Sopor Aeternus And The Ensemble Of Shadows : The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller

Dark Ambient / Allemagne
(1997 - Season Of Mist / Apocalyptic Vision)
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Les paroles

1. SYLLA'BOREAL

(Instrumental)


2. QUESTION(S) BEYOND TERMS

(Instrumental)


3. C'AYLLAGHER A DOM'BHRAIL

(Instrumental)

4. TO A LOYAL FRIEND

Once there was a time, when the conquest of pain
was all that I could hope for, had been my only aim.
Happiness or joy merely unwords without meaning,
they were unwanted anyway as surely out of place.
All I wanted was the voices to be silent
a brief moment in the dark, in loneliness and chill.

How I wished my mind could escape the camat dungeon
that was flying silently through space while
I lay caged and chained within.
Today my view – strangely increased - it is beyond compare,
but nothing became easier, I'm still struggling to be free.
A thousand different things dare to appear before my eyes now,
they come and leave untouched, because still I cannot see.

In true darkness there's no choice than do discover
the uselessness of eyes, giving birth from their own despair.
Here eyes can nothing but decay and if I fail and do
identify myself with them then their destiny I'll share...
You are with me all the time – all the time.
So very unreasonable had been my fear.
How could I ever believe that I might be losing you when forever
we're connected and you are part of me.

It's your omnipresence that defines the way in which I do exist,
forcefully leading me back to where I do belong.
Opening my eyes to see the true essence of my being,
by dissolving the distractions of the outer world.
In the loneliness of the pain you bring the isolation of my soul guarantees
the maintenance of the only thing that I know, my natural and obvious differency.
Beloved old friend and life-time companion without you to nothing I would fall.
Your power pervades me and lies me low, but as the same time
a new strenght is born in my soul.

In a universe of change and continuous movement
I am counting on you since I know you shall last.
Being my darkness and the basis of splendor
light-giving background as most fertile past.
You trance-formation source of understanding you are
the power that is pulling me down.

Whenever lightness seeks to carry me away you connect me safely to the ground.
You chill of my winter, eternal Saturn-sphere, petrified and frozen
with a logic cold as ice.
I walk through the world look in surprise at the living
without being able to share their strange delights.

Beloved old friend, and bringer of sadness,
shadow-like cloak almost matters so real, you slip right through me
like I was merely membrane,
my feelings so ambivalent when my wounds refuse to heal...


5. NEVER TRUST THE OBVIOUS

(Instrumental)


6. THE INEXPERIENCED SPIRAL TRAVELLER

Alles ist nur Illusion und von mir erschaffen,
Doch ich vermag ihr nicht zu entflieh'n,
Bin in meinem eigenen Trugbild gefangen,
Und meine armen Augen erkennen kein Ziel.
Die Antwort kann niemals im Aussen sein,
Sie liegt stets im Innern, schläft tief in mir drin,
Doch welches Auge schaut hinein,
Ich brauche ein neues Auge,
Einen neuen Sinn.
Die Zeit ist wie ein Ort und Gleichsam ein Zustand,
Und ich bin darin, denn ich bin ihr Quell,
Gefangen in meiner eigenen Schöpfung,
Auf der verzweifelten Suche nach meinem wahren Selbst...

7. MEMALON

Who is the old man,
who fills my heart with greatest pain yet his name remains unheard?
I look at you and true tears shake my eternal Saturnworld.
Who is the old man,
whose picture burned itself down to the bottom of my soul.
You push me back and raise me up,
the criteria for both I long to know.
Who are you I worship?
What is the name of the one I saw?
Tell me how to reach you, to you I'd bow my head in awe.
You speak to me,
but what is it I hear?
We have never really touched...
such is the design of my greatest fear.


8. MEMORIES ARE HAUNTED PLACES

Exposed with hands as empty
as the opposite space,
crawling we move
to where the final station lies,
to whom is the debt
that we are forced to pay...?
Real forces dare to appear only
when we turn away,
truth reveals itself
Reveal yourself!
A face ordained to hypocrites,
we know the masks,
their artificial smiles,
"Mind's black eyes should break the lies!"
Distorted pictures are all
transparent to us,
phantasmagoria... such a useful weapon,
ineffectual against us, enemies,
with the knowledge of truth...
...truth makes me sick,
what a wretched play!
Paralyzed by flesh and bones,
condemned to vegetate,
condemned to stay alone
Helplessy we are escaping,
we're dinging to...
stranded ashore,
"Oh, beloved infamous side!"
Our distress in perfections,
trials and tribulation,
preferring our pain,
we'll stay and die...


9. DIE WIDERSPENDTIGKEIT UNERWÜNSCHTER GEDANKEN

(Instrumental)


10. SYNCHRONICITY

Saturn-Orion, Saturn-Orion
into the night, we call Saturn-Orion
beyond this darkness sense
Jupiter arise travelling in silence
we tranvce-form our minds
beyond this darkness sense
Jupiter's rise
mit offenem Geiste
werden mit EINS


11. TOTENLIGHT
Den Raum verändernd schließ' ich meine Augen.
Ich reise, doch ich bewege mich nicht
auf der Suche nach Dir, der Du es verstehst,
wie man sich meinem Bewußtsein erfolgreich entzieht.
Das Ziel meiner Reise sollst Du sein,
diesseits formloser Grenzen, die niemand kennt.
Traurigstes aller Universen,
in dem nur ich existiere, doch vom Leben getrennt.


12. EIN FREUNDLICHES WORT...

(Instrumental)


13. DIE TOTEN KEHREN WIEDER MIT DEM WIND

(Instrumental)


14. MAY I KISS YOUR WOUND ?

May I kiss your wound,
maybe that will heal
my soul. Free me from
this tomb, light my darkness
make me (whole)
let me take your hand
and together we shall fly
to a lonely place, where
as lovers we can die.
In a land so dark, seven
moons, eternal nights,
wish a sky of thousand stars,
yes for us there is no light...
There (waits) no lights.


15. EIN GÜTIGES LÄCHELN AUF DEN GESICHTERN DER TOTEN…

(instrumental)

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