1. One Black Day

Breathe deep the silence before the storm now
Beware you've burned all bridges behind
This thorn of ice now torn from your side
Has brought the emptiness back to your life

There's fear around you
And I can see you through
No, from my eyes you cannot hide

Breathe deep the tension before the trial now
Sometimes we pay for what we have done
And as you pray for the last light of day
Beware the trial has just begun

There's fear around you
And I can see you through
No, from my eyes you cannot hide

Remember once I promised
Remember once I prayed
My wings would take us back there
To turn the pain away
One black day I'd come to drive the jackals from the prey
One black day to harvest from the seeds of hate
One black day you returned to the shores of hell
One black day for a death to suffer and a soul to sell

Breathe in suspicion and fear the shadows
Don't move your hand from the lurking blade
I've seen her image in too many dreams
How grim the honour to watch her bleed

There's fear around you
The last doubt disappears
And from these eyes you may not hide

One black day I'd come to drive the vultures from the prey
One black day to harvest from the seeds of hate

The laughter of our children still unborn
Shall haunt your last eternal sleep forever
And someone must have died
Again the jackals feast
And in the skies the vultures fly

There's fear around you
And I can see you through
No, from my eyes you cannot hide

Remember once I promised
Remember once I prayed
My wings would take us back there
To turn the pain away
One black day I'd come to drive the jackals from the prey
One black day to harvest from the seeds of hate
One black day you returned to the shores of hell
One black day for a death to suffer and a soul to sell


2. Halls Of Bitter Sin

And I have no more hopes to behold

It seems I'm down here again
Below the depths of time
Where memories won't glorify
The faces of the end

Thou shall sleep now, my friend
And listen to this walls

It was the children's laughter
That led me down here
Where noone ever plays, it carries with the wind

It was a demon's laughter
That drew me down here
Where no child never ever plays

Thou art at the end of time
And thou shalt never fear
I am the answer to your life
I am your absolution
The voice of infinity

Thou shalt sleep well my friend
And give in to these halls
Of hardly whispered thoughts
And signs I never sent

It was damian's laughter
That kept me running
Along this gallery of long forgotten dreams

It was my own laughter
That taught me silence
And my own hate let me astray

Thou shall sleep now, my friend
And listen to this walls

Hear this bitter laughter
It is yours now
For a moment in these halls of bitter sin

Feel eternal hatred
Caught inside here
Still it tells of bitter sin


3. From Cold Hands

I remember a life
So bare of reason, so bare of hideaways
I received my days

From cold hands

I remember a call
Sent from the shades of time
Sent out to understanding ears
Sent out to mute my fears

From cold hands
Run the merciless sands of time
From cold eyes
Shall fall the tears that should have been mine

I remember a love
So bare of reason, how dare we disobey
We received our days

From cold hands

I remember a fall
So high from the golden fields
Cut off the understanding ears
Left to my breeding fears

From cold hands
Run the merciless sands of time
From cold eyes
Shall fall the tears that should have been mine

Mine


4. A Child Born Knowing

I have seen 'em there
Sleeping in the crimson tide
Lead glance to heaven
Truely they lacked any pride
Now waste a prayer they won't come home

I have seen 'em there
Restin 'pon the ashen field
A requiem far from tears
To accuse the living
But yet they would not appear

And the infant cries
For the first time
Hear his voice clear and cold
For he's one of my kind

Superstition hates
A child born knowing I shall raise
To walk beside you
Thus he does my will
How innocent these hands could kill
And also guide you

I can see you there
Fencingin your twilight's eye
Don't call to hell now
Truely I've been here all time

I've raised you, too
And all your desperate hopes
By the dreams of the living
I shall come to you

Superstition hates
A child born knowing I shall raise
To walk beside you
Thus he does my will
How innocent these hands could kill
And also guide you

Vengance has it's way
A child born knowing rose today
As it is written
To walk among the living
And sleep among the dead


5. Corridors Of Perception

Pacing back and forth again
There is no escape from this cage
So take a look into these tired eyes
And fear the face you see

For years I've walked in circles
For a time I stepped aside
Now that the purpose is lost
Beneath this desert sky I try to scream

And I take my time to redefine
I'm sickened of this Mother Earth
'Cause after all I have lost my hopes
A witness to my misery

I was on top of the golden hill
I was lower than the dirt
Now falling down to the floor I fail
But I never ever will shed a tear

Can you feel the pain I bear
While another world is near
No release
Can you feel the pain I bear
While this other world I fear
At the corridors of perception

Close all the doors tonight
Come to me, comfort me
Burn all the lights tonight
Turn all the prayers away from me

The story's over, the last words lost
The final chapter is turned
And even if I had the chance
I'd never start again

Somehow I'll find what I've searched for years
At the end of my thirst for sleep
Still I refuse to hold your hand
Tell me what is left of your dignity

Can you feel the pain I bear
While another world is near
No release
Can you feel the pain I bear
While this other world I fear
At the corridors of perception


6. Obsidian Eye

You say you cannot hold on
To what our fate has built
And never you could think of
Laying down your will

You say you must get hold of
Life's experience
I tell you never run into
my last defense

I'm warning you of danger
You've never come across yet
I'd love you as a stranger
I hate you as a friend

I'll haunt you for your lies
Never should have dived
Into these depths of passion
Into these obsidian eyes

You say you cannot stand this
Strong pressure I would cause
So why do you keep calling
And mourning all your loss

I told you never to sell
Your weakness for a love
I hate to love to hate you
But that is what you got

I'm warning you of danger
Your childish eyes ain't seen yet
I whish we could be strangers
But it's to late I guess

I'm warning you of danger
You've never come across yet
I'd love you as a stranger
I hate you as a friend

I'll haunt you for your tears
The dawning of my fears
The dawning of your passion
The hound of obsidian eyes

I'll haunt you for the night
You've set upon my life
Now drown in your lies
And these obsidian eyes