Heliopolis in flames, alight
A flickering and rebirth
Enlightened night
Overthrown by a place of shame
The scorched sky converts night
You wish for light to call
Face to face with the madness
The call of fate to save us all
Daily horror that brings you sadness

When smoke arises from the planes
With a loud, triumphant sigh

I always bleed, I always heal
I live to die anew
It breaks me, it burns me

Al around us is just decay
There's no means to wash the pain away
You will turn your head and say
I always only cared about me

Heliopolis in flames, alight
A flickering and rebirth
Enlightened night
Overthrown by a place of shame
The scorched sky converts night
You wish for light to call
Face to face with the madness
The call of fate to save us all
Daily horror that brings you sadness

When the darkest tempest roars
Passes by with quiet wings

Landscapes swiftly burn away
And fall apart to dust

All around us is just decay
There's no means to wash the pain away
You will turn your head and say
I always only cared about me

Heliopolis in flames, alight
A flickering and rebirth
Enlightened night
Overthrown by a place of shame
The scorched sky converts night
You wish for light to call
Face to face with the madness
The call of fate to save us all
Daily horror that brings you sadness

The memories, the pictures
The melodies, the wars
Everything I was, everything I earned
Grasped in my claws

All around us is just decay
There's no means to wash the pain away
You will turn your head and say
I just cared about me

No more years of waiting
The final days, the conflagration
Feathers falling from my wings now
Here comes sunset

Heliopolis in flames, alight
A flickering and rebirth
Enlightened night
Overthrown by a place of shame
The scorched sky converts night
You wish for light to call
Face to face with the madness
The call of fate to save us all
Daily horror that brings you sadness

Cry with my tears
Crawl across the floor
This body of clay
May need no more

He gives you hope
He shows his care
Or is your patience
A form of despair?

For a moment I feel embraced
Now that I'm unbound
My eyes have lost their grace
I scream a demonic sound

Shed all your tears, my friend
Come release them all
We've flooded heavens
Hear their desperate call

While Death becomes angels
Death becomes real
All of God's work you know
It's devil's deal

(Will you be lost struggling in vain?)

Within the fields of sorrow
(Within the fields of sorrow)
I pass to the other side
(I pass to the other side)
Facing my deepest hollow
(Facing my deepest hollow)
Which mirrors my dark light
(Which mirrors my dark light)

Cry with my tears, my dear
The waters are coming down
Call my name, aloud
But before you drown

For God and Satan, you know
They reach out their hand
So they are reconciled
Within me, my friend

Shed all your tears, my dear
All these words as such
'Cause in this world of lies
All your words don't mean much

(Or will I come once more to rescue you again?)

Within the fields of sorrow
(Within the fields of sorrow)
I pass to the other side
(I pass to the other side)
Facing my deepest hollow
(Facing my deepest hollow)
Which mirrors my dark light
(Which mirrors my dark light)

Shed all your tears
(Shed all your tears)
Give me your hand
(Give me your hand)
Look into my eyes
(Look into my eyes)
Make your final stand
(Make your final stand)

Wherever you will go
Hence, go without regret

Within the fields of sorrow
(Within the fields of sorrow)
I pass to the other side
(I pass to the other side)
Facing my deepest hollow
(Facing my deepest hollow)
Which mirrors my dark light
(Which mirrors my dark light)

Shed all your tears and give
Give me your hand
Look into my eyes and make
Make your final stand
It's been so long, I hope
I hope you don't forget
Wherever you will go
Hence, go without regret

Aw

You drown in stagnation
In a world of frustration
Your chance for salvation
Is to weave a cell of fears

This stainless collection
Of countless imperfection
A mild satisfaction
A sea of rotten tears

This serpentine throne suits you well
A place to reign the deepest hell
Faded memories, they crawl across the years
Reveal your hidden fears

A short hesitation
On your way to desperation
You'll feel the aggravation
Before decline begins

