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FROM THY ASHES LYRICS
"The Scythe Ages" (1996)
1. The First Scythe Age: A Vision in Velvet
2. Will the Golden Angel Fall?
3. Ode to the Cashmere Drug
4. Diamond Season
5. As Winter Turns into Autumn
6. My Icon of White
7. The Second Scythe Age: Dusk of the Gods
8. Two Seconds Eternity
9. All Colour is Gone
10. Art Times
11. L.O.S.T.
12. Languor
1. The First Scythe Age: A Vision in Velvet
So silence the birds, blow out all candles, stop the hourglass, crush no more stones, let all bells chime, for I have a vision: I see a black sun setting slowly on the banks of Lethe, The scythes slay at random: Among the victims I recognize them: my blue Goddess and the reason for my Cashmere delusion. But after I smelled the stench of the shrouds I see how the deceased resurrect, how they are bursting with life, and I realize that it was my own sweet death that I witnessed ...
So don´t be afraid, join me and walk with me on the pathways of melancholy, hope, sorrow and despair ... the pathways to the Scythe Ages ...
2. Will the Golden Angel Fall?
Slowly opening orchid
So cruel in its misfortune
The flower, it opens with fatal storms
Giving way to endless flames
Have you ever seduced a god
Consequence: catastrophe
Pick a flower, dry it out
It will wither in blasphemy
Refrain:
Will the golden angel fall from grace into what
I have known as lovelorn sympathy
Locked up in a cage of balanced minds, now I am
mesmerized but still you´re ivory
Faithful distance is our daily yoke compelling
me to act as perfect clown to you
Have you realized that I´m your friend, my faith grows
on and so does all my agony
Ebony gold waves drown me
Perfect forms fill my eyes
So close, yet so far away
Painful, glorious: my life
A monument built to adorn
A statue forever unable to move
Adore the icon as long as it lives
But what if I caress the stone
Mother, will you forgive
All the paralyses
Innocence of the blessed One
Burning coldness: I love
Waiting for the orchid to sing
The song which changes our history
Wanting to see a wonder arise
Stone into flesh, God into you
Refrain
3. Ode to the Cashmere Drug
At last a night to heal my wounds
Like a melody I once dreamed of
But still I wake up again
Raindrops pulsing in my veins
So rude as the sun creeps
Into my dream-filled eyes
The past filled last night and
Dusty becomes our death
Refrain:
Perhaps you´re right and I´m a dreamer
But as John Lennon said
I´m surely not the only one
Perhaps I lied when I was lost
But now one year has passed
And I´m addicted to the Cashmere Drug
Yesterday I saw your eyes
Through the fog
For me you walked on marble floors and
You have guessed my thoughts
I will never forget the initial
Love you gave to me
When we shared our souls, tell me
How could I taste again ?
Refrain
Refrain
... And in the end they found out that Galilei was a liar !
4. Diamond Season
5. As Winter Turns into Autumn
The tears evaporated so soon
When he sold a diamond for a small pearl of glass
Oh so poor, the never lonesome king
The swan once so proud now crawls through the veil
... As winter turns into autumn
... As they extinct eternal affection
... As the winds catch their breath again
... As the stream of clouds recovers in fear
... As the gods join our game again
... As the seasons shift in ruthless apathy
... As she listens to my serenade
... As the night appears before our eyes
So powerless the sun ...
Forsaken prodigal son ... (never return)
All I believed in is gone ...
So powerless the sun ... (chill our flames)
Bitter lust, pure tragedy is left of my creed
My hunger dies away, resurrection for sure
Imaginative wounds by forlorn heresy
Whether dusk or dawn, I fail to remember ...
Decline of thy honest warmth
Irony became so utterly serious
In the face of tears thou laugh
From thy ashes thou have risen ... Praise
So powerless the sun ...
Forsaken prodigal son ... (never return)
All I believed in is gone ...
So powerless the sun ... (chill our flames)
6. My Icon of White
White unfolds the paper slowly before my eyes
So light as I hold it in my trembling hands
I know I will read your soul and no lies
Filled with honesty, faith and thoughts so grand
Refrain:
Even if I lost my beloved god
My Icon will save me forever
It helps me, no matter if cold or hot
To remind me of you whenever
Then I recognize the Red on my White
Twinkling crystals imprison my attention
Waves are running through me like the waves that can´t hide
They speak a clear language no words are to mention
Refrain
Words of innocense guide my whole day
I please my Icon but will I ever meet you
All these blue runes they´re fading away
To where our hearts have dwelt as cold winds blew
Refrain
7. The Second Scythe Age: Dusk of the Gods
For a long time I encaged myself in a shell of dreams ... far too long. So I began to participate in life, as the strong of you know it. But I realized that "life" is only a conversation of masks, a conglomeration of emotional coldness, another dream ... but this time a nightmare
Now, after all my masks have fallen victim to the Scythe Ages, after silence emerged from the gallows of love, the Master of the Scythe yearns for another sacrifice - the bridges to the Days of Yore ...
8. Two Seconds Eternity
For the blink of an eye I have seen eternity
For a moment in time there was no society
Now I see there is more than one possibility
Now I know how to show that there is no symmetry
Refrain:
Two seconds eternity
Two seconds eternity
Now I see there will be the final question for me
There will be yes or no but I´m sure that I can see
There will still be some more, some more possibilities
They´re the ones we will choose to find an everlasting
... Peace
Refrain (two times)
9. All Colour is Gone
All alone in this cold
Castle, all is mine
Darkness, fear, hate and
I´m king of black dreams
None of this was here in last night´s ecstasy
When the Fairy of Blood visited me
The masses drowned in this celebration
And the ruins beneath my feet changed into
Golden floors, "Revel in me
Fairy of blood, hold my hand
Stop the time, make this night
Last forever, bewitch me ..."
I closed my lips and an army of scents
Distorted my thoughts and my emotions
Even now a whiff of Rome, of revery
Persists in the wind that blows through the halls
Refrain:
Still there´s some magic in the air around
As I walk through my castle´s dark hallways
The walls were jaded, my life complete
Marble turns into iron and stone, now that the fairy´s gone ...
Do you believe in fairytales?
Can you still feel alive in a dream?
Can you feel as strong as I do?
Then join me in the kingdom of Phantasy!
All colour is gone
All colour is gone
All colour is gone
All colour is gone
Refrain
10. Art Times
11. L.O.S.T.
Every day without your ruby waves is lost
When paradox agony prospers in me
Emotia, why have thou left in my hour
When even our sun withers away
The suicide squad swallows all colour around
Streams of emotional lava sear my chest, my soul
Let me illuminate a star to guide your way, your dodge
As obsolete cages separate us now forevermore
... Forevermore ...
Languishing Opalescent Seeping Teardrops
Desparately shimmering fading Dreamworlds
"... for I have seen faces smeared with tears, and not only in the mirror ...
... But I buried my hope long ago after I had shocked myself and said ...
... ´Goodbye!´ ..."
Lead my mind to the land where my emotions can flourish
So wonderful that it will forget how to think about time
The land where silence and peace are no foreign waste
You showed me before, now possess me once again
Let us dance away from the place where our hearts may hurt
Let me carry your fear on my back until we are out of reach
But you still lie without spine, why can´t you get up for me ?
But you don´t follow on our quest, so when am I old enough to die ?
... Emotia ...
Languishing Opalescent Seeping Teardrops
Desparately shimmering fading Dreamworlds
"... ´Goodbye!´"
12. Languor
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