Sirenia 1977 1. Deadlight In denial, in denial Dreams crashing down all around you Lost in this feeling again Here at the bitter end Vacant eyes are blinking in the night Stares hard right through your soul's deadlight In a dream your life descends Towards whatever end That your fate has now passed down to you, my friend In denial, in denial Dreams crashing down all around you Lost in this feeling again Here at the bitter end In denial, in denial Dreams crashing down all around you Lost in this feeling again Here at the bitter end Another tear, yet another dead end Another year written in the sand Right here by the fence of time Between day and night Is where at last my fate will come to light In denial, in denial Dreams crashing down all around you Lost in this feeling again Here at the bitter end In denial, in denial Dreams crashing down all around you Lost in this feeling again Here at the bitter end Forgotten dreams, life feels so unreal I'm just gazing back at all the times that used to be In denial, in denial Dreams crashing down all around you Lost in this feeling again Here at the bitter end In denial, in denial Dreams crashing down all around you Lost in this feeling again Here at the bitter end 2. Wintry Heart In a dream a long long time ago I came across a nameless tombstone As I moved on, I felt so fallen So many years now passed on With each year, the more crestfallen And the worst is yet to come On a night in mid December I gaze at the fading lights For as long as I remember I was at one with the night On and on, forever and ever on Further down the unknown path Towards all mysteries undone Towards the absent sun Like a dream I lost some time ago Like a star that long since lost its glow Summer's gone, the snow keeps falling Here at the winter's heart As the dawn now looms before me Behold the winter sun On a night in mid December I gaze at the fading lights For as long as I remember I was at one with the night On and on, forever and ever on Further down the unknown path Towards all mysteries undone Towards the absent sun As we all cling on to the light As we fall, we pass into the night On a night in mid December I gaze at the fading lights For as long as I remember I was at one with the night On and on, forever and ever on Further down the unknown path Towards all mysteries undone Towards the absent sun On a night in mid December I gaze at the fading lights For as long as I remember I was at one with the night On and on, forever and ever on Further down the unknown path Towards all mysteries undone Towards the absent sun 3. Nomadic The road that lies ahead Draws me in again Nothing ever changed 'Cause deep within my heart And deep within my soul I already let you go 'Cause my spirit's in the wind I'll never ever let you in You can't hold me back, you can't hold me down Can't chain my soul down to the ground Can't break my spirit anyhow You can't lock me up, you can't lock me in Can't hold me down with anything 'Cause my spirit's in the wind The wide and open road It draws me in once more The only way I know Throughout all of these years And for the countless tears I caused you all along 'Cause my spirit's in the wind I'll never ever let you in You can't hold me back, you can't hold me down Can't chain my soul down to the ground Can't break my spirit anyhow You can't lock me up, you can't lock me in Can't hold me down with anything 'Cause my spirit's in the wind The open road allures me Embrace me, pulls me in It sets my spirit free I roam with the wind You can't hold me back, you can't hold me down Can't chain my soul down to the ground Can't break my spirit anyhow You can't lock me up, you can't lock me in Can't hold me down with anything 'Cause my spirit's in the wind 4. The Setting Darkness An unspeakable silence screams at you There is nothing more that you can do A million voices pierce through your mind For that sanity you once left so far behind As the twilight emerges within your eyes Yet another downfall in disguise I feel the darkness setting in All the bridges on fire as the night aspire To bring you to your knees It seems like yet another broken dream Are misleading your mind towards more decline Unavailingly so it seems In a moment of truth you'd lose yourself It's been years ago since your life turned to hell As the twilight emerges within your eyes Yet another downfall in disguise As the twilight emerges within your eyes Yet another downfall in disguise I feel the darkness setting in All the bridges on fire as the night aspire To bring you to your knees It seems like yet another broken dream Are misleading your mind towards more decline Unavailingly so it seems All your demons thrive and the night conspire There's a truth behind all lies All the voices screaming and the astral dreaming Paralyse your mind With a broken heart and all your broken dreams And a long lost sanity The day you sold your soul, the day you lost control You lost the will to be I feel the darkness setting in All the bridges on fire as the night aspire To bring you to your knees It seems like yet another broken dream Are misleading your mind towards more decline Unavailingly so it seems 5. A Thousand Scars A new deception Disguised as a dream A new dimension So estranged it seems to me And all I ever believed to be true Turned out to be a lie Through all these years I relied on you You've left me broken down Torn down to the ground I can feel a thousand scars I can feel them burn inside me I can feel my beating heart Beating faster in its torment I can feel a burning love I can feel its flames devour me I can feel an endless loss Fading to black again I can feel a thousand scars I can feel them burn inside me I can feel my beating heart Beating faster in its torment I can feel a burning love I can feel its flames devour me I can feel an endless loss Fading to black again In self-deception Delusions and deceit Without direction So lost, so aimlessly And all I ever held on to Just slipped right through my hands And all the times I reached out to you You just turned and walked away Left me all deranged I can feel a thousand scars I can feel them burn inside me I can feel my beating heart Beating faster in its torment I can feel a burning love I can feel its flames devour me I can feel an endless loss Fading to black again I can feel a thousand scars I can feel them burn inside me