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Metal Symphonique / Pays-Bas
(2013 - Nuclear Blast)
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1. CRY FOR THE MOON (LIVE IN MISKOLC)

[Chorus]
Follow your common sense
You cannot hide yourself
Behind a fairytale forever and ever
Only by revealing the whole truth can we disclose
The soul of this bulwark forever and ever

Forever and ever

Indoctrinated minds so very often
Contain sick thoughts
And commit most of the evil they preach against

Don't try to convince me with messages from God
You accuse us of sins committed by yourselves
It's easy to condemn without looking in the mirror
Behind the scenes
Behind the scenes opens reality

[Verse]
Eternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forget

[Chorus]

Virginity has been stolen at very young ages
And the extinguisher loses its immunity
Morbid abuse of power in the garden of Eden
Where the apple
Where the apple gets a youthful
A youthful face

[Verse]

[Chorus]

Forever and ever

[Verse]

You can't go on hiding yourself
Behind old fashioned fairytales
And keep washing your hands in innocence


2. UNLEASHED

Declining - All color fading
Defining - Time coming for me
Rescinding - My inspiration
Receding consciousness

Back in the day - I can recall that
My thoughts were unclouded and sage
There was no black staining the walls of my memories
Now there's a haze pushing me sideways
And leaving me nothing to gain
Taking me back - Locking me cold in disparity

[Pre-Chorus]
Where was I meant to be?
I feel I'm lost in a dream
Long for the day I can be myself

[Chorus]
When I'm free
When my sun has set
Released my soul forever
I'll have no regret
To be free
I'll exist again
No more lost endeavors
Nothing to contend
When I'm free

Color declines - All that defines me
Is falling away - Far behind
Nothing to keep me with the time
The here and now

Where am I meant to be?
I feel I'm lost in a dream
Yearning again only to be myself

[Chorus]

Time is just a concept
And always the first thing to fade
Agony and weakness
Nothing we can never evade
Years are cruel - They break us
Bringing on decay and despair
Awareness and perception
Something we can never repair

Freedom for me is all I'm really wanting - Needing
Give me power to break out
I can't hold on for any longer
My time has come to end it all

No one to blame - Fate's only random
It's nothing we'll ever explain
So it remains

[Pre-Chorus]

Free

When will I be unleashed?
It's not the way it should be
Yearning again only to be myself
Free

When my sun has set
Released my soul forever
I'll have no regret
To be free
I'll exist again
No more lost endeavors
Nothing to contend
When I'm free


3. SANCTA TERRA

A place which I have searched a thousand times
To finally free myself
Forever wasn't ever long enough
I will refrain
I feel a passion washing over me
To shed the skin I'm in
This evolution will empower me
Now truth begins

[Pre-Chorus]
And you will not find me
I am safe in here
I'm where I want to be

[Chorus]
It's a place where a wish will be granted
Come - You'll see I'm right
It's a force that will live on within you
Dark as day is light
It's a place where your dreams will be slanted
And will always be
It's a force that was sent out to win you
Just you wait and see

Take one step closer to the borderline
Where night and day unite
This mortal coil I've gone and left behind
On holy soil

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

You will not find me
I am safe in here
I am where I want to be
So leave me now in peace

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus] (x2)


4. THE OBSESSIVE DEVOTION

Don't you ever blind me
Don't be a foolish thief
Am I?
Don't you ever bring yourself to grief
Don't you ever blind me
Don't ever trick my mind
Did I?
Don't you think that you can lie to me
Did I lie?
Fortuna exprimitur artibus falsis
Et mendacem memorem esse oportet

If he is your moon - I will be your earth
To which you can return - Safely or injured
I feel only misery for myself when
I look through the eyes of someone else

Don't you choke and bind me
Don't be a bleeding heart
Am I?
Fold then walk away or play your cards
Let us play!
Fortuna exprimitur artibus falsis
Et mendacem memorem esse oportet

If he is your moon - I will be your earth
To which you can return - Safely or injured
I feel only misery for myself when
I look through the eyes of someone else
I can't even recognize the path which has to be
Taken to enter infinity

Don't you dare me
I dare you
You don't care about me
I care about you
Don't you touch me
Liar

Fortuna exprimitur artibus falsis
Et mendacem memorem esse oportet

Adoratio permanebit
Quotiens me eges, adero

I prefer to be unhappy with you
Rather than being depressed without you
I belong to someone - I'm dedicated to
Nothing lasts forever but you - You do
I prefer to be a liar just like you
To fulfill my deepest desires
I belong to someone - I'm dedicated to
But all that I desire is you

One thoughtless moment passes in slow motion
As I lie down - I realise that
All I wish is to get rid of this obsessive devotion

Venia ad vitam aeternam
Non mibi, non tibi, sed nobis
Hit me as you can
Beat me as you wish
Liar
Fortuna mutual coniuncti
Per tota saecula futura
I have raised myself for you
But now I regret
Venia ad vitam aeternam
This is the end


5. DESIGN YOUR UNIVERSE (A NEW AGE DAWNS - PART VI)

We're blind and eager
Avarice will set us back to blank
Those who wager all will have to name a reason
If you can't let go - You will end up empty handed
If you can't control - You'll live your life in vain
Who decides about my time to come?
Who is able to break through the circle of life and doom?

