Tristania Rubicon 1. Year Of The Rat 2. Protection 3. Patriot Games 4. The Passing 5. Exile 6. Sirens 7. The Emerald Piper 8. Vulture 9. Amnesia 10. Magical Fix 11. Illumination 12. Caprice 1. Year Of The Rat There's a way just walk the line Keep your direction And read the signs Just play the game or fade away Make your confessions and book a ride Now that your sparkling smile is outworn Now that your famous blue raincoat is torn Spin me a lie and we'll slip through the haze Just like Louise we'll get lost in the shades Change your name and change your face For your protection and the new day Believe in me you can be free Escape the aggression and book that ride Now you're a rat and you can't sleep at night Under the spell of the following eye This is the game there's no getting out I've seen the end and it looks like a nine You feel the chill that just crept down your spine This time, the last surrender The axe won't be buried, not ever, not sorry It is too late to worry 2. Protection There's a maze Of nights and days You don't fear the time Stars and sky define the road And they clear our sight I will be your eyes and ears Walk with me tonight Somewhere ahead the gate is open And the woods alive Shadows soon rise I will move on Leave you behind Your flame is burning Kiss me goodbye It's getting late I'm still your shield The world keeps turning Wounds need time to heal Hush my child Now do not weep Put your hand in mine I've got promises to keep I will stand you by I have given life to you Find your strength my child There is a magic world awaiting Made of light and smiles Words spoken from the other side No more pain, no worrying Walk on my child 3. Patriot Games I go where I'm sent Twisted and bent These facts I relate to now I live by the sword, serving my time Bloodstained and deadly now Now there are things yet to be done To shoot the monkey off your back I'll let you die like this And kill you one more time And as my target's blown away Another's lurking in the shades I can't believe this shit I'll kill it one more time I'm armed but I'm dead You're broken she said It's all I recall for now Hospital bed, faces go by And eyes closed forever now Wondering what's fake and what is real The day still breaks It's grey and dim outside Searching for a kick that takes me high And throws the sparks around the fire 4. The Passing Feel, my hands are turning cold Time will fill this endless void As the fires light the sky At safe distance I see fear Chasing my deliverance I cross the burning Borderline I close my eyes But still I dare not sleep tonight This rhythm I pass on See the land it's carved upon See my fate for what it is In your eyes it's a loss Or victory Facing my deliverance Across the border Fleeing my Affliction and My treason My sweet misery 5. Exile I'm light years away You can't change me I'm passive and cold Just waiting I've seen the future's threatening sky through dreams at night I've seen the dogs of war let loose I've seen the blood-red sky Night A promise of rain Divided we stand A distance I can't take anymore In the cage in the corner I'm safe from the beast Once you wanted me, the image of me I've played that game a million times and see the signs I've played that game from A to Z I've lost a million times Wounds are open again Divided we fall I'm bleeding from the dark of my soul Burning in water Drowning in fire 6. Sirens He couldn't get out of bed in the morning He thought it was just a drag So into his hollow mind he was calling, into his hollow mind March on you fools and keep the line March on you fools don't fall behind From the distance through the silence If you listen you hear sirens Outside my window they walk in a line Asking no questions and reading no signs Where there is smoke there might be fire No kiss goodnight From the distance through the silence If you listen you hear sirens Outside my window they walk in a line Asking no questions and reading no signs They built a wall for me What will life ever be but blue light from the screen What will life ever be but fake Wall of silence Silent is the night March on you fools and keep the line March on you fools don't fall behind I see the Columbine clouds on the sky Passing above me they drift through the night They built this world you see and made me enemies Beside the dull routines what will life ever be but waste 7. The Emerald Piper From the backroom of my head I hear you shout Through my animated state and sheets of late I do my best to stay alive but from the backroom of my head I hear you shout Through my animated state Now the emerald piper plays Inside the bar in which you stay It's closing time A blow to your frail ambitions You act just like a dumdum boy A child deprived of all its toys Notorious A man with no mission In the sawdust from the past there is still room For significant