DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER (p) 1999 "Allegro Barbaro" 1. The Last Hope Burned Down To Dust 2. Sometimes 3. Perfect Without Mercy 4. The March Of Revenge 5. Game Of Violence 6. Heavy Metal 7. Dance With Me 8. The Fire 9. The Naked Beauty 10. No Questions 11. The Smell Of Death 12. Revelation 13. Total Human End THE LAST HOPE BURNED DOWN TO DUST To live is to die the last hope burned down to dust Out of mind but without any fear waiting for the end now On our way to downfall, thoughts drifting in the sea of passion I had read the book of life and it killed me Hate for your lies burns in my heart Why does falseness always have to win? I wanna unfold my soul Don't wanna be imprisoned by you My comfort my death will be yours as well Face to face with death we are all the same Lost in visions I all hope fades out What remains is just a high SOMETIMES Sometimes I fear to wake Sometimes I fear the next day Ill humour seems to crush me Agonising pain stronger than the ideal? Sometimes I fear that nobody stands up Sometimes I fear that nobody defends himself Sometimes I fear to be restless for all eternity and Sometimes I fear that my fear gets lost PERFECT WITHOUT MERCY What has happened with you Did your emotions go away? Your life Just a hunt for bucks But you've been running behind the life ....in vain! You've been kicking the beaten ones as winner Like others have already done it before THE MARCH OF REVENGE Famine - The soul of mankind Pestilence - The plague of mankind War - The horror of mankind Death - The best for mankind Recompense for your wasted time Result of your sins Don't beg for mercy Your last chance is gone The time has come for The march of revenge You demand humanity, but you are inhuman. You demand justice, but you are unjust. You demand love, but you kill. You want to protect, but you destroy. Don't beg for mercy Your last chance has gone The time has come for The march of revenge. We judge, cause we are judges. We destroy, cause we create. We create, cause we destroy. We like to see you suffer. We, the guardians of this planet! THE GAME OF VIOLENCE Defeated in the game of violence, screams just dying away Defeated in the game of the Teutons, tears accompanying their power Defeated in the game of lies, the scum feigning you sterile love Defeated in the game of fate, defeated in the game of violence. The game of violence deadly silence Irony of life, you are playing human in vain Irony of madness, superior cultures, death adorning its traces Irony of the game, the lust while killing lasts unsatisfied Irony of violence, your rage your hate your mental agony. HEAVY METAL Can you feel the power of this song The energy it is giving you Brothers united in mind Cause Metal is our law. HEAVY METAL is our law HEAVY METAL we are proud and standing tall / we'll never fall HEAVY METAL is what we feel HEAVY METAL harder than steel Proud 'n Free like will of steel Our hearts are as pure as the silence of a night We are brothers of METAL united in fight Cause METAL is our law Listen to your hearts they don't defraud you This shall be our fighting song Even the world is black and hope gets lost We'll stand together until the end of time Our life belongs to Heavy Metal Our fight applies to its enemies We'll fight for our right To live like we want. COME DANCE WITH ME I dance every morning till the sun goes down I laugh loud as long the world turns round The end draws near, every evening, day by day Come dance with me, it is too late. The world is black, it's the way it should be There's not much time left to shoe emotions And so we dance joyfully into the end Come with me, I'm prepared And laughing we dance into the darkness. Life is seldom beautiful Be patient, one day you will comprehend Everyday humanity dies To love somebody there's not much time New born megalomanice to possess To rule is to blame. THE FIRE Destroyed what once burned so great and glorious inside me The fire that never seemed to fade The life took me every sense Unimportant all those years of striving for perfect glory. The flame once burning so great and glorious turned me into stone Love turned into hate, hope into pain You shall perish, you who took my dreams You shall die 1000 years, my hate is blind. NO QUESTIONS Everything is clear now Our aim is fixed in our hearts If you know the way Nobody is in the mood to stop you Don't demean yourself You've chosen the light And not the pain So just live and fight Ref: No questions, no fear The solution is near Much you've got to learn And great power you will earn Delight and fortune Easy to get For the one, who's finished With dependence on fate THE SMELL OF DEATH The smell of death is in the air And dead bodies I see everywhere Just machine people, all our hope is lost The courage the pride the souls have these costs. You never learned to think And your ship will sink I try to see a sign of hope in your eyes But I just see decay and lies. REVELATION Is love pain? Fortune paralysed by fear? The quest of deepest darkness Although the creature strives for the light. Love, depraved mysterium ...... revelation? Are we falling into the most tremendous of all storms Can eternity only mitigate The crown of creation rose to rule to be subject. The beast has left us Gaja will be the judge Love, depraved mysterium ....... Revelation ...... Downfall Love, depraved mysterium ....... Revelation ...... Downfall! TOTAL HUMAN END The day will come and nothing will be heared. That`s the great silence. This will be the day of retribution for all the pain and injuries the mankind has caused to our mother earth and at the same time the day of deliverance of the earth and of all suffering souls. All will be silence. Not a single human voice, no human beeing, conceited about it's ability to speak, can make a single noise. It seems that the Creation swallows the dull routine of everyday life to get attention for the imminant apocalypse at hand. The biggest machines and factories, built from "human hands", are quiet, dead and insignificant. And nature, all living creatures, all the growing and blooming things, the water and the air will be silent. But not dead. Deep inside the Creation a noise is growing which has never been heared before, born of the the pain and the suffering of every living creature. One can not hear it, but you can feel it in your bones and the whole world is shaking because of it. Penetrating, and it rises up to a river of screaming, draughning everyone and everything. Nothing will be left and in the end there will be a great silence and eternal peace!