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Into the Void
02:02
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Tragedy of Perfection
12:35
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I. Inconstant scales
Barren room
Eyes are shut
Stay inside to last
Got no name
Got no face
As anybody else
Locked in time
Black and white
Grieving for my past
Light is dim
I won’t join
This homogenous mass
Deprived of emotion
Constant "learning to live" echoes from the walls
I am caged within the tragedy of perfection
Constant pressure heating up with no remorse
I am caged within the tragedy of perfection
Looking down
Unbanning depths
The fall’s a step away
Nighttime falls
Eternal black
Still eluding day
Stagnating pulse
No belief
Got no need to stay
Mind control
Prescribed ideal
I have lost my way
Deprived of emotion
Constant "learning to live" echoes from the walls
I am caged within the tragedy of perfection
Constant pressure heating up with no remorse
I am caged within the tragedy of perfection
Down and out
I feel the walls crumbling down
My head explodes
I need to get out now
Another senseless day
I cannot carry the weight
Anymore
Inconstant scales of Life,
always vacillating, how rarely
does a facile weight dare
announce itself to the soon vanishing
opposite load.
On the other side, the peaceful
scales of Death.
Space enough on both
of the kindred bowls.
Equal space. And beside it,
unused,
all the weights of Equanimity,
shining, in ordered rows. *
II. In the Still of the Night
I break down on the inside
My light begins to fade
In the autumn of my madness
Where the sky is turning grey
The last time all the colors of the fall
They blind me and they pierce while I crawl
Like your shadow stabbing your own back
Constant scales of nothing’s what I lack
At the end of my escapement
There’s only way out
I’m staring into coldness
My cries in vain are drowned
The last time all the colors of the fall
They blind me and they pierce while I crawl
Like your shadow stabbing your own back
Constant scales of nothing’s what I lack
In the still of the night
I lay all hope aside
I’m the one
Who ceases dreams
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A state of failing feelings
No decisions to be made
No somber thoughts at all
A numbing ease instead
Reflections of the past surrounding
Floating through the afterlife
Looking in an empty mirror
Slipping through a stream of light
Sleeping wide awake
Beyond expressiveness
No hope, no fear
Infinite emptiness
Struck by a ray of light
Intense feeling of grace
Empty faces staring
Caught in an endless space
I am the one, my soul still lingers on
The fire is gone, I’m just a shell alone
Breaking these chains which once held me in place
I chose to leave to look for better ways
The will to leave has turned to ash
Lady Lazarus failed to be complete
Feels like I’m caught between day and night
I’ve been exempt from my life’s speed
Spinning in circles once again
Like a black hole is consuming all I am
An endless momentum crumbling space and time
The questions in my mind will stay
All that mattered wiped away
I’m left behind and still alone
A stranger coming home
Blackness is darkening my state
The walls are getting closer now
I'm running out of time again
The pain of salvation hurts somehow
My fate until the end of time
Became the nightmare that I am
At last it’s me who wants to be untied
I am the one, my soul still lingers on
The fire is gone, I’m just a shell alone
Breaking these chains which once held me in place
I chose to leave to look for better ways
The questions in my mind will stay
all that mattered wiped away
I'm left behind and still alone
A stranger coming home
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The rain of clarity pours down
A sudden ray of hope leads me now
A long way I walked to find myself again
A voice that whispers in my ear
Bringing order to my deepest fears
Hello my friend, I’ve waited all this time for you
The balance in my mind
A truth which I once hoped to find
Has always been inside of me
Untied these chains and now I'm free
A leap into the great unknown
My deepest wish had finally shown
An endless road led finally out into the light
The balance in my mind
A truth which I once hoped to find
Has always been inside of me
Untied these chains and now I'm free
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Dream or reality, a sleep without awakening?
It's time to leave this place and spread my wings
My darkness left behind, I’m ready for the last goodbye
A burden lifted off, like giants cry
I’m waking up, the dawn of a new day
Given all of this, the end of my decay
Contemplation for a chance to start it all again
A way to learn to become my own friend
All my Tears turn to dust, sparkling in the summer sun
Step out into the light, all coldness gone
I’m breaking out, the dawn of a new day
Given all of this, the end of my decay
I’m leaving now, the dawn of a new day
Given all of this, the end of my decay
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I am the one, my soul still lingers on
The fire still burns, I’m not a shell alone
Breaking these chains which once held me in place
I chose to leave to look for better days
The questions in my mind will stay
all that mattered wiped away
I'm left behind and still alone
A stranger coming home
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9. |
Reawakening
09:38
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I feel the day
Open my eyes
After a long night my first sunrise
Carpe diem, seize the day
The most familiar words
Repeated in my head
Cherish all the things I’ve never had
Long ago, I was far below
I’m the one who seizes dreams
Break the line, may the stars align
I’m the cue for my own theme
A beam cuts through the clouds
Made way for better days
Temptations gone which once led me astray
No more left or right
The goal is straight ahead
Vibrant colors pave the way I take
Long ago, I was far below
I’m the one who seizes dreams
Break the line, may the stars align
I’m the cue for my own theme
I feel the day
Open my eyes
After a long night my first sunrise
The most familiar words
Repeated in my head
Cherish all the things I’ve never had
Long ago, I was far below
I’m the one who seizes dreams
Break the line, may the stars align
I’m the cue for my own theme
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