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TRISTANIA LYRICS
"Ashes" (2005)
1. Libre
2. Equilibrium
3. The Wretched
4. Cure
5. Circus
6. Shadowman
7. The Gate*
8. Endogenesis
9. Bird*
1. Libre
Libre
Encapsulated the night
Wrap up the truth in candy-striped paper
And throw us a blood sodden
Torn and holey
Rotten through the core
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 hour 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
Mear 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
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 fears
I cling to you
Cling to me through the night
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
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 see hear the wretched is call?
Their shuffling feet
Your pounding heart
Now you know you’re falling
Chanting words you do no 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
Cure
In your web
The threads entangle
Your prey is dead
Dyed in silence.
I will 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
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 reach 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 rivers runs within, still and deep
I am beast; I am carrion prey to the Cyclops tribe
String me up to the 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
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
Sleeping pills and cigarettes
But when the day
Chases the night away….
7. The Gate*
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 beast form 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 blood mist we stand victorious
8. Endogenesis
There is only one way out
One world left to shout
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 lusterless
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*
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 thy chess
Where my heart used to be
If you’re looking for emptiness
I’m what you need
Colder and darker and worm
Sometimes life’s just a curse
All illusions lost
All colours faded
A senseless pain
Transparent
Imperfection
Falling
Like a sparrow to the ground
Leave no trace of life
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
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