DANSE MACABRE LYRICS

1. Dust Of Centuries

Like a forgotten paradise
As if refused by father time
My land can be found
Under a clouded grey sky

Walking the eternal landscapes
As painted by our Flemish masters
I hear the music
Created centuries ago

I listen to the northwind
Losing myself in childlike dreams
Watch the eternal rivers flow, they flow

Maybe they understand
My already lost quest

For no one can travel
Travel back in time
For no one can travel
Travel back in time
Like a forgotten paradise
A dream of perfect bliss
Dust of centuries

Yet I can touch the cities
Build by my forefathers

Yet I see the banners
Of long forgotten pride
And watch the eternal rivers flow

Like a forgotten paradise
As if refused by father time
My land can be found
Under a clouded grey sky

Walking the eternal landscapes
As painted by our masters
I hear the music
Created centuries ago

I want to see a bright blue sky
Or feel the rain of our darkest clouds
Want to smell flowers now long withered
Witness the people now long buried
Wish to dwell in places forever lost
Castles buried by time time and dust
Hold a bride so pale and pure
Hear the stories of friends
I never knew

Lost in time
Lost in time

Yet I can touch the cities
Build by my forefathers
Yet I see the banners
Of long forgotten pride

Walking the eternal Landscapes
As painted by our masters
I hear the music
Created centuries ago

Lost in time

2. Totentanz

Danse Danse Danse Macabre
Danse Danse Danse Macabre
Danse Danse Danse Macabre
Danse!

Oh King, your power has come to an end
I wish to invite you for a dance
Amongst our deceased brothers
For also Death has a crown to offer

Noble Lady, danse as you please
Until the flute has the right tone
For she deceived many a lady
Who all have danced
The Dance Of Death

Danse Danse Danse Macabre
Danse Danse Danse Macabre
Danse Danse Danse Macabre
Danse!

Oh King, your power has come to an end
I wish to invite you for a dance
Amongst our deceased brothers
For also Death has a crown to offer

Noble Lady, danse as you please
Oh King, your power has come to an end
I wish to invite you for a dance
Amongst our deceased brothers
For also Death has a crown to offer

Noble Lady, - hah -danse as you please

Danse Danse Danse Macabre
Danse Danse Danse Macabre
Danse Danse Danse Macabre
Danse! Totentanz

3. Death In Midsummer

Death in midsummer

There is true beauty in all that dies
Nothing lasts forever...I know
Dreams, hopes, life itself
Slipping through my fingers
Slipping through my fingers
Like a sand on beaches
I used to know
So many people came and went
As years go by
Their faces fade like a song
In vain I try to hold on
To the humble knowledge
I gathered

Death in midsummer
Death in Midsummer

So much still to learn
To discover, to feel
Yet I sense
My earthly and only existence
Fade away

No light at the end of the tunnel
No God to save one's soul
The atheist's curse
The atheist curse
Life never seemed precious to me
But now...
It is so cruel to die

In the middle of summer
In the middle of summer

4. Gott Ist Tot (Where Science Prevailed)

Where faith has failed
Men's mind has travelled
Throughout of space
His wings might fly

No borders for human's
restless desires
Since science killed faith
God even may die

Our dying pride kneeling
In front of the unknown

Where faith has failed
Gott Ist Tot
Where science prevailed
Gott Ist Tot

In front of the immensity
And grace of a universe
With well hidden secrets
That no one has known

With secrets protecting a cosmic curse
When truth seems a lie
And reality a vision

Where faith has failed
Gott Ist Tot
Where science prevailed
Gott Ist Tot
Where faith has failed
Gott Ist Tot

The lights and the colours of planets and stars
Cannot be revealed with simple human's mind

We might step foot on the ground of Mars
But order in chaos we never provide
We might step foot on the ground of Mars
But order in chaos we never provide

Where faith has failed
Gott Ist Tot
Where science prevailed
Gott Ist Tot

Where faith has failed
Gott Ist Tot
Where science prevailed
Gott Ist Tot - God is dead
Where faith has failed
Gott Ist Tot - God is dood
Where science prevailed
Gott Ist Tot - God is dead
Gott Ist Tot!

