1. MOTHER EARTH

Birds and butterflies, rivers and mountains she creates
But you’ll never know the next move she’ll make
You can try but it is useless to ask why
Cannot control her, she goes her own way

She rules until the end of time
She gives and she takes
She rules until the end of time
She goes her own way

With every breath and all the choices that we make
We are only passing through on her way
I find my strength believing that your soul lives on
Until the end of time I’ll carry it with me

She rules until the end of time
She gives and she takes
She rules until the end of time
She goes her own way

Once you will know, my dear
You don’t have to fear
A new beginning always starts at the end
Once you will know, my dear
You don’t have to fear
Until the end of time
Until the end of time
Until the end of time
She goes her own way

She rules until the end of time
She gives and she takes
She rules until the end of time
Until the end of time
Until the end of time
She goes her own way


2. BLESS THE CHILD

I was born amidst the purple waterfalls
I was weak, yet not unblessed
Dead to the world, alive for the journey

One night I dreamt a white rose withering
A newborn drowning a lifetime loneliness

I dreamt all my future
Relived my past
A witnessed the beauty of the beast

Where have all the feelings gone?
Why has all the laughter ceased?

Why am I loved only when I’m gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child

How can I ever feel again?
Given the chance would I return?

Why am I loved only when I’m gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child

Think of me long enough to make a memory
Come bless the child one more time

I’ve never felt so alone in my life
As I drank from a cup which was counting my time
There’s a poison drop in this cup of man
To drink it is to follow the left hand path

Why am I loved only when I’m gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child

Think of me long enough to make a memory
Come bless the child one more time

Think of me long enough to make a memory
Come bless the child one more time

Where have all the feelings gone?
Why is the deadliest sin - to love as I loved you?
Now unblessed, homesick in time
Soon to be freed from care, from human pain

My tale is the most bitter truth:
“Time pays us but with earth and dust, and a dark, silent grave”

Remember, my child:
“Without innocence the cross is only iron”
Hope is only an illusion and ocean soul’s nothing but a name

The Child bless thee and keep thee forever


3. ILLUSIONATE

Slowly as they reach my soul
With confiding holograms
Why?

Someone pull the strings for me
I am getting weaker
Now they’re in control

Illusion made of glass
Inside a screen
They transform(ate) my soul completely black
My skill to love is gone
I cannot feel
Hallucination comes and makes me breathe

Someone paint my dreams in blood
With no compassion
Why?

Things that I touch and feel
Are now behind the curtain
Exit time, please

Illusion made of glass
Inside a screen
They transform(ate) my soul completely black
My skill to love is gone
I cannot feel
Hallucination comes and makes me breathe

Illusion made of glass
Inside a screen
They transform(ate) my soul completely black
My skill to love is gone
I cannot feel
Hallucination comes and makes me breathe


4. LIQUID VIEW

Deeply sown and never known
The mirror bleeds the truth
Deeply sown and never known
Your presence is fading

As I fill my glass and watch my own reflection
Then I know that I’ll be gone
As I raise my hand, try to comprehend
What I’ve been missing, I feel distracted

In the mist of my own perception
I bow before myself

The pressure is not withdrawn
I fall again
I catch a glimpse of my downright pretending self

Deeply sown and never known
Your presence is fading

As I take a step and fake my own conception
Then I know that I’ll be gone
As I raise my grin, show the world my sin
Of being tempted, I feel distracted

In the mist of my own perception
I bow before myself

The pressure is not withdrawn
I fall again
I catch a glimpse of my downright pretending self

In the mist of my own perception
I bow before myself

The pressure is not withdrawn
I fall again

A hopeful ride is hereby ending

Horrid fate, it’s time to exit
I feel tampered with, I feel so empty
All I ever saw from my contaminated view
Kept me looking for mercy
Yet illusions stay the same
I realize that it’s wrong now that all is lost
And I have withered

I’ve withered
I’ve withered


5. SWAMPED

When you’re taught through feelings
When you’re taught through feelings
When you’re taught through feelings
When you’re taught through feelings

Destiny flying high above
All I know is that you can realize it
Destiny who cares as it turns around
And I know that it descends down on me

It’s just another day
The shame is gone
Hard to believe
That I’ve let it go...

Destiny can’t replace my life
Scary shadows of my past are alive
Destiny who cares as it turns around
And I know that it descends with a smile

It’s just another day
The shame is gone
It’s hard to believe
That I’ve let it go away

It’s just a melody
It bleeds in me
Hard to believe
That I’ve let it go...

When you’re taught through feelings
When you’re taught through feelings
When you’re taught through feelings
When you’re taught through feelings

Just another day
The shame is gone
It’s hard to believe
That I’ve let it go away

It’s just a melody
It bleeds in me
Hard to believe
That I’ve let it go...


