1. FIRST FROST - PRELUDE

(Instrumental)


2. SAINTS FOR HIRE

As I lay my worries down
All my fears are leaving town
Shut out in my ivory spike
I must engage this useless mike

And then again the day is up
I must drop down this useless mask
I’m watching through a corner’s top
I must admit I failed the task.

The sunny side forbids my call
I’m washed up on your shory wall
As in a dream I hear you crawl
As in a scream I watch my fall

The blue inside my bloody veins
Is drowning all your rainbowed rains
Pathetic sin of your whole race
Well fuck you all I found my place.

You are so pitiful
All your vitals on the line
There are lots of bars and blocks
Sweet like whiskey on the rocks


3. FROST

The frost descended upon my heart
And gave no quarter to forgiveness
It drew a featureless horizon
That laid siege to my deepest weakness

Dark ceremony of my failure
I celebrate today on my own

Yet when the cold wind blows again
Through the tall halls of my body
I raise my glass up high in vain
My heart stripped down and disembodied

Strange lurid hands defile the warmth
That once brought laughter to these walls
And desolation rules alone
The clutch of frost obeyed her call

Celebration of hanging on a thread
A banquet for the living dead
Four dozen seasons lost
Cold anniversary of the frost


4. IN ABSENCE

(Instrumental)


5. AUGUST DESCENT

How deep will I descend?
Till there’s no further left to fall
How much will I endure
Before I stop caring at all

You pulled the knife out from my back
To carve a hole in my chest
You were too beautiful for me
To ever see you as a threat

It breeds within, my mind to build
Upon my pain, I am, in the arms of death
Eternal cold embrace, I chose to let you in
I’ve been under your spell, you’ve been under my skin

Precious time spent chasing ghosts
It’s all been put to waste
Fragments of forgotten hopes
They shatter and disintegrate

Abbas abbatis obsecro a oro
Supplico prostrati in ante osiris

It breeds within, my mind to build
Upon my pain, I am, in the arms of death
Eternal cold embrace, I chose to let you in
I’ve been under your spell, you’ve been under my skin

Into the darkest depths
Where all life vanishes
Exploited weaknesses
That poisoned my veins


6. KEEPSAKE

Admittance of my failure
Acceptance of my loss
She whispers in my nightmares
Her image haunts my thoughts

Guilt weighs on my conscience
Words left unspoken
Blame rests on my shoulders
This is my punishment

Admittance of my failure
Acceptance of my fate
A chain of suffering set in motion
I’m too weak to break

Left for dead
Long forgotten
Always longing
Always lost

There when no one else was
A keepsake collecting dust
A keepsake collecting dust
A keepsake collecting…


7. THE LONGEST DAY

I could have stayed
I could have walked the line
Preserved fake innocence
But I’m not yours nor mine

I must reach out somewhere
I have to weather it alone
Only one thing I ask of you
Unturn my heart from stone

The longest day is upon us
It cannot be too dangerous
The sweetness of summer
I can taste on your lips

While our approach ends
And the edge draws ever near

Drown me with your deepest tears
Remove all trace of fear
Lay beneath with me my dear
We who tend to disappear

The longest day
Is upon us!


8. A THORN OF WISDOM (MY DYING BRIDE COVER)

Here’s dark here, dark enough and just the pain you love.
Your reflection is a dying me. Use it well and flee from me.
You hide your hair from victims and stoop to drink straight from them.
I know my heart flows away from thee.
And wounded tears come crashing down.

I sometimes enjoy solitude.
Inspecting her shame keeps me amused.
Leave the world and pain to me
And keep your soul far from sleep
And ghost turned against ghost.
I lay for you and I was choked
The cost to me being more than I had to bestow
I sometimes enjoy solitude.