Feet, you've brought me here,
to this wide lifeless shore
Was it me who led the way, or was I led?

Eyes, you've seen the path,
or were you blind all this time?
Disoriented by a myriad crossroads
giving in to your inward fright

Was your will your own along the way?
What took you to the strand?
Reason slept and so your mind went absent

But if I'm ever mine...
Will I ever see through the wall of light?

Stranded before the stretching sea
Gentle, the waves are calling me
Silent, a barren land in sight
Wisdom, so close and yet so distant

Hands, stop shaking now,
and regain your once firm grasp
yet though the sand might slip through you
sometimes you have to filter out what hurts

Heart, keep pounding hard
with the confidence the waves come forth
for the tide won't let us go now,
feel the calling of the old man of the sea

Stranded before the stretching sea
Gentle, the waves are calling me
Silent, a barren land in sight
Wisdom, so close and yet so distant

A towering body of surging water rises ahead
I'm on the edge of the deep blue abyss;
I merge with it

In this sea,
left at the mercy of the waves,
know your inner voice will never be heard

The tide is rough,
time to dive down into your mind
seek the hidden self, it's never too deep

Know the path you are to follow is the road less travelled
Feel the relentless grip of the undertow
Heed the ocean's call within your marrow
Surface and let your lungs be filled with fresh air

Though the cravings of time will always walk by your side

You hear the wind now,
as it softly cracks the leaves,
it knows not road nor path
yet it wanders through them all

Knows not of master,
yet it preaches to no one
it sets no certain goal
it becomes one with the nothing and the all

Seek to grasp, you'll lose a kingdom
Learn how to observe the flow, you'll win a thousand more

And so it keeps its journey,
unattached to that what is fake
leaving behind the remnants
of a weaker former self

"No false hopes will bring serenity"

Seek to grasp, you'll lose a kingdom
Learn how to observe the flow, you'll win a thousand more

"Behold the edge,
a shapeless self, choices around you.
Hiding the answers,
the greed of my doubts"

Tired of walking, my aimless steps lead me here
To these falls of stone covered by moss
A place to grow, to success, to create
To recover from my wounds and empower myself

Here is where I want to be
Here is where I want to be

Now my bleeding feet are starting to heal
My burning lungs can now breath free
The sweat and tears I've spilled through this life
Are rewarded with the wonders of this place

Here is where I want to be forever

"Even though we are born alone, we grow accompanied, accompanied by feelings, joys, sorrows, blood, laughter. Every step we take on our journey brings us closer to the place where, at last, we can grow, the place where we really want to be. Here is where I belong. This is my mountain, this is my place."

Never give up, one more step
The place you need is near
From a wanderer a king will grow

I, despised by my own kind,
Sent into exile, doomed to walk the ice
Senseless charges are held against me
A shade of misery and shame

A traitor! That's what they cry
I hear their poisoned voices, do they laugh?
Those so-called patriots with their hollow devotion
Won't hesitate to rape their own land

"Fear is the key to rule mankind,
Once all glimpse of hope is vanished you'll find out"
Worn-out by a world of illusions
I led my withered persona into the everlasting vow

It's hard to find that one is said to be a traitor
Hard to not get mad at the very thought of it
Hard to keep one's cool when you see as foes those you cared for
Sadly it is the price I have to pay for my convictions

Pride and love for the fatherland
Words in disguise for indulgence and hate
What about personal pride?
Primitive feelings are far easier to command

What do they mean when they boast of loving their country?
What do they want to get from us all?
A brain-dead following mass for their private pretensions?
Well, if I refuse that, then yes, a traitor I am

Liar!!!
Betrayer!!!
Die!!!

How can a loyalty so pure and true be twisted into bigotry?
Where was the mistake? When did we become the end point of zero?

[Instrumental]

(Narrator)
Cold night, December 29th
The woods whisper between the mist
In this cold night, this starless night
Frozen winds carry a gloomy wail

Crimson tears have been shed
A crime of love, a shameful murder
In this silent night, a victim will lay forever

Reeds ask the whispering trees
"Why this threnody?
Whence comes the piercing cry?"
Then the forest screams
"Fear the answer
For eternal mourning we will keep"

(The Crow)
"I did it for us
I did it for her
It's not a crime
It's a marriage for life
I did it for us
I did it for her
Now both we'll lay
Together we will rest

I stabbed her eyes to end her cry
I tore her heart to end her pain

Why did you lie to me
When you said you won't be mine?

Our feathers, black as a moonless night
My peak red as yours covered in your blood
Your empty heart abandoning life
As mine was dead since we met

(Narrator)
Words spoken with bloody tongue
A cry for love drenched with hate
A soul destroyed by lifeless housing
And now two hearts bleed together

Since that outrageous night
Of the cold December 29th
By the shores of the scarlet lake
From the red waters we hear a cry:

(The Black Swan)
"You stabbed my eyes
You tore my heart
The vacuum where I now rest
Is where you lived as if you were dead

You say you did it for me
A crime of love
To embrace your own death
You say you did it for us
You say you did it for me
For now I shall rest
Where you lived as if you were dead"

Come the waves,
the layers of a life
scattered fragments of an untold future
resting deep beneath the blue

Inflection, transition
a watershed
set the sails to the land uncharted
let the unknown become your guide

Each time I was washed ashore
I questioned my beliefs
to the point I became a stranger
unaware of my own self

Till I came to realize
I'd make the sea my home
in the hope (that) this erratic voyage
would dispel this thickening mist with some light

Come the tide,
And will you come along?
On this everlasting journey
towards the embrace of the waves

I will seek to tame
both my light and shadows
come to terms with my defeats
raise the anchor, we're out to the sea

"I'm searching, but not seeing
I'm listening, but not hearing"

Like water I flow now
As an endless stream I run
and weather the eternal storm

Silver sea within,
see this emerald daybreak
that steadily weaves
"We are the waves,
we are the tide to come"