We are living in an unrefined world
Where wonders fall as soon as they rise
The shadows haunt the deaf and blind
You are one of them,
'Cause you are a disbeliever

Living in a world ruled by demons for
Breaking the pure wings of our angels who flee and conceal
They're damned to silence

Lore ends now

Now they resign and toss ideas away
While cold pelting rains descend - washing brains

Deadlocked, hidebound, desperate
You all disbelieve
No trust in the unseen
You don't dream

Echoes heard far-off
They witness past achievements
But they left no light
To guide us through this nightmare
Burning scars, we are baptised heretics
Rumors fly like swirling leaves and spread

Losing our belief in unseizable
Values once esteemed and adored
Now they flee and conceal
They're damned to silence
Lore ends now

But I believe
Leave and resign and toss ideas away
While cold pleting rains descend - washing brains

2. My Burden

We are the tyrants within
This is my burden to carry

Poison in the veins of gracious earth
Creeping mean disease, a bleeding flow

This world is a dirty pool and we sink
Ist es das was Ihr wollt oder nicht versteht
So kanns nicht enden
Wir sind Verderben
And this is my burden

Loud horns trumpet the end
Sounds of perverted disharmony
We are the tyrants within
This is my burden to carry

Roaring voids of night
Season of unreason
Bloodstained, angels unshrouded
My burden to carry
Schandwerk, schreiende Nacht
Blutraub, ihr saugt weiter
Bohrt tief, tief ins fleisch
Ihr labt Euch am Untergang

Evil feeds you
Lights are dimming
Sleep well

This is the end
Das ist das Ende

3. Ultimate Darkness

Pride and credit
In a meaningless world
Don't be greedy
For the wishes of the mob
Spinning round for dirt

Losing grip, but you're not the only one
Here I am...
I'm alone and you are too
Silent night, wonderfully deaf and blind

Noise dies away, this stinking rebel of men
For this is darkness and stillness and peace

Darkness tonight
All your broken visions true
You are a stranger to this world, me too
Darkness today
Because this is our way
And the night it heals your tears and letdowns now

I've seen days so black
And will see more
Your pain and disdain
I know it so well...

Walk and smile cause you are not a dancer
Like those who dance to sounds of coins and gold
Not your world - primitive and rude

Noise dies away, this stinking rebel of men
For this is darkness and stillness and peace

Burning spirits rising high and I see
Yes I see, yes I see a flower in you
When I stare at you I see the dullness gone by
I am not alone

4. Biting Cold

You turned to senseless stone
I can't breathe in your ears anymore
I never knew the tide of life

It's time for leaving
I'm not believing in you anymore
Your needles in my heart
My nonexistent trust I must endure
I yearn for sympathy
Und doch beruhr ich kalte nur

It's a biting cold
Living flame shining dead
It's my next defeat
It's a biting cold again
It's a biting cold
Striking mights and maybes even more
A useless thing called life
It's a biting cold again

My hollow hand holds the past
Where your hand once was placed
Just the shell of a life
I once have lived with you

Now I know the taste of tears
They cut my soul in two
Like a knife, sharpened knife
Like a bloody sharpened knife
Cut me...

Losing my bright illusions
I will resign, become a rusty wreck
My nonexistent trust I must endure
I yearn for sympathy
Und doch beruhr ich kalte nur

You divided us forever
I will never ever heal

5. The Dark One

Darkness - In every line and word i'm singing
Demons - Haunting me whenever I think

Nightfall - A dying man
Nightfall - Yes i am
Beasts inside me roar
The dark one is my name

Allright, here's the dark one speaking
I introduce my mental world to you

Breaking living nothingness
That's what I will do - be careful!

My words are in your hands
And they measure good and bad
Maybe they attract you
But you should read between the lines

I rule the night, it's my home, I welcome you
Die Nacht ist mein, und ich lad dich herzlich ein
I hunt the light, for more than one decade
'Cause i am the dark one, the dark one I am

Selfhood - I hate you
Dullness - and you too
I decry you all
For dark one is my name

Hey you, do you hear my words
I hope you do, and feel it too

Blaming mortal selfishness
That's what I will do - I mean it!

This is my other side
I'm not only a dark one,
As I have a pulsing heart
For all who care

6. Save Me

I ask, does someone hear me?
Listen... Yes, I mean you
Yes, I'm a fragile warrior
And I wander towards the unknown

Unknown, insecure, pathless mornings
Lost, my compass
Lost, I'm hopeless
Lost, I'm drowning
Save me!