I gaze into a darkened well
With madness that erodes my shell
Decay's burning bleakly in my eyes
No way to save our wasted lives

Death's in your soul, dear
It's in your dreams, it's always near
Death's in your soul, dear
It is near, near

What I was meant to be
What I was born to be
What will set me free
I was too blind to see

Too blind to realize
To blind to turn the tides
Too blind to see your lies
Was too blind to see

This serpentine throne suits me well
A place where vilest worms do dwell
Faded memories, they crawl across the years
Enraged by all your fears

Death's in your soul dear
It's in your dreams, it's always near
Death's in your soul, dear
It is near, it is near
It's in your dreams, it's always near
Death's in your soul, dear
It is near, it is near

(Oh, how dare)
(You come into my lair?)
(Here in this void, this sanctum)
(Reigns despair)

(And somberly it sleeps)
(It winds, it slowly creeps)
(The end is near)
(The end is near)
(The end is near)

Take a look around
This evil lurks behind you
Two thousand years of lies
And arrogance that blinds you

Nightmares crawl
The serpent in your eye
The road of Cain
Winds on until you die

Yeah
Death's in your soul, dear
It's in your dreams, it's always near
Death's in your soul, dear
It is here, here
It's in your dreams, it's always near
Death's in your soul, dear
The end is here

Peering into darkness without prospect
The future to be left in despair
A presage horn of plenty filled with plague and famine
Unbroken mind case dramatic ground zero

From a distant dream to be seen
Surely undreamt yet unbelieved
Seem to be, with me, in severe insanity
Forever there, forever deceived

No disguise of fevered innocence
A lover's fear in mourning, epiphany

Another life, another time
Dream of stars but proclaim fire
As flames meet earth, I throw you down
To watch your flesh blister and char
I anoint you, dress you in white
Attempt to allay those fever dreams
These pitiful dreamers witnessed
The reconstruction of fallen stars

Your life is doomed, a misplaced soul you are
Your thoughts are sparkles in despair
Fighting the cold, inconsiderate emotions
Confusing future threatening ahead

Deep down the abyss of my crystalline soul
Into the valley of sore thoughts
Like that insignificant refuge of lies
That make you shiver, that make you cry

No disguise of fevered innocence
A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany

Another life, another time
Dream of stars but proclaim fire
As flames meet earth, I throw you down
To watch your flesh blister and char
I anoint you, dress you in white
Attempt to allay those fever dreams
These pitiful dreamers witnessed
The reconstruction of fallen stars

Edacious burning, destroying
Turning what was living to death
Walking, stalking, going, gone

Edacious burning, destroying
Turning what was living to death
Walking, stalking, going, gone
Gone

Another life, another time
Dream of stars but proclaim fire
As flames meet earth, I throw you down
To watch your flesh blister and char
I anoint you, dress you in white
Attempt to allay those fever dreams
These pitiful dreamers witnessed
The reconstruction of fallen stars

I anoint you, dress you in white
Attempt to allay those fever dreams
These pitiful dreamers witnessed
The reconstruction of fallen stars

Way down to heaven
Your needless resource
Is a forecast of cruelty and dismay

Cast into mirrors
An ambush on its course
You are blemish, frailty and decay

Will I get at something?
Will I ever be complete?
Build by dust, born to slave away
Taste an angel's lifeblood
So pure and bittersweet
Build of nothing, born to decay

Deep in my mind, there rests the ghost
Of an innocent soul
Capped by darkness and dismay
Out of these depths, I slay so cruel
And so confident
Will I ever be set free?

Woh

Lust prevails my temper
Endless rapture turns to grief
A silent scream which fraudulent arises

Without shelter (without shelter)
Your wounds lead me to lambency
Spouts truth above your lies

Step by step
Piece by piece
Cut by cut
We reach the end together

(Deep in my)
Deep in my mind, there rests the ghost
Of an innocent soul
Capped by darkness and dismay
Out of these depths, I slay so cruel
And so confident
Will I ever be set free?

