1. INTRO

(instrumental)


2. BEYOND THIS GATES

Every time they hear my name
Smile from faces fades away
Loud silence fills the air
As if they saw me standing there

They all knew of what I am
And to what i came to be
When i walk those mornful streets
Walls of eyes stare at me

There's much more beyond this gates
Only some can see
There's a lonely, misty road
That leads to real me

But forever in the darkness
I will keep the key
And forever in the shadows
I will be free

Is that fear behind those eyes
Or a simple minded scorn
When I'm long past those roads
They curse the day when I was born

So on the edge of the world I lay
To enjoy this lonesome night
And to leave it all behind
Just to find some pice of mind

There's much more beyond this gates
Only some can see
There's a lonely, misty road
That leads to real me

But forever in the darkness
I will keep the key
And forever in the shadows
I will be free

There's much more, much more to see
There's a road to real me
In the darkness I'll keep the key
And in the shadows will be free


3. BORN OLD

There's nothing that i find
worth in in this life
Nothing that i find worth living for

I turn around and all I see is darkness
There is no one behind me
There's nothing at all

(Oh sweet dreams come to me, save me from this misery,
this world is choking me, my thoughts are breaking me)

It's hard to be so young, yet to be so old
It's hard to feel the warmth, when inside you are cold
World is a book where you want to sign your name
Where you want to be different, not to be the same
(AS ALL THE REST)

I look into the mirror
No reflection to see
It's broken to pieces, just like me

So many people around me
Yet solitude I feel
As I'm the only one
Under the sun

It's hard to be so young, yet to be so old
It's hard to feel the warmth, when inside you are cold
World is a book where you want to sign your name
Where you want to be different, not to be the same
(AS ALL THE REST)

There's nothing in this world i can ever touch
For anything i touch
Turns to dust


4. WHEN I SHALL CEASE TO BE

Seasons turning (ages passing by)
Everything's fading (everything must die)
For a thousand years (voices calling me)
Ever wondering (when I shall cease to be)

As human kind (is doomed to die)
I'm doomed to live (doomed to stay behind)
When nature dies (I will still be here)
I'm cursed to live (for whole eternity)

I wanna leave this hollow place
Disappear and leave no trace
I want the time to tick for me
To stop my heart and set me free

World that I knew (gone with the times so long ago)
And I was left (alone in sadness and in woe)
So many days (Too many cold and lonely nights)
So many years (far too many sad sights)

It grieves my heart (knowing I must stay)
While all the rest (will fade away)
Lay off the curse (and brake the everlasting spell)
Dissolve my flesh (let me leave this neverending hell)

I wanna leave this hollow place
Disappear and leave no trace
I want the time to tick for me
To stop my heart and set me free

"Lay off the curse
Brake the everlasting spell
Desolve my flesh
Let me leave this neverending hell"


5. AN ETERNITY TO MOURN

On the seashore you will wait
Till your body turns to stone
And your eyes are filled with tears
Heart with broken promises

With your hands you showed me the future
In your eyes i saw the sorrow
Hard have been the days of past
Outnumbered all the rest

You have failed to fight the pain
Now in darkness you must dwell
You have cursed your eternal soul
From the day you said farewell

No tears can mend the hate
Building up within your heart
Calling demons of the yore
Haunting you forevermore

Tell the world that knows of me
If they ask you where I'll be
I'm resting for eternity
In my tomb deep in the sea

I never thought I'd hear you pray
To see me again one day
Only darkness will remain
When the candle burns away

Over endless seas I'll sail
Many miles away from you
Under sky with brighter stars
I will search to find the truth
(WITHIN MY SELF)

Yet so bitter are my days
Into hateful storm I rushed
Now I sleep beneath the seas
My dreams and my life are crushed

Tell the world that knows of me
If they ask you where I'll be
I'm resting for eternity
In my tomb deep in the sea

I never thought I'd hear you pray
To see me again one day
Only darkness will remain
When the candle burns away

No tears can mend the hate
Building up within your heart
Calling demons of the yore
Haunting you forevermore

Tell the world that knows of me
If they ask you where I'll be
I'm resting for eternity
In my tomb deep in the sea

Words of trust blown away as candle
flame once so bright
Over seas I sailed, so far
In search for better sight

Tell the world that knows of me
If they ask you where I'll be
I'm resting for eternity
In my tomb deep in the sea

I never thought I'd hear you pray
To see me again one day
Only darkness will remain
When the candle burns away


6. WHIP OF THE WORLD

To rotten luck we must awake
Each and every dawn of day
Where the sunlight breaks the shadows
Melt the seas of dreams we swam

To engrave the joy of heart
And to wipe the smile from the face
Like the giant watchful eye
Whipping the entire race

We are born to crawl for water
Not to dream of better days
Feeding you with our pride
Though we never fell from grace

Trough the wind of thorns and nails
Meant to bow before we speak
We realize we do not know
Who is sitting on the throne

Spat upon and stepped upon
Pushed aside and drenched in mud
As we're giving you our life
You are feasting on our blood

I'm your child, you gave me birth
But this life was never kind
Have I ever seen your face?
I'm the child you left behind

It's too late when the eyes are opened
It's too late when we are gone
Like leaves under autumn sun
We are dying one by one

It's too late when the eyes are opened
It's too late when we are gone
And behind the shiny curtains
We all die alone

"We are born to crawl for water
Not to dream the better days
Feeding you with our pride
Thou we never fell from grace"

"I'm your child, you gave me birth
But this life was never kind
Have I ever seen your face?
I'm the child you left behind"

It's too late when the eyes are opened
It's too late when we are gone
Like leaves under autumn sun
We are dying one by one

It's too late when the eyes are opened
It's too late when we are gone
And behind the shiny curtains
We all die alone


7. SET AFLOAT

Cross my heart and lay beside
The river flowing into the dark
long forgotten days of grieve
In the days of yore

Still I'm looking at those stars
Same stars I watched before
On endless nights of bitterness
In the days of yore

In my dreams, in my dreams all I ever see
In my dreams I see what is yet to be

Beneath the moon, on crystal river
Stars (are) reflecting bright as silver
And i watch my face among them
As i fall asleep

On this river there's a boat
For my soul to set afloat
Drift to lands so far away
Never to return


8. BLOOD INK

Hear the call of a desperate man
Who once wished to rule the world
And to stand above the rest
Now the world is in his hand

Yet time was always price to pay
As his heart is slowing down
And his face is turning old
And his hair, fades to gray

Mighty conqueror of all
On his knees in agony
As the days of youth have passed
When he stood so proud and tall

Thought of death now grieves hes heart
Unwanting to leave the world
He now calls the other side
To make a pact he'll forever regret

"I will trade this world for a lifetime
I only wish for days I lived before"
"Take a bow, sign your name with blood ink,
And you shall live those days forevermore"

He bows down to end his reign
Drips a blood ink from his vein
And in a second as it seems
His face looks so young again

Joy of life now fills his heart
As he's not to leave the world
But to live so young again
For all centuries to come

Yet all he knows will fade away
And ticking clock won't seem to stop
Without the world he used to have
He'll live in darkness and decay

He's again a desperate man
And he calls the other side
But now he has no world to trade
For he's one and only wish, to die