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Aleph - In Tenebra lyrics



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01. The Fallen

I carry inside of me the corpse of a child died many years ago
Sometimes I'm being asked where it might be...
Strangled by your stupid ingenious false stories
To show that I am good-bad-innocent-culpable as you need
To depict me - I'm proud that I've become the one you scorn most:
Sometimes beautiful and stupid, mean and clever
I hate you, I hate your judgement, your senseless sentences,
You're just bastard sons of your own hypocrisy,
Falsehood and envy - you're worth nothing in my head.

Now... I don't wanna hear human breath no more
I can't stand your presence,
Just a morbid, misanthropical desire pervades my brain.
No longer will you corrode my liver with your goddamn voices.
Only with myself I can be reborn emperor
From this pulpit from which I will
Lie
Deceive
Enslave
Like an unfaithful, like an unfaithful, like an unfaithful ?

02. Unfaithful

Sink too deep in my own thoughts
Parallel worlds melt with reality
Melted by nightmares and phobias
Tie my brain tie my brain darkest taste rises
In a maze of fragments of instability
What was clear now crumbles down
How long is it gonna last before its fall
For it has staggered once

I'm the emperor of madness slave to myself
Slave to myself in the kingdom of sad truth - no truth.
Tower from which I can lie unseen,
Battlefield where I can face my worst enemy
A monster called indifference.
My empire, I still don't know how far.
Yes I'm the maniac emperor in the empire of madness

Real nightmares they know they are here to stay
Neurotic and anesthesized
My rule, a castle held by hate and injustice - My rule
Landscapes filled with frightful churches, peaceful cemeteries
Languages unknown but so clear,
They speak to me in my dreams.
A world populated by ones never existed but once lived
I thought 'em dead, thought 'em dead
They speak, I don't wanna hear.

I'm lost, you won't bleed with me...

03. Depths

Just pretend you're on the bottom of the calm ocean,
And then a little above
Fingers that caress the waves, waves caress the whole body
And I don't know whether reaching you,
My vague memory because once lucid
You would be the end of me.
I recall your mother kissing your brow
Even the treasure there concealed.
Oh I learned where love grazes death
And how words can fall apart from the heart
That's where the secret lies, with the love and sorrow
Of a last kiss

Son of earth born of planets that refuse their dying
Before they meet their dawn and sail again,
Son of earth cured I'll glyde again to birth.

What do I really want to recall
Do I long for the depths I'm looking for ?
Sinking through silences of colour,
Smiling at the tricks of my notes.
The sense hidden in the photograph
Is far from the soil you're digging
Unexpressed, searched with passion
Falls through your fingers
To remain unseen.

04. Mother Of all Nightmares

State of complete desolation, wandering the deepest mental void
aimless, reasonless
hate anger and fear triumph above man ever since.
He who sells good feelings and preachings is the first on the list of the worst deeds
love driven against us - feeling not to believe in from its very start.

Those who should have stayed with me were the same who taught me
how to feed the purest hate but they did to love each other.
The worst wrong, the worst wrong your mind knows what it's gotta do.
The worst, worst sentence how painful the price will be.

No one knows where the line between love and hate lies
Too many misunderstood acts, violences to justify
The mother of nightmares has drawn her path
An endless road, vicious circle with no exit at all
Do you like what they did ?

The mother of all nightmares has played her part ever since
Just hatred and uncertainty surround a meaningless existance.
To cure the rich babies sacrified, the screams weren't loud enough
To echo in their consciences - the poor they always succumb, it's always the same
Mother...

Lost souls roll into the bloody lake rotting aware of their guilt,
Souls of rich profiteers, minds more miserable than the blind beggars'
Hiding their lack of personality behind their straight thought
It dresses their dirty women in dead animal furs
Plaguing thousands so they can show their beauty bold
Look at yourselves, recognize such hypocrisy
What would you do for a crumb of power.

How many lives sacrified to your greed - mother never sleeps, it is you
Nothing's worthless than a man's life now - perhaps you get what you deserve.
Religions of love and brotherhood, the methods they change, the
Principles remain the same for the machine goes on and on -
Man I hate you and your maker.

05. In Tenebra

The sun devours the skyline red, for he knows
There ain't much time left
Fights with anger the blades of the night
The dark theater in
Soaked in the black blood flown from the day.
The skinny fingers of its
Last fire sink their terror as in quicksand
As they rise they twist in
The ancient dance - their last dance
Try to grasp the Red Moon, Witness
To pain and disease
And she joins the trance; dreams to be:
Winter - flood - heart of this weak planet - hatred of men - an orchid kissed by a little child
A stream carries the pilgrims' coffins to the sea
Its waters reflect but the nightmares, born of light
As the dead feed the ground so the river twines to the earth.
The river is deep
The river is wild
The river is cold The river is black

The wind talks to the night from the mountains of shadow
Speaks with voice of dream
Tells tales of sandstorms like dark tongues of fire
They claw the dying summer
The stones on the mesa shape the wind into laments of ghosts
Of mothers weeping over their children's bodies,
Victims of the revenge of their victims' children.

The wind is freezing
The wind is writing your name in the sand
The wind is a hiss The wind is black


The desert is witness, book of worn pages - turned by the impatient wind
With the smell of timeless sighs
Look, pilgrim, look -the skeletons' fingers point westward
Point to the sun/father, the sun/hangman, the defeated
Sun, the sun exiled
Look - at the rags protecting their bones from the
Hunger of the ground
Look at the empty sockets - mirror yourself into the void
Throat is dry, dust emptied your body

The desert devours the town
The desert cannot sleep
The desert is on fire The desert is black

06. The Fallen

(native lyrics)

07. Acid Tears

Chemical lightning penetrates a haunted sky
What is left is no longer alive
Industrial involution slowly suffoking the earth
Man shall waste away in the arms of his black soul
Acid tears-for a million years
Can't believe that we'd gone this far
Without you we would still live.


Acid tears - devour my skin
Acid Tears - the future we saw it ain't black for it's gray.

May our sons rest in peace
For these parents have done enough
Leaving a torn, barren planet behind
Ladies will wear their own snakeskin
Disfigured children swim in the azote sea
Filled with petrol-created demons
Breathing with amianthus lungs
Lost be our planet

(Man shall waste away in the arms of his black soul)