COMPOS MENTIS LYRICS

1. Drained

Why, oh why, why are you so cruel?
Your vengeful soul is draining my lust
I want to fulfil but am constantly punished
So I ask why, oh why?

I watch the light as it fades into black
Turning day into night
I am filled with the deepest eternal sorrow
For the life that has decayed

You embrace us all, but why? You drain my lust
Is it a game that you play?
Is our existence merely a joke?
Why can't you face our reality?

You took my dreams and drained out the fantasy
You've got my reality

Reminiscence of a lost faith
And I see your soaking wet hands
- Wet from all the blood that you have taken -
As they reach for another innocent

You took my dreams and drained out the fantasy
You've got my reality

2. Temptation

Cast among the waves of an ocean of hate,
His mind is like a storm
Torrents of thoughts drift aimlessly around
Yet they only focus on one thing

The moon embraces him with her cold light
As he is swallowed up by the clear and frosty night
Darkness flows through his quivering body
And intensifies his burning hate caused by

Temptation, projection - you become my scapegoat
Temptation, projection - I can't resist

The steel flashes proudly in the moonlight
As he flings himself on the dark silhouette.
Her frightened eyes open up wide with fear
While the knife penetrates the flesh.

I dream of her with another
I think of her with another
I see her with another
If I can't have her no one will

Temptation, projection - you become my scapegoat
Temptation, projection - I can't resist

Red flowers come out around the body
While her life slowly fades away.
All they ever had is ruined within seconds
Love is a sin

3. My Inner Beast

As I scrutinize my inner self
I see what I really am
I understand that evil is a part of me
I don't know what to do
All my life it has been suppressed
Now I can't hold it back
Abrupt outbursts of rage keep confusing me
And I have lost control

I don't know why everything has been taken from me
There's nothing left but an utter loss of hope

Lingering behind my innocent facade
It feeds on my weakness
Heal me
The beast inside must be who I really am
It lies beneath my skin
Help me

As I look upon the changes
I see what I've become
But now I've learned to accept this new identity
And I know what I want
I understand the great joy of solitude
All my life I'll stay alone
A constant flow of pure rage delights me
Now I'm in control

Now I realize why everything is gone
I have unchained the beast that I am - and I've been born again

Traces of atrocity follow me
Chaos leads the way
Hate me
The beast inside must be who I really am
It lies beneath my skin
Fear me

4. Within Me

I was born to fulfil a terrible destiny
The greatest punishment of all
Punished for what I didn't do and what I couldn't change
Every attempt to avoid just lead me closer to the inevitable

I committed the biggest sin of them all towards myself
How could I avoid it, why did I deserve it?

I hold out my hands that blackened my eyes
And see my destiny as the stream of blood that it is
With blinded eyes I shed a tear
Thinking about the destiny that I passed along

Take away all my senses so I can't feel the pain
Let me never know your thoughts

At the peak of my life I realise that everything is false
And all that I have done has only been harmful towards myself
I have inherited the sins of my forefathers
My life is dead and I'm in pain

The greatness of my life has withered
Leaving me with no desires of life or death
If only time would stop and leave me with nothing
Let me be the one you hate

5. Dead Among The Dead

As I look into the mirror all I see is a shadow of what I used to be
This is I - strangled in conformity
Somewhere deep within, I know the embers glow but the flames refuse to burn
This is I - dying while trying to live

All I want is to spread the wings of passion
And break free
Unfold my leaves like a rose in spring
And be free

Stripped of every dream, every vision
Emptiness walks with me

I've looked on my life as a detached spectator
Watched the passion die away
A weakened creature is what's left of me, my existence is merely tragedy
I tremble as I realise that none of my dreams were fulfilled

Locked up, fucked up... I fear the end is near
I hate myself for what I have done

I want to spread my forgotten wings of passion
And break free
Unfold my leaves like a rose in spring
But this is I - dead among the dead

6. The Prophecy

We're all trapped in diabolical madness
Battles are fought all around us
We just don't know it yet but if you listen carefully
You will hear them cry out this two thousand-year-old prophecy

Roar again, my friend, the timing is now right
Darkness is upon us once more
And now we enter the final battle
Gather your soldiers and let the unholy army of the night roam the streets

So let us all prepare for this moment of truth
This moment of pure darkness
And let us laugh out loud when even the holiest of the holy ones,
Those who have been spared
Are thrown to the ground and forced to submit to the learning of a new universal monarch:
The third Antichrist.

But remember:
At the great feast we will all be fed the remains of the holy ones
And our consciousness will reach the final level

Those who question the victories of the darkened souls
Won't be forgiven like in the old ages
But instead they will be used as slaves working in the master's cave
So beware even you who live as the darkest demon

Prophecies don't always come true...

Roar again, my friend, the timing is now right
Darkness is upon us once more
And now we enter the final battle
Gather your soldiers and let the unholy army of the night roam the streets

7. Black Clouds Gather

Black clouds gather
Small drops are born and whirled down
They splash against the cold ground
Perplexed and ignorant of what to come

Engulfed by a stream and carried away by the current
All attempts to get away are in vain
And the stream just keeps going, keeps growing
A chaotic ride in the torrent of life

The moment we are born we begin to die
Mortal souls longing for salvation
A carnival of mindless and blind forms the world
Lying, drying, dying

Crushing against sharp rocks the drops are shattered
And cast up in the blue sky
Struck by rays of light they evaporate and disappear
Nothing ever changes

Small drops drown among millions of others
In their search for an explanation
Thousands of archaic lies disguised as solutions
Save from absurdity

Searching for meaning
Striving for innocence
Following the prescribed
The only thing that gives strength

The moment we are born we begin to die
Mortal souls yearning for salvation
A carnival of mindless and blind forms the world
Lying, drying, dying

Black clouds gather...

8. The Innate God

Chaos surrounds me, my world has crumbled up
Only fragments left of what I believed in
Leaves me with a broken soul, bewildered
I yearn for the times that were

Hate flows through my body as I realise
Years were wasted, I based my life on a lie
Subjects of an illusory god inveigle into hypocrisy
Leading puppets into self-deception

A phenomenon created to anaesthetize
With a slumbering world as the aim
White clouds of coma descend from above
It's called religion
But I'm the only God now
Now there are no rules

Unleashed power surges through my veins
I'm reborn as the ruler of the world
Leaving the weak masses to fear me
In their imaginary innocence

I have reached the highest state of self-control
Nevermore shall I be told what to do

A phenomenon created to anaesthetize
With a slumbering world as the aim
White clouds of coma descend from above
It's called religion
But I'm the only God now
Now I make my own rules

Divinity is innate







COMPOS MENTIS LYRICS