1. WHEN WE ARE FORGOTTEN

Silent rooms
Broken dreams
A distant light

Pain guiding us through life
Death, a beginning or the end?
Misery, our constant friend
The certainty of death reaches for our hands

Have we ever ignited flames?
Flames of eternity

When we are forgotten

Behold the unknown spheres
Sacrifice our burning hearts

Have we ever ignited flames?
Flames of eternity

When we are forgotten

When we are forgotten
Mankind will still tame the land
When we are forgotten
Our statues will reach the sky


2. BIS ICH BIN

Ich reiste
Durche die Öde
Mein

Als die Zeit da Licht gebar
Warf ein' Schatten auf den Pfad

Sehend, schreitend
Doch wer bin ich?
Nur ein Unlicht

Der Wind trägt Stimmen
Fauchend
Den Samen der Niedertracht
Tanzend

Doch als der Wald
Den Schein verschlang
Ward Licht, Schatten
Und nicht mehr mein

Bin ich, oder nicht
Im Zwielicht des Geästs

Bin ich eins mit dir
Im Schatten-Meer

Doch als die Nacht
Das Licht verschlang
Ward weder Schatten
Noch ward ein Licht

Ich weiẞ ich war
Ich weiẞ ich war
Und reise nun
Bis ich bin


3. MY SOLACE I (CHOIRS OF SOLITUDE)

Until naught remains
The day disappears into night
Sweeps time through the land
Howling and growling

Recurrent words echo
Cripple my soul
Until naught remains
Naught remains

Tear at my bonds
And bloody my life in loneliness
Choirs of solitude

Emptiness devours the dreams
The quest becomes memory
Ere the will drowned
And the silence reigns

Within the shadow of hope
Grows a light of deception
Until naught remains
Naught remains

Tear at my bonds
And bloody my life in loneliness
Choirs of solitude

Choirs of solitude


4. TRAUMA

(Instrumental)


5. A CAVE CALLED WISDOM

Scattering light
Leaves cast shadows
Dispel, dispel
Echoes from the valley

Still bound
Luminous grove
The spell, the spell
From the abyss deep

A cave called wisdom

I am entering the scape
Emptiness and coldness
Solace is unknown
Illusion a dead mind

A cave called wisdom

Loss or victory
Following the glint of perception
Darkness is wisdom
Is wisdom

Down deep, pure silence
Whispering secrets
So gone, so gone
Toward the plain
The plain

Glazed grimaces
Agonized souls
Frozen to ice
The eye is opening

Loss or victory
Following the glint of perception
Darkness is wisdom
Is wisdom


6. TRANSCENDENCE

The sun soared
Into dark moist green
Aflamed my mind
A thought was born

Under the misty roof of dreams
The others remained like accursed
In deepest sleep

Within darkness I crept out
Over the dreamers begone
Into solitude away

Outdoors, my stare solidified
The forest was ranged
By a poignant cold veil
And the firs drowned silently

Under darkness I ventured forth
A spirit for reason and verity

Within the misty breath of trees
I passed through the covert
Crowned and free

The shelter, dim and distant
I looked into my heart
Saw bitterness
But bravery wasn't washed away
No

Transcendence

I espied now my path
My fate is nourished
Not by sheltered sleep
But dark obscurity

A way into an uncertain realm
A reign of whispering shadows
This may fill my craving
For transcendence and spirit


7. SEANCE

(Instrumental)


8. ABSENZ ELYSIUM

Durch Raum und Zeit
Ein fliehender Traum
In Leere und Amnesie
Verschlingt die Farben Deiner Mär

Absenz Elysium
Dein Reich, dein Pfad

Was hebt nun dein Haupt
Welch' Streben nahrt die Saat
Eitelkeit gebart Vergänglichkeit

Absenz Elysium
Dein Reich, dein Pfad

Absenz Elysium

Was war, vergeht
Was verging, verschwand
Der Schmerz verglüht
Am Ende allen Seins

Welch' Thron ergreifst du hun
Wer schenkt den Worten Lohn
Der Weisheit folgt Vergessenheit

Absenz Elysium
Dein Reich, dein Hohn

Absenz Elysium
Dein Reich, dein Hohn

Welch Gott erhört dein Fleh'n
Wer schenkt den Lugen Dank
Aus Gebet wird Sicherheit

Absenz Elysium
Dein Reich, dein Trank

Absenz Elysium


9. MY SOLACE II (PATHS OF PERCEPTION)

Standing in the forest, so cold
Watching the snow fall silently
And the orphaned gleaming fires
While the wind caresses the firs
Enjoying the emptiness and
And clarity

Will I ever find my solace?
Will my thirst ever pass?
Still riding the nightly roads
And walking the paths of perception

The years passed fast, carving my heart
I drank from the grail of joy
Finding clarity in wilderness
And chaos in the dark
Against my fate, the tide

Will I ever find my solace?
Will my thirst ever pass?
Still lighting the nightly fires
When everybody has gone
Is gone

Will I ever find my solace?
Will my thirst ever pass?
Still lighting the nightly fires
When everybody has gone
Is gone


10. REVERIE

(Instrumental)


11. FROZEN IN TIME

Dancing lights on the wave's crest
A cold wind stirs
On autumnal shores
Watching across into another time

Frozen in time
Until the sun's elapse
Frozen in time
Until the stars summon the shade

Frozen in time

At the cold springs
Voices hail through the night
Fill the void with memories
The feeling within another time

Frozen in time
While the fire burns
Frozen in time
While voices rake the blaze

Frozen in time
Until the sun's elapse
Frozen in time
Until the stars summon the shade

Frozen in time
While the fire burns
Frozen in time
While voices rake the blaze

Expended pleasures
Vanished friends
Forgotten pain
Depleted passions

Frozen in time
While the fire burns
Frozen in time
While voices rake the blaze


12. BEHOLD THE FLAME OF TIME

(Instrumental)


13. OWL OF THE BLACK FOREST

Who stays the distance
Follows me all the way

Who shadows every move I make
Two sentinel eyes haunting me

Only the moonlight educes
Her raving beauty

Owl of the black forest
Monarch of the night

Your reign supreme, the nocturnal sphere
Your ghostly cry shears through the bleak domain

Only the moonlight educes
Her raving beauty

Owl of the black forest
Monarch of the night

Owl of the black forest
Monarch of the night

You solitary chaser through a dismal sky
May your reign everlast