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Ad Patres (Intro)
01:58
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2. |
To The Victims Of Sirens
04:05
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Lured into the depths of the ocean
by this beautiful melody
I think of those thousands of sailors
who have been here before me,
I think I can hear their wailing
Taken away from their mothers,
their bodies float beneath the surface,
swayed by waves to eternal sleep…
Their empty, dead eyes stare
into the abyss
You were calling me from a shore,
and although I knew I shouldn't have come any closer,
I just couldn't resist
The last thing I felt
was your ice-cold hand around my wrist
pulling me down, into the depths
I think of those thousands of sailors
who are going to show up here someday,
And then they will hear my wailing
Taken away from my mother,
my body floats beneath the surface,
swayed by waves to eternal sleep…
My empty, dead eyes stare
into the abyss
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3. |
In Her Embrace Again
04:58
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So scared to close my eyes tonight
I can’t stop looking over my shoulder
in hope I won’t see Her again
No! I don’t want to!
I don’t want to! I nearly died the last time we’ve met…
Oh no!
No, I can’t take this pain!
Look at these shapeless hideous shadows
as they climb up the walls of a shrinking room
Watch them transform into something you’re kind of familiar with
Don’t you recognize it yet? Oh, poor…
Yes, it’s something that scares you to death
Come forth and face your fate!
Look at the starscape in Her eyes, stand still
You are in Her embrace again…
Seen through the murk, in a thickening fog,
in a state of sinister bliss,
She's been awaiting you all that time
and now She just won't let you go
She won’t let you go! Oh no!
So scared to close my eyes tonight
I can’t stop looking over my shoulder
in hope I won’t see Her again
No! I don’t want to!
I don’t want to! I nearly died the last time we’ve met…
Oh no!
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4. |
The Void
06:19
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Watching the sky bleed,
awaiting the dusk
In meadows wide alone I stand
and I cry
Send me a sign that you are still out there
Enlighted by your bright I’ll rise again
Pour down your grace, your silver rays, on me
Open the gateways and let me in
I entered the void and I am holding my breath
Enchanted by its sheer dizzying beauty
I can see nothing but death
Watching the stars die,
awaiting the dawn
In meadows wide alone I stand
and I cry
Thou who hanged the sun and the moon up the sky
Thou who rebelled against Thy father
Hear my calling!
Watching the world burn,
awaiting its end
In meadows wide alone I stand
thinking of you
Send me a sign that you are still out there
Enlighted by your bright I’ll rise again
Pour down your grace, your golden rays, on me
Open the gateways and let me in
Send me a sign that you are still out there
Enlightened by your bright I’ll rise again
Pour down your grace, your silver, golden rays, on me
Open the gateways and let me in
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5. |
Children of Arachne
04:29
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In suburban basements
doomed to weave eternally in the dark
punished for setting ourselves as equals of the gods
We, the proud Children of Arachne
We won’t plead for absolution
Never again shall we bow down nor beg
so confront our rage
Bellum omnium contra omnes
Doomed to weave eternally
Suspended in the dark we wait
We, the descendants of the punished one, will rise!
We will rise!
Ages of humiliation are gone
Time to take over the throne
The King is dead, long live the King!
The New Era begins
In suburban basements
doomed to weave eternally in the dark
punished for setting ourselves as equals of the gods
We, the proud Children of Arachne
We won’t plead for absolution
Never again shall we bow down nor beg
so confront our rage
Watch mighty gods being strangled in our web
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6. |
Homo Deus
05:52
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Sailing through the endless ocean of stars,
trying to catch the tail of the flaming comet
Overthrown, abandoned, exiled
This is the tragic story of the dream of creating a man,
the dream that ultimately made us all disgraced
Born of the dead,
made of mismatched body parts,
from ground-up human remains,
that's how he was brought to life
As soon as it turned out that we could not accept his otherness,
so much disgusted with the way he looked like
we forgot that he was completely alone
Thus we made him a monster craving for blood of his gods
Homo Deus, Homo Deus, Homo Deus
Sailing through the endless ocean of stars
he managed to catch the tail of the flaming comet
and is headed down to the Earth
Mad with lust, lust for revenge
with eyes blazing with hatred
He’ll bring destruction upon us all
Given his ability to feel
why did we take it all away from him?
Why didn't we let him love?
Take a look at what we did
Does that really make up for the loss?
Running through our memories
Why don’t we laugh now, why don’t we triumph?
Take a look at what we did!
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7. |
The Blood Of The Gods
06:06
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Ephemeral beings, that's what we have become,
stripped out of passion, craving for gold
Obsessed with meaningless, pathetic pursuits,
we have long forgotten the spiritual side to our inner-selves
Open up the third eye
it was closed for way too long…
Let go of all your doubts,
let your instincts guide your way
Drink the blood of the gods
Now, that you have been reborn
like a Phoenix from the scattered ashes,
stand still and look up to the sky
Wait for the crows, they'll send down the heaven's chariots
to take you deep inside the real hell
Now, that you have been reborn
like a Phoenix from the scattered ashes,
stand still and look up to the sky
Extraterrestrial beings, that's what we want to become,
full of passion and always craving for more
Drink the blood of the gods!
Obsessed with meaningful, bigger-than-life pursuits,
we should never again forget the spiritual side to our inner-selves
Drunk with the blood of the gods
We embrace both life and death!
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8. |
Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus
07:03
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As withering flowers,
as the light of the dying star,
we are slowly fading away
As waves hitting the shore,
as leaves falling from trees,
we are slowly fading away
Brought to this world by the will of our ancestors
fed by alluring dreams from an early age
we tend to believe that we are exceptional
we tend to think we are more than we are
Yet the truth is we are nothing but dust and shadow
Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus
As waves hitting the shore,
as leaves falling from trees,
we are slowly fading away
As withering flowers,
as the light of the dying star,
we are slowly fading away
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