1. REFLECTIONLESS

Mirror... mirror...
The sky is darker than ever
As I'm drawn closer to the violent light
As I punish myself like you would never...
Hear my mourning sign...

Save me from myself
Discouraging sights appeared before me
And ripped the sounds apart
Save me from the lonely orchard
Of mirrorless creatures that grin in mockery
And slowly swallow all the life

A mirrorless creature,
Reflections of unholy times
A solemn moment,
Defaced under the mourning sign

Take a look inside yourself
If you're not afraid to hide
The sight of your own deformity
Forever cast to face the light
Step outside to look at the world
If you're not afraid to cry
I abandon you, the dreams,
And the empty shades of a world
Afraid to die...

A mirrorless creature,
Reflections of unholy times
A solemn moment,
Defaced under the mourning sign

It's not important
To search for what is real
It's so insignificant
To hold on to this will
To find a word, an answer, a voice
To understand me
(Do you listen to me ?)

It's so mysterious
The light behind cruelty's eyes
It's Oh ! So danderous
To find a word, an answer, a voice
(I don't need them to breath...)

Around the words, unto this Earth
Deceiving thoughts, Hell in reverse
Into our hearts, spirals they start
And never coming to an end

And to hold my breath in the land of the free
To whisper existence beyond the states
And the frames
A stream of pleasure
Where I'll drown my body
... Reflectionless...

I'll never be... I'll never be...
I'll never be... I'll never be...
... Reflectionless...


2. I'VE SEEN

I have just seen
Wasted in the shallow graves
When I've seen my world
From this unearthly distance
The highest fortress crumbled
Beneath the waves of our despair
We just had no chance
To see this mess being changed
Held us to truth
Or brought back to safety again

There's no reality, confined in me
Their frightened gazes confided in me
I could not flee to leave them all behind
But I left the flames engulf the entire truth
Before my eyes…

And I've seen… the end of light
And I've seen… our sorry plight
In my dreams… so real, out of time
All that we see… pushed on its path to demise

Believe me
In the bottom of the forlorn mindscapes
Shallow are the tortures of the past
Forgotten are their scents and their shapes
But my mind still feels the disturbing contrast
It still stands in me, still talks to me
Still pursues me, still tortures me

Was I to be buried alive ?

Now I can't
Forget the world I've seen
Forget the world I've seen…

Look at what I pretend
With this world in my hand
I'm just buried alive

Blame
There's no reality confined in me
Their frightened gazes confided in me
I could not flee to leave them all behind
But I let the flames engulf the entire
Truth before my eyes…

And the print in my mind
Is forever dark
And I've seen… the end of light
And I've seen… our sorry plight
In my dreams… so real, out of time
All that we see… lost and never to be found

Forget the world I've seen…


3. BEYOND THE CROSS OF GUILT

Delusions afar
And the pretentions of beholders
I'll suffer eternally for the faults of others

I'm seen like a murderer
When I yearn for tasting just the same
And the contrition is forever forbidden
To my long lost name

The corrections and signs of behavior
I have taken from everywhere
Couldn't deny myself to improve
The shape of the cross I decided to bare

You would crush every heaven and hell
And the earth to make me listen to you
And the dreams awake will still go on, too
I leave all the crowns to you
My only realm is what I live through

I just need retribution
For the woes I take from my illfortune
Legitimate or completely wrong
I was the one to give the tune

One cry for every sigh
One sigh for every pain I see
The storm of a million souls like…
A symphony

Beyond the cross of guilt
That they impose there is a life
I don't regret a single thing I did
Beyond their cross of lies

In the name of moral needs
Your ruin, and you're nothing
But they can't erase my memory
If you're dead like me
You surely know what I mean…

One cry for every sigh
One sigh for every pain I see
The storm of a million souls like…
A symphony

Forgive me not!…
Constant descending
Always backward looking
Profanation overwhelming
The greater fall of bleeding

My vanity in loneliness
Is the key I've lost to happiness
The timeless questions filtering through
Are the treasures I keep deep inside
Thinking of you

All the treasures I keep away
From anything sane
Far away from anything sane

Forgine me not! Forgive me not!
One cry for every sigh
One sigh for every pain I see
The storm of a million souls like…
A symphony

They raped my bounded brain
And infiltrated the sanest part of me
Until I couldn't know if it was rig
to say "Yes" or "No" or anything
But I come alive
Yes I come alive
And despite all the greed of those hearts
That never bleed
I put my faith in what we did

And the cross of guilt
On the true false Messiah
The cross of guilt
On the true false Messiah


4. YOUR TURN (BENEATH THE BLACK SUN)

[Chorus] (x2)
Now sleep well my beauty
Now sleep well (it's your turn…)

