Embraced
Within (2000)
1. Solitude Of My Own
Years have passed now
It's another time and another world
Yet still it's all the same
Nothing ever seems to change
Dark powers manifest
Malignant horrors in my mind
Constant voices, sung by the damned
Crying out unhallowed, thoughts in my head
I have trusted and I have believed
I have pledged and I have sacrificed
My blood and mind, body and soul
Ravished and ruined after all I have done
My heart has turned to stone in this godforsaken world
My mind so I'm pure by all the filth
It is constantly exposed to
Greed, lies, betrayal is tragic
But, oh so very dominant
In the nature of creatures that are surrounding me
I now find my only shelter
In the solitude of my own
A small flame of hope
Lit somewhere out in the endless dark
Yet it's still all the same
Will it ever change ?
Fallen from grace
Surely I must be lost
My mind grows darker
As the time shows no changes
Creating venomous acts
Of emotional rejection
Deprivation of all levels
What have I done to deserve
A life so incomplete
All my dreams erased by fools
Broken promises, one after one
There can be no trust anymore
I feel the end is near
I dont have the strength
To cut me loose
I am falling apart emotionally
A soul in solitude lost forever
In the greatest of all suffering, madness and sorrow
Elements of which no euphemistic words
Can ever alleviate
2. Within Me
Lost in myself thoughts goes around
Floats in a mind hard to understand
Paralyzed by dreams impossible to reach
Far away but yet so near
A burning light far within me
I want to burn but it might die
Disappointed at life I struggle on
I reach out far, as far as I can get
I want to get up start burning again
Somewhere far away it's still glowing
But the fire that once burned
Is now cold and dead
I have to bring it back to life
Get a grip climb up again
A burning light far within me
I want to burn but it might die
Disappointed at life I struggle on
I reach out far, as far as I can get
I tumble in the dark, trying to get a grip
A grip of life, I want to turn right
A burning light far within me
I want to burn but it might die
Disappointed at life I struggle on
I reach out far, as far as I can get
3. The Fallen
It was a glorius kingdom
Where life a long time ago
was lived in total harmonius serenity
Wings spread wide open
Carried by the wind over oceans wide
A timeless journey in the endless light
Brought to another dimension
Escaping from the thoughts of a blackened wind
My dreams are captured
Imprisoned to die and be forever forgotten
Tears are falling from my eyes
Carving rivers down my cheek
Turning cold and hard as ice
Crumbling into the sea of lies
Running in circles, screaming in vain
Eternal suffering, eternal pain
Forever lost my faith in all
Forever found my darkest call
Spreading my wings once again in the sky
Disappear like an arrow shot in the dark
Screaming for vengeance, a shadow no more
Hunting the angels of my past
Vanished... the angels came
Heading back towards a forgotten paradise
Once magnificent before the angels came
An almost forgotten place from an ancient era
Lies silence filled with dredful memories
Returning to cast upon them revenge
And tear their souls apart
My tears are gone
Yet the pain inside wont leave me alone
I came to sense in dismay
Awakened by years of hate
This dismal era
Has got to face it's final apocalypse
Wings spread wide open
Carried by the wind over oceans wide
A timeless journey in the endless light
Brought to another dimension
Escaping from the thoughts of a blackened wind
My dreams are captured
Imprisoned to die and be forever forgotten
Forever forgotten...
4. Putrefaction
Putrefaction, hurry oh beloved bride
To establish our lonely camp
Rejected by the world, rejected by god
My hope, lies in you
Take my paining body into the wonder of you
Smother my pain in your embrace
Worms devour thought and feeling
Take my paining body into the wonder of you
Smother my pain in your embrace
Worms devour thought and feeling
Hasten, decorate our chamber
For on a scootblack bier the silent lover
your dwelling shall reach
So hasten, prepare our bridal bed
Which shall sow with carnactions
To wonderful gratification, stifling bewitchment
Us black attired comrades followeth
Our wedding march ringeth from iron bells
And shrouds of green draperies hideth us
When storms ravish the worldly seas
When atrocities reign on the bloodfilled earth
When feuds are raging, we slumber thou and I
In contented peace
Take my paining body into the wonder of you
Smother my pain in your embrace
Worms devour thought and feeling
Take my paining body into the wonder of you
Smother my pain in your embrace
Worms devour thought and feeling
To ash in my ravished heart
Oh rich are you, wench, whom I dowry
Giveth me the great, the flourishing earth
Up here, do I suffer, though happines overcomes me
In the nether with you
5. Era Of Changes
I am the beholder
Of what the future might bring
Have no longer a part in
The belief of our blood divine
No matter what choices I make
They are now a part in my life
Dark impressions surrounding my mind
As they enter in my subconscious
It feels like I am cursed and sentenced
Banished away from this realm
They stole what was left of me
Rang the curfew of life
I asked for answers
But all I got was lies
Perhaps they didnt mean it that way
But still...
