Morast Ancestral Void 1. Crescent Oh, catch me you torrential stream Rolling through landscapes Arcane & powerfull Your unstoppable need To reach the open sea Oh, in the rapture Of the father Rhine Devour my attention And feed your core with it Serpentine, you slither Restless, with the nightshades Oh, inhaling this Nighttime breeze The stars above envy Your graceful skin The seasons wither... And the crescent observes us with hungry eyes. --------------------------------------------------- A gloomy veil Surrounds us The splendor Of the dark sky Caress a part of me Smell the scent of The wetlands ----------------------------------------------------- A gloomy veil Surrounds us The splendor Of the dark sky Caress a part of me Flow away into endless spheres 2. Forlorn I´ll build a labyrinth With walls of stone To isolate myself To find my path again Stone by stone Gapless and thick No lights penetrate me And no emotions pass through , this distance from everything The inescapable truth of being forlorn Ignore every feeling That rests in me Echoes from the past Are the only sounds And the drone of a Distant gleam I´ll grown toghether With my agony This fortress of stone Becomes narrow from time to time Hours become years In this lifeless prison Within these walls Where no trees grow Where a man starts to break Beneath the cold white light Oh, I´ll suppress every feeling To extinguish all sorrow within me Feeding my loneliness With the crumbs of memories They´ll start to fade Like leaves in the late autumn Starving and drained I´m losing all colors in me Watching myself drowning... Like a ship in The deep, wide sea The opportunity rises But what remains is unworthy 3. Ancestral Void It’s cold outside and the dusk is near Your eyes (have) lost their spark; we’ve passed the bottom line Only silence left in these stormy times When the wind turns north, so ruthless and cold Stranded at the point of no return "Entangled in time, we lost each other" A last embrace after all this time... "Hold me in your memories, remember me and smile" The silence takes over and paralyzes us "If there any words left to say, say them now" Now i feel that the unavoidable end comes closer The shock was deep Even though I saw it coming (I) close my eyes And let the pressure go Oh, the demise of an era The pressure drifts away, An immense gap remains... Ancestral Void Standing alone, the years may change but this remains. Ancestral Void When they reach her hands, I hesitate and retreat again The shock was deep Even though I saw it coming (I) close my eyes And let the pressure go There’s always this voice in the back of my mind That says this time it will all be different, Maybe the stars will align and there will be this magic moment… But there’s always something, or someone in the way 4. Loss It was some years ago but The scar is still there I suffer as I pass The old harbor This kind of loss That kind of change Let me feel pure darkness In an unknown form Regrets overwhelm me And rip me apart Still unable to see Any sin in this... Refuse to accept Refuse to forget Your pure simple warmth Will forever be missed I’ve been gasping for breath And seeking saving grace To climb up from the hole Deep within my soul The bitter taste Of a loss like this Burned itself into my Mind I was never ashamed Of any single tear No one ever told me That grief felt like fear Silence... Only silence Covered me In moments like this... Silence... Only silence Your Image In my mind, will never fade... And something in me is gone forever... Just Give me this pain That I’m used to 4 years from now, but it won´t disappear Once a year, I get the chance to meet you And to read your name Carved into a lonely stone Some pain lasts forever.... 5. Compulsion There is a secret About me A failure, a reflex It corrupts me I follow spinelessly, predictable Till I satiate my hunger For this worthless act Collecting every little memory As a reminder of my Own inability To let this urge go Hiding this Secret like a tresure of Gold Hunting in places For a sustained projection For a whisper, for a moment’s security… But it won’t last long Shamefully, I promise it Was the last time… Dragged by This boundless force Falling into My own deepest abyss This what I feel and This what I am It’s never the same… A slalom-run Through alibis 6. Sakkryfyced There was a time When you could count the seconds Until the sun went down And disappeared from the sky There was a time Not long ago The perfect escape From this so-called life I was invincible Between the sheep And undetected Among the alleys More than thousand hours I’ve sacrificed As in obligation For a second home But only in so long As the moon stood high Defined for me An honest deception A mistress for some hours Nothing more than a pastime But sometimes it was more like Pure intoxication.... Hours dissolved into chalices And a boy became a man... The Mertensgasse Never loses his magic spell That was a time Of plain perfection Of blessed promises Of endless nights Looking back with A slight grin From time to time An unknown urge Guides me back Listen to the words That the lamppost speaks Where the cobblestones alone Pave my way back home The glory of the alleys Will stay eternally