Subsignal - Beautiful & Monstrous lyrics
Tracks 01. Where Angels Fear To Tread
02. Paradigm 03. The Sea 04. The Trick Is To Keep Breathing 05. Walking With Ghosts 06. I Go With The Wind 07. To Hope The Road Is Long 08. Beautiful & Monstrous 09. The Last Light Of Summer 11. Rain Is The Most Beautiful Color 01. Where Angels Fear To Tread Lyrics by Steffen
there is a fragile space between
what is and what is done all the words tainted with a smile that made us laugh and cry we swayed like fireflies beneath the red limelight when we strayed under cloudy skies we renewed the league of dreamers but through it all was no common ground we were close yet so far away. in many subtle ways you've killed the coil with your monumental dreams with your simple-minded dreams, yeah there is a lonely place inside your head where all voices fail to reach and even angels fear to tread, oh outside open secrets spread both of you were meshed together, just like savants living in a world where you only pretend to care. in many clever ways you've killed the coil with your monumental dreams with your simple-minded dreams, yeah there is a distant place inside your head where all voices fail to reach and even angels fear to tread, oh and your biography is like a looking-glass there's someone you don't know? there's someone no one knows? 02. Paradigm Lyrics by Williamson
daylight sleeps as night falls
and marks the end of the day while half the world lies sleeping the other will start to find its lonely way what do we do when no one needs us where can we go when no one cares what do we do when no one wants us living a life with nothing there open our eyes to a new beginning open our minds to a paradigm open our hearts to an understanding in the face of adversity, not this time i will walk this earth i will cleanse this life and I can justify my reasons propaganda has run strong etymology's sacred song as they will multiply their legions gravity holding me, space surrounding me the threats of life as they keep binding me wire in the blood, engine in the heart ignite the light i feel is fueling me I understand the reasons why I fall apart finding my strength, controlling pain a stronger and fuller heart which yet I have to gain and in my paradigm I see my inner self it's looking back at me, my entity a life-support with reason and intend through these eyes for everything that I have seen and my empathy that fills the spaces in between as I am standing here bathing in the morning light as time moves forward I can understand that in all of my empty thoughts lie for all the things that be and for all the things I see energy that all around is holding me me lifeline through the matrix of our times close my eyes so I may see into the blinding light 03. The Sea Lyrics by Steffen
something broke the even surface,
camouflaged and partly blind, parading fireflies in the orange light. something nameless woke when we closed our eyes to the burning salt on an island surrounded by the sea and the darkened earth. each other's perfect luck and each other's pain each other's promise and each other's guilt each other's blessing and each other's curse each other's everything each other's loss each other's blue sky each other's rain each other's sunlight and each other's night each other's paradise and each other's hell some things remain while others get lost I saw the writhing shapes of men bathed in moonlight, beautiful and monstrous, we're a song felt in the deepest bones, felt the soothing wind like a lover's warmth, we're like butterflies with flailing wings inside the palm just a picture dear swallowed by the sea, by the sea?.. 04. The Trick Is To Keep Breathing Lyrics by Steffen
how can we move on
with all the scars that numb the soul? how can we just simply smile while half the world is going down? (this time, going down, this time) oh, if love is not enough this time what is left to cling to? while avidity just grows, the more we know the less we seem to care all that we can do in this cold all that we can do in this emptiness (this emptiness) all that we can do in this life all that we can do is keep breathing now (keep breathing now) all that we can do in this light all that we can do on this winding road (this winding road) all that we can do in this life all that we can do is keep going on (keep going on and on) so many times we blindly throw away what has been given and even more times we surrender to the writing on the wall (this time, it's going down, this time) and you and me holding a plain truth that change is no illusion but in the wake of circumstance we'll walk on to where the story ends all that we can do in this cold all that we can do in this emptiness (this emptiness) all that we can do in this life all that we can do is keep breathing now (keep breathing now) all that we can do in this light all that we can do on this winding road (this winding road) all that we can do in this life all that we can do is keep going on, going on and on 05. Walking With Ghosts Lyrics by Steffen
find you here no more
just an empty space everything is sleeping in this shadow all files erased all memories replaced everything is waiting in this shadow I can't let go now of this shadow I won't let go now of this? I remember your hands tugging me like a rope to my perdition, to my desire I remember your voice calling me in your embrace, soothing me, consoling me, drowning me when you stole from my room the mark and all the precious words that you left upon my soul wouldn't let me grow wouldn't let me find my way the world got much older then and I wonder if I tried to strip my life of all you were, to cover all the tracks that led us to our yesterdays I paint ourselves in pictures, unsheltered yet unspoiled, the frames are made of liquid air of the moon and starlight I need to fill the space with all my yearning to quench my thirst with all songs that you left me, it's time now to elevate the myth of you still walking with your ghost still walking with your ghost so lead me out of this darkness and this shadow so I can begin where we ended then, it's time now to minimize the myth of you forever walking with your ghost I'm walking with your ghost cause forever I'm walking with your I'm walking with your light alone 06. I Go With The Wind Lyrics by Steffen