[Pre-Chorus]
Don't look back
Keep on track to break the curse
Take the chance
Design your universe

[Chorus]
We can't undo what we have done
So show us now what we've become
Confront us with our viciousness
And our weakness
We can't evade our destiny
So show responsibility
For we all surely have a sense
Of our consciousness

To take for taking's sake
Will leave a path of loss and strain
And endless breaking of faith can warrant acts of treason
If you can't let go - You will end up empty handed
If you can't control - You'll live your life in vain
Who decides about what's true or false?
Who is able to sift through the treasures from the flukes?

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

The time has come - We have to see
That total wisdom is in reach
The time has come to colour in the lines
We must identify the signs
So many people are full of hate
While love and light are in their reach
So many people will harm themselves
But life can be so beautiful

So many people will idolize
While their own success is in their reach
Don't forget you're able to
Design your own universe
Find your balance - Sink into rumination
Ipsum te reperies
Potire mundorum
Potire omnis mundi

[Chorus]

Can't evade
Show us now
Confront us
With our weakness
Can't evade
Show us now
We have a sense


6. STORM THE SORROW

Along the way I find myself
To be confined within me
No place for any other's mind to interfere
To grasp the meaning of it all
To overcome my limits
And dance away from any void and empty tones
Just tell me why?
Just tell me how I can survive this time?

Believe yourself and look away
From all that's right within you
Leave all your worries at the door and drift away
I’ve tried to peer into the core
But could not storm the sorrow
My hollow heart has bled me dry - Left me to stray
Another time without a trace
Condemn me now
Send me to hell for I'm already failing

[Chorus]
Intertwine the lines
That swim beneath the dark
Realize the pain we live in
Demonize the need we reel in - No
In my memories I'll dig deep enough to know
Centuries of dreams unending
Another me that yielded tears when someone had betrayed

No time should ever go to waste
It’s not that complicated
You’re free to live your life at ease
No more restraints
No heed for shadows on your way
That try to steal your laughter
Your light will drive them all away
Be confident
Will I refrain?
Can I repent?
Will you be there?
Erase the page for I’m alone and ailing

[Chorus]

So - This is my life
And it can't break me down
Go - I will decide
Who can come in and heal my disease
Burn it in flames
Kill it and maim
Why can't you see that you need to be freed?

Intertwine the lines beneath the dark
Every bit of pain we're feeling
Every other solemn life - No
In the memories you will find somehow
There used to be a dream unending
No more need to be alone

[Chorus]

Someone had betrayed


7. NEVER ENOUGH

Can't you hear me screaming - Once again?
Voices you can't hear
Because you are consumed and incontent
With everlasting greed
Don't you see me on my hands and knees?
Begging and bleeding
You're smiling as you bite the hand that feeds
But will you never see?

[Pre-Chorus]
Always wanting what your eyes can't see
Needing what your arms can't reach
Thinking you are in need
Always hearing what your ears can't hear
Feeling what your hands can't touch
Thinking you're incomplete

[Chorus]
Enough
It was never enough that I gave to you
All of the horror that you've put me through
Never enough
How can I make up my mind this time?
This is where I will draw the line

Sacrificed my life to be with you
Why did you leave me?
There's nothing more from me you can consume
'Cause you are incomplete

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

Everlasting need
Would you please
Answer me and
Make me complete?
Everlasting greed
Would you please
Set me free
Fulfill all my needs
And make me complete?

[Chorus]

Never again will I be with you
No promise eternal carrying us through
I finally made up my mind this time
This is the end - I've drawn the line
Never enough to devour your greed


8. DELIRIUM

Black was the night when I did surrender
I did give in to my weakening sight
Now that I'm empty my dreams once were many
Soul's bitter cry to unleash the divine
When you think there's no way out
And all you see collides
Hope will in the end chase all your fears away

Fighting the source was not recommended
Trails of a wish were the hope to survive
Skins full ablazing release crystal gazing
All of it led to a deeper demise
When you think there's no way out
And no one comprehends
Hope will show your smile again

[Chorus]
What I left behind
Another night
Of weary dreams
What's been left behind
Another time
Where days of late are far away
Far away

