GONE IN APRIL LYRICS

1. Last Day Of April (Intro)

Last day of April. Today will be the last day I'll write, the last page I'll taint with my memories. The path ahead always seemed so clear, yet our souls are now heavy from our sins.
Will we ever understand our purpose we are but human. On this last day of April under a dark sky a new journey will now begin. All the roads we've covered, all the decrees we have been given will fall into oblivion. But our story will be written.

2. Silence Answers Me

Here I stand in the dark and doubt
Facing the crossroad of my faith

Like a dream with opened eyes
Or am I still asleep?
I don't know I am cold
Forever cold and I freeze!

Forever I thought You would remain by my side
But You are now out of sight
Have You already abandoned me?
Everywhere I searched I found sin and hate

Did you leave this place or
Do You simply care no more?
Thousands of humans believed in Your legacy
Freely giving up their lives
Will You now redeem their Souls?

My life was meant to serve you
To be part of Your convent

Like a dream with opened eyes
Or am I still asleep?
I don't know I am cold
Forever cold and I freeze!

Again and again I've tried to reach You
Silence answers me
Where is Your dear peace, where's Your hope
I feel nothing but cold

War slowly spreads, crawls on the continents
Darkness viciously settles
Violence is a plague infecting the masses
Devouring the world 'til there is nothing left,
Nothing but the ash

Forever I thought You would remain by my side
But You are now out of sight
Have You already abandoned me?
Everywhere I searched I found sin and hate

Did you leave this place or
Do You simply care no more?
Thousands of humans believed in Your legacy
Freely giving up their lives
Will You now redeem their Souls?

3. A New King

A new king
A new king has come
A new king
A new king has come

Inflamed by scorn and hate, they acted without grace
It's easier to kill what you can't understand
The murder of the king had plainly set the course
For the beginning of eternal fights and wars

The only one with sway
In endless truth and faith
Nobody hears his words
The gleam of hope is he?
Immolated by those
Who dread and fear his rank
To keep up their grand reign
A sin is not out of bounds:

"Crucify him as soon as you can
He spread fallacy
He makes people believe
He is the son of God
For this crime he must die"

He was always despised and forsaken by men
A man of sorrow and acquainted with grief
Pain was his destiny, forgiveness his byword
The larger his convent, the greater their hatred

The only one with sway
In endless truth and faith
Nobody hears his words
The gleam of hope is he?
Immolated by those
Who dread and fear his rank
To keep up their grand reign
A sin is not out of bounds

A new king
A new king has come
A new king
A new king has come

A new king
A new king has come
A new king
A new king has come

4. One More Day

"Seize the day" is what they told me
I kept trying but never enough
I'm waiting
Waiting
I'm dreaming
Dreaming of my day

One more day
One more day
One

So much, to share
So much, to learn

Teach me, Your ways
What do You see?

So much, to share
So much, to learn

Teach me, Your ways
What do You see?

All come to me
Make me feel
Make me believe
Open my eyes,
All come to me
Make me feel,
Make me believe
Step in my world

Each sunset a small death
Each morning a new hope
But I am still asleep!
Come and wake me up!

Show me Your light, show me Your night
I want to see with Your eyes,
Become You for a while

I feel and know
With certainty
That there is more
Than we can see

The awakening waits forward
I wanna feel alive and I know it will come
My patience is overused and time is running me by
My strings are weeping a lullaby

I'm waiting
Waiting
I'm dreaming
Dreaming of my day

One more day
One more day
One

So much, to share
So much, to learn

Teach me, Your ways
What do You see?

So much, to share
So much, to learn

Teach me, Your ways
What do You see?

All come to me
Make me feel
Make me believe
Open my eyes,
All come to me
Make me feel,
Make me believe
Step in my world

Each sunset a small death
Each morning a new hope
But I am still asleep!
Come and wake me up!

