1. IGNORANT YEARS

Caught...
The days still linger on
Inside the coffin made of hope
The break in what I claimed
Is what I refused to name
The breath is wordless blame
The knife refused to maim

Slave to the solitude
Unopened to sacrifice
The loss of myself
The ignorant years

Bound...
I was born then sick
To prepare myself for the forsaken
Crippled I was from birth
I just didn't notice
I just didn't know
The freedom bound was a curse
To overrule the crisis born from awe
Born from you
You, the other

Be me, and freedom may become
The feels I care to hide
The dreams I'm so scared to try
(The healing I deny)
I feel the walls are closing in
Down in the chrysalis I was praying
Why don't you, why can't you
Be in my own masquerade

So you finally believe in me
The needs I feed and the hurt I need
Pacing the trails of those who failed
For the love to trade, the shape of shame
A love to blame, the sins I claim
A march and a lie, the day I die
I'll laugh and cry

[Chorus]
Be my own masquerade
Flaws in cascade
The enemies are many and coming
If I'm surrounded, I'll surrender and fade
How could I be so
Deaf to advice, a roll of the dice
Unopened to sacrifice, still laughing

We are the sickness in the air...
I feel the walls are closing in
Down in the chrysalis I was praying
Why don't you, why can't you
Be in my own masquerade

So you finally believe in me
The needs I feed and the hurt I need
Pacing the trails of those who failed
For the love to trade, the shape of shame

A love to blame, the sins I claim
The pleasure I regain, the renewed meaning of pain
A march and a lie, a final cut for the ones who tried
I can't believe, so believe me
The day I die, I'll laugh and cry
Caught... Bound... Tight...

We are the sickness in the air...
We are the abandoned sheep who let the shepherd lacerated and dead
With dirt on his grave, slave to the solitude, unopened to sacrifice,
The loss of myself, the ignorant years…
I'll laugh the day I die
Cause here it lies, behind my eyes
Hidden close to a world beside
My ignorant years, innocent cries

(I was surrounded, I surrendered and, fading…
Unopened to sacrifice, still laughing)

I'll laugh the day I die
Cause here it lies, behind my eyes
Hidden close to a world beside
My ignorant years, innocent cries

A comedy of seek, and hide
The silver reflect in my personal sky
My world beyond you, beyond me
Beyond any delusion and disguise…
I laugh and cry

Caught…
The days still linger on
Inside the coffin made of hope
The break in what I claimed
Is what I refused to name

Bound…
I was born then sick
To prepare myself for the forsaken
The freedom bound was a tool
To overrule the crisis born from you
You, the other

[Chorus]


2. REVEALED TO MEN

Since I've killed myself with your sight
You've never let me down
You've told the truth of their lives
You forced the way behind
(But) never left a sign

For the lonesome men, lonesome men
Lonesome men, lonesome men

Lonesome men that wait in vain,
Howl in cages, taste the pain

Fade… fade from sight
Might I… bring out the nails ?
Made… of what I abhor
Wide eyed… dead to the core

Never satisfied, never contrite
Descend the circles now complete
Bring me thy knowledge
And I won't do more
Bring me thy innocent dream
It's here no more

For the lonesome men...
Lonesome men… Lonesome men…

Fade… fade from sight
Might I… bring out the nails ?
Made… of what I abhor
Wide eyed… dead to the core

Tell me again you love me
I'll make you regret and see
A feast for the flesh
The dawn of the mindless
The rebirth for our weakness

(For the) lonesome men that wait in vain
Howl in cages, taste the pain

I've come to see the rivers bleed
The questions revealed to me
Upon the mystery's end, the misery's friend
The fragile… could I make amend ?