mistakes and muted hate I hear a signal from the wire but from the backroom of my head I hear you shout Through my animated state Like a king without a crown You rode high Were turned around Without a crown Beyond recognition You need protection from yourself You have been slipping Cry for help or let it bleed In your private prison 8. Vulture Birds of prey are soaring higher Baiting their hooks The more they fade Dangling their lines The grimmer it looks Transparent creatures Pollute the blue sky Slowly falling Towards the cold ground Desperation has turned the eagles Into vultures We're all betrayed You preen your ruffled feathers At the end of the day You chose to stray Allured by gold and silver We will end it our way Stumbling giants Crave existence They'll never make it through Their desperate swarming In restless blindness Turns old words into new You've had your fill And emptied every chalice From the brim to the dregs Stay ill, you will You'll plummet from your mountain You'll descend, you will fail So you thought you could break my back Did you think you could make me crack Try harder Dig deeper You're facing a steep hill that cannot be climbed 9. Amnesia Were words too vague Disarmed and desperate But after all your call Was inflammable So you slip into the fire I am watching it transpire Wholehearted help Distressed and desolate So changed and frail It's all unmistakable Words passing through The unforgivable Eyes cannot hide the pain And she still yearns Let go Breaking out and breaking down The last thing I remember Soak the embers with your fuel Your fright is your defender Faking your tomorrow Life is good for the pretender Our precious memories Are shattered and dismembered We will wear the lies we share Forfeit future, truth or dare So you slipped into the fire I was watching it transpire 10. Magical Fix I've been marooned in the mesh of the mind andthe flesh Misguided by bliss and seduced by the blessed The more I taste their chaste embrace I'm dying to leave I've been bruised by the Beast, kept opponentsappeased By keeping up the flame, now my soul is released It's all arranged, my body stays And I'm in for a ride When I close my eyes for the last time Where the circle starts, when the bells chime Please don't shed a tear for me I'll be around Now I'm reversing the curse, I'm disclosing the cure Keep humming in my hearse and I know it for sure It's time to cross the great divide So why access denied I've been framed by the fume of penultimate doom In a tomb with a view beneath flowers in bloom The less I think of how it stinks The more I'm alive The cure sublime Blew many minds to pieces First distant, moving closer, into universal recess The war supreme tore souls to shreds Among the living, dying, dead With a fiery fix you'll live as before With a magical fix you'll be begging for more 11. Illumination What if you vote to change the world It is time to let your voice be heard Make a difference Watch and you will learn Don't you trust me Say, don't you feel the way that I feel A new direction is what we need Don't you want justice God bless the strong and brave and free The wheels are moving Be strong and believe Man the noblest beast of all Our fate is to lead Some might say we've been misled I'm dressed to make change And Phil is always there To tell you what went wrong I'll feed you little pills And you won't go astray They'll help you on the way Don't you hate it We'll get the snake back under the heel We'll bring back justice Go spread the word God bless this nation God bless the strong and brave and free We'll use the power and burst through the streets The more they mock our way of life The more the conflict escalates Now they strike into our faith We will sure retaliate Master! Tell us what to do Our minds are pure Our hearts are true Master! Speak to us of war Will we be victorious Children kneel with me and pray You were blind but you will see You must break the web of lies And illuminate the sky Words are wasted I know you feel the way that I feel God loves the faithful and hates the beast We've brought back justice God bless the strong and brave and free We'll use the power and burst through the streets Master! Tell us what to do Master! Alt tar slutt Alt vil bli flammars rov Love fornying når klokkå slår Løfte du blikket Alt som er dødt forgår Alt som har skjedd vil skje igjen 12. Caprice [bonus track] Branch in the breeze waving slowly back and forth as if asleep break piece by piece or just by sheer caprice decide to let go How will you spin this one you'd never stand your stains now as the island sinks and you'll still praise the rain and then you'll cry at dusk when the day is done you'll exit or expire in the evening sun Army of lies now denial of denial's your disguise cope, grasp your hope as the rope around your neck pulls tighter