1. Chameleon 5:15 2. Weltschmerz 5:36 3. The case of charles dexter ward 4:14 4. In the garden of eden 5:39 5. Journey to the unknown 4:31 6. Druïd 3:09 7. Veils of blood 4:36 8. Sea of dreams 3:50 9. The collector 2:28 10. Victim of fear 5:57 total time 45:15
Chameleon You're hiding behind the face of your victims An imitation of the ones you killed Afraid... To see yourself in the mirror (the mirror lies!) Afraid... To be yourself in real life Bastard! Coward! I've blackened my inner self of innocence And it's tearing my soul apart I'm abused Misused Confused And I died (mentally!) Am I what you call insane? My mind decayed with hate, I lost my common sense Thus cannot tell right from wrong Revenge! To avenge with a relentless killing spree! I cannot be saved no more... This childhood of mine betrayed My sanity fades away while sowing my seeds of hate Now tell me who's to blame! I'm afraid to be And afraid to see, to live my life as myself, so a Chameleon of life I'll be! I'll escape and be someone else! Memories from the past keep haunting me All visions of guilt and shame that will make me cry Even make me kill!... And hide my face from you! Afraid... To see yourself in the mirror It lies... It defies... To unleash your demise Weltschmerz You can't control year after year Embrace oblivion with fear and weep and bleed and fall down Paradise? Perfect creation of mankind Welcome to paradise! Welcome to addiction, depression, corrosion, affliction correction, repression, relapsing, collapsing Into the abyss of progression Together we create despair and guilt and anger Justify? We should justify our crimes Ignore the shore of sympathy I die The weight of the world keeps you in fear You confine yourself in agony And condemn yourself to misery More and more you turn into yourself No one can prevent this tragedy: Confined in yourself Confined in pain Confined in agony and shame Condemned to misery Prevent this tragedy!!! Welcome to the perfect creations of the human race Injustice, ignorance, prejudice, oppression, to name but a few As an individual we just have to justify all crimes And ignore our own conscience to fit perfectly in this society The mourning after... To oblivion we fade the morning after we fail to wake My child... To oblivion we fade the morning after we sail away And the crowd weeps... The Case of Charles Dexter Ward A magician with powers so strange resurrected from the past He changed dust into flesh so not to rest eternally See: What is dust? Death? Or youth for life? (Joseph Curwen) Onwards your spell drew it Eyes will seek for you, trust a secret faith in the unknown ancient melancholic times Where the mist was, the old, the weak, are silenced Like the folks that ran away after years Never play with the raising of the dead Powerful minds will overtake yours Do not call up that which you can't put down Memorize the words of the descending node I'm climbing down now, it's dark in here I hear the moaning now I'm going back again to the cellar stairs I hear the moans again This time I hide my fear I climb down deep and find the answers here Embrace the darkness! (based on the story by H. P. Lovecraft) In the Garden of Eden Imagine a land of milk and honey You've been there in your dreams but it exists There is no shame, only love and joy And lust will be satisfied in ecstasy Flowers fill the hills of equality The fragrance of roses caresses the air Visions of Eden delights your inner child So take my hand, I'll take you there In delight we could dwell forever more To cherish the sea of magic dreams To eat the fruits of joyous temptation And bite into the shining apple green This Garden of Eden where mist engulfs the mind Where gods dwell to ease their sorrowed souls Paradise in my hand unifies all delight Together for eternity on borrowed time, take me Let your soul float into the mystic scarlet regions awaiting in your dreams Embrace the flowers of fulfillment which the prophecy foretells Listen to the oracle of light and chant the verses of the cold sun Journey into the Unknown Into the void of a blackness you despise I throw your sanity in the pit of your demise Your mind is losing all grip on reality My game has begun now, you will suffer just like me Your vision has been blinded by the guilt in your own soul Your hearing is mistreated by your own screams while I laugh Feelings have been blunted by what you have done to me Time for my revenge has come, the last day you will be Oblivion will attach to you when you lose the grip on yourself Without anything to look forward to because you're blind as of now But I can see you clearly, can hear you screaming inside your skull And it pleases me, it feeds me, my goal is in sight! My name's Mr. Conscience and I have destroyed your life You think I'm a poltergeist but I'm only in your