I've seen a place where hearts cannot be
Bought or just borrowed
I've seen the sun hidden in your soul
Shining on me

Restless, but so tired, aimless, fortune
Laughs about me
Laughs and fools me
Laughs and spoils me
Wreckage

I shout, where can I find you
Tell me where have you been
Anchor, you'll be my rescue
Tearing me out of this living downstream

I've seen a place where hearts cannot be
Bought or just borrowed
I've seen the sun hidden in your soul
Shining on me
When the night casts it's shadow and eats
My gladness
Shining on me like a guardian
Covers me, warming me in this coldness
My whole life

7. Speak Silence

Lost, misguided minds, feverish dumb
I wonder how your life will end one day
Your soul is caught in a smiling web of sins
You bring the world to it's knees, again and again

Speak silence, the knife is mine

The knife is mine, your emptiness
Devouring life as stars are waning overhead
You celebrate with demons in your home
You put the world to an end, that's why I say:

Speak silence! You're just walking shades
Go away, back into your mental cage
Live silence! Keep your demons locked
in your mouth, and your head, go away
Speak silence!
There's no cure for your disease
Denn Du bist Mensch, and humans never learn
Live silence! I pierce my bloody knife
in your mouth, and your head, in your veins

Speak silence, the knife is mine
Speak silence, silence

Mine, mine, this knife is mine
You walk towards the end
Feel the coldness in your veins
Down, down, now you get down
Your body crumbles
This fiery pulse of sin now stops to beat
This knife is mine, the pain is your's
Your broken dreams complete
This knife is mine, hurting deep
Again and again I say:

The sun has set and I enjoy the void
Without you the silence is so sweet
All living beings are sinking down
The sky is vacant and I smile
Speak silence when I smile
Speak silence in my loneliness

8. Next To Nothing

Two rushing shades meeting face to face
Dull procedures come and go every day

A thousand tricks and one thousand smiles but
Life is not profound

An endless tide of ideas and belief
It's a mess, 'cause nobody thinks or feels
The sky laughs loud, entertainment for free
We are nothing

Gain, all we gain is trivial nonsense next to nothing
Our merit is: failing whenever we can
We are so precious...
But I say, we are next to nothing!
We are nothing, next to nothing, we are nothing

A friendly smile hiding misunderstandings
I see your mask but your soul I can't find

A thousand lost days, two thousand new ones
Tunnels light or dead end

Another night and even more days to come
And I've to look into mortal faces
It's just an act of regret and farewell
We are nothing

I look at you and wonder
Is it me whom I see
I am one of those mortals too
I'm lost as well as you

Where is my sympathy
I'm not one of those
Who're loving life, loving life eternally

9. Follow Me

All black nights, all promising days
Silence speaks loud and clear to me
I long for reason
Your healing for living

All things I've done, have failed so badly
Ideas and plans look at me and laugh
All I need is clarity
A voice that whispers "follow me"

Guide me to your shore
Leave my ruins behind
Show me the way to light
I will follow you
Whereever you go, whereever you are
I will follow, give me a sign

My way, is no way anymore
It lulls me, breaks and just throws me away
Anger builds a mental wall
But will it ever break, ever break

Finally lurking void revealed it's aims
Finally my life is nowhere
All I need is clarity
A voice that whispers "follow me"

I should run away, but to where, I don't know.
I gaze at a netherworld cause my mind went blind
Anger builds a mental wall
But will it ever break, ever break

10. The Fall

It's the fall
You are damned to live your life in wastelands
It's the fall
In a world where weak ones are left alone

Dreams, all your dreams
All your dreams areb uried in mounts of sand
Breathe, breathe the dust
Breathe the lifeless dust of nature's revenge
Now you see all damage we have done
You lost all you had and will lose even more

Fall, fall, it's your fall, forever
Last days of Gaia
Fall, fall, never end, it's your fall
The future lies in your hands
Fall, fall, it's your fall, forever
Your adventure's just begun, little hero
Win the game or... forever fall

Feel, do you feel
Do you feel the corruption haunting you
Live, will you live
Will you live the perversion like others do
Now you see all damage we have done
You lost all you had and will lose even more

I believe, I'll believe in you
You will find your way
Even if you walk alone
You will fight - or will you...

11. Endless Night

Living a life without light
I found my endless night

Evil, when will you lose your wings?
I bathe in glowing coals
I live my saddest hour
Hiding my joy, no escape, iron cages

Anger for I know all is lost
It's my night, endless night
But I'm not falling
'Cause I stand proud until the end
When lights descend,
And smiling is no more
In my own endless night

Peace ends at the moment
Where self-longing begins
Pain is running straight down my shoulders
Break-up, fires ignite
We burn, will be gone
We are imprisoned in halls of shame

This lonesome place keeps me inviolate
Beautiful rain pouring from broken skies
Treetops bending down with a sigh

This is an endless night
Hope for relief is gone
You wear a gloomy shroud
Hiding the sinning world

12. Sleep Sleep Sweetheart

The night-wind swallows you
Eats you up in lust and smiles, silently
Sleep, sleep, sweetheart
Dream and forget our misery

A mortal fever haunts the dying earth
Our hearts and souls stand still and wince
I can't save your day,
Rescue won't take your hand,
So sleep the day away
Sleep, my dear
And our god hides in calm

I whisper while your eyes are shut
And don't see this hell on earth

Sleep, sleep sweetheart, never wake up
You are not made for this world's grinning pain
Shining eyes, they are no more, sleep well
Veins getting cold and the shadows lurk, shadows lurk

I long for new born lights divine and pure
A clearing rain to wash our dirt away
A mortal fever haunts the dying earth
Our hearts and souls stand still and wince

Content dance the snakes
For their work now's completed
Their poison creeps

I whisper while your cheeks turn cold and silence grabs your breath