hear are of scrambled letters
Guess it's been there for years
Look at the dead outside my window
Wonder what's on their mind
Why do they run?
They all seem to have a mission
But then they cry themselves to sleep
You receive what you give
And this is like nothing
Oh, I feel like shit
But at least I feel something
Is this all you're meant to be?
Their marks in the pavement
You walk this route too many times
What if I changed the signs?
Would you even take notice?
You receive what you give
And this is like nothing
I feel like shit
But at least I feel something
Is this all you have to give?
Straight jacket you yearn
In chains surrender
You receive what you give
And this is like nothing
Oh, I feel like shit
But at least I feel something
You receive what you give
And this is like nothing
I feel like shit
I see, through thirty
Getting older, everyday
My soul, drawing pictures of innocent times
Can you add color inside these lines?
I want you to lead me, take me somewhere
Don't want to live in a dream one more day
I want you to lead me, take me somewhere
Don't want to live in a dream one more day
Sure, it would change my perspective
I am certain I would change today
I am certain it would change our ways
When things fall into place
I want you to lead me, take me somewhere
Don't want to live in a dream one more day
I want you to lead me, take me somewhere
Don't want to live in a dream one more day
I want you to lead me, take me somewhere
Don't want to live in a dream one more day
I want you to lead me, take me somewhere
Don't want to live in a dream one more day
Your self control makes me feel alone
I've tried confidence had it for breakfast today
I've lost the perfection, a mess without words
As the seasons change I'll continue to ignore
The image I project is me without me
The picture that I scanned is borrowed
After the education you stopped making sense to me
Seems to me it's all the same
Time and time and time and time again
Slowly, what I believed in, turning into a lie
To aim and miss, my supernatural art
Spending too much time with myself
Trying to explain who I am
How come it's possible?
I wish there was a way
I feel so invincible
I'm the sculpture made out of clay
I need someone to break the silence
Before it all falls apart
I need something to cling onto
Before I break you in parts
So afraid of what you may think
And all the plastic people that surrounds me
I have to find the path to where it all begins
To teach the world my supernatural art
How come it's possible?
I wish there was a way
I feel so invincible
We believe but we are deceased
Or rather soon to be
I act surprised
Abused in the seas
It's just enough to feed the trees
We believe but we are not free
This wasteland is our prison
I act surprised
I see the bones through your skin
This radiation from within
I grant you
This torn land, I'd rather not live here anymore
I grant you
This torn land, I'd rather not live here anymore
We believe but we can't see
The coming of the storm
I act surprised
There's warnings from time to time
Signs of our only crime
We are the scum of the earth
We plunder and rape
We can't see the new breed
But act like its ours to take
I grant you
This torn land, I'd rather not live here anymore
I grant you
This torn land, I'd rather not live here anymore
We believe but we don't see
I grant you
This torn land, I'd rather not live here anymore
I grant you
This torn land, I'd rather not live here anymore
I grant you
This torn land, I'd rather not live here anymore
I grant you
September's here again
Every insecurity reminds you
Who's at the helm?
Darker times
With fear in the eyes
Who's the man in charge?
Invented isolation
Alone and safe inside
Struggle with words,
That make sense in time
Yet waiting for someone to enter say "I have a better plan"
Never have to worry
For all that we know
The truth be told
As we lay down low
Walking the thin line
Let the happiness in
For now it's fine
We're living the lie
When light breaks
Another way to matter
All questions somehow answered
When life comes crushing
At the early break of day
We've only come so far
Never have to worry
For all that we know
The truth be told
As we lay down low
Walking the thin line
Let the happiness in
For now it's fine
I'm so restless
These walls drain my thoughts
Rooms with no sun
I can't find my way out
It used to be my home
These days far from my comfort zone
Alive but without control
Fear is taking hold
I should cross the line
Confront lives too blind
Hear a distant cry
Would you tell me how
Break the cycle that I'm in
And discover the living
I don't recognize my soul
Condemned to live in this black hole
Deep within time
Then crave warning signs
Hear a distant cry
Would you tell me how
Break the cycle that I'm in
And discover the living
I should cross the line
Confront lives too blind
Hear a distant cry
Would you tell me how
Break the cycle that I'm in
There's a hill to climb
Would you dream if I
Design the future
In the most desolate corner
Bad case of the urban blues
Another brick in the living shadow
All inhale the downward spiral
Hey, get in line for tragic
Let us dance to the pistol magic
Just aim and end another
But think as I rape your mother
Another player joins the table
Who I can or cannot trust
When do we get assigned?
Pure and precious with bad intentions
Hey, come and join the show
All the cameras are ready to go
Just aim and end another
But think as I rape your mother
A single step, a garbled life
Where's the profit?
And your rage the pain
Will it all be worth it?
Genetic, it seems to be
Abandon, the mass ideal
Let's reunite and brush the dust away
We think we're in control
Then we become the things we hate
Let's reunite and brush the dust away
Obtain a prosperous future
And the admiration of all
Act in the [Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible] downward spiral
Genetic, it seems to be
Abandon, the mass ideal
Let's reunite and brush the dust away
We think we're in control
Then we become the things we hate
The other side of the platinum door
Another day in quicksand
Still feel close to nowhere
I hope this is the right way
How come you see me as an enemy?