6. LJUSALFHEIM

Solar glare from Lord Frej
The Shining One
In Ljusalfheim he’s King of Elves

High above the rainbow
And in the tarn deep in the wood
You’ll find the Elves

Follow their light
It’s brighter than the sun
It makes you fly (forever in the sky)

In the Realm of Alfheim
You never know what you have seen
A pale mirage?

Beauty makes you sunblind
It fills your mind
You fly away and lose your hug

Fly with their wings
They make you feel so free
But you may fall (forever in the sky)

Flee from their light
They’ll maybe drag you down
Or make you fly...


7. THE SANCTUM OF MY SOUL

Now I feel my mind is in a fever
Infected with diseases from an alien source

What is consciousness?
A portrait of yourself?
Can mind exist alone and leave all material boundaries?

Recognize the substance that surrounds me
Locked in an embrace that is not really me

What is consciousness?
A portrait of yourself?
Can mind exist alone and leave all material boundaries?

Soul...
Feelings...
Body...

Endless...
Perceived...
Limited...

Imagine your body departed from your soul
Still you have control of your thoughts
Don’t need any sense perceptions
Impressions based on rationality

Can you exceed time and space?

I see my thoughts are enemies
Viewing my minds from inside of me

What is consciousness?
A portrait of yourself?
Can mind exist alone and leave all material boundaries?

When every elemental part of my mind
Is reacting I retreat inside
Disregarding all space and time
My integrity is clarified

Changing my condition
I depart from my consciousness
In this atmosphere the anxieties are less
I am drawing nearer the sanctum of my soul
Inside me


8. SERPENTINE

Deep inside I’m dying
Deep inside I’m hiding
Deep inside my every word a cry
(Alone I cry...)

Deep inside I’m heartless
Deep inside regardless
Kill for me
My every word a lie

Deep inside a child
When tears and dreams go wild when
Deep inside comedian for life

Say “will I die for you?”
See I was always there to run
Will I deny for you?
The smiling scarecrow on your tongue
Say “will I die for you?”
See I was always there to run
Say “will I die for you?”

Deep inside I’m dying
Deep inside I’m hiding
Speak to me the words of love and trust
(I feel distrust)
Burn for me my neon world to dust!

Say “will I die for you?”
See I was always there to run
Will I deny for you?
The smiling scarecrow on your tongue
Say “will I die for you?”
See I was always there to run
Say “will I die for you?”

And in the distance I’m alive
And in the distance neon lights so far away from me
And in the distance I’m alive

And in the distant smile I’ll pass on by
And cross the plans you made
The suns you burned
The distance walks away

Say “will I die for you?”
See I was always there to run
Will I deny for you?
The smiling scarecrow on your tongue
Say “will I die for you?”
See I was always there to run
Say “will I die for you?”


9. DECEIVER OF FOOLS

He feeds on fear
He feeds on pain
He rules again

With growing hate
He will guide their faith again

No light in the darkness is too small to see
There's always a sparkle of hope
If you just believe

He told the tale so many times
About the dream not meant to be
In a world of the free
He plays with your mind

As faith for the future faded fast
He grows strong with their displeasure
It sets him free

Deceiver of hearts
Deceiver of fools
He rules with fear
Deceiver of hopes
Deceiver of fools
He rules again

He feeds on fear
Poisons the truth to gain their faith
To lead the way to a world of decay
He rules your heart

He will sell your soul to the grave
Without a hesitation he’ll make
He belongs to the dark

Deceiver of hearts
Deceiver of fools
He rules with fear
Deceiver of hopes
Deceiver of fools
He rules again

Please, awake and see the truth
He can only be if you believe what he tells you
Remember who you are, what you stand for
And there will always be a way

Deceiver of hearts
Deceiver of fools
He rules with fear
Deceiver of hopes
Deceiver of fools
He rules again

In my heart there is a place
In my heart there is a trace of a small fire burning
A sheltering ray shines through this night
Although it’s small, it’s bright, but darkness is lurking

He will sell your soul to bitterness and cold
Fear him

Deceiver of hearts
Deceiver of fools
He rules with fear
Deceiver of hopes
Deceiver of fools
Shall he rule again?


10. NOCTURNA

High heels of crystal stuck in the heart
Daylight that heals the full moon scars
Spider strategy and the wish to be
At one with me throughout the fright

It is so real
So full of light
(When) Nocturna steals the night
It is so real
So full of light
(When) Nocturna steals the night

Sister of cain, all our breed slain
The youthful oath remains the same
“Le mal de vivre” that never ends
But the hunt (for you) goes on throughout the night

It is so real
So full of light
(When) Nocturna steals the night
It is so real
So full of light
(When) Nocturna steals the night

It is so real
So full of light
(When) Nocturna steals the night
It is so real
So full of light
(When) Nocturna steals the night

It is so real
So full of light
(When) Nocturna steals the night
It is so real
So full of light
(When) Nocturna steals the night


11. GUILT AND REGRET

Guilt and Regret
They are my two inbred brothers
Guilt and Regret
Oh God, how I hate them both from the bottom of my heart

Guilt and Regret and me
Wake up into a brand new day
Guilt and Regret lively
I am still dead tired
The night has been long and hard

My brothers they ask me:
“Do you recall anything from yester-night, no?”
They laugh at me and go:
“Nothing at all?!”
“Well, it must have been an evening of joy!”

