Ex Libris : Medea

Symphonic Metal / Netherlands
(2014 - Self-Released)
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1. MEDEA

Whispers announce history
Spoken have we, about him.
Come the green of night
A story once more shall now ignite.
I Medea shall leave my dear repose!
Whispers announce history
Spoken have we about him
So announces the green of the night.

Darkness shades my moonlit shadow.
Have I gone? Have I forgotten my soul?
Blindness leads me to open meadow
Thus now I must avow.
Jason, I seek you through all natures' coves.
Hear me now! Through our love this story shall be told.

I Medea will not be dethroned!
Where I go my name shall be known.
Mistress of darkness; daughter of the day.
My word shall reign, come what may.

Blend with me now, our futures.
A thief you'll become by my hand.
I need your vow; Jason
To gold leads this chance you cannot withstand.

Gold, as bright as the sunlight comes as you please.
Gold, comes to us within this night, Jason come with me.

Darkness shades our moonlit shadows.
Have we gone, have we forgotten our souls?
Blindness leads us to open meadow
thus now we must avow.
Jason, I seek you, through all natures' coves.
Hear me now, through our love this story shall be told.

Run, without fear you cannot hide.
Now you're entwined with your fate and I,
I cherish the wistfulness of my father.
His fear he cannot hide for I was his daughter.

I Medea will not be dethroned!
Where I go my name shall be known.
Mistress of darkness; daughter of the day.
My word shall reign, come what may.


2. MURDERESS IN ME

Let the gods sigh and with their breaths
The sails raise embrace the open water,
Aetes here now flees your daughter.

Oh shores of Colchis wash off my face,
Show me my tears I've not felt them running down,
Wash off my face.

Sirens of the sea,
You shall not thwart me!
How cruel you wish me to be,
Make a murderess of me?

Ships on the horizon, fleet of Aetes.
Ah! Be gone!
Absyrtis my brother come to me and say your grace.

Sirens of the sea,
You shall not thwart me!
How cruel you wish me to be,
Make a murderess of me?

How your blood shall set me free.

Hear the winds swell, they'll take us to where ghosts dwell
You'll rest in the deepest waters.
My brother, our father I was his daughter of the sea,
And you shall not thwart me!
How cruel you wish me to be,
You made a murderess of me!

Only tears can conquer fear when in fear
You'll give in to tears.
Do I believe in memories when memories cloud my belief?

Not long before your blood runs cold,
As I foretold, my wrath unfolds!
Your head, your heart, your lungs, your chest,
Your hands, your feet, your neck, your breast.
Your mouth, your eyes, your soul, shall be divided!

Ships on the horizon, fleet of Aetes!
Bring him forth let it be done!
His shattered body at my feet shall scare away Aetes fleet.
On my command off with his head,
Cut out his heart, tear him apart!

Do you believe in memories when they cloud our belief?
For in memories you'll rest in the deepest seas.

Sirens of the sea,
You cannot thwart me!
How cruel I am to be,
You made a murderess of me! (x2)


3. ON THE OCEAN’S COMMAND

We sail! Mother Ocean, come command us!
We all hail your golden horizon
From tides and storms you shall defend us.

Oh Mother Ocean, carry me on thy waves away, I ask.
Stand by me on my journey; let me drink from thy breast
And revive my reverie, my reverie.

We sail! Mother Ocean, come command us!
We all hail your golden horizon
From tides and storms you shall defend us.

We sail! Mother Ocean, come command us!
We all hail your golden horizon
From tides and storms you shall defend us.

Lead us through all your wiles,
Lead us from my father’s ire.
Lead us from the echoes of my brother’s cries.
Oh guide me to where his wrath can’t touch me!

Oh shores of Colchis, farewell to thee.
I divest myself of our tragedy.

If there ever comes a time for regret
Then I’ll mourn his death.
But though his blood is on my hand,
I have not felt remorse or grief yet.
I fly with the wind, away on her breath.

