Herfst
			The Fall (demo)

1. Mournful Afterglow

It is I who writes in the scarlet ink of passion
I scrawl words in the warm glow of the dying sun
Scarlet rays comfort me
This October eve...

This is how I spend my evenings
after being spit out by the day...
Countless hours of being lost and denying my fall...
Trying to resist the enticing void of self-denial
yet failing in it all...

I'm absorbed in dreamworlds,
dimensions unknown,
dwelling in the shades of sorrow,
the daylight now gone,...
This dying day,
I embrace the obscure
outside the moon rises
a thick mist caresses the scenery...
drifting towards night shores

My lids start to tremble and fall in demise...
My head spins
The realm of sleep opens its doors...


2. The Dream

In the ebony lake that is the universe,
anchored in the cosmic sea,
an inhuman perfection
points its claws at me...

That cold night
she haunted me
in my dreams she cried out my name...

Whispers in the silent hours
Shivers at midnight...
She came and enthralled me
enwreathed by her thorns

In her divine and enigmatic beauty
she froze my heart
The mere image of her I was unable to grasp

She vanished yet enmeshed my mind
dried on the pallet of my eternal reflection,
a mere glimpse of her eyes
tore my life apart...


3. Loathsome Dawn

Sunrise,
loathsome dawn
you shattered my dreams
where is she?
Drowned in the vaguy veil of nostalgia,
a lost paradise in which I'd like to revel myself in
every single day
I try to remember how and where and why
she vanished and left this fool behind...

She holds the key
to the gates of my dreams
she tortures my soul
feeds my reverie...
I walk outside and greet the majesty of daylight,
it blinds me and I can't help but believe my soul has
gone,
she took it from me...

Nightly mysteria, kingdom of dream
Betrayer of senses,
You make my heart bleed...


4. The Wanderer

Night's veil had banished the sun
a deathlike breeze enshrouded the earth
when the eerie echo
on his footsteps emerged...

Slowly and silent he drifted alone
no shore to head to in this cemetery of stone
Burdened by grief he feared life's deceits
he craves for the night from daylight he hides

In those nocturnal hours
he scribbles and laments
looking for answers
to never let this memory end

Yet as the seasons pass
another year's been squandered
devoted to the arcane
apostacy devours his being

He repudiates his muse
and sinister schemes start to bloom
he maims her sacred image
her bliss turns into venom


5. Bridge of Infinity

For ages I craved
I dwelled among graves,
scrutinised the sky,
enslaved by her eyes
Now my search has ended
I have found peace with myself
I no longer chase dreams
I plan to leave this hell
I salute the soil
and gaze towards the horizon
as I climb the staircase of my end

I stare down below into a churning stream,
my own private Styx
I'll find consolation in her bittersweet embrace
I take a deep breath as I fall into my fate

The wanderer still remains
In the sights beneath the leaves,
in the glimpse of an eye
his spirit will never die
When all joy and light fade
at the end of the day...
He'll cast his shadow
As the scarlet ray of passion
Dissolves into a distant grey