Show me Your light, show me Your night
I want to see with Your eyes,
Become You for a while

Each sunset, a small death

5. Since You Are Gone

Since you are gone we now see
What you have achieved or aroused
What have you done or evoked?
The question remains in our mind

War or conversion, tell me where's the difference? Eternal
Innocent get killed, martyrs anyway. In Your name
For two thousand years the blood was spilled on the field
Never enough
Of Your existence there is no doubt

After these subconscious epiphanies I do falter
Am I on the right path or is my soul lost?

War or conversion, tell me where's the difference? Eternal
Innocent get killed, martyrs anyway. In Your name
For two thousand years the blood was spilled on the field
Never enough
Blinded by the faith, a new bloodshed over again

Since you are gone the world
Is completely out
Out of joint, out of hope
The question remains in our mind

Since you are gone we now see
What you have achieved or aroused
What have you done or evoked?
The question remains in our mind

6. Destroy to Build

Somewhere buried deep inside me
I feel the pulse; I feel the urge
My brothers then nothing but strangers
On an island of filth

For I know nothing ever changes
We always strive for a better tomorrow
We have invented hope and believe
In a lie that we have soon forgotten

Destroy to build
Kill to give life
Evil and good
Black or white
A chance was given
To realize
A chance to break
From slavery
With a strong hand
We went onward
Using the knife
'Til we're drenched in red

And if all this was nothing but a lure?
What if it was nothing but a test?
We all fail so bad
The humans a quest long left behind

For I know nothing ever changes
We always strive for a better tomorrow
We have invented hope and believe
In a lie that we have soon forgotten

Destroy to build
Kill to give life
Evil and good
Black or white
A chance was given
To realize
A chance to break
From slavery

A chance was given
A chance to rise
We long for freedom
Long for salvation

7. We Bring the Night

"Take the cross, take the arms
Slay the heart of heresy
Do what's necessary
Free the holy land
The blood on your hands
Will never reach or stain your soul
Redemption will be granted
With light you walk"

Destruction on our path
The earth will drink their lives
Flames, hatred and dust
The rage keeps us going

So many lives we stole
We slaughter endlessly
We kill the sun, the dawn of life
We bring the night
God of love, God of greed
Will you then greet my soul?
All my sins from today
Their screams echoing in my ears
Will you wash them away?
Will my guilt disappear?
Behind my eyelids I see
Over and over again
Their phantoms haunting me

They feed us with promises
Of heavens and purity
But is it really in their hands
To keep them
A journey of misery,
Of misdeeds and cruelty
Will we meet again in hell?
Slayer and slain

Destruction on our path
The earth will drink their lives
Flames, hatred and dust
The rage keeps us going

Destruction on our path
The earth will drink their lives
Flames, hatred and dust
The rage keeps us going

So many lives we stole
We slaughter endlessly
We kill the sun, the dawn of life
We bring the night
God of love, God of greed
Will you then greet my soul?
All my sins from today
Their screams echoing in my ears
Will you wash them away?
Will my guilt disappear?
Behind my eyelids I see
Over and over again
Their phantoms haunting me

"Take the cross, take the arms
Slay the heart of heresy
Do what's necessary
Free the holy land
The blood on your hands
Will never reach or stain your soul
Redemption will be granted
With light you walk"

They feed us with promises
Of heavens and purity
But is it really in their hands
To keep them
A journey of misery,
Of misdeeds and cruelty
Will we meet again in hell?
Slayer and slain

8. Honour the Oath

Days and nights passed us by
Many miles we covered

Our cloths are stained by the sweat of our strain
Our limbs are weak from sleep deprivation
Blindly we walk towards the next way point
Without a clue of walk awaits us there
Hate is growing, filling each nerve ending
Poisonous hate is what we all become
Just searching for a valve to let it out
All obstruction on our way will yield

Now just let it go
You are the weapon, the extension of their arm
Your life is to serve, nothing more
You chose your side
The time has come
Honour the oath
And the time will come
Where I'll be concerned I will pay
They'll put me down
And there will be no redemption
For me, for you
And no more pity than we've displayed

