AGATHODAIMON - 2001 "CHAPTER III" Track List: 1. An Angel's Funeral 2. Spirit Soldier 3. Paradise Beyond 4. The Ending Of Our Yesterday 5. Past Shadows 6. Departure 7. Sacred Divinity 8. Burden Of Time 1. An Angel's Funeral +++++++++++++++++++++ A weeping procession, moving through the snow Silent pale faces, perceptible pain Winter silence - terrible tranquillity Cold eyes starin' far away Mirrors of mourning, nothing else Blinded by grief they are...everyone Awaitin' your final way Watchin' the frozen pit and see We've lost reality A field of crystal tears, the downfall of heaven Snow softly falls, frozen tears from above This bitter loss...an angel's funeral A casket filled with beloved flesh Cold as the world around I can't believe what my eyes see through clouds of icy breath No bird sings in dead trees No sound fills the frozen air I stand at the angel's tomb... alone A whole world ending to exist 2. Spirit Soldier +++++++++++++++++ Spirit is your fate and burden Spirit is your destination Long times ago, in a dark night You felt body and soul unite In a dream of epiphany You were given perspecuity, Dignity, autonomy, supremacy! Ancient spirits cursed though your veins The sparks in you turned into flames You heard battle drums thundering Was this a dream or an awakening? A destining, foreshadowing offering? The gods have marked you for your life and death The gods will guide you up to your last breath Chorus You will lead a secret life sheltered by darkness Up to the day that the Spiritsoldiers will conquer, and then... The twilight mountains you will climb Brighter than the sun you will shine Louder than thunder you will roar Above the world your voice will soar Through the universe you will fly Expand the earth, tear up the sky Once your spirit will break free A new spring will bring liberty The gods blessed you with power and a vision The gods gave you life to accomplish a mission Being a soldier of spirit in a cold and shallow world Will at times seem to you rather a curse than a gift Sometimes you damn the ancient spirits Everything seems grim and senseless They tell you that there's no forgiveness For the thousand "sins" you could confess Then you envy the blind fools Who thrive in mediacracies Who love and hate as they are told Devoted to trivialities Spirit Soldier Sometimes your dreams take you to the land Of purity, silence and soul Where you feel unchained and alive Where fate is under your control Then you thank the great omnipotent Creators of life and spirit That with the dawning of a new age You'll be united with the infinite Spiritsoldier The gods sent you to provide for enlightenment The gods have placed you in line of their descent Repeat Chorus 3. Paradise Beyond ++++++++++++++++++ Where the wind blows over the mountaintops into the ancient sky And the flowers whither in the shadows of an autumn night Misty fog arises from the valleys and hides the face of the moon Underneath the ground lies a forgotten wisdom deep entombed As long as ravens ride the nights As long as the spirit of the earth takes seat between the spheres The path beyond was locked behind the gates of consciousness - the mirror of the soul Time is passing by the mist, is creeping through the deserted land And all the forests throw their leaves into the growing realm of sand A whispered cry which told the tale of earth is hurt from above It drowns the night into bright light and breeds a paradise beyond And the wind unveils the hidden treasure from the soil A sweet melancholy fills the plain with a lovely sound Unleashing the key to the gates of consciousness Take my hand I'll show you heaven And walk the path beyond with me Together we will stand the night and flee from the void 4. The Ending Of Our Yesterday ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ And when the moon enrapts the streams And trembles on the fen A thousand years have flown it seems Since then For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Little I knew in youth's enchantment That it is alike absurd Or to lean against a shadow Or believe a woman's word For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Though she once betrayed Though empty words spoken I wished she'd have stayed Remain with a heart that's broken For I no longer am confined In that sweet country's spell I have left you far behind Farewell Fair autumn still its breeze delays Upon the springs that wail and sigh And through the leaves the whisper strays Of my sad dreams that now must die 5. Past Shadows +++++++++++++++ Now far I am from you, before my fire alone, And read again the hours that so silently have gone, And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide, That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died. The shadows of the past swift stream across life's floor The tale of all times, nothings that now exist no more; While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind And sadly spins the fibre of the story in my mind... I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold, Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold; About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply And it seems you want to speak to me yet only sigh. And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace, And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace... Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb, Forget the joy that was, but that nevermore will come, Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside, For now I'm old and lonely, and maybe you have died. 6. Departure ++++++++++++ We part for ever from today Farewell beloved one And I, unto may death, your way Will shun. I care not now where you may go You can no more bereave me Today the sweetest girl I know Does leave me. Chorus: And the air still moves my curtain As it used in times of yore... Moonlight down the lane uncertain Only you come nevermore Nor shall I as in former hours Build spanish castles high With star-lit windows, and with towers of sky, When, shivering with bitter cold Through winter nights uncertain I watched lest you perhaps unfold Your curtain. O what delight to stroll with you Beneath that flowering trees When poured its light their branches through, The moon. Repeat Chorus That I might catch with rapturous thrill The words that you let fall And that today I barely still Recall. How often did I secretly pray Swift night her sails would furl That we might thus forever stray Fair girl. Repeat Chorus 7. Sacred Divinity ++++++++++++++++++ In peaceful silence she lies there and sleeps Dreaming of secrets conceiled in the deeps Of our long forgotten history. Those who are devoted to her know that she keeps In her pure soul the key To our identity. I will guard your ancient dreams Protect my lovely sleeping beauty. I will give my life and love For my Sacred Divinity. Now the wintersun paints her in shining gold. Smiling she wakes up and asks me to hold Her gentle hand in mine. Her graceful white body trembles in the cold. She knows today the forces will aline - Forces hating the divine. I will save you from their blind And unreflecting treachery. I will guard your soul and life My Sacred Divinity. I will always stand by your side, Save you from their tyranny. Or I will die for my love, My Sacred Dininity. Hear the storm blowing, see the skies darkening, On marketplaces and in churches crowds of them are gathering! Here they come marching, betraying and lying, To take our love, and our souls, to destroy everything! They do not care for your soul and your purity! Nothing do they feel for you except of everlasting envy! Neither do they know nor understand your biography, They hate your beauty, hate all beauty, and fear your ascendency! After this cold day of sadness and grief She is left without any hope or belief In a day after this night. Will she in death find at last a relief, A place of silence and light Where everything is alright? I broke down and cried in sorrow In despair and mistery. I cried for my love and passion, My Sacred Divinity. All that I could do was stand there Helplessly in agony, And watch them dishonouring My Sacred Divinity. 8. Burden Of Time +++++++++++++++++ Tumbling against walls of stone Arcades filled with silence The frozen hand of nothingness breaks my mind Crazed eyes follow my stars Echoes fill the air Locked in halls of solitude End my pain Exitless rooms, paths without end Useless days increase the burden of time Stonecast faces stare at me Prayin for release Every day another scar Break these chains I don't see summer's sun, Dark is my tomb I don't feel autumn rain, My senses numb I don't see winter's snow, Blind are my eyes I don't feel rising spring, Burden of time