1. THE GIVING SUN

I demand light

First cry hits
First blood spilt
First wall and last of all to build

I’ll try my best to convince
The ones around me that I dreamed
As hard as I could breathe

A whole life is the task I shall endure
I‘ll come forth,
Without a force
To guide me in this maze for sure
May it come...
None to ever rely on, none to bring me home
So alone... but I thought I once have loved all...
The hurt and the sores, the sense of losing all
And even the voices that I would hear from then on :

“Prepare and forge your tongue
For the floods to come
Dead or strong
You’ll be a man my son”

Here I belong
Where the stars find their way to dawn

Hail the sun... dream on
Healed... to conceal, to know what I had to feel
Hurt, a world of life, joy beside, to pay heed to a word of lie
I paid the price, then heard a voice inside : it said “don't lie”...

Limitless and ageless
My giving sun...
Finish and burn your own... work of Urizen
Burning...

Hail the sun, hail the sun

Hail the given hope I've shown... my burning home
My own soul, my fallen whole...
Dream on... hail the sun

Here I belong
Where the stars find their way to dawn

Hail the sun... dream on
Healed... to conceal, to know what I had to feel
To feel what I had to know, gave all to the sun except my shadow
Burning, my work of Urizen, my giving sun and all
Dream on... hail the sun
Healed... to concieve, to know what I had to live
Hurt, a world of life, joy beside, to pay heed to a word of lie
I paid the price, then heard a voice inside: it said “don't lie”...


2. HOUSE OF THE MAIMED

Drain the pain for us...

Sensing, hearing, that the anger would seize up the faith
But hearing, insane, that all that we fought for was running
Towards the end
Its total waste

The tide is the strength that erases all the forces of hope
The strife is the vengeance I struggle to end in one note
The feeling, the fists, and the words floating there when I spoke
Were gone in a second and cast to the wind down the rope

Sorry... I’m not sorry…

The tongues of the serpents to lick all the treasures I waste
The creeping delusion that burns in my sight when I wait
The kindness, the weakness, the hypocrisy that beheld all the scenes
Were gone when the hymns I wanted to sing
Came to revenge all my tyrant’s dreams

Lost in a web of suspicion
Shadowy words of wisdom fade
The disease flowing
As soon as I breathed
I entered the house of the maimed
A wind of change is waiting
Demolitions, expectations to sing, new hymns

Sorry... you're sorry in vain
Thinking yourself safe from the pain
Struggle to maintain
What is already rotten and tame
The solution is blind, and stubborn to blame
Death at the roots by the flame

Sorry... I’m not sorry…sorry
Drain the pain for us...
Drain the pain for us...
Sorry... I’m not sorry…sorry

The tide is the strength that erases all the forces of hope
The strife is the vengeance I struggle to end in one note
The feeling, the fists, and the words floating there when I spoke
Were gone in a second and cast to the wind down the rope

Lost in a web of suspicion
Shadowy words of wisdom fade
The disease flowing
As soon as I breathed
I entered the house of the maimed
A wind of change is waiting
Demolitions, expectations to sing, new hymns

Drain the pain for us...
Drain the pain from us...


3. THE VOID BETWEEN

There's something more that calls to me now
That can be true for no one
There's something more I dare not see now
That cannot last for no one
There's something new that calls to me
There's something old I dare not see
The void between us must be filled in definitely

(Repeat x2)
Rise and descend for all time

Grace, a tool of mass deprivation
Reborn for man to
Face, the rules of elation
And be torn between two worlds
Unknown

One you cannot know
And one you don’t want so

We were all grown as a mistake
Bet on your own head for what is at stake
Just tell me the truth about what’s to come
The end of us all is a loss for none

The grave is filled with what is undone
The fields are piled with what’s to become
A binding time when long lost dreams
Wake up in their coffins
And all seems wrong, with the urge of death to come
I need to carry on...