I've come to see the rivers bleed
The very questions revealed to me
Upon the mystery's end, the misery's friend
And all your foolish pride revealed to men

Tell me again you love me
I'll make you regret and see
A feast for the flesh
The dawn of the mindless
The rebirth for our weakness

For the lonesome men… Lonesome men…

A rest for all the mournful faces
A dawn for dreadful mercies
A prison for broken-hearted fall
Child no more but never grown at all

I've come to see the rivers bleed
The lonesome men, released from pain

A flame that tests the maimed and strikes the painless
(To reveal) the kind, the mind, the sense that tears the mindless
(Up to) the mean, the weak, the will to taste the vile
Up to pass away, to carve the way to your denial

(For the) lonesome men that wait in vain
Howl in cages, taste the pain

And a storm will come
On the frozen ground we lay upon
Wiping both dirt and gold
The grey veil on our eyes will now unfold

Shadows call, the futures
The present lies unfurled
The past and gone betrayals
Denied for what is left to burn

You were revealed, and you were gone
A fatal distance all around
And the loneliness of dark sundays
I built my courage denying your faith

I've come to see the rivers bleed
The questions revealed to me
Upon the mystery's end, the misery's friend
The fragile… could I make amend ?

I've come to see the rivers bleed
The very questions revealed to me
Upon the mystery's end, the misery's friend
And all your foolish pride revealed to men


3. HERM-APHRODITE BELLS

Sent to harvest the seeds of fake
Maintain men to be burned at the stake
Of innocence born in history's home
The grudge that leaves the sensitive alone

A cryptic misdemeanor for a conscience made of stone

A karmic fist in the eye of fate
To leave it meaningless, the fortunes of hate
A bombing of brimstone all over the task
Of our pour damaged minds, left to ask…
Why ?

Lie, nice to heal the wombs you gave her
Silence is a world of tragic answers
Maybe one day you'll return to your saviour
And ask him why ? Why ? Why ?
But he'll give no answer

Please rescue me, please rescue me
I feel sick, and left for the sake of none
Is there something left of your own
Devilish side of empty questions
The only word with no conviction
I fear... I've been the contradiction
The very cause of your every friction
Entirely gone for a worthless reason
Eternally send to a wall-less prison

And till the break of morning, the sounds of grotesque mirth
Trauma painted memory as a painful right of birth

Desperate to hear me scream
Androgenic torture that cling on to sin
I breathe you here, there, in every dream
I pervert and return to the tongues unseen
To leave a dream...

Can you hear them ?
They call from bowels of secrets
Can you hear them ?
They call from towers of contempt
Derive to turn round the constraints (when)
Hermaphrodite bells... they yell
Can you hear them ?

Changes are bad to people like you
Still get mad at the only rescue
I can't believe that what you do
Will never return against you

Changes are bad to people like you
Still get mad at the only rescue
I can't believe that what you do
Will never return against you
It will come, it will come...

And till the break of morning, the sounds of grotesque mirth
Trauma painted memory as a painful right of birth
A canvas painted redfor the little one left aside
The crest of sulphur helped to built the trails of suicide

Why do you crawl back to the shore
Where safety is no more than what you were looking for
Long before... and cry for more ?

Why can we never taste what we're here for ?

A karmic fist in the eye of fate
To leave it meaningless, the fortunes of hate
A bombing of brimstone all over the task
Of our pour damaged minds, left to ask... why ?

Why can't we bear the weight of all the past times ?
Why can't we feel enough to taste our own life
Filling the countless gasp we left behind ?

Can you hear them ?
They call from bowels of secrets
Can you hear them ?
They call from towers of contempt
Derive to turn round the constraints (when)
Hermaphrodite bells... they yell
Can you hear them ?


4. THE BRAVE MATTERS

Friendless, blind to the day
Ivory tower of pride
Believe what you will about concepts
Creation, suffering, and souls that collide
That's a lie...

