ALASTIS `97 "THE OTHER SIDE" Acronoise - Drums & Percussions War D. - Guitar, Guitar Synthesizer & Vocals Rotten - Bass & Backing Vocal Nick - Lead Guitar "The Other Side" was recording and mixed at Woodhouse Studios, Hagen, Germany in December 1996. 1. In Darkness Why so many obstacles on my way. Why These creatures Whirl `round on me? I want to know who do they obey. Which Occult strength manages them? I'm living in darkness Far from this world I'm living in my dreams My own legend Their infernal sound Leads me to sink into folly How to overcome this fear Which paralyzes me? Let me dream of a real existence Far from this world Of suffering and anxiety.. . I'm living in darkness I'm seeking the truth Hess living in my brain The fallen angel Let me dive into the seeking serenity Let me live my own legend Find the answers Which are eluding me Understand the meaning Of my non existence Let me dream of a real existence.. . I'm living in darkness I'm fighting for freedom I'm living in my dreams My own legend No doubt. Beyond this zone of terror Ill find all the answers No doubt. The try to stop me But Ill fight. Cause even if the price Of the knowledge consists of suffering Even if the path to the eternal passes In transit to hell Ill go to the end To the end of my dreams 2. Never Again I've seen the darkness Beat down on the world Demons awaken into the fallen souls Love crushed by the peoples folly Sometimes I become aware And I remember, the cold light My body which becomes taut The blood which flows out From their empty eyes A smile driven my person And the lady in white moves Toward me, she's afraid! She's afraid But wants to listen to me.. . I don't want To come back anymore Cause I've understood The reason for this Will to live Experienced so many Disappointments And suffering in flesh Recognized in you A part of me Together, This is our only chance To keep the answers We've acquired A curse on humanity A curse of life A curse on me A curse on you She's afraid. She's afraid of me Come with me into the darkness Dive into your subconscious Together we'll win 3. The Other Side They know our destiny They feel our suffering They wish our salvation .. . on the other side We persuade ourselves That it death comes to the end But we know that's not true We can't lie to our conscience From the most atheistic To the most fervent believers We fear the rebirth's pain The eternal beginning again They know our destiny They feel our suffering They wish our salvation .. . on the other side You can lie, you deny You can blaspheme You can hide, run away They'll be always with you In your sorrow Your happiness They'll be always present Forget your pride And seek the peace.. . .. . with the other side Accept your destiny Admit your faults Carry out your mission You'll be rewarded.. . .. . on the other side 4. Out Of Time Beyond this reality I live for eternity Keep to silence by christianity I'm awaiting true beliefs Beyond this reality Unreal hides in nothingness All sensation has disappeared Mater is only a spectre of cold light And this unreal fear to never come back Out of time Out of time for a moment Several lives in dimension Several answers to my questions Out of time During this time out of time where Second meets millennium The silence weighs on the void 5. Remind Do you remind another time Another place, the meeting, Volunteers you? Do you remind me and us Do you remind us and me Remind shouts, remind fire Remind suffering, remind light Captured, tortured Humilated, sentenced Sentenced to die by fire Then return In another time.. . All forget, all start again Remind 6. Through The Chaos I've fled this promised freedom Fled this justice's parody Fled your unreal heaven Fled your blindest beliefs Here starts the true fight Here starts my life through your death Here starts the true fight Here starts my path through the chaos By your lies you've betrayed us And from this sprouts its power Shake, preaches, your end is near Here starts my life through you death Here starts my life Here starts your death Through the chaos Here starts the true fight Here starts my life through you death Here starts my path through the chaos 7. Fight And Win Life consists to die in pain Don't give away to such lowness! Your move sentences you To stay in fear and pain for eternity! Awake mind in dead body You've cheated your destiny Destiny is not to understand Painful will be your ignorance Beyond the existence's Boundaries .. . pity hasn't matter! Awake mind in a dead body You'll have cheated Your destiny In the squalid streets Of the city Buried in The oblivion's darkness He sobs the memory Of those he liked.. . Between life and death How he's choosing.. . Prisoner of eternity You must live You must fight You must win! 8. Slaves Of Rot A new perception of the world Appears in your mind And you retrieve your instincts On your decision Open gates on a new truth You understand You're only temporary In this matter's body Come on, slaves of rot Kneeling in front Of your torturer Don't you feel that Through the hatred The light materializes From your cries of pain It comes alive On your destrissed it feasts Come on, slaves of rot Kneeling in front Of your torturer In each being I guess the death And if by mistake You pass my way Don't expect any fellow And get ready for Worst anxieties Come on, slaves of rot Kneeling in front Of your torturer Ill feast on the blackness Of your soul Ill spit on your Lowest supplications No ending, no beginning, I draw My force from your death Come on, slaves of rot Kneeling in front Of your torturer 9. Under The Sign From our purest thought Spurts his venom If by charity you think to help them You defy all the same His currency's will .. . Under the sign of the U. W. I've crossed the threshold of life To defy this death Ecstasy of crime Taste of blood Hared, lowest sadism Physical suffering, persecution It stars again So I've learned to mask My feeling under a shell of toleration Mouthpiece of the universal spirit Yes I'm back and determined To have done with them .. . do you understand only Your co-operation can free us Stop seeking that I try to show you Why do you refuse To listen to yourself Listen to yourself 10. End Or Beginning? Everytime in balance Between light and darkness As a tighthrope walker With naked foot on a razor's edge I've though to lose the faith Am I alive, am I dead Something turns in my brain Is it the end or beginning I've lost my path While I found an answer A wall of questions Stood up on my way Then, an evening While I was doubtful Of my own life I dived into the light Is it a dream or reality Do I exist? Is it the end of beginning I've lost my soul Is it the end of beginning This one Whom everyone dreads Porter of divine knowledge Is only power and light And sheds light on our path