Hey... don't stay
Hey... I say... won't stay

Rise and descend for all time
Voices cry, they sigh
They wake me up, they never let me die

And loveless I'll be
And loveless I'll live
And fearless I'll be
And all seems wrong, with the urge of death to come
I need to carry on

There is no line
To guide my lifetime

There is no guide
To follow my lifeline

There is no presence
No present and no past
Neither the friendly arms
Nor the claw or lash

The grave is filled with what is undone
The fields are piled with what’s to become
A binding time when long lost dreams
Wake up in their coffins
And all seems wrong, with the urge of death to come
I need to carry on...

Hey... don't stay
Hey... I say... won't stay

Rise and descend for all time
Voices cry, they sigh

(Repeat x3)
They wake me up
They never let me die


4. A CANNIBAL FEAST

Once on the verge of this
Two fading holes again in the sense of it
I grew up tied, roped, cradled in a grave of hope
And left unknown to bliss

Oppressed
A carnival led by eyes that preached
A carnal frustration born from a lie called sin
The cannibal feast is here

Bridges built on top of mental deserts
Psychotic mess
The simple fact that I loved left me breathless

Swallow my words with a well-kept distant mind
Scorn inside
Hypocrite manners with eyes that could not lie

Different places filled with similar faces
Their number has left
A bloodshot heart alone in crowded spaces

Oppressed
A carnival led by eyes that preached
A carnal frustration born from a lie called sin
The cannibal feast is here

Blame and scorn from the others born
Shallow be the fight for us to conceal
Deny their selves, their own existence
Feed on lies (behind your masks)

Oppressed
A carnival led by eyes that preached
A carnal frustration born from a lie called sin
The cannibal feast is here

Once I grew up, colours turned to grey
The tricks and games all laid astray
The cynical path unknown to me
I first turned my eyes but then smiled despairingly

Poor forsaken me

You swore to protect me
To build a wall for my enemies
You swore to soak the floods of tears
The treachery, a sermon born from (your own) fears

(Repeat x2)
Poor forsaken me

Oppressed
Oppress me
The cannibal feast is here

Different places filled with similar faces
Their number has left
A bloodshot heart alone in crowded spaces

If you're listening to me
Take me, bury me inside
If you care to leave it be
Leave and let me drown...


5. SUICIDE PACT

Love...

The present given
Then denied to everyone
There lies...
A silent pact, afraid to act
As a part of the act
As a work of art
Dramatis persona
Hermetic to facts
That feels and reacts
Grins behind the smiling...
...Mask
From this “nowhere”
Awakens the “something” for which I
Stand
(The end)

What I sensed in the weight of the past
A faceless burden upon my tired shoulders
The truth that the pain won’t last
Was the worst of all the weights for the bearer
But there below
A shadow will grow
But there below
A strength will grow
A strength will grow

(The void between us
Would stifle my calls
The endless vacuum born from morals
The friendless dawns where my own light shines
My whole world on fire, the Suicide Pact
Arise...)

Scream the truth in the face of facts
The loneliest pact;
I swear to myself I shall fill my own lacks
Bridging the gap,
For I had to become
The once unknown

Praise my ego, the dividing time
I’ll walk alone on the curving line
Dig and dig and dig inside
Finding why I was so blind
I hated the one I found
I hated the one so blind
Feet in the mire, but head in the sky
Hands in the fire, the suicide pact
Arise...

Am I unique ? Am I I ?
Am I unique ? In my eye ?

Wondering why would never highlight
The simple fact that I’ve died
To me, to them, to the world I denied
Triumphant among these ruins I couldn't help but cry...
One time, one soul
One life, one goal

Hope in a distance, and I would try again
Recall for the monster I failed to fight against
And a new dawn would rise
Even worse than the previous time
A doubt so bright again would be mine
Leave me alone, it has to be done
I 'll live no more if I fail
Leave me alone, I have to become
The once unknown

Leave me alone,
I 'll live no more if I fail
It has to be done
I have to become
The once unknown
One time, one soul
One life, one goal


6. THE GLOW

Do I need to preach hate
To express a wicked view ?
This world was not so fake
It’s the only one I knew
So far...

