A SICKNESS UNTO DEATH LYRICS

1. The Great Escape

Forsaken ground,
Deprived from sleep
Another desolate morn awakening me

Not a bit of the course I know
But without fail
From the shores of home I go
Stop counting the days,
Drop your ticking conscience
Bound to time and space

Silence falls, my mind stands still,
No one did nor ever will
Remember my name

[Solo: Bruni]

This is the great escape
This is a dreamer's dream
This is a picture of misery
Defying the storms of vanity

A distant voice from afar I hear
The wish to turn like siren's song
Is tempting me.

Swallowed by rain
As time stands still
No one did, not even you will
Remember my name
Remember my name

[Solo: Maas]

I'm heading to the unknown
No destination far enough.
No leaving, no arriving,
All aim is overboard
I stray into your silence
Raised is my flag of white
I beg for termless asylum
Solaced by your face I see
In lucid visions yearning for me
I close my eyes
Taste theses memories set alive

I am the drop-out dreamer
If I roam or if I stay, no one misses, nor did
Nor ever will remember my name

This is the great escape
This is a dreamer's dream
This is a picture of misery
Defying the storms of vanity

A journey doomed to failure
Exodus of broken dreams
The call of the lost ones
Sound of the void
Beckoning me

2. Intoxicated

I have called the storms
A summoning
To turn the air in motion
Like those remorsed
Calling home their fear

Spirits chanting in the air
Divine anticipation
Waiting for a night sublime
Regaining mortality

And as I saw the sky tearing apart
To liberate the pests we cast aside
Like a thousand sins raining from above
Leading all the seeds loss to light
A silent force

Dawn of the disgraced
A scent of scorn inside this deprivation
The host remorsed weathering so fierce

What a heavy heir to bring
A fate so devastating
Remnants of anxiety
Delusion becomes reality

Born, scared away
Blamed, ashamed
The sins of my hands
Grown, 'live and well
A portant sent to rend
Heralding moribund

[Solo: Bruni]

Though freeze in this
Magically attracted disaster
Storms will enforce retribution
The raining of sorrows

3. The Atonement Ship

Rain upon the shoreline
Ensnaring waves around
Blackened shadows mirror warning
I can hear the waters pound

A ship is coming closer
Charged with nothing but despair
Under flag of sorrow sailing
Hear the mission it declares

We trade your lies and greed
We wash your bloodstained hands
The shame of your desires
Introduced to foreign lands

The atonement ship is coming
Cast your load of sins on board
Pray it may run aground
On distant shores it may be found
Spread fear and tragedy
A wrecker's agony

We're on our saviour's mission
We carry all your weight
We don't ask for commission
Remorse is our forfeit

We bring rage and obsession
We will return one day
The debt of your confession
Your children then will pay

The atonement ship is coming
Dim the light and hide your face
Here it may run aground
Upon this shore it will be found
Return us fear and tragedy
A generation's agony

The atonement ship is coming
Guideless drifting on this ocean
Drowning, floating in this sea
Scourging the waters
With pain and agony

4. Lost

Hold on my friend
You may understand
The pain that kept
My restless mind from sleep

We cannot share my friend
The heritage we spent
Back in the days that
Removed your grace from me

Where is your light to guide us home
Do you remember
We're on our own

I see your face
In this fragile embrace
And I still believe
Do you?

In every dream I near you
It's like through glass I see you
Desperately struggling for my soul

In your hypocrisy
Your prayers so selfishly
Driving me farther from the cure

I am lost in my ways
My mistakes
I have torn
I have fallen from grace
In this rage
I denied
I am

Where is your light to guide us home
Do you remember
We're on our own
I see your face
In this fragile embrace
And I still believe
Do you?

Don't weep for me
In this moment of peace
I will persevere
Will you?

