Penumbra Seclusion 1. Tragical Memories I can see blood Tears and pain Frozen faces too Yet expressive Like these paintings Engraved in our memory Which we're gazing at In a deafening silence I see your face again Its angelic lines Overcome by this evil spell Which will do us part Some would see in it Visionary signs But all this belongs to the past This curse blinds us Something makes me so oppressed I thought I would see you in the darkness Why has nothingness Nothingness replaced your face In your eyes I saw my tragedy In your tears I felt how sad it may be There is no place For us here No rule for memories I long to bring you back to life Whatever means I have to use Black magic Love A mysterious cult I don't care I don't care In your eyes I saw my tragedy In your tears I felt how sad it may be There is no place For us here No rule for memories Sometimes I miss All our memories So unreal But so deep inside Deep inside I miss you So unreal But so deep inside My heart was ill Tragical memories Tragical memories Why should we content Ourselves with memories Why do you think death Gave you another chance I don't only want To make my dreams come true Have you been brought back to life To live again I want to fulfil My purpose in life To live ordeals Just to see your love Stronger To live for a dream I leave that to the fools To men Are you sure these ones Belong to the past You are the actors Of a dramatic tragedy But let the show begin 2. Cursed Destiny Two worlds are within me They live together just as one Giving the feeling of existing And the means of ruling I despise them both Refusing to belong to something As a dying slave I have been reduced to nothing Why do I still believe in this love? This pathetic silly love Selfish, coward and pitiless This I've been I believe in this love Stronger by your treachery Coward and pitiless This is who I used to be I feel human Can't this love defeat you You rule this world And you pretend to set your people free Leave me Release me Let me Blossom for eternity I'll show you the way To free your soul From these idols Shall I reveal the truth Or leave them in ignorance These puppets want to be like you And decide on their destiny I despise them both Refusing to belong to something As a dying slave I have been reduced to nothing Your empire is but a shroud By pure appearance So deadly in the end So morbid So devastating I believe in this love Stronger by your treachery Coward and pitiless This is who I used to be 3. Seclusion Through mysterious ages and places Fights and tragedies play out In front of us With different meanings Some fight to survive Others to see a face Which one is the cruelest No one knows it No one can say it In this war All your wounds will be mine Your victory my salvation For you I'm ready To lose my mind My death is your resurrection I'm so eager to touch your skin To see your eyes To feel you that I kill I kill In this blood I can see How hateful I can be In the name of In the name of love I'm so eager to touch your skin To see your eyes To feel that I kill I kill cause the fears My enemy Is my own I kill to see in his blood How so hateful I can be In the name of love In this war Your wounds will be Mine Your victory my Salvation For you I'm rwady To lose my mind My death is your ressurection An appaling army is all over me My companions are crying endlessly Endlessly Their nightmares come to me Every time we try to fall asleep To fall asleep All the time Their own death frightens them Showing the weakness of humanity But what is it compared to a ruined love Burnt by the idols you venerate I see the burning torches Of my enemies Sparkling in a fairy way Till merging with the stars Come to me wretched slaves I'll fight to the end Killing one man each day Until I find you again 4. The Prophetess Walking for you so impatiently I know what you want My roots are yours too From that look in my eyes You can really see Men are noy like us So will you sacrifice And live on lies Whatever is your request I will comply I don't think it will help you much But don't ask me why In return do me a favour Open up your mind Let me look inside You And dissect all your signs Why does she betray Us Why does she help him Is her life so boring Why does she want To die When I hear these Words Failure and destiny are So linked I stand frozen by her eyes Petrified like those who saw Medusa I won't reveal the answers That I have seen in you Go ahead and kill me Because my life is through She has this cruel beauty I can't see you in her But I know better than no one else What is behind such a face I have to slay her Looking for my answers I won't ask her anything else Not even the end of my story Has this world its perversions As delicious as our own How can we renounce to such gifts Only to know the obvious answers What matters to me is to find you again The future is an insult She's a witch She has no dreams I think she's jealous of us Today she saw her murderer She had no fear in her eyes Would death be deliverance I think so but it doesn't matter 5. Hope One word Just one word to exist Precious as a jewel Cruel as a farewell Like an echo in my head Showing your obsessions All the hopes that I fed Just can't be illusions Hope I refused to say it Thinking it was The only