1. OVERTURE

(instrumental)


2. CHILDREN ON THE THRESHOLD

Grateful success
New horizons
Endless progress
Large steps to the poverty line
Acting in vain
Hope & knowledge
Gruesome disdain
A world of creeping misery
One step back to the origin of all ancient ways
Prevention of instinct rules in ourdays

Our children on the step to a better world of decay
Our children on the threshold to the progress we obey (to)

All the years of glory have long passed by
Little child come take my hand, see the secrets of the day
Enter the wonderland of rage & lie
A new state of wisdom, not a better world of decay

How could we watch our dreams burning?
A foolished monument remains
Still we watch the big wheel turning
Unable to turn back the time

Today's tomorrow's yesterday
And when a year has passed by
all will be bright again

Sunshine leaves this silent world today
The way branches off, secrets will be secrets
Don't ask me why we're doin' this
I don't even understand
A global dream, lived a lifetime long
It's falling all to pieces
The memories keep memories
No more words to say


3. WINTER SOLITUDE '45

Pale faces are passing by, disdained and unknown
Along silent graveyards, I watch the children play
Nothingness between the ruins of Metropolis
Once the past repaired the childhood's wounds away


Stumbling through the streets of cold anonymity
Cruel mortality and nothing remained
Stumbling through the streets of cold anonymity
Nothing remained from times we were free


People are strange, not a laughter without sense
Autumn hunts the masses back into their caves
In this winter Winter Solitude a feeling's so intense
The dark wasteland of facades it's not worth any tears

A dark veil in the skies, loneliness around
These ways were once a part of me and not worth their aims
Winter has returned, to pretend the people
Days become shorter, God is playing final games


4. HORIZONS ABOVE HIROSHIMA

Forgotten days of sorrows
Old tales from the depth of grief
Evolution swallowed scares
Lonely shines the sun today
Angels at red skies they burn
Everlasting sins of yesterday
Afterwards silence remained
Yearning for a better day


Sold the souls for fear, sold the tears for pain
Desperate prayers to Lords without answer
Suffering for a pursuit of happiness
Staring to God and watch the sun dissapear


...and still the souls are rising, spirits are breathing low
Illusions of innocence can only last so long
From one second to another, hope turns to ashes
We can't understand our fate, the way of destiny

Silent bird fly across the sky
Last nightfall and the sky burns red
Children of love, punished with tears
Awakening in bitterness
Remembrance of Enola Gay
A pale face will remain
Afterwards silence remained
Still yearning for a better day

The monument of mankind, bloody and burning
Lonely flowers on the walls of Hiroshima
Bitter whispers of decay, yearning for a sign
Still twilight stars they suffer, Metal Bird flies into the night...


5. MALICE & DESIRE

At the gates of Moria
Where light turnes into darkness
The wizard spoke his last words
And dark dungeons swallowed him
A long path into shadows
And in once chose to wander here
Right on through haunted meadows
Where black riders are so near
Sweet morning whispers weird again
Pride migrations into solitude
Upon the hill our quest is done
At Mordor, where dark oblivion reigns

What do we know of magics long forlorn?
Used by a wizard in the tower so dark
A heavy ring, made to subdue Middle Earth
Decay on the streets where once the elvens lived


Leaving fields behind, Malice & Desire
Wanderings into grief, where the shadows hide
Far away, we will see another day
The horrible Gollum is on our side
When will the heavy burden end?
A cruel ring to bother ‘em all
Feel the spell of Barad-Dûr
As the seasons change colours
While darkness surrounds the day
Eagles watch the sky above
Two brave hobbits are on their way
Telling faerytales, you'd surely love

Through darkest places of decline
Rush into forests of grey autumn
Loveless atmosphere of contempt
Wrathful Sauron's eye is everywhere
Cold nights whisper the Devil's lullaby
To lay down is all you should do
Still listening to a little lullaby
Lucifer takes all the sins from you

Orks guard the dark empire under Sauron's spell
But still wise hobbits walk along their path of fate
Hard is the way to Mordor, where the shadows lie
Their fatherland decades away and there's no final gate!!!


6. THE SEER'S PRELUDE

Fire is bright, before it turnes to ashes
Visions are clear even if they'll never come true
In my mind something still pulls the strings of anger
I see the sun dissapear, dark clouds covering the sky for 7 years

Bloody rain is poisoning the fields,
Plaques are rotting the millions
Years of starvation are near,
Darkened Prophecies spoken to warn them all...


