The Gathering - Downfall - The Early Years lyrics
Tracks 01. In Sickness And Health
02. Gaya's Dream 03. Always... 04. Subzero 05. Anthology In Black 06. Second Sunrise 07. Downfall 08. In Sickness And Health 09. Second Sunrise 10. Six Dead, Three To Go 11. Downfall 12. Another Day 13. Share The Wisdom 01. In Sickness And Health Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
<i>"Through marriage we're bonded, by death we're separated.
But sometimes our dreams can keep us together. Life is transitory but love can be eternal."</i> The cruelty of this world persists The cold wind speaks for our lost Whispering words, weaving worlds Her time has come, alas A man with opened eyes One stopped out of a dream With a view held within his mind The tears for his bride redeem Watching this world falling apart Like the dreams in a shallow sleep Countless are the nights they shared The mourning in his tears But morning still has broken A light in his world of dawn All beauty turned to rot His flowers, all are gone Close the eyes of eternal love Buries his face in his hands Her face looks so alive In the morning sun But morning still has broken A light in his world of dawn All beauty turned to rot His flowers, all are gone Dreams are nothing but illusions Illusions for one to see It's the visual projection of our inside And as empty as the heart in me As the heart in me... 02. Gaya's Dream Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
<i>"Infatuated by the extensiveness of the universe,
it's easy to forget one of the most complex enigmas of this world: The human mind, a universe of its own."</i> Open the gates of the past With the key to our hearts Dream of the years gone by Centuries through mankind's eyes In the wasteland that grows inside Within me I shall find myself Slowly walking, pacing front See through these blind eyes Stepping on shadows, touching air Stones move as I stand still Seek the answers in the skies As we don't even know ourselves Silent, as the sun sets before our eyes In the wasteland that grows inside Within me I shall find myself For years of space technology Still we haven't learned Like children we explore Things we can't yet comprehend Open the doors of the past With the beating of a heart Dream as the years go by Carrying our own cross Seek the answers in the skies As we don't even know ourselves Silent, as the sun sets before our eyes 03. Always... Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
<i>[Instrumental]</i>
<i>"Sometimes words can not say what the heart feels. Music can express the things that our language cannot."</i> 04. Subzero Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
<i>"Imaging emotions as being a lake, the water can be calm or stormy.
But can it be frozen; can emotions reach freezing point?"</i> The bowels of my thoughts, icy lake Drain emotions from my bleeding soul Tears that follow burn my skin Dread to see myself, I ain't me The sun encircles my shape on the ice In my shadow I see people below Their frozen faces staring blank All crying without a sound Thousand degrees below Ice age has begun, Subzero Emotions running low My heart is so cold, Subzero Hatred in words, spewing from their mouths Verbal injection of a freezing void Sunrise in three directions As all the faces turn to laugh Thousand degrees below Ice age has begun, Subzero Emotions running low My heart is so cold, Subzero 05. Anthology In Black Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
Thousand morbid dreams cross my mind
Reflections of the past, twilight in my thoughts Try to think back to how it all started But the act stands in the shadows of my thoughts As the curtain of mist slips away I can see, destruction of a thousand Curon's lights will die tonight Bells toll for the wrath that unfolds Hear the bells chime upon the water Feel the wind chasing the silence Lake of Resia, divinity was lost And lost it shall remain When I close my eyes what will I see? It takes me back to the beginning of the end When false illusions caressed my mind Curtain falls on the world of today Hear the bells chime upon the water Feel the wind chasing the silence Watch my heaven turning to hell Midst the sound of a tolling bell 06. Second Sunrise Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
<i>"Peace comes through thinking with your heart and not with words.
Until then we'll light another candle for this world."</i> What is left of our world, today Walls have fallen with peace But walls are build within our hearts Wars are fought within A cloak lies over our world A misery show without an end The masses follow the masses The blind will lead the way To see the colors that rest within your mind The paradise we seek lies inside Who's to blame, who will lose Now the dice have been rolled We must find the guilty ones Instead of condemning what has been done Who shall we praise now When all our gods are gone Living is not just to live In a concrete or cardboard box Think in a carbonized world Where all has been done before The thought of a perfect world On the pile of broken dreams To see the colors that rest within your mind The paradise we seek lies behind Who's to blame, who will lose Now the dice have been rolled We must find the guilty ones Instead of condemning what has been done From the smoking cities we shall rise And on the ashes we will build Praying for that one day The sun will rise again... 07. Downfall Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
In silence I'm walking through the darkness
Chasing the webs that haunt my mind Voices are whispering inside my brain Divine powers are tearing me apart Demoniac forces with illusive grace Beyond the truth, the downfall of Curon Prophecy was fulfilled, eternal dawn Away is the sun, legacy will be their fall My dream will become grim reality The sea and sky will cleanse this town My lord has spoken, eternal hell For those who decide to blaspheme The waves of divinity will purify this village So come, my children of the lord Prophecy was fulfilled, eternal dawn Away is the sun, legacy This is your downfall Rise children of the lord Prophecy was fulfilled, eternal dawn Away is the sun, legacy... the fall 08. In Sickness And Health Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
<i>"Through marriage we're bonded, by death we're separated.
