Thalarion Cryopreservation 1. Alta Melancholia (The Odyssey pt.II) Memories turn to sandy dust Not a living soul in sight Mysterious deep sea sounds Devour all your soul Day by day - year by year Abandoned on the seaside road Boat of insane fisherman Where travelers rarely roam Land frozen in time Lighthouse guides me from the dark Night is falling way too fast My eyes can no longer trust Emerging illusions Day by day - year by year Untamed waves breaking on the shore Bringing back long-forgotten past Auspicious wind blows forevermore For those whose suffering lasts Lighthouse guides me from the dark Night is falling way too fast My eyes can no longer trust Emerging illusions 2. Where the Ravens die Take me away, show me the way Into the land where only the ravens fly Take me away, lead me on there Into the place where all the ravens die We are born from the ancient kind Living, flying, dying in secret places where we´re bound Beyond massive horizons Where the sun never rises I was born of the matter that used ancient magic To create winged beings blacker than darkness We arose from the ancient bones Under the sign of eternal kind At the end of autumn when winter comes They spread their wings to soar into the blackest nights We are born from the ancient kind Living, flying, dying in secret places where we´re bound Thousands of years the humans tried to find Our raven´s land hidden very far behind Take me to place where black clouds drift towards Calling is stronger than ever before Show me the way where the dark creatures go After we die we will all meet right there Bring us out of the bottomless depths Because we want to be the rulers of the sky again Free our souls, let us break through death Up to the heights where we belong Take me away, show me the way Into the land where only ravens fly Take me away, lead me on there Into the place where all the ravens die 3. Cryopreservation I came around after many years of sleep I was slumbering so deep Now I am ready for future revival Hope, fear and glory, let it go Unfold the story, enjoy the show The show you agreed on I thought there’d be nothing more That would remind me of my prior life Horrors of my past are gone So are memories All we left behind Cryopreservation In lethal isolation Cryopreservation It´s my new resurrection Where are my dreams coming from? I am not supposed to remember Erased brain will carry on Defrosted body, start from zero Horrors of my past are gone So are memories All we left behind What have I done when agreed with this craziness? Condemned myself to loneliness The only thing I wanted was to survive Now when I am awaken Meeting but strangers passing by How much I hate ongoing life Without you Who am I? Where did all my friends go? Where is my family? I want to come back I want my life back, please Where are my dreams coming from? I am not supposed to remember Erased brain will carry on Defrosted body, start from zero 4. Farewell at Dusk I kneel in dust and wet leaves Gazing at the mound of clay You lie under it cold and measured Your mouth will never speak to me again Flowers rapidly die in my hand Others longingly stretch towards you Even though I know you'll never touch me again But I see our connection as endless I don't even know what to say Empty words are worthless now I don't know where to look I just close my weeping eyes Everything’s got so much worse By the frightening crimson sundown Normally it could be beautiful But now it haunts me and tears my soul Oh, my love, it’s farewell at dusk Do you miss me? It´s all what I ask The only thing I really yearn To hold you again in my arms The twilight atmosphere only makes everything worse Even though I know very well The golden dawn will not fix anything It will not bring you back to me And unwanted swoons are not far away If the urge ruled my soul It could never be greater Than in this very moment that I never wished for See you on the other side I pray for you to my demons I´ll stay with you at all times I pray for you to my demons 5. Alone in a Shallow Grave Lying in a shallow grave With only my face above the surface There’s no force to pull me out No energy left to gather Blazing sunbeams pierce my eyes Can’t feel my body, paralysed How did I end up lying here? I don’t seem to remember Trying to remember My way to six feet under When and how did I get here And who gets the blame? Lying alone, lying scared in a shallow grave When I am alone, forlorn on my own The last flashes of light pierce my eyes without shine No time to be brave when I am forsaken in the grave Alone... alone in a shallow grave You´re alone I am deep, so very deep Buried alone in a shallow grave Body slowly decompose In a shallow grave Heavy burden crush my lungs My bones are cracking, limbs are breaking All alone in the still of the night Should this be revenge for something? Hard to move and hard to think Pain is marching through my body Sparkles coming from afar The death is so nearby I feel its arms embracing me The pulse in my temples ceasing The death is alluring, When you´re crying, mourning, loving Over my body in a grave I will never return to you Lying in a shallow grave Alone in a shallow grave Alone in a shallow grave 6. Servants of the Shadows Deep yet still shallow Like dreams that come and go But never dissolve as the morning mist We saw lights and we saw darkness Both of them stung our eyes One with its glow, the other with coldness But all the pain has just grown strong Chimeras, viewiness and shadows, Here we live and sleep and die and forwent all hopes The world is nothing but Endless plain full of shades We serve them, call upon them Though we know it is void We are servants of the shadows We are servants of the shadows But pride never breaks barriers We try to believe that it sets us free Despite the fact that everything is just illusion We are servants of the shadows We´re only transparent veils in the mist We are servants of the shadows We serve and worship the darkness. 7. The Woven Evil The evil woven out of cobwebs Of hatred, pain and unfairness Chasing me day by day, all my life Joining my days into a dullness What was lost will never arise From the blood-soaked ground The malice and evil extend their fangs To engulf the last remnants of good I cannot see through the shroud of meanness I touch the walls so high and endless Impossible to cross or be crawled under An evil woven from the rude fibers of callousness In this universe, in this foul world without purity Where the powerful crave for holiness The humankind surrenders its existence, withers Leaving open the path to boundless hopelessness What was lost will never rise From the blood-soaked hinterland I cannot see through the shroud of meanness I touch the walls so high and endless Impossible to cross or be crawled under An evil woven from the rude fibers of callousness 8. Sleep and Dream Beware of sleep, it tends to be unstable Where even medicines no longer work the nightmares come Sleep and dream – sleep and dream Nocturnal silence covered in dark Spectres and creatures – spectres and creatures Hiding their faces behind the masks Sleep and dream – sleep and dream Gloomy realm opens its arms Chaotic whispers and growls Before I further despair I know the dream can come true The level of my sanity declines Remaining immersed in some flue As if among a magnetic lines I am so afraid when the shadows fall Carrying my flesh into the sinister hall I have to say goodbye to a reality That´s already so distant at infinity There´s no way to hide and escape From the mighty grip of this haunting fear This is the end and I'm falling into gloom I experienced the scariest moments in my room When I sleep and dream Sleep and dream – sleep and dream I hope it would never last Sleep does not come – it doesn´t come And fatigue clouds my mind In scary visions of the dark night There´s no dream of life and light Sleep and dream – sleep and dream Nocturnal silence covered in dark Spectres and creatures – spectres and creatures Hiding their faces behind the masks Sleep and dream – sleep and dream Gloomy realm opens its arms Chaotic whispers and growls Before I further despair 9. Stygian Symphony of Demease The time has arrived for my final goodbye It´s the time for me to diminish and die To place myself on the altar of life To please mine own sacrificial delight This is my body and mind, which is sacrificed For all of you once and forever The end of life can taste so divine To escape the constraints of space and time I shall not be afraid, I will embrace the death I will finally solve the brainteaser of life This is my blood which will be shed for many Do it in my memory which should live in you I´ll show you the way to be free Live your life in serenity Do all this in memory of me I´ll show you the way to be free For tomorrow, for this time Seize the day in memory of me The end of poor life can taste so divine To escape the constraints of endless space and time I shall not be afraid, I will embrace the death Broken indifference, the right to die extended A marginal decline in the pressure applied A memory enhanced with a ceasing of non truth Time arrived for final goodbye