Face to face, mouth to mouth
Another Hell is touched with innocence
With obsessional fear of recurrence
All my senses have drowned
A maimed memory reminds the pain
No efforts to stay serene in vain
Forever and ever I've been taken
To lay here jagged and recumbent

Each day I live is another part of this serene demise
And Evil prayers reveal hidden desires
The feels I cherish amplify the ones inside that hate
A part of me dies, with each fear I create

[Chorus] (x2)

Poisonned by moral decadence
You were too blind to recognize
This will to touch you with my sighs
And take you in my nightmare
To squeeze the line around your breast
Around my heart, around your neck
Holding for me what you took without courage
And let out a wrath, a seal, a new rage

I sang the chorus of the soul
The eyes, the heart, the veins
Open wide on the hole
And then I waited, and I waited for more
But nothing came at all…

Each day I live is another part of this serene demise
And Evil prayers reveal hidden desires
The feels I cherish emphasize the part of me that's fake
A part of me dies, with each tear that I shed

[Chorus] (x2)

Each day I live is a part
Of this serene demise, but I don't care
My Evil prayers reveal hidden desires
I can't hide anywhere
The feels I cherish amplify
The ones inside that break
A part of me dies, and with fear
I create

I wasn't the good one in this place
It's better now that I am gone
I wait again to see this face
And it's your turn to be alone

[Chorus] (x2)

I stand awake beneath the black sun
Devoid of any light…


5. ANOTHER BABYLON

Painslave…
Subjective pain,
So full of hideous souvenirs
Hidden sores, my incurable disease
(Hear my call… hear my call…)
The essence of all this is in me
And the answer to all this is in me
(Hear my call… hear my call…)

Carry on… the fire, from Gods to Earth
Carry on… the flight, the drowning curse
Carry on… the spirit, the animality
Carry on… prepare my death in life,
Believing… in my own mortality

I bid you all…
Welcome, to my world I cowardly hate
Where healing is only expected in secret
(Hear my call… hear my call…)
Where old traumas are the friends to resurrect
And a holy smile is nothing, but suspect
(Hear my call… hear my call…)

Carry on… the fire, from Gods to us
Carry on… the flight, the drowning curse
Carry on… the spirit, the animality
Carry on… prepare my death in life,
Believing… in my own mortality

My own's your favourite shelter
My thoughts, your shrine of wonder
My mind, your holy battlefield
But my heart knows what you'll never
My heat knows what you'll never
My heat knows what you'll never feel…

(Hear my call… hear my call…
Hear my call… hear my call…
Hear my call…)

My own's your favourite shelter
My thoughts, your shrine of wonder
My mind, your holy battlefield
But my heart knows what you'll never
My heart knows what you'll never
My heart knows what you'll never feel

My heart knows what you'll never
My heart knows what you'll never
My heart knows what you'll never feel
My thoughts eternally ponder
My heart is now forever
Another Babylon of pain…


6. DELIRIUM TREMENS

The voices told me that I'll never escape
Always the same humid nightmare awake
Always the same holding cell in a different shape

Another treachery on reason's stake
Another empty bottle to feel sane
It's just another dead look in the eyes of shame

[Chorus #1]
Faceless delirium
Forced in like a prey
Caress of deliverance
I breed my own purity
From the bowels of your sin
I'm haunted, forced in
Delirium Tremens

Instead of drowning my pain, they have drowned my life
Into an ocean of liquid slow demise
They don't believe I will survive and neither do I

(I will try) to feel all self destructions taking my life
To feed the fear of rejection that victimizes
To fill the cup with emptiness until I die

[Chorus #1]

(Flowing… searing… flowing… searing…)
The only strife / to save my pride
Another life / another time
To break away / another way
another place / to lay myself to rest…

[Chorus #2]
Faceless delirium
Forced in like a prey
Caress of deliverance
I breed my own purity
From the bowels of your sin
I'm haunted, forced in
Another place
To lay myself
In Delirium Tremens...


7. AS THE SUMMER DIED

A star is born
Perverted by a new Golden Age
You shall give it its crown
And fill your lack of courage

With the growing voices of perversion
An intrusion into your suffering
A star is shining
Pointing at unknown directions

Keep crawling through the mire
Voices… voices…
Keep calling the beast inside to tire
The tireless voices
That take you away, take you away
Higher and higher…

Keep crawling through the mire
Voices… voices…
Keep calling the beast inside to tire
The tireless voices
That grow and decay, grow and decay
Louder and louder…

Now vice is deforming perception
The strength denied lies bleeding
With the fading voices of perversion
A star is dying

Keep crawling through the mire
Voices… voices…
Keep calling the beast inside to tire
The tireless voices
That take you away, take you away
Higher and higher…

Keep crawling through the mire
Voices… voices…
Rejected in this helpless world
With a sullen light from the skies
That holds your pain, and pride
Dead and reborn
To rise head high
As the summer died...


