1. ALTA MELANCHOLIA

Memories turn to sandy dust
Not a living soul in sight
Mysterious deep sea sounds
Devour all your soul

Day by day - year by year

Abandoned on the seaside road
Boat of insane fisherman
Where travelers rarely roam
Land frozen in time

Lighthouse guides me from the dark
Night is falling way too fast
My eyes can no longer trust
Emerging illusions

Day by day - year by year

Untamed waves breaking on the shore
Bringing back long-forgotten past
Auspicious wind blows forevermore
For those whose suffering lasts

Lighthouse guides me from the dark
Night is falling way too fast
My eyes can no longer trust
Emerging illusions


2. WHERE THE RAVENS DIE

Take me away, show me the way
Into the land where only the ravens fly
Take me away, lead me on there
Into the place where all the ravens die

We are born from the ancient kind
Living, flying, dying in secret places where we´re bound

Beyond massive horizons
Where the sun never rises
I was born of the matter that used ancient magic
To create winged beings blacker than darkness
We arose from the ancient bones
Under the sign of eternal kind
At the end of autumn when winter comes
They spread their wings to soar into the blackest nights

We are born from the ancient kind
Living, flying, dying in secret places where we´re bound
Thousands of years the humans tried to find
Our raven´s land hidden very far behind

Take me to place where black clouds drift towards
Calling is stronger than ever before
Show me the way where the dark creatures go
After we die we will all meet right there

Bring us out of the bottomless depths
Because we want to be the rulers of the sky again
Free our souls, let us break through death
Up to the heights where we belong

Take me away, show me the way
Into the land where only ravens fly
Take me away, lead me on there
Into the place where all the ravens die


3. CRYOPRESERVATION

I came around after many years of sleep
I was slumbering so deep
Now I am ready for future revival
Hope, fear and glory, let it go
Unfold the story, enjoy the show
The show you agreed on

I thought there’d be nothing more
That would remind me of my prior life
Horrors of my past are gone
So are memories
All we left behind

Cryopreservation
In lethal isolation
Cryopreservation
It´s my new resurrection

Where are my dreams coming from?
I am not supposed to remember
Erased brain will carry on
Defrosted body, start from zero

Horrors of my past are gone
So are memories
All we left behind

What have I done when agreed with this craziness?
Condemned myself to loneliness
The only thing I wanted was to survive
Now when I am awaken
Meeting but strangers passing by
How much I hate ongoing life
Without you

Who am I? Where did all my friends go?
Where is my family? I want to come back
I want my life back, please

Where are my dreams coming from?
I am not supposed to remember
Erased brain will carry on
Defrosted body, start from zero


4. FAREWELL AT DUSK

I kneel in dust and wet leaves
Gazing at the mound of clay
You lie under it cold and measured
Your mouth will never speak to me again

Flowers rapidly die in my hand
Others longingly stretch towards you
Even though I know you'll never touch me again
But I see our connection as endless

I don't even know what to say
Empty words are worthless now
I don't know where to look
I just close my weeping eyes

Everything’s got so much worse
By the frightening crimson sundown
Normally it could be beautiful
But now it haunts me and tears my soul

Oh, my love, it’s farewell at dusk
Do you miss me? It´s all what I ask
The only thing I really yearn
To hold you again in my arms

The twilight atmosphere only makes everything worse
Even though I know very well
The golden dawn will not fix anything
It will not bring you back to me
And unwanted swoons are not far away
If the urge ruled my soul
It could never be greater
Than in this very moment that I never wished for
See you on the other side

I pray for you to my demons
I´ll stay with you at all times
I pray for you to my demons


5. ALONE IN A SHALLOW GRAVE

Lying in a shallow grave
With only my face above the surface
There’s no force to pull me out
No energy left to gather
Blazing sunbeams pierce my eyes
Can’t feel my body, paralysed
How did I end up lying here?
I don’t seem to remember

Trying to remember
My way to six feet under
When and how did I get here
And who gets the blame?

