SOLITUDE AETURNUS LYRICS Downfall (1996) 1. Phantoms 2. Only This (And Nothing More) 3. Midnight Dreams 4. Together And Wither 5. Elysium 6. These Are The Nameless 7. Chapel Of Burning 8. Concern 1. Phantoms "I guess I just can't talk about the simple things Something drives me further than that Maybe like a cold desert wind Maybe like a sinking ship And I seem so alive in this skin But i'm really empty inside It's not something i like to explain It's just the way it has come to be What are we now? hands in the air like a sinking ship What are we now? Phantoms of progress of time and of space I and my own have beenleft here alone Or maybe no one was ever beside us And the ghosts we have always believed in Are just the remains of a gypsy wind And some days I dream of a life on the other side But what could it's meaning conceive? Heaven and hell are just names of a suffering Maybe it just starts all over again There must be something I'm missing Something I just cannot find" 2. Only This (And Nothing More) "We all fear the word extinction So we bite the hand that feeds The same teeth that clean our neighbors Father pery we eat Drifting in the hollow heavens It's always more than we can see And all thechildren scream to someone starving on defeat Only this and Nothing more Only what we care to see Only this and Nothing more Shall be lifted evermore What are the names they call you? Copulation short of steel Like parasites we hate to shelter Mother pray we heal Feel the burial in my chest Kiss the unborn skin Words like fucking helter skelter Lonely razors in the wind Have we fianlly gone too far? Nothing more to bleed And now these daggers lay before me All I'll ever need" 3. Midnight Dreams "Welcome to this world... Transformation supreme I am sleepless from the power in my veins My past is gone... Incantation serene Entering the threshold of a pure disease These Midnight Dreams Stolen from god Just to make you believe In these Midnight Dreams No longer pain Damnation in me My body fits the guise of infamy Cleanse myself within Discard this bitter skin you here at my side Look into these lupine eyes It can't be so far away Nothing can keep me chained Nothing left to hide Alienation complete What I am is all I'll ever need The time is short Humans are weak Breaking down the doors inside of me" 4. Together And Wither "The only answer is annihilation Everything taken from the eternal fountain Ungrateful beasts Demanding more than should have ever been given Blind to our own transgressions We've condoned this atrocity The problem only multiplies Darkness begetting darkness We've lost our hold Giving Up is easiest A sea of Hatred Apprehension and fear make our decisions Allowing innocent lives to be lost Searching for harmony We stick to our own While others try to divide I'm afraid that now it is too late The only thing left now is to huddle Together And Wither" 5. Elysium "Slipping forward with a propensity for madness tethered but taut reality at the tip of four fingers or is it insanity? yesterday was my tomorrow but today is my problem do i know what i know? do i think what i think? it has never left my side nor ever left me alone but always eludes me my elysium..." 6. These Are The Nameless It's devastation that we've taken Shaping form with faceless smiles Laying to waste all the miles And hours of memories like fading bells Soil and sodden we kiss the ground Below the nameless tears of trees Weeping in their forgotten willows The eyes that cry like wishing wells These are the nameless Better beware These are the nameless Faces we wear And know that we are ever there Inside the room you lay your bed In everything you've ever said And every fire you've ever fed Secrets hidden from the light Buried in our children's hearts Immortal now they dream the dreams That no one thought they could conceive" 7. Chapel Of Burning "Alive here be another's choice I return the gift to my maker Relinquish the pain Of the intimate stranger Sing with golden tongue For my brother's eternal rest He was me and I was he In these halls of sorrow In this chapel of burning Whisper to me Worn out memories burn He's calling to me again Like a passing friend bowing at my window In this chapel I burn My soul's true dark home Beckoning endless tears that mystic figure i fear The autumn dance of fire the faces laugh alone To meet me tomorrow" 8. Concern "Losing my grip on concern The endless circle mocks my existence Only sparks of beauty bind me to this place The simplicity of doing-drowned Motivation no longer a factor Only sparks of hope push me away Creations of wishfull thinking We delude ourselves Aspirations reaching no fruition And now you know why I die I've found the fear deep inside Trying to exists within the walls of reality But what's the point? the universe revolves alone Talking to myself the words get lost Shimmering sparkles catch my eye and slowly fade Where is it that we go? What is it that we seek? What is it that we want? Why do we recieve what we recieve?"