Am I wrong to feel your presence ?
Behind my back and everywhere
I need to know of your existence
Take my one soul now and there

Guide the hand that burns my art
Back to the start, Invest me now...
Be what thou art, invest my haze, I praise,
Invest me with your sanctus ignis, sanctus irae,
Sanctus ignis, sanctus irae...

The urge for you that I needed
The glow... the glow

Locked in a den of abstract forms
And the solitude born from the highest love
Torn between the absolute restraints
And the scent of you that I wanted

Hammer down, conscience high
The pleading voice of a man that hides
I struck and struck and struck and did my time
These thoughts ran high...

The stairway piled with broken glass
The ladder shattered now
Ego left to encompass
The steps leading to a lower ground

Hammer down, conscience high
Hammer high... threatening height

Conscience whispering to a stranger
I bowed in reverence
The present time of consequence
A gift of life for the future builder

The stairway up to distant stars
The ladder rebuilt now
Ego left to heal the scars
The steps leading to a higher ground

Guide the hand that burns my art
Back to the start, Invest me now…
Be what thou art, invest my haze, I praise,
Invest me with your sanctus ignis, sanctus irae,
Sanctus ignis, sanctus irae...

Rampant, disillusioned, dusted,
Distinct from what I was, then I was petrified
Rusty rumbling rattle and bombs
I met a human soul (for the first time)

Wreckage prepared long ago there
Nothing to say and none to bear
The reign of us, stains of us, stain for a long time
This soul was mine

Guilt is the feel I feel but never again,
So I doubt you’ll ever see me again fight against
The strains I fear, what did you say ? I can never hear
See, I’m another man today...

Vapours and steams be all that see
Blurring the horizons and the present to give
Wasting my views on you and me
I chose to live, not to forgive

Look in the distance the rumbling tumbling
Dig in a soul lost for all eyes to stare again
The forces of mine between opposite poles (to achieve my goal)
I needed... the glow !!!

I needed life
I needed more
Needed to see, to feel, to grow

I needed to step further
Needed more than pleasure
More than you, than me, the above or the below

I needed the glow
The glow
The glow


7. COMPUTER OF WORDS

Hold me into a second death
Hold me into yourself
A second life
My own light

I, witness to the world and all
Could I know anything at all ?
Solitary in wisdom or happy with the flock
There was no pretension, now trust myself alone
Burn my own home, my whole, my entire self exposed
No need for sense of purity, no master and no goal
The sun be the witness to my sincerity
And the fact that truth is gone

I am not the subject of a divine process
No words of god or providence or cause or consequence
I am the will to punish, the planted seed of vengeance
I take the right to do what’s right where nothing can be right
I am the creation, corrupt behind tricks and blinks
Proleptic vision of my own magic

To erect an ego high as mountains
And give life a new shape, new path, new end, new days
Erect, erase
Construct, deny and praise
Erect an ego high
Erect an ego high as mountains

Off with their heads, those who claimed what good imposed
The ancient standards and ideals have given up the ghost
We bear no dusty wall, no structures of old
Let’s call it a day, strong inside we impose
The sanctity of Pride... Pride... Force... and Pride
Let the strength flow
If nothing is right, nothing is wrong
Let go the grudges and anchor
This world, as you know it, won’t last long
Give up the weight of morals, the pressure of the cross
We chose to love the few earthly days we come across
We are the builders, corrupter of words
Disruptive, destructive, subjective stream of force

To erect an ego high as mountains
And give life a new shape, new path, new end, new days
Erect, erase
Construct, deny and praise
Erect an ego high
Erect an ego high as mountains

We are the builders, corrupter of words
Destructive stream of force
Constructive stream of love

We rise above


8. ONE WITH THEM

Sign the signs I once rejected
Sing the ones I once neglected
A confined dream, a furnished beam
The burning steam of brand-new themes

(Repeat x2)
...Wrong
Since another day's gone

The problem 's not outside
But inside
The answer's not outside
But inside
Preach again to the lord of all rains
My deepest errors lie in themselves
Soak my throat and cry again
That I would bring the end for myself