mind You've become a vegetable drooling in your bed I think you have paid the price so I'll let you die instead Why does this journey end in the unknown? That's when you realize you had to die like me! Druid Through the wasted years and all bitter times The druid came to heal all our crimes As long as we're surviving he shall conquer us all In the book of ancient magic and light The ancients will obtain the knowledge of their might To heal the tortured souls, their ultimate goal Angels of mercy in disguise Save tortured souls Freedom is their goal Onwards they dwell Druid, a winning streak Ancients, doom is in your hands If you want to see the day The reward is to travel through the skies in times to come Then it will be you who lives Veils of Blood In the beginning I read the signs of decay I was not to know what would come over me today At the arrival of the train my body arrived It could have been me and my mind was revived The key of solutions is right in my hand I've seen the tomb in which that urn stands My coming days are ruled by death Maria, why these veils of blood? Or am I of that little faith? As I struggled through the corridors of my overactive imagination, or paranoia as some might say, the ultimate truth overwhelmed me: Like a fly in a web she had trapped me I am doomed...doomed... Sea of Dreams Unknown paths of the mind, glooming spheres of consciousness reveal the second face of your life When you please the soul, you'll be unfolded but serenity is lost as you fall into confusion of your mind Dusk you'll see! Sail the sea of dreams Vision immortality, escape the destiny of your real life Would you like to be drowned in sleep forever? Join me and stay then darkness will remain and drain your consciousness Then you'll see the world from beyond --coward solution, easy way out Real life ignored --fantasy taking over now Mirror the past --get a life or wake up dead What do you fear? --is it your mind or life you dread? I think it's you! The sea of dreams, its currents take you from the shores of existence Fail and dream Fail! The Collector Hunting for living anomalies to gather your life's work: a collection of beings of all ages Your destiny is to create the ultimate zoo of life Your only companions are your specimens Travelling through the spheres of unknown dimensions Druid of the future, please take me with you Exercise the right to choose what you collect and classify Collector, take me with you Victim of Fear Endless waves roll by, lost in the tide of time Freezing emotions hold my mind Chained by the shadows inside Try to remember, can't forget (all my life just seems in vain) Even the sun has left Taking me down in an abyss (only have myself to blame) Having no regret Candles burning shining bright Helping me through the night Soon another morning comes to clear me up inside And I try... All my troubles, all my tensions Make a new start, make it happen now Darkness fades as clouds roll by The sunlight bursts the sky Cleans my body, frees my soul (only had myself to blame) Leaving it all behind Afraid of the world I weep in my fear I mourn for unbelievers Damned for life they'll be A journey of my major decline Minor of joy tears to dry Being fearless is life's fantasy So I'll be a victim of fear Lyrics in plain text format	Line up George Oosthoek - Grunts, screams and vocals Martine van Loon - Vocals Lex Vogelaar - Guitar and vocals Eric Hoogendoorn - Bass Jules Vleugels - Drums Guus Eikens - Keyboards and vocals Artwork Info All songs and lyrics written by Orphanage Produced, arranged, mixed and edited by Lex Vogelaar at Tape productions Studio Raamsdonkveer 1995 Except "Veils of Blood" written by G. Eikens, J. Siteur and Lex Vogelaar Enigneers: Wilbert Montens, Ton Brouwens and Stephen van Haestregt Executive producer: Anthony vd Berg Photography by Jack Tillmanns Celtic Art inside: Viking Art Tattoo Studio, Vlissingen, Remko Lay-out by LUPO, Paul vd Burght, A. vd Berg, Jeroen 't Leven For merchandise contact: D.S.F.A. Records c/o Anthony vd Berg P.O.Box 497 NL-4380 AL Vlissingen The Netherlands Phone/fax: (31)(0)1184-69369 For booking contact: Beethovens Metal Promotions c/o Peter Verhoef Tiendhoeve 50 NL-3992 NM Houten The Netherlands Phone: (31)(0)3403-51842 For band contact (interviews): Orphanage c/o Lex Vogelaar P.O.Box 24092 3502 MB Utrecht The Netherlands Phone: (31)(0)30-8882481 Fax: (31)(0)1184-69369 Review Seems like there's more and more dutch doom bands these days. The newest addition is Orphanage, who play a melodic kind of doom / death with female vocals and keyboards (like most other dutch doom bands do). The music isn't very original I think, but it is nice to listen to. I guess since this is only their debut they still have to find an own style, so I'm curious what they'll make next... Rating: 7 out of 10