We just think in different words
I see beauty in dead flowers
I let the tide show me what's next
But all you do is fade away
There is no shame in being the fool
I've been to places you'll never find
The empty plate that you call home
Won't bring glimmer to future years
By myself, staring into space
You're just bored of the silence it makes
I see beauty in dead flowers
I let the tide show me what's next
But all you do is fade away
I see beauty in dead flowers
I let the tide show me what's next
But all you do is fade away
I see beauty in dead flowers
I let the tide show me what's next
But all you do is fade away
I see beauty in dead flowers
I let the tide show me what's next
Until the world seizes to move!
A burning feeling, let me call - "This is real!"
I WISH ONE MORE THING! I FLINCH MY HANDS, AND BANG MY HEAD!
Take whatever comes to you,
All the while - I don't need another friend.
I better not do the things I do for you.
Forever the night that is long for me now.
I'm sure that I may. - I can get you... all that you lost.
I'm never told. "Bad I stay, so sick in me." I'm dying alone.
WE STAND TO FIGHT FOR NOTHING! WITHOUT A THOUGHT OF REASON!
WE WILL NEVER BE OKAY!
I better not do the things I do for you.
Forever the night that is long for me now.
I'm sure that I may. - I can get you... all lost.
A growing pain, it is hard to say what brought the darkest burden.
For some of us, there is no answer.
Chains are breaking, I regret this built up inside of me.
THERE'S A STORM - coming.
I will serve no more, 'til my heavy last breath!
I better not do the things I do for you.
Forever the night that is long for me now.
The serpent knows
When the curtain falls
With denials blindfold
It greets another day
Don't believe the mask
It attempts to really lie
The perfect ten
When reality caves in
Don't tell me, tell my ghost
'Cause I blame him
For all I don't want to know
I found secrets about lies under told
Life's wrapped in a riddle
Easier said than done
Wait to play the victim
Just run and hide
Don't believe the mask
It attempts to really lie
The perfect ten
Where reality caves in
Don't tell me, tell my ghost
'Cause I blame him
For all I don't want to know
Well, I found secrets about life under told
Let them take me far away
Call back in place
It's easier to cope behind the curtain
Wipe the worries away
No thought about a consequence
Don't believe the mask
It attempts to really lie
The perfect ten
When reality caves in
Don't tell me, tell my ghost
'Cause I blame him
For all I don't want to know
Well, I found secrets about life under told
I dreamed that you had died
I'm forever alone
I'm weakened, I'm frightened
This place's about to change
Things you said to me
Believe and the things you might find
Will turn into a march
I stand alone and breathe again
I won't stop until this is through
And I can't wait to see the sunrise again
(It's moments like this)
I am what you'll never be
To better what I am
You won't hear lies from me
Feel the sudden aches
Time to get moving
Getting somewhere with no directions
I swear to you it will never be the same
It's astray, but the road lies open
Leaving all deaths behind
I stand alone and breathe again
I won't stop until this is through
And I can't wait to see the sunrise again
(It's moments like this)
I am what you'll never be
To better what I am
You won't hear lies from me
And I can't wait to see the sunrise again
(It's moments like this)
I am what you'll never be
To better what I am
You won't hear lies from me
Erase darkness from my mind
Last remaining night
From here to everywhere
I stand alone and breathe again
I won't stop until this is through
And I can't wait to see the sunrise again
(It's moments like this)
I am what you'll never be
To better what I am
Since the day of my departure
I've been stumbling through reality
I play my symphony in reverse
In search for that special path
Be gentle to the tear in this eye
Lonesome arms, lost its wings again
Buy me a trip to the moon
So I can laugh at my mistakes
I can see the end from here
From this perspective it looks kind of silly
Satellites and astronauts
Tell me there are greater things ahead
Make me feel like a man
A silent cry from the middle of hell
I - the irony - I promise, I'll be mature
So please, invite me to your shelter again
Been hiding since I heard "never"
Take me back to yesterday, I need to grow
Steal my mask and make me pay
I need a new skin
I'm going insane
Consume the curse
That brings you down
The fading liar
[Incomprehensible]
Is there in front of you
You've decided to come
And reclaim your future
This is a call to arms
Unrequested a time
Feed the hunger
Climb on up
Repress the native
You are not alone
It's there in front of you
You've decided to come
And reclaim your future
Oh, this is a call to arms
Unrequested a time
Avoid the mold
Desperate you regress
Move through me
I'll be your tired
You were deciding to come
And reclaim your future
This is a call to arms
Unrequested a time
As they all felt the fire
They turned me into an outsider
I never heard from them again
So ironic when you called for a favor today
It's always easy to judge
But takes a lot to be specific
'cause as you preach you're opening the door
To your egos past
There was a day when I could forget
I could forgive but those days are gone
I see them fade
Filth in every new day
Filth runs in every new day
I learned to mute the anger
I never thought I would be there again
A moment, a dead end
I lost myself in here
Filth in every new day
Filth runs in every new day
I ran as I saw the end
Should I've joined the fight instead?
