Klabautamann Smaragd 1. Into Depression Darkness as my one true love Cutting through the veins Bleeding misery into all thoughts My labyrinth of pain I wander off and lose myself No intention to be found Killing all what's left of reason The one, great glorious strife I travel far into the depths Wading rivers full of doubt Depression is the cure For abnegation of my life Dreams called me To follow them Behind the eternal horizon But now I Can see the sun Where the sky was my tomb I am not afraid Not anymore Not afraid to get closer You might have been Enslaved by fear Unleashed by ignorance As the currents pull me under I breathe in without a sound A short struggle at the bottom When it seems I've reached the end And pray to keep on sinking Far beyond my deepest fear Drowning in depression Forcing me to keep death near To keep death near 2. My Terrifying Mirror Through the storms of time You have been forgotten for too long You have lost all your beauty Silence is now your disease Your fear doesn't mean That time would feel any pity Order is the path Between chaos and nothing As we are all descending into oblivion Now you realize There is no freedom from the past And our memories You are my terrifying mirror You are now Just a pale shadow of yourself Is it willful denial Or blind faith what brought us here? Our inner conflict mirrors Your decay no one witnessed There is not enough trust any more To follow once despised Now they blame that the only time was wrong And I always thought I am someone else But I am no different No different 3. In My Shadow Who are you really? Tell me With your head up in the cloud I lead, I follow you around You can run, I stick around I'll be lurking Just as one I'm always there Right beside you Even when you're unaware Are you prepared to give Up on what's real for you We both know right and wrong You are me and I am you I will take my rightful Place with my head up in The cloud and you'll be Walking as my shadow Who are you really With my head up in the cloud Looking down on me in doubt But I surround you In darkness with my Inconspicuous strength Your hesitation Makes me stronger I will take my rightful Place with my head up in The cloud and you'll be Walking as my shadow 4. Under Feral Skies Paths barred by trees Overthrown by nasty storms Lakes cold and clear The crossed viper leads the way To a new home And a new adventure Looking for a den In tense twilight Black silhouettes of trees Morph into mystical forms Rampant streams Move and form rocks Fed by the melting snow Of bygone winters A night under feral skies Awaiting a new dawn Traces of wolves and bears Make the wilderness aware Be seen but don't see Don't hunt but be prey 5. As the Snow Melted We've been silenced We've been struggling I saw them falling But now there is a different fear Of what there is to come That one day all will be forgotten The past will be a different country Promises will be forgotten The dead will be the ones with freedom There comes a day You ask yourself Why did we kill and die? Now there is another serpent on our throne 6. The Murderers When we were young we were full of dreams But one day we awoke from the lie Now sorrow is our only heritage After everything has been taken by the fire The setting sun poured flood of gold Through the ruins Nothing was heard but a whisper Forever I had lost my strength Empty dispute Eroded all recollections Everything was taken by the fire The murderers are amongst us They are amongst us Traces of memory lost to oblivion Terrified by our experience Repressed feelings To escape this mortmain 7. Enemies’ Blood From the misty plains Under a vibrant blood moon A scent of dying daffodils An unforgiving stench Clings into the sanity Of the last dying soldier A battlefield of broken truth Decomposing carcasses Deprived of empty promises Deserted by their depraved generals Silenced monologues Tales of no man's land Flags as scarred witnesses Frozen in enemy's blood Salute the fatality of survival As will the songs Chained in brotherhood Pawned by posterity Salute the fallen And honor our ignorance 8. Saturn Die eisigen Ringe Umarmen mich fest Mein Mond ist bei mir Er schaltet im Netz Das Netz der Stürme Das Ordnung schafft Die Ordnung ist Kraft Die Ordnung ist Macht Wer Ordnung verlacht In der ewigen Nacht Wird sterben im Frost Denn ich bin ein Gott Saturn, Gasgigant Saturn, Saturn 9. Smaragd Lush trees and juicy skies Form the ground For an obscure parade In celebration of summer solstice Mosquitoes and black flies Dance with other diptera Touching the dusky water's surface Waving circles arise Velvet light emerges from dry levin Warm winds disperse pollen and leaves Secret cozy shivers hover the night Ancient bartels tickle foolish prey Be unaware, be swallowed alive A chemical wedding with your friends 10. Frozen in Time A flash frozen in time Conversations with a long-lost universe Staring through the eyes of infinity Hidden memories rediscovered We are locked in our history The quest of our purpose Irrational echoes in the deep Following a spirit Nothing is real Nothing is certain A flash frozen in time Reflections 30,000 years away