1. THE BRIDE WEARS BLACK

Masks concealed the real mourning
No noise were, were allowed
Misfortune came with large steps
Enveloped the future into a shroud

The bride wears
The bride wears black
The bride wears black tonight

Valleys got deeper and deeper
The summits disappeared in beautiful clouds
A path in sick infinity
Deep abysses and beside it

Traveled in endless trains
Try to solve my existence
Sins, often pure temptation
Praised, hallowed, just lies

Traveled in endless trains
Try to solve my existence
Sins, often pure temptation
Praised, hallowed, just lies

Voices to bear, inner futility
Be it true, be it my love
Coming to torture you
To torture you with my devotion

Masks concealed the real mourning
No noise were, were allowed
Misfortune came with large steps
Enveloped the future into a shroud


2. UP TO NETZACH

(Instrumental)


3. PALE SKY

Somewhere between the worlds
Somewhere under the pale sky

Noiseless a comet falls
At dead of night
Noiseless a comet falls

As angels holding back the storm
From south, north, west and east
It was an absolute deathly silence
No breath of wind
There was no rustling leaf in the trees
The ocean smooth as glass
Like the calm before the storm
Noiseless the comet falls
The comet falls!

Somewhere between the worlds
Somewhere under the pale sky
Somewhere between the worlds
Somewhere under the pale sky

Some recognize
And some are turning back
Never a compromise
Never stay between the worlds
When you have to decide
For one of the sides
When we mark the bodies
When we mark the lines

Somewhere between the worlds
Somewhere under the pale sky
Somewhere between the worlds
Somewhere under the pale sky

Somewhere between the worlds
Somewhere under the pale sky

Noiseless the comet falls
The comet falls


4. A SUCCUBUS IN RAPTURE

Illness and plagues
Torture and blight is what she brings
Mocking holy standards
Deceiving feeble fools is what she loves

Granted with powers
Gifted with magic

Watching the world through ravens eyes

Damned woman
Mischievous whore
Heretic princess
Devil’s own

Her seductive elegance
Excites your weak flesh
Her diabolical beauty
Enchants your bewildered mind

You, damned woman
You, mischievous whore
You, heretic princess
You are Devil’s own

A serenade made out of black magic
She has learned to set souls afire
And makes sure that yours
Never will leave its trance

Her diabolical beauty
Enchants your bewildered mind


5. LOVE IS DEAD

My love is dead

I feel a cold breath of wind
Black sky in mourning-veil
I see no worth-living reason
Oh no

It’s driving me insane
Pangs of love
Never thought I would feel this way

I see your face in every cloud
And I say to myself
Don’t you let me
Let me fade away

Love is dead
My love is dead

I walk through desert fields
Black ravens surrounding me
I have no more zest for life
No more

I’m bleeding from inside
A once opened heart
Never thought I would feel this way

I search for any reason or cause
Which I could never find
So I blame myself for things
I don’t understand

Love is dead
My love is dead

My love is dead
My love is dead
My love is dead
My love is dead

All my life is pain
Drowned in tears
Never thought I would feel this way

Every day I die once more
My heart turns black
Never again safe and warm

Love is dead
My love is dead

My love is dead
My love is dead
My love is dead
My love is dead!

Love is dead!
Love is dead!

Love is dead!
Love is dead!


6. ON YOUR KNEES (AGAIN)

I’m going for a ride
And I hope I’ll never ever get back here again

Numbing my body with drugs and lies
Try to find a place where I can finally die

Walk with me on the other side
And I show what life is all about

The rush I get from death
It’s all that’s egging me to die

Every dream must die
As I try to drag you down in the dirt

Why is life worth living for
When we all just live to suffer and sacrifice?

Life is like a wheel
You can run and run and you will never get there

Spinning faster than you could understand
You’re on your knees again

You’re on your knees again
You’re on your knees again
You’re on your knees again

Again!


7. BLACK AS THE DEVIL PAINTETH

An artist is what is call’d
The self that the brush holdeth
Though hath it then caringly caress’d
The Canvas of to-morrow?
O Canvas! For thee I hold my tool, still!
Passionless it quivereth
Minding not that my hands are more than apt
My Muse...

Where is hidden
The blue-huéd arch’neath
The High Heaven’s rich emblazonry
The flowery meadow, embrac’d by the horizon
Snowflakéd and aery mountains
In which the barebreastéd maidens dance to the lay o’ midsummer
Aloft the distant lazy flapping of the doves in vainglore

O Canvas! Wherefore canst thou
These images not allow?
I deem a projection of my Theatre
They should be!

Then, I challenge thee
The wisdom of naysaying the yearns o’ mine
What is this unforseen that not enjoineth
Light shades to be skillfully paintéd?

The raven sky prey’d on
By the snowfill’d, blustery clouds
Unadornéd the meadow
Hunger driveth the wolf out of the wood
The maidens chainéd and whipped within a dreary dungeon
And, lo! ‘twixt the wizen roses a mossy grave:

“The Devil is as Black as he Painteth”
O Canvas! Wherefore?

