EVEREVE p 1997 "Stormbirds" 1. EMBITTERED ... So we have left behind the ceaseless change the ceaseless change of Seasons, embittered by the inevitable maelstrom that draws us towards the fields of winter where crows burst out in their scornful cries. And our eyes fall on the realm of much prouder but neverthless even sadder creatures the realm of the Stormbirds... 2. FIELDS OF ASHES Our life flourished amid a brown Mother Earth Broke through the rocks, broke through straight towards the sun Stygian light winks through the clouds Retched into this heart of mine Shines onto my life from nothingness And I ravished the rays of sunshine Unfinished we participate in the run of life, our inner strife Hidden inside us the need to end, to end our pain One with nature, spoilt, without a zest for life Sparkling bodies embraced by ebony nights "Sometimes all our words are inadequate for the burden of our hearts" Once ashes we will be and still the hunger for a new life Or a soon coming death And the dust we will crumble to will be the companion Of the four winds wailing over our souls The ashes still the hunger of a new coming death The dust is the companion of the four winds from our hearts 3. ESCAPE... ...ON LUCID WINGS Another desperate night Another weary fight Another guardian angel Vanished in a lake of flames Another pale grey stream Another shattered dream Another voice that whispers "... Escape, Escape, Escape... On lucid wings" Another cross to bear Another mask to wear Another cold wind blowing Over a ploughed ground Another orphaned field Another broken shield Another voice that whispers "... Escape, Escape, Escape..." I shall kiss the glowing fun Carried away forever I shall taste the golden wine Carried away forever (forever more) "... Escape, Escape, Escape... On lucid wings" 4. MARTYRIUM Ein kuhler Hauch loscht sanft die Kerzen Die die kahlen Wande zieren Was wird die heutige Nacht noch bringen Werden wir verbrennen oder erfrieren? Gefahren aus dem Nichts entstanden Vervolgen Dich in eine andere Dimension Verflucht, verteufelt, der Verzweiflung nahe Erleben wir unsere letzte Vision. Gestrandet vor der Bucht des Todes In stiller Hoffnung der ertsehnten Erlosung Die Angst liegt klamm auf unseren Schultern Wird uns entkleiden bis zur volligen Entblosung Martyrium... Das Ende selbst herbeigesehnt Wirft seine Schatten weit foraus All Menschen von Gott verlassen Nicht mehr lange, dann das Aus. 5. THE FAILURE... ...THE DOWNFALL The downfall - a pleasure to watch it in your arms Flaming red inferno, we relish the dying horizon With fiery thorns in your hands You strike stakes of lust through my heart When all around us is lit Our love will gleam like the vital spark Into an ocean of reddish tears We glide away, unite our souls My inflamed skin caressed by your hands The fever enslaves us again and again... Thousands of souls torches Extinct, withered side by side We are destined to celebrate The cremation of mankind Slowly devoured by a gorge of heat Melted away - the bad depraved seed Screamed out for help, to heaven they cried "I declared the earth as purgatory" All I wanted was to touch the sky, but I was doomed to fail Like an anguished child I sank down on my knees In hopeless desperation I await your final kiss "His locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae" 6. DEDICATIONS One touch of your hand can open the heavens abducts me to long forgotten meadows of desire Strange, I never believed that one glance of eyes Would be able to touch me inside like yours did I always thought that something was buried Long time ago, deep inside... One touch... ...And there never was a greater pleasure Than to stay awake for hour and hold you tight To feel your silent breath upon my hand As I push your hair from your face And I dare not to wake you For this would make me, too... 7. STORMBIRDS Like a storm-driven bird at night We came flying out of nowhere And for a moment our wings gleamed Like gold in the light of fire And are gone again to the nowhere The cold grey sea, it waits for me And the foaming waves call me down To howling winds and a steel blue sky But the cold grey sea calls forever Like gold fall the leaves an the wind When farewell time, autumn has come All these years they have passed Like the wave on the shore of the sea Time passes, the place I search for It`s still just a longing inside Something strange and unknown to me To be grounded somewhere, no longer A stormbird in shaking and howling 8. AS I BREATH THE DAWN Pain over my soul, another morning gleams outside the world A new day`s dew moves in, what do I breathe? What paralyses me? As I inhale the cold air from the world`s lung I cast my being far away from me In a crystal sphere on the ground I see my life On my knees I kiss the death with all her beauty In the frosty beginning of the autumn`s dawn When nature dies away from earth White fog above the meadows is the border behind my eyes Let me know that your downfall is my birth Grey light shines through dead trees Takes away the brown leaves in the end My mother`s garden sleeps its lust away Her will lies motionless in my hands 9. SPLEEN Quand le ciel bas et lourd pese comme un couvercle Sur l`esprit gemissant en proieaux longs ennuis, Et que de l`horizon embrassant tout le cercle Il nous verse un jour noir plus triste que les nuits; Quand la terre est changee en un cachot humide, Ou l`Esperance, comme une chauve-souris, S`en va battant les murs de son aile timide Et ce cognantla tete a des plafonds pourris; Quand la pluie etalant ses immenses trainees D`une vaste prison imite les barreaux, Et qu`un peuplemuet d`infames araignees Vient tendre ses filets au fond de nos cerveaux, Des cloches tout a coup sautent avec furie Et lancent vers le ciel un affreux hurlement, Ainsi que des esprits errants et sans patrie Qui se mettent a geindre opiniatrement. - Et de longs corbillards, sans tambours ni musique, Defilent lentement dans mon ame, l`Espoir, Vaincu, pleure, et l`Angoisse atroce, despotique, Sur mon crane incline plante son drapeau noir. 10. UNIVERSE Give me the sleep I need to forget My pain and my sorrow, my grief and my dept Give me the sleep I need to forget Hypocrisy, cruelty, hatred and if There`s someone to hear me - Then answer my cries And if you are near me - Please drop your disguise I need to get out, please show me a way To cope with my dread and my fear every day Restricted are my paths, destinations of myself far away The wheel of life has stopped turning, an angel leads me astray I am longing for farewell, just a passenger in a boat A boat called life - after which wave will it lose its load Void, peace and stillness - Is what I yearned for Let me be a fallen star - Insignificance is what I will earn Universe - I want to drift in your eternity Universe - lay your arms around my soul Universe - a part of you I want to be Universe - your star of death I`ve seen it glow I want to drift into your eternity - Lay your arms around my soul A part of you I want to be - Your star of death I`ve seen it glow Prepared for your reception Your timeless nothingness awaits me Universe - are you a part of me? A part of you I want to be. 11. ...A PART OF YOU Ich mochte fliechen, geradewegs zu Dir verschmelzen will ich mit Deinem Nichts Verbrenne mich, reis mich heraus, nimm mir mein Seelenfeuer Is mein Herz fur meine Ruhe, hinab zieht mich mein Sein Kein Strang gibt Halt - Erlost und lachelnd gleite ich in Deine Welt 12. VALSE BIZARRE (Instrumental) Michael Zeissl - synthesizer Thorsten Weisenberger - gyuitar Tom Sedotchenko - vocals Stefan Kiefer - guitar Stefan Muller - bass Marc Werner - drums Nuclear Blast NB 314-2 NB 2736163342