Ethereal

The present slips away
And darkness draws around me
But my weightless sense of being
Seems to float up from the shadows
That body there below me
I don’t understand, can that be me?

A light so bright, the scents so strong
A thousand voices whisper
I clearly hear their soothing words
A million miles above me
They’ve come to take the dark side of my soul
All I know, all I fear
Nobody knows my name
For nobody would understand
That you kill what you fear
What you fear

I ride the rays of light
In blinding shades and colours
They reach up to the sky
Climbing faster ever faster
A spirit of the twilight
Is free at last, can you see me?

A light so bright, the scents so strong
A thousand voices whisper
I clearly hear their soothing words
A million miles above me
They’ve come to take the dark side of my soul
All I know, all I fear
Nobody knows my name
For nobody would understand
That you kill what you fear
What you fear

I ride the rays of light
In blinding shades and colours
They reach up to the sky
Climbing faster ever faster
Faster…

Antagony

As if adrift on soundless waves
From past horizon shores
The tides have turned, my compass shows
I’m on collision course
I rip my chest, unleash the beast
That lives inside of me
It spits and bites, it pulls the chain
Screaming to be free

Deep inside of me
Where to find the secret door
To turn back time and live the life
Like I’ve always lived before
Ever since this mark appeared
This ever-growing stain
The darkest thoughts of ages past
Are invading my brain

Where is the real me?
My head is filled with lies
My consciousness it twists and turns
Like the rolling of a dice
Where is the real me?
It takes me by surprise
Showing the unexpected face
Of a devil in disguise

In disguise, a devil in disguise
In disguise, a devil in disguise

My heart is pounding like a drum
It beats to unknown chants
An instrument of hidden souls
Played by unknown hands
The sound bleeds into frozen air
It spreads like oil at sea
Rippling out across my cloak
Of dark antagony

Deep inside of me
Where to find the secret door
To turn back time and live the life
Like I’ve always lived before
Ever since this mark appeared
This ever-growing stain
The darkest thoughts of ages past
Are invading my brain

Where is the real me?
My head is filled with lies
My consciousness it twists and turns
Like the rolling of a dice
Where is the real me?
It takes me by surprise
Showing the unexpected face
Of a devil in disguise

Where is the real me?
My head is filled with lies
My consciousness it twists and turns
Like the rolling of a dice
Where is the real me?
It takes me by surprise
Showing the unexpected face
Of a devil in disguise

Who will drive away the pain
Who controls the sun and rain

In disguise, a devil in disguise
In disguise, a devil in disguise

Two Of A Kind

Like the first ray of light of a new dawn
You entered my life
Turned the world upside down
A shadow, a ghost from a past life
Suddenly with a face and a name and a love

Oooh Louise – From this day on my world revolves around you
Oooh Louise – The skies are clear, the birds will sing
The trees whisper your name

No lines in the lores of the prophets
No star marks the day of your birth
How strange is the bond between our two minds
If I were a woman, we’d be two of a kind

Noticed your face in a crowd – no sound –
The world stopped in its place
My eyes caught your eyes in the mirror of time
Only to find myself locked inside your gaze

Oooh Louise – My nights last longer when I dream about you
Oooh Louise – My love you are a shooting star that lights the sky
Noticed your face in a crowd – no sound –
The world stopped in its place
My eyes caught your eyes in the mirror of time
Only to find myself locked inside your gaze

Dark Souls

Like a bolt of lightning
Racing across the sky, casting its light
On things that laid so long concealed for mortal eyes
It all comes back to me now
The souls dwelling in darkness
My function in the chain of history
I have a name

This mind belongs to me now
You chased away the remnants of the soul
That owned this body when I placed the fatal mark
We’re two souls lost in darkness
Facing all the violence of the world
That looks upon us with its god forsaken eyes

And now they’re at my doorstep
The fire of their torches cast a red glow on the walls
Breaking down the windows
With hatred in their eyes
And the curtains burn
Smoke rushes across the ceiling

So take my hand and run now
You may remember how we ran so many times before
From the marching crowds of madness
From the pounding killing floor
From the curse in me
From the distant cries of terror

