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The Mist - The Hangman Tree lyrics



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01. God Of Black And White Images

God... God... God...

I am at the window and don't know
Whether my eyes are open or closed
The hit was great but the sensation
Gets better over and over
I really don't know whether
I'm awake or asleep
I see monsters on the wall
I can't remember my last six hours

My hands touch the glass
And the glass is cold
I see people outside
And I'd like to say hello

Now I wanna be an angel
Want wings and fly with them
For a long time,
I've wanted to complain
Of certain things up above

I take a look around
And my gaze captures
My black and white images
I'm the only one, who can see my
Black and white images

Black and white,
Black and white world
Black and white,
World

How can someone have heaven
And hell like I do
I turn my face to the old
Colorless world

"It's hard to breathe
After throwing up into my fishbowl
Pets to prove my superiority
Fish are stupid,
But they're always colored
They are and they were
In "Rumble Fish"

The hit was great
But the sensation always gets
Better over and over
My life is an eternal dark room
Oh, black and white world!
Did I despise them all?
Did I annihilate 'em all?
I've got lots to do 'cause I'm a god
A god of black and white images

02. Scarecrow

Perhaps I'm bat out of hell
A soul with no ligth,
Searching for a spell
The creature God
Really wanted to forget
A forgotten soldier without wars

Look at my face
D'ya think God made me resembling
Him at all
No! Say no
My god's called man

...My lonely arms embrace the fields
The fields, sweet purgatory
I'm the owner of the fields
Were men have planted loneliness

The scarecrow
I'm the scarecrow
A fucking scarecrow
A lost soul,
Imprisoned in a fake body

...Scarecrow
I'm the scarecrow

No coward lion on my way
I'm the scarecrow
Scarecrow
No girl called Dorothy
And no tin man
And no fuck damn yellow brick
Road for me to take

I'm the scarecrow

I've got no pain - I've got no god
I'm the thing that makes a kid
Cover his face with the hands

In the hole were my eyes would be
In its bottom lies a ligth
If you look closely
I'll be in you and you and you'll be in me
Alone...
Imprisioned...
Alone...
Imprisioned
Alone
I'me the owner of these fields
Scarecrow...

03. Peter Pan Against The World

Time said hellow throw the mirror
The smile,
Now scared is no longer funny
The starting point was left behind
So long ago
The callours feet are feet that
Never return

...Soul is a child crying in despair
...There was noise
In the mist out there

Time is like a whip tearing flesh
Time is like a hurricane
Spreading the sand
And when we enchain ourselves to
Overcome the flow of time
All the generations are buried by us
And only the words survive
The boy who will always be a boy
Peter smiles
And dances with my soul in pain

Peter Pan against the world

...Sleep boy
...Wake up man
...Sleep boy
...Wake up man

Yesterday I woke up crying out
For your name
The scars in my wrists were
Bleeding
Yesterday I had to stand
All those stupid tricks
God played at me

Time said hello through the mirror
Time is like a whip tearing flesh
Peter smiles 'cos flying's like magic
The smile is no longer funny

And the land of the chains
On my feet
And the land of the chains
On your feet

And the game begins again
With Peter Pan against the world

04. Falling Into My Inner Abyss

Who gives a damn for my scars?
I'm living in a no one's world
A world of infinite deserts
Been on the way alone and
Sometimes I stop on the road
Listen to the song and hide myself
In the darkness
I'm only sure my feet are on the
Road aways
Taking me forward
And when it happens, brother, you
May be sure

Falling...
I'm falling into my inner abyss
Falling...
I'm falling into my inner abyss

Destiny had arms I did love to
Amputate
There were hands from them trying
To strangle me
The secret is hidden inside
Somewhere inside ourselves
We know all the answers, but they
Always play hide and seek

But if you insist on awaking me
Once again you'll find me walking
In the dark
I take a last look at you, my smile
Is my despise
And when it happens, brother, you
May be sure...

Falling...
I'm falling into my inner abyss
Falling...
I'm falling into my inner abyss

I turn my back on angels and
Shake hands with the devil
My callendar leaves fall down
Like the hangman's mask
We've been on the run,
Running around... white
Handkerchieves wave

I take a look at you,
My smile is my despise
And I'm smiling now
Who gives a damn for my scars?

