Paradise Lost : Gothic Illusions

Gothic Doom / United-Kingdom
(1991 - Unknown label)
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Lyrics

1. INTRO

(Instrumental)


2. DEAD EMOTION

Struggle with emotion
Feel the pain burn deep
Within our nerves
The mourning of lost life
Commands our actions night and day
The foul realism is unleashed
Upon the earth we'll bleed
Banish all fond memories
As the lord beckons us to judgement
Degeneration is close at hand
The mortality coil is weaker
The pain is close to heart
Now leave the real world to your God
The kindness of death's grasp
Relieves us from the pain


3. GOTHIC

Denying our restlessness
Frustrations tension eludes
The past was clean
Where thoughts were mild
The present day horrors alive
Slowly passing timeless horrors
Lives within all fear
The mourning in my tears
Drown all the past
We lived beneath these years
Awaiting for the call
For all life to expire
Passive to this day
To infinity we'll fail
The light is dim before us
Shadows appear and fall
A barrage of savage ways
Only the darkness can filter through


4. PARADISE LOST

Claws of death, grips my life
Empty my mind and my knowledge is deceased
Mindless and dumb, instinct gone.

Running in circles
Not knowing where my fate lies...

Blinding, running through the eternal maze
Surrounded by people the same
Not knowing this place as the darkness falls above...
Will we ever see the sun deteriorate away?

Feelings disappear
Your eyes stare blank
Another world to greet
Life now ends...

Running in circles
Not knowing where my fate lies...

Blinding, running through the eternal maze
Surrounded by people the same
Not knowing this place as the darkness falls above...
Will we ever see the sun deteriorate away?


5. BREEDING FEAR

Staring down into the depths
Subconscious has taken my life
Breathing this foul and dank air
Eyes cannot penetrate the light
No room to panic or move
I pray my death will come soon.

My sorrows are breeding on my fear.

The tombs of 1000 lie near,
Soon to diminish am I?
Lying here, minutes from my death
The nausea breeds on my fear
Calling to the victims of fate
The dead cannot answer my calls.

My body falls to the depths
And darkness has engraved my mind...
No visions or solution
Gagged for air, deeper below I sink...


6. ETERNAL

Why can't we hear
The time must come for us to leave here
Emotion has withered away
Our burnt out love has decayed
Obsessed to leave the earth
Tragedy has overrun since birth
Now our righteous father's weep
As we greet eternal sleep
Are we born to pass away
Cry at all that remains
'Chosen words' fail to sustain
The wisdom of powers heard
In dismal thoughts seemingly absurd
Now as hope and glory dies
We'll scream at our demise
Are we lost forever more?


7. SHATTERED

Stare at the dark foreboding walls
I turn and look away
The fear it haunts me
While I sleep
Now as life is torn apart
The walls they lead the way
This tortured journey
Almost at an end... Look at time upon the skies
I turn and look away
The truth it haunts me
Wake me from sleep


8. FROZEN ILLUSION

I lay in the darkest room,
The door is locked, at chains I grasp...
The chill runs through my bones
In panic I grief. Oh please help me die...

The walls close in on my existence

Unreal illusions re-appear
Darkness increases still...
Frozen illusion

I lay in the darkest room
As images appear once more...
The chill runs through my bones
My body is stiff as my soul departs the earth.


9. ANGEL TEARS

(Instrumental)


10. THE PAINLESS

Locked inside this peaceful tomb
Entwined on seas of endless bliss
The painless... Strength is released
The horror passes through our eyes
Diversions cast upon our souls
The meek shall inherit our fears
Stray from this tranquil place
Guarded by all fear
Submit now to this curse
In out plight for existence
Reach the sky not falling down
Sunlight shines in heaven
Stray from this tranquil place
Guarded by all fears


11. BAND START JAMMING ON OUR SAVIOUR FOR ABOUT A MINUTE

(Instrumental)


12. BAND SORT THE SOUND OUT FOR ABOUT 4 MINUTES

(Instrumental)


13. OUR SAVIOUR

Kneel on the ground and pray to the Lord
But will he hear your prayers
Will hear your call,
As you sit in the church
And the madman speaks...
Listen with awe at the lies he'll preach.

Only the mindless... will listen and obey
Worldwide wars... are caused by this uproar...

Pray... to... rest... your conscience
For the sins you have done...
Where is your god now as you're dying alone
Brutal wounds cut deep
No miracles to heal
Watch your life now fade
He's not there to help you die...

Raised upon repulsive lies
From the time we were born
Driven into heads, holy laws...
Cast into a circle of preaching vomit
All decent holy people
Their conscience free
Massive neurosis and impending doom
And the holy power will be silent.


14. RAPTURE

In agony we are now
Twisted unblessed we must strive...
Repulsed by the false harmony
Blinded by truth that eyes can't hope to see
Foolish man must die
For the sins that He creates
Forgive, Lord - we must be weak
Remove the weight of sin
Release harmony
Resist the throes of His embrace
Ignorant laws thrust in our face

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