Elend Winds Devouring Men 1. The Poisonous Eye We've waited so long My starving eyes Drunk to see We've waited so long Blind Neither living nor dead We could have died to see the world in bloom Poisonous eye The eyes of men, they withered in the sun And reason enslaves us no longer Yet vision is all that mathers To a wayward traveller Another dream... another dream is all we are longing for In every shade, a fragment of light, In every shape, every colour, the chasms of solitude In the temple of truth, we were burning And we saw the dim sun swallow the sky Cast out by the scorn of men In the desert of faces Can we live without shame? Can we die without pride? Poisonous eye All joy is gone Seven eyes to see All joy is gone Seven eyes to bleed 2. Worn Out With Dreams Don't tear apart your name It hides you, and it heals the pain Don't tear out your love, you can't depart from me You'll stay away from harm Abide bt me, when indecision strikes Down there with me Let me enfold you I can't escape our frail embrace I bend under the morning light But I could scale the face of life Mock me, mock me If my voice is unsteady I'm just worn out with dreams Under your pale, sardonic sky I am watching myself crawl Down to me Down with me Onward a new path Let me enfold you We cannot escape our frail embrace We bend under the morning light 3. Charis Beauty dies of beauty Love of love In the fever of our waiting We were decieved, without deceivers Betrayed, without betrayers A mirror waits for your face And I have been awaiting you 4. Under War-Broken Trees Skies visible Under the seaside shadows By the city, by the gates Streets of sands/sadness strays The war is over now The pain is over now Fair eyes still can't see The healing time provides Warless I could not see Sous des cieux fades promesses Des horizons hallucines La terre nous etait desormais etrangere Patris Pontos Les flots brises Le sillage ... un enclair Terre, mer, cieux melanges ... Seuls les vents hurlent a nos oreilles Nos yeux francasses que le sang aveugle... Sur une mer demontee, machine de colere "watch over me" Beyond the velvet veil of fear A firmamant of grieves A century of burning We were tempted by a shade... In war times, only The shell lonliness is safe But under war-broken trees, Dreams come fast... Dreams come when you are weary of the sun. 5. Away From Barren Stars Worse than mourning Disdain, dances at my side Another wasted day And shadows stained your silent face Yet Weary with passions The sevenfold seas were young Your sibilant eyes, bloodied with tears I'll pray for you, I'll stay away from barren stars The land is just an ocean of fear And your love has vanished 6. Winds Devouring Men [Instrumental] 7. Vision Is All That Matters I became the great deciever To see what fair eyes still can't see ... A tear in every sea A fragment of light exhausted Vision, is all that matters To a wayward traveller Through centuries of burning We have waited so long Cloaked in a serpent's skin From the portal, I was calling you You lay me, in the dust of the dead A swan in agony 8. The Newborn Sailor At night we were drowning Mesmerized by your songs We were lured Into the maze of your love When the drop of life bursts An ocean of joy And freedom for the newborn sailor Through aeons of time Our eyes were smothered by the sun Now even in the dark we see ... Wanton light steers us no more Eyeless we sailed When the drop of life bursts An ocean of joy And freedom for the newborn sailor 9. The Plain Masks Of Daylight The night shade A dark colonnade The cypress, then the shore... I sought comfort in the foam The wind heals the pain A pale november rises You know how the days gone by Even night sought shelter Under the plain masks of daylight Bitterness we wait... We ate the fruits of rainy hours As ulysses looking seaward We mocked our innermost abodes We sailed on older seas And reached the bounds of deepest water A wreckage in the rain But the wind heals the pain 10. A Staggering Moon Amidst the streams of the river The flow Was achanging And autumn rain unfolded its charm With the thorns of absence So sweet to your skin In the dusty veils of morning You had forgiven all bearing The land blessed the manifold Faces of your love The garden Lies asleep The grave unclouded And we dance about a fallen sun Night-moths on her wings... A staggering moon 11. Silent Slumber: A God That Breeds Pestilence [Instrumental]