05. The Hangman Tree - Act One

...Real wings
...Forever goodbye to my wings made of wax

(Where do I go now now that I'm not part of the game anymore?
The hipocritical tears of the losers
Won't sow seeds in my ground,
The ground were I belong now
My soul is free, there's no more pain...
There are just questions... questions,
Fucking questions
Where do I go now that I'm not part of the game anymore?)

06. The Hell Where Angels Live

I'm like a terminal patient,
Who's pulled off the wires
Ladies and gentlemen, today's the
Key-word is goodbye
I'd like to stop the world
And shout: why?
Now I know the dictionary's most
Difficult world is to live

Oh God!

Oh God,
Give one more chance to this
Miserable soul
I'd like to crawl and beg:
Don't leave me alone
Mother,
The unknown boy is now forever
Unknown
Thanks to the old fellas for the
Knives in my back

The machines were turned off and
My smile forever frozen

Oh God!

Where should I go
When all places are next to me?
My friend,
Give my regards to loneliness
I don't believe in tears anymore
Now I live between God and the dog
The old words
Are born again for me
I threw a grenade in my old
Hiding place
And I live now in the hell...
Hell where angels live
Hell where angels live

07. My Life Is An Eternal Dark Room

My life is an eternal dark room

08. My Pain

My pain is like the pain of a father who buries his son
My pain sleeps with the moon and wakes with the sun
My pain leves each and every day of the callendar
My pain is and everlasting fire

Pain...
Pain...
Pain...

09. The Hangman Tree - Epilogue

Running... Running...
Running to the light, said the film
Guilty, guilty the jury said

Strangle by a hope of old
Grievances
Far from hell
And even farther from heaven
I see spectres like faces before me
Faces I love
Faces I hate
I'm the hangman tree

Am a body or just a package?
My masks are falling
Like autumn leaves
There's no doors to close.
My tears, there's no reason to
Keep'em inside

The padlock that kept my pain
Imprisoned has been opened
Oh, the hangman tree

The eyes of the time have passed
Over the book of my life
When my eyes were closed a door
Was opened (they were there)
Guilty said the man.
Blood in may wrists...
Blood in may hands
My masks are falling,
My face, my body
I know you are quite close
I know you can hear me...
My mind connects to yours now
If you love me give me a name,
Or I'll always be the hangman tree

10. Broken Toys

My eyes... can you see through them?
Tell me what you see... free me
Show me the way to go
My body imprisons my soul
I wanna run but my legs don't
Answers me.

Lies are like nails drilling my
Hands and feet
Television held me
And closed padlock
God's locked all my secret exists
The harder it can be
The end of all this
I want it to stop now

Broken toys kept in the closet

My life is like a circus
Consumed in flames

There's always an idiot saying the
Show must go on
Even when the knives-thrower
Sheds fatal tears

Bad memories danced in my mind
They were like broken toys
Kept in the closet
Bad memories danced in my mind
They were like decapitated dolls
And their glass eyes gazing the void

The carrousel goes round and we
Smile for a moment
The hall of mirror distorts us
Making us smaller
And there was something evil in
That clown
Made up smiles have ne'er deluded me

11. Leave Me Alone

There's an immense void inside what
Could once
Be called life
We all take a look back
And always conclude
Nothing was worthwhile
(What has become of
All those idiot dreams?)

Another fucking empty bottle:
Another fucking Sunday
I unload my gun at everything I love
Leave me alone

Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone

The phone rings and there's no one
When I answer
I try to laugh about it
And this time without tears

I'm naked sitting in the bath room
The shower vomiting in me

My life always had blanks
That I've always
Fillied with a goodbye

To the old fellows,
A toast and fuck off!!!
The last thing I'd need are
Merciful eyes.
(Mind your own miserily lives)

If you can't believe it try to ready
My mind
What I need most now is that you
Turn around and fade away

As in an old Hitchcok,
Blood mixes with water
Drunken eyes see far better,
But you got to find
The right drink
Raise the blood red wine calix

12. Toxin Diffusion

It is night at the chemical terminal
Storage are gorgotte'n in the dark
Computers alert a sudden deflaction
Making thousand of rottening corpses

Toxin Diffusion
Take of the oxygen
Toxin Diffusion
Corroding my brains