But sometimes our dreams can keep us together. Life is transitory but love can be eternal."</i> The cruelty of this world persists The cold wind speaks for our lost Whispering words, weaving worlds Her time has come, alas A man with opened eyes One stopped out of a dream With a view held within his mind The tears for his bride redeem Watching this world falling apart Like the dreams in a shallow sleep Countless are the nights they shared The mourning in his tears But morning still has broken A light in his world of dawn All beauty turned to rot His flowers, all are gone Close the eyes of eternal love Buries his face in his hands Her face looks so alive In the morning sun But morning still has broken A light in his world of dawn All beauty turned to rot His flowers, all are gone Dreams are nothing but illusions Illusions for one to see It's the visual projection of our inside And as empty as the heart in me As the heart in me... 09. Second Sunrise Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
<i>"Peace comes through thinking with your heart and not with words.
Until then we'll light another candle for this world."</i> What is left of our world, today Walls have fallen with peace But walls are build within our hearts Wars are fought within A cloak lies over our world A misery show without an end The masses follow the masses The blind will lead the way To see the colors that rest within your mind The paradise we seek lies inside Who's to blame, who will lose Now the dice have been rolled We must find the guilty ones Instead of condemning what has been done Who shall we praise now When all our gods are gone Living is not just to live In a concrete or cardboard box Think in a carbonized world Where all has been done before The thought of a perfect world On the pile of broken dreams To see the colors that rest within your mind The paradise we seek lies behind Who's to blame, who will lose Now the dice have been rolled We must find the guilty ones Instead of condemning what has been done From the smoking cities we shall rise And on the ashes we will build Praying for that one day The sun will rise again... 10. Six Dead, Three To Go Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
Our footsteps in the snow, the blood that marks my hands
Dream of tales that I know as we're marching to the promised land From ruins of decayed earth, we came with the rising storm Monuments of remaining hate in our dark and frozen hearts Nine elements of light, six have felt our swords Three get ready for the fight, in battle no place for words The darkness will shine forever, the winter never ends Controlling elements of black, the rotting stench is good Bury the past Await the new day The world we lived Will fade away The overlord has spoken, chaos remains tonight Dusted and blood soaken, crush them in the fight In nominee our ancestors, who died to live in light Rebellion against the old, growing joy of night Bury the past Await the new day The world we lived Will fade away Thousand shadows of sin, risen with the fall The final slaughter can begin, nine dead, zero left From chaos and hell we ride, the warlords of a new age Evokers of the seven storms, creations of tormented seas Bury the past Await the new day The world we lived Will fade away 11. Downfall Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
In silence I'm walking through the darkness
Chasing the webs that haunt my mind Voices are whispering inside my brain Divine powers are tearing me apart Demoniac forces with illusive grace Beyond the truth, the downfall of Curon Prophecy was fulfilled, eternal dawn Away is the sun, legacy will be their fall My dream will become grim reality The sea and sky will cleanse this town My lord has spoken, eternal hell For those who decide to blaspheme The waves of divinity will purify this village So come, my children of the lord Prophecy was fulfilled, eternal dawn Away is the sun, legacy This is your downfall Rise children of the lord Prophecy was fulfilled, eternal dawn Away is the sun, legacy... the fall 12. Another Day Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Hans Rutten
Suddenly I awake
A strange man knows my name Heat takes my mind What is happening to me? The revival - True messiah Now that you are saved a legend lives The revival We take you to the gate to wash your brain True messiah Still I cannot speak My throat is dry as ice A tear leaves my eye I know that I am saved Remember what has happened You're older than the earth Six hundred years A living history A vision in my brain takes me back To places that I know I was before The revival ? True messiah Now that you are saved a legend lives The revival We take you to the gate to wash your brain True messiah Sleeping through the ages The past rests within Soon to be recovered By emptying my mind Remember what has happened You're older than the earth Six hundred years A living history A vision in my brain takes me back To places that I know I was before 13. Share The Wisdom Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
Look at the sky, stars they fall
Peace between worlds, the universal wall Advanced technologies left on earth Forward step to a union birth Circles in the ground, ufo's in the sky No one ever knows the reason why Upon horizons rising ships Inherit what's rightfully theirs Try to search in space, you lost your track From this timeless desert, no way back Feel this as a dream, flying empty massives Diving skies of blessings, horizon expands Primitive knowledge erased, your mind is consuming Intelligence is an illusion, illusions are created Look at the sky, stars they fall Peace between worlds, the universal wall Advanced technologies left on earth Forward step to a union birth Circles in the ground, ufo's in the sky No one ever knows the reason why Upon horizons rising ships Inherit what's rightfully theirs Try to search in space, you lost your track From this timeless desert, no way back Feel this as a dream, flying empty massives Diving skies of blessings, horizon expands Primitive knowledge erased, your mind is consuming Intelligence is an illusion, illusions are created |