1. |
Hopeless: Cyclogenesis
01:36
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A storm
Without boundaries
Rises slow
From its core
It says “Come
On a journey
You’re secure
You’ll find home”
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2. |
Hopeless: To Leave
05:00
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Can't you see this world corroding me?
On this path I’m alone
I’m exhausted, time is freezing
Emptiness is all I know
Drowned in my pain
Cradled in misery
Dust in my brain
Hopeless again
Can't you see this pain consuming me?
The storm growing inside?
Homesick for a non-existent place
Bleak betrayal of my mind
Drowned in my pain
Cradled in misery
Dust in my brain
Dragged down again
Trapped in a chain
Cold thoughts move silently
Struggling in vain
Hopeless again
Deep within the structure of my mind I focus
I can hear the voice as it becomes clearer and clearer
Still bleeding I discern the empty taste of a purposeless existence
One with the darkness I become
Screaming loud silence
One with the darkness I become
Guided by blindness down I crawl
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3. |
Deuteranopia
05:47
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Disoriented, unaware
How can you tell?
A lifetime
Enough time to dwell
Still roaming under a sky where the clouds make sound as they move
Waiting for someone to cure your weakness
Step back into blue
Take heed of the things you wish you knew
Before they turn on you
Still roaming under a sky where the clouds make sound as they move
Waiting for someone to hear your whisper
Doubts and concerns become tar melting in a violent masquerade
As you fall into
Oblivion
No light passing through
Delirium
Triumphs
Straying in turmoil
Obsessed by the guilt of a different you
He warps time and space around him
Straying in turmoil
Color spectrum shifts
Bathe your hope in shades of deceit
Deuteranopia
Empty canvas, bloody hands
Unseen in flames
Noxious pulse
Drive me to despair
Is there peace behind the curtain?
Will I find again the space between my thoughts?
My thoughts
Viridian
Light surrounding you
Blinded by
Anhedonia
Viridian
Eyes confronting you
Deceiver
Or too scared to face the truth?
Aspiration, hopes and dreams
Vanish in the squall
Lack of perspicacity
Makes certainties fall
Losing focus, you discern
Noises from below
Contemplating hopelessness
Senseless voices grow
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4. |
Berlin
05:11
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Nephilim, savior
Won’t you take me with you?
Corrupt my body
Control everything I do
No relief in my sight
Since you infected my soul
Raise yourself with the tide
To play my funeral march, sweet symphony
Nephilim, titan
Architect of disease
When you’ll awaken
Lucidness we will seize
Older wounds will revive
Set a fire in my soul
Causing me to succumb
Losing all my control
Lust born from a nightmare
Unmerciful scorn
Although smothering your grasp feels like home
Lust born from a nightmare
Ferocious curse
Arise from the depths to show me the way
I’ll follow
Blazing angel
Impure son of your god
Harbinger of evil
Sorrow what I’ve become
Feed this cycle of hate
Let the Earth drown in sin
As I deteriorate
Your feathers paint the red sky above Berlin
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5. |
Exile
09:03
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Moss covers the doors
As the titan breaks his slumber
Fog pervades the shores
Confounded men shall fight their instinct
To find themselves
To find that
Everything you learn is a new step towards the abyss
Open wide the gate
And my work will be completed
Exhibit my fate
Close to virtue, yet so far away
Holding my breath
Up until time stops moving
Finally sliding into
My underwater heaven
Bathing my hope in shades of grey
In the bowels of hell
Mild reflection in the waters
But it’s not myself
Although I see nothing but my angst
My martyrdrom
My torment
Open my lungs
Cancel my world, ischemia
Make me feel safe with your caress
Breathing again
Cold thoughts are finally ceasing
Falling into unconsciousness
I see my demise and into its clutches
I let myself fall again
And there’s violence in its beauty and mercy in its terror
A welcoming dread, a solemn lament
An atonement for haughtiness
This exile sanctifies my sentence
Longing for a respite
I lie awake
On that freezing day my walk
Was stopped by an helmsman
His arrival at the shore
Took me by surprise
For the rate was surely fair
But wasn’t expected
I had nothing in my hands
Therefore I declined
Through the frosty wind a voice
Reverbed from his vessel
“That is just what you deserve
You didn’t fear God!”
I replied with disdain:
“If your god was real
He would want more than our tears
Upon the gravestone”
I was given freedom and calm
Mercy, protection
Brilliance and opulence
But still, discontented with your silence
I decided it wasn’t enough
So I, locked up behind the grid
Craved what you forbid
And gave up my life to seek knowledge
Until, devoid of my zeal
Without and within
I fell under the consequences
Salvation for none
Who blamed the architect
For the flaws of its creation
Salvation for none
None of you
None of you
I see my demise and into its clutches
I let myself fall again
And there’s violence in its beauty and mercy in its terror
A welcoming dread, a solemn lament
Torn, exhausted, my search continues
And I wonder how long has been
And when the last man exhales his last breath
Mankind will be over, but not my distress
There’s no cleansing behind the curtain
Don’t seek happiness, come away
There’s no cleansing behind the curtain
Make a bow fading in decay
Decay
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6. |
Mnemosyne
03:04
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[instrumental]
There’s a place in my mind where everything went okay. A place where one day you looked at me with tears of joy in your eyes, saying that all those painful nights were good for something; a place where you forgot the meaning of your self-inflicted wounds. It’s my favorite place to be. I wish I had done enough to drag you out of your hell. I’m sorry.
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7. |
Harmony in Silence
10:17
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Awakening
A spark in your body
Your contact with reality
All your flaws
Tears in the ocean
Still capable of more than this
No feat to perform
This toil and this sore
One day will just turn you into
A fool of a man who frets about death
While all of his pleasures pass by before his life
Before his eyes
A glimpse of light
You tried to make abinding
Retrieve your might
Move the stone, read the writing
You’ll have no chance
To escape from this hole
‘Til you stop
Simply looking below, below, below
Glamor of dying
A recall so misleading
Wonder of life
That alone gives it meaning
Walls are falling
Resignation ascending
Greet the gale
For it’s neverending
Numb, through blindness I guide you
Bow before me
Blood on your hands, Sysyphus
Meaningless being
Pushing your stone through contradictions
Strength or distress, hero or damned?
Two ways of seeing a misfortune
One day you’ll look back and notice
All these efforts, once so demanding
Will appear as big as a teardrop
You will finally keep your eyes open
After passing through craters and valleys
You’ll embrace the task you’ve been given
Cause there’s no light without darkness
There’s no relief without a burden
Numb, through blindness I guide you
Bow before me
Blood on your hands, Sysyphus
Meaningless being
Pushing your stone through contradictions
Strength or distress, hero or damned?
Two ways of seeing a misfortune
Fulfil indifference
An harmony that hides in silence
Numb, through blindness I guide you
Bow before me
Blood on your hands, Sysyphus
Survival instinct
Pushing your stone through contradictions
Strength or distress, hero or damned?
Two ways of seeing a misfortune
Your strength to endure
An harmony that hides in silence
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8. |
Harmless Wounds
04:00
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The boulder falls again
On a pile of rotten bodies
To remind a ceaseless charge
And compel my weakened fists to clench
I know it will come back, but every time I will be stronger
‘Til I splinter my regret
Loyal sweet companion, can’t you see this pain consuming me?
I have learned to cope with it
And if this is my fate
Dreadful as it is, I will embrace it
And steep as it can be
If it’s my path, I’ll follow
As long as my legs can move
Or until my body’s hollow
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