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Schattenbilder
06:13
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Last sunbeam disappears behind the top of the hills
Last mountain in the west
Dusk kisses horizon forming a picture of diffused frost
Only at this time you may catch a glimpse of what‘s behind the curtain
Grotesque faces whirling around
angry grinning, still up to mischief
Come ride wild merry-go-rounds
Ringmaster of nasty thoughts and burning desire
Jester hunted by dogs around manege
Child wasting youth for chasing fireflies
Jeanny in a bottle, but just one wish
Last natural glint fades
Artificial light takes place
A kiss, good night
Imagine the pictures behind
Your deepest needs no secret to me
Stop, no words, your eyes tell truth
Faceing bugbears of the past
Ringmaster of nasty thoughts and burning desire
Jester hunted by dogs around manege
Child wasting youth for chasing fireflies
Jeanny in a bottle, but just one wish
Last natural glint fades
Artificial light takes place
A kiss, good night
Imagine the pictures behind
Imagine the pictures behind…
Beware the pictures behind
The pictures behind
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Black Mold
05:13
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Like a ghost I wander from day to day as in a dream
Considering my ambience like Alfred Hitchcock hiding in a corner
Just a little one more time
Just a little bit one more time
So breathe in that black mold
Fill your lungs until the day you fall asleep forever
Taste that black mold
Assimilate the spores to symbiosis
Why that masquerade?
Everything's a masquerade
Play your role in that big carnival you call business
Compulsive hoarding mannerism of my fellow human beings
Stuck in the middle of What?
Stuck in the middle of What?
So breathe in that black mold
Fill your lungs until the day you fall asleep forever
Taste the black mold
Assimilate the spores to symbiosis
Dirty claws scratch infective weals
Malodorous purulence flowing in streams
Anxiety always abounds
Tell me: How can we stand this anymore
Why that masquerade?
Everyone wears masquerade.
Consider my ambience
Alfred Hitchcock’s watching from the wall
So breathe in that black mold
Fill your lungs until the day you fall asleep forever
Oh sweet black mold
Come to me and thrive thrive thrive
Come to me and thrive thrive thrive
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
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Manticore
04:11
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The light of the day hurts my eyes / Don’t fit into your world
Neither human nor animal / Driven by lust / How does it feel?
Prick, prick, prick my skin prickles hot and cold
Prick, prick, prick a dewy film covers me whole
In my brain everything rotates / What is real? / What dulls my senses?
She, ensnaring me all the time/ She, dancing on my soul
Sick, sick, sick suffering, coiled into the corner
Sick, sick, sick conserve your love before you just leave
Only pain is pure and real like the sting of a scorpion
A lions fang crushes every bone / every fibre bursts with a boom!
Claws to fear
Poison to clear
Share your breath with me
You will be a part of me
Together we’ll be in history
Forever you‘re now a part of me
Ascend into heavens glory
Cringing, transuding,
nervous twitching around
Prick, prick, prick my skin prickles hot and cold
Prick, prick, prick a dewy film covers me whole
Sick, sick, sick suffering, coiled into the corner
Sick, sick, sick conserve your love before you just leave
Only pain is pure and real like the sting of a scorpion
A lions fang crushes every bone / every fibre bursts with a boom!
Claws to fear
Poison to clear
Share your breath with me
You're forever a part of me
Together we’ll be in history
Forever you‘re now a part of me
Ascend into heavens glory
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Dagon
05:25
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Oh uhoh
I’ve been asleep but for how long? Oh but for how long?
Maybe decades maybe thousands of centuries
Uh Oh Uh Oh
Incant the spell , oh I hear my name
Barely remembered under a tier of fable and myth
Uh oh ahhhhhhh
You call my name in miscarried speech
Promise sacrifice
Get wind young spirit, fresh pulsative blood
Up to the wild hunt
Uh Oh
You called my name
Up! Play the game
Soak in your fear
Got ya! Got Ya!
Oho
Ohoo
You called my name
So starts the game
Oh what fun! Turn around!
Here I am!
Got ya!
Got ya!
Uh Ah
Ohhhoo
You called my name
Up! Play the game
Soak in your fear
Bleed for me
Got ya!
Oh what a hunt
My hunger pleased
Back to rest for decades
Or maybe centuries?
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Button
03:40
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Digging deep, diving in
Yeah, nearly caught the hub
Composing scientific masterpiece
Juggling atomic nuclei
Chasing after Vesta
Crawling for philosopher’s stone
GO!
Push the button again
Push the button again
Right now
Travelling forward
Snapping back
Travelling backwards
Concede a slap
Conclusion‘s made, I’m nearly done
Start the engines
Coppery steam clouds my mind
I’m floating in a way all away
Chasing after Vesta
Crawling for philosopher’s stone
GO!