Lying alone, lying scared in a shallow grave
When I am alone, forlorn on my own

The last flashes of light pierce my eyes without shine
No time to be brave when I am forsaken in the grave

Alone... alone in a shallow grave
You´re alone

I am deep, so very deep
Buried alone in a shallow grave
Body slowly decompose
In a shallow grave

Heavy burden crush my lungs
My bones are cracking, limbs are breaking
All alone in the still of the night
Should this be revenge for something?
Hard to move and hard to think
Pain is marching through my body
Sparkles coming from afar
The death is so nearby

I feel its arms embracing me
The pulse in my temples ceasing
The death is alluring,

When you´re crying, mourning, loving
Over my body in a grave
I will never return to you
Lying in a shallow grave

Alone in a shallow grave
Alone in a shallow grave


6. SERVANTS OF THE SHADOWS

Deep yet still shallow
Like dreams that come and go
But never dissolve as the morning mist

We saw lights and we saw darkness
Both of them stung our eyes
One with its glow, the other with coldness
But all the pain has just grown strong

Chimeras, viewiness and shadows,
Here we live and sleep and die and forwent all hopes

The world is nothing but
Endless plain full of shades
We serve them, call upon them
Though we know it is void
We are servants of the shadows
We are servants of the shadows

But pride never breaks barriers
We try to believe that it sets us free
Despite the fact that everything is just illusion

We are servants of the shadows
We´re only transparent veils in the mist
We are servants of the shadows
We serve and worship the darkness.


7. THE WOVEN EVIL

The evil woven out of cobwebs
Of hatred, pain and unfairness
Chasing me day by day, all my life
Joining my days into a dullness

What was lost will never arise
From the blood-soaked ground
The malice and evil extend their fangs
To engulf the last remnants of good

I cannot see through the shroud of meanness
I touch the walls so high and endless
Impossible to cross or be crawled under
An evil woven from the rude fibers of callousness

In this universe, in this foul world without purity
Where the powerful crave for holiness
The humankind surrenders its existence, withers
Leaving open the path to boundless hopelessness

What was lost will never rise
From the blood-soaked hinterland

I cannot see through the shroud of meanness
I touch the walls so high and endless
Impossible to cross or be crawled under
An evil woven from the rude fibers of callousness


8. SLEEP AND DREAM

Beware of sleep, it tends to be unstable
Where even medicines no longer work the nightmares come

Sleep and dream – sleep and dream
Nocturnal silence covered in dark
Spectres and creatures – spectres and creatures
Hiding their faces behind the masks
Sleep and dream – sleep and dream
Gloomy realm opens its arms
Chaotic whispers and growls
Before I further despair

I know the dream can come true
The level of my sanity declines
Remaining immersed in some flue
As if among a magnetic lines
I am so afraid when the shadows fall
Carrying my flesh into the sinister hall

I have to say goodbye to a reality
That´s already so distant at infinity
There´s no way to hide and escape
From the mighty grip of this haunting fear

This is the end and I'm falling into gloom
I experienced the scariest moments in my room
When I sleep and dream

Sleep and dream – sleep and dream
I hope it would never last
Sleep does not come – it doesn´t come
And fatigue clouds my mind

In scary visions of the dark night
There´s no dream of life and light

Sleep and dream – sleep and dream
Nocturnal silence covered in dark
Spectres and creatures – spectres and creatures
Hiding their faces behind the masks
Sleep and dream – sleep and dream
Gloomy realm opens its arms
Chaotic whispers and growls
Before I further despair


9. STYGIAN SYMPHONY OF DEMISE

The time has arrived for my final goodbye
It´s the time for me to diminish and die
To place myself on the altar of life
To please mine own sacrificial delight

This is my body and mind, which is sacrificed
For all of you once and forever

The end of life can taste so divine
To escape the constraints of space and time
I shall not be afraid, I will embrace the death

I will finally solve the brainteaser of life
This is my blood which will be shed for many
Do it in my memory which should live in you

I´ll show you the way to be free
Live your life in serenity
Do all this in memory of me
I´ll show you the way to be free
For tomorrow, for this time
Seize the day in memory of me

The end of poor life can taste so divine
To escape the constraints of endless space and time
I shall not be afraid, I will embrace the death
Broken indifference, the right to die extended
A marginal decline in the pressure applied
A memory enhanced with a ceasing of non truth

Time arrived for final goodbye