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Highwater
03:34
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Come to me and abandon
The blissful life, you think you own
'Cause the truth is rarely pure and never simple
So, let me state
Do you think you can get a grasp
Of the world around you
Only by mere observation
Without shaping it into forms you appreciate
One needs a certain agenda
To lead the uncertain onto his path
Don't interfere in my plans and just relax
It will be over soon enough
Hold on to me and don't get carried away
By the changing tides and high water in your heart
The rising water from your tears
Can drown you anytime
While the love you give
Accelerates my own coming of age
So, calm down
And lay your emotions in my hands
I will lift you up and carry you over
To our golden cage
I need to be what you long for
But I'm not sure, if I want to need
Don't interfere in my plans and just relax
It will be over soon enough
Hold on to me and don't get carried away
By the changing tides
Baby it's a long way through the dark
I will stun you with my passion
I'm a flashbang for your heart
Why does it seem so hard for love to thrive
Poorly recycling pride and prejudice
For our private life
Don't you see the troubles in our path
It's not easy to find love
in such a crowded place
So, pack your bags and leave with me
I've got a place for you to see
In the darkness embracing our hearts
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2. |
Ascension
03:58
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The painful echoes of our past
My haunted memories
A castle never built to last
Is where I spend my dreams
And everywhere I want to hide
The walls come tumbling down
Delusions that I can't abide
So, in dark mist I drown
Until you leave me
Relieving the bale
Transfixing my soul
Free your heart from all the fears buried inside
And climb out of the sunless pit where you were supposed to die
Ascend the weary steps towards the throne you were denied
To claim your righteous place upon the tears that they will cry
Like diving through a lightless sea
I am ascending to the ground
A new life, never meant to be
Unleashed from where it once was bound
And every step I take, I think of how
I was thrown in this nightmare's realm
Contemplating how I could endow
Those who chained me in this hell
Until they leave me
Relieving the bale
Consuming my soul
Free your heart from all the fears buried inside
And climb out of the sunless pit where you were supposed to die
Ascend the weary steps towards the throne you were denied
To claim your righteous place upon the tears that they will cry
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3. |
Days in Light
05:08
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Consciousness slowly dies
Twisted by endless lies
I'm not sure
Where and who I am
The dust distorts the view
I haven't thought this through
But I'm drawn back, yeah, I'm drawn back
I'm drawn back to you
Sun burns away my skin
Draining the hope within
Sand swallows me like water
And I'm drowning in despair
This trip will take a while
Through the deadlands of my denial
I don't know where this will lead me to
But part of me is gone, oh gone
I'm sinking into this tarr pit
Wandering off from the light
Won't find refuge from my heartbeat
Leave me, where day's sin blinds me tonight
The sand is sticky as feathers
Burning cold on my skin
Hope disappeared from my vision
Your shallow guidance is still luring me in
You watch from higher spheres
Your views are hitting me like spears
And every step I want to take
You want to take me down
No feelings left inside
Lost's what I left behind
Or is the thing that I've been searching for the whole time
Just me, oh me
I'm sinking into this tarr pit
Wandering off from the light
Won't find refuge from my heartbeat
Leave me, where day's sin blinds me tonight
The sand is sticky as feathers
Burning cold on my skin
Hope disappeared from my vision
Your shallow guidance is still luring me in
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4. |
State of Nature
04:53
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The sun has set beyond the grasp of our hands
Alluring fog and shadows into our forsaken lands
And while we hide inside ourselves, we close our eyes
Remaining silent as we fear what might arise under the nightly skies
As darkness rolls
Over our modest homes
We start to feel the reoccurring doubt
That we won't live to see the dawn
You either fight or you will die alone
We are all slaves to our nature if we're on our own
Only united there's a chance for peace
If everyone has every right, no one is free
Do I hear whispers, silent steps or just the rain
How can I sleep if I'm not able to control if I will remain
My dreams are poisoned by frightful anticipation
Of revenge by those for whom I caused demise and devastation
As darkness rolls
Over our modest homes
We start to feel the reoccurring doubt
That we must fight to see the dawn
You either fight or you will die alone
We are all slaves to our nature if we're on our own
Only united there's a chance for peace
If everyone has every right, no one is free
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5. |
Whole
03:43
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Is there anyone in here
Or is it just the emptiness
Of pure existence? Disappeared
Is any trace of kind souls warmth
A cautious search through a heart-shaped cave
A stumbling through the black
No life, no death, an empty grave
No release and no attack
Silence surrounding and emptiness inside
My aims have all turned pointless
My love has no reply
Searching hope between the fragments
Of a broken soul
Without your grace I'm lost
Just a disrupted whole
The last spark's already faded
Gave place to dark and piercing cold
A heart that's sealed by walls of hatred
Within there's nothing to behold
And so I turn inside and ask myself
Why our love turned down
I feel too empty to give answers
I can not dissipate my doubts
Why do you turn away from me
While I'm always trying to be there for you
I need your fire to recover
Why do you let me climb the highest mountain
To throw me of a cliff
I'm fallen for you, so I fall in a hole
Silence surrounding and emptiness inside
My aims have all turned pointless
My love has no reply
Searching hope between the fragments
Of a broken soul
Without your grace I'm lost
Just a disrupted whole
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6. |
Invocation
05:42
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In my restless dreams, I see you walk in front of me
Near the lakeside of that shadow-coated town
Chasing you through my mind
Searching for you inside
The special place you told me 'bout
In a letter when we were not divided by sunlight
Footsteps down the hallway, silver moonlight glaring in
As your silhouette is looming in the dark
Listening for your soft voice
Reinsuring my choice
To overcome the captivating boundaries
Holding me back in this painful existence
Calling you through fog and blood
I invoke you, so our spirits shall be near
United in a fading dream
I'll give up everything to bring you back, my dear
Chasing eerie shadows into cellars down below
For they will guide me to forbidden sanctuaries
Grant me an audition
Absorbing your affliction
So I can sacrifice my mortal entity
As the final paraphernalium
And now, I can follow you into abyssal layers
Through gates, that don't allow for a retreat
Throw myself in hell's fire
Give my soul for your life
Letting me go throughout the never-ending night
Chased by the terrors I summoned
Calling you through fog and blood
I invoke you, so our spirits shall be near
United in a fading dream
I'll give up everything to bring you back, my dear
I gave my love for you, you're all around me
Corrupt my soul for you, you're all around me
Break sacred rights for you, you're all around me
I gave my life for you, you're all around me
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7. |
Lighthouse
04:44
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Allow me to address the thoughts of mine
About the waters down here cold and rough and wild
If I elude them once, they drown me twice
I'm far off course on brink of my demise
My only guidance here is just a beacon on my way
As I approach the coasts and all the shadows disappear
I'm sailing seas no one has found before
And I save my prayers since I know I'm not alone
And every mile that's taken here brings me closer to the storm
But the lighthouse carries me back home
I seek for new horizons on my sail
Regardless of the land you'd call my place
Not even there I'm able to return anymore
As every night the moon eclipses, nothing brings me home
My only guidance here is just a beacon on my way
As I approach the coasts and all the shadows disappear
I'm sailing seas no one has found before
And I save my prayers since I know I'm not alone
And every mile that's taken here brings me closer to the storm
But the lighthouse carries me back home
Allow me to address the thoughts of mine
About what I regard as symptoms of decline
Your light is seldom seen beneath the darkness of these days
It brightens up the fortune I dare to anticipate
Oh I'm sailing seas no one has found before
And I save my prayers since I know I'm not alone
And every mile that's taken here brings me closer to the storm
But the lighthouse carries me back home
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8. |
Apollo
05:46
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Lifting off from earth
We're flying towards the stars
Setting course for the great unknown
That's waiting in the dark
I wish you could have gone with me
For lonely is the space
Outside your orbit I have nothing
I could embrace
Didn't do it for you
Didn't do it for me
Supposed to do it
For humankind to succeed
In the self-made war against
Our brothers down on earth
The pale moon levitating
In the empty space
Constantly falling 'round the bastion
From where we've started our race
And while we're out here
Being the heroes, we must be
We feel the triumph of our victory
Against the enemy
Exiting the lander
Setting foot on our trabant
To claim for our glorious nation
All the land that lies beyond
And as I look up to the stars
Around our mother earth above
My heart convulses as I beg to
Return to you my…
Didn't do it for you
Didn't do it for me
Tried to only think
Altruistically
Knowing well, we could lose our lives
For egoistic men
The pale moon levitating
In the empty space
Constantly falling 'round the bastion
From where we've started our race
And while our allies
Celebrate our engineers
We send our rockets out
Towards new frontiers
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9. |
Solitary
05:07
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With all my feelings
And every thought
My body is drifting
Without command
Drawn into darkness
Collapsing night
A weird expression
Retracting height
A gleaming flicker
In stellar steams
Alike the lighthouse
Deep in my dreams
Why is there not a soul which tears away the shackles of my blight
Which sees me drowning in this vessel? I'm alone with mortal fright
While the waves are closing in upon my face
Adjacent yet so far, you're waiting patiently for my return
While I am suffocated by the thought of all I could not learn
If all my striving and my hopes would end out here
Fate has ordained
That the men who went to the moon to explore in peace
Will stay on the moon to rest in peace
These brave men
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin
Know that there is no hope for their recovery
But they also know
That there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice
These two men are laying down their lives
In mankind's most noble goal
The search for truth and understanding
In ancient days, men looked at stars
And saw their heroes in the constellations
In modern times, we do much the same
But our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood
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