Away, the seeds
Away, the conflicts
Reaching low
Reaching high
No reaching I

To grow old, to be bold
Is not to stand tall
The future's close at hand
Forward !!! towards the end

Away, the seeds
Away, the conflicts
Reaching low
Reaching high
No reaching I
Away, the seeds
Away, the conflicts
Away, the wastes of time to spend
On earthly beliefs, then...
Reaching low
Reaching high
No reaching I

(Watch myself) Drown in a kingdom of passion
Built on trails of reason
Chose or lose, the freedom to walk in this nameless prison
Using bold perceptions
A self-based recognition
To call yourself a “home”
Finish and burn your own... work of Urizen
Finish and burn your own... work of Urizen
--------------------------- work of Urizen

You talk of us as monsters
Us, who trust the Earth
The mind and soul shall combust
This endless space and universe
Yourself and them, my depths also
All these places I’ll never go
My body shall remain
The final limit of all
My earthly belief is so...

(Repeat x2)
...Wrong
Since another day's gone

Away the seed, away the conflict

The problem's not outside
But inside
The answer's not outside
But inside

Reaching low
Reaching high
No reaching I
(The problem 's not outside
But inside
The answer's not outside
But inside)
Away, the seeds
Away, the conflicts
Away the waste of time to spend
On earthly beliefs, then
Distant lives
Dawning to eve a crime
Forgotten works I tried
Molten days for the blind
Distant lives
Burning themselves and mine
Pulse of the inside
Drumbeat inside the mind
The further step will be
The final dissolution of me
In them, in them
So I 'll be them, and then :

(Repeat x3)
One with them


9. A USUAL MOON

Bound to ever doubt about what’s coming now
I’ll have another night wrapped in sweat in this bed
I hate, and even the stars seem to laugh at my face now
At the sword above my head, and the fate I cannot face
You’ll understand when I’m dead

“Trust in life” are the words I long to whisper
Anything else is foretelling the future

I believed in a lie, wish I could end it now
This manifold of hopes I stole or borrowed
Far beyond another day passed in disguise
Lays a life of lies, and of treasures to keep
Once you’ve truly opened your eyes
You can never sleep
I believed in this life ; wish I could end it all now

Can’t believe that it lies in these hands less than cold
“You’ll grow” they all tell me, as usual
The fact is : I’m not growing, I’m growing old...
And cold
(Under a usual moon, I doubt...
I doubt I'll ever find a way out
A way out...)

Bound to ever doubt about what's coming now
And even the stars seem to laugh at my face now
I utter the great “How” ?

“Trust in life” are the words I long to whisper
Anything else is foretelling the future
To invest the present with the past days... is that the only way ?
To invade the past with what I feel today

Bound to ever doubt about what's coming now
And even the stars seem to laugh at my face now
(Under a usual moon, I doubt...
I doubt I'll ever find a way out
A way out...)

Here lays a life of lies, and of treasures to keep
Once you’ve truly opened your eyes
You can never sleep
Never sleep

“Trust in life” are the words I long to whisper
Anything else is foretelling the future
To invest the present with the past days... is that the only way ?
To invade the past with what I feel today

To believe, to believe, to believe, to believe
is to fail
To believe, to believe,
is to fail
To believe, to believe, to believe, to believe
To believe
is to fail

I believed in this life ; wish I could end it all
Can’t believe that it lies in these hands less than cold
“You’ll grow” they all tell me, as usual
The fact is : I’m not growing, I’m growing old…
And cold

Bound to ever doubt about what's coming now
And even the stars seem to laugh at my face now
I utter the great “How” ?

To believe, to believe, to believe, to believe
Is to fail
To believe, to believe,
Is to fail
To believe, to believe, to believe, to believe
To believe
Is to fail

To believe is to fail
To believe is to fail (time is the enemy)
To believe is to fail (time is the enemy)
Time is the enemy
Time is the enemy
Time is the enemy