EVEREVE LYRICS Regret (1999) 1. Misery's Dawn 2. Fall Into Oblivion 3. Kolyma 4. Redemption 5. House Of The Rising Sun 6. The Eclipse Of The Seventh Sun 7. Dies Irae (Grave New World) 8. Where No Shadows Fall 1. Misery's Dawn Do you believe in heaven or do you believe in pain? A sanctuary built for the mischosen Is it the final contradiction or just an irony of fate? Doomed we are to drown in an empty ocean In Misery's dawn... Can't you see? God's forgotten children struggle for their lives While innocent convictors celebrate the knive "I'll always be with you" - But I've never really been On your way back to the gallows, destiny's fulfilled Misery's dawn Can't you see? Misery's dawn Together from a black sea of stars we shall arise To fall down once more, failure in disguise In tragedy's harvest the fruit's a bitter loss They broke your wings and make you tumble down... at any cost You burned me with your poisoned seed of doubt Why do you want me to suffer? Is this the day of geaven or is this the day of pain? I closed my heart forever as the blade slowly opened your veins... Misery's dawn Can't you see? This is my private misery 2. Fall Into Oblivion Downward the shores we pass Clouds bathed in sombre twilight Dust beneath our dragging feet The crumbled shapes of your image Left behind the dream of a time That is fading away tirelessly And paralysed we are The light of old aged stars We kissed the girls, we drank the wine So why the hell not die We cried out our songs to indifferent ears So why the hell not die ... And fall into oblivion... ... And fall into oblivion... When it comes to the dying season Will you stay right at our side When we leave this place together Through the glens of the afterlife At the shores of the tranquil sea Waves take the land tirelessly Take our thoughts away To the light of old aged stars Still in my mind Only among the stars there lies freedom Only among the stars there is eternity Only for one short moment our lives do last Until the memories are wasted away from the shores out of our galaxy ... And fall into oblivion... ... And fall into oblivion... 3. Kolyma They pass me when I close my eyes Ragged lines of ragged grey Grey their faces, grey their hands Grey the ghosts that haunt this land Their pain, it echoes through the hills Through no one living ever left This is Kolyma - a graveyard for the lost The muffled sounds of cries and moans Od swearing, shooting and commands They all disappeared in this big land Where summer's harsh and winter kills Where gold is hidden, death's for free And freedom came from weapon steel This is Kolyma - a graveyard for the lost The forest conquered all the camps Broke walls, cut fences down to earth The forest conquered all the camps Broke walls, cut fences down to earth Land of gold and land of death, a graveyard for the lost You gave the treasures, you tool the men, you'll keep them forever (This is) Kolyma - a graveyard for the lost (This is) Kolyma - a graveyard for the lost The cold wind's crying for the lost He knows the sites where they all lie The wolves are howling in the woods Howls like calling up the dead I'd rather trust in ther fangs Than mercy by man's hand This is Kolyma - a graveyard for the lost The cold wind's crying for the lost The one who knows their names 4. Redemption Blessed are the fallen Hearts full of grief Blessed are the feeble Who deny their own belief I am stranded Forgotten and forlon A hangman buried by his fear See the scarecrows laughing By jesters mesmerized Staring at me with cruel lies (eyes) So bleed for me To set me free... right now... Thy kingdom come Thy will be done... forever... Will you darken my bride (bright) sun? Will you swallow your lost son? Blessed are the fallen Hearts full of grief Blessed are the feeble Who deny their own belief So nail me to cross Then break the seventh seal Paradise regained by guilt 'Cause the child has grown up now And innocence is gone Forgiveness is not running through your vain (vein) A spell has been cast on my fevered mind To bind my mercy to the living So bleed for me To set me free ... Right now... 5. House Of The Rising Sun There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun, And it's been the ruin for many a poor boy, And God, I know I'm one. My mother was a tailor, Sewed my new blue jeans. My father was a gamblin' man Down in New Orleans. Now, the only thing a gambler needs Is a suitcase and a trunk, And the only time he'll be satisfied Is when he's all adrunk. Oh, Mother, tell your children Not to do what I have done, Spend your lives in sin and misery In the house of the Rising Sun. Well, I've got one foot on the platform, The other foot on the train. I'm going back to New Orleans To wear that ball and chain. Well, there is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun, And it's been the ruin for many a poor boy, And God, I know I'm one. 6. The Eclipse Of The Seventh Sun PASSION AND DEMISE The sweet draught of lick-her (liqour) Runs gently over my tongue A feast of wicked pleasure Is the delight of sweat and blood The seed of a lost morality As you sow, so shall you reap A beast of pray (prey) I am Trapped in a human abattoir Now we drift away Into a proud act of violation Flesh captures flesh As we deluge in self-accusation The seed of... To copulate means to umiliate And I tremble within your thighs I devastate emotional ground What I adore, I despise I rape you soul and suck you out 'Til I look into frightened eyes I'm a prisoner between your legs In a vicious game of passion and demise The sweet draught of... Together we rise, divided we fall Caressed by the inno-scent (innocent) I praise the holy whore... Passion and demise 7. Dies Irae (Grave New World) As sirens screamed out in the darkness And fire fell down from the sky As we cowered again in the bunker We all knew the reason why As our houses lay in ruins And our sons were shot side by side As the devil danced upon the graveyard We all knew who's to blame "For I am not one of the cowards For I'm neither mortal nor weak For I am the one you have longed for A new master-race forsee" He that is without sin among you Let him first cast a stone on you... Joh. 8,1 If wishes were horses, beggars would ride If leaders feed beggars, a nation of beggars will fight Those you once seduced Are now here to be crucified The principle of a fool Who's betrayed and sacrificed And to the fire-ey'd maid of smoky war All hot and bleeding will we offer them: The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit, Up to the ears in blood... Shakespeare 8. Where No Shadows Fall In a plkce where no shadows fall I will meet you again Below the moon and the stars Where it all began Where no shadows fall We will meet again Where no shadows fall Where it all began We all feel the presence Of our destiny draw near In this place where no shadows fall We will have to surrender to our fears Facts: All vocals on this album by Benjamin Richter Additional programming, sampling & synth fx by Jorg Huttner Female voice by Lisa Mosinski Guest guitars by Matthias Hechler All arrangements by EverEve