My mind separates from my body
My mind separates from my body
I walk toward the goal I was assigned

My will is annexed to theirs
I can't think

I only accomplish what I've been told
The earth seems to be the worst of all hells
Earth of trial and of blank agony

Now just let it go
You are the weapon, the extension of their arm
Your life is to serve, nothing more
You chose your side
The time has come
Honour the oath
And the time will come
Where I'll be concerned I will pay
They'll put me down
And there will be no redemption
For me, for you
And no more pity than we've displayed

Through the fire of wrath I march
Through the fire of wrath I march
With a vengeance I'll take your life or you will take mine
Right ahead of us the road continues
Leading to a blazing new inferno
Where we'll once again leave our mind behind
Where we'll once again leave distress behind

No more sight
Nor conscience
We gave up
Our humanity

Now just let it go
You are the weapon, the extension of their arm
Your life is to serve, nothing more
You chose your side
The time has come
Honour the oath
And the time will come
Where I'll be concerned I will pay
They'll put me down
And there will be no redemption
For me, for you
And no more pity than we've displayed

9. Deus Vult

As the sun rises
On the holy land
Armies gather
Ready to breach the walls

Silence, just a clam breeze
Vultures already wait
A last breath in the heat
Before all hells break loose

Every soul here
Getting ready to advance
To shatter the wall of peace
Savagery ready to burst
"Deus vult"

No more frontier
Between good deed and misdeed
Only these words in the air
That we repeated through time
"Deus vult"

Every soul here
Getting ready to advance
To shatter the wall of peace
Savagery ready to burst
"Deus vult"

The dew has not dried, yet the
Screams already rise
Forces spread in the streets
Like crawling plague

Guards take their positions
On their lips a prayer
Ready for the coming blow
Fear now invades the town

Every soldier wishes to avenge
His own suffering, his own weariness
Devoured by anxiety
Paying the high cost of freedom

As the sun rises
On the holy land
Armies gather
Ready to breach the walls

The dew has not dried, yet the
Screams already rise
Forces spread in the streets

10. As Strong as the Want

Here we are still moving forward
Dragged to bring all this to an end
Driven by a senseless ideal
We proceed always further

Bonded by the strings of our oath
Together like a band of brothers
Feeding the might of divinity so
It's as strong as we want it to be

This is our fault
We can't revoke
We can't change
We are the perpetrators
On our bare hands
Remains the blood we
Can't rub down
Are we meant to take this way?

The doubt is growing in me
I'm longing for peace
Tired of this campaign of hate
Aversion and scorn
Destruction and death
Delusion and pain

Are my brothers also in doubts?
On the verge of despair
On the edge of the gap
Would they even turn against me?
And get rid of a hesitating
Comrade in arms

Bonded by the strings of our oath
Together like a band of brothers
Feeding the might of divinity so
It's as strong as we want it to be

This is the point
Of no return
No way back
Deleting what's behind us
the world we know
Will not survive
It's our turn
To create it new or die in shame

Our faith led us to war
Left us in angst
Carried us abroad, for what?
To blow up our lives
To give them away
Increasing the hunger for more
It brings us ahead
Regardless of the goal
No matter the way
Countless victims we left behind
Even more to come
What are now my choices?

Here we are still moving forward
Dragged to bring all this to an end
Driven by a senseless ideal
We proceed always further

Bonded by the strings of our oath
Together like a band of brothers
Feeding the might of divinity

11. Sancta Terra

Here we are to free the holy land
Land of eternity in hostility

As our feet tread
The yellow sand once
Gorged in blood of our own kind
The thirst dries up my throat
We all expected a scene of splendour
That would bathe in the glory
Of our creator's light

This can't be serious
Is it what we shed our blood for?

Here we are to free the holy land
Land of eternity in hostility

Only wind and dust
Is this all I'll find here?

