Encapsulate the night! wrap up the truth in candy-striped paper and throw us a blood-sodden torn and holey rotten through the core party
I stand with you now, my friend My razor tongue is licking your rosy cheeks and battered ears I whisper sordid secrets that are neither true nor false I hold your hand in defiance Amplify your feeble voice against evil I hold your spine and shake most violently
The silver light is overthrown Rejoice with me for we have denominated the devil (And I shall get to fulfil my own)
When I die, I slay a hundred When I die, I raise a thousand
Rejoice with me for we have denominated the devil (And I shall get to fulfil my own)
Every bullet hole in our holy town is an orifice for me to rape every woman slain is my whore and every precious child crying a golden orb of fire
I stand with you now, my friend I nibble at your earlobes till they bleed the truth divine Smear my name in their fearful faces I hold your hand in vengeance Your muffled words are a horrid choir across the sea This licking pyre cannot be douted by their tears
2. Equilibrium
This is the slowest dance The dance of a thousand years The dance of the frozen statues Clinging together in tears
This is the darkest fight The fight of a thousand years The pounding of blood Through our veins In our veins In our eyes The circles of fear
I cling to you So cold, so bright Cling to me through the night
In our veins Through our veins The circles of fear I cling to you Cling to you So cold, so bright
Motionless faces Park of the wasted In the pale gloom I hang on to you In the pale gloom I am safe and cool
I swim in you In your dark rivers Dive in your mind Search for your monsters Search for resistance Sink into the mud Dance in the halls of insanity Yet madness is Your highest deed Your vanity
Mistress - you made me Mistress - you saved me In your cold hands I am just a tool
Mistress - you made me Mistress - you saved me In your cold hands I am safe and cool
I swim in you In your dark rivers Dive in your mind Search for your monsters Search for resistance Sink into the mud Dance in the halls of insanity Yet madness is Your highest deed Your vanity
3. The Wretched
Welcome, my friend (Now) It's you and I Do you sense the eye that watches you? Can you feel her muted scream? This is our very own horrid dream
Can you hear her hollow cry? From the other side You can't see her - you can't reach her But you feel her watching you
Now she sings her lullaby The sun has died This is the voyage that never ends
A black light The lost souls are craving Clinging to their last glimpse of hope The restless won't leave you alone You cannot set them free The blood flows Your fear grows Awaiting an accident Veiled eyes See right through your darkened mind You cannot set them free
The song of demons plays on the wind Can you hear the wretched's call? Their shuffling feet Your pounding heart Now you know you're falling Chanting words you do not catch Their cries for help you never sensed An organic mass of despair This nightly mare
They cry your name, which is silence They play their game, which is violence
Unsound.
4. Cure
In your web The threads entangle Your prey is dead - Dyed in silence
I'll forever stay with you At your feet I will kneel At your will Dead silent
When I move - I am moved by you When you rule - All is ruled by you In your world - There is only you In my world - There is only you
In your web The threads entangle At your will Dead silent
Your words are shivers down my spine I'm numb and shapeless - in your web - in your web My blood runs slow and red like wine The past is shattered - forever
I serve your will - for I have been bruised and battered and covered I serve your will - for I have been ordinated your lover
5. Circus
Tied up and gagged Hooded and tagged They're all yours to command
I am corpse, I am carrion prey I have a crow at each brow plucking eyes in my mask of death The darkness is complete
Who's the hooded one, mother mine? Who is gagged when all are silent? and bitten when we move
Inflamed! My mask is burning The night is dead; dark, putrid flesh turning 'pon a chair in the dying corner I am your bagful of fear I'll commit, I'll admit I'll be the dagger, drive me in I'll be all motionless and still My river runs within - still and deep
I am beast, I am carrion prey to the Cyclops tribe String me up to a cherry tree come one, come all - and hang with me I'm already hogtied - entangled in your marionette strings
I am dancing the embodiment of fear a shake for every fearful tear a ruckus for the righteous In the end They no longer know cast stones into mirrors - onto themselves
Mother mine! Stab yourself, mother mine bleed your own river, dark and wide Mine runs within, still and deep Don't shake me so, it will overflow
6. Shadowman
At night - asleep Nightmares - not dreams Drag me through the dirt There is no place to run - nor hide
He's in my blood I try to keep him out He rules the pain He makes up the ugly thoughts The rotten words He distracts my nerves
His claws His poisoned laughter twists the knife His long sharp teeth Motionless silence Sullen muttering
He holds the blame He's in my veins
He holds the blame I try to keep him out He rules the pain inside He makes up the ugly thoughts The rotten words He distracts my nerves
I've never seen his face But I have felt his breath so many times Soaked in sweat Sleepingpills and cigarettes But when the day chases the night away:
7. The Gate
[Bonus Track]
An army of ambition is moving and it shakes the ground Ten thousand hungry hearts with iron heels Burns and rapes Sucks the earth dry Cuts and slays All that gets in its way Mighty forces of destruction Way beyond control Nothing sleeps tonight
Decay and sinister silence Your world ripped in dust and ruins
I shed no tears for your pain I shed no tears for the past
Unleash all the beasts from imprisonment And arm them with sticks and stones Bring them into the land of chaos Watch mankind's last gate fall
Trembling hands in fire burned As we march into the night Every last stone will be turned Within the bright daylight
We are the hounds of hell You will kneel You will bend We feast at her grave In the bloodmist we stand Victorious
8. Endogenisis
There is only one way out One word left to shout The last little slope to climb Then my feet slip again Your threatening voice Gets me back up on my feet again
I will find the truth within your skin You keep feeding me distractions Feeding me lies But I know the truth is there In fragments in bits and pieces
Tall and slender But your eyes are lustreless Your facade may glimmer Your surface may be smooth silk You've been convinced of your own illusions But your weary eyes unveil a sinner
Running... Steadily you hunt me down Until my feet collapse Gasping... You never rest Struggling to breathe You try to sink me in the mud
My dearest enslaved Shackled Locked up in my cage My dearest enslaved Fragile beauty depraved
9. Bird
A friendly push Off the cliff - is all I need A sudden change Or a smile Could make me feel alive, Anything to take the ignorance away
There is a hole in my chest where my heart used to be If you're looking for emptiness, I'm what you need Colder and darker and worse Sometimes life's just a curse
My ashen face My snow-white skin Perfect Isolation Time - slips My asylum years Will end in silence Without tears
All illusions lost All colours faded A senseless pain Transparent Imperfection Falling Like a sparrow to the ground Leave no trace of life
Music as my ship set sails Through the window From the street Divine Goodbye
Leave no marks upon my skin Dreamless sleep The convent walls on fire Goodbye
Dreams and betrayal - hand in hand Falling apart in a drug wonderland Unable to move and talk Unable to care at all...
Somebody is knocking at my door Somebody - I think I have seen before I'm trembled and shaken and stirred I wish I could be a bird
