1. SIGNALS

Where would you go
Who would you be
What would you do
What would you see

On the outside?


2. SYMPHONY IN BLACK

I have been to the outer limits
Foreseen the worlds... deep inside myself
I once emerged, both dead and dreaming
Now I'm alive, a living story to tell

Black and blue, oceans of starlight
Under the ice, there is hope for me
Color my soul in shades of twilight
What God has given, what I was born to be

Black is the way - no turning back
Vomiting faiths from inside
Black is the way - no turning back
Legions of being will cry

A symphony, an angry symphony.. in black
Symphony, a vicious symphony.. in black

A symphony of victory.. in black

Lacerate the spiritually profane
Strung up in chains, hate has just begun
Caught between the sick and sensual
Torment and bliss, pruning me as one

Black is the way - no turning back
Pain's not as vile as it seems
Black is the way - no turning back
The deepest of sorrows will scream

A symphony, an angry symphony.. in black
Symphony, a vicious symphony.. in black

A symphony of victory.. in black

And there's no way to stop it now
I'm gonna ride the black light
With heart in hand I'll see you
On the other side of midnight

I will escape this worldly prison
Sacrifice to reach the other side
Divine consign with the Creator
I will leave the universe behind

Black is the way - no turning back
Hail to the end of all things
Black is the way - no turning back
Echoes of lifetimes will sing

A symphony, an angry symphony.. in black
Symphony, a vicious symphony.. in black

A symphony, exalting symphony.. in black
Symphony, a storming symphony.. in black

Symphony, I'm a symphony... in black

And there's no way to stop it now
I'm gonna ride the black light
With heart in hand I'll see you
On the other side of midnight


3. UNDYING WINGS

We've got more scars than friends
Cut once and twice again
Life is a means to our end
And we don't mind at all

We've seen the orchids bloom
We ride the shapes of doom
And I remember you
Live now or wait to fall

Tonight
The time has come to ride
The greatest way to die
Long live the fighters

To fly
We're speeding in the night
A meaning so divine
Soar ever higher on

Undying wings

With broken hearts we muse
Exhumed, and reused
They think they've cut us loose
But we've come back for more

We speak the dead language
Consumed with tearful anguish
No sleep until the famished
Angrily, life is but a war

Tonight
The time has come to ride
The greatest way to die
Long live the fighters

To fly
We're speeding in the night
A meaning so divine
Soar ever higher on

Undying wings

Give, take, run, hide, hate - murder
Stand, scream, love, faith, bleed - believer

We've wasted too much time
Your soul as well as mine
Love always makes a crime
All hail the thistled crown

Fragile as we are fierce
Held down too many years
They stole too many tears
Hold on, we're going down

Tonight
The time has come to ride
The greatest way to die
Long live the fighters

To fly
We're speeding in the night
A meaning so divine
Soar ever higher on

Undying wings


4. FOREVER YOUNG

What could I have done?
What should I have done?
You would rather run and
Leave me here

Time flies in a haze
Mocks our better days
I would rather stay, so
Leave me here

The golden years were yesterday
But I live my life in my own way
And I want to get things right

Forever young
Forever in time
Innocence and loss, don't ask what was the cost

Forever young
A spirit in the sky
Avenging all loss, with eyes watching God

Take me away

Regrets, I've had a few
Just the same as you
But too many to
Mention here

Joyful sleepless nights
Warm words in the light
Life was full of life
When you were here

The golden years were yesterday
I squandered everything away
But I have to make things right

Forever young
Forever in time
Innocence and loss, don't ask what was the cost

Forever young
A spirit in the sky
Avenging all loss, with eyes watching God
Take me away

The flame of youth
May we carry it up to the highest mountain
I'll be of use
Let me light up the way for a change in someone

Forever young
It's time to ride
Forever young
It's time to rise
Forever young
A freedom inside
Young...
Until I say goodbye

Forever young
Forever in time
Innocence and loss, don't ask what was the cost

Forever young
A spirit in the sky
Avenging all loss, with eyes watching God

Take me away


5. ARIA OF THE WATERS

Feel the waters flow
Feel the ocean roar
It's a long way
To the rocks below
But I will sing a praise
I'm moving on

If it's my time to die
Know this
I'm sorry

If the waves take me in
Know this
I'm ready

Seek the face of God
Seek the only one
Seek the only son
Seek the truth of love

If it's time to expire
Know this
I love you

If the pulse takes me higher
Know this
The pain is through

I can't feel anymore...
My mercy's at my door..

Heed me no shelter
From the storm
Ashes to ashes
I've always been alone

Call down the rains now
Upon my face
Cold winds are calling
Transcend this place

Rain...fall
Rain...fall...down!

Hear my prayers..
Take me there
You are my air..

If it's my time to die
Know this
I'm sorry

If the waves take me in
Know this
I'm ready

If it's time to expire
Know this
I love you

If the pulse takes me higher
Know this
The pain is through

Seek the face of God...