8. THE XITH HOUR

I am… what you wanted to be
The corrosion, the mirror in front of you
The remains when all is gone
The sacrificial figure inside the truth
I am… what you hate in your life
All the schemes you wanted burry deep in your mind
Bitter sweet reminder of sulfur and crimes
Shades hidden there in the silk of your eyes to
Fly… fly…

The endless wait has begun from now on
Carring the wish to stop holding on
You built your guilt building your fate
It's too late, you wait, it's too late

Take me on your dirty wings
Take me on these dirty wings
And allow me to leave the floor
Take me, don't be late once more
But show your face at the door
To never quit as you did before
Or stay confined here more and more

I am… what you're dying to hide
Staring to your own abyss further down
I learn your scales and then spit your disguise
And make it face the light
I am… inside each of us all
The pointing finger of futility
On the dirty wings of my own weakness
They will take me now
And bless me, to fly… fly…

The bell is ringing to pull it deep in vain
The faceless tormentor shall take it from the rain
There's no place to hide in the trial of mine
Another sorrow to prevent you from rising on time

Now, feel the pressure

I've seen the sin that has torn her face
the sin I've seen hides in disgrace
It came, torn, and turned without a trace
I've seen the sin that has torn her face

And you're late once more
And you're late once more
So, just stay confined here
More and more…

Take me on your dirty wings
Take me on these dirty wings
Forgive the way I'm so depressed
Take me
And I'll forget my weakness
And you will know
That I shall leave this life
With sorrow,
Proud and distressed...


9. SINKING INTO OBLIVION

"You timeless merchants of despair
The pitiful emptiness you share
The selfish contempt in your eyes
The truth you think you own, evil disguise(d)

I am, I will, and I create
I'm free to love, and you're just condemned to hate
A sacred light as an infinite blindness
Leave me alone with my own darkness"

There was no hope because there was no faith
There was no chance to see a light of change
Poisonned and laid to waste
for us there was no rest

Gather me up into the mouth of fate
With solitude I think that I can face
The things I've done to them
The way they'll reach their end

Sinking into oblivion, sinking into oblivion…

Searching for life, behind the lies
Behind the lies, holding on to a spark inside
Wherever it lies
Defining the line, refinding a life
Because I needed to be the only one
To burry my past, nothing must last
Death close at hand, down in the sand
So pray, pray, pave the way
To throw it, burry it in me

The ones who hurt are those who will survive
Their rejection has saved their useless lives
But I can see no good in doing harm
When what you touch falls dying in your arms

The only thing to save from loneliness
Is the remembrance of her forgiveness
Distraction from the truth erases every sweetness
In one second I'll breath the air of sadness
To understand this strange mistress…

Tears are rolling from the mind's eye
And from their high, they hear my cry

Sinking into oblivion
Sinking into oblivion…

Searching for life, behind the lies
Behind the lies, holding on
To a spark inside, wherever it lies
Defining the line, refinding a life
Because I needed to be the only one
To burry my past, nothing must last
Death close at hand, down in the sand
So pray, andpave the way
To throw it, burry it in me

"Awake to them
And dead to the world
The loss of sight was a gift of life
Blindness, as noone would speak of
A surgery of the mind, a change, a sign
To never breath the sand of pain
To never be the same
A last exodus, a final line to write
So, bid farewell to Earth, and finally
Draw the line, for the seal to be concrete
And the circle be complete…"


10. CRAWLING IN SANITY (THE VICTIM)

Body and mind still burn to fly
To hold a breath of life (for a single time)
When all my passions are deprived
Gathering, all alone, all my pride… pride…

I've never managed to conceive the hurt
When I've seen, I've felt, I've heard
The same old words…
But my heart aches now (as I slip by)
I'll never manage to conceal the hate
Forever dark, I contemplate
The things I've done to deserve to slide down… slide down… slide down…

I've heard the music of my spheres
Echoing the laughters of the moment
I've felt the word like a presentiment
I'm crawling in sanity
For all the things I hide
I'm drowning in self slavery
With all the things I hide

And I was someone away, someone away
From the trance that takes and forgives
And I'm someone away, someone away
From anything that lives

No, I'm someone away, someone away
From the trance that takes and forgives
And I'll be someone away, someone away
From anything that lives
Be like me… a victim…
Be with me… the victim…

Crossing the passage I see the light
Give me what I need when I'm deprived
(And deny all my rights)
To make me forget what the truth made me hide
I'll raise no final smile
So I'll see why I deserved to slide down… slide down… slide down… slide down…

I've heard the music of my spheres
Echoing the laughters of the moment
I've felt the word like a presentiment
I'm crawling in sanity
For all the things I hide
I drowning in self slavery
With all the things I hide

Be like me… a victim…
Be with me… the victim