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Aquarius
04:11
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Tales say there are Things out there,
which have been gone
for thousands of years
In the dark and deep water
They Took the heart of a Fisherman
And In the days to come
It will be his turn to be
a new voice of the Ocean
Its Not every day
that a fisherman dies for love
But my father was different
He saw what he saw
Beauty under the big blue foam.
Dreamers aren't supposed to die
They are just supposed to spend
there lives with belief and hope.
When tragedy strikes
People show grief in different ways.
Its Hard to make sense of life.
Its Hard to forgive.
In my dreams my father is still here
Thisis where he belongs
Not where the water whispers
and creatures whicker
with the light of the Sun
and the clouds above him.
Its Not every day
that a fisherman dies for Sirens
In my teenage eyes we were doing
what we thought was right.
But now I hear the voice of my father
And I know, I was wrong.
Tales say there are Things out there,
which have been gone
for thousands of years
In the dark and deep water
They changed a child of Earth's heart
And In the days to come
It will be our turn to be
a new voice for the Ocean
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2. |
Six Steps of Madness
06:02
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I wish you could give me
a world without pain and violence
I wish you could give me
A quiet place and Silence
I wish you could give me
a world without pain and violence
I wish you could give me
A quiet place and Silence
A shelter Where I will be alone
Without voices, without them
But I am Lost and my hopes are gone
I'm in need of strength to run
Doing what must be done
I remember...
I can be the rising of the sun
I remember...
I can be the rising of the sun
I remember...
I can be the rising of the sun
and when its going down
I can't stay in that spirit anymore
Please reassign me
A dead corpse on the seashore
Please reassign me
I can't lose myself in my spirit
I am at six steps from Madness
I heard their voices, I can touch the Darkness
I didn't even know most of them
Only six and not one are my friends
My body is a haunted House
I am a part... of this Beast
A room among the others
with a red door wearing the number Six
Sometimes my spirit is only a season
who never got that far enough
Please be the voice of the reason
Look in my eyes, the smile on my mouth
Don't let them grim me down
Remember my expression
my expression...
It's my last breath of Freedom
Remember my passion
I'm in need of strength to run
Doing what must be done
I remember...
I can be the rising of the sun
the rising of the sun...
I can be the rising of the sun
and when its going down
I can't stay in that spirit anymore
Please reassign me
A dead corpse on the seashore
Please reassign me
the rising of the sun ...
I wish you could give me
a world without pain and violence
I wish you could give me
A quiet place and Silence
Madness tastes like the rain
Before, you didn't ever feel it.
Madness is a labyrinth of pain
Before, you didn't ever cross it.
Into the dollhouse
someone brought the others back
I hear their laugh
behind the red door.
Nowhere to hide,
pitch black
Who helped to create it
Who helped to build it ?
I fought as a dying man
But I was like the Sand
Condemned by the waves and Time.
you can blame me all you want
If I've been too weak
If we've been too sick
I wish you could give me
a world without pain and violence
I wish you could give me
A quiet place and Silence
Everyone here, wants to tell their story
The Fisherman, The Witch
Brimstone or Eternity
All these Voices on my head
Too many tales and neverending dreams
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3. |
The Witch from Below
05:04
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_Mother, what is the Inbetween ?
_Something far, yet something near
A land above our heads and beneath our feet
In the place where light and dark meet
something tainted yet still so pure
_A place familiar though you never were
_Pull back the curtain, look behind the wall,
As you drift into dreams, you will see it all
An ancient witch awaits you there
Below where a sadness chokes the air
Somewhere in a small town
behind a wall of trees,
Light still runs across the fields
among the dancing leaves.
A Hundred winter solstices
With the apprentice of the witch,
The time had come to wake his master
The ancient enchantress
Behind the frosted window
the witch stood a porcelain doll
Lips red as blood on snow,
As her clock begins to toll
_Wake up, Witch, and heed this call
Embrace this life of untold powers
Unlock the secrets of the dead
Upon this witching hour
_There are those who love dancing,
Blissfully tethered to this earth
But others prefer to fly
Marked as wicked from their birth
Take my hand and sign this book
Relieve your mortal coil
Command the wind upon your back
and the beasts upon the soil
_Wake up, Witch, and hear my voice
I choose the life of heretics
A blackened heart within my chest
A debt of willingness
_There once was a time in the ancient World
A time of blood and mystery
Humanity grew like a pearl,
From the pain of earth and sea
Let these days return once more
Let the shadows speak again
The elements will reclaim the earth
And we’ll be the chaos in the rain.