Realm of shadows

I can see with my newborn eyes
When the smoke in my mirror subsides
Here I stand, watching my true face
Like a scene from a memory…

As a bearer of the dreaded mark
Shrouded by an aura of death
My mind and vision cleared of fear
My voice of darkness whispers

From the realm of the shadows of time
I’ve come looking for the light
As the stone cold master of fate
A dreaded creature of the night

No one will hear
The hollow echoes of the past
No one will fear
The souls of all those who were lost

My love showed me the way out of the maze
In a flash, washed the scales from my eyes
Took my hand, and revealed herself
A mark like mine, only stronger

As we ran from the fire and the cries
From the hatred hunting us down
The cloud of doubt lifted from my soul
This was fate, we had been there

Thunderclouds sweep across the black sky
Distant fires burning bright
With my sister soul at my side
We will live through every night

No one will see
Secrets that lie within our grasp
Oh how I feel
Redemption that will come at last

From the realm of the shadows of time
I’ve come looking for the light
As the stone cold master of fate
A dreaded creature of the night

No one will hear
The hollow echoes of the past
No one will fear
The souls of all those who were lost

A Million Lives

Stepping from the shadows
Of the world that I just lost
I kissed your lips a last time
And cried tears of blood
Now that love has left me
The will of fate is done
I’ll be the last man standing
The hour of truth has come

A million lives
I’ve lived a million lives
Wandering through the darkness blinded by a veil of lies
A million lives
I’ve lived a million lives
But once I will unlock the door where revelation hides

Heed me curse of evil
You know I’m drawing near
You may not recognise me
As the bearer of the key
When I enter your temple
Cast down my hooded cloak
You’ll know I have come
To liberate the dark souls

A million lives
I’ve lived a million lives
Wandering through the darkness blinded by a veil of lies
A million lives
I’ve lived a million lives
But once I will unlock the door where revelation hides

And in your final hours
When I held your hand in mine
I had to face the night alone
When you said I had to let you go
I – I will find my way
When I will wake to see the light of day
When I watched how life was parting from your eyes
I noticed that your mark had gone
And filled instead the gaps in mine
This time I will find my way
When part of you lives on through me

A million lives
I’ve lived a million lives
The clouds obscure the skies again when the love inside me dies
A million lives
I’ve lived a million lives
Lords of mercy please accept my dearest sacrifice

A million lives
I’ve lived a million lives
Wandering through the darkness blinded by a veil of lies
A million lives
I’ve lived a million lives
But once I will unlock the door where revelation hides

Occlusion

Fool…
Do you think you can unravel the mystery of the curse so easily?
No…
The complexity of the curse is infinitely deeper
than the thoughts of your pathetic earthly mind…
Return to the labyrinth and suffer the fate of the Dark Souls
who will pay for my suffering until the score is evened.
Your cycle is complete… The end is near…

The end is near
I failed again, to break this endless cycle.
The shadows, in my soul have conquered me.

The time has come
To realize, the quest that I was on
Was doomed, no smile could shed a light.

Overwhelming, realizing the strength
when two could be as one.
Chasing the sunlight, for a moment in time,
It seemed like the battle was won.

Riding the waves of emotions and pain,
Fed from a whirlpool of tears.
Wading through soreness, the glow fades away,
The unbearable weight of all those years.

Searching for answers, freedom awaits,
The price seemed not too high.
Turning away, my senses self-contained:
Truth became a bitter lie.

Riding the waves of emotions and pain,
Fed from a whirlpool of tears.
Wading through soreness, the glow fades away,
The unbearable weight of all those years.

Failing, to escape my fate, on threshold of the final gate.
Surrender the one that I could trust, in an act full of disgust.
Falling, I will find my way, when ‘being’ ends here today.
Break down the prison that we share, we will meet again sometime, somewhere…

The curse will play
Its game again, another phase will come.
The sign of doom, etched upon my skin.

Relief me now,
The dream is over, let it end right here.
The darkness, a frozen world awaits.
Awaits…