7. DARKENED PROPHECIES

Knowledge in flames
Hear the Progress-Call
Warnings were spoken
A new beginning starts at all


Prophecies were spoken - Darkened Prophecies
Just to warn the people - Of human disgrace


Now the wisdom of former times is gone
People don't understand what's life for
Another life, another deadly run
And still the humans have learnt nothing more

Death out of white snow
A running fire in the sky
Darkness all across the earth
Blood & plaques make mankind die

The last pope is murdered in gruesome battles
Beaten plaques return again from space
Blood & sword will conquer our planet
The Antichrist, bringer of the disgrace

Many prophets told we all will pay
But we fools ignore the warnings
Unable to see behind the day
No fear of what our acting brings


8. CHILDHOOD'S MONUMENT

Eyes weeping at the window
Staring through the night
Few people will understand...
Empty rooms without a light
Eyes trying to forget the pain
Night takes their glance away
Waiting and imagining
Yearning to see a sunny day

Every evening the sky turns red
Imagine daddy's hurting games
Cold fingers touch a young girl's skin
Memories erase a bitter taste

In trance from outside staring in
Watches her childhood passing by
Feeling father's warm whisper again:

„Let me show, how much I love you
Follow me to the wonderland
All will stay a secret you and me
You're my flesh & blood, take your daddy's hand“

Though wounds heal, silent fear remains
Cold love, burning without a heart
A firm blow into her smile
Desperate screams to express to scares within
The passion of daddy, her innocence makes him whole


9. BRAVE NEW WORLD

Where human life leads to sorrow
Our innocent children stare up to the sky
Here today, gone tomorrow
Afraid to sunlight, askin' scared questions why

Watch us live, now and today like the calming rain
Either side of the edge like a fading life
Watching the time pass by
Wasting our inner fears
Avoiding the truth
Avoiding a smile

Darkness covers our pale face
Darkness covers our disgrace
Out of this world
Out of this word
Are you strong enough to be there?
Are you strong enough to see?

Live for the moment, no day within the night
Where noone has ever walked...
Sing another song
Live another life
So, how could you still sleep,
while time keeps marching on?

This great autumn fades silently
The night turns to a forsaken day
Won't render former times
And light fades away...

History sets our world
and if I was a child
I would refuse to leave
Not dare to change this world
Not out of this world
Not out of this word

Remain silent, screamin' alive
Refuse to leave, refuse to see
Not into progress
Not into these days

New days sunset, mistrust rises
We follow a dim light
Sadness bothers our hope
Happiness and hatred unite
What are you afraid of?
It is not your time to come!


10. THE SHALLOW SEA

Smoking the light in a breeze
It's warm breath on the waves of tears
Watching blue clouds passing by
He understands our inner fears

Don't look behind, all ways are pale
It turns to hope, the sea of light
Watching the stars, the glance of night

Too many words just can't express
It turns to hope conceit is clear
Watching the dawn, the light is near

The old man still is yearning for
He understands what we can't see
Pale days are passing by the door
Memories are all, there is to be

A place where's silence all around
In bloom flowers cry for rain
Sweet water gives pleasant answers
A lake apart from human pain

Faces look so weird on the lake
Once a paradise far from the outside world
Faces came to be a part of this
The sea turned black like everything around


11. INTO OBSCURITY

The hour is late, skies shine red
Mankind is walking down the path of sorrow
A darkened way, where the damned walk
Misfortune and agony is all they know
A journey to the hill of guilt
Into obscure waters without any grounds
Where floods of destination flow
The day fades away eternal darkness falls

So beautiful the stars are made - Darkness around
Flames of the nameless burn the night - From hopeless grounds
Famine is rising from the sky - Cold bloody rain
Blinded by visions of former life - Mankind still marches....

Oh, shameful heaven, what have we done?
Fear of silence, the angels are hesitating
Serenity fades with the darkening of the skies
Another world that is laid to rest
The feelings are gone, just memories of war
A planet is soon one with the galaxy

Population waits for the grand deluge
Dwelling in dungeons made of hard stone
There' s only emptiness, not to prevail
Running alone through darkened nightmares
Failed industry, lost strength, power and hope
Some rocks from space and fate is finally sealed

Nowhere is to hide - plaques are on the side
All across the land - soon it all will end
Death out of snowfall - whiter than white

Watch the big fire in the sky
Seeing blood & madness in the states
Once denied by mankind and not realised
Now meteorites menace the earth from space
And while realising the fading of all life
Souls of former paranoia have returned
Cold blood flows through the streets, a peaceful man stands tall
Visions once seen in the circle of fire

Visions - of gruesome inventions
Visions - of bad suspicion
Visions - of tall vanity
Visions - of long disarry
The seer saw it all before
The seer saw it all...

Another race will quickly dissapear
It doesn't matter where men try to go
Technology against fate is senseless
Just progress was worth living for
Now without hope some will be proud
Once risen so high, yet so far to fall
Great nations built with the bones of the dead ones
But the Final Judgement is not over

„Remembrance on forgotten things
An unknown world can grow in silence here
Witness of a new horizon
Gentle visions of not ending fear

Left behind some traces in the sand
After several years of autumn rain
Burning flowers which we saw
The sense was all the hurting pain“

Time keeps still marching on
Laughters of innocence
Damnation remained so far
The human fate is sealed

We leave behind a solemn planet without pain & fear
The plaque of mankind spread so quickly between time & place
Decay is gone, the virus has won, a new beginning starts at all
Evolution brought disgrace, noone understood the dawn of disgrace