privilege Of the weakest ones Of the weakest ones Not believing In hope meant for me That I decided On my destiny All these sufferings I'm ready to endure them Just to find you again Just find you Again Now you hang On this world Like the condamned Man clings To life You'll defend The beauty Of it Killing the one Who will profane it Believe in the purity of This world As you believed in us Running away fron your hate~ May be the way to save you I often misused words To define love I burnt icons for you I just need symbols Whatever thet are Why I couldn't say Why do people pray before a cross Today mine is but a word So pure So magical I wish it would last forever Notre sang coule dans tes Veines Et pourtant tu oses Encore esperer Penses-tu reellement Rejoindre ta reine Crois tu pouvoir encore L'aimer Ou est passe ton Honneur Celui que nous t'avons Inculque Tu seras damne pour cette Injure A jamais renie Nous graverons sur ta tombr ce mot illusoire Ce mot qui provoquera ta perte L'espoir Hope I refused to say it Thinking it was The only privilege Of the weakest ones Of the weakest ones Not believing In hope meant for me That I decided On my destiny All these sufferings I'm ready to endure them One word Just one word to exist Precious as a jewel Cruel as a farewell Like an echo in my head Showing your obsessions All the hopes that I fed Just can't be illusions 6. Crimson Tale Madness fills the air Easing your bleeding hands Madness Madness Crying tears of pain Dying in the end Rescue me Rescue me What has bceome of our love Deep rooted Feeding my blood Like a candle Fading away It's doomed to death I can't believe I'm losing you This infinite quest led us Away from our love Our goal was in sight Hatred and fears Destroyed everything Do you think you're back to life To love again And get another chance I'm losing you Away from our love Enjoy your victory Enjoy your pain But never forget That wounds leave marks Forever Our vengeance has come But our hate will remain As your dreadful And eternal pain You left me here alone I'm lonely now Tell me how you feel Did you leave me for real I left you all alone With your bitter tears I'm sorry For what I've done I know how you feel Because I left you for real Madness fills the air Easing your bleeding hands Madness Madness Crying tears of pain Dying in the end Rescue me Rescue me What has bceome of our love Deep rooted Feeding my blood Like a candle Fading away It's doomed to death 7. Conception Remember Remember this passionate love So innocent We lived an immortal life The pain still lingers From this weird embrace We still bear the marks Of our vows and vices Come with me And rejouce in my tears Let our bodies be one In this last embrace And the fruit of this union Will live for ever Heartbeats Remembrance of suffering This birth will bring A sense to our fallen love Despite of our lost illusions I can smile and laugh again The one I'll call my love forever Forever will be by my side 'Till I'm dead and gone I still hope To find him again To be his lover forever Tender Don't you see the evil in me Ready to smother and kill thee Growing stronger in a divine Revenge What an absurd love doomed To fail Don't you feel who I really am The one who will destroy you Don't spare them, don't spare them Don't spare them, no way They must pay, they musy pay They must pay today Everything in me You don't understand Are the first signs Of my master's anger Be blind and your pain Will be so much harder I'm the instrument Of their creation The mudering hand Of their machination Don't spare them, don't spare them Don't spare them, no way 8. Enclosed I can hear their laughter Whistling in the wind This is my punishment The price of my betrayal I can feel their hate Floating in the air I can see their faces I can feel their fear Death can' be a refuge This is the sad privilege I have inherited For ever Why can't I move Everything's confused How did I get here Strange I feel no fear My body's floating The earth is moving Oh set me free Please forgive me Come to me My sweet angel I will set you free And I'm falling apart Soon you will rest forever in me Can't you see I'm falling apart You will lay under sycamore leaves Come I wish to die I'll bring you to the kingdom you seek In your last moment of reason I can see your smile Maybe you will know the peace You always tried to find I thought a fallen love Would be enough for you But you wanted more Much more You will never satisfy Your craving for vengeance Neither wil I It hurts deep inside In my agony I see my enemies They will be the keepers Of my final destiny This is the end of the play Look around you What do you see Your quest has made you blind And you will know this story But don't expect compassion Don't expect emotion I have only death to offer To spare her suffering To prevent her madness From killing her slowly Forgive me my love For this last deed This is the only thing I can give you So the angels have forseen Your quest has made you Blind Penumbra is: Ayone-bass Anita Covelli-female vocals Arathelis-drums Dorian-guitars Jarlaath-vocals, oboe Neo-guitars Zoltan-keyboards additional musicians: Hubert Piazzola-baritone Damien Surin-bass Emilie Lesbros-alto Ameylia Saad-soprano Emmanuelle Zoldan-alto Loie Taillebrese-pipes and flute