Hope you're listening
'cause now times have changed
I take a look around
Say this moment's mine
Flee all the weak minds
Feel my missed hidden rage
Filth in every new day
Filth runs in every new day
Die
Tragedy, cursing me
Bloodlust, crying, never dying
Bloodlust, crying, never dying
From the cold, shadowed waste
Evil grasped my soul and took my hand
Left alone and filled with desire
A spawn of evil and eternal fire
Timeless, immortal, everlasting hate
Timeless, immortal, everlasting hate
Hate...
Drinking the wine
An act out of love
Consumer of lives
You'll join us tonight...
Behold immortality
A dark eternity
Eternity, eternity...
Drinking the wine
An act out of love
Consumer of lives
You'll join us tonight
They come from a land where the sun don't shine,
Running away from the cold..
They travel so far in the name of love,
Hoping the dreams will come true..
Walking the way through endless fields,
Trying to make it together..
Eternal grin.. Ever sleeking..
Jester the fool.. to fall in love!!
And they will give anything,
Just to be free from the pain!
But they won't surrender!!
Living in a world of promises!
Living in a world of dreams and hopes!!
Living in a world of promises!
Lost in the city wondering why,
No one can open the door..
It's more to the truth than meets the eye,
Something they all felt before..
And they will give anything,
Just to stand tall again!
But they won't surrender!!
Living in a world of promises!
Living in a world of dreams and hopes!!
Living in a world of promises!
With the dread of the nights, we hear them crying!
Out for a life, to hold on to!
Somebody knows, where the answers lying!
Wait for your chance and don't, don't let go!!
Living in a world of promises!
Living in a world of dreams and hopes!!
Living in a world of promises!
I parish and nobody will know
as my mouth remains still
my heart awaits me. filled with gravel
as the pain grows with each touch
since I marked her out from my tower
reality focused through forbidden lenses
she owns enough of preciousness
a penalty given by the source
but I still have no choice through
the hinderens freighten
a labyrinth closing at the edge of space
but they never allow
she's shut... for all beings but one
I lost my visual
?Cause all you fucks are in my way
So drop her off this route
Take ?em to some far place
Watch them feed
Seal the signs of the borders
We are here to bend
Penetrate the outlines
Lightness of color
They say the world is struggling
But we are stuck upside down
Imaginary reality
Suffer from make believe
I'll chance the fate
Take ?em to some far place
Watch them feed
They say the world is struggling
But we are stuck upside down
No purpose, no scorn
No sorrow will be wasted on you
No purpose, no scorn
No sorrow will be wasted on you
They say the world is struggling
But we are stuck upside down
No purpose, no scorn
No sorrow will be wasted on you
No purpose, no scorn
A vanishing light
The end of a compromise
In fury and rage
A dream will diminish
Behind enemy lines
Learn to survive
Find a way to clone
Make friends and a place to call home
Take a picture and jump before we crush
Take a picture and jump before we crush
Slide away
Learn your ways and fire when ready
This is the race to no-man's land
But who knows the direction
You're on the easy route
Money up front, there's no doubt
Take a picture and jump before we crush
Take a picture and jump before we crush
Slide away
Learn your ways and fire when ready
This is the race to no-man's land
But who knows the direction
It's so, so sad, but pay no mind
Take a picture and jump before we crush
Take a picture and jump before we crush
Slide away
Learn your ways and fire when ready
This is the race to no-man's land
Mirror, mirror, how far will I go?
Despite the foundation, I am falling
Oh, sweet reflection
Will you save a place for me?
Where am I heading?
Could you grant me a haven?
For what I am punished
Could I ever repent?
Oh, mother nature, I?m wide open
Waiting for you to move me
Don?t keep it from me
This is the free fall
This is the free fall
I never seem to understand
The time, the place and who I am
Define a way to stay alive
It?s like I?m living a lie
Father time, every time I stop and feel
You?re there to tell me I?m already late
Don?t keep it from me
This is the free fall
I never seem to understand
The time, the place and who I am
It?s like I?m living a lie
I never seem to understand
The time, the place and who I am
Define a way to stay alive
It?s like I?m living a lie
I never seem to understand
The time, the place and who I am
Define a way to stay alive
The yesterday we loved
Speaks of tomorrow
The blood of man matters in time
Never taste the puss
We live from Monday to Sunday
But forget what it means
Then it comes, a closed fist
And we just started from Devil's rights
Well call all your friends
Watch me throw down
From the need of vacation
We're speeding from triple hate and artifacts
We're still superiors
And as for understanding
Lie, rape, steal and murder
To make the night realize
Crush the system
Make your contributions mine
Pour out and will you get
This strong as they've become
You sat in silence, hear a voice
How far are we ready to take this
You sat in silence, hear a voice
Before it all crumbles
Lie, rape, steal and murder
Smiling I plot your pain
Can I turn up the TV?
