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A star falls down from the darkened sky
Where new worlds born and die
Kingdom Animalia watches its approaching glow
What it means is soon to be known

Beneath the lovely birch honeymakers build their nest in
peace
On the savannah a lion licks a wounded gnu
To honor this moment even the heavens cease
Giant spiders learn how to swim
With whales they form a united kin

Snakes say hello to the rats on the ground
In the meadows play merrily the fox and the hound

Trilobite & Anymalocharis
The prey and the hunter
Survival of the fittest
Fall of Man

Seadrops foam all empty human skulls
Those on the shores of Atlantis
Darwin′s resurrection is witnessed
By turtles he used to play with

Healed and happy She oversees
The Mother
The tyrant′s return to the sea

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Baptized with a perfect name
The doubting one by heart
Alone without himself

War between him and the day
With someone to blame
In the end little he can do alone
You believe at what you see
You recieve at what you give

There is the one
The never-fading rain in your heart
That chooses snow-white sorrow
There is the one, the hiding Amaranth
In a land of the daybreak

A path in the wandering eye
In this brief line of time
We reach for the one to ever dare
You believe at what you see
You recieve at what you give

There is the one
The never-fading rain in your heart
That chooses snow-white sorrow
There is the one, the hiding Amaranth
In a land of the daybreak

There is the one
The never-fading rain in your heart
That chooses snow-white sorrow
There is the one, the hiding Amaranth
In a land of the daybreak

Preaching, searching
for something untouched
Hearing voices of the never-fading howling

There is the one
The never-fading rain in your heart
That chooses snow-white sorrow
There is the one, the hiding Amaranth
In a land of the daybreak

There is the one
The never-fading rain in your heart
That chooses snow-white sorrow
There is the one, the hiding Amaranth
In a land of the daybreak

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An angelface smiles to me
Under a headline of tragedy
That smile used to give me warmth
Farewell - no words to say
Beside the cross on your grave
And those forever burning candles

Needed elsewhere
To remind us of the shortness of your time
Tears laid for them
Tears of love, tears of fear
Bury my dreams dig up my sorrows
Oh Lord why
The angels fall first?

Not relieved by thoughts of Shangri-La
Nor enlightened by the lessons of Christ
I′ll never understand the meaning of the right
Ignorance lead me into the light

Needed elsewhere
To remind us of the shortness of your time
Tears laid for them
Tears of love tears of fear
Bury my dreams dig up my sorrows
Oh Lord why
The angels fall first?

Sing me a song
Of your beauty
Of your kingdom
Let the melodies of your harps
Caress those whom we still need

Yesterday we shook hands
My friend
Today a moonbeam lightens my path
My guardian


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A nocturnal concerto
candlelight whispers me where to go
Hymn of gathering stars as my guide
whilst I wander on this path of the night
Embroidery of the stars
undress my feelings for this earth
Send me your salva to heal my scars
and let this nakedness be my birth
Macrocosm poured its powers on me
And the hopes of this world I now must
leave
The nightwish I sent you centuries ago
has been heard by those
who dwelled in a woe
The distance of our bridal bed
Await for me to be dead
Dust of the galaxies take my hand
Lead me to my beloveds land
Departed by the guillotine of death
I received a letter from the depth
The dream of my lover it carried inside
Caressed by the sharpest knife
I asked you to be my wife
Rays of the setting sun
were my tears wept upon promises undone
Come to me
Make me believe
to you and your love again
Above the universe
Beneath the Great Eye
I shall desire you forevermore

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The days were brighter
Gardens more blooming
The nights had more hope
In their silence The wild was calling
Wishes were whispering
The time was there
But without a meaning

Away, away in time
Every dream is a journey away
Away to a home away from care
Everywhere’s just a journey away

The days departed
Gardens deserted
This frail world
My only rest
The wild calls no more
Wishes so hollow
The Barefoot Boy
weeping in an empty night

Away, away in time
Every dream is a journey away
Away to a home away from care
Everywhere’s just a journey away

Cherish the moment
Tower the skies
Don’t let the dreamer
fade to grey like grass

No falling for life
A gain for every loss
Time gathered me
But kept me flying

For this gift of dream I must pay the price
with the loss of life’s pleasures

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Sweet boy, come in
I am the dark side of you
Die for my sins
Like the One once did

Cinnamon bed
For your unashamed appetite
A figurante
This dance will hurt like hell

Oh, bare grace misery
Just a child without a fairytale am I
Dark but so lovely
A Little Match Girl freezing in the snow

Love lying, enticing
(Bare grace misery)
Crowning the moment
(Bare grace misery)
This is what I am
Bare grace for the end of days

Romantic scent
Spoiled Lucrece lies warm for you
There′s no such priest
That can pray me to heaven

When done with me
Forget if you think I feel ashamed
A wild thing
Never felt sorry for anything

Love lying...

