Original Version US Version Rerelease Version 1. Prelude: Act of fate 2:31 1. Prelude: Act of fate 2:31 1. Prelude: Act of fate 2:31 2. For those who will fail 4:13 2. For those who will fail 4:13 2. For those who will fail 4:13 3. Living with a confidence 3:49 3. Living with a confidence 3:49 3. Living with a confidence 3:49 4. Raped bodies 4:09 4. Raped bodies 4:09 4. Raped bodies 4:09 5. Lines of thought of a convicted man 1:33 5. Lines of thought of a convicted man 1:33 5. Lines of thought of a convicted man 1:33 6. Contrition 4:27 6. Contrition 4:27 6. Contrition 4:27 7. Condemned cell 4:25 7. Condemned cell 4:25 7. Condemned cell 4:25 8. Dreams of eschaton 4:47 8. Dreams of eschaton 4:47 8. Dreams of eschaton 4:47 9. Anorexia nervosa 4:32 9. Anorexia nervosa 4:32 9. Anorexia nervosa 4:32 10. Deformed creatures 3:51 10. Deformed creatures 3:51 10. Deformed creatures 3:51 11. Alzheimer's disease 3:51 11. Alzheimer's disease 3:51 11. Alzheimer's disease 3:51 12. Ascension of a divine ordinance 9:49 12. Ascension of a divine ordinance 9:49 12. Ascension of a divine ordinance 9:49 --- Bonus Disk: Live in Berlin 1993 --- 1. Cautio Criminalis / Living With A Confidence 9:40 2. Raped Bodies 4:29 3. Condemned Cell 4:43 4. Choir Of Horrors / Akasha Chronicle 8:21 5. Weeping Willow 5:38 6. Lycantropus Erectus 3:38 7. Psychomorphia 4:40 total time 51:57 total time 51:57 total time 1:33:06
Prelude: Act of Faith These are all true, sad stories About many special people And are dedicated for those who will fail All of these people watched for the same light After they died and were leaving the Terrestrial existence A man knew exactly when he would die But with his christian faith, he prayed He was living with a confidence Raped bodies is a story of the lines of thought Of a convicted man who realized at Last his contrition as he sat in his Condemned cell. He drifted into the new world Of the dreams of eschaton Anorexia nervosa is a condition that Leaves mentally ill people looking Like deformed creatures The final story is about an old woman Who is suffering from an incurable disease She's regressing into childish behaviour with Alzheimer's disease We all have to accept the Ascension of a divine ordinance But will this be the ascension? Will there be a light? Will there be our lord of heaven? For Those Who Will Fail God created a world, a world of injustice, a world of distrust He created humans, humans of prejudice, humans with selfish- ness He forgot the justice, justice of humanity, justice of equali- ty You created our faults, pain in our bodies, weakness of our brains Chorus: For those who will fail Ora, uxorem, natura We talk about humans, they couldn't live a real life Expelled from their families in a remote closed sanitarium They remain will they'll die We still shun all these human beings, are we too sensitive? Why haven't they a place in our society, who takes the blame? We are all responsible and it's a sacrifice of our limited system Our system forbids us to see in their eyes and to talk to them Chorus If they are too weak for society, they will be isolated The other ones get their revenge Why can we not be happy to work with them, is this impossible? When we meet these humand, we're afraid and they give us the creeps But later we're happy and laugh at these innocent creatures If we would open our minds, they could be our best friends Chorus Living with a confidence I look in the mirror, I see another face Waiting for my end will be my painful race My appearance has altered since I consulted my surgeon He told me about my illness, will survive one season Drinking is what I need to forget my daily sorrow Sadness is forgotten, will feel better tomorrow Living with a confidence will not be better My body is going weaker, my walking is a stagger Chorus: Jesus, I beg of thee, redeem my endless pain Forgive my sin and save my life, that's only what I need I prayed to you, every night, is this your thank to me? I know you made this illness and drove me insane It's my intention to fight this battle against you Truth and denomination destroyed my life There exists only hate and rage in my head Pictures of my childhood cross my brain all the time Happiness was easy, there weren't evil minds Sadness was a foreign word, I never felt better I played with my friends, day in, day out I've got a lot of thoughts about my future My body's a piece of misery, I'm crippled like a creature Perishing in my bed and watching children play Shall I wait for my end, will this be the right way My torment is getting stronger, suicide is