Nyktophobia
To the Stars
1. The Gateway
2. To the Stars
Chosen brothers here we meet again
To greet the coming dawn a dismal age will end
A strange millennium finally passes by
Scarred and battered, still not dead, we once again soar into the night
Avert thy gaze forevermore Gaia cries in pain
Leave this soil rise again that nothing was in vain
Once and for all this putrid world must end
The future lies not in our past not in the realms of men
Slowly dies our paradise gambled by decay
But far beyond this earth lies hope before we waste away
From the ruins rise once again
Release thee from thy profound roots release thee from thy chains
All is nothing nothing's worth to stay
Raise your eyes the only light shines so far away
To the stars it's time to leave these shores
follow us into the night, the night that we adore
See the worlds above the beauty of the sky
The only sign of hope that's left is waiting way up high
To the stars it's time to leave these shores
follow us into the night, the night that we adore
Avert thy gaze but don't forget Gaia died in pain
Though all seems lost rise again, that nothing was in vain
Once and for all leave these barren lands
The future lies not in our past, this world is at its end
finally ends our paradise wasted to decay
But far beyond this earth lies hope one day so far away
3. Farewell
Wailing, yearning, gazing at the sky
Desperately I bear the pain so dismal dead inside
Wistfully the mind ascends seeking for relief
To distant realms beyond the reach that I shall never see
On timeless wings I leave these shores of hate and agony
On lunar waves I set my sails into the endless sea
Forward dreaming, free of chains and time
Leaving death and solitude with craving in the eyes
Olympus Mons dreadful dormant slowly passes by
Defiantly I ride onward into the starlight night
On timeless wings I fly away, dispise this misery
On astral winds I bid farewell, into the endless sea
Guideless fading Terra out of sight
My journey leads to stranger realms where dying worlds colldie
Aimless drifting on and on forever let astray
My self-elected exile freed of mankind's vanities
Treason lies behind us corrupted by our side
A million years march straight towards an inbred suicide
Unaware gone way too far, dismissed the bitter end
Well-diserved I bid farewell when everything descends
When everything descends...
When everything descends...
When everything descends...
I bid farewell
4. Charon Gate
Far above this world awakes a beacon way up high
Invite from the mist of time a gateway to the sky
Unaware we came this far the cosmos opens wide
For how long have we harked and dreamed into the silent night
So many years in disbelief our gods for too long gone
How long have we hoped and feared that we are not alone
Rise up humanity our journey has begun
Across the river Acheron into the worlds unknown
Pay the ferryman transcend to the other side
Reopen the gate our passage to a billion skies
Rise up humanity our journey has begun
Across the river Acheron into the worlds unknown
Buried under layers of ice something has endured
Interstellar structures built before the edge of dawn
Frozen fifty thousand years technologies enshrined
Shrouded by an ancient force in an ultimate sacrifice
Unaware we came this far the cosmos opens wide
In the end we heard the call out of the living night
So many years in disbelief our gods now may return
How long have we hoped and feared now we are not alone
Rise up humanity our isolation ends
Across the river Acheron humanity ascends
Rise up human race awake the Charon gate
Our fate is written in the stars the universe awaits
5. The Fall of Eden
Desperate half-insane I fear the coming dawn
The abyss of eternities is tearing me apart
Primordial foreshadowing anguish night and day
A time will come the cosmic tides shall sweep us all away
Beyond the skies all hope must die your god forever failed
Beyond the skies there is no light just darkness that remains
Visions once enciphered ancestral memories
A vigil from a perished world but hidden is the key
From the skies and stars above omnicide was sent
The horror from the edge of time existence was at end
Paradise taken away
Not for sin, not for eating from forbidden trees
Just out of greed, for to reap its fertility
Eden died consumed and disgraced
There was no god, no deceit, nor seductive snakes
Only patient terror lurking within the void
Observant and eternal the vanguard holds the key
To reopen the dormant gate when the cycle is complete
When eons passed the hive returns all progress comes to grief
Engulfment of organic life spawn of the ancient seed
Paradise drowning in flames
Not for war, not for peace, not for vanity
The only bill, only right to harvest the breed
Eden cried in primeval days
God is dead, led astray by the ravenous shades
Deserted his creation, unknowing as prey
6. Progenitor
Lifeless drifting away
The old world is gone and decayed
What once was must fade into black
The tree of life is withered and dead
Over and done I make my own fate
Deep in the void in my nameless enclave
Eager to learn refusing old ways
A coming race shall take a new shape
Creation is lost, the galaxy burns
But a new day shall rise, men will return
Mankind defective outdated, reform the flesh
Creating, perfecting the seed of the newborn race
Slowly wasting away
The newborn race sick and disgraced
What once was disposed to forget
The tree of life is already dead
7. Behind the Stars Exists No Light
Born in the empty cold
Sleep is all we know
Home a distant dream in the void
Born among the stars
Faith has brought us far
Still our vagrant spirits long for more
From our dawn we marched onward with eyes
Fixed to the beckoning skies
Creation on its futile path obsessed to spot a godly sign
To the stars and far above a crusade to the edge of time
Left behind familiar shores, left home, bequest and past behind
From the depths of the endless night
A dying whisper - a final sigh
Solitude and sacrifice
Behind the stars exists no light
Unborn bound in feeding tubes to seek an ancient source divine
Offspring of a made-up dream convicted to a waste of life
In the end we'll face our fear by entering the gates of night
Children of the chosen tribe there is no promised paradise
There is no light behind the stars
Once condemned to subsistence
Creation alone in the absence of life
Once condemned to subsistence
There is nothing in the solitude of the void
Enter the edge of existence
Deny your gods engulfed by the void
Faith was lost in the distance
Behind the stars exists no light
Enter the edge of existence
Deny your gods engulfed by the void
Faith was lost in the distance
Behind the stars exists no light
.....
8. Millenium
Nothing exists
Nothing withstands
Nothing can be without dawn without end
For we were the blessed and damned - the final futile attempt
We are the ruin
We were the chance
We were the living now we are the dead
The burden you'll never transcend - the womb of your putrid descent
Nothing seems to stay forever
Even starlight has to wither
Nothing seems to stay forever
But our guilt shall be remembered
Here I lie crying for you
Denying the blood in my veins - our essence is one and the same
Here I die [still] crying for you
No exit from hurt and disdain - millennia and light-years away
I die
We are the ruin
We were the chance
We were the living now we are the dead
No exile will purge the contempt - forgiveness denied till the end
Nothing seems to stay forever
Even starlight has to wither
Nothing seems to stay forever
But our guilt shall be remembered
Even if the stars may wither
Generations will remember
9. Voyager 1
I can still remember all colors turned to grey
Wandering we recognized the light began to fade
One moment in the distance a far abandoned place
Memories so old and dim the world has changed its shape
End seems not so far away
Beyond the beauty of the sky just nothingness awaits
Still a final spark of hope remains
To join the embrace of the night to overcome our fate one day
Starlight guides you on your way
Always, when everything else has failed
Friend, is this the end of our race?
Only silence... all voices fade away
Fear is the burden of this age
The promise of a billion lights corrupted and decayed
Faith is still the only given way
To foreign coasts that no man knows,
the challenge we've to take one day
The challenge we've to take one day
...one day
When all is lost, all music ends, all hope has ceased in vain
The wanderer of the waning stars still travels on his way
On his way
I can still remember the day all things changed
The world was young our splendour great as music passed away
One moment in the distance a cold enduring pain
Memories so crystal clear the world has changed its shape...
The world has changed its shape...
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