Losing my reasons - No lies to believe in
Left the obscure to the means of escape
Core has been shaken
There is no more pain to break me
Time has commenced and I long to awake
When you think there's no way out
Leave everything behind
You can live your life anew

[Chorus]

Dark days behind me
Won't ever break me now

[Chorus]

Just another night
In another time


9. QUIETUS (LIVE IN MISKOLC)

The culprit - You act before thinking
Caught in your ignorant sin
And lying to your own reflection
You thought you could hide
Deprived of my own innocence - Denied

The infinity of recurring torment
Your comeuppance

See - Hear the torture inside
Devouring what was left of my pride
You thought it's not going to happen to you
Thought you could hide
Deprived of my own innocence - Denied

[Chorus]
The infinity of recurring torment
Your comeuppance
Dwelling in a mind - Mixed up and
Your regret has spread over the sea

Deprived of my own innocence - Denied

[Chorus]


10. MONOPOLY ON TRUTH

Nos docti, pensantes
Sed non semper veridici

At the Zenith of wisdom
No defying myself - Defying myself
To the point of reaction
You propose and I dispose

[Pre-Chorus 1]
I see what you mean
It's clear - What you say
The truth isn't just a derivative of your views

These are my thoughts
No discussion
My righteous plan

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Just think it over now
Another point of view
It's time we realise our errs
Where is it leading to if nobody sees it
There's never an absolute

Nos docti
Sed non semper veridici

I can be so enchanting
With words beset in gold - Beset in gold
Your senseless demanding
You propose and I dispose

[Pre-Chorus 1]

This is the way
No discussion
In my life

[Pre-Chorus 2]

You're in denial

[Chorus]
Can we trust all the facts and believe that the
Fancied wise are just and needed?
Do we want to rely on the views of the
Righteous ones who are succeeding?
If you look all around and you see
All the things that are not meant to be
Then you know it's time to let them go

Your fury can no longer stand
This hauter will come to an end
Looking for leftover friends is in vain
You'll be alone again

No more refusal
Face it - Slow down

It is time for renewal
And expect no miracles
Expect no miracles when you're
In an endless fall
No regrets if you're leaving
You're a true deceiver
Accept the here and now
Or regret will end up

Mask of justice - Shield of menacing strength
Will not bend - Only break
Can't we respect? - Can't we neglect?
No respecting - So neglecting
Those who are suffering in need of help?
Those who suffer - Needing our help
You are the one I wouldn't like to become
You are not one I would like to become
Not at all in the end
Hear our calling
Carry me slowly in the depths of your life
Fear the thunder
Free me from barren fields and grey thunder lies
Semblance falling
Under that great façade - The truth loves to hide

[Chorus] (x2]

To let them go

Nos docti
Sed plus Scimus
Non spernentes
Quod dicunt alii


11. CHASING THE DRAGON

Free my mind
Heal my scars
Erase the past
Dark days to forget
And memories to last
In my heart
Free me now

Make me forget
And forgive
There's no use
To go on and live
Show me a way
To the sun
Heal my scars

[Chorus]
Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don't deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here

Let my eyes take in
The beauty that's here
That's left on this earth
My ears long to hear
A melody
Give me sight

[Chorus]

Poison is slowly seeping through my veins
Stealing the only dignity in me
I pick them up and let them fall
To cause you pain and hit them all
One more life to live is what I want
I'll take the joy away from them
See to it - They will all be damned
One more chance to heal what I have harmed

The dragon is wreaking havoc in my brain
Plays my emotion - A never ending game

[Chorus]

One more life to live for me

I want the night just to colour the day
The morning to chase all my nightmares away
Don't you deny that we're all human beings
We all have our flaws that can make us obscene
Obscene

Give me what I want
Give me what I need right now
That's what I want
That's what I need - Get it
Dolendo novit mortalis vitam

Tell me what I want
Tell me what I need right now
That's what I want
That's all I need - Cure me
Dolendo discit mori mortalis
Losers

Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don't deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight


12. MARTYR OF THE FREE WORD

Speaking in degradation
A conversation can take a sudden turn
And reaching the point of violence
Because your silence left you without a hand to hold
Your past will lead you on to
Making a final judgment
Based on your bias will never bring you forward
Terror should never guide you
For even the fearful can take a beating in the end
Suspicion gets you nowhere

[Chorus]
Those who denounce a way of life
Will stand alone - Left to atone their social blunders
If you gun down the messenger
You guarantee that he will be made
Into a saint
The martyr of the free word

I will say - I will say - What I think - What I think
I will do - I will do - What I say - What I say
When liberty seems out of reach
We'll fight for our freedom of speech

Requiem aeternam - Dona eis Domine
Et lux perpetua - Luceat eis

Missing a simple context
A mental weakness can throw you out of balance
Listen - Respect each other
Then you'll discover - It mustn't always end in hate
It's not too late for mercy

