BLACK ORCHID LYRICS

1. Elysium

2. Destiny

[Music & Lyrics by Justin Hartwig]

"I feel, therefore I am"*

Oceans apart endless dreaming
A freedom alas do I yearn
This journey my soul does believe in

My soul yearns until the end...

Led by desire drawn by passion
A fire alight yet no flame
Illusions of grandeur behind me

I hold this fate in my hand...

I feel, therefore I am - Of mortal existence
I feel, therefore I am - A soul to be free

Fearlessly driven conviction
To stumble would be but a crime
Infinite vigor does guide me

Fearless, I follow benign...

Life my eternal companion
This journey I traverse afar
I will follow this path to determine

Destiny's twilight aligned...

I feel, therefore I am - Of mortal existence
I feel, therefore I am - My soul to be free

Depart from all you feel and time will surely yield
The canvas of your soul - All that is bestowed
Life's greatest mystery this time shall unveil
Destiny's grand illusion

[Chorus]

All that I want is my heart to be free...
Carry my soul through this night until the end
All that I need is this heart to believe...
A new day will dawn and my heart will be freed
Destiny - Is it all in vain?

[Solos]

I feel, therefore I am - Of mortal existence
I feel, therefore I am - Onward the struggle in time we discover a life filled with hope and despair...

All that I want is my heart to be free...
Carry my soul through this night until the end
All that I need is this heart to believe...
A new day will dawn and our hearts will be freed
Destiny - Is it all in vain?

[Quote: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)*]

3. Inertia

Inertia - Your great illusion
Inertia - Do you deny?

Here I stand on my own - Defeated?
Alone in my pain my remorse - Conceited?
Disowned from a world of dispassion

Incomplete in disbelief...

Do you feel the need to betray all
With your pathetic display?
No need to defend your disdain

Incomplete in disbelief...
In-between a bitter lie...

In defeat you relish the lie you conceived in time
Do you perceive everything you create will be believed?

Through it all you portray
A bittersweet display
Hidden from this world
You deny those beside you

Blinded by your pride you forget who held you so high
Years between - For what was it worth, if nothing else?
Do you feel the right to deprive those who carried you?
Never forget all that was given - Selflessly driven

Stay through pain your agony
Intoxicate the fear
Withstanding all between
Cut loose the ties in betrayal

Will you awake from your lies?
Decided by those you despise
Detest this grim reprise
Wipe clean your conscience - Fate will decide...

Fade - Memories fade in time, nothing but time
Fade - Memories cascade through it all the downfall, you deny your greatest flaw!

Who are you to use, to consume and abuse?
Censor and confuse, conceit and delude
Hidden from the truth you obsess and pursue
Nothing left to prove, everything to lose

Never to comply you confess your desire
Resist and deny, never to confide
Distort every lie to pervert and defile
Nothing left to lose, everything to prove

Silence bleeding fate deceiving
Lost belief in a world of delusion
Silence bleeding fate deceiving
Lost belief - This time you will see...

Inertia - Your great illusion
Inertia - Do you deny?
Inertia - Your great illusion
Inertia - Can you deny?
Inertia - This grand illusion
Inertia - This time your lies denied

4. Serenity

5. Time

“The years teach much which the days never know”*

Tempus Aeturnus

Time is like a lit fuse
It burns it sears eludes
Deprive and consume
To feel its grasp clench like a vice

Time and time I feel denied
Of all that was and is yet to be
The Ebb and flow of all bestowed
Will time align this fragile design?

Do you feel times flow, its energy - Endlessly?
Do we know the bane of mortality?

Time eternal - Time is ever beside you
Time eternal - Time in time will reveal all
Time eternal - Time is ever beside you
Time eternal - Time in time does deceive all

Tempus Aeturnus

Time is life's greatest lie
It takes forgets defies
All memories transpire
In time forgive and learn to grieve

To live to die conceive desire to love for all eternity
The heart and soul of all betrothed to freely dream incessantly
To feel to breath the air the sea to live this life in harmony
The pendulum will swing again and time moves forward endlessly

Do you feel times flow, its energy - Endlessly?
Do we know the bane of mortality?

Time eternal - Time is ever beside you
Time eternal - Time in time will reveal all
Time eternal - Time is ever beside you
Time eternal - Time in time does deceive all (in time)

Time and time I feel denied
Of all that was and is yet to be
The Ebb and flow of all bestowed
Will time align this fragile design?

Do you feel times flow, its energy - Endlessly?
Do we know the bane of mortality?

Time eternal - Time is ever beside you
Time eternal - Time in time will reveal all
Time eternal - Time is ever beside you
Time eternal - Time in time does deceive all

Tempus Aeturnus

[Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)*]







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