5. Jester's Farewell (Solitude)

All who still remain
Are leaving their shelter
One by one
The King leads his court

The sun seeks it's own reflection
On their clothes that shine like Gold

I speak the language of the colourless present
My words do not reach their ears anymore

A quest in vain
Trying to hold on to my youth
But still I remember those princes and wenches

He tries to tell me reality took over my soul
The walls behind which I wish to dream
Are coming down

Those princes and wenches
Visiting the castle
Represented my infant years
They flee into eternal woods
Only the jester turns around
One last time
Now I recognise my sad companion
Who kept me company
Countless times

The Jester kept me company countless times
In hours that seemed darker than these

He tries to tell me reality took over my soul
The walls behind which I wish to dream
Are coming down
He tries to tell me reality took over my soul
The walls behind which I wish to dream
Are coming down down down!

6. Decline Of Romanticism

Decline of Romantiticism

Where will be the border?
And who will draw your line?
In your life there is no order
You just lost track of time

This is your direction
You will never have satisfaction

Intentions, although they were noble
Dreams however, could not be shared
The only choice left
Is to turn away...

Will you ever have enough?

How to explain
It is purity I seek?

In a life with no emotion?

But one has to realise
I need to hang on to a dream

With no emotion

Is this your direction?
You will never have satisfaction
Will you never ever have enough
In a life
With no emotion
- So much for this love
With no emotion
- So much for this love

How will you get further?
For you there is no way,

Is this the way
You want to die tonight?

Our feelings and words
Never meant the same

Where will be your border?
And who will draw your line?
In your life there is no order
You just lost track of time

Time, never was on my side
How to explain
It is purity I seek?

Is this the way you want to die?

7. Tristesse (Of Cardinals And Skeletons)

Blood red skies like a messenger of doom
Skeletons on parade in villages on fire
Divine maidens suffering from the plague
Apocalypse my friend put these cities into dust

Dust on coffin lits
Tales never told
Citizens living in cages of glass
Writing poetry in the fields of bretagne
But hear the cries of a distant battle

Cardinals in decay and Gods who failed everywhere
Nero's fiddle distuned, Rome into flames

With wings wide spread I wish to fly
Like an eagle embracing the sky
Dying during a final flight
Oh deliver me from life

Plundering savages drunk with bloodlust
Knights in armour now long vanished

Jesters holding the crown
Noblesse fading away
Noblesses fading

Blood red skies like a messenger of doom
Skeletons on parade in villages on fire
Divine maidens suffering from the plague
Apocalypse my friend put these cities into dust

Dust on coffin lits
Tales never told
Citizens living in cages of glass

Writing poetry in the fields of Bretagne
But hear the cries of a distant battle

Cardinals in decay
Gods who failed everywhere
Gods who failed...
TRISTESSE!

8. Ignorance Is Bliss (Di Talem Terris Avertite Pestem)

It is so amusing
To see you clap your hands
To some else's tune
So pleasant to hear you speak
Words created by others
Quite easy to follow
Another person's steps
Convenient to walk a path
Secured by others

Ever thought about finding your own?
What about integrity?
Where did you hide your soul?
What about finding your own?
Individuality?
Where did you hide your soul?

Your eyes are red
Your voice is rough
But is it your song
You are chanting?

Speaking way too loud
Slogans I have heard before
Tapping your foot
To someone else's tune?

Where did you hide your soul?

9. Overture To The Sun (Finsternis)

10. Megalomania

As we march through the cities
of conquered lands
A feeling of power
Takes over our minds

When we see the enemies' fate
Upon our hands
So difficult to keep control
Rage and insanity
Fill our hearts
Are we but animals?

Years of warfare
Exterminated ideals
All that is left
Are animal instincts

Control Control, we must control!
Control Control, we must control!
Control Control, we must control!
Control Control, we must control!

Rage and insanity
Fill our hearts
We feel like animals
We march! We march! We march!

Megalomania
We are God!

11. Psychopompos

12. A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,

a Dream within a dream,

Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem,
I stand amid the roar,
Of a surf-tormented shore,

That my days have been a dream

And I hold within my hand,
Grains of certain golden sand,

Yet if hope has flown away,
In a night, or in a day,
How few! Yet how they creep,
Through my fingers to the deep,

In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?

While I weep- while I weep!
O Satan! Can I not grasp?
[Original: "O God! can I not grasp"]

All that we see or seem,
Is but a dream within a dream,
Is all that we see or seem







DANSE MACABRE LYRICS