This land we've longed for
Is nothing but a wasteland
At the end of the world
A shard in the hearth of man

All victims to be
And enemies of yesterday
Will have made no sense
In the scheme of this game

We walked 'til eternity
For our deeds
There will never be an excuse
The worst case realized
Through fault of our own

Here we are to free the holy land
Land of eternity in hostility

Only wind and dust
Is this all I'll find here?

12. An Angel with Burned Wings

Once upon an angel many centuries ago
He gave shelter and hope to protect our kind

The mob blindly believed in his words, trusted his feats
Don't fear the will of God
He's the ambassador and proclaims His will
He will always be by your side

For innumerable years they lived in unity
Until He changed his mind regarding the worth of men

The angels would now become the servants
Of their own wards, the roles were now reversed
He amongst all refused to bow and surrender
He will always be by your side

"Why shall I worship the wretched?
Foolish and naive is the human being
They are made of mud
While I am made of fire and light
I will not prostrate
I'd rather be sent to burn in purgatory
I am pride itself
If I must I'll rot down in hell until the end of time"

The angel's wings got burned and he fell down from the skies
A nemesis was born, a new shadow to the light

Are there only two sides we can choose from,
A steady war, the story repeats itself
For a short while the world is drown in silence
He will always be by my side

13. Immolation to Survive

Again in the midst of war
Shouts of death back to our ears
Unusual assault
Our enemies out of this world
Our choices are few
Out of reach they take cover
Concealed in their own lair
Above and beyond

The end in near
We must get prepared
None of what we learned
Will help us out there

Half of us all seeking for damnation
Our weapons will slaughter the heart of our kind
Their pure souls will rise to the hold of our lord
We'll take our own lives and descend to the fire

All of the roads we covered
All the decrees we have been given
Will fall into oblivion
But our story will be written

The fear in my bones
Mirrored in my brothers' eyes
A final farewell stammered
He'll be the one I'll curse
When the pain devours my flesh
When the blindness takes my sight
When life escapes my stiff limbs
Ready for a new hunt

The end in near
We must get prepared
None of what we learned
Will help us out there

Half of us all seeking for damnation
Our weapons will slaughter the heart of our kind
Their pure souls will rise to the hold of our lord
We'll take our own lives and descend to the fire

The parched earth around our troops
Slowly turning to a crimson lake
As the world blurs out of sight
Our voices rise to defy the skies

Again in the midst of war
Shouts of death back to our ears
Unusual assault
Our enemies out of this world
Our choices are few
Out of reach they take cover
Concealed in their own lair
Above and beyond

The fear in my bones
Mirrored in my brothers' eyes
A final farewell stammered
He'll be the one I'll curse
When the pain devours my flesh
When the blindness takes my sight
When life escapes my stiff limbs
Ready for a new hunt

14. Lament

15. Salvation

Passed the depths of pain
We reached
The two realms of death
Shadow and light
We are now prepared to
Free the world
From the ties of faith
Once and for all

There's no fear
Only a feeling of peace somewhat strange
Considered what is waiting ahead
We opened the gates of paradise
We will now drown it in blood

"I'm the light I am the sole seed of life
Why did you come, you wish to break me apart?
The misery and suffering of your kind
Are not my deeds, you always wrote your own laws"

The meaning of His words strikes us
With the weight of truth sinking inside
We forgot the roots, the core
The essence of our faith
We tainted

All the scriptures
Only written by men
The shackles of faith
Only our creation
Might me repent
As well as our brothers
Redeem all our faults
Will we be forgiven?

"I'm the light I am the sole seed of life
Why did you come, you wish to break me apart?
The misery and suffering of your kind
Are not my deeds, you always wrote your own laws
I'm still the light I'm still the sole seed of life
Why did you come, you wish to break me apart?
Pure intentions combined with a new awareness
Take my blessing and receive salvation"

While another page is turned
Words still hang in the air
Down on the Earth
Another war will now begin
As long as we live
As long as we breathe
There will be no peace
Always blinded by our own lies
Errors of the past
Errors still to come
We will always walk
The only path we will have ever known







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