Exploding sympathy, farewell man
I trust we part our company
We're still superiors
And as for understanding
Lie, rape, steal and murder
To make the night realize
Crush the system
Make your contributions mine
Pour out and will you get
This strong as they've become
You sat in silence, hear a voice
How far are we ready to take this
You sat in silence, hear a voice
Before it all crumbles
Lie, rape, steal and murder
Smiling I plot your pain
You sat in silence, hear a voice
How far are we ready to take this
You sat in silence, hear a voice
It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
If I ever, If I never
Make me understand the thought whatever
Make me see. Make me be
Make me understand you're there for me
Take this life, I'm right here
Stay awhile and breathe me in
Take this life, I'm right here
Stay awhile and breathe me in
The rain drops just beg to hit me
What now? Hasn't rained for days
No time to play hide-and-seek
I call on you to take me on
Break me down to pieces
Put me back, do it right this time
Struggling to fill this empty shell
Burn all my efforts
In the end it means nothing
If I ever, If I never
Make me understand the thought whatever
Make me see. Make me be
Make me understand you're there for me
Take this life, I'm right here
Stay awhile and breathe me in
Take this life, I'm right here
Stay awhile and breathe me in
These thoughts, burn a hole in my heart
These thoughts, will keep me free and
These thoughts, burn a hole in my heart
These thoughts, will keep me free and
If I ever, If I never
Make me understand the thought whatever
Make me see. Make me be
Make me understand you're there for me
Take this life, I'm right here
Stay awhile and breathe me in
Take this life, I'm right here
You can find all you need
The message is in the silence
Whisper words to calm your mind
Reach inside another playing come-around
It answers
We are ghosts of the concrete world
Genetic codes of a dying breed
Will I be left behind
Sounds of a playground fading
Staring into bright lights
I am what I've done
It is useless to hide
An empty chamber
Guess I was part of a plan
We are ghosts of the concrete world
Genetic codes of a dying breed
Will I be left behind
Sounds of a playground fading
We're running out of time
Can't seem to recognize
What put us here in the first place
Counting down the days, beginning of the end
We are ghosts of the concrete world
Genetic codes of a dying breed
Will I be left behind
How much can we take before we care to settle?
Thought we were set for a perfect scene.
Everyone is waiting...
For a failure, something not complete and justified.
A void within my EYES!
Everyone is waiting for something they cannot have.
Why don't you drop your guard?
I am on my knees.
You've got the mindset of a killer, and it will not take you far.
If I have the answer will that make you stay?
This is the time and place it is your moment of fate.
(This would be...)
If this would be your last breath, (Be your last breath...)
Would that change a thing?
Diving first into the fire.
IF YOU JUST LET ME, I'LL FIND A WAY...
TO EASE YOUR MIND AND FOR YOU TO STAY. (To stay~)
AND I WILL TIE ALL THE "ROPES",
IT'S HARD FOR ME, BUT BELIEVE ME I'm TRYING. (HARD! )
What are you longing for?
What are you longing for?
What are you longing for if I have the answer?
Would that make you stay?
This is the time and place.
You are waiting for - something you cannot have.
(If this would be...)
If this would be your last breath, (Be your last...)
Would that change a thing?
Diving first into the fire.
IF YOU JUST LET ME, I'LL FIND A WAY...
TO EASE YOUR MIND AND FOR YOU TO STAY!
(To stay~)
AND I WILL UNTIE ALL THE "ROPES",
(It's hard for me~)
Oooh! ~ (If you just let me...)
IF YOU JUST LET ME, I'LL FIND A WAY...
TO EASE YOUR MIND AND FOR YOU TO STAY!
(To stay~)
AND I WILL TIE ALL THE "ROPES", (It is hard for me...)
It started as a whisper
Now try to dodge this roar
Unified, the most forceful way to go
Waste this one?
It?s up to you
We need this revolution
Destroy the pattern
Anything that separates
Across the times
Who dares to follow?
For years we wandered
These circles
Hold on to whatever
Lie gets us through
Design new latitudes
Find ways to channel bliss
Us defined is too fragile to neglect
Reroute to remain
Reroute to remain
Never want to look back in greed
Can I please
Have your attention?
There are mountains to cross
For all that are willing
There are never ending treasures
That awaits you
For years we wandered
These circles
Hold on to whatever
Lie gets us through
Design new latitudes
Find ways to channel bliss
Us defined is too fragile to neglect
Reroute to remain
Reroute to remain
Design new latitudes
Find ways to channel bliss
Us defined is too fragile to neglect
Reroute to remain
Shot for shot, let the bullets penetrate me
Embrace me, tell me stories of gold and God's
The precision in your voice
Breaks the walls that I built
Your eyes reach deep in life
Take a chance
Better cut much bigger than this
A dark star, spend another day with me
Get something that doesn't reflect
It's dark, what I need, I'll take the chance
Bring me the calm
When there's nothing
Expose the dark side
Awakened and emotional
Expose the dark side
Impossible to tame
Away from the eye of the storm
Away, I find what is real in me
Throw yourself into the eye of Chaos
Infiltrate me, sneak out before I awake
Take out the trash and burn it
Try to find a beautiful place to lay
These fragile bones of mine
Away from the eye of the storm
Away, I find what is real
Away from the eye of the storm
Away, I find what is real in me
When there's nothing
Expose the dark side
Awakened and emotional
Expose the dark side
Impossible to tame
Away from the eye of the storm
Away, I find what is real
Away from the eye of the storm
Away, I find what is real in me
Away from the eye of the storm
As I aim for that bright white day
Conflict serum is my aura
It seems that life's so fragile
I guess I'll fly some other time
I lack from superhighway thoughts
Live as long as the city lights
Soaked by underwater times
Electric splash on a midnight drive
Wish I could rape the day
Just something radical
Lost the sense of sweet things
Who's gonna take me widely?
Guided by the pinball map
The driver still unknown to me
Who was sent to glorify?
Before injected by his common pride
Sometimes I don't belong
Release me from your world
Pacified by the small things in life
I wait for earthquakes to rearrange
Never been able to use the force
I only have it read to me
Despite all misguided faith
I'll find a place in this mess
Wish I could rape the day
Just something radical
Lost the sense of sweet things
Who's gonna take me widely?
Guided by the pinball map
The driver still unknown to me
Who was sent to glorify?
Before we injected by his common pride
Early morning moments
A glimpse of joy
But soon it's over and I return to dust
As I try to be
Everything and everyone
I shrivel up and waste away
Wish I could rape the day
Just something radical
Lost the sense of sweet things
Who's gonna take me widely?
Guided by the pinball map
The driver still unknown to me
Who was sent to glorify?
Detonation
Fireworks and alchemy
Genes spliced and triggered
into the future and her organic cave
Seismorgasmic omnipotence
scenes of magma in my eyes
Eruption stones my system
I owe this to the animal inside
and the stiffness that blocks out the daylight
Morphing into primal
I'll cover every particle from there to Andromeda
not forgetting a single location
from the throat of Ibis to the co-ordinate of Matterhorn
My shot is genesis and catharsis
Penetratonaut in a cosmology of lust
Suck this subterrenean creature out
and show it proudly to the house of heaven
With one slight wave of my hand star dissolves
Dissolve my brain
Block my lungs
I'll die from fever tomorrow
Drug me, infiltrate my never land
Like the flood tide drowning the shore
Drug me, you're all over me
You watch my blood begin to boil
I love that lullaby start me up again
Electric spine, open mind
I leave you, negative behind
Watch me all in flames on a butterfly I ride
Inhale the light, relax for some time
The world outside stays numb tonight
Free your mind, express the forgotten
The world inside is yours tonight
Please me, deliver the insane
In the chaos I find peace
Please me, remind the Gods of my name
I believe there is one seat left for me
I love that lullaby start me up again
Electric spine, open mind
I leave you, negative behind
Watch me all in flames on a butterfly I ride
Inhale the light, relax for some time
The world outside stays numb tonight
Free your mind, express the forgotten
The world inside is yours tonight
I leave you, negative behind
Watch me all in flames on a butterfly I ride
Inhale the light, relax for some time
The world outside stays numb tonight
Free your mind, express the forgotten
For there is a purpose and reason
Beyond all human apprehension
The shrieking silence in the blackness of space
For there is a knowledge more complex
Than life in this planet
A knowledge in lune with the progress of stars
Lunar strain
All across the milky way
Life suffers defeat
Life that once was treasured
What once was nothing
Has blossomed into form
Once it was I that was nothing
But now they say I will die
All across the galaxy
Life suffers defeat
Lunar strain
From nothingness to reality
As we see it
From nothingness to life
My dismal tears of anguish
Bleed into one with the songs of my heaven
Loneliness is pain
Emptiness his power, loneliness his pain
Serenity his might
Yet we shall be honoured
in the starforsaken night
Astral strain
All around my silent moon
Life suffers defeat
I lie in your soothing arms, Lord Hypnos
Your garment alive with your song
(Yes, I lie in your soothing arms, Lord Hypnos)
Steep the spiral to your far abode
In the wake of slumber, vision I rode
And fell like history through the chasm of ages
Into the charged, forbidden zones
How I have searched
Through a million worlds and faces
Yet unaware, I have not found
My own true face, traceless and profound
Find me in these grandiose halls
Where long ago summers eternally fall
And tune the strings of truthful longing
To the frozen music of Gods
Hypnagonia's lucid horizons
Play with the yearning I've quelled
As I strike towards the Pantheon
And what therein is held
I lie in your soothing arms, Lord Hypnos
Your garment alive with your song
(Yes, I lie in your soothing arms, Lord Hypnos)
Steep the spiral to your far abode
In the wake of slumber, vision I rode
And fell like history through the chasm of ages
Close your eyes and pray
That wind will take me far away
Life is like a stone
Behind my back of a second degree start
Life is a feather of fall
Between the monument tear
Like a powder fragile the one that blows
Behind the faithful dead
All the doors of eternal gray
This weakness take beyond the dream
With a silent void you're left
While you can hardly breathe
Vastly they destroy the tears of my eyes
Fears are fading away, wobbly face the bitterness
In searching for my dear
Castle buries the bite of a queen
Wherever the sorrow rises
From distance like a rainbow
I'll be there again
To weep behind with my tears
Wake me, the second lifeless to be
[Incomprehensible], the second lifeless to be
(Jesper, Glenn)
Mankind - proud conqueror and king
swings its flag of primal glory to the winds
Titans of the power-myth that failed
Neanderthal hunger for the flash of war so frail
So weak, so hollow-minded
the primat flock responds
the jester race submits
For each day of war is a failure for man,
enslaved to her mordial genes
Illusions bleed from their fetid cores,
bent to their rotten extremes
We, the plague of Terra Firma,
nature,s grand and last mistake
plant the poisoned seed of cancer,
set the severed fruits awake
Burning like frozen relics
in god's archaic graveland
Burn the visionaire
Kill the ideologies
Mankind Must Die
The doves and the angels return to their graves
with flames on their pestilent wings
while mushroom-clouds haunt their virginwhite skies
to rape their utopian dreams
Living the last days of evolution's end
Do you feel anything at all?
