The Gathering - Superheat lyrics
Tracks 01. The Big Sleep
02. On Most Surfaces [Inuït] 03. Probably Built In The Fifties 04. Liberty Bell 05. Marooned 06. Rescue Me 07. Strange Machines 08. Nighttime Birds 09. My Electricity 10. Sand & Mercury 11. Eléanor [Video] 01. The Big Sleep Music by Frank Boeijen Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
Deprivation of my sleep
is so bad I need to weep myself into a coma And drift far far away from reality sing me a lullaby "Summertime" I'm dreaming I'm dreaming Temporary failure to close my eyes leads to a final loss of sanity I need to slip into a deep sunken sleep And drift far, far away from reality I'm dreaming I'm dreaming... 02. On Most Surfaces [Inuït] Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
The frost hits me in the eye
and wakes me these are blury winters and I cannot see I walk into the white light of the snow when the sun comes I break it with my shadow which tales me where I go The frost hits me in the eye and wakes me I am the snow falling down on you I tear up your face with my frost And make you run to somewhere warm When I come I see you get away I burst out about your emptiness The frost hits me in the eye and wakes me these are blury winters and I cannot see 03. Probably Built In The Fifties Music by René Rutten Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
I might be moving to the east
to part my ways And I will try to get something I don't have yet If I do, I will look at it for days and days Untill I will never forget I have heard this mental search has made them all take a look along the border Having the urge For their minds to be lifted to something new I'm running to meet my higher self I trust the speed Untill I have no need to run anymore Miles and miles I run I hear my feet And I hear myself breathe heavily I trust the speed Untill I have no need To run anymore Miles and miles I run 04. Liberty Bell Music by René Rutten Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
No brainwaves or activity
while the craft is in the air It's getting dark, it's getting light we are sitting in a chair We have fastened every belt we cannot float out of our seats It's so enormously frightening When our tail reaches superheat Another timezone a change of season it is turning dark again We're getting ready for yet another orbit around our planet It is time for the galactic cruise To come to an end One last view on the world and the time we have spend 05. Marooned Music by René Rutten Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
I know I'm from a lesser tribe
I suppose the range of my intelligence is way too wide And you don't see me 'cause I don't have much to say My emotional outlet is consuming the better part of me And apart from the wrong words a tortured cry is making me see That you don't see me 'cause I don't have much to say hours and hours fo jealousy are passing me by Although hollow silence is the only wave going through your brain And you don't see me 'cause I don't have much to say 06. Rescue Me Music by René Rutten Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
All I want
is to be where you are Wisdom will nurse you Pass your sense on to me Weigh my hands And help me I gasp for air what is the wear That shows on my face Pass your sense on to me Weigh my hands Rescue me I rinse my face in water My breath runs out in the waves 07. Strange Machines Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
It has always been in the back of my mind
Dreaming about going to the corners of time I always wanted to fly in strange machines I wanna do centuries in a lifetime And feel it with my hands Touch the world war II and Cleopatra Flying... Could it be that my dream would come true Building a machine that would actually do What I want it to do Russian revolution, let's do that in one day Beethoven and Gershwin I think that would be o.k. More than anything I wanna fly in strange machines I wanna do centuries in a lifetime And see it with my eyes Watch Jesus rise, if he ever did Flying... I wanna do centuries in a lifetime And feel it with my hands Touch renaissance and Chaka Khan Flying... 08. Nighttime Birds Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
Their ways are open
they spread as their wings they want to be certain of a warm surrounding When they fly through the night as beautiful nighttime birds The warm wind picks them up When they fly through the night as beautiful nighttime birds 09. My Electricity Music & lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
I send your name
up into the sky And the wind blows it back into my face You see, even nature reacts on me And all my electricity will make it across your sea With every wave the sea makes My body gets weaker and weaker.... and weaker.. You see, even nature reacts on me And all my electricity will make it across your sea And provides you with my love 10. Sand & Mercury Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
Close at the edge of my end
All this time you have been my friend Don't go, stay for a while My dear, you're losing me now This will be my last hour Hear my voice, see my face See how sick I am How I long for your embrace 11. Eléanor [Video] Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
Underneath the mask you've buried yourself into
It's coal-black I am tired of the gulping that you do Every day a new face What if I unscrew Your own identity Wouldn't you guess there's nothing left of you? The quicksand of life drags us Down into the circle One day. we might not catch you I feel sorry for what you try to do Breaking others down. to try and to pursue Your own selfish interests I am starting to get sick of you Whatever happened ever since you left You make yourself and me look like fools |