A new dawn, a new day, a story renewed.
Lead the way to a new world today!
For on a new horizon I’m free of my sins.

We sail! Mother Ocean, come command us!
We all hail your golden horizon
From tides and storms you shall defend us.

We sail! Mother Ocean, come command us!
We all hail your golden horizon
from tides and storms you shall defend us.

Who I have been shall be no more.
May all I leave behind be dead to the world.


4. MY DREAM I DREAM

Caress me in a life and our love grow old
Through the years that pass us by.
Vow yourself to us, raise me up with love.

Your eyes and voice provide a home, a shelter.
Your words and praise they comfort my days with laughter.
I am yours! My e’vry heartbeat is yours.

This journey will entwine us as we create a new life,
Our testament of love.
Oh raise me up with love.

Your eyes and voice provide a home, a shelter.
Your words and praise they comfort my days with laughter.
I am yours! My e’vry heartbeat is yours.

My world, my home, my dream I dream,
My grave where all sorrow’s redeemed.
My world, my home, my dream I dream,
My grave where all sorrow’s redeemed.

We seal as we speak our last vow
Only death can part us now.

Your eyes and voice provide a home, a shelter.
Your words and praise they comfort my days with laughter.
I am yours! My e’vry heartbeat is yours.


5. SONG OF DISCORD

Your love saved me! Your love enslaved me!

Dear old friend, I come to thee at last to say
That you are now banned from this land and heart.
Hush my love (Medea, I beg you),
Lay down your rage (be gone from my sight),
Let out love ignite! (We will not reunite).

Your love saved me, your love embraced me!
Medea you enslaved me!
Liar! Killer! Vulture! Robber!
Cursed be the bones of thy fathers!

Jason, what are you saying?
Now is not the first time
I’ve observed how your harsh temper
Makes all things impossible!
Consider yourself very fortunate
That exile is your only punishment!
You come to me now when you’ve turned
Into the worst enemy of the gods and me.
It isn’t courage or firm resolution
To hurt your family but a total lack of shame!

I’ve come here, woman, looking out for you,
So you won’t be thrown out with the children
In total need and lacking everything.
You listen; it was I who raised the light
Which rescued you from death,
Who left my father and my home to be with you.
My love for you was greater than my wisdom!
What about the promises you made?
By this right hand, which you have often held,
And by my knees at which you’ve often begged,
It was all for nothing to be touched like that.
It seems I will need to,
Like a skilled helmsman on a ship,
Haul in my sails and run before
That storm blowing from your raving tongue.

Your love enslaved me! Your love betrayed me!
Your love suffocates me!
Liar! Killer! Vulture! Robber!
Rage exiled us from each other.

Medea understand, I want to save you and our children!
You, with the same blood as my sons.
You have your refuge.
I’m alone and banished from this country.
That’s what you’ve chosen, the blame rests with you.
What did I do? Marry and desert you?
Stop being so angry! If you do,
Things will turn out so much better for you.
I’ll accept no assistance from you!
All right, but I call the gods to witness.
I was willing to help you but you reject me
And so you suffer more pain.

Beaten down, the gods now upon me frown,
Betrayed by a lovers vow, exiled from home.
Dear old friend (Jason I loathe you!), our tale here ends.
Where once was love now only remains my rage (my shame)!

Your loved saved me! Your love enslaved me!
Hatred grew within me.
Is it love that kills us now?


6. A MOTHER’S LAMENT

Demolished is our safe heaven,
Torn down by its own maker,
Crushed to substitute exile!
Oh what’s the worth of my embrace?
Traitor blood runs in their veins
Feed my anger, my revenge.

When was I blindfolded? When did I yield?

Oh father! My betrayal, betrayed me now.
This cruel man, my equal, makes me a vow.

No remorse can mend a heart deprived of love.
Only tears bear witness
Of those precious moments in our past:
In golden light resounds the world that once was ours,
Forever ours.