Frightened by their presence
Denied their existance for years
But as my knowledge grew older
I realised they have examined me piece by piece
In this era of changes
I cannot remember my past
My dreams and memories
An essenial part of me
Years of struggling
To figure out when they arrived
I found the horrible truth
In this era of changes
I smell the brimstone
I can see the owl
They are all around me
Watching every step I take
My mind rejects the scenario
Overwhelmed by fear
Too vast for me to grip or handle
My mind chooses the easy way out
"They have been here for centuries, perhaps since
The beginning of time, and have in silence been
manipulating the genetic evolution of our breed.
Documents of their presence, their part in
The scientific revolution found as way back
as in the time of the ancient sumerians."
I can't take no more
I can't handle the truth
I'm losing controll
I'm losing my mind
In this era of changes
I cannot remember my past
My dreams and memories
An essenial part of me
Years of struggling
To figure out when they arrived
I found the horrible truth
In this era of changes
6. Nighttime Drama
In the dead of the night
Where the tides of exsistence
Silently seems to float away
She appears again my queen of beauty
She is the one in my dreams
Who lights my burning desires
She is the one in my dreams
With whom I share
My carnal lust
And all my sinful desires
She is the one in my dreams
Who I am ready to die for
The bringer of passion
And the bringer of my destiny
It's a nighttime drama
Of beauty and passion
Dreams and desires
Yet so fatal and tragic
In the dead of the night
Where the tides of exsistence
Seems to float away
My queen and I are soon together as one
It's a nighttime drama
Of beauty and passion
Dreams and desires
Yet so fatal and tragic
A moment of pure divinity
Sweeps over my body and soul
But as I reach out to touch her
The spell is broken and I see her face
Seduced by evil
Disguised in beauty
My soul is now forever forlorn
My journey has reached its fatal end
Cold, bitter darkness
Surrounds me as I lay down to sleep
Eternally...
And so it's written
The final chapter
Of a nighttime drama
So fatal and tragic
The bringer of passion
And the bringer of my destiny
It's a nighttime drama
Of beauty and passion
Dreams and desires
Yet so fatal and tragic
7. Sacred Tears
Hear the raven calling the final hour has struck
The blackclothed bride facing destiny without fear
Far at last she is to begin her own requiem
The utter ceremony of the last ones
Forever trapped in the grey mist of misery
Fragmenst of the past flashing before her eyes
As she enters the century gates
The old candles are burning in the vault
The smell of dying flowers and rotten flesh
Surrounds her has she finds her way among the coffins
In the amber light of the candlelight
She sees the silhoutte of the altar of a thousand roses
Fallen beyond all grace deeper and deeper
The sound of her own blood dripping
Like sacred tears from a bleeding rose
An amorous requiem where she cries her sacred tears
Until she reaches the other side
Caressed by the morning wind as it gently touches
And undresses her shivering body
With gloomy eyes she invokes the other side
And wraps her existence in oblivion
The wine in her veins has become sour
But still it hurts for her to drain her heart
And sacrifise the most sacred tears of them all
A scream of pain and pleasure
makes her body turn into colvulsions
As the cold steel of the blade cuts deep into her flesh
Fallen beyond all grace...
Hear the raven calling, the final hour has struck
For on the altar of a thousand roses
Lies the dying bride
Awaiting the demons arrival
In the sign of the pentagram
Invoking the deamons to rise
And take her to the other side
As the night falls the ritual ends
her heart is now empty she is almost asleep
her sacred tears are forever lost
The wind has stopped mourning
And the raven is gone
Her soul is no longer condemned
To everlasting pain
Fallen beyond all grace...
In the amber light of the candlelight
The ground is turning red
her naked body now lies pale on the altar
And as she closes her eyes
She sighs and falls asleep
8. Blessed Are Those
When I feel the things I feel
I do not understand
What in life is real
reach out and touch my hand
Visions from the future
Like whipsers from the dead
Manipulated machines
Screams inside my head
I can hear the laughter
And I can hear the cries
The lonesome child screaming
In a world of lies
Blessed are those who do not know
Who cannot see or hear
Blessed are those who cannot see
Or taste the vicous fear
Blessed are those who do not know
That nothing is for real
Blessed are those who do not know
That there's nothing left to feel
Evil resurrected
Forever to survive
Demons walk beside us
Dead but still alive
Diabolic creatures
Infects humanity
No hope for the living
Blind by greed eyes cannot see
Praying for salvation
We fall down on the ground
regrets for our own living
When dreams cannot be found
Blessed are those who do not know
Who cannot see or hear
Blessed are tose who cannot see
Or taste the vicious fear
When dreams turn into anquish
The withering begins
Like autumn leaves we fall down
No redemption for our sins
Paranoid illusions
In a mind of decay
Artificial living
Death comes our way
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