1. MY REQUIEM

Light-
Blistering,so bright
Re-align my core
Lenses open wide
Coming into form
The imprint of a life

Too late you're calling out my name
To raise me up out of my grave
Alive in memory i'll stay
If you shun these waters where i lay

Night-
Curtains coming down
Into the shade i stray
Losing all i've found
To my own dismay
My season has come to an end

Too late you're calling out my name
To raise me up out of my grave
Alive in memory i'll stay
If you shun these waters where i lay

Leave me to rest
Too drained to rise
To try to detect
Any light at the end of the tunnel...

Too late...


2. EYE OF NIGHT

See all the colours fading
Out with the sun
Season of sombre darkness
Again, it has begun
Cursed by recurring cycles
raised to be undone

Lost is this cause you're mourning
It's death stands at your door
Break Under the pressure forming
Or embrace it to your core

Behind closed eyes, see the signs,

[Chorus:]
No faith to hold on to
Let seasons evolve through the night
The all-waking eye
Is your rising sun
No Truth to hold you
Let peace enfold you, it's alright
To rely on light
From the eye of night

The future stands veiled in opaque lace
A figure without form
That changes with every fear you face
And every dawn

No faith to hold on to....


3. CONDEMNED TO SILENCE

Reach through your mind, internal sky
Endless glide into the I
Soul encaged, trapped behind your eyes
Until it's saved ,by sharing it's light
and darkness...

[Chorus:]
Save my immortal soul
From it's own chains
From a fate worse than death
Condemned to silence
To turn away
Implode and fade

Days pass me by, carved out of time
I transpire before my own eyes
No decay can touch a fire
But i choke my flame, in fear of shining too bright
Or too faintly...

Save my immortal soul
From it's own chains
From a fate worse than death
Condemned to silence
To turn away
Implode and fade

We don't become who we dream of
If we don't face our own demons
If we shun what conceals us
We go blind to that whice free us...If we shun

Reach through your mind, internal sky
Endless glide into the I


4. A MILLION TEARS

A million things
I want to say
But I shield my face
And turn away
Swallowing my words
Silenced by shame

A million tears
I want to cry
But I shield my face
And dry my eyes
Swallowing my hurt
Breaking Inside.

[Chorus:]
Please stay here with me
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry
See straight into me
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes

A million things
I wish you would say
Even if I fall
That you will stay
And none of my flaws
Can turn you away

Please stay here with me
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry
See straight into me
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes


Like a circle around me
Is the prison of this boundary
I need a storm to break it down
Shield your eyes from the fire light
But please don't turn away from my side
I am not that - which i fight

Every tear I cry
Burns a way through my eyes
where I see through my lies

Every tear I cry
Makes trails in the ice
where I am warm Inside

See straight into me
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes
Please stay here with me
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry

Like a circle around me
Is the prison of this boundary
I need a storm to break it down
Shield your eyes from the fire light
But please don't turn away from my side
I am not that - which I fight


5. HOUR OF THE NIGHTINGALE

Weep not for martyrs
Raise your head
Saline waters
Won't raise the dead
Grief will haunt those
Who forget
That night is not the end


[Chorus:]
Embrace this as a Nightingale in song
In the darkest hour of shadows she belongs
Her voice reflects the colours of dawn

Raise not a fortress
To protect
From what the waters
Might reflect
Grief will wash those
Who caress
The night as though it's theirs

Embrace this as a Nightingale in song
In the darkest hour of shadows she belongs
Her voice reflects the colours of dawn

There's an ocean of despair
Where the road must end
All souls must pass there
For what is broken to mend
On an island i will wait
For you to rise again

Embrace this as a Nightingale in song
In the darkest hour of shadows she belongs
Her voice reflects the colours of dawn
It pierces like an Arrow through a storm


6. THE PASSAGE

An eye in the night appears as Something awakens
Into the silent sphere of Nothing created

Mother of time she breathes
Summons the autumn leaves
Turning the Wheel of history
Constant change is her name

Into the void I breathe
Life as it swallows me
Sinking into the hollow Tree
Of Eternity
As winter buries her seed

[Chorus:]
Time - mother inevitable lie
Taken in the undertow of life
We gravitate to annihilate
The coals of our fire

Circles of Life and seasons
Imprints of our achievements
Carved in the aether and in
The eyes of the one
Who brings the night and the dawn

Time - mother inevitable lie

Tides are my emotions
Water my tears and ice
Is time frozen
Stored in the memory of a sigh

Time - another inevitable price
Paid when the river of life
Is our veins runs dry
The waking moments
That pass before our eyes
Are all we take to our graves.


7. BROKEN MIRROR

A Piece of me in your eyes
Reminds me of what's forgotten
I need to get closer to the fire
And feel my own reflection

A piece of me needs to die...

A seed of the fatal kind
No roots to grow and thrive
Some things weren't meant to stay alive
Aborted while still in mind

[Chorus:]
"You gave me sword
To pierce a lie
Serrated edge for
The demon Inside
A moment I'm torn
Between two tides
But all I need I hear Inside"

Fear is a self-destructing fire
That burns what's dead and dry
Tears clean the wound that's left behind
When a shadow is forced into light

Broken Mirror
Beauty divides
Though it's an illusion
It can cut like a knife
Don't try to give me
What I think I desire
It's mine to find


8. BLACK OCEAN

Oh my love