It is time to wake again, old witch
Let this silence be done
Time to take your rightful place
Because something wicked this way comes.
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4. |
Paradoxe
07:36
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Why must we die ?
A sequence of events
A life of punctuated equilibrium
Misanthropic experience
in an emotional dystopia
I came from that Land
Where men dare not step foot
A land of fire and beasts and war
In the battle for tomorrow’s past
Time’slast ditch advance
Yet there’s beauty in this place
A dance of crackling embers
Remorseful abandoment
My dreams left behind.
When reality became too much to bear
the scourge of the sacred in a strange Age
where nothing is safe anymore
Embraced this Misbegotten Life,
With the burden of Atlas
I was born in the Land
Where men never come
A place to return upon that last war
between the future and the past
In time’s next advance
To see that beauty once more.
Chaotic manifestation
Behind the walls and beyond the door
Cross through the boundaries
Of the daily mundane
There Psyche looks on
A minds morose reflection
Like a blood brother, a surrogate twin
Behind the walls and beyond the door
Cross through the boundaries
Of the daily mundane
There Psyche looks on
A minds morose reflection
Like a blood brother, a surrogate twin
Memories always staring back at me
Yearning for their return
Back when I knew it all
Drawn upon a roadmap to the Stars
I travel on
A choice between alternate realities
Of possibilities obscured
Time is lost in Space
A chasm between worlds
Where the waves of the Past
Crash on Future’s shores
Until again swept out to sea
Behind the walls and beyond the door
Cross through the boundaries
Of the daily mundane
There Psyche looks on
A minds morose reflection
Like a blood brother, a surrogate twin
Why must we die ?
A sequence of events
A life of punctuated equilibrium
Misanthropic experience
in an emotional dystopia
I want more
I want to live
I want everything, to go everywhere
I want more
I want to taste
I want the Keys to see behind doors
I want to stop time
To see all the lights
within the celestial abyss
I choose to not openmy eyes
I want to bathe within
the prisms radiant light
I want to be born again
I want to relive these days
I want to be reborn before I dissolve
Learn from my mistakes
and choose a better way
I want to see one more time
the Lands chaotic allure
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5. |
Hope in the Universe
05:29
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Once upon a time : the End.
Someone who's writing about prophecies
Told me this Story :
It is the story of a Star
Who cried like a girl.
She loves a voice in the Dark
But this Voice was born
to be the Eater of Worlds.
I don't know what this story means,
or why the Eater was even down there.
It was just a curse about two lovers
and a story in an old book
written by a German philosopher,
who hopes we understand :
Our life is not our own.
The End of the Times
will usually be preceded by the arrival of the Star.
Move closer, and you'll see.
She's so beautiful, while she looks so sad
As long as you feel her pain inside of you,
there's nothing to fear.
But when she'll be happy with her true lover
it will be the End of the world
Was immer das ist,
es kann nichts Gutes sein
I'm following the two Lovers. Discreetly.
Behind their Travel and their hesitations.
The writer has to decide the End of their Story.
Another Story of two cursed lovers
that began with these words :
Once upon a time, the hope in the Universe
Meinen Namen in das Buch
der Bestie zu schreiben
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6. |
Five Years in the Sky
04:28
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My Old Friend, I can't stay in the sky
There is no answers and too many dreamers
in the highest of highs
Tell me where am I to find peace
Please, Here and Alone
_Show Me ! What did you find?
I was looking for a Light
and freedom, but in the darkest of skies,
Like an echo already passed,
no hapiness was in sight
_Show Me ! What did you find?
My Old Friend, I can't stay in the sky
I'm falling inside an ocean of night.
My Neighbors learnt more quickly than did I
And now they are more, with many eyes
Behind my voice, do you feel the hole ?
I went in search of answers
who I was and where I will go
But I am no more than a blade of grass
Something between Hope and lies
Just a bone, skin and ties
My Neighbors, rotten to the bone,
feathered and crowned
Can you hear them laughing ?
Can you imagine when they were born ?
Sometimes one, sometimes many
But just like myself, not everlasting.
My Old Friend, it all began many years ago...
But I've stopped to count after five.