Take this cloak from me
Your offer I will not embrace
A failure once for me
Not to be driven into hate

Will I ever be set free?
Will I ever be complete?
Will I ever be set free?
Will I, can I, ever be complete?

Deep in my mind, there rests the ghost
Of an innocent soul
Capped by darkness and dismay
Out of these depths, I slay so cruel
And so confident
Will I ever be set free?
Be set free
Come set me free
Be set free
Set me free

You're standing numb
Looking back, how long already?
How could you, fool, flee to the world
Just right before the break of winter?

And nothing in this world will change
All just stays the same

The world, a gate
To a thousand deserts
Silent and cold
And one who's lost
What you have lost
Does stop at nothing
Never rests

You're standing pale
Damned to go off on your winter-travel
Just like the smoke that's always seeking
Colder, chiller, higher skies

And nothing in this world will change
All just stays the same

The world, a gate
To a thousand deserts
Silent and cold
And one who's lost
What you have lost
Does stop at nothing
Never rests

Fly, bird
And sing your song
In the way of the desert bird
And hide, you fool
This bleeding heart
In ice and snow
In chill and scorn

Yeah
Ooh

Yeah

Save your prayers before they swoon
This bitter cold that came so soon
Every story has its end
His future dreams forever banned

Oh, my dearest Winterchild
Overwhelmed by coldness
Ice and snow at night

The crows are screaming
And fly whirring towards town
Soon it will snow
Woe betide those who don't have home

And nothing in this world will change
All just stays the same

The world, a gate
To a thousand deserts
Silent and cold
And one who's lost
What you have lost
Does stop at nothing
Never rests

Fly, bird
And sing your song
In the way of the desert bird
And hide, you fool
This bleeding heart
In ice and snow
In chill and scorn

Skies above the endless seas
Engulf horizons till they disappear
At a sign, a ship shaking its masts
Passes by like a fortress
Floating on wastelands

Flocks of cranes sail to the skies
Where never ending paths arise
Neath the blunt and timid sun
Skies above the endless seas
The ship, the ocean, the days are gone

Likewise lives and youth pass by
They pass away like a lie
Likewise lives and youth pass by
And die

Skies full of stars above endless seas
Horizons till they disappear
An enormous ship shaking its masts
Passes by like a floating keep

Skies above the endless seas
The ship, the ocean, the days are gone

But till I'm not six feet underground
My angels bow to my mourning sound
And sing along my weeping
Over and over again

Likewise lives and youth pass by
They pass away like a lie
But till I'm not six feet underground
My angels, bow to my mourning sound

And sing along my weeping
Over and over
With the passion of a new born lover
Again

And then, I will look behind to the world
Like those who don't have much to tell
(Each other)
When they can't say what they want
In the shadow of these ancient walls
In their silence, I lay down to rest

In the same silence
That swallowed the travelers
Who fell asleep in time
Who are now forgotten by eons

Time is the water
In which we drown
Time is the fire
In which we burn

Likewise lives and youth pass by
They pass away like a lie
Likewise lives and youth pass by
(And die) and die

Time is the water
In which we drown
Time is the fire
In which we burn

It is the mind, which creates the world about us
And even though we stand side by side
My eyes will never see what is beheld by yours
My heart won't respond to your touch

Out of the caverns of the pain
Like a child from the womb, stillborn
Like a ghost from the tomb
I arise and unbuild it again

We don't see things as they are
We see them as we are
And all that we see or seem to be
Is but a dream within a dream
I see life blurred and shallow
Every day by day
In this world's theatre
In which I stay

Three death gently descends
From spheres up high
Staring into my cold and humid eyes

You're closing your eyes
Try turning your head
Away from the gloom
Trying to forget

But when I start to laugh, she mocks
And when I cry she laughs
And hardens evermore her heart
But when I start to laugh, she mocks
And when I cry she laughs

