1. THE STEP OF MANKIND

(Instrumental)


2. MEL KOR

Far away beyond the blackest ocean of blood
On the boundless scope of lost mainland of
Nameless Horror under pale nebulas united
In mysterious runes
I've found the thing I've been inspired.
Night wind is bringing mournful sounds of bell,
I count the strikes
Three times in six, someone's will thickens the mist
For me to step the ground where all the sacred burn.
No beast, no bird, no even shade appears
To sign the flow of time fang-shaped towers of
Hollow torment stand embraced by crimson flames.
And I am coming into this palace I see the light
I've never seen before,
I am here to proselytize and stay forever
In this world of fire and ice.
I smell the frosty of ghostly halls on the rising stairway
To the abandoned throne,
And then saluting thee oh
Winged One crowned with seven stars I hear
"Kor me o antie tae taeirny!".
New souls have to be born despite the curse
We have been blinded for the long dark time
In this realm of damned
We are condemned to grief like gods of...sorrow...
I came to seek the wisdom no one have ever got T
hrough chills of times and land I came
To watch, yet here
I dwell for winds of destiny persuade
My mortal being to stay forever with this beauty...
And in the apogee of the great triumph surrounded
By their ugly spawn
Heartless they'll find their logical end
To disappear from life until the
Time...
(... So the powers were gifted to him
To rule sway the destinies and to be
The part of all alive...)


3. LAST SEASON PURITY

(The old one) The moan... Who has remembered?
Who is still able to remember about how they did dream and yearn
Laugh and dance and then about how they were dying
To flow towards the stellar worlds beyond the horizons of mind
Where all our laws are nothing at all
Maybe to dwell forgotten maybe once to return...

(The young one) Dark are thy eyes and dark are soul of thine
What is it you know of them?
Reveal to me their stories...

(The old one) As deep as never before I feel them call to me
From the brightest blaze from place where all the paths come to the end
Misunderstood ones wished a Strange
Who've left this world when the world was changed

(And leaving they sing the spell joined their hands)
Embrace me with a winter blizzard
Give me the power of all the winds
In the serenity of the endless woods
Unite me with my shadow...

And once I came to know
What beauty is
But I've failed to behold
I was enblinded others were betongued
Beheaded left handless...
Sometimes I miss mirage - last thing I saw
The gray sullen sky and the golden forest
The incarnation of Last Season Purity
That's where my thoughts had found
Their eternal asylum...

Like sparks of the evening fire...
You will remember the only one
That rose most high
And burned most bright
And you will burn too
Your agony will be so horrid
But they'd hear you
The ones who need it
Let them hear...

Thy will be done...


4. BLACK SWANS

Take me in the temple of the evening sun
Coming from there where's no life's remained
Only the glow reflecting in the eyes of phrentics
By the name of legion

In the imperishable area of heaths, woods and lakes
They've been cradled by
Is so perfect for magic marvelous dance
There is no place to be... And
Moonlight chaplet have faded out
No sound of their speech meets an ear

... And the rapture that
I've been filled with hath turned into the brilliant dew
To wash the blood off my face
When I came back
The dawn was so silver and so golden is the dusk upon the meadows
Splashed with poppies
Where I've lost myself looking for tomorrow...

One day like countless times in sleep
I'll come to the wall
That hides the abyss beyond...
To overcome it on the black wings my hands turn into
I'm the one who was gifted by his
Sable Majesty

And the spirit transfigures...

By the grace of your black astral world I have been bewitched
And now on my bended knees I am praying
"For Thine is the Kingdom"...

...I know they've died and turned into the Black Swans
To dance on the forest lake in silver mist and sorrowful grace...