1. HOOPOE

"One day, the birds of the world gathered in an assembly
A hoopoe, trembling with emotion, stood in their midst"

"Thousands of birds took off that day,
But almost all of them would perish”

"Listen to me!"


2. AWAKENED

Wait a moment, how did I survive?
Why is there a lingering breath inside?
There is so much going in my mind
Like a memory

Coming from a dangerous paradise
I think I've begun to realize
I've been given a new chance in life
But I don't know how

I was doubtful I could make it
I'd been trying for so long
'Cause I felt that I was going nowhere
I just couldn't stay strong
But the tides are surely changing
As I'm fighting for my heart
From this state of mind, the broken pieces
The shadows of lost love

I was shattered, broken to the core
I believed that I had lost my soul
And I didn't want to take no more
I had had enough!

But I look up, and there's still a sky
Through the trees I hear an eagle cry
And the moon is telling me to try
And to please stand up!

I was doubtful I could make it
I'd been trying for so long
'Cause I felt that I was going nowhere
I knew I should be strong
But the tides are surely changing
Is that why I should go on?
From this state of mind, the broken pieces
The shadows of lost love

Am I really strong enough to try?
What if I end up losing my mind
In this war I'm fighting to survive?!
How could I resist it?
No! Come on, I know I'm still alive!
With the faith that I can touch the sky
And the chance to love for one last time!
Take my heart and illuminate!

"Brestanda boga, brennanda loga,
Gínanda ulfi, galandi kráku,
Rýtanda svíni, rótlausum viði,
Vaxanda vági, vellanda katli"

I was scared I wouldn't make it
But I'm still here after all
In a world where everything is crumbling
I have to stand my ground

I was doubtful I could make it
I'd been trying for so long
But I know that I am going somewhere
I know I must stay strong
Yes the tides are surely changing
As I'm fighting for my heart
From this state of mind, the broken pieces
The shadows of lost love

I was doubtful I could make it
But I'm still here after all
Now I know that I am going somewhere
I'm fighting for my heart!


3. YOU ARE INSANE

I've tasted every sin
And plenty of them you own
So pray, riddle me this
Innocence undone

A sweet and poisoned kiss
Fed you a lie, I'm told
Was it the serpent's hiss
Or was it your fault?!

What do you know
Of a place they call paradise?!

Let go of your name
And embrace the hate
There is no escape
You are insane!
Get this in your mind
You can't justify
Trying to stay alive
You are insane!

I see you will not break but
Do you have what it takes
To stand before me and face
Everything you made?!

Oh please, don't make me laugh!
You cannot change the past
There's no reason to come back
I'll make sure of that!

I'm the patron saint
Of one thousand countless lies!

Let go of your name
And embrace the hate
There is no escape
You are insane!
Get this in your mind
You can't justify
Trying to stay alive
You are insane!

Throw your hope
Into the fire!
You'll give in
To my desire!
There's no place
That you can hide in!
Suffocate now

All your world
Is spiraling out
Of control
Don't tell me you can
Still see hope
There's no such thing as
Getting out of here!!!

Why do you want
To insist you can find a way out?!?!

Let go of your name
And embrace the hate
There is no escape
You are insane!
Get this in your mind
You can't justify
Trying to stay alive
You are insane!

So you insist, well fine!
To get out, you'll try!
That won't save your life!
You are insane!
And you're to blame!
There's no escape!


4. COME TO ME

Would you like to know a secret?
That there's magic hidden deep in you?
Would you like to feel the warm light
Of a dream coming true?

All the suffering is over
There is nothing that you cannot do
Ride the wind bearing a smile
Sail every cloud through

Come to me in a starry sky
Break the chains, keep on soaring high
Play a song, sing it through the night
'Till the light of day
Come to me with a storytime
Of the fears you have left behind
Spread your wings in a starry sky
Don't ever look back again

Feel just how the night is calling
There is beauty growing within you
In a campfire we're waiting
For you to join us too

Fireflies are swaying lightly
So enchanting that it's holding true
Close your eyes and feel the magic
Shine under a full moon

Come to me in a starry sky
Break the chains, keep on soaring high
Play a song, sing it through the night
'Till the light of day
Come to me with a storytime
Of the fears you have left behind
Spread your wings in a starry sky
Don't ever look back again


5. FORBIDDEN LOVE

I had a dream in which
You were mine for one day
It felt so real that
It's haunting me this way

I can't erase that feeling
Looking in your eyes
Knowing it could be true
Is shattering my mind!

The day we met I felt
A sudden burning flame
Your voice turned into music
When you spoke my name

And ever since I've tried
To keep it all contained
And yet I'm wondering if
You might feel the same?

All it would take
Is me falling in love with you
So I couldn't make
Sense inside my mind
Is any of this right?
I am scared that it might be true
I don't want to find
I've fallen in love!

I wrote a thousand poems
And in every verse
I found your name was hidden
In almost every word

And then I gave you a song
And sang it to the night
It spoke back in your voice
And burnt me deep inside!