"All things come to those who wait"
I say these words to make me glad
But something answers, soft and sad
"They come but often come too late"

We don't see things as they are
We see them as we are
And all that we see or seem to be
Is but a dream within a dream
I see life blurred and shallow
Every day by day
In this world's theatre
In which I stay

Three death gently descends
From spheres up high
Staring into my cold and humid eyes

You're closing your eyes
Try turning your head
Away from the gloom
Trying to forget

But something answers, soft and sad
"They come but often come too late"

'Cause I am sick of this way of life
As life is sick of the way we pretend
But I have walked with Death hand in hand
And Death's own hand is warmer than my own

Out of the caverns of the pain
Like a child from the womb, stillborn
Like a ghost from the tomb
I arise and unbuild it again

We don't see things as they are
We see them as we are
And all that we see or seem to be
Is but a dream within a dream
I see life blurred and shallow
Every day by day
In this world's theatre
In which I stay

("All things come to those who wait")
(I say these words to make me glad)
(But something answers, soft and sad)
("They come but often come too late")

He hears the call
Which destines his fall
A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul
And now the tide turns
The blackest flame still burns
Immortally he's waiting so unconcerned

Before the blade penetrates his skin
(Penetrates his skin)
A versant cloud enwraps his body
(Enwraps his body)
Slowly and dreadfully
(And dreadfully)
A subtle cut brings liberty

His path of blasphemy
Atrocious angels lead his way
To apathy
An apathy revealed by sway

By Cain's force assigned
Ferocious demons crawl to mate
Black altar wine
Flows to blur his fate

Beyond the veil
Amongst the vultures
Beneath the sky
He lives his dream

Inside his veins throbs mortal poison
(Throbs mortal poison)
The netherworld has opened its gates
(Has opened its gates)
Wide and enormous
(Wide and enormous)
A final cut brings liberty

The candles leave their set
All sounds extinguish in the dark
No hope and no regret
Silence rules his heart

No whisper sent to God
Abysmal hate turns to dismissal
Cold becomes hot
His soul leaves in a glorious bliss

He hears the call
Which destines his fall
A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul
And now the tide turns
The blackest flame still burns
Immortally he's waiting so unconcerned

Inside his veins the poison dries
(The poison dries)
The netherworld has closed its gates
(Has closed its gates)
Amongst the vultures
(Amongst the vultures)
He will make all his dreams come true
(Come true)

(Years of ignorance have gone)
(Mankind destroys and rapes the earth)
(The world withers and the end comes soon)

Will I, can I ever by unbound and flawless?
Will I, can I ever be so alive?

Another step to peace
Another memory has gone
Another time we'll see the end
The setting of the sun

And all the shades seem now so clear
Every cloud has disappeared
The sun encases all the moments
We'd wish to be seared

What brings the end, what brings the time?
What keeps my memories alive?
What makes the world we're living in
A better place at a better time?
What brings the end?
What brings the time?
What makes this world we're living in
A better place for a better life?

(The years went by and the earth)
(Still falls and decays)
(Slowly we unfurl the storms)

Will we, can we ever be tougher?
Stronger than the rest?
Can we ever be so alive?

We've gone finally but why
The wave of fortune passes by
The thirteen demons burn the gates
And so the earth enrages

What brings the end, what brings the time?
What keeps my memories alive?
What makes the world we're living in
A better place at a better time?
What brings the end?
What brings the time?
What makes this world we're living in
A better place for a better life?

Can't you see all the blindness in their eyes?
Can't you feel that the spiteful ghosts arise?
Don't you know I'm the sinner in disguise?
I sense your dirty lies

Yeah

No cries of grief (???)
Nor of delight (???)
Only dismal (???)
Omnipresent (???)
Silence (???)

What brings the end, what brings the time?
What keeps my memories alive?
What makes the world we're living in
A better place at a better time?
What brings the end, what brings the time?
What keeps my memories alive?
What makes this world we're living in
A better place for a better life?