6. THE HUMAN RESIDUE

A weather weary face
Hollow, sunken eyes
Lips that cannot kiss
Diseased from deep inside

A worn, abandoned place
A fortress made of lies
How did it come to this
One so horrified

They'll place themselves beside you
They'll brand themselves upon you
They'll see themselves unto you
Standing in line with lust in their eyes to possess you

With scar after scar
The things we choose to do
Please take me apart
From the human residue

Scar after scar
The things I couldn't do
I've ruined my heart
With human residue

A soul that's stretched and thin
A body filled with sin
The weakened voice within
Not again....no, not again

They'll put themselves inside you
They'll force themselves onto you
They'll make themselves to be you
Waiting in line with greed in their eyes to afflict you

With scar after scar
The things we choose to do
Please take me apart
From the human residue

Scar after scar
The things I couldn't do
I've ruined my heart
With human residue

I've thrown myself in misery
For the sake of normalcy
Move on, and on, and on and on
Feed the people's fallacy

The lake of flesh, the piercing burn
More filthy than it's dirt of birth
Swim the bliss forgiveness is
From the shores of pain on Earth

I can't hate more intense
We've impaled all continence
Objects draining objects
Collecting innocence

A regret is all I am
And regret is all I have
If I could go through time
I pine until the end

To touch, to know
To feel, deep inside

To have, to love
To hold, within the tide

To stave the thirst
To give so vast
To rule among, to share with none
To stay safe in a promise cast

To be the first
To be the last
To be the one, the past undone
To make love under stained glass

I cry, I die
I've cried a thousand times
I cry, I die
I've died a thousand times inside

Scar after scar after scar is all we do
Washing our spirits away with human residue


7. DAWN OF THE DEAD

Doomsday is here, it's the dawn of the dead
Demons are inside their heads
There's no escape from the armies of death
But the light will prevail in the end -- in the end!

Beware the plague of walking corpses
Forged by Skull and Bones
Truth will guide us and our forces
To the holy Stone

See them suffer their diseases
Their unity is death
They believe in only nothing
They place themselves above the rest

The earth is dark, the stars outshine
We've ran out of time

Doomsday is here, it's the dawn of the dead
Demons are inside their heads
There's no escape from the armies of death
But the light will prevail in the end -- in the end!

Watch your back, they're coming for you
Tempting loss of life
God has said, that those who stay dead
Have forged their own demise

They will do with you what they please
Innocence destroyed
Sacrifice, or die on your knees
It's time to make a choice

The moon is high, with stars the crown
The sky is falling down

Doomsday is here, it's the dawn of the dead
Casting a shadow of sin
Theirs is a place where we don't dare to tread
But the light will prevail in the end
In the end

Bring the water to the gravesites
Give to those whom thirst
Burn those eyes and still they have sight
Lifted from the curse

By the blood, truth is within you
Resurrected life
By the blade, the dead will end you
But you're alive inside

With the dawn, comes the death of man
This is our last stand

Doomsday is here, it's the dawn of the dead
Demons are inside their heads
There's no escape from the armies of death
But the light will prevail in the end

Doomsday is here, it's the dawn of the dead
Casting a shadow of sin
Theirs is a place where we don't dare to tread
But the light will prevail in the end
In the end


8. THE ALCHEMIST

In death I rise!

I fight
To crush the phoenix,
To walk alone
To burn the bridges that bar my way

I live
To seek the truth and
Bring light upon it
I pray, be never led astray!

Seek and find, the way through the void
Break these astral chains
Now is time to conjure, destroy!
Magic, faith, and flames

Spellcraft
Light up the sky tonight
I've been praying, and
I've been singing, and
I've been waiting
For an answer
Spellbound
Look through the eyes of Christ
I've been searching, and
I have seen
I'm the last of my kind
I am the Alchemist

I think
Therefore I hunger
I hang inverted
I see this world through different sight

It seems
Decree alone will
Claim this Stone, so
Forsake the real, chase what is right

Seek and find, the way through the void
Break these astral chains
Reveal the signs, illusions destroyed
Under acid rain

Spellcraft
Light up the sky tonight
I've been praying, and
I've been singing, and
I've been waiting
For an answer
Spellbound
Look through the eyes of Christ
I've been searching, and
I have seen
I'm the last of my kind
I am the Alchemist

War and peace exists within me
The Elixir has been given to me
Pierce my flesh, now I fly
Into Orion's crystal eyes

Wisdom makes a deadly wraith
The truth shall crush your wretched faith

Spellcraft
Light up the sky tonight
I've been praying, and
I've been singing, and
I've been waiting
For an answer
Spellbound
Look through the eyes of Christ
I've been searching, and
I have seen
I'm the last of my kind
I am the Alchemist

Pierce my flesh, now I fly
Into Orion's crystal eyes


9. WORLDS OF CONFLICT

i. Time

I'll be hiding till the end of days
What's the use of fighting for everything I hate
Trust and letting go are not my ways
But everyone gives up when everything's at stake

I was amazed that I couldn't change all that I managed to love
I was amazed when I turned my gaze to lies told below and above
A desert of sadness with every ear closed to the chime
I've been here before, I'm alone on the shore, awaiting the end of our time

Breathless, my heart was torn to pieces
Learning the truth about the ways of their kind
Noone to see me and I'm not wanted to be seen
Dead eyes are staring the living all blind

I am amazed, that You'd want to change, a world that hates the unknown
I am amazed that You'd want to save a world that won't care for it's own
A fire of madness with every truth twisted and twined
The dream is the door that I've waited for, to bring me escape from this time

ii. Outsiders

I am an outsider
I want more than life can give
Love inside needs love outside
A dying world needs life to live
They didn't listen, they didn't care
I hold on so tightly to those who aren't there
Disappointment scars tomorrow
In slumber lain, we dull this blade, of sorrow

iii. Astral Flesh

I am not alive
There is only I
Tunneling through time
Spiral, spirit, mind

Run, run, into the light
This world eludes my sight
Fly, fly, into the night
This world withers the light
Run, run, into the light
This world evades my sight
Fly, fly, into the night
This world withers the light

iv. On The Outside

Every time I screamed
They would turn away from me
Tell me what it means
When all the world is weakening
They can never dream
For their own awakening
Show us truth and we
Sing the song we always sing
Pain inside of me
Every day is deepening
Cold reality
Forces me into the sea
With silver cord and key
I'll return to be
Another day, another chance to bleed!

v. The Outer Limits (instrumental)