A dainty figure in the morning mist
"Bide your time and hold out hope"
She whispered, "Or set your heart at rest
For it's a foolish heart I leave behind"

For all that once was is now gone
Wherever at this sleeper may lie
Sweetly to decease and be torn asunder
To bewail your loss in these nights

(The moon looks upon my departure)
(With a watery eye)

The hauntings of a wayward day
Shall never follow you on your way
For you to leave this, your bitter trail
I sought you, may this delight prevail

Our hearts filled with fright as we run
From the hideous presence of the sun
The hauntings of a wayward day
Shall never follow you on your way

Her mighty harbinger
A morning star
At the van of day, leaves no enmity
No contempt

The first gleams of sunlight
Illuminate the sky
So with reluctant dread
I hide from the vivid light

Aweary of the outset's
First sentinel
I cringe away
In deepest despair
(Ah)

The moon looks upon my departure
With a watery eye
Wanton winds accompany me
On my long way home

As I hear
The dawn's yearning call
I bid farewell
To you all

The hauntings of a wayward day
Shall never follow you on your way
For you to leave this, your bitter trail
I sought you, may this delight prevail

Our hearts filled with fright as we run
From the hideous presence of the sun
The hauntings of a wayward day
Shall never follow you on your way

I found a place to call home
My sanctuary in a world
Succumbing to grief
A gleam of hope
Like ivy embrace me
And don't let me go

My garden's bare trees
Now flourish again
The shadows they cast
Hide me away
From bale's burning light
Safely entwined
I hide until night

Be gone, parching sun
To the twilight that you came from
Be gone, away
Darken this idle day

Blessed by night's serenity
I will rise
From the ashes of a burned down life
Burned down life

I smother every smoldering fire
That threatens the orchards bloom
Upon the oath I took
I forever will take what is mine

Be gone, parching sun
To the twilight that you came from
Be gone, away
Darken this idle day

Blessed by night's serenity
I will rise
From the ashes of a burned down life
Burned down life

They say I fade into shades without a trace
A nocturnal child
Veiled and obscure, a myth yet uncovered
Don't you dare light my way

And then led astray he went away
To never return
But in his heart he carried the hope of his dreams
What may he have become?

Be gone, parching sun
To the twilight that you came from
Be gone, away
Darken this idle day

Blessed by night's serenity
I will rise
From the ashes of a burned down life
Burned down life

Another doleful day is dawning
Again your pillow is soaked with tears
(Soaked with tears)
And yet you have to realize why
Your life turned out to be this way

Lying awake in your darkest hour
All alone you pity yourself
(Pity yourself)
The question still remains in your head
A proof for your glorious self-treachery

You're drowning in the depth of your heart
Descending into the darkness below
I'm following my ardent longing to be free
Ascending into the heavens above

You never were brave enough
To save yourself
(To save yourself)
'Cause every victory holds the seed
For another defeat
So you just gave up the fight

There has been a mere break of faith
No deliverance from your dreadful sins
For you have lost the freedom you once had
Oh

You're drowning in the depth of your heart
Descending into the darkness below
I'm following my ardent longing to be free
Ascending into the heavens above

At solitary times
When the flickering static
Is your only friend
You wish you had chased all those dreams
You had along the way

A thousand lights
Fade every day
No one takes notice
But I will make
My way to the horizon
For I will not fade away

If a single star
Perishes in the night
No one will mourn
No one will mourn
But I will fight
For my trueborn liberty
For I will not go down
Down

You're drowning in the depth of your heart
Descending into the darkness below
I'm following my ardent longing to be free
Ascending into the heavens above

Oh

Like blindfolded
We're still unaware
This elucidation still elided

Unperceived
Deriving from us
Derision arises
In dissimulation

No ray of light in the distance
Movement without a sound

Shifting thoughts
In your head
Breaking down
Your static sense

Open your eyes
Hold your breath
Truth like a distancing effect
On second thought
This dream will end
Our postmodern world
Expiring today

Outrun by an incomplete
Social malfunction
Soon to negate
Our imaginary wisdom

The shortest distance
Is none
Falling earthwards
Intraday dereliction

Yeah

Not confined
Onto the smallest matter of mind
A single thought
Not to be deprived

Now you yourself
Are becoming a deity
The next step is done
A new era befalling

Open your eyes
Hold your breath
Truth like a distancing effect
On second thought
This dream will end
Our postmodern world
Expiring today

Rapidly
Disintegrate
Yeah

Instrumental

See the sadness
In their eyes
Searching for a spark
To ignite the flame

See your reflection in their eyes
For we are nothing but the same
Pictures of a transitory state
Hidden deep within

Something we have lost
Not too long ago
No recollection
Of our former destination

To temper justice with mercy is
To let the weakness prevail
In a world where nothing is sacred
In darker times and in search for the truth

