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FROM THY ASHES LYRICS
"One With The Waves" (1998 EP)
1. Dancing Green Lizards
2. Synchronicle
3. A Momentary Dream
4. Towards Desolate Oceans
1. Dancing Green Lizards
If thoughts were dancing green lizards, words would only be their shadows
The sky was clear, it was a beautiful day
Dancing green lizards - she couldn't understand
She saw them there, she couldn't look away
But soon they disappeared like writings in the sand
She watched the lizards, she couldn't explain
Was it a dream? Was she still sane?
Refrain:
Dancing green lizards - in the fading light
Dancing green lizards - haunt her every night
Dancing green lizards - now they're out of sight
Dancing green lizards - she will never forget
The next day she returned, but the lizards were gone
Dancing green lizards leaving no trace
She was alone there by the setting of the sun
Only their shadows were still in this place
She watched the shadows, she couldn't resist
To ask if these lizards do really exist
Refrain
She watched the shadows, she couldn't deny
Keeping no secrets, telling no lies
Refrain (two times)
Johannes: Die Grundidee des Textes habe ich beim Lesen des Buches "Die Frau, die in der Erde lebt" bekommen. So entstand zuerst der Titel "Dancing Green Lizards", der sich an sich (meiner Meinung nach) schon gut klingt. Die Geschichte, die ich danach geschrieben habe, hat zwar nichts mehr mit dem Buch zu tun, aber nun dreht es sich um jemand, der etwas gesehen hat, nämlich diese tanzenden grünen Eidechsen, die dann aber verschwinden. Man kann diese Geschichte so auslegem, wie man will. Entweder als Erinnerung an etwas Vergangenes, das nicht mehr wiederkommt. Oder man kann die Sache auch so sehen, daß die Person in dem Text die Eidechsen nicht nicht sehen kann, weil sie sie bereits gesehen hat, ohne daß sie eine Chance zum Wegsehen gehabt hatte. Oder man vergleicht die Eidechsen mit Gedanken (was in dem Buch der Fall ist): Dann hat sie also Gedanken gelesen, was zur Folge hat, daß sie nicht mehr weiß, was nun wirklich ist und was nicht. Das einzige, was in ihren Augen dann noch wirklich der Wahrheit entspricht, sind die Gedanken ("Keeping no secrets, telling no lies"). Oder vielleicht hat der Autor auch nur ein paar schöne Wörter und Satzfragmente, die ihm gefielen, zusammengebaut und geschaut, was dabei rauskommt?
Sebastian: Warum drängt sich mir nur letztere Möglichkeit so sehr auf?
2. Synchronicle
A frail child screaming its mother's name
A blind man sees again
A lonesome tear is touching palest skin
A sullen sun rising against its will
A scarlet rose standing in full bloom
A forest swallowed by flames
A woman's lips touching a baby's hand
A final jump into the night...
Bridge:
One moment fills a thousand books
One spark lights up the universe
One love creates a whole new life
And the stars and the sun unite...at last
Refrain:
Death you receive - you believe in immortality
The dearest one gone - and you run towards eternity
A skeleton man yearns for a final embrace
A young eye is pierced by thorns
A pallid smile rushing over a face
A raindrop breaks on the ground of a cracked earth
A withered pink adorns a dreary grave
A sprout awakens to life
A grey man's hand is slapping a helpless face
A vein is sewed up by divine hands...
Bridge
Refrain
Beware the synchronicle
But behold its miracle
Adore the synchronicle
But fear its miracle
3. A Momentary Dream
"In order to define light one must have experienced darkness..."
So dark, your scent in my lungs
Your voice's promising
Sombre alto wakes my ears at once
(Now I'm blind just for you...)
Please take my hand...my fear submits
Only trust remains
Lead me to the verge of stainless sin
(Now I'm deaf just for you...)
Bridge:
...just for you (I swallow the words
...just for you I hollow their worlds
...just for you So pour out the words
...just for you ...Over me)
So dark so silent...so good
Neverending reverie?
Not one word disturbes our lips' moves
(Now I'm dumb just for you...)
Bridge
Refrain:
Divine darkness, cover me
With your skin and with your soul
Protect me, never let me go astray
I'll reward you with the deepest fibre of my heart
Fix the ends of my straight-jacket
And bind my hand and foot
Then throw me into deepest rivers
And tell me to swim
Refrain
Bridge
Refrain
"... and in darkness I have dwelt"
4. Towards Desolate Oceans
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