“The Devil is as Black as he Painteth”
O Canvas! Wherefore?


8. HOLD ME

Leaves all night and day
Clouds with colors gray
But I still delight
Mirror’s magic sight

When the moon is overhead
I cross nights forever sad
Snow and fire, love I see
Love I see

I use my brain, now I see
The wild stream brought me far away
Witchcraft’s aim is what I need

Rivers drowning lands
Paleness, swan-like ends
Wanderers searching light
From morn to night

And I grew both deaf and blind
Damned to loose, unskilled to find
Dark shores no ships has ever seen
Ever seen

The leaves upon my fallen life
Before I reached the calling side
Reading magic books I died

Hold me (hold me)
To reach heaven, not hell
Free me (free me)
From cold eyes’ farewell
Hold me (hold me)
Is my wisdom here?
Free me (free me)
From my deep, dark fear

Hold me (hold me)
To reach heaven, not hell
Free me (free me)
From cold eyes’ farewell
Hold me (hold me)
Is my wisdom here?
Free me (free me)
From my deep, dark fear


9. SHADOWS OF MINE

Schatten im Angesicht des Todes
Wirre Bilder alte Geschichten
Der Hauch des Todes vernebelt die Sinne
Fixierter Wahnsinn, der Abhang von dem Sprung
Letzte Gedanken, Die letzte Chance
Die Zeit scheint zu stehen
Zu stehen

Shadows of mine
Ich schau thin in die Fratze
Shadows of mine
Verschwimmende der Bilder in der Stille

Shadows of mine
Shadows of mine
Shadows of mine

Schwiess meiner Angst durchnasst meine Haut
Ungewissheit aut das Unbekannte nach dem Tod
Das kleinste Gerausch ien Hoffnungsschimmer
Die Schmerzen die Qual werden nebensache
Brennende der Kerzen im Sturm, tiefe Feuer in mir
Der Atem stockt das Herz bleibt stehen

Shadows of mine
Ich schau thin in die Fratze
Shadows of mine
Verschwimmende der Bilder in der Stille

Schwiess meiner Angst durchnasst meine Haut
Ungewissheit aut das Unbekannte nach dem Tod
Das kleinste Gerausch ien Hoffnungsschimmer
Die Schmerzen die Qual werden nebensache
Brennende der Kerzen im Sturm, tiefe Feuer in mir
Der Atem stockt das Herz bleibt stehen

das Herz bleibt stehen

Schatten im Angesicht des Todes
Wirre Bilder alte Geschichten
Der Hauch des Todes vernebelt die Sinne
Fixierter Wahnsinn, der Abhang von dem Sprung
Letzte Gedanken, Die letzte Chance

Shadows of mine


10. MEIN ZWEITES HERZ

Wen willst du jetzt noch tauschen
Wen suchst du zu verbergen
Bin ich nicht Mensch?
Aus Fleisch und Blut?
Bin ich nur Traum?
Der Seele Übermut?
Hab’ ich kein Herz?
So hab’ ich zwei

Zerborsten stehts durch Eitelkeit
Gemartert in der Wirklichkeit
Ein dunkler Winkel meines Lachelns

Wie klar scheint mein Spiegelbild
Und wie verzerrt scheine ich mir selbst

Wie oberflachlich malt ein Spiegel mein Gesicht
Und wie viel geschichtet klafft es auf und spricht:

“Wenn du kusst und denkst an Mord
Mein zweites Herz, sei unbesorgt
Ich deck’ dich taglich zu
Beschutze dich, so wie du mich
Erfull’ nur immer deine Pflicht
Denn dich erkennt und hort man nicht!”

Zu dumm dass ich mich einmal stellte
Zu dumm dass ich nicht schweigend log
So musste spat ich doch erkennen
Dass du, mein rechtes Herz
Das Linke stets geliebt


11. ARTIFACTS OF THE BLACK RAIN

Stood there leaning to the city moon
Casting silhouettes tall to grip her white rooms
The black-clad voyeur in his black-clad masque
In the serpentine sun of tragedy basked

Stood there cursing at the soul-dead mass
With their fabled illusions, the vain dreams that passed
Splinters of a life rushing by in the whirl
Alone, silent warrior in a fantasy world

He cried for night but night could not come
So, swept in the shroud of misanthropia
He went away...

