The Gathering - Sleepy Buildings - A Semi Acoustic Evening lyrics
Tracks 01. Locked Away
02. Saturnine 03. Amity 04. The Mirror Waters [v2003] 05. Red Is A Slow Colour 06. Sleepy Buildings 07. Travel 08. Shrink 09. In Motion #2 10. Stonegarden [v2003] 11. My Electricity 12. Eléanor 13. Marooned 14. Like Fountains [v2003] 01. Locked Away Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
No sense at all
do what you want for I will hunt you Untill you will be Locked away just so what you'll be scred of me Behind my power I will hide all my fears Right now you are punished for absolutely nothing And I feel so good Because once more I don't have to be honest With myself While you're locked away Just so you'll be scared of me behind my power I will hide all my fears 02. Saturnine Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
The day you went away
You had to screw me over I guess you didn't know all the stuff you left me with is way too much to handle But I guess you don't care You don't need to preach you don't have to love me, all the time Whatever on earth possessed you to make this bold decision I guess you don't need me While whispering those words I cried like a baby hoping you would care You don't need to preach you don't have to love me, all the time You don't have to preach all the time 03. Amity Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
The torture won't part you
Motherly breast won't warm you You fail and foam from your mouth why is it so loud, this sound? All the sense your are capable of does not seem to save you You heed the glance of a smile Was it impossible to float for a while? Restless is carrying fever burning you to pieces In search and need of a friend Will I bow down to this in the end? I lay in the hands of my maker and I want to spend the rest of it awake Why do I get the feeling they'll brake it It's a fight...it's a fight... The torture won't part you Mothers lap can't seem to warm you You strain, you climb up and frown Why is it so loud, This down? All the sense you are capable of does not seem to save you You heed the glance of a smile Was it impossible to float for a while? I lay in the hands of my maker And I want to spend the rest of it awake Why do I get the feeling they'll brake it It's a fight...it's a fight 04. The Mirror Waters [v2003] Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
Slowly... Flying silent
Touching the wind as it sadly sings... for me. Aging on the outside With my youth in my empty hands Lost all that I was living for, live no longer Couldn't resist looking in her eyes I saw myself, tears were falling The seas of her eyes reflected my old age Youth grows old, like winter follows spring Faster... Falling kingdom Dancers on winter winds, they dance... for me Nature's ways Life can't always be controlled Controlled by fear Scared of months and years, fear no longer Time leaves its mark The years come but never go Masked is my face The mask of age will fall, hide no longer Couldn't resist looking in her eyes I saw myself, tears were falling The seas of her eyes reflected my old age Youth grows old, like winter follows spring 05. Red Is A Slow Colour Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
The black house in in my street
looks too dark just to go inside But when I do I cannot move because of the mess in the hallway The picture on the wall is chaotic I don't want to look at it But when I do I cannot speak because of the confusion in my head I am unfit and I want to leap away But when I do The red colour comes after me It is fierce and it moves slow The picture on the wall is chaotic I don't want to look at it But when I do I cannot speak because of the confusion in my head I am unfit and I want to leap away But when I do The red colour comes after me It is fierce and it moves slow 06. Sleepy Buildings Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
Break yourself through the clouds and build above those sleepy buildings
Mistified by your capabiliities all is yours if you can handle Visable from higher than the sky Plane and simple, the facts are at your feet Stones are snoring Walls are breathing loud Roofs are poking Into cosmic mouth Start the artifact and build above those sleepy buildings Only you know what is the absolute best Stones are snoring Walls are breathing loud Roofs are poking Into cosmic mouth 07. Travel Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
Melodic stanzas
are symphonizing their way through your weary head To feed your distrust And fill its mouth with the desire to soulfully be one with your creation Not a subject to control you call upon a higer power for help and inspiration The crowd waits and turns their faces towards you expectantly you give them what they need But their useless criticism makes you die a bit more inside Not a subject to control you call upon a higer power for help and inspiration Oh, I swoon while loudspeakers play soft music Leaning over your fourtieth masterpiece You must have loved the colour of these violins I wish I knew you Your fit of insanity makes me sad I wish you knew your music was to stay forever And I hope... I have no clue if you know how much it matters And i hope... 08. Shrink Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
To feel this great urge
to hold and embrace you I slowly dry out I shrink and shrink until I'm gone nothing to make out of me oh what the hell went wrong my heart gets pulled out into your direction it's no use you have forsaken me 09. In Motion #2 Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen
I see him turn away
Although my eyes are shut with emptiness And again the rain falls down Together with me This blood in my body runs for you Drink my tears as I cry My heart and my mind crave for you Drink my tears as I cry It is sad how the rain falls down I see you walk away Falling down I cry and sream your name And again the rain falls down Together with me My ache is yours as I am Drink my tears as I cry 10. Stonegarden [v2003] Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Bart Smits
And the dreamer sets his sails...
Avoiding all cliffs and stones But the dreamer is never alone Always trying to catch the moon Sailing on the winds of desolation Horizon's my destination Through tears I see that the moon slowly sets And another attempt has failed... The waves of the sea drawn to the moon Like lovers they meet Carry the light to a distant unknown Catch it if you can Always will there be the stars Always will there be the moon Always will there be the rocks Will I always be alone? 11. My Electricity Music by The Gathering 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 12. Eléanor 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 13. Marooned Music by The Gathering 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 14. Like Fountains [v2003] Music by The Gathering Lyrics by Niels Duffhues, Anneke van Giersbergen
A scar inside
For such a long time I'll do it all over again Can't face the wounds Stop remembering Time by time shades reach the surface A mental breakdown, they provide Accept, clear up, clean up, go on and soon I'll show some pride There's enough to go on further Don't force to forget You seem to go on when you are that strong and fighting Whatever it takes, your will never breaks You last and last And I will be there for you my dear For you to go on when you are that strong and fighting Till the day I'm done with the shades The rage I create towards myself, the hate To claim the blame that I feel To damage the dreams I need Facing uncertainty Facing the truth Got to get on through Blaming myself Blaming at last ...And please forget You seem to go on when you are that strong and fighting Whatever it takes, your will never breaks You last and last And I will be there for you my dear For you to go on when you are that strong and fighting |