Golden Dawn Masquerade 1. Silent Inferno Atop the hill, facing the nightfall Birds of ill omen are sending me scorn My heart has stopped aching Like a skull in a coffin my soul is resting within Unborn ... In his kingdom of thorns I am one with his horns Run, baby, run - I am Satans son For me all love is dead And the tears that I shed ... Wasted seeds of despair I no longer care Insane misanthropy is striking my mind Malicious contempt for all mankind Murder and suffering I evoke Gory like a berserk and as steady as an oak I walk my path in silence Crossing pain and violence Beholding you without a sound Man, a tool of evil unbound 2. Doomsday Celebration [Instrumental] 3. Alive And Immortal? Ten times a thousand years ago The gods from the stars came below Completed the creation of man The time of progress began Superior knowledge familiar to us Is regaining power from Sirius or Mars Once, when the 12th planet crashed with the earth A great flood drowned human wisdom and mirth Only few survived the tragedy All remains where dragged across the sea Encoded in all fairy-tales and myths The heritage of the ancient ones still lives Tomorrow's dreams are memories from the past The cosmic principles will everlast But mystified fragments won't turn the page Distorted echoes from the age of Atlantis Ignorance is all I can see Dumbness our true entity Time is not ripe for enlightenment We can't use the key in our hand 4. Where Dragons Reign There is a pot of gold unveiled at the rainbow's end If you keep fighting on you'll find the promised land He who is strong in mind and has the will to run free Beyond horizons he might glance as servant of fantasy Hold my hand and realize that you are the one Feel the power, the quest has just begun Show me the way to where dragons reign The forest of myths behind the sea Beyond this rainy day sunlight will guide And dreamwings will carry me On the path of glory the proud and strong will never fall So take your stand and hear the wizard's call 5. Masquerade I can't stand that hypnotizing masquerade that is draining me Synchronizing brains and feelings Paralyzing fantasy Where is the sense behind this illusion? Slaves to machines can't stop the confusion My eyes are blent They won't repent ursurping the dominion of my mind Truth mixed with lies, fools' paradise Drifting through their maze of hollow worlds This is the final tragedy The revelation in front of me Now I can see the link to where worlds are born There is no truth after all It is on you... Master or slave... Masquerade is no disguise There are no gods in empty skies Man creates what man's world is No one is there for my release 6. Enthralled By Unknown Dimensions Like Phoenix rising from the Ashes of despair I burned the bridges behind me No more compulsions to declare Why I always left the way fate paved for me To my dark dreams Subreality trespassed? Enthralled by unknown dimensions Entwined in cryptic cocoon Follow me to a new paradigm For the end is coming so soon Tenebrae mortis Itio sortis Amentia vitae Matronarum terrae The beast's grotesque face My inner divine whore Turned rigid like Medusa's eyes Stone-cold apathetic gore 7. Unborn Again Deep inside I wonder why There is a secret called I A silent voice that makes me suffering And forms reality Why am I and not forever unborn? Body and mind... Between the worlds they are torn What does not kill you makes you stronger But will I be strong enough to kill myself? Full of longing for the end to come No more suffering from the wounds of time When I was born and did not know Of black and white nor where to go No self was the burden of my mind My body left the world behind Imagination - truth formed by visions Alienation - misled decisions Unborn again... Beginning to end... He who left the self behind Ascends to higher spheres of mind Individuality released into entirety 8. A Memory's Reflection [Instrumental] 9. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi Are all those frightening colours real And not just fantasy? Is this the day of my good-bye? Illusions in my head reflecting painful memory A message from a hostile sky I walked alone in the darkest night The cold bleak stars a lonely light Countless lifetimes I was looking for The way that leads me to the open door My misery is dust in your wind Behind reality where fate is spinned Your presence is fathomless grey Reaping your harvest like a beast of prey In pain I have surrendered the fight With tears I crawled in the horrible night My bleeding world is timelessly vain Your void inside leads a macabre reign God has been lieing Cause now as I'm dying The chorus of angels is fading away The end of my story is not filled with glory Alone in the dark I am banished to stay Banished to stay... 10. Angel In the silence of heaven's pride The gates of love where opened wide Darkness in harmony with light Day just the shadow of night Beautiful face in deadly embrace Fallen from grace... You are my dark star from dimensions afar Dusk and dawn you merge Waters are deep where lost feelings sleep You are the end of my search You are my angel... The tide it did turn Every angel must burn in the wake of enlightenment When divinity dies see another one rise To set our yearning souls free Fallen kings... Shadows wandering in the night Holy fires burning bright Broken wings... Evil conquered paradise Angels getting hypnotized