SOPOR AETERNUS LYRICS

1. Mitternacht

[Instrumental]

2. Beautiful

Your body is covered in fur... you're beautiful.
You're in and out of this world... you're beautiful.

Your skin is scarred and you hurt... you're beautiful.
I know that you stand by your word... 'cause you're beautiful.

Secretly beautiful.

3. La Prima Vez

La prima vez ke te vidi, de tuz ojos me 'namori.
D'akel momento te ami, fin a la tomba te amare.

Aserkