The Toraja are an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Their population is approximately 650,000, of which 450,000 still live in the regency of Tana Toraja ("Land of Toraja"). Most of the population is Christian, and others are Muslim or have local animist beliefs known as aluk ("the way"). The Indonesian government has recognized this animist belief as Aluk To Dolo ("Way of the Ancestors").
The word toraja comes from the Bugis language's to riaja, meaning "people of the uplands". The Dutch colonial government named the people Toraja in 1909. Torajans are renowned for their elaborate funeral rites, burial sites carved into rocky cliffs, massive peaked-roof traditional houses known as tongkonan, and colorful wood carvings. Toraja funeral rites are important social events, usually attended by hundreds of people and lasting for several days.
Before the 20th century, Torajans lived in autonomous villages, where they practised animism and were relatively untouched by the outside world. In the early 1900s, Dutch missionaries first worked to convert Torajan highlanders to Christianity. When the Tana Toraja regency was further opened to the outside world in the 1970s, it became an icon of tourism in Indonesia: it was exploited by tourism developers and studied by anthropologists. By the 1990s, when tourism peaked, Toraja society had changed significantly, from an agrarian model — in which social life and customs were outgrowths of the Aluk To Dolo—to a largely Christian society.
I see the waves of sand
Big free, another land
Dreams within dreams, you are alive
They gave me their wings, I spread them wide
I'll move on to another place
From my memories unmade
I'll hold on and my heart will find you there
Love will shine free forever
Sun flames and moons glow
Timeless the tides will flow
What will I face? What will be mine?
Fortune and fate, the other side
I'll move on to another place
From my memories unmade
I'll hold on and my heart will find you there
The shadow of goodness covers the tear,
Takes the step to the one found.
Peace may, rock the cradle to sleep.
Hope remains, a way to love.
Take my longings and believe them
Light a candle if you know
I breath love, don't wanna be there
These are things I got to know
The magic seems so far
Don't know who they are
Let me go Minor Heaven
Cause my blood to run
Leave this place, unforgiven
Heal me with your sun
How can I come undone?
Let me know Minor Heaven
Light a way for me to walk on
From the ashes to the sky
Burn the thorns so I can hold on
Trust in me I know I'm right
You know it's gone too far
Leave them where they are
Let me go Minor Heaven
Cause my blood to run
Leave this place, unforgiven
Heal me with your sun
How can I come undone?
Let me know Minor Heaven
Even if nothing I'll become
Something I've been for all too long
Let me go Minor Heaven
Let me go Minor Heaven
Cause my blood to run
Leave this place, unforgiven
Heal me with your sun
How can I come undone?
I'm the one who leaves shadows
In your room at night
I'm the reason you're listening
Enlightening your eyes
When Pan meets Apollo
Down with the sin
They will send tears of angels
Though kindness won't win
Lost Northern star
Buried in sorrow
I'll guard your mind
Let demons howl outside
Where the calm fields of snow
Become one with the sky
I am there, I am waiting
As time passes by
I set up the weather
To suit how you feel
Drop rain down with wishes
Build grace out of steel
Lost Northern star
Buried in sorrow
I'll guard your mind
Let demons howl outside
My soul burns
My soul burns
Sending dream flakes your way
Painting pictures
To help you each day
Yet, you don't know I'm there
Lost Northern star
Buried in sorrow
I'll guard your mind
Let demons howl outside
Put all your angels on the edge
Keep all the roses, I'm not dead
I left a thorn under your bed
I'm never gone
Go tell the world I'm still around
I didn't fly, I'm coming down
You are the wind, the only sound
Whisper to my heart when hope is torn apart
And no one can save you
I walk alone
Every step I take, I walk alone
My winter storm holding me awake
It's never gone when I walk alone
Go back to sleep forever more
Far from your fools and lock the door
They're all around and they'll make sure
You don't have to see what I turned out to be
No one can help you
I walk alone
Every step I take, I walk alone
My winter storm holding me awake
It's never gone when I walk alone
Waiting up in heaven
I was never far from you
Spinning down I felt your every move
I walk alone
I walk alone
Every step I take, I walk alone
My winter storm holding me awake
Open up the night
Led by just a feeling
All around is light
Everything is healing
No more fate and no more mystery
Even as time falls away, I live my days
Every moment and its memory
Not only to survive to die alive
Overwhelming love
Heaven's just a feeling
Singing in my blood
Keeping me from kneeling
No more fate and no more mystery
Even as time falls away, I live my days
Every moment and its memory
Not only to survive to die alive
Die alive
No more fate and no more mystery
Even as time falls away, I live my days
Every moment and its memory
Not only to survive to die alive
Die alive
It won't help if you wait for me
I'm a slave to the dark
I know I'm not a saint, you see
The dawn is when it starts
Feel the shadow of my oblivion
Hoping mercy would show her face
On the road to your own perdition
In the coal-blackened rain
Frozen in time yearning forbidden wishes
Damned and divine, scars of my broken kisses
What will follow if tomorrow's blind?
My eternal night
As the wind takes me away from you
Before the morning light
My sins are fading into view
I'm so weary deep inside
Feel the shadow of my oblivion
Hoping mercy would show her face
On the road to your own perdition
I may see you again
Frozen in time yearning forbidden wishes
Damned and divine, scars of my broken kisses
What will follow if tomorrow's blind?
My eternal night
Frozen in time yearning forbidden wishes
Damned and divine, scars of my broken kisses
What will follow if tomorrow's blind?
My eternal night
In the dark captured in his frozen heart
Colors fade into gray
She tried so hard every word was torn apart
Shot her down with poisoned darts
Her tears made her swim beneath the sea
She's free
Calling grace, she'll never fall again
Love remains in her
Softly, her inner voice has learned to speak
Following her dreams
Her tears made her swim beneath the sea
She's free
Calling grace, she'll never fall again
Love remains in her
Calling grace, she will rise again
The streets are empty, inside it's warm
His hands are shaking, they locked the door
A voice is calling asking to get in
All he wanted was a toy
All he needed was a gentle heart
To lead him through the dark
When his dreams are running wild
Boy and the ghost, fire's not burning
The lights went out, the lights went out
Big family dinner, the untold tale
Their eyes are sparkling on his frozen face
Angel's calling asking to get in
All he wanted was a toy
All he needed was a gentle heart
To lead him through the dark
When there's nowhere left to fall
Boy and the ghost, his eyes are burning
The lights went out, the dream is on
Wake up, wake up, there's an angel in the snow
Look up, look up, it's a frightened dead boy
With so much hate, such bad dreams
He could have seen the toy's the key
But no one saw, no one saw
All he wanted was a toy
All he needed was a bleeding heart
To lead him through the dark
Boy and the ghost
Despero, solitas, debilis, desolo
Despero, solitas, debilis, desolo
When there's nowhere left to fall
Nowhere to hide, his silence is hurting
Inside it's cold, sleep or die
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide
Your cruel device
Your blood like ice
One look could kill
My pain, your thrill
I wanna love you but I better not touch
(Don't touch)
I wanna hold you but my senses tell me to stop
I wanna kiss you but I want it too much
(Too much)
I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison
You're poison
Running through my veins
You're poison
I don't wanna break these chains
Your mouth, so hot
Your web, I'm caught
Your skin, so wet
Black lace on sweat
I hear you calling and it's needles and pins
(And pins)
I wanna hurt you just to hear you screamin' my name
Don't wanna touch you but you're under my skin
(Deep in)
I wanna kiss you but your lips are venomous poison
You're poison
Running through my veins
You're poison
I don't wanna break these chains
One look could kill
My pain, your thrill
I wanna love you but I better not touch
(Don't touch)
I wanna hold you but my senses tell me to stop
I wanna kiss you but I want it too much
(Too much)
I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison
You're poison
Running through my veins
You're poison
I don't wanna break these chains
I wanna love you but I better not touch
I wanna hold you but my senses tell me to stop
I wanna kiss you but I want it too much
I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison
You're poison
Running through my veins
You're poison
Dark blue sea, calling me
Songs of waves, keep me safe
Sky's so deep, there's no end
The moon still asleep, the bed of stars for me
How can I see through your eyes my destiny?
I fall apart, you bleed for me
How can I see through your eyes our worlds collide?
Open your heart, to close our great divide
Distant prayers, carved in stone
The silent words they will still be heard
How can I see through your eyes my destiny?
I fall apart, you bleed for me
How can I see through your eyes our worlds collide?
Open your heart, to close our great divide
How can I see through your eyes my destiny?
I fall apart, you bleed for me
So I just float with the tide through the night I pass you by
Gracefully she's circling higher
She has the wind beneath her wings
And looks down on us, she said
Robbed of my innocence
Had no more time to play
I sure got my feathers burned
But I'm stronger than the flames
Here she comes, here she comes
I've been waiting for so long
Here she comes, rose again from the flames
My little phoenix
Eternity is set in her eyes
Throwing sparks back at the world
That'll never die and I think
She was robbed of her innocence
Had no more time to play
She's only a little girl
But she's stronger than the flames
Here she comes, here she comes
I've been waiting for so long
Here she comes, rose again from the flames
My little phoenix
Here she comes, I've been waiting
For my little phoenix
You've got to get close to the flame
To see what it's made of
You've got to get close to the flame
To see what you are made of
Here she comes, here she comes
I've been waiting for so long
Here she comes, rose again from the flames
Whenever I wake up
I'm lost and always afraid
It's never the same place
I close my eyes to escape
The walls around me
And I drift away
Inside the silence
Overtakes the Pain
In my dreams
I feel Immortal
I am not scared
No, I am not scared
I feel immortal
When I am there
When I am there
Whenever I wake up
The shards of us cut within
Always the same day
Frozen all in the fringe
I surrender to the sleep
And leave the hurt behind me
There's no more death to fear
In my dreams
I feel Immortal
I am not scared
No, I am not scared
I feel immortal
When I am there
When I am there
So far or right beside me
So close but they can't find me
Slowly, time forgets me
I'm lonely, only dreaming
I feel Immortal
I am not scared
No, I am not scared
I feel immortal
When I am there
When I am there
I feel immortal
I won't help if you wait for me.
I'm a slave to the dark.
I know I'm not a saint, you see.
The dawn is when it starts.
Feel the shadow of my oblivion hoping mercy would show her face
on the road to your own perdition in the coal-blackened rain.
Frozen in time yearning forbidden wishes.
Damned and divine.
Scars of my broken kisses.
What will follow if tomorrow's blind?
My eternal night.
As the wind takes me away from you before the morning light.
My sins are fading into view I'm so weary deep inside
Feel the shadow of my oblivion hoping merey would show her face
on the road to your own perdilion I may see you again.
Frozen in time yearning forbidden wishes.
Damned and divine.
Scars of my broken kisses.
What will follow if tomorrow's blind?
My eternal night.
Take all your black arrows
they can not harm no more
fantasies locked up
in your dungeon
take all your black arrows
they can not harm no more
The universe is watching her
an evil curse lies on her heart
a chariot, pulled by crows
trying to tear her hope apart.
Confined in sin
I can hear the moon is crying
as it spells out your name
(spells out your name)
all the stars are up there sighing
saying you come back again
Behind the darkest lullaby
they kept their wishes hidden well
the moon had tied a secret bond
where they could be one again
Confined in sin
I can hear the moon is crying
as it spells out your name
(spells out your name)
all the stars are up there sighing
saying you come back again
Love, stronger than hatred,
stronger than anyone
her heart is gone
take all your black arrows
they can not harm no more
Take all your black arrows
they can not harm no more
We're walking in the air
We're floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly
I'm holding very tight
I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly so high above with you
Far across the world
The villages go by like trees
The rivers and the hills
The forests and the streams
Children gaze open mouth
Taken by suprise
Nobody down below believes their eyes
We're surfing in the air
We're swimming in the frozen sky
We're drifting over ice
As mountains floating by
Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep
Arousing of a mighty monster from its sleep
We're walking in the air
We're floating in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us, greets us as we fly
And everyone who sees us, greets us as we fly
We're walking in the air
The winter left her blanket here this morning
A soft and gentle coverlet of white
Unfolded in the shadows of the dawn
It sparkled in the early morning light
You would have loved this
You would have loved this
This was your favorite time of day
The greenery is laid across the mantle
And ornaments are hanging on the tree
And cradled in the windowsill's a candle
A beacon in the night to call you back to me
You would have loved this
You always loved this
I know you loved this time of year
And though I understand
One day again I'll see you
I long to touch your hand,
Hear your voice, feel you
You would have loved this
You always loved this
Drifting... words without meaning
Twisting... through the dark concealing
Search again, your reflection lives within.
Shades of the labyrinth
The path lies ahead
If you believe
Truth her name is honesty
Let her shine through your darkest temptation
Hidden deep
In sincerity
With your painted smile
So revealing
Tarnished yet there's no fear in me
Feeding the flower that dies
Is a ray of light
Is a ray of light
Roaming... colours they were sleeping
Senses... they are never-ending
Find again the beauty in the suffering
Shades of labyrinth
The path lies ahead
If you believe
Truth her name is honesty
Let her shine through your darkest temptation
Hidden deep
In sincerity
With your painted smile
So revealing
Tarnished yet there's no fear in me
Feeding the flower that dies
Is a ray of light
[2009 re-release bonus track]
Blue skies, rivers of gold
Bring to my heart
The stories of old
I remember the way to begin
Lead by all my grace
And a brave hand of peace
The air will lift us, our hearts a gift as
We feel the release
The breaking of dawn
I see the wind and the breeze
Will carry us home,
Joining us all in unified love
The sweetness of peace
More precious than gold,
The tender compassion
That gives elation as we behold
Break of dawn is coming,
With wisdom, wind and breeze,
Touching on the seas.
So here in our hearts
Lay way to our home
Where all find comfort,
Blue skies, rivers of gold
The sweetness of peace
More precious than gold,
The tender compassion
That gives elation as we behold
Break of dawn is coming,
With wisdom, wind and breeze,
Touching on the seas.
So here in our hearts
Lay way to our home
Where all find comfort,
Ego selfish Prima Donna
Dancing in your poisoned cage
Thinking that your conscience's clearer
If you drink your dreams away
Feed your anger to the devil
In your self built wishing well
Take a swim in muddy waters
All the dirt will leave a trail
Had enough symphonies of sorrow
The beasts of prey a breath away
Masterpiece of treachery
Build a wall and make me crumble
Just because I am in love
Don't you cry now look at all the
Dolls and toys that you have got
Smashed the mirror of perversion
With the dagger that you made
Mirror, mirror, is there someone
who can make your day today?
Had enough symphonies of sorrow
The beasts of prey a breath away
I've had enough symphonies of sorrow
Beasts of prey one breath away
Masterpiece of treachery
Kept my thoughts buried in a box
With each shot I still kept it locked
You drew a play written with my blood
Went ahead just to feed the lot
I've had enough symphonies of sorrow
The beasts of prey a breath away
I've had enough symphonies of agony
Beasts of prey one breath away
When you look to the past for life's long hidden meaning
For the dreams and the plans made in your youth
Does the thrill to achieve match the warm hidden feeling
That lies so still and lives in you
In the eyes of a child there is joy, there is laughter
There is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future
For the lessons of life, there is no better teacher
Than the look in the eyes of a child
You've found the place to walk the path you've chosen
You'll never miss the world you left behind
When life gives life, it's happiness unbroken
When you give love, it's love you'll find
In the eyes of a child there is joy, there is laughter
There is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future
For the lessons of life, there is no better teacher
Than the look in the eyes of a child
In the eyes of a child, there is joy, there is laughter
There is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future
For the lessons of life, there is no better teacher
Than the look in the eyes of a child
In the eyes of a child, there is joy, there is laughter
There is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future
For the lessons of life, there is no better teacher
In the night I feel the cold of my loneliness
Cold that embraces my heart
Draining my strength to fight
Only to breathe this suffering
Tell me why?
Why must I bear this cross
So heavy for my soul?
Please hold me in your love
I am the keeper of his heart
I was sent to take care of his sweetness
Never I'll forget his love
Never I'll forget the light
That shone in his eyes
Let me fly, let me be free
To stay with him beyond this life
Run across the sky
Let me see the sun again
Let me die
Give me the light
I'm waiting for death to knock on my door to release my pain
My sadness in the night
Let me die
Give me the light
I'm waiting for death to knock on my door, to release my pain
My sadness in the night, forevermore
Every day I dream of sunlight in my dark room
I want to find a reason why
Justify my reason to stay alive
Within this pain
Tell me why?
Why must I bear this cross
So heavy for my soul?
Please hold me in your love
Let me die
Give me the light
I'm waiting for death to knock on my door, to release my pain
My sadness in the night
Let me die
Give me the light
I'm waiting for death to knock on my door, to release my pain
My sadness in the night
Let me die
Give me the light
I'm waiting for death to knock on my door, to release my pain
Violent hands
Come at midnight
Hold me down
I can't make a sound
In their arms
Still unwanted
Crave the child
Be forever wiled
Stranger, danger
Release me
Mercy's hiding
It let me go, hurts to know
Mercy's watching
Watching me drowning
In rivers of lust
Morning sun
Break the shelter
Turn back time
Wash away my crime
Betrayer, slayer
Release me
Mercy's hiding
It let me go, hurts to know
Mercy's watching
Watching me drowning
In rivers of lust
Mercy's hiding
It let me go, hurts to know
Mercy's watching
Watching me drowning
Mercy's hiding
It let me go, hurts to know
Mercy's watching
Watching me drowning
In rivers of lust
Found at noon
I cut my heart, a gift to you
You leave salt in my wound
You are inside my wall of thoughts
But in yours I'm unknown
My desperation finds a book of heroes gone
Legends tell about a saviour wise and strong
I'm burning at the stake of love, the flames get tall
And in my anguish he's the last resort to call
And suddenly, my seer is on my side
Bringing love while forgetting his pride
In his eyes I see there'll be better times along my way
Nothing to fear
Nothing to fear
Why is it called Elysian Fields
When love builds only grief
All your agony and pain
Stays the same till you see
That destination shows you legends long extinct
Rumours are told about a hero kind and skilled
I'm burning at love's stake and that's the end I feel
But suddenly my seer is on my side
Bringing love while forgetting his pride
In his eyes I see there'll be better times along my way
As he longs to speak to me
I realise the reflection while listening
His words mend all my wounds, cause he is me
My seer lives inside of me
When suddenly, my seer is on my side
Bringing love while forgetting his pride
In his eyes I see there'll be better times along my way
Nothing to fear
My seer is near
There's nothing to fear
My seer is near
So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so Happy Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
War is over
If you want it
War is over
War is over
If you want it
War is over
Misty cold nights
You'll hear her sigh
And sing bitter
sweet lullabies
For years she prayed
The saints would cast
a spell for the
forest to let her go
She sings
She dreams
She prays
She sings
she plays...
she stays...
Ahh Ahhhh
Ahh Ahhhh
The black old well
Holds ancient tales
And makes all wishes come true
So throw your dream
Into the dark
No more champagne
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling blue
It's the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike yesterday
Now's the time for us to say
Happy new year
Happy new year
Al brindar, les deseamos de ahora en más
Paz, amor en donde reine la amistad
Happy new year
Happy new year
Al rogar, esperanza de cambiar
Sin dejar al desaliento dominar
Y triunfar
Y cuando veo ese mundo que vendrá
Nuevo al fin, llegará
De ceniza surgirá
Gente equivocada
Que pretende estar muy bien
Se los ve, arrastrar
Pies de barro y caminar
Sin saber por dónde andar
Happy new year
Happy new year
Al rogar, esperanza de cambiar
Sin dejar al desaliento dominar
Y así triunfar
Seems to me now
That the dreams we had before
Are all dead, nothing more
Than confetti on the floor
Es el tiempo pasado
Y en los años que vendrán
¿Quién podrá predecir
Qué depara el porvenir
Qué nos falta por vivir?
Happy new year
Happy new year
Al brindar, les deseamos de ahora en más
Paz, amor en donde reine la amistad
Happy new year
Happy new year
Al rogar, esperanza de cambiar
Sin dejar al desaliento dominar
Take my faith with an open hand
And warm embrace my confidant
Use my words, take the good away
And leave the worst to sell me out
Little lies, little lies
Making up tragedies
Nothing is what it seems
Who cares what is real
Little lies, little lies
Only to entertain
The message is all the same
For those who believe
Feed the flames empty wishes
With no room to blame my sacrifice
Deep inside there is nothing
Left to stand behind but little lies
Little lies, little lies
Making up tragedies
Nothing is what it seems
Who cares what is real
Little lies, little lies
Only to entertain
The message is all the same
For those who believe
Little lies, little lies
Little lies
Little lies, little lies
Making up tragedies
Nothing is what it seems
Who cares what is real
Little lies, little lies
Only to entertain
The message is all the same
Phantom voices with no words to follow
At the mercy of the cold and hollow
I withdrew into my sanctuary of silence
My defence
In this moment I am just becoming
Liberated from my cell of nothing
No sensation there was only breathing
Overcome oblivion
Falling Awake
From a walking sleep
And all that remains
Is the dying memory
And now I can dive for
These dreams I make
Like I am Falling
I am falling awake
Waves of melodies once forgotten
Like a symphony across the ocean
Never knew that they could hear my calling
Deep within
Crashing in
Rushing in
Like falling
Falling Awake
From a walking sleep
And all that remains
Is the dying memory
And now I can dive for
These dreams I make
Like I am Falling
I am falling awake
There is no returning to that emptiness,
Loneliness
The dream that lives inside of me
Won't fade away, it's wide awake
Falling Awake
From a walking sleep
And all that remains
Is the dying memory
And now I can dive for
These dreams I make
Like I am Falling
They came for him one winter's night.
Arrested, he was bound.
They said there'd been a robbery,
his pistol had been found.
They marched him to the station house,
he waited for the dawn.
And as they led him to the dock,
he knew that he'd been wronged.
"You stand accused of robbery,"
he heard the bailiff say.
He knew without an alibi,
tomorrow's light would mourn his freedom.
Over the hills and far away,
for ten long years he'll count the days.
Over the mountains and the seas,
a prisoner's life for him there'll be.
He knew that it would cost him dear,
but yet he dare not say.
Where he had been that fateful night,
a secret it must stay.
He had to fight back tears of rage.
His heart beat like a drum.
For with the wife of his best friend,
he spent his final night of freedom.
Over the hills and far away,
he swears he will return one day.
Far from the mountains and the seas,
back in her arms again he'll be.
Over the hills and far away.
Over the hills and,
over the hills and,
over the hills and far away.
Each night within his prison cell,
he looks out through the bars.
He reads the letters that she wrote.
One day he'll know the taste of freedom.
Over the hills and far away,
she prays he will return one day.
As sure as the rivers reach the seas,
back in his arms again she'll be.
Over the hills and far away,
he swears he will return one day.
Far from the mountains and the seas,
Even in my darkest times
Overcome with worry
Find the comfort in the storm
No reason to be sorry
Look inside for a place to hide
All around the faithless wait full of expectations
They will never see the beauty in the imperfections
The more I show
The less they know
Out of reach
Underneath
Learned to breath
Underneath
Something inside of me
Invisible turning the fragile
Unbreakable
But they cannot take away
They cannot take away
What I believe
You cannot take away
Cannot take away
What's underneath
Every little cut runs deep
Masked in my tomorrow
Bringing wisdom that I need for all the time I borrow
My other side is left behind
Out of reach
Underneath
Learned to breath
Underneath
Something inside of me
Invisible turning the fragile
Unbreakable
But they cannot take away
They cannot take away
What I believe
You cannot take away
Cannot take away
Burning out in the distance you're falling
Starting to fade
Light is condemned to be tied down
By gravity close to the end
Do you still remember?
Before the weight that pulled you under
Dared you to rise
Where are you now?
Are you proud of the life you wasted?
Wearing the crown of illusion you created
You'll never know what it feels like to shine
You're the master in your own mind
But a slave to all, you are a dark star
Empty is never enough
You keep clawing for what you can't reach
Smothering space filled without any grace
And I can't breathe
Nothing lasts forever
Even the stars will lose their luster
Returning to dust
Where are you now?
Are you proud of the life you wasted?
Wearing the crown of illusion you created
You'll never know what it feels like to shine
You're the master in your own mind
But a slave to all, you are a dark star
Dark star, dark star
Dark star, dark star
Where are you now?
Are you proud of the life you wasted?
Wearing the crown of illusion you created
You'll never know what it feels like to shine
You're the master in your own mind
But a slave to all, you are a dark star
Where are you now?
Are you proud of the life you wasted?
Wearing the crown of illusion you created
You'll never know what it feels like to shine
You're the master in your own mind
But a slave to all, you are a dark star
Dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark
This is me for forever
One of the lost ones
The one without a name
Without an honest heart as compass
This is me for forever
One without a name
These lines the last endeavor
To find the missing lifeline
Oh how I wish
For soothing rain
All I wish is to dream again
My loving heart
Lost in the dark
For hope I'd give my everything
My flower, withered between
The pages 2 and 3
The once and forever bloom gone with my sins
Walk the dark path
Sleep with angels
Call the past for help
Touch me with your love
And reveal to me my true name
Oh how I wish
For soothing rain
All I wish is to dream again
My loving heart
Lost in the dark
For hope I'd give my everything
Oh how I wish
For soothing rain
Oh how I wish to dream again
Once and for all
And all for once
Nemo my name forevermore
Nemo sailing home
Nemo letting go
Oh how I wish
For soothing rain
All I wish is to dream again
My loving heart
Lost in the dark
For hope I'd give my everything
Oh how I wish
For soothing rain
Oh how I wish to dream again
Once and for all
And all for once
Nemo my name forevermore
How cold is the heart
My world is on fire
How deep is the mark
When you leave and your dream turn to water
I let myself feel
I'm wishing for something real
We are
We are
Chasing a shadow
We are
We are
Lost in the shame
You try to hide only to reach out
It's too late
With a smile you move on
Every fear left unspoken
There was hope
Now it's gone
So believe there is love in the open
You just have to let go and turn into something real
We are
We are
Chasing a shadow
We are
We are
Lost in the shame
You try to hide only to reach out
It's too late
Break the shade
See your hate
Black flames
No names
Who are you?
Janette said.
We are
We are
Chasing a shadow
We are
We are
Lost in the shame
You try to hide only to reach out
Dream against the flow
Let your garden grow
Over land and water
Feel your borders
Walking right into the sun
No fear of the ending
Find new beginning
Over another lonely star
Walking right into the sun
All my sweetest doors
Let them help you out
My emotion
Parted ocean
Walking right into the sun
Don't feel/fear the ending
Find the beginning
Over another lonely star
Brighter than who you are
Where do we go from here
It's dragging you under
Nothing could be more clear
When you are the hunter
Is that a dream to die for?
The price, you keep it
Out of the light
Nothing can shine
Left in the dark
Far from their eyes
Under black water
There is no halo
Only the hunger
And you're in for a kill
You and your twisted minds
It's making us shiver
How can we be so blind?
The fear you deliver
It's all a grand illusion
The drink, you keep it
Out of the light
Nothing can shine
Left in the dark
Far from their eyes
Under black water
There is no halo
Only the hunger
And you're in for a kill
It's all a grand illusion
The drink, you keep it
Out of the light
Nothing can shine
Left in the dark
Far from their eyes
Under black water
There is no halo
Only the hunger
And you're in for a kill
You're in for a kill
Under black water
There is no halo
Only the hunger
She hears the distant soft caress
There in the gloom.
Colors surround with tenderness
Guiding her through.
In the forgotten sweet abyss
Another sound
Twilight floating memories
Always without.
Gloaming
There above the surface
An illusion
Reaching down for me.
What lies beneath
Beyond the ocean's door
Tranquil is the kiss
Of the azure rising deep
Sleeping ever more
Naiad's mystery
What lies beneath.
Guarding their immorality
Saints in the sand.
Stranger than beautiful eerie
An ancient land
Circle of sixteen turned to stone
And still they keep
Shimmering crystal promises
One space between.
Gloaming
There above the surface
An illusion
Reaching down for me.
What lies beneath
Beyond the ocean's door
Tranquil is the kiss
Of the azure rising deep
Sleeping ever more
Naiad's mystery
What lies beneath.
What lies beneath
Beyond the ocean's door
Tranquil is the kiss
Of the azure rising deep
Sleeping ever more
Naiad's mystery
What lies beneath.
Breathing the newborn waves.
Kneeling for the sea she became.
What lies beneath
Beyond the ocean's door
Tranquil is the kiss
Of the azure rising deep
Sleeping ever more
Naiad's mystery
What lies beneath.
It's getting hard to breathe
Darkness in my head frightens me
There's a little devil in my mouth
Writing ugly words for you to shout
The virgin soul that lived in me
Is raped by insecurity
I need you to sing
Sing for me my love
Sing the right from wrong
Here inside my mind
Truth is hard to find
It's getting too crowded here
All alone and playing with my fear
I don't want this anymore
I've tied myself down to the floor
I need you to sing
Sing for me my love
Sing the right from wrong
Here inside my mind
Truth is hard to find
SONO MIHI
Sing for me
Sing for me my love
Sing...
Sing for me my love
Sing the right from wrong
Here inside my mind
Two faced drama rebellion
Are you the Joker, King or Queen?
Place your cards as they're coming
Came to win
Lost everything
Gambling rider pull the strings
Pull them tighter
Let them in
Come and play another day
Throw your mask away
I don't care what you say
Cause your lovely words decay
Come and play another day
Welcome to the anteroom of death
Hide your conspiracies so
Who's got the keys
And who has not?
Sell your fortune to me
Cause I can still read behind all that
Burn your fingers
Trade a dream
Watch the clock as it's ticking
Come and play another day
Throw your mask away
I don't care what you say
Cause your lovely words decay
Come and play another day
Welcome to the anteroom of death
Blinded in the dark
I'm touching the scars of tainted hearts
If you're searching
Learn to see
Honesty is all you need
Take a bow
Finally
Watch the clock 'cause it's ticking and ticking ticking tock
Watch the clock 'cause it's ticking and ticking ticking tock
Are you joker, king or queen?
To face drama rebellion
Are you joker, king or queen?
Came to win
Are you joker, king or queen?
Came to win
Lost everything
Come and Play (come and play)
Another day (another day)
I don't care what you say
Because your lovely words decay
Come on and play another day
Throw your mask away
Welcome to the Anteroom of Death
Don't bring writers
Pull the strings
Pull them tighter
Let them in
Burn your fingers
Trade a dream
Come on in, come on in, come on in, come on in
Come and play another day
Throw your mask away
I don't care what you say
Cause your lovely words decay
Come and play another day
In the Still of the Night
I hear the wolf howl, honey
Sniffing around your door
In the Still of the night
I feel my heart beating heavy
Telling me I gotta have more
In the shadow of night
I see the full moon rise
Telling me what's in store
My heart start aching
My body start a shaking
An' I can't take no more
Now I just wanna get close to you
An' taste your love so sweet
An' I just wanna make love to you
Feel your body heat
In the Still of the Night
In the Still of the Night
In the heat of the day
I hang my head down low
An' hide my face from the sun
Through the light of the day
Until the evening time
I'm waiting for the night to come
In the Still of the Night
In the cool moonlight
I feel my heart is aching
In the Still of the Night
In the Still of the Night
I hear the wolf howl, honey
Sniffing around your door
In the Still of the night
I feel my heart beating heavy
Telling me I gotta have more
Now I just wanna get close to you
An' taste your love so sweet
An' I just wanna make love to you
Feel your body heat
Cannot cry it loud enough
I'm giving up this ghost
How can I still justify
When you deny my voice
In this nothing, I'm not allowed
I just follow alone
Words as weapons without a sound
Echoes dying unborn
Until my last breath
You'll never know
Until you feel the silence
When I am gone
Now it's vanishing everything
What we might have been
Only now your prays call my name
But you won't see again
Who can change this memory?
Inside it needs to burn
Worship by the enemy
The guilty take their turns
Watching as it's disappearing
Shadows all that remain
Wishes slowly crossing over
In this parade of pain
Until my last breath
You'll never know
Until you feel the silence
When I am gone
Now it's vanishing everything
What we might have been
Only now your prays call my name
But you won't see again
Until my last breath
You'll never know
Until you feel the silence
When I am gone
Now it's vanishing everything
What we might have been
Only now your prays call my name
But you won't see again
Until my last breath
Once, you dreamed of me
Twice, you wished that I'd pull you out
You chose your life
And put me down
Still you don't understand
What you have dreamed
Is not what I am
So far
Let me be the one
Please understand me how i am
But i dont want to walk alone
I need your hands to warm my soul
I'll do my best
To become your love
I'll try
To fill the emptiness in our hearts
So tired of being alone
I want to feel
I'm scared of swimming in the sea
Dark shapes moving under me
Every fear I swallow makes me small
Inconsequential things occur
Alarms are triggered
Memories stir
It's not the way it has to be
I'm afraid of what I do not know
I hate being undermined
I'm afraid I can be devil man
And I'm scared to be divine
Don't mess with me, my fuse is short
Beneath this skin these fragments caught
When I allow it to be
There's no control over me
I have my fears
But they do not have me
Walking through the undergrowth
To the house in the woods
The deeper I go, the darker it gets
I peer through the window
Knock at the door
And the monster I was so afraid of
Lies curled up on the floor
Is curled up on the floor just like a baby boy
I cry until I laugh
I'm afraid of being mothered
With my balls shut in the pen
I'm afraid of loving women
And I'm scared of loving men
Flashbacks coming in every night
Don't tell me everything's all right
When I allow it to be
It has no control over me
I own my fear
So it doesn't own me
Walking through the undergrowth
To the house in the woods
The deeper I go, the darker it gets
I peer through the window
Knock at the door
And the monster I was so afraid of
Lies curled up on the floor
Is curled up on the floor just like a baby boy
Life in bloom, the sweetest season
The warm embrace gave me the meaning
Another time, a cross to carry
Cruel facade imaginary
I don't belong
There's no going back
what we used to be
There's no room for us
no place for me
Never enough, never enough
No, never enough, never enough
I gave it all
You still want more
A child's game, the search for reason
A coldest day, I stopped believing
Another war, my endless laughter
A storyline is all they're after
I don't belong
There's no going back
what we used to be
There's no room for us
no place for me
Never enough, never enough
No, never enough, never enough
I gave it all
You still want more
There's no going back
what we used to be
There's no room for us
no place for me
Never enough, never enough
No, never enough, never enough
I gave it all
Welcome to my Mystique Voyage -
An inner trip to fantasy, freedom and love.
A conquest of fear, lonesomess and dislike.
Welcome to my world!
Do you see them flying?
Signs are never lying.
Journey to the east will show
What the Seven Wonders know.
Live without finding,
Search without learning.
When I face the endless sea
One mystery's revealed.
Zarpa el barco al llamado del mar.
Su alma navega más sin encontrar.
A la mar espera la tormenta
Con los fantasmas del coral.
Where the breeze is welcoming me
Home will always be.
Va la niña, al llamado del mar
Cabellos de agua y piernas de sal.
Mejor deja el puerto, no olviden
Que no anclarse a morir.
Zarpa el barco al llamado del mar.
Su alma navega mas sin encontrar.
A la mar espera la tormenta
Com los fantasmas del coral.
Va la niña, al llamado del mar
Cabellos de agua y piernas de sal.
Mejor deja el puerto, no olviden
Black eyes and hardly breathing
When there's no light
You sacrifice Alone, a monster living
You lost the fight before the fall
How did you end up in hell?
Hysterical, tragical Victim of ritual
Cynical, critical Victim of ritual
Ooohhh Ooohhh
She's a killer, killer
Ooohhh Ooohhh
She's a killer, killer
Cold eyes, for every seeing
They try to hide, in thin disguise
Denied your soul from singing
The darkest night, the night you died
How did you end up in hell?
Hysterical, tragical Victim of ritual
Cynical, critical Victim of ritual
Ooohhh Ooohhh
She's a killer, killer
Ooohhh Ooohhh
She's a killer, killer
Pandemonium, where's your heart from?
Pandemonium, where's your heart from?
Hysterical, tragical Victim of ritual
Cynical, critical Victim of ritual
Ooohhh Ooohhh
She's a killer, killer
Ooohhh Ooohhh
500 letters from a stranger at my door
500 letters words like stars no one can see
It felt so innocent, a childish game
Lines of poetry without a name
Waves of paranoia washed upon the page
And soon obsession turned to rage
Why do you love me?
Why do you want to have me?
500 letters from a stranger at my door
500 weapons I can't take it anymore
500 letters words like stars no one can see
500 secrets slowly killing me
At the mercy of a violent hand
Drawing images in my head
I can't escape the way I feel inside
In every shadow just a breath behind
Why do you love me?
Why do you want to have me?
500 letters from a stranger at my door
500 weapons I can't take it anymore
500 letters words like stars no one can see
500 secrets slowly killing me
They found the final letter lying by his side
A smile was on his face, cold as ice
One last message written only for me
"Now you won't forget
I see you in your dreams"
500 letters from a stranger at my door
500 weapons I can't take it anymore
500 letters words like stars no one can see
Far from the light to reach beneath a veil of mist
Countless stories were left to rest in peace
Darkened and calm
The grave uncared
Once a haven filled with hope
The archive of lost dreams
We send our inner fears for the ocean to score
Waiting it takes them all away from the shore
Deepest beliefs from billions of souls
Longing for our wishes to find a way back home
Aah... Naiad
The last one in the unknown
The keeper of our written dreams
Aah... Promises
None of them were left behind
She blessed them with her kiss
See.
Hear and feel
The miracle of life
Believe the signs and trust you'll stay alive
Descend to find the depth of your heart
Mysterious Naiad
Now the circle's closed forever
Aah... Naiad
The archive is gone
Sometimes I see the pulse
numb I feel,
so unreal.
Blood on my lips I taste the heavy lead.
What can I find behind the mirror,
I'll never know.
Who s the reflection within?
Should I frame for you the other world?
Another world?
I've heard the voices of Elysium.
The scent of a sudden wish,
never there, everywhere.
Read me the space in-between.
Sharp is the edge of all discovery,
now I see.
A scar without suffering, impossible.
I'll wait until my last day
with no shame.
Who's to blame?
Shaping the signs left for me.
Come to me
I cried
I need you.
I am seeking
the gates unfold inside
my lost soul
in the dark.
Far beneath my breath
I'm burning
at my core.
Show me how
let me see beyond
I will find