Officium Triste
The Death of Gaia
1. The End Is Nigh
Grab the last beams of hope
Piercing through this thunderous sky
The horsemen are riding out
Can’t you hear the end is nigh
Embrace this ray of light
Through darkened skies it will appear
The horsemen are riding out
Can’t you see the end is near
The apocalypse, the end of times
Mankind is lost, we pay for our crimes
The sound of galloping, the riders cry
The final hour, we all will die
The rider white with bow and crown
The pestilence that will bring us down
The rider red, sword held high
Brings us war in which we die
The rider black, scales in hand
The famine that’ll be our end
The pale rider, reaper named death
Our final hour, our dying breath
Grab the last beams of hope
Piercing through this thunderous sky
The horsemen are riding out
Can’t you hear the end is nigh
Embrace this ray of light
Through darkened skies it will appear
The horsemen are riding out
Can’t you see the end is near
2. World in Flames
Aeons of misery
Mourn the death of Gaia
Pitch-black destiny
Praise the death of Man
Nations built with arrogance
Nations decline from ignorance
Nations undermined by belligerence
In the end it makes no difference
Aeons of misery
Mourn the death of Gaia
Pitch-black destiny
Praise the death of Man
Refuse to learn from the lessons from the past
Take a look at what mankind has become
All these ignorant thoughts, they do not last
The wounds within this world can’t be undone
This world is crying, this world is bleeding
It is screaming in tremendous pain
Mankind is too blind to see this
Now watch this world burning in flames
Nations built with arrogance
Nations decline from ignorance
Nations undermined by belligerence
In the end it makes no difference
Aeons of misery
Mourn the death of Gaia
Pitch-black destiny
Praise the death of Man
3. Shackles
Here I am all alone
In an endless universe
I cannot move my brittle bones
It feels like I am cursed
In shackles I am trapped
Barbed wire around my heart
My numb soul can’t adapt
To this life that’s falling apart
The balance is disrupted
Trembled with fear I’m on this cord
My mind is corrupted
I’m falling off the edge of a sword
I gave up resistance
Staring into desolate skies
Shackled to this desperate life
Fooled by my own lies
And there’s no other truth
There is just my own
Yet I can’t see clear
I’m stuck and dying all alone
I can’t take these shackles away
I cannot live, I cannot live another day
Lost and alone in endless skies
I am stuck in my own eternity
To suffer forever will be my destiny
Lost and alone until the day I die
4. A House in a Field in the Eye of the Storm
5. The Guilt
6. Just Smoke and Mirrors
7. Like a Flower in the Desert
Like a flower in the desert,
yearning for a drop of rain
Lost and so lonely,
I cannot share the pain
When no-one’s there to hear me cry,
no-one’s there to see my tears
No-one else is left behind
Why can’t I just disappear?
There is all this space
but no room for me
I feel so out of place
I cry in disbelief
it hurts to be alone
It all makes no sense to me
All I want, all I want is to leave
Like a snowflake in summer,
I vanish into thin air
Lost and so lonely,
it all seems so unfair
There’s no-one to talk to,
no-one I can hear
There are no thoughts to be shared
Please make me disappear
Like an ocean without water
Like a forest without trees
Life without a beating heart
A lock without the keys
Like mourning without grief
Truth without lies
Like faith without a God
Like seeing without eyes
I am defeated, ripped and torn
I wish I was never born
8. Losing Ground
Solid ground swept away underneath me
Do I dream?
Into a pitch-black abyss I fall
Is it real?
What I see, what does it mean?
Is this something I can believe?
Does my mind play tricks on me?
Are these nightmares while I sleep?
My inner thoughts and feelings disappear
Do I dream?
I vanish into these depths beyond
Is it real?
What I see, what does it mean?
Is this something I can believe?
Does my mind play tricks on me?
Are these nightmares while I sleep?
I'm loss for words as my life crumbles
It feels like I'm fading away
I can't run or walk, I just stumble
Will I make it to the end of day
What I see, I know what it means
I lost my ground
Something you better believe
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