And fed the empty galleries with the artifacts of the black rain
Sunken into the shadows with a dry, sardonic smile

He made the footprints a part of his heart
To rouse a sacred confrontation

Stood there carving on the monument of lies
Digging of the Earth, making friends with the soil
As the all-mother rises and bares her bleeding thighs
He disappears into her cold, icy womb


12. DISSOLUTION

The lake lies silent there tonight
Not far from here
And the colours turn to black
Like a tear of tar in your rigid eyes

I’m walking down the path to the rocks
Where we stared into the stars
I touch the water and I see your face
And your rigid eyes

One more time I see you die
There’s no salvation
Something breaks you deep inside
It’s the end of your dissolution

One more time I see you die
There’s no salvation
Something breaks you deep inside
It’s the end of your dissolution

Suddenly a bright white veil is rising
Far above my head
Like an epitome of beauty
I see a face with your rigid eyes

Your glow is leading me to a place
So far beyond this world
I drift away, now I can see
Through your rigid eyes

One more time I see you die
There’s no salvation
Something breaks you deep inside
It’s the end of your dissolution

One more time I see you die
There’s no salvation
Something breaks you deep inside
It’s the end of your dissolution


13. FOR YOU

I will be here for you
All I want is you
When I see your face
All the angels are shamed

Lay with me beauty
Feel me close to you
Take my hand to you
Touch you softly
Your warm skin

Cover me with you
Over me, under you
Pull me in to you
As one we lay entwined

All I ever wanted I have
I never wish again
You are...
You are heaven sent

All I ever wanted
You are...
You are heaven sent


14. COLOUR MY LIFE

Why don’t you colour my life?

Is this morality
As you suppress me?
You want to own me
I sleep inside you

But I know it well that you need me

You give me water
I’d never starve
You rule my nightmares
But you don’t let me laugh

And I know it well that you need me
And I know it well you won’t leave me

Why don’t you colour my life?
Why don’t you, why don’t you?
Why don’t you colour my life?
Why don’t you colour my life?
Why don’t you, why don’t you?
Why don’t you colour my life?

You drag me with you
And you drown my screams
You say “You’re vicious!”
Don’t you know what it means?

Don’t you understand what I tell you?

You know you love me
Don’t you feel this grace
You misjudge its meaning
We think in different ways

I don’t want to die the rest of my days
Rest of my days
I don’t want to lose my voice
Lose my voice
I don’t never want to gaze into space
Gaze into space

Why don’t you colour my life?
Why don’t you, why don’t you?
Why don’t you colour my life?
Why don’t you colour my life?
Why don’t you, why don’t you?
Why don’t you colour my life?

Why don’t you colour my life?
Why don’t you, why don’t you?
Why don’t you colour my life?
Why don’t you colour my life?
Why don’t you, why don’t you?
Why don’t you colour my life?


15. NOOSE

No way out of your misery
Alone in pain and agony
Lay depressed and hollow
One thought in your mind
No tomorrow

And then you had made up your mind
And thought it was your time
You left this world
Without shedding a tear
Without hope, without fear

So you thought you’d just put your head into the noose
And let it all go and so you did
Oh yeah, you did

Now you come haunting every night
Calling my name until I...
Wake up feeling this sorrow
One thought in my mind
I will follow

I’ll drink the booze to depress myself
Then I take the rope and express myself
I’ll leave this world
Without shedding a tear
Without hope, without fear

I think I’ll just put my head into the noose
And let it all go and so I will
I think I’ll just put my head into the noose
And let it all go
Oh yeah, I will

I’ll take the rope just like you
And wherever you are, I’ll be too

I think I’ll just put my head into the noose
And let it all go and so I will
I think I’ll just put my head into the noose
And let it all go
Oh yeah, I will


16. BLUE SMILEY’S PLAN

Did you see those mushrooms there?
I’d like to show to you
Did you smell them in the air?
I’d like to go with you
It’s just a matter of expression how
You achieve your aim
How you get paid by her reaction?
Try it once more

What you see is what you get
Blue Smiley’s Plan
Don’t care about who’s in that bed
Blue Smiley’s Plan
Seeing is believing, babe
Blue Smiley’s Plan
Don’t care about who’s in that bed
Blue Smiley’s Plan

He’s in touch just with some girl
Don’t know each other well
Try to tell her everything
She won’t believe you now
It’s just a matter of expression how
You achieve your aim
How you get paid by her reaction?
Try it once more time

What you see is what you get
Blue Smiley’s Plan
Don’t care about who’s in that bed
Blue Smiley’s Plan
Seeing is believing, babe
Blue Smiley’s Plan
Don’t care about who’s in that bed
Blue Smiley’s Plan


17. IN DARKNESS

Why so many obstacles on my way?
Why these creatures whirl ‘round on me?
I want to know who do they obey
Which occult strength manages them?

I’m living in darkness
Far from this world
I’m living in my dreams
My own legend

Their infernal sound leads me to sink into folly
How to overcome this fear which paralyzes me?
Let me dream of a real existence
Far from this world of suffering and anxiety

I’m living in darkness
I’m seeking the truth
He’s living in my brain
The fallen angel

Let me dive into the seeking serenity
Let me live my own legend
Find the answers which are eluding me
Understand the meaning of my non-existence
Let me dream of a real existence...

I’m living in darkness
I’m fighting for freedom
I’m living in my dreams
My own legend

No doubt, beyond this zone of terror I’ll find all the answers
No doubt, they try to stop me but I’ll fight
‘Cause even if the price of the knowledge consists of suffering
Even if the path to the eternal passes in transit to hell

I’ll go to the end
To the end of my dreams
I’ll go to the end
The end of my dreams