Down through the dome of your wishes
You think you punish me
I'll tell you all the trial I face
Was never meant to be
The pressure, the conflict, the unbelievable scenes
The killing process is a slow belonging

Resistant vision, calm and proud
You never spoke your voice aloud
Come fight with the bitter end I promise
Can't find the key to love and bliss

You're a common failure, a passive mind
The predator's eyes without the need for rapture, a coward's pride

Uncivilized drama, close to the end of everything
Non-purified trauma, closed to the edge of nothing
I burn with your fire
I love what you desire
I call with your voice aloud
I am deafened by what you hide
I am forced and I'm sent
I'm the scapegoat to repent
I'm the dirt to wipe from the world's hand
I am forced down blind and dead

Judges for the wicked and judges for the weak
Blame for me or the aimless pain, then judge me once again
The fearful nights of wonder come to you, as the friendship you undo
The burning links we built will break through the thoughts untrue
Up to the day that all you knew will tumble down, and that will do
The endless brave matters... the endless brave matters unto you

I've written the page to erase
Pale, and cold and blind and dead
The sulphur taste in where I graze
A direction lost in a maze

I've written the page to erase
Pale, and cold and blind and dead
The sulphur taste in where I graze
A lifetime lost in a maze
The certainties, the liberties,
The very sense of priorities
The innnocence and the ignorance
Of a million eyes that share at me
Their eyes in my eyes, their heart in my heart
Their eyes in my eyes, their heart in my heart

So I will not let you down
I'll call the fate I've had in mind
The tallest tree in a forest of doubt
Nothing gone but flowing out of sight

(I can't see anything good
I can't see anything right in you
The endless brave matters unto you)

Judges for the wicked and judges for the weak
Blame for me or the aimless pain, then judge me once again

So I will not let you down
I'll call the fate I've had in mind
The tallest tree in a forest of doubt
Nothing gone but flowing out of sight

Even pale and cold when you hurt
Your life is a desert world
Never free, never burning to live
What do you think you'll leave as a memory ?
It takes a certain time to feel the misery
It takes a long long long time to learn to bleed

Pale... blind...
Cold... dead
Brave... brave... brave
The brave matters...


5. MEASURED

In my own...
The concert of many moods
A choir of dead tunes
The cold...
Emotions, measured,
Reduced to a simple shape

Afraid to live
Distant to things I long to keep
Closed to instinct, to reason and to feels

In my own...
The cost of all the lines
The mist in which I lie
The cold...
Emotions, measured,
Reduced to a simple shape

Afraid to live
Distant to things I long to keep
Closed to instinct, to reason and to feels

The cold,
The coming of morn
To eve the new-born hope
The slumber broke...
I was cold...
Strong and miserable
Small and measurable
Dead leaves of fall, and the sickness for all
Miniatures left to crawl
Left to call, left to fall
Throught the fog


6. OTHERNESS PROVED

You... a constant failure I pay for
Derision, I cannot dare to falter
Up tonow I've been so guilty and wrong
The frost of hope can never, no never belong

Distant to me
You derived from my worthless screams
In defiance of fear
And born to mortify me

A constellation of clueless fictions
The prophets of true love
I die to make you satisfied by passions
The token left broken with a last dilemma to solve
The powerless division of two separate worlds
Same in silence of wreath
Dead with every breath

I'll make you
Shine... I come to make you shine in me
When both abide, both collide
A rigid spell of yours and mine
Shine... evil defined, chaos defied
I'll tell you now
If we are not the same
I'd rather die

Otherness proved...
A state of being that comes up to you
In defiance of fear
And born to help me

A modern fall, endlessly bound to call for more
When chaos rises from my sky (above)
And the same sense of pride will blind my eyes (once more)
I'll finally find out we are not the same at all

We are not the same

I'd like to make you shine in me
When both abide, when both collide
A secret hope of bliss comes up to light

What do you call love ? A demon to shove...
What do you call love ? A curse from above...

What do you call love ? A demon to shove...
A last dilemma to solve... that comes from above...

