In the house of Lecter
The table is always set for Seth
Such a delicate feast
Is presented to the lovely folk

And the host is a ghost of the past
Ever-changing are his stories
But no lies are told inside these walls

This body is a house
Which quietly, softly decays
I know the night
Will bring me closer to death

They say and I'm sure
That you have heard it, too
That human flesh
Is served there

That might be the case
But surely it is not
The most fucked up thing there

This body is a house
Which quietly, softly decays
I know the night
Will bring me closer to death

(You might want to think twice)
Before entering this house
For here is the trick
These tall tales become reality
After you leave this old house
Lived by Lecter

(Am I? Is it me?)
(Who can it be?)
(My house, my rules)

"And so Lecter ends his tale
And hands you a gift
A script of your soon ending life
And his stories are always fucked up"

Now I have to go alone
Leave the scars on the face
Even if the eyes would close
It's still written on me
Draw the shape in half
Draw the shape in half

I want to turn every stone
And to scour every rootstock
For the number of possibilities
Is boundless

In the mist
Shadows entwine with spirits
I see figures
They tell about the space
Beyond our consciousness
As I step into the fog
Reality blurs

In the mist
Shadows entwine with spirits
I see figures
They tell about the space
Beyond our consciousness
As I step into the fog
Reality blurs

I want to turn every stone
And to scour every rootstock
For the number of possibilities
Is boundless

Every path has to be explored
My wandering shall never stop

Fighting against the insurmountable winter
But at the same time
Knowing that this is what I need to do
Release your mind from fear

Become hollow
Observe from the outside
The only way to see it
I'm already dead

They tell about the space
Beyond our consciousness
As I step into the fog
Reality blurs

I follow the nocturne
Observe in silence
What does that make of me?
Maybe I just want to follow the trail?
And find something from the dark?

Those who walk during the day
Cannot understand the yearning
From the light of the stars you can gain
Something that will kill the thirst
But just for a second

Smoke will cover
Those rays of light
And you just have to
Wander on

In the haze of dawn
The silhouettes are cast
To the horizon
A line drawn to the water
That breaks once you throw
The first stone
You can see it in the clouds
If you want
Or if you can bend the time
In ways that the end
Becomes the beginning
And the path
Is just revealing itself

In pitch black you need no eyes
Because you can't see a thing

Smoke will cover
Those rays of light
And you just have to
Wander on

In the haze of dawn
The silhouettes are cast
To the horizon
A line drawn to the water
That breaks once you throw
The first stone
You can see it in the clouds
If you want to
Or if you can bend the time
In ways that the end
Becomes the beginning
And the path
Is just revealing itself

Yeah
Whoa
Absinthian

So are you in or are you not?
To open the knot
She asked me with a smile
Most mesmerizing and foul

How could've I known
That by accepting
I would be sucked
Into a vortex of madness?
And the way out
Would be lost for me
Until I would find the lock

That was however
Only step one
The key was buried
Inside a stone of goat
Protected by oath
Which one could not conjure
Without the knowledge
Of the night side

Oh, Absinthian
How beautiful are thy eyes
And thy scent of lust
Drives even the strongest man insane
(How did I get lost in this labyrinth?)
The flame in the candle is flickering

In the cold breeze
That must be the way out
(But I was wrong)

Oh, Absinthian
You cursed me

It would have been probably
Easier just to pull the teeth out
But I guess
For you it was never an option

Oh, Absinthian
How did your beauty
Turn so quick into cruelty?

This I must ask myself
Before I can use the key
Oh, Absinthian

"Listen to what is in some ways
The first great speech of the poem
In book 1 of the 12 books
Satan, cast down by God to Hell
With the other Rebel Angels
Sees close by him One next to himself
In power and next in crime
Beelzebub, Satan's lieutenant
And Satan addresses him like this"

"If thou beest he but o, how fall'n
How chang'd from him
Who in the happy Realms of Light
Cloth'd with transcendent brightness
Didst out-shine myriads though bright
If he Whom mutual league
United thoughts and counsels
Equal hope and hazard in the Glorious Enterprise
Joined with me once
Now misery hath joined in equal ruin
Into what Pit thou seest
From what height fall'n
So much the stronger prov'd he with his thunder
And till then who knew
The force of those dire arms?
Yet not for those
Nor what the Potent Victor in his rage can else inflict
Do I repent or change
Though chang'd in outward lustre
That fixed mind and high disdain
From sense of injur'd merit
That with the mightiest rais'd me to contend
And to the fierce contention brought along
Innumerable force of spirits arm'd
That durst dislike his reign
And me preferring his utmost power
With adverse power oppos'd
In dubious battle on the plains of Heav'n
And shook his throne"

