1. COLD BLUE STEEL

I drown down in the sound
In sterile atmosphere
Down below the noise-sphere
In sterile cold blue steel
Lifeless in time

A caress of cold, a caress of cold
The caress of a cold blue light-lamp

The stars ain't shining now
In this artificial sky
With electropsychic storms
Where aseptic stillness is

I look for your hand somehow
But you cannot reach me here now
This mental-nowhere has closed its doors
Where life gives way to crying steel


2. TALES FROM A WINTER TO COME

And the Winter did the things I wanted to be done
No matter the pain it gave, the rain continued to fall on and on
So the wind brought grief, and the cold shed tears
And now my ally's making, making me one with his sad cry

The Winter rages out through my mouth
Breaking through the windows of your Summer
It freezes pure love and fills your stories with pages
Pages from tales of a Winter to come

From a fortress of frost, blood pours forth from my mouth
Flooding your dreamfields, your shores
Sweeping your hopes away to where no senses reach

This deathfilled sky reflecting the horror I lust
I'm hidden up here in decrepitude
Writing with blood Tales from a Winter to come


3. NOSTALGIAPLATZ

No longer I stand this sea of light
No longer I stand the gift of god
Screaming, sighing, sighing, screaming, crying loud

The old boat sailed up out of sight
Taking my feelings off, afar
It leaves me, drying, dry; it leaves me crying now

No longer I stand these fields of shine
No longer I stand this sea of light
So why not moving to Nostalgiaplatz
Together, forever, together


4. MY STARVING BAMBINA

Now that the leaves are descending down
I'm piercing the heart of the Sun
'Cause Summer gave you back to the ground

You "leaf" are taken away
That goddamned night filled the sky
Shading your rays of life

Your spirit always takes me back to streets of starving cries
But now take me, please, with you away

Don't know if I'll give in now, but I'll meet you Patrizia Again
I swear


5. LOVE STORY

Steal a diamond and pierce my heart with its point
And take three silver drops of blood to sow your dried flash
Use the harvest you get to appease the hunger of your crowd, which drains you day by day, draining you away

You wanna eat my pearly eyes to fill the void you've got
Inside, sweet child of mine, you've got inside

The pearly gates you dream of, are made of mortal hopes
you stole away
The pearly gates you long for are made of
Innocent night beings, heavenly impure and yet so pure

I feel ashamed for your soul
This war seems to reach a crying end
But why your very tears they never fall?
your very mask it never fades away?
your very face ain't going to be shown?


6. L'EPOQUE NOIRE (MARCH THE 7TH 12973 AD)

A breathing machinery, injecting liquid madness into my veins
In a torturing pain
Damaging my mechanix with synthetic, corroding rains

In chambers of future science, my liquid crystal eyes
Recall an old man, describing me something called dawn
Acid substances of lab keep working on my brain
To realize that the Earth forgot what is the Sun

My son forgive me, forgive me now
And take my sorrow to what once were skies
The scent of sadness through falling rain
I can't run from the graves, ghosts of our past


7. ONIRICA EAST

And I leave your world
As a little alien, broken-hearted
Night-stained eyed
Solitude-stained eyes
As I jump in my shuttle
Away through the oceansky
With my dolphins guiding my ride

Across the Sirengates I ride
To reach the galaxies of the night
A breath of death I take with me

Across the Sirengates I ride
Scattering the ashes of your portrait
With wells of hate among stars opaque… stars

C'è un luogo a nord di Arcadia oltre i mari Esei
Dove non c'è mai veglia né perché…
…Onirica

(There's a place, north of Arcadia
Beyond the Esei seas, where there's no wakefulness nor reasons)


8. FOTO BLU INFINITO

(Instrumental)


9. WINTER

I'm watching outside the window glass
As street light diffuses through the hall
Somewhere Winter' s lifting shades of war
Chilling me in the darkness of this hall

The Piano falls

As shadows watch the rain we tremble on our bed
In sheets of silver silk, as world's heart lost its feel

The old town greets the pain with monuments of shame
This clock slowed down its hands, It's echoing the rain
Stop begging me to stay, stop begging me to stay

The old town greets the pain with monuments of shame
This clock slowed down its hands, an echo of grey I'm
Stop begging me to stay, stop begging me to stay
Just let me run away

This season's out time
Events sculptured in time
Through everlong time-rain

Sing one Wintersong the way you've always done, for me
A Wintersong of pain the way you've always done, for me


10. OUTRO / SPIRIT OF THE FOREST(TALES… REPRISE)

And the Winter did the things I wanted to be done
No matter the pain it gave, the rain continued to fall on and on