Distinct to us, the floods that would rather be
The otherness proved you distant to me

Time for the thruthless middle
To rise and face the dys of wrath
Time for the flawless minds
To hide the days of afternath

Same in silence of wreath
Dead with every breath

I'll make you
Shine... I come to make you shine in me
When both abide, both collide
A rigid spell of yours and mine
Shine... evil defined, chaos defied
I'll tell you now
If we are not the same
I'd rather die


7. SELF TO SHREDS

Ego pressed to chaos of preys
Mankind left aside to bitterly pray
Comfort lies in the self of greed
Delusions crawl to your half-dead breed
A fusion of every thought, the murder of what I adored

I sang and praised you
Down to the bottom
They feared to take you
Up to the rostrum
Then I came for this, the hours of bliss
To shackle the beast
In the waters of Styx
The fever I took from the enemy I missed,
A song for haunted lips

All conceptions fade / all misunderstanding stayed
All the nuisances have stained / when the vile and evil deceiver must reign

I killed the son of my own presence
The magic of the response was your obedience
The shreds, the tragic remains
The sibilant sights of my own pains

They will leave you to shreds
Insane, impotent, and food for the dead
Oh... calm down little one
Recess is all the way down

Suffocating, unto the earth
Devouring me for all it's worth
The caress I missed so much was never mine
The spheres where you stand destroyed on time

This moment was immortal
A mind of gold for the bestial
A punishment due for the one whose fall
Has caused the youngest love to crawl
A punishment due for the one who stood tall
When I left you and your whole to crumble...

The kisses of these dominating heretics
The causes and effects of your tricks
On me, on every stance you hush
On every verse you crush, with your own fists
With your own lips

All conceptions fade / all misunderstanding stayed
All the nuisances have stained / when the vile and evil deceiver must reign

I killed the son of my own presence
The magic of the response was your obedience
The shreds, the tragic remains
The sibilant sights of my own pains

They will leave you to shreds
Insane, impotent, and food for the dead
Oh... calm down little one
Recess is all the way down
Down


8. THE FOG

I've let the tensions out
And gained what it's all about
Dripping above a life to shove
Aside... and float for a short while
Forsaken to crowds inane
Leaving me there in lashes and maimed
With the fog to be
The people, the thoughts, the dreams
Everything that surrounded me
Seemed insane...

I've held the tensions tight
And gained what it's all about
Digging inside a life to hide
Above, and remember this love
Forsaken to crowds inane
Leaving me there in lashes and maimed
With the fog to be
The people, the thoughts, the dreams
Everything that surrounded me
Seemed insane...

Insane... insane...


9. ODYSSEY OF FOOLS

Sailing a common sea
I've learned to creep
Praying to common gods
I've learned to keep my words
Drowning in common seas
I've learned to live
Denying common gods
I've learned to leave my world

Odyssey, I'm coming down
To a place of speechless commonplaces, a pagan mess
I believe, I was coming down
From the grass to the castles that tumble down
A faint caress, so meaningless

None to give a thing important
I found myself indignant
I poured the salt in my wounds
Then, poor me, was I renewed ?
No... there was no answer
Because there was no question
There were so calm green pastures
There was no need for departure

Odyssey, I'm coming down
To a place of speechless commonplaces, a pagan mess
I believe, I was coming down
From the grass to the castles that tumble down
A faint caress, so meaningless
We felt well in our own smell...
We felt well in our own smell...

A true folly, to be like me
An empty stance, a verse without a sense
A mainly fake and party haunted memory
A journey, a strange voyage for the fools like me
A magic thought, a ghostlike melody
A symphony of barred and barren times of misery
A known-by-heart devotion to a pointless mystery
Feeding the lonely, an odyssey for the fools like me

"There must be something else beyond
There must be somewhere to belong"

Your gods mislead you from your own, your life
Your thoughts mislead you from your time, your truth,
A lie...

Sailing a common sea
I've learned to creep
Praying to common gods
I've learned to keep my words
Drowning in common seas
I've learned to live
Denying common gods
I've learned to leave my world

Odyssey, I'm coming down
To a place of speechless commonplaces, a pagan mess
I believe, I was coming down
From the grass to the castles that tumble down
A faint caress, so meaningless

Frantic, demonic, at loss for words
Egotic tricks to reassure the murderers
A past that clings on to the bad inventive
A present that dances for the bereaved
A future confined to be a death to live
And remain free, forever captive...


10. CAPTIVE

(Instrumental)