What brings the end?
What brings the end?
What brings the end, what brings the time?
What brings the end, what brings the time?

Yeah

Throughout the field of unshaded grace
Within the land of the never ending sun
With all the appropriate compliance, I strive
For the sunset, for all time from now to then

I cannot free myself from the memory
Warmth surrounding me

In the darkest corner of my mind
A childish joy overwhelming me
While aggrieving insects
Smashing rocks on them
A wholeheartedly joy
Aggrieving, crushing
It fills me from the navel to the chaff

Now, as I refuse to soar myself above others
It's getting cold, deep inside of me
It's been a decision of my mind, not of heart
A coldness that makes me shiver
Catches up to me, displaces warmth
Abiding my decision
I ache for the times I was free

To unleash this childish joy and warmth
(The decision was made somehow)
To unleash this childish joy and warmth
(It was without my anticipation)

It's a long way from home one to the other side
A fucked up journey

When you try to walk away from yourself
From the darkest corner of your mind
(The decision was made somehow)
(It was without your anticipation)

Into the never-ending sunset
The memory, a so-called friend
Is always accompanying me
Torturing me by reflecting what I was

I cannot free myself from the memories
In the land of the never-ending sun

(Dust and oblivion)
(Lay down onto my name)
(My stone they've raped)
(With the rules of the game)

A grey whisper dying
New grey day upon me
Fetters all the colors
That once used to be

No, you can't deny it
Can't deny the raining
Catch my tears falling
And sip of me, and drink of me, at last

As if you didn't know
Me, memory, to tame
I should have known
It would never be the same

I'd live twice the pain
To even be the flowers
You'd hold for me in vain

Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name
My stone they've raped with the rules of the game

I'm like lost chapters of an old welkin book
Please wipe your tears, my dear, and my funeral look

Driven by suffering
Haunted by hate
Whatever tomorrow brings
I sharpened my blade

As if you didn't know
Me, memory, to tame
I should have known
It would never be the same

A grey whisper dying
New grey day upon me
Fetters all the colors
That once used to be

No, you can't deny it
Can't deny the raining
Catch my tears falling
And sip of me, and drink of me, at last

Where are the sweet poems
Pieces of the whole
Pictures of you, violins
To indulge my broken soul

Rain, music you wrote
For your beloved dead
Word splintered before
They could have been said

I'd die once more to live
This moment again
To hold you near
To soothe my pain

Driven by suffering
Haunted by hate
Whatever tomorrow brings
I sharpened my blade

Driven by suffering
Haunted by hate
Yeah

Driven by suffering
Haunted by hate
Whatever tomorrow brings
I sharpened my blade

Driven by suffering
(A grey whisper dying)
Haunted by hate
(?????)
Whatever tomorrow brings
(Fetters all the colors)
(That once used to be)

I wander through a desolate land
On a cold and barren day
I wander beneath a shadow
Under a light so chill, so gray
My thoughts beneath the shadow
That will not pass away
My thoughts beneath the shadow
That will not fade away
Faces that avert are pale
Voices thin with fear
Silent streets and alleys wind
Windless skies so drear
Wither beneath the shadow

What is this grisly visage
That sears their souls with dread?
What demon constant follows me
And tints the sun so red?
What is this fiend whose shadow Taints lands wherever I tread?
Faces that avert are pale
Voices thin with fear
Silent streets and alleys wind
Windless skies so drear
Wither beneath the shadow
Faces that avert are pale
Voices thin with fear
Silent streets and alleys wind
Windless skies so drear
Writhing whispers that I hear

To turn and look
Upon its face
Brought fear I'd never known
The shadow
Has ever haunted me
As I walk the earth so alone
When I turned, no face I saw
For the shadow was my own
When I turned, no face I saw
For the shadow was my own
Wither beneath the shadow
Faces that avert are pale
Voices thin with fear
Silent streets and alleys wind
Windless skies so drear
Writhing whispers that I hear