Do you hear steps at the door?
Do you reckon the smell of?
It's life, the dark death binds you
Frightened by your own smell
Bitterness will run you through
Silent, screaming
Turning, twisting the alphabet
Frenetic eyes
Awaiting the answer
Splinters of a poem
Fragments of what you used to be
Habitual and gullible
Run down memoirs is all that's left
Do you wish to sleep?
Do you aim for the shadow?
Do you feel all infected?
It's life, the dark death binds you
Frightened by your own smell
Bitterness will run you through
Silent screaming
Turning, twisting the alphabet
Frenetic eyes
Awaiting the answer
Splinters of a poem
Fragments of what you used to be
Habitual and gullible
Run down memoirs is all that's left
It's the cowardice that pulls you under
And takes you to the end, where it begins
Release the world is waiting on your arrival
Close your eyes, as we witness another bullet ride
Do you know about atrocity?
Do you know that everybody's gone?
Do you know that you're on your own?
It's life, the dark death binds you
Frightened by your own smell
Bitterness will run you 'round
Silent, screaming
Turning, twisting the alphabet
Frenetic eyes
Awaiting the answer
Splinters of a poem
Fragments of what you used to be
Habitual and gullible
Slowly the winter wind tears my skin
Blood freezes in my veins
I wish you were here beside me
To release me from my pain
Last night you promised me
You were still in love with me
Please come set me free
From my misery
I love you, truth be told
I'm completely numb
It got this way, I don't know how
I just can't figure it out
Please talk to me
What do you want me to be?
Last night you promised me
You were still in love with me
Please come set me free
From my misery
I love you, truth be told
I'm completely numb
It got this way, I don't know how
I just can't figure it out
Please talk to me
What do you want me to be?
Slowly twists my pride
Freezing as I die
Coldly, I fade away
My life cannot be saved
Slowly the winter wind tears my skin
Blood freezes in my veins
I wish you were here beside me
To release me from my pain
Please try to remember me
Lord, please send help for me
Trying, can't you see?
Why must this be?
Please talk to me
(Jesper, Björn)
Stood there leaning to the city moon,
casting silhouettes tall to grip her white rooms
the black-clad voyeur in his black-clad masque
in the serpentine sun of tragedy basked
Stood there cursing at the soul-dead mass
with their fabled illusions, the vain dreams that passed
splinters of a life rushing by in the whirl
a lone, silent warrior in a fantasy world
He cried for night / but bnight could not come
so, swept in the shroud of Misanthropia
he went away
and fed the empty galleries
with the artifacts of the black rain
sunken into the shadows with a dry, sardonic smile
He made the footprints a part of his heart
to rouse a sacred confrontation
Stood there carving on the monument to lies
digging of the earth, making friends with the soil
as the all-mother rises and bares her bleeding thighs
For so long I tried to be like you
Pushed aside with no time to evolve
There's no place that still remains
Never deserted, space all left in gray
Why did we lose the knowledge of time?
Is this the price, the hell we pay?
The poisoned fear known to man
Is he who try to find his path
The collective force blaming you
This is a day we split in half
Thrown to the gallow, forgotten and sore
Sworn to be different in what way I can
The sultry taste that is special to me
The last gleeful glimpse of a bitter man in you
We're down and troubled in search for better days
We're back to the beginning, I'm at the end again
All of my time, compressed to itching moments
As the future repeats today
So impressed, I lost the faith in all I had
Broken down, I'm on my way to be dissolved
The hopes and prays of things to come
I've lost them all with glory
Why don't you aim for that short-lived joy?