Our sons sleep, while their mother still weeps.
They have not heard your bitter words,
Nor have they seen the ruins of this dream?
Are we to be a passing memory?

Oh brother! My betrayal, betrayed me now.
This cruel man, my equal, makes me a vow.

No remorse can mend a heart deprived of love.
Only tears bear witness
Of those precious moments in our past:
In golden light resounds the world that once was ours,
Forever ours.

Now only hatred fuels my heart deprived of love,
Run from the storm that’s raging on.
I hereby promise to avenge!
Run! Before I find and destroy all that you hide.
Run from our lives!
Oh hatred fuels my heart deprived of love!
I will hurt you.

Jason, master of treachery,
You’re a fool to think I’ll ever yield.
You can wield the sword and smother my voice,
But dethroned I’ll never be.
For I now pledge to avenge the maker of his own belief,
And when collapsed he shall remain
A hermit trapped in grief.

Remember we sealed our last vow: only death can part us!
We’ll share this exile, solitude and all denial:
Even death won’t part us!
For now and to forever we’ll share this pain together!
Even death won’t part us!


7. DAUGHTER OF CORINTH

Dark hands from above descend
All light is to be banned,
As she welcomes her old friend
Your life comes to an end.

Through hints of whispered fear I Medea draw near.

Dark hands from above descend
All light is to be banned,
As she welcomes her old friend
Your life comes to an end.

Hide in the crowds murmuring but see.
My revenge is a treasured friend and you will not escape me!
Hide in the crowds murmuring but see.
My revenge is a treasured friend and you will not escape me!

Behold! The calamity
Glauce, do you not fear your mistress
When I come dauntless to thee.

Behold! I have conquered the sunlight,
The gold of the twilight.
Your death was long foretold.

Once love was my guest and I his,
Before I sailed those waters, then I was her.
Now how remorseless shall my hate cover Creon's daughter,
Daughter of Corinth.

Come forth to me as you bathe in white,
Jason may not feel for me but his bride you'll never be.

You come forth to me as you bathe in white,
Jason may not feel for me but his bride you'll never be.

Once love was my guest and I his,
Before I sailed those waters, then I was her.
Now how remorseless shall my hate cover Creon's daughter,
Daughter of Corinth.

Through hints of whispered fear I Medea draw near.

By and by your fate's unveiled!

Welcome through your veil your deathbed
Like your parched skin all shall perish now!


8. A TALE TOLD...

(Instrumental)


9. FROM BIRTH TO BLOODSHED

Filthy scum! You shattered my world!
Your bloodline dies, I will be heard!

Through the mud, through the rain, I have been dragged.
Corinthean fools! You’ve unleashed me now.
Jason! I’ll come for thee, your heart shall bleed.
Blood shall run through my hands, to the earth.
Blood shall run down from the flesh of our sons!

When your bloodline dies, they will die!
Our sons shall be consumed by earth!

Cradled within my heart lay the treasures from my womb
Who bathed in the bloodshed of their parents
And long were doomed.

Golden was the sunlight in the land we did flee.
Now a thousand tongues cannot keep me from hurting thee.
You vowed to treasure us, entwined we would be.
Reveal your face for I did not know the man who loved me.

I Medea will not be dethroned!
Where I go my name shall be known.
Mistress of darkness; daughter of the day.
My word shall reign, come what may.

Abandoned I no longer cherish fate.
Born through love, my sons will die through hate.
A mother’s heart I will possess no more!
Revenge is mine and mine alone.
I Medea will not be dethroned!

Filthy scum! You shattered my world!
Your bloodline dies, I will be heard!

Cradled within my heart lay the treasures from my womb
Who bathed in the bloodshed of their parents
And long were doomed.

Cradled within my heart lay the treasures from my womb
Who bathed in the bloodshed of their parents
And long were doomed.

My treasures lay cradled, cradled in this bloodshed,
Medea a tale told from birth to bloodshed... (x3)

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