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1. Long Lost Love

Trees have dropped their leaves,
Clouds their waters
All this burden is killing me

Distance is covering your way,
Tears your memory
All this beauty is killing me

Oh, do you care,
I still feel for you
So aware,
What should be lost is there

I fear I will never find anyone
I know my greatest pain is yet to come
Will we find each other in the dark
My long lost love

2. One More Night To Live

Safely away from the world
In a dream, timeless domain
A child, dreamy eyed,
Mother′s mirror, father′s pride

I wish I could come back to you
Once again feel the rain
Falling inside me
Cleaning all that I′ve become

My home is far but the rest it lies so close
With my long lost love under the black rose
You told I had the eyes of a wolf
Search them and find the beauty of the beast

All of my songs can only be composed of the greatest of pains
Every single verse can only be born of the greatest of wishes
I wish I had one more night to live

A saint blessed me, drank me deeply
Spitting out the misery in me
Still a sinner rapes 1000 saints
Sharing the the same hell with me

Sanest choice in the insane world:
Beware the beast but enjoy the feast he offers

3. Christabel

"Oh, sweet Christabel. Share with me your poem.
For I know now, I′m a puppet on this silent stage show.
I′m but a poet who failed his best play.
A Dead Boy, who failed to write an ending
To each of his poems."

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"I was born amidst the purple waterfalls.
I was weak, yet not unblessed.
Dead to the world. Alive for the journey.
One night I dreamt a white rose withering,
a newborn drowning a lifetime loneliness.
I dreamt all my future. Relived my past.
A witnessed the beauty of the beast"

Where have all the feelings gone?
Why has all the laughter ceased?

Why am I loved only when I′m gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child
Think of me long enough to make a memory
Come bless the child one more time

How can I ever feel again?
Given the chance would I return?

I′ve never felt so alone in my life
As I drank from a cup which was counting my time
There′s a poison drop in this cup of Man
To drink it is to follow the left hand path

"Where have all the feelings gone?
Why is the deadliest sin - to love as I loved you?
Now unblessed, homesick in time,
Soon to be freed from care, from human pain.
My tale is the most bitter truth:
Time pays us but with earth and dust, and a dark, silent
grave.
Remember, my child: Without innocence the cross is only
iron,
Hope is only an illusion аnd Ocean Soul′s nothing but a
name...

The Child bless thee and keep thee forever"


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Finally the hills are without eyes
They are tired of painting a dead man′s face red
With their own blood

They used to love having so much to lose
Blink your eyes just once and see everything in ruins

Did you ever hear what I told you?
Did you ever read what I wrote you?
Did you ever listen to what we played?
Did you ever let in what the world said?
Did we get this far just to feel your hate?
Did we play to become only pawns in the game?
How blind can you be, don′t you see?
You chose the long road but we′ll be waiting

Bye bye beautiful

Jacob′s ghost for the girl in white
Blindfold for the blind
Dead siblings walking the dying earth

Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
Slow toll now the funeral bells

"I need to die to feel alive"

Did you ever hear what I told you?
Did you ever read what I wrote you?
Did you ever listen to what we played?
Did you ever let in what the world said?
Did we get this far just to feel your hate?
Did we play to become only pawns in the game?
How blind can you be, don′t you see?
You chose the long road but we′ll be waiting

Bye bye beautiful

It′s not the tree that forsakes the flower
But the flower that forsakes the tree
Someday I′ll learn to love these scars
Still fresh from the red-hot blade of your words

...How blind can you be, don′t you see...
...that the gambler lost all he does not have...

Did you ever hear what I told you?
Did you ever read what I wrote you?
Did you ever listen to what we played?
Did you ever let in what the world said?
Did we get this far just to feel your hate?
Did we play to become only pawns in the game?
How blind can you be, don′t you see?
You chose the long road but we′ll be waiting

Bye bye beautiful

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