I see gold and all that lies before me
So we ignore the beggars cup
Praise your act in the Grand Finale
Teach the unborn the winners sign
A welcome grin to the world Royal
We're down and troubled in search for better days
I'm back to the beginning, I'm at the end again
All of my time compressed to itching moments
As the future repeats today
Down and troubled in search for better days
Back to the beginning, I'm at the end again
All of my time, compressed to itching moments
Consume, just like a worm
Catch a glimpse of the sun through cracks
Everything, I swallow whole
And hide before the flood
The way I see things,
I wish they could be true
But take me all the way
The trail of the torment
Is not a path anymore
But take me for a ride
[Chorus:]
Delete the past, the fear
Delete the past, every step is pure
Delete the past from here, forward
Delete the past, every step is pure
Afraid of lost control
Still there's a part of me
That wants to feel insecure
Afraid of lost control
It keeps me on the edge
[Chorus]
The way I see things,
I wish they could be true,
But take me all the way
[Chorus]
Do angels fly higher in the dark?
Black is my mind when a new day has come
Black are the tears when I cry
Come here and take my hand, join this misery
The fallen angel set us free
[BRIDGE]
Do angels fly higher in the dark?
Do they crash down and fall apart?
[CHORUS]
Let's cut the wings away
and the angel has fallen again
Together in eternal flames
Where the cold razor cares
[Repeat]
[OH OH OH OH OH thing]
I do not care if you want to hurt me
Torture is ecstasy to me
You cut my wounds so deep, even deeper than your's
Like fallen angel without remorse
Yeah...
[CHORUS]
[BRIDGE]
[CHORUS X2]
Throw it all away
Until we are erased
But it doesn't mean a thing
And I can't remember
What the skies looked like
Will I find out
That I'm late for salvation?
What if tomorrow never comes?
Don't let it slip away
This is my world now
I can't let you bring me down
This new faith guide me through
Things will come my way
Put it down and join the lie
Then my eyes will see again
Gravity takes control
Don't forsake my troubled times
I'm starting to regret not telling you
All the things I should have
Roll the dice just one more time
Don't let it slip away
I will be reborn
I'm gonna take the world on
Someday I will
I'm gonna take the world on
Someday I will
Throw it all away
Afraid I will drift on the open sea
I regret not telling you
All the things I should have
Roll the dice just one more time
Don't let it slip away
Too many broken promises in her fragile life
Too many secret thoughts she tried to hide that night
So hard she tried to escape
But (the) pain was everywhere
No, take this pain away
Even for one day
She cried on her own grave
Please, demons set me free
My heart has started to bleed
I have become the queen misery
And it seems to last forever
She tried to reach to the stars all her life
But her mind fell apart every time
Hopeless times approach
Just give into the chaos
Strangely I find comfort here
Impatient and curious of what may come
And so the rampage begins
Against the headache I can't win
(Drain me)
Keep me in the dark
I don't want to take part
Prefer to be forever numb
Nothing great can come out of this
I'm a hostage to myself
I fear I might collapse on the razor's edge
And I fear I'll realize when it's too late
And so the rampage begins
Against the headache I can't win
(Drain me)
Keep me in the dark
I don't want to take part
Prefer to be forever numb
Sleepless again
I need to ease my mind
And kill what burns inside
Sleepless again
I can't win
(Drain me)
Keep me in the dark
I don't want to take part
Prefer to be forever numb
I often dream of huge numb buildings
jet-black sinister architecture
being installed when nobody sees
Their appearance so sudden
that few would take notice
And when I wake up
I imagine being crushed by one
imaginating it's weight it's silence
and the absence of excuses for a havoced life
and the priviledge of a 22-kilometers tombstone
Jotun
A body of black
that carried no reflection
defying it's own room
un-earthly egg of decreation
There would be colonies
mushroom-scattered forever out of content
rising spores from a dying world
to pollute and chase away what's left
Sun-white pulverised desert stone
and serpentine lizard mouths
Pales away the pyramids
rewriting 4500 years of history
raping the statue of liberty
outplays the acropolis
inverting the fjords
invades the... skyline to
dream its own existence in one single final word
Jotun
Can we identify them
as the flint buried in our reptile skulls
or the time-bomb coded in our dna
I can see it all
Against in my way
Before I end time
I close my eyes
It feels like a could find
A place in this mess
And I dream that I'm blind
And I'm weightless
When I become the sky
The earth, the moon,
The sun beneath me
This is letting go
I'm all over
I reach far and wide
I want to be the one
That believes
I feel like I'm
Part of this mess and I wish
That I'm weightless
When I become the sky
The earth, the moon,
The sun beneath me
This is letting go
I'm all over
I reach far and wide
The earth, the moon,
The sun beneath me
This is letting go
This is on my mind
When the world be mine
I can be as angry as i want to be
Just watch me burn
I think you're way to cold
Just watch and learn
I'll never sleep here anymore
My house is not my home
I like you better dead
And I'm better off alone
[Chorus:]
Destiny will you cure me?
Trust will you age with me?
Hear me scream
Destiny will you cure me?
Hear me scream
As I face tomorrow
Your vision may be in colour
But you look all pale
In these times we should be learning
But with you i'll always fail
[Chorus:]
I need to save myself before i drown
It took so long to see
The world your mind creates
It pushes me under
[Chorus:]
Your half-closed eyes
Yield to drowsiness
Tired of something
You won't ever look back
Sucked in by stagnation so dark
it chokes you leaving a mark
with each word you stay behind
so vulnerable mind
How could I hold on
When others pass away
Marching steadily on
Straight and endless way
None of them will holler
When their hearts quietly
Will burn out, will burn out
Will burn out!
