Officium Triste
Mors Viri
1. Your Fall From Grace
You've got a bewildered look in your eyesDon't know whether I should laugh or crySo serene but at the same time you look crazedLike an angel that fell from graceI remember the times when you were still innocentUnspoiled and pure without this tormentLooking at you now is a contradictionI still see the good through this veil of addictionThis evil is keeping you at arms lengthYou cannot resist, you haven't got the strengthYou seem peaceful, yet in your caseYou're like an angel that fell from graceI remember the times when you were still innocentUnspoiled and pure without this tormentLooking at you now is a contradictionI still see the good through this veil of addictionYour dependency led you to hellIn this misery you now dwellYour beauty faded awayYour colourful eyes turned to greyAn angel looking like a ghostThe path to redemption now closedYour addiction only causes harmWhen you stick that needle into your armYour family also struck with hurtYou were their angel since your birthThis innocence they can't recallSince you decided to take this fallInto misery and substance abuseLeaving everyone mixed-up and confusedYou've got a bewildered look in your eyesDon't know whether I should laugh or crySo serene but at the same time you look crazedLike an angel that fell from grace
2. Burning All Boats And Bridges
Things need to changeThe past keeps haunting meI need to get awayFrom all the memories I still seeCut all connectionsLeave everything I used to beA logical reactionBurning everything behind meNo one has to knowWhere I'll be, where I'll goThis simply must be doneI have to leave, I want to be goneI need to reconnectTo a new life without hurtI surely do expectThis change will be my rebirthBurning all boats and bridgesMy past I have to deleteBurning all boats and bridgesFrom this life I have to retreatThings need to changeThe past keeps haunting meI need to get awayFrom all the memories I still seeCut all connectionsLeave everything I used to beA logical reactionBurning everything behind meBurning all boats and bridgesThe purpose to fulfill my needBurning all boats and bridgesEmbracing the sting of this heatBurn, burn, burn, burnAll boats and bridges have to burnMy life has to take another turnIt surely is in my best concernA fresh start, what I earnBurning everything that's my past lifeI have to do this to stay aliveNothing can keep me from living this wayThere's no reason for me to stayAll boats and bridges have to burnMy life has to take another turnIt surely is in my best concernA fresh start, what I earnBurning all boats and bridgesMy past I have to deleteBurning all boats and bridgesFrom this life I have to retreatBurning all boats and bridgesThe purpose to fulfill my needBurning all boats and bridgesEmbracing the sting of this heat
3. Your Heaven, My Underworld
The concept of joy within your mindIs nothing but misery to meYou can't see it hurts meIt seems you are blindTo pain and frustration killing meI want to break free from this cageIt only brings depression and rageI'm on a knife's edge, a cliff above the seaThere's one final wish being free.You push me closer and closerTo the edge until I fall overIt's time truth unfoldsYour heaven, my underworldYou push me closer and closerTo the edge until I fall overIt's time truth unfoldsYour heaven, my underworldThe concept of joy within your mindIs nothing but misery to meYou can't see it hurts meIt seems you are blindTo pain and frustration killing meYour heaven to me equals hellThere's no light in my inner beingDo you understand what I'm trying to tell?Do you care about the darkness I am seeing?You push me closer and closerTo the edge until I fall overIt's time truth unfoldsYour heaven, my underworldYou push me closer and closerTo the edge until I fall overIt's time truth unfoldsYour heaven, my underworld
4. Interludium
5. To The Gallows
I sit here in this cellEating my last mealSoon you'll hear the bellIt all seems so unrealThe noose around my neckStaring at my deathThe gallows are my endI breathe my final breathPunished for my deedsLeaving you and our sonNot able to provide in your needsIt's my fault I did you wrongThe noose around my neckStaring at my deathThe gallows are my endI breathe my final breathIt seems I've gone through a personal hellWith what I did you have nothing to doMe hanging from the gallows tellsWhat pain and misery I put unto you
6. The Wounded And The Dying
Endless fieldsOf hurt and miseryAll way to the horizonAs far as eyes can seeThe rotting smellOf the wounded and the dyingThe agonizing screamsAnd painful cryingSinister visionsOf death and decayImprinted in the mindWill never fade awayFilthy tacticsOf the battlefieldThis defamationCan't be concealedEndless fieldsOf hurt and miseryAll way to the horizonAs far as eyes can seeThe rotting smellOf the wounded and the dyingThe agonizing screamsAnd painful cryingSinister visionsOf death and decayImprinted in the mindWill never fade awayFilthy tacticsOf the battlefieldThis defamationCan't be concealedWartime heroes live on to tell the taleThose who died cannot do the sameThose wounded embraced by shameLeft to rot by a government that failsBoxed upAnd shipped homeIn the afterlifeThey will roamMissing limbsPhantom painPersonal prideCompletely slain
7. One With The Sea (Part II)
A stormy night on the open seaShe felt it was time to cease to beOne last glimpse, one last breathSaying a prayer, jumping to her deathHe saw her jump, and screamed to herHe couldn't imagine this would occurImmediately ringing the ships bellAs the sea rose and fell in vertiginous swellsThey tried to rescue this beloved girlThrough the thrashing water her body hurledDisappearing and reappearingSwept away in a massive waveHope was fading as treacherous waves,were hammering on these men so brave.Trying to find her, she who wanted to die.Looking for her, there's no time to cryLike a falling cliff, the wave smashes downIn the searchlight he sees her, she is foundHer skin has a blue-ish deathly pallorA faint desperate smile crept across his faceHe knows she's dead, he is jadedHis world went black, his strength quickly fadedHe knows they are too late, now it's time to griefThe ocean swallowed her like a dead leaf
8. Like Atlas
I'm staring at these white padded wallsThe burden of my past got me on my kneesLike Atlas bearing the weight of the skiesAn internal war in a mind with no sign of peaceNever thought this would get to meAll this pain build up insideExperiences of sorrow that cannot beAll the fears I cannot fightI cannot cope with the pastThe pressure on my soul is too muchI lost and my mind collapsedOverwhelmed by this degrading mental touchThe strength to live disappearedA tormented soul in a cold shellA future filled with pain is what I fearA lost life on its way to hellI'm staring at these white padded wallsThe burden of my past got me on my kneesLike Atlas bearing the weight of the skiesAn internal war in a mind with no sign of peaceNever thought this would get to meAll this pain build up insideExperiences of sorrow that cannot beAll the fears I cannot fightI feel like Atlas but not as strongThis burden I cannot bearI thought I could handle it all but I was wrongLeaving me in pain and scaredI feel like Atlas but I am defeatedThis burden I couldn't standBy this life I was mistreatedIn this cell my life will end
Lawrence Meyer ‒ Bass
Bram Bijlhout ‒ Guitars
Gerard ‒ Guitars
Martin Kwakernaak ‒ Keyboards
Pim Blankenstein ‒ Vocals
Niels Jordaan ‒ Drums
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