The foreclosure of human nature
Binding us all in despair
Shall no longer take hold of us
For it is beyond a mortal's share

Beyond the margins of this stern society
We rediscover remnants of our lives
Venturing out on the sky beneath our feet
The will is set, only death may break it

So let's take a part of the world
And make it our own
Just you and I
Lost in delusions of grandeur
A thought so bittersweet
Light the beacon and lead the way
Just you and I
Just you and I, my friend
Just you and I

The vast neon outshines the sky
For every earthborn light a star shall perish
These endless streets are burning bright
Origin of savage apparitions

Amongst the nightly cityscapes
Where we reign
Urban panorama

Centuries of constant motion
In a city that never sleeps
Vanishing in the crowd
We disappear from your reach

Find your solace in these countless alleyways
Shimmering districts of a radiant utopia
Vibrant crossroads at the pulse of time
Ascendancy of sheer beauty, so divine

Rain clouds dissembling the sky
The smell of burning concrete in the air
In slow motion faces waving past our way
A never-ending flow beyond the means

Centuries of constant motion
In a city that never sleeps
Vanishing in the crowd
We disappear from your reach

Listening to the heartbeat of a time
Traffic lights setting the rapid pace
Captivating surges of sound
Evoking this sudden revelation

Overwhelmed by the scenery sublime
Drifting through the perpetuating nights
Monumental disorder in perfect symmetry
As we're joining the dreamlike midnight carnival

At the end of our journey
As we're stepping into the limelight
Urban panorama

Centuries of constant motion
In a city that never sleeps
Vanishing in the crowd
We disappear from your reach

Reignite the sky
And outshine the stars
The age of repentance has come
So let us travel to a new world
Into the incandescent ever bright

We are children
Born of an abhorrent
Civilization laid to waste
No, we will not stay here
For we shall not
Bear our forefathers' loss

This is our requiem to darksome days
Our epitaph to misery
So let us forsake these lands' sullen shores
The sky is ours and forever will be

Down-heartened souls
Haunt these timeworn cityscapes
But I sense a spark of hope
While we stand with dignity

Illuminate the path
That leads away from here
Finally
The reign of light may come
(May come)

Reignite our sleeping sun
The nova of a star yet gone
New faith found with a god
In each of us
In each of us

This is our requiem to darksome days
Our epitaph to misery
So let us forsake these lands' sullen shores
The sky is ours and forever will be

Reignite our sleeping sun
The nova of a star yet gone
New faith found with a god
In each of us
In each of us

Follow the celestial guide
Into endless fields of light
Towards a sun shining
For each of us
For each of us

Waking up on a moonlight meadow at night
A gentle breeze blowing like autumn's first breath
Stumbling through the murk I explore the shades
Leaving all the past anxieties far behind

The celestial stars are shifting
As the grass starts to sway in the wind
Branches silently groaning around me
I'm standing in misery and woe

The rising haze takes away
My bitter cloak of mourning
And so my will to live had died
Becoming a lone wayfarer
Never to return

A fate condemned into the dark
Amongst the shadows I wander
Where only candles light my way
Throughout these fields of forsaken souls

Watch the lonely candle's flames burning out
Still even in deepest despair there's a spark of hope
I'm all alone seeing my veneration subside
Where solemn faces are edged upon a hallowed soil

The rising haze takes away
My bitter cloak of mourning
And so I became
One with the wind
A wanderer seeking solace
In the faraway

I hear the spirits
Dance around my memories in black
Laughing at my despair and tears
Carried away by the stormy gale
To fall like rain on distant shores

The rising haze takes away
My bitter cloak of mourning
And so I'm telling you
This vagrant story
Of a restless soul
Unbound and free
Unbound and free

Pictures of a floating world
In front of the inward eye
On the verge of a quiet night
I head towards the coast

The remembrance of all that I have
To leave behind
Aside the mighty shorelines
Where I now reside

I sense a sudden disruption
In the stream of consciousness
Amidst the crashing waves
While I stare into the setting sun

Bring salvation to what is me
Feeble and lonely
Let duskfall embrace this day
Set the sea ablaze

Once lost within the dark chamber
That was my heart
I will open a passage
To uncharted frontiers

Longwinded change of cognition
In the blink of an eye
Leaving the calamity far behind
I wade beyond the surge

Oh

Bring salvation to what is me
Feeble and lonely
Let duskfall embrace this day
Set the sea ablaze

"The pathway to deliverance lies ahead
As the night settles in
Wandering off into the afar
I can hear her voice in the distance
Calling out my name"

Bring salvation to what is me
Feeble and lonely
Let duskfall embrace this day
Set the sea ablaze

Bring salvation to what is me
Feeble and lonely
Let duskfall embrace this day
Set the sea ablaze