don't you worry
cause I'm safe and calm right now evening's falling and I'm nourished by the rain Markus Steffen they say that leaving is a way of going down torn asunder on a long and winding road so now a train pulls out at night the wind sits in my sails you know that I must be going when all is said and tides pull in and out summoning my name I can't stop? all through the night alone with the wind until the memory haunts me again all through the night alone with the wind anywhere I lay my weary head dark is coming as I'm holding out all we are is all we are ever longing to be home is where I am and where I go? it's all gone now the port of Larne in the mist moving onward to shorelines in west the sea is roaring with voices of goodbyes but I'm sheltered Saint Christopher by my side they say that going it can only bring you down I might end up end up as I began but all is said and tides pull in and out whispering my name I can't stop all through the night alone with the wind until the memory haunts me again all through the night alone with the wind anywhere I lay my weary head dark is coming as I'm holding out all we are is all we are ever longing to be home is where I am and where I go? 07. To Hope The Road Is Long Lyrics by Bertok
There...Stretching on for miles
Roads to paradises unfound To your Elysium Dare... To search those marble isles And your wishes hit ground- The ancient atrium Notions keep spinning inside us Motion keeps bringing the tide More Of those Winding tracks And the blinding traces inside the mind Your ego's trembling cracks Personal-Divine Lies the truthful wine Son of travel you'll be and sing And someone else returning Walk On Be your road never-ending Wisdom Is yielding to its bending Homeward As long as we grow finding Wayward And it's twisting without turning back Learn The wordless thoughts Hope that you´ll journey on And that your road is long Silence whispers And your heart still sings And whoever you'll meet again will think That someone else was returning Walk On Your road be never-ending Wisdom Is yielding to its bending Homeward As long as we grow finding Wayward And it's twisting without turning back Without loosing its track Making you weary, Making you sleepy "Keep your silence, deaf to sirens, blind to comfort, blind to rest and steadily..." Yielding indulgence Yield to their presence Walk On Your road be never-ending Wisdom Is yielding to its bending Homeward As long as we grow finding Wayward And it's twisting without turning back Taking More than we leave behind us Waking The thoughts that never found us Wayward A source of deep enlightenment Homeward And it's twisting without turning back... 08. Beautiful & Monstrous Lyrics by Steffen
outside my window
a world in shades of grey, things break and never really heal, and still I must be clinging on to something to feel alive? when all the earth is sleeping in the dark don't look for me and all the words I said cause there are things that must remain concealed thought we were one, thought we were one once I keep on searching cause I believe believe life to be worth more than a dream would you release me from all that I feel would you just save me from going down Mother, help me through the longest of nights. Mother, save me so that I can walk on, walk on with light in my eyes walk on with light in my eyes hear the mountains roar and watch the skies collapse the deserts drink the rivers as shore swallows the sea a metaphor, a mirror, pictures that delude compromise the beauties and apogees of things Mother, help me through the longest of nights. Mother, save me so that I can walk on, walk on with sun in my eyes walk on with sun in my eyes in my eyes put a blanket on this freezing soul of my emptiness and insecurity that fears that love is that fears that love is to die next warm me with an ancient wind of time, mighty Gaia, immemorial and plain pour your poetry over me now cover me to sleep beneath the stars 09. The Last Light Of Summer Lyrics by Steffen
Firenze 1992
the sun was setting, setting still upon the bridge of old the river was an open road ahead, a highway without end, all pines were dark. we did paint a fresco of our lives with wine, did carve our names in marble white beneath the monument where Dante lost his one true love but the unicorns have all disappeared and left us standing alone in the last light of summer the millboard sword is broken, the endmost dragon slain and lost, and if we could go back again now we only found two shades left mourning for those days and all unicorns somehow disappeared leaving us standing alone in the fading light of summer 11. Rain Is The Most Beautiful Color Lyrics by Steffen
so this is what it feels like
so this is what it looks like so this is what it tastes like the effigy of sadness let the rain wash over me let the pain wash over me so this is what I feel like so this is what I look like so this is how I see it the ultimate essence of pain this is the gentle touch of rain this is the color of my soul this is the beauty of it all this is the poison and its cure lay down, lay down beside of me don't be, don't be afraid of the pour rest your, rest your weary head let go, let go of all you have, have known. you might think I want to stand in this grey shade despised by all that lives and shines you would be wrong you might think everything I see and breathe is the fading light of fall you're so wrong for everything I see and breath everything I hear and feel everything I write and say is my life everything that makes you turn makes you turn away from me makes you turn away from me is my peace? this is the gentle touch of rain this is the color of my soul this is the beauty of it all this is the poison and its cure |