Every one has a flame which burns eternally
And it heats from inside, adds vitality
Add some, some wood, let it light up high
Let it light the darkest crossroads' site
How could I hold on
When others pass away
Marching steadily on
Straight and endless way
None of them will holler
When their hearts quietly
Will burn out, will burn out
Will burn out!
But always remember!!!!
I always thought you'd be around
Never could of thought this would go down
You're all I ever wanted
You're everything I needed
I wish you would come back home
There's a place for us in history
Another time
It seems rough
Maybe I'm going down in flames
Know I love you more than life itself
This time it hurts so bad
Can't be helped
I just can't lay down by myself
There's a place for us in history
Another time
It seems rough
Bless the rain while I sleep
Guard my waking moments too
Let me be while I'm dead
It's just another fall
Another fall with no return
Drift aside to see it too
Who aligned that rose to you
In vein to die behind
To fall
To fall
Flames,
Wash away our sins before the judgement
In flames
Wash away our sins before the judgement
If we don't try to hold on,
We've all been lost in flames
Flames
Wipe away our dreams and leave us in darkness
If we don't try to hold on,
We've all been lost and heartless
Come closer with your death
Pull the weakness away from you
I'll inhale that bloody fate
A fate that shows our dawn
A bloody fate that shows the dawn
Let it all end up in tears
Throw away what is to come
Doesn't hurt so much to lie
To lie, to lie
In flames
Wash away our sins before the judgement
If we don't try to hold on,
We've all been lost in flames
Flames
Wipe away our dreams and leave us in darkness
If we don't try to hold on,
We've all been lost and heartless
Flames
Wash away our sins before the judgement
Before the judgement
In flames
Wash away our sins before the judgement
If we don't try to hold on,
We've all been lost in flames flames
Wipe away our dreams and leave us in darkness
If we don't try to hold on,
We've all been lost and heartless
(Heartless)
Wash away our sins before the judgement
If we don't try to hold on,
Step by step we are getting higher
throwing coals to rake the fire
Unable now to stop our course
No compromise we will face the fact
keep crushing or go down
Our time has come regrets are gone
(Chorus):
Hell be our future, heaven our past
Choose our side made a decision at last
Grinding togheter one stands for all
The unit is complete now togheter we will fall
Well prepared and fast as hell
you are now an easy prey
Now it is time to drop the ball
What has been is ending here
and now we take the chance
Standing togheter we can break a lance
(Chorus)
(Solo)
Step by step we are getting higher
throwing coals to rake the fire
Unable now to stop our course
No compromise we will face the fact
keep crushing or go down
Our time has come regrets are gone
(Chorus)
Destructive mannerisms take me down the rabbit hole
Now watch me as I tunnel deeper and I lose control
There's gotta be a painless way to take this where it's gonna go
I'm yelling louder then I ever have before...
Don't make me go down in flames
Don't make me
Don't make me go down like this...
In flames
Don't make me... Don't make me...
Go down like this... in flames
Your truthful words are spitting fire
Cut off from dreaming... now I'm screaming to go higher
And I don't... no I don't... wanna go back home!
Misunderstood By the universe
I'm hating what you said to me...
Your words will never get to me...
I'm only shooting higher... I'll set the sky on fire!
Don't make me go down in flames
Don't make me
Don't make me go down like this...
In flames
Don't make me... Don't make me...
Go down like this... in flames
The ice on my heart
Is making it hard
To start this spark
Don't give it the wind
Your oxygen
Is making it worse
Exhale with the right words...
So cold that your touch burns...
Is this love or a curse... ?
Is this love or a curse! ?
Don't make me go down in flames
Don't make me
Don't make me go down like this...
In flames
Don't make me... Don't make me... Go down
Don't make me go down in flames
Don't make me
Don't make me go down like this...
In flames
Don't make me... Don't make me...
Please just let me down
'Cause you know, I'm best when I'm alone
Please don't you follow me here
I can't breath when the air is so
Full of your fear
If I show you how to break a spell
Would you pour a ring with hate
And blame me as you fail
You always knew I acted like this
Why are your eyes so wide, you're knight
Say you don't exist -
But can't tell that I'm sad
And I still wonder why we're so bad
I gave it up, the? been hand
And I still wonder why we're so bad
It's hard to live a day of doubt
When I push away
You almost had me out
With you'll always see the dark,
Falling blindly down
We're breaking for a dime?
I beg you don't wait by my side
You are calling the stories
And all my awful lies
You never know your time to go,
But I'd be following the dirt
Now get me down bellow
But can't tell that I'm sad
And I still wonder why we're so bad
I gave it up, the? been hand
And I still wonder why we're so bad
I can't tell that I'm sad
And I still wonder why we're so bad
I gave it up, the? been hand
And I still wonder why we're so bad
I still wonder why we're so bad
I still wonder why we're so bad
I still wonder why we're so bad