(Prelude)

The woods are lonely, dark and deep
Stopped between mountains and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year,
I came and wrote upon a cross of wood
For the rotting flesh lying under foot
And on the mournful stars gazed up above

The eagle watches from his mountain walls
Good bye to the sun that shines for the dead no longer
Now sleepy death summons him down to Acheron,
That cold shore
There is no bride song there, nor any music

She softly whispers your welcome to the endless darkness
Where the blue sky turned to black
And the moon remains a frozen hidden memory
One would say that the earth
Is the way of all flesh
And the sea is the way of all souls
The very dead of winter
Oh, starry night! This is how you wished to die

The wolves run through the evergreen snow forest
Unsound bodies dragging on the dark wood path
Driven by wolf servants of Astarte

Soul senses are shocked to the naked ground
Here where bodies were lying dead,
Now they have dragged away in the dim forest
Madness has given wings to their souls
And a wind lures them towards the vale of revenge

Listen! To the tumult of the blasphemous harmonies
Come from the shadow of the dome of pain
Where man's empty bodies
Were locked inside Astarte's cages of steel

As the dawn release its sun drops
Astarte's crimson light summons Them (The Souls)
To her place of the evil shades existence
When a storm will break from the shadow skies,
Souls and bodies will become one and then...

The dark flower through the walls of sorrow
Where a man behind his bars,
Has never tasted the touch of rain
His innocent soul cries
For his ferocious face
All nature's beauty was locked outside
Of his brazen cell where
The forest's clouds couldn't come

You can see what the night bird can see,
You can hear the wrath of the winds,
But the dust of your cold cell
Have closed up all, even your dreams
You only travel your thoughts to the unknown
And wish death to visit you
Oh! Death listen to my voice
I beg you
Join me

And they swim in cold thoughts so lifeless!
And cease upon mythic valleys of midnight
Wings of death convey them beyond tomorrow,
As the unbroken silence whispers the stillness of sorrow

Weep no more for them
Cause they'll face life once more again
Crush the Walls of Death
And run to the future
Of mortal rebirth

Hungry souls to the old familiar ways
They took back the long path which
Connects death and life
Leaving like the moon in the winter dawn
And carry revenge in frond of them
And distances behind

(Back To Earth)
With snow, the dense air raises rich
Around their bodies dimmed with evening
Hungry wolves smell the snow buried flesh
And dig deep during the long white night

For now as they look at the sky
Their respiration fades away by moonlight
Man's eyes are dead to light again
And they feel their minds slip
As their souls travel
The deadly moon path of no return

Moonlight! Drive my man's souls
Straight to your endless Universe
Earth! Fall over their bodies upon the thorns of life
Make them bleed!

Bright path of the moon, light man's way
Empty bodies gaze their interval march
As the storm of snow roared up from the sky
And the snow wave covered their empty bodies
Flight of steps leads (Souls) beyond the moon
Straight to the shadow of the undreamed domain
Waves of moonlight carry away their souls

Beyond the greenwood's shade
Near the rippling mountain streams
The old buried myth
Will open the doors of Metropolis

Rocks symbolize eternity,
Sunshine seeks in your darkness
Beloved cosmic force of evil
Raise Metropolis once more

Mythopoeic vision of darkness and rebirth
Bring back your moon shadow
Winter beauty of the gray society
Trap the sunshine and raise "Power"

As the evening mists come
My need will be stronger
Behind your black cloud's fortress
I'll reach your hidden Cosmos
I will cross the misty forest
Until full moon shows the gateway

Dark stone walls my pleasure to touch
From the dead land I'll built my strength
Silent land! I'll come to raise Metropolis