All it would take
Is me falling in love with you
So I couldn't make
Sense inside my mind
Is any of this right?
I am scared that it might be true
I don't want to find
I've fallen in love!

Have you the heart to take
One more dream tonight?

All it would take
Is me falling in love with you
So I couldn't make
Sense inside my mind
Is any of this right?
I don't know, but I guess it's true
I've come here to find
I've fallen in love!


6. MY LOVE

If I had known that this would be
The last time
If I had known that we would
Not touch again

I would have given my words
Just a little thought
Before my mind was filled with just regret

If I had known that this would be
Our last run
If I had known that I'd loose you
In the end

I would have given you my
Heart for one last time
Before I lost my one true love again

And now I'll fall apart
Drowning slowly in the dark
My love
My one and only love
My love
My one and only love

If I had known that this would be
Our last song
If I had known that we would not
Meet again

I would have held you in my arms
Just for one last time
Before I lost my one true love again

And now, I'll sing my part
Fading slowly in the dark
My love
My one and only love
My love
My one and only love
My love
My one and only love


7. SURROUNDEAD

Can you feel the fright
In the dead of night?
Can you feel that
Chill going down your spine?

Everyone is mad
Does it feel that bad?
Do you want to
Join these broken souls?!

"Smoke and shadows
Grins behind the dark
Ticking, tocking
Waiting for your heart
Laughing, smiling
Tasty is your soul
Like the nightmares
That will grip you whole!"

Feel a dreading tear
As I'm drawing near
All you fear is
Coming to be done

There's no place to hide
There's nowhere to run
From the truth of
Everything you've done!

I feel no pain for a creature just as you
As pathetic and uncaring as this world happens to brew
Suffer the fate of all that you’ve come to do

"Tick and tock, your
Time is running low
In three minutes
You will have let go!"

"Come little birdy
Come with me
Look what you've done, come and see
Away from home, away from love
Anger can be so much fun
Come little birdy, please don't squirm
Let terror hold you down and firm
Come little birdy, prepare to sleep
An endless nightmare as your keep"

Is this just how you want to live?
Surrounded by all the dead?
Broken worlds and shattered nights?
Children crying to survive?

I feel no pain for a creature just as you
As pathetic and uncaring as this world happens to brew
Suffer the fate of all that you’ve come to do

Why do you not understand?
All these ghosts came by your hand?!


8. JUST ONE NIGHT

Once a princess gazed upon a slave
And her heart gave away
What a thing she could not understand
Hauntingly it drove her mad

And she slowly fell into temptation
The desire to hold him, become unchained
Yet to do such a thing was forbidden
But she wanted to know, there must be a way

So one night, she would cast him a spell
In deep sleep the man fell
To the palace she took him away
In her chamber to await

He awoke, and before him she smiled
Like a dream from which she wouldn't let him wake
Was it real? Was it imagination?
He did not know but she had planned it that way

Just one night!
And she held him in her arms
Just that night!
She could call him her own
Just one night!
She embraced him in her warmth
Dancing and losing control!
Just one night!
And she held him in her arms
Just that night!
She could call him her own
Just one night!
She embraced him in her warmth
Letting desire take hold!

He awoke the next day in his shelter
Knowing not if it all had just been a dream
And the princess forgot all about him
Curiosity gone, her thirst satisfied
He’s left behind!

Just one night!
She had held him in her arms
Just that night!
She had called him her own
Just one night!
She embraced him in her warmth
Dancing and losing control!
Just one night!
He wondered every moment
Just that night!
Had it been real or not?!
Just one night!
He’s forever tormented
And she does not care at all!
No!


9. BROKEN SCEPTERS OF WAR

Shattered shields
Names and memories old
Bannered spears
Rings and scepters of war

Fire's wings
Oaths of loyalty sworn
Laughter ceased
From my brothers who're gone

I remember
I remember it all
I remember
Broken scepters of war

As I see
All the battles we fought
And our cheers
Keep us warm from the cold

I'll remember
I'll remember it all
I'll remember
Broken scepters of war

"Deyr fé, deyja frændr,
Deyr sjalfr it sama,
Ek veit einn, at aldrei deyr:
Dómr um dauðan hvern.
Fullar grindr sá ek fyr Fitjungs sonum,
Nú bera þeir vánar völ;
Svá er auðr sem augabragð"

A snake can bite
Where we can't see
It's poisoned tongue
That made them speak
And scales took
Over their eyes
All we could do
Was stand and fight

I remember
I remember it all
I remember
Broken scepters of war

I'll pour my mead
Drink for the herd
And feed the ground
For those whose deed
Was finished when
They fed the crows
And I'll remember
Everyone


10. REBORN

There was a voice inside of me
It spoke as softly as in a dream
It told me all I had to see
Was my worth

A sudden spark flicked in my mind
It signalled now was the right time
To leave the shadows far behind
And move on

Now I know life's not meant to
Be a journey to death
There is so much more
To find in it

I swear I feel the thunder
It's raging in my heart
And from the darkness be reborn
And I will not give up!
I swear I feel it shatter
The chains that bind my mind
And from the ashes of my soul
I'm going to live on!