Guilt and Regret
Oh God, how I hate them both from the bottom of my heart

Each morning like this
They come, uninvited

Pale as ghosts, reeking of compost
Yet most I abhor their bloodshot eyes

My brothers they ask me:
“Do you recall anything from yester-night, no?”
They laugh at me and go:
“Nothing at all?!”
“Well, it must have been an evening of joy!”

My brothers they tease me:
“Do you remember anything from yester-night, no?”
They laugh at me and go:
“Oh sure you do!”
“We buried our little sister Hope"

Guilt and Regret and me
What a twisted family we are
Guilt and Regret
Oh God, how I hate you both from the bottom of my heart


12. EVERLASTING

She never could not find a way to tell his image the truth
There’s simply nothing more she can give
She wants only to be free

She’s waiting for the end to come and to erase those last memories
She’s falling in her grace and embracing the dark

When she felt she could not hold on in the middle of it all
A lonely soul trapped inside of her
There’s nothing more she can give

She’s staring up to see that face that could explain it all
As memories they come and the mark that explains it all

She’s falling in her grace
The mark explains it all
She’s falling in her grace
Like God’s only child

The cross has lost its grip on her soul
There’s nothing more she can give
Engravings on her skin and the mark that explains it all

She’s falling in her grace
Embracing the dark
She’s falling in her grace
Like God’s only child


13. MONOLITH OF DOUBT

The ordeal has begun
To oblige the unknown
Within me

As I drown
Cannot remember, cannot think
As I sink (deep...)

Near the monolith of doubt creeps the fear

The fear to lose yourself
In the severe reflection

I don’t know
A flashing moment that has frozen me
My whole existence passed by
Through the trusted eyes of a mirror
But it wasn’t me I could see

This monolith of everything that I have been
It’s vacillated and aghast
The inexorable time has taught me once again
That my features will change and macerate me

See!
It’s me!
My monolith of doubt!


14. TENDER TRIP ON EARTH

Another day the next page
Still in daze, still in a dream
Out of the pipe
My lust for life comes and goes

From above demanding purity
Sobriety cursing me like a sledge
Hammering down at me
Hammering down at me

Out of the water-pipe
I suck my lust for life
And all my floating dreams
It seems

Up on the gallery
God shouting down at me
Something I cannot hear

Tears falling from the sky
Words from a lullaby
Everything beautiful dies
For now, we’re hanging in
Though we are blessed with sin
You make my tired heart sing

You can be a sunbeam and shine for a while, for a while
You can laugh a lot and bring out that smile

For now we’re hanging in
Even though we’re blessed with sin
You make my heart...
You make my tired heart sing

You make my tired heart sing

Tears falling from the sky...

I’m on a tender trip
Slowly I’m losing grip
Madness is in the air I fear
Stay, you’re my acid-queen
Stay on my faded team
Run through the corridor with me

Tears falling from the sky
Words from a lullaby
Everything beautiful dies
For now, we’re hanging in
Though we are blessed with sin
You make my tired heart sing

Tears falling from the sky
Words from a lullaby
Everything beautiful dies
For now, we’re hanging in
Though we are blessed with sin
You make my tired heart sing

Tears falling from the sky
Words from a lullaby
Everything beautiful dies
For now, we’re hanging in
Though we are blessed with sin
You make my tired heart sing


15. SISTER NIGHTFALL

Child, every time you come around
You divert my feelings and bring me further down

Would you like to be the serpentine whirls of the stream?
Would you like to cope for all your dreams?

Sister Nightfall controlling the lights in me
Though it hurts it feels just like a dream

Come down to linger in heresy
And come down on me with all your serenity

Shivers down the spine when she comes down the hall
Thy effigy seems frail to be or was it ever there at all?

Child, every tear that runs adown
Will merge and hurt now that winter’s all around

Would you like to wear the secrets of the seven seas?
Would you like to be what you can’t be?

Sister Nightfall controlling the lights in me
Though it hurts it feels just like a dream

Come down to linger in the undreamed
And come down on me to cope for what should have been

Give in on tonight
All heavens on their fall
We failed to find that soul divine
Enshrined within us all

She sets her sails for another sea
There’s more to life than your eyes reveal
Upon its scenery...!

Sister Nightfall controlling the lights in me
Though it hurts it feels just like a dream

Sister I call out in vain for thee
Though I hurt you, won’t you set me free?