my solution Nobody will cry for me, they will treat me like a felon Everybody has forsaken me, delivery is my knife Will suicide be the way to search for a new life Chorus Raped Bodies Father and mother divorced as I began the school in hamilton We had the same problem every night with daddy's addiction Violence and drunkeness reigned his every day and made us down I felt really distraught as he finally left our home The time after was difficult, I felt rather unnerved Because of my ugly appearance, they treated me like a fool A misfit, I was derided by the girls of our school I reached the height of my mental quandary More and more I shied away and went my lonely way The time of retaliation will come Fear, pain, torment They will come Admiration, worship They will treat me like a god To talk with my schoolmates about girls was an abomination Possessing a girl was my biggest sexual imagination I had realized that this idea could never be reality Dazzled through my sexual lust I planned many different stra- tegies I possessed no bad conscience only one aim in my eyes The act of cruelty considered the last details in my mind A long time to wait for the sunset and the sacrifice made me blind She was my number one girl, young with her long fair hair I struck her and dragged her body to the thicket where I raped her At this moment you were my girl and my dream was reality She saw my face, there was no other choice but to kill her Only now I had understood what I had done I left the scene of the crime quickly and went home I can't live with the thoughts that I killed a young girl This was my past but I'm not proud about now Although I killed a girl, they couldn't give me a life senten- ce After one year in the youth custody unit I will be free Fortunately we all live in a cracked system where you can kill Lines of Thought of a Convicted Man The time has come to tell you about my deed No way to understand how long my heart has bled I see my life in pictures torments and pleasures Survived through many conflicts my life gives me no pleasures My life will not be over, although I'm cast down It will begin now, the other way around I let self-drift from my sexual feelings They are too important for human beings Contrition For two weeks, I was sitting in the prison cell Iron gates obstruct the way to be free Now, I've enough time to think about my offence This deed was dreadful and I deeply regret it I don't like to talk about the things that happened My mind has drifted to this transgression The pictures of the offence reflect in my brain Only now I'm realizing what I have done Horrible nightmares constantly cross my sleep At the time it's really hard to live in the cell Tears run over my cheeks I've never noticed that before This is a serious situation Never could I imagine I killed an innocent girl She had the right to live So I have it too I know that's my crime Although the people Are not blameless I have the chances ruined for my future It will be hard to find a new job My name is murder, it says too much Everybody will get out of my way Lost the power, destroyed my pride My life is ruined, lose my future My mother left me to my fate She will have nothing more to do with me I don't know what the time will bring When I leave the prison in one year Condemned Cell Murder and manslaughter ruled my life Eliminated my enemies and killed my wife Nothing to lose, I'm condemned to death Enjoy the prison, till my last breath Either you kill or you will be killed, this was my sacred system No possibility to live with these rules, I followed my wisdom I have no regrets about my evil deeds, this was the way to exist Wriggle my neck out of the noose could make an artist My fate is decided life or death I whil away the time with games of chess I wished for a better end not to wait for my execution My name will be deleted this will be my termination It's gruesome to wait for the unknown, I don't know my fate Killing time and wait for mercy, that's what I hate Living in fear and trepidation there's hope yet I'm in fear of god, he has decided about my punishment Many years passed all of these were past Nothing has changed, every evening could be last Apathy becomes apparent, I feel so brainless I know for certain, I will die a natural death Dreams of Eschaton (instrumental) Anorexia Nervosa Time of puberty Age of quandary Sorrow and worries Disagreement Predicament I enigmatize Weakness overcomes my body, my brain's so empty I lose my appetite, day in day out My body's deeply marked, I'm undernourished Chorus: Mental changes, my mind