[Solo: Maas]

5. The Concrete Lake

Snow is melting
Melting down
Ready to grow
Ready to blow
Sway the sediment

Another harvest is at hand
Dead is who died
And dead who survived
This ground is desolate

Upon this shore
Where hope and dreams
Are covered with concrete

Another spring
Emerging radiance
Ready to spread
The blossom of death

Seeds are spawning without a warning
You betrayed our fate
We are dead and decayed

Upon this shore
Where hope and dreams
Are covered with concrete
Where life is but insanity,
One hour so severe
Death is around here

[Solo: Bruni]

I am the night to remember,
You pay a life to forget
I am the tree of knowledge
The salt in the tears you shed

6. The Uniqueness Of Two

And so it's done
What once was two
Now one and one

My time has come
In this case of doubt
The doubt has won

Intimate for so long
Far beyond the right and wrong
And as time passes by
Waiting for a sign
Alluring me, alluring you

And still I cry for you
And still I lie to you
And I cannot rewind
Hiding here behind these lies
And I can't revive
The uniqueness of two

Don't trust the words I say
The certainty that I display
Stuck in this debate
Tormenting inside my head

Though it used to seem
The equation was complete
Time obliterates
Whatever is at stake
Where is the gain
In losing you

And I cannot rewind
Hiding here
Behind these lies
And I cannot disguise
What you said was...

Equating alone
I reap what I've sown
Estranged from my home
Disaffected is my soul

[Solo: Bruni]

I just cannot survive
Behind these lies
And I just cannot revive
I just cannot disguise

7. Prejudice

[Instrumental]

8. Judgement

There is beauty in the tears
From eyes so cold
And courage in a soul
Weathering the fraud

There is a sparkling
In the eyes refusing lies
Trust in me

Gates open wide
To the fortress of our minds
Still there is truth to find
Under the burden of our lies
Ruthlessly disguised
These rampant thorns still grow
As we rehearse the fall

There is appearance we pretend
A fragile wall that we defend
There is betrayal that we adore
A trace of wisdom we ignore

There is hope in every word
Comforting our souls
And blessing in a vow
To cast away the doubt
There is a power in our breath
To raise the dead
Come with me

Gates open wide
To the fortress of the mind
Still there is truth to find
Under the burden of our lies
Ruthlessly disguised
These rampant thorns still grow
As we rehearse the fall

Betrayal in a kiss, deceit in the kind
The remnants of malice in an honest advice
The dangerous intension in doing the right
A veil of delusion in euphoric delight

There is rain for the droughty
A flame for a spark
There's still intervention, the act of god
There's purge in the fire
In anguish refined
From ashes of judgement
Tomorrow's truth will rise

Times of grace will come as we fall

9. Purgatory

I live inside a dream
Inside my head
Though I never sleep
I am the silent scream
Inside my head
I am the past that will remain

Tell me when will I be home
From this purgatory
Punishment and fear
How many sins to suffer still
Inside this purgatory
Sublimate my will
Is there anybody out there
Praying for my soul

I swelter by the flames
Inside my head
Stigmatized by scorch
I stubbornly confess
Inside my head
I am dying but never dead

Revived to frighten the sinner
Resistant to fear the saint
Revived to regret the penitent
Reduced to fire the elements

10. Remains Of Misery

I've been here before
My shadows still roaming this place
I've seen it before, the open door

I have been here before
The alley where memories stray
Through fences and thorns,
A gateway to myself

I sense the space, the smell of rust and mould
The sound in the air so familiar
Every step a quest so vague

Far away from anywhere
Without guide, no soul in sight
Following this barren path, the ages pass
Far away from this petty dreams
And busy schemes
But into wastelands of dignity calling me

This noble mossy doorstep
No footprints have adorned
This place so lost untouched for ages
The wet and dropping jutty watering my face
From dusty lattice windows
The scent of years escapes

Entering this treasure I have found
Gurgling and creeky it will sound
Dead for this world
Alive for my soul to breathe again

The beauty of decay
Remains of misery
Witnessing from corners around
The stories of loss and fate
I merge with calm and peace
Inside these walls of misery
Sheltered by the spirits around
My mind will be set free

Abode of my soul
Neglected, past remedy
Surrounded by this tangled mess
Of yellowed worn memories

I have been here before
Abandoned this place in haste
Never trusted that luring door
Revealing the upper floor

Climbing up the stairs to the unknown
Confrontating memories will be found
Left by this world
Delight for my soul
A son is coming home







A SICKNESS UNTO DEATH LYRICS