Push the button again
Push the button again
Right now
Travelling forward
Snapping back
Travelling backwards
Concede a slap
Travelling forward
Travelling backwards
Push the button again
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Haunted (The Snake Pit)
04:17
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What is worse than hate? Sometimes it is love.
Tainted brew /a rotten fruit
Obsessed by the idea of perfection
Pale as snow reminds of our purity
Never sold ourselves/ but sold our souls forever/ into fleshly cells
Same is same/ shall not be interfused
As old as we are, nothing compares to our immaculacy
So be aware of the ancestor’s melody / They only know what’s right
Even paves the way into the snake pit
HAUNTED!!!
The rules are buried in the basement / We’ll tell you exactly what to do
Follow our orders
An invisible tie never will burst / You can’t just leave / We drag you down
Into the snake pit
Same is same/ shall not be interfused
As old as we are nothing compares to our immaculacy
So be aware of the ancestors melody / They only know what’s right
Even paves the way into the snake pit
HAUNTED!!!
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Sword of Orion
08:00
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Sailng north
Chasing the vision
Getting closer
Can see your breath
They say it’s buried in perpetual ice
Too powerful to handle for petty human minds
Chanting old verse in long forgotten speech
Dancing in the firelight (2x) pansophy arise
Moor the ship
Aurora leads us from now on
To a desert of glinting snow
Aurora leads us now
Copper beech in the merciless solitude
Leaves like drops of blood burning in the wintersun
Listening to the wind whispering in the branches
Touching the bark says: Orion it’s you!
Chanting old verse in long forgotten speech
Dancing in the firelight (2x) pansophy arise
Moor the ship
Aurora leads us from now on
To a desert of endless ice
Aurora leads us now
Sword of Orion
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Run piggy run through a dying city
rumbling around but doomed into the swamp
Run piggy run through urban dust
scrambling around
madness as escape
Shreds of your tie weakly hanging down
Your suit is more hole than cloth
What’s the matter with your shirt?
Did your pencil break?
All covered in red
Into the remains of your melted brain only lust for moving bodies
Run piggy run through a dying city
rumbling around but doomed into the swamp
Run piggy run through urban dust
scrambling around
madness as escape
Brute force pounding from within
An itching promise from beneath your skin
With every pulse your heart races to the sound of their screams
but carry on
When nothing's left to deliver you from evil
Escape into the night, hit and run
Run piggy run through a dying city
rumbling around but doomed into the swamp
Run piggy run through urban dust
scrambling around
madness as escape
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Shadow Path
09:51
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Climate and hurricane scientist Jim Kossin says “It’s more likely that a storm will rapidly intensify now than it did in the 1980s ... A lot of that has to do with human-caused climate change.”
„We’ve created so much more heat in the ocean, rapid strengthening is what you get when you create so much fuel for hurricanes. They’re going to get fat, they’re going to get intense and they’re going to do it quickly.”
The eye of the storm
Unholy quaterinity
Forces of nature arise
Accelerate rage of the elements
In the year 1988
The Iron Curtain rusts in rain of prisoners tears
Venomous mud increases plague
In numbing blusters their cries
for help to go down unheard
Leaders think everything’s under control
But deep down breath of despair gives birth to
crescendo waves of the sound of freedom
The eye of the storm
Unholy quaterinity
Forces of nature arise
Accelerate rage of the elements
In the years 1989 and 1990
A wave moves humanity
A short ray of hope
Maybe peace and freedom’s near
And they pray, oh how they pray
The eye of the storm
Unholy quaterinity
Forces of nature arise
Accelerate rage of the elements
Unleash the beast
In those stormy years four souls came to life
One from each pike of the compass rose
Yet just separate until the time comes
Rolling thunder announces: we arrive
The eye of the storm
Unholy quaterinity
Forces of nature arise
Accelerate rage of the elements
Unleash the beast
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Our Way into the Light
05:00
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I see the light of a new dawn on your face
Morning dew washes nightmare’s sweat away
I see holding hands forming a circle
A ring for an eternal bond
I see you and you and you and me
Walking this path together, pass hard times forever
Destiny’s clear
Now we are here
Moving on on our way into the light
I see you and you and you and me
Walking this path together, pass hard times forever
I see counting scars, laughing about stories
Fool around, clink bottles
Sunlight breaks through the branches
Painting pictures on your face
Shadow painting on your face
Destiny’s clear
Now we are here
Moving on on our way into the light
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Imagine you wake up in the middle of a post-apocalyptic world. Everything you love and know is gone. What remains of
humanity is nothing more than braindead creatures, driven by carnal desires in an atomic desert.
A giant steam engine paves its way through rotten streets and poisoned fields. From the inside you hear an intimate but abstract sound of music.
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