Shape Of Despair Illusion's Play 1. Sleep Mirrored 2. Still-Motion 3. Entwined In Misery 4. Curse Life 5. Fragile Emptiness 6. Illusion's Play 1. Sleep Mirrored [Instrumental] 2. Still-Motion Arisen in vain to a life, Bleeding inner to suffer with time. Endlessly lost and still searching For something, someday. Obsession & deceit To burn a mark for a lifetime. Boundaries to brake, Reached from the edge of time. To rebuild the past For something that will everlast. Just searching for to find itself In still-motion. For to hope, Whenever to find a closure, Find itself in still-motion.. Get closer, Closer to your own faith. Serve the frail mind, Escape through the lifetime To glance for your dismal youth. Get closer, Closer to your own faith. 3. Entwined In Misery All these years in absence ...forgiveness does not reveal itself... ...and emptiness falls before me... And silence this life, Every word is whispered through me And all emotions will cry, Leaving me still alone. Every moment still awaits, For nothing It brings fir me. Everythings is entwined in misery. All these years in absence ...forgiveness does not reveal itself... 4. Curse Life I used to feel... I used to sense what were Inside of me To feel waves of difference Waves which brought me to live I enjoyed this life in me Breathing and feeling Burning and suffocating Didn't curse the hour Which gave birth to me Didn't curse another life When bearing death inside Now all things I do bear Are all gone and free This, myself... Now fleeing around death Cursing the hour And another life... Which whom I used to care Now... Watching myself My own life Fading to afar... Listening these voices And trying to tell them That I will soon be gone (For me... what did you really gave... life...) 5. Fragile Emptiness Fragile emptiness, Cracking whilst I move My hands (penetrating) Through this silence. I beheld this loneliness and A dream in illusion... It awakens me In somber, In drifting Absurdness. As a burden This dream moves in me, Tiding me inside, Closing. In it's shallowness In it's entwined self, Life torn widely open. Flowing within this dream, Slowly sleeping sleeping away, Drifting from used reality. 6. Illusion's Play In emotion, Carried fragements of hate, Astrayed in blur of mind. Raised the vanguished faults ...lost enlightement... Buried senses of long lived And deceased. Awaken All I can see, In here, Is that I've lost in illusion's play. Bleaker and closer to heaven, These shattered formations faint trail Move this light. Come closer to my mind, Come through me. Leave me behind, To see, Too faintly, This absurd renewing. Illusion's Play were created at Hellhole-studio In between August '03 - May '04 Engineered / mixed by Kaide Hinkkala / Antti Lindell Produced by Hinkkala, Lindell & Shape of Despair Mastered at Finnvox by Mika Jussila -Pasi Koskinen : vocals -Nathalie Koskinen : vocals -Jarno Salomaa : guitars, synth -Tomi Ullgren : guitars -Sami Uusitalo : bass -Samu Ruotsalainen : drums Guest musicians : -Aslak Tolonen : kantele -Toni Raehalme : violin All music & lyrics written in years '00 - '02 by Jarno Salomaa Cover design and lay out by Mariusz Krystew (http://www.maleficio.tk) Band photographs taken by Veli-Veikko Elomaa (http://go.to/elomaa) Shape of despair logo by Juha Takalo Official band website Http://www.shapeofdespair.tk