In flickering dreams
Of dark fantasies
Blood is dripping down
From the ceiling
Taking forms
That remind you
About the shadows of the past

But what is done now
You can never take back
The fallen star
From the brightest light
Rebellion heart at its purest

Born of flames
Baptized in fire
Bear chaos
Inside this shell of flesh
Hold the scepter
Burn the eyes of your god
This is my wolf pack
You are my prey
This is my wolf pack
You are my prey

Twisted faces take form
In the vapor of your window glass
Demanding to know
What have you done?

As years go by
You just wipe them away
With a grin
Behind your mask

Your steps so malicious
That flowers around you wither
Steps so cold
That the morning dew freezes
"Come taste the light
Of my guidance", you say
But blinded are those
Who walk towards the light
Blessed are we
Who dwell in the night

You keep on looking for answers
But don't like the ones I can give
Dig your own grave deeper and deeper
Until you are in the bottom
And can't reach the edge
But blinded are those
Who walk towards the light
Blessed are we
Who dwell in the night

"What though the field be lost?
All is not lost
The unconquerable will
And study of revenge, immortal hate
And courage never to submit or yield
And what is else not to be overcome?
That glory never shall his wrath
Or might extort from me
To bow and sue for grace
With suppliant knee, and deify his power
Who from the terror of this arm so late
Doubted his Empire
That were low indeed
That were an ignominy and shame beneath this downfall
Since by fate the strength of gods
And this Empyreal substance cannot fail
Since through experience of this great event
In arms not worse, in foresight much advanc'd
We may with more successful hope resolve
To wage, by force or guile, eternal war
Irreconcilable, to our grand foe
Who now triumphs"

You keep on looking for answers
But don't like the ones I can give
Dig your grave deeper and deeper
Until you are in the bottom
And can't reach the edge

"Come taste the light
Of my guidance", you say
But blinded are those
Who walk towards the light
Blessed are we
Who dwell in the night

Born of flames
Baptized in fire
Bear chaos
Inside this shell of flesh
Hold the scepter
Burn the eyes of your god
This is my wolf pack
You are my prey
This is my wolf pack
You are my prey

The doors are sealed shut
Somehow though I know how to function
And what feels right
The seed has been planted too deep
And men won't realize it until it's too late

This just cannot go on
If you turn your face too many times
Your neck will break

And after that
You see nothing
It is hard to scream
With a mouth full of dirt
But you won't need to
Because
You are already free

You don't need to accept
Any gifts
Because there is no reason
To celebrate

Everybody just waste
Themselves in vain
And give out parts of their souls
Like they are pieces of bread
Those crumbs
That Hansel and Gretel
Left in the woods

But they got lost
Even though they held
Each other's hands
One cannot lie in such things
Not after you have seen
How walls are melting

A moth is trying to get in
Behind the window
Towards the light
It does not realize
That it will cost its life
But that light
Is just too tempting
That it becomes the meaning
Of its life
Just like those scars

"What once was written
Was no more
And everything that was to be written after that
Was absurd
And the words were hanging in the air
Like the first hit of acid"

One cannot lie in such things
Not after you have seen
How the walls are melting
And the ground is in flames

Arms full of scars
And they just keep on coming
The scars just keep on coming
The scars
They just keep on coming
The scars
They just keep on coming

Whoa

Curses are written
On a different plane
Mixed with acid
And what becomes
Of that riddle
Is a whole another story
Altogether

How beautifully
The frozen flowers shatter
As fragile as life

If you think about it too much
You fall into a bottomless pit
And just keep on falling
Eternally

As the sun rises the shadows flee
But they flee not the light

I can baptize you into a better being
But you must give up the old
A treasure that will destroy you
But before that you are god

Which side of the mirror
You stand on
If you stare into the limbo
Turn your eyes away
The truth is somewhere else
To be found

Even the strongest chain snaps
But not to break
But to set free

(I can baptize you into a better being)
(But you must give up the old)
(A treasure that will destroy you)
(But before that you are god)