[Chorus]

I will say - I will say - What I think - What I think
I will do - I will do - What I say - What I say
When tolerance seems out of sight
We will fight
When liberty seems out of reach
We'll fight for our freedom of speech


13. FOOLS OF DAMNATION (THE EMBRACE THAT SMOTHERS - PART IX)

Go for it
Bow to the supremacy
Go for it at last
You do believe - So I can say
That you are owned by me
Go for it
Bow to the supremacy
Go for it at last
You do believe - So let us pray
For all those fools that be

[Chorus]
Fool - Dance with me again
I am your destiny - Mark my words
Don't you ever disagree?
Fool - Kneel for me again
I am your agony - Walk my way
I will never set you free

Kneel for me unknowing fool
Bow to the supremacy
Kneel for me unworthy pig
Die for the divinity
Go for it
Bow to the supremacy
Go for it at last
You do believe - So you display
All that we want to see

[Chorus]

Go for it - Just do it
Walk my way just to serve me
Go for it - Just do it
Kneel for me and obey me

A humble genuflection for the onrushing ascendancy
Not able to turn back anymore

Bow to me
Bow to the supremacy
Kneel for me
Die for the divinity
Bow to me
Go for it - Just do it
Die for the supremacy
Kneel for me
Go for it - Just do it
Die for the divinity

Believing is the cure
Religion is like opium
You'd better feed them all
Before they start eating you

Et fictum fit factum
Ne timeas obscurum
Id autem cognoscas
Ne timeas obscurum
Primum id cognosce
Deinde iudica
Post iudicandum demum age

[Chorus] (x2)

Go for it - Just do it (x4)


14. TIDES OF TIME

You were always there to hold my hand
When times were hard to understand
But now the tides of time have turned
They keep changing
Seasons range but you remain the same
A steady heart - A sun to rain
You'll be the light that's shining bright
High above me
Autumn gold - Losing hold
We are leaves meant to fall
There's a meaning to all that fades

Freezing winds were stayed by warming words
To touch your healing to the hurt
I'll treasure every lesson learned to the embers
Fire fails - Blushes pale
We will answer the call
There's a meaning to all our

Seeds of eulogy to sow along with dreams
Fill the needs that can leave us grieving alone

Frail is our beauty in the end
But all we count is sentiment
A memory stays to guide the way and whisper
Don't lose sight - Don't deny
We are leaves meant to fall
There's a meaning to all our

Seeds of eulogy to sow along with dreams
Fills the needs that can leave us grieving alone
A symphony resounding in our minds
Guides us through what we knew would come all along

Sometimes I feel I don't have the words
Sometimes I feel I'm not being heard
And then I fear I'm feeling nothing more
Sometimes I feel I don't want this change
I think we all have to rearrange
And now I feel there's no one losing more

Seeds of eulogy to sow along with dreams
Fill the needs that can leave us grieving alone
A symphony resounding in our minds
Guides us though - As you hear me
As you do - As you need me
Making true
What we knew would come all along


15. KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (A NEW AGE DAWNS - PART V)

Pioneering - Big breakthroughs
Proceeded by the opposition
Hold in derision all that's new
Afraid to lose their own esteem

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Scorn shall be directed at the genius
Represses subtle theories of the light
To the questions of life

[Chorus]
Quantum physics lead us to
Answers to the great taboos
We create the world around us
God is every living soul

Science - Spirituality
Will have to meet along the way and
We need new drifts - Another view
Expand our grip on the cryptic soul

[Pre-Chorus 1]

[Chorus]

Hope is more than a postponed disappointment

Non intellegens nil explicas
Videre nolens nil capies
Non intellegens nil explicas
Incognita non vides

Open your Sahasrara

[Bridge]
Light creates us all
Pride will make us fall
Life is meaningful
Life delights us all
Light creates us all
Pride divides us all
Life is meaningful
The soul survives us all

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Misled by science
Our wake up call
Conditioning cannot fool us 'till the end

[Bridge]

Guide us safety
Through the gates of death

Nothing here will be the same
I'll see the world through different eyes and
I was given clarity
And the wisdom I can't deny
All that we can ever see
Until we leave this frail existence
Is just a shadow of reality
Death is not the final instance

It's not your time
You have to go back - Back! - Now!
No - No - I don't want to return
Please let me stay here - Don't - Don't make me go back!
Go back - You've got work to do
We're not alone - We are all one

Nothing here will be the same
The smallest bit is as big as nature
Our limited capacities
Give us trouble to comprehend
We are linked in every way
And we're strong as our weakest fragment
Every word that we convey
Is an act with consequences

[Pre-Chorus 2]

[Bridge]

Greed will make us fall
Light will bind us all

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