is splitting Inferiority complexes, time to confess Pride and power, is giving me the hunger Depr4ession and apathy, is changing my spirit Time to go hungry It gives me great joy Pleasure and satisfaction To fight against My hunger pangs Gives me pride Feeling of sheer terror To see me in the mirror I could be so fat Every pound I lose Helps me on the course To my sheer perfection I don't realize how bad my body's feeling My eyes see only my perfect slim body But really I'm a half-starved skeleton Chorus Deformed Creatures Humans born healthy We converse all the time Humans born deformed We avoid all of them Your body's crippled, your face deformed Your hand's mutilated, your skin's burnt My body's well-shaped, my face is striking My hand's delicate, my skin's very neat I can't see in your eyes Why don't you look at me? You don't belong in our society You belong in a closed sanatorium I'm shocked by your body You're angry at our refusal I'm horrified by your face You're infurious at our inequity Chorus: All dreadful beings are creations of god God has decided you'll live as a clod God has decided, ill or healthy He forgot justice Was this the life you wished for Spending your life in a closed sanatorium Chorus Alzheimer's Disease For fifty-two years We have been married We've had a lucky life But now the problems have begun Chorus: She's really changed, I can't understand my wife What's happened with her mind She keeps forgetting things I realize the degeneration of her memory Her lack of independence Distractedness, personality decline Obstructions of recollections The years pass slowly A lot has changed in my life She's living with a persecution complex My wife's a total physical wreck Chorus She's regressing more and more Her behaviour is like infancy I see only a grown-up foetus Nobody will help her I know she will die By the alzheimer's disease Ascension of a Divine Ordinance I see the crusade of mentally disturbed persons All kinds of mutilated and distraught human beings Drag alone to the shrouded legend realm They are suspended high over the burning earth And leave their earthly existance for their new life You were redeemed of your worldly torments Torments of isolation, injustice, lies Maltreatment, abandonment, mutilation and genocide Choirs of redemption resound through the sky Tombones complete the ascent of the deformed creatures The way is far Their bodies soar Angels appear and escort them to their new life Feelings of pleasure, releif and blissfulness With their white vestment they look so innocent They embody the pure joie de vivre Which they had missed in their past life The cherubs lead the crusade to the dark tunnel At the end of the tube, there is a bright light This will be the end of their long trip To the unknown fourth dimension Nobody knows what's behind the light And what they will do there They are suspended so easily together with the angels I'm losing sight of the ones right at the front They suffered Since the beginning Now they've left the Earthly existence The ascent brings Eternal bliss To everyone On the crusade You're still asking yourself, will it be better, the new life? Will you get the chance to live a normal life? Were you living a bad life as a person, in your life before? Your biggest dream was to see god, when you arrived at the gates of heaven Can you see him? Lyrics in plain text format	Line up Remo Broggi - All guitars, accoustic 6-strings Andy Kaina - Vocals Steve Karrer - Drums Patrick Hersche - Bass Artwork Info Produced by Sven Conquest for Hard Line Productions Executive producer: Karl-Ulrich Walterbach Recorded at Powerplay Studio Berlin in june 1992 Mixed by Sven Conquest at Morrisound Studio, Tampa/Florida Assistant: Judd Packer Mastered by Bobby Bachinger at Digital Master Design, Hiltpoltstein Album concept by Remo Broggi Paintings by Tim Beer, London Photography by Martin Becker, Berlin Layout & typography by Maren Lotz / Noise Samples and sound editing by Sven Conquest. "Act of Fate" arranged by Sven Conquest and performed by Hugo Jahns Berliner Kinderchoir, "Omnibus" Lyrics spoken by Cory Norton (c) 1992 Dark Wings, Except "Dreams of Eschaton": Published by (c) 1983 Millwork Publishing. (p) 1992 Noise International Review This album of Messiah is a lot more standard death metal than "Extreme Cold Weather", but that doesn't make it any less good. The production is great, the songs extreme brutal, and the voice a cool death grunt. So again Messiah delivers a brilliant death metal album, and again they don't get the credit they deserve. Rating: 8 out of 10