Now listen closely one last time
I've had enough of what you've tried
To break and to demoralize
With your words

Now you should know how I believe
That I can live all of my dreams
Let my imagination free
In the world

'Cause I'm going to let what
I've already begun
Turn into everything that I want!

I swear I feel the thunder
It's raging in my heart
And from the darkness be reborn
And I will not give up!
I swear I feel it soaring
Amongst all the stars and
From all the shadows I let go
I'm gonna be reborn!

I've had enough of all this pain
Of doubting even my own name

I swear I feel the thunder
It's raging in my heart
And from the darkness be reborn
And I will not give up!
There's nothing that can stop me
There's no turning back now
From all the shadows I let go
I'm gonna be reborn!
Reborn!


11. LA ASAMBLEA DE LAS AVES

Part I - Digital Nesting

(Instrumental)

Part II - The Bird's Assembly

"One day, the birds of the world gathered in an assembly
A hoopoe, trembling with emotion, stood in their midst"

I'm sad to confess all I can see are frightened pidgeons
Who quarrel over a single grain of corn

Your eyes reflect greed and anger that's destroying our world
And it hurts me to know that that's the norm

But I've come with a sign!
A solution 'cause it's time
To end this once and for all!!

You've found yourselves asking
Every question wrong
Thinking your heart's made of
Wires and not love
I've come to tell you
Nothing can go dark
If there's a spark of hope and light in you!

"We must find the Simorgh!"
"I'm not going!"
"What are you crazy?!"
"We'll never make it out alive!"
"Listen to me, feather brains!
If we don't find him, the light will be lost, forever!"

The stories I've told
Each represent a part of your soul
And give you a chance to escape this hell

I have come with a sign
And we're running out of time
To end this once and for all

You've found yourselves asking
Every question wrong
Thinking your heart's made of
Wires and not love
I've come to tell you
Nothing can go dark
If there's a spark of hope and light in you!

Take flight with me!
Feel the dark in
Which we're drowning
Come with me birds!

"Listen to me!"

Behind the hall of the veils
We will find the simourghs lair
So come on! Let's fly to our destiny!
To find the light!

Part III - The Desert

"Thousands of birds took off that day,
But almost all of them would perish
Some would fall victims to thirst,
Get torn apart by wild beasts,
Some even got lost in the darkness,
Petrified by what they saw."

انا النور الحق، انا السيمرغ
سوف اجد طريق في الظلام

Behind the hall of the veils

We'll find the simourghs lair!
I have seen a thousand birds
And not one ever comes back
They forget that they can fly
And get lost in the sand

There's a reason why I said
My song wants to find the light
Don't give in to the sandstorm
Don't listen to the night

I've been reborn a thousand times
From the ashes of humanity

There a reason only I've
Survived this cruel and harsh land
I have seen humanity
And death before my eyes

Keep on flying, don't look down
The pathway is before us
If we hold on to our hope
We'll never loose our mind

I've seen so many cry in fright
When encountered with their existance!

انا النور الحق، انا السيمرغ
سوف اجد طريق في الظلام

Behind the hall of the veils
We'll find the simourghs lair!
Behind the hall of the veils
Behind the hall of the veils
We'll find the simourghs lair!

Part IV - The Seven Valleys

"Look, a mountain!"
"Where? I can't see it!"
"Straight ahead, I see it!"
"We made it, it's over!"
"Steady, birds. keep calm and make no mistake.
We haven't arrived.
This is not over yet.
We must cross the seven valleys.
One by one, in each valley,
There's a secret we have to understand.
No one who's ever crossed the seven valleys has come back,
So I don't know what is waiting for us on the other side.
Are you ready?"

I lost all reason to understand love
Where what I knew faded into the dark

Feeling reality change
Detatching even my name

Harmony, multiplicity!
Wonderment: Beauty of beloved!
Poverty and anihilation
Seven valleys you have crossed!

You've found yourselves asking
Every question wrong
Thinking your heart's made of
Wires and not love
I've come to tell you
Nothing can go dark
If there's a spark of hope and light in you!

Behind the hall of the veils
We will find the simourghs lair
So come on! Le's fly to our destiny!
To find the light!
Behind the hall of the veils
We will find the simourghs lair
So come on! Let's fly to our destiny!
To find the light!

Part V - The Simourgh

"The doors opened,
A hundred veils were drawn.
A beautiful light shone.
At last they saw the Simourgh,
And yet they saw the Simourgh was themselves
And they him.
They looked at the Simourgh,
And then at themselves,
And saw they made one being.
This was something competetely unheard of.
Confused, they asked the Simourgh,
Without words,
To tell them the great secret.
The Simourgh answered,
Also with no words:
The majesty of my light is a mirror.
Whoever sees themselves in it,
Sees their soul in their reflection.
The true light is:
You see yourself exactly as you are completely.

Then, the birds let themselves get lost forever in the Simourgh.
The darkness became one with the light
And that is all.
The gateway has been opened,
And there is neither traveler nor guide.
Only one who has been reborn."