I can feel my beating heart Beating faster in its torment I can feel a burning love I can feel its flames devour me I can feel an endless loss Fading to black again I can feel a thousand scars I can feel them burn inside me I can feel my beating heart Beating faster in its torment I can feel a burning love I can feel its flames devour me I can feel an endless loss Fading to black again I can feel a thousand scars I can feel them burn inside me I can feel my beating heart Beating faster in its torment I can feel a burning love I can feel its flames devour me I can feel an endless loss Fading to black again 6. Fading to the Deepest Black Waning, all hearts are breaking All colours fading to the deepest black Aching, all traumas awaking As you're undertaking your own decline I can't feel no love for this life no more I can't feel no will, no will to carry on Faking a smile as you're breaking Into thousand pieces, a thousand shards Waking as your soul are leave-taking In a heartbreaking manner I can't feel no love for this life no more I can't feel no will, no will to carry on Gathering storms, dark horizons I stare into times wielding my mind Wide open doors, lost corridors A memory in time, now barred and confined I can't feel no love for this life no more I can't feel no will, no will to carry on I can't take this life, take this life no more I will turn my back, turn my back on it all 7. Oceans Away All this emptiness This hollowness This timeless withering Of the heart and mind and soul And you my only light My only hope My crestfallen love Lost its shine and glow forevermore I feel so dead inside I'm falling through countless aeons of time All this waning Always waiting right here for you to come along All this bleakness This helplessness Endless despair I'm sinking like a stone And you my only love You slipped away You drowned alone Oceans away from me I feel so dead inside I'm falling through countless aeons of time All this waning Always waiting right here for you to come along I feel so dead inside I'm falling through countless aeons of time All this waning Always waiting right here for you to come along 8. Dopamine Evergreen fields of velvet sleep Embracing me, tucks me in The sun setting in a summer dream Appears to me like a haven Doorways expanding the mind Roads paved with gold before my eyes I'm travelling through time In soul and in mind I cling on to memories inside Years on the road Way too far from home I lost my way so long ago Dopamine, like a blissful dream Velvet eyes enchanting me Indulgent nights of pure delight Dreamy smiles adorn the night Doorways expanding the mind Roads paved with gold before my eyes I'm travelling through time In soul and in mind I cling on to memories inside Years on the road Way too far from home I lost my way so long ago Dopamine, telle une douce amante À ton sourire, je succombe et je je plonge Pour délice que ces nuits ardentes Tes doux regards invitent au songe I'm travelling through time In soul and in mind I cling on to memories inside Years on the road Way too far from home I lost my way so long ago 9. Delirium Demonized, voices of death Scream in your head They tear you asunder Mesmerized, dim vacant eyes You're paralyzed You're going under Into the vaults of the night Falling deep into the night With arms wide open A thousand demons by my side Delirium unspoken You can't see me through this time Agonized, raging decline Losing your mind Fall to your knees Mortalized, buried alive Within your mind Fallen behind Here in the vaults of the night Falling deep into the night With arms wide open A thousand demons by my side Delirium unspoken You can't see me through this time Time speaking in rhymes Speak of decline All through the night Why do you deny Through all this time Your world's on fire Falling deep into the night With arms wide open A thousand demons by my side Delirium unspoken You can't see me through this time 10. Timeless Desolation Plunging into desolation Another lost cause Spend my life in isolation Can't regain what once was Another year now been and gone Timeless loss and timeless affliction It's all there ever was Another strife, another infliction There's no end to it all Embraced by life's degeneration Yet another loss What is life but pure damnation All that I came across Another year now been and gone Timeless loss and timeless affliction It's all there ever was Another strife, another infliction There's no end to it all For the times now been and gone For each and every year undone Timeless loss and timeless affliction It's all there ever was Another strife, another infliction There's no end to it all Timeless loss and timeless affliction It's all there ever was Another strife, another infliction There's no end to it all 11. Twist in My Sobriety [originally by Tanita Tikaram]All God's children need travelling shoes Drive your problems from here All good people read good books Now your conscience is clear I hear you talk, girl Now your conscience is clear In the morning when I wipe my brow Wipe the miles away I like to think I can be so willed And never do what you say I'll never hear you And never do what you say Look, my eyes are just holograms Look, your love has drawn red from my hands From my hands you know you'll never be More than twist in my sobriety More than twist in my sobriety More than twist in my sobriety We just poked a little empty pie For the fun that people had at night Late at night don't need hostility Timid smile and pause to free I don't care about their different thoughts Different thoughts are good for me Up in arms and chaste and whole All God's children took their toll Look, my eyes are just holograms Look, your love has drawn red from my hands From my hands you know you'll never be More than twist in my sobriety More than twist in my sobriety More than twist in my sobriety Half the people read the papers Read them good and well Pretty people, nervous people People have got to sell News you have to sell Look, my eyes are just holograms Look, your love has drawn red from my hands From my hands you know you'll never be More than twist in my sobriety More than twist in my sobriety Look, my eyes are just holograms Look, your love has drawn red from my hands From my hands you know you'll never be More than twist in my sobriety More than twist in my sobriety More than twist in my sobriety