Far from here, Far from below,
Its Time for the last flight, Fury, Storm and Cyclone
My Neighbors, Let it be so now
If I Fell, I will not fall alone
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7. |
Eternity and Brimstone
04:33
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My friend was called Brimstone
and I remember how he hated Time
Now he's living in this mortal Host
I don't know exactly who he is now,
An artist or a thief ?
He paints portraits in a small Village in the North
There are a lot of Legends here
with witches, forests and Caves.
The first time he met Eternity
She was in the forbidden forest
Fossilized like the old trees
Unfortunately He couldn't help her
Just sat down, painted and sang
He assumed she went under
leaving only her heart
exposed to Time
− How long are you here?
_For longer than I can remember
She lived with pain And chose this path
Year after year,
Eternity and Brimstone fell deeper in Love
The Painter and the Tree...
She knows the old man was the original painter
only he lost his taste for immortality
She was the last witch volunteer
to die as a guard of the Forest
after all this time, her fight is over.
The Villagers don't trust the Mountain and old Lands
These are the last days for the Forbidden Forest
Soon They'll be everywhere
-I don't think we have time to wait anymore, Brimstone
He will have to be strong without her.
− Nevertheless Magic is everywhere
Your mind will be left unharmed
− in the Air, under your feet
Time raises people to give up their bodies
and join the Darkness and Ghosts
But sometimes, something happens
The Painter made a deal, a long time ago,
He was young and ambitious
He signed To find Inspiration
And the inspiration was in the Trees
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8. |
Circus Dazzling Lights
04:01
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Come one, Come all
Feast your eyes on the marvelous
Have you ever seen such sights ? such magic ?
Step inside !
Everything is possible here
This is the Circus ! Fantasies become real !
What's this ?
What's this ?
It's what they expect
Give the people what they want
Cheers and applause
What's this ?
Magic, tricks and laughs
What's this ?
Leave those frowns at home, my friend
But our big top is different
There is an old magic here
Something from before
Some came from far
Some things never left
Under our tent all is possible
Flying creatures and two-headed dwarves
Some sights may be frightening,
But don’t be afraid !
Just because the lights have gone out
Does not mean we aren’t still around
A little sadness still parades down the streets
Swirling among the fallen leaves
Shadows hide the monsters’ grin
The grotesque, macabre, and bizarre
Cheers from an oblivous crowd
On the edge of their seats
Anticipation for the danger
Have you fallen for our Dazzling Lights ?
But don’t think of joining us !
Only darkness will welcome you
Among the Clowns and Beasts
Enjoy your home and your freedom
While its time for us to move on
Here we all know our role
Here we know all the rules
Look beyond all the makeup and smiles
And see what darkness lurks beneath
Joy remains my greatest trick.
Because everyone loves a show
I am brave, I am strong
This is who I was meant to be
just because you can see our smiles
doesn't means they can be fakes
Joy is my greatest trick.
Everyone loves me
I'm brave, I'm strong
This is who I meant to be
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9. |
The Discovery of Arkness
06:37
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Discovered
Chapter after Chapter,
realizing we have always
one foot in the past
and our head to the future
There are moments in your life
that change everything
that change everything
One minute your experience
on Earth is one thing
on Earth is one thing
the next, your world is completely
altered
Try again
As if you expected
the end to change
Look again
Look again
I'll show you how
overcome your fears
All stories finish somewhere
And sometimes somewhere
is the Inbetween
Beyond Legends and Mist
Some find a quiet place
A quiet place called Arkness
Dream again
As if you expected
your second life to change
Look again
I'll show you how
overcome your fears
Left becomes right
Left becomes right
And Up becomes (down)
Up becomes down
] Darkness becomes light
Darkness becomes a fight
Life becomes death
Life becomes death
All Your reality, down
All the Rules, down
All the Rules, down
The Discovery of Arkness
The Discovery of Arkness
All stories finish
somewhere
And sometimes somewhere
is the Inbetween
Beyond Legends and Mist
Some find a quiet place
Discover a quiet place
called Arkness
follow my feet
Your life is changing
Others won't get back in
Others won't get back in
There are moments in your life
There are moments in your life
that change everything
That change everything
One minute your experience
on Earth is one thing
the next, Her secret is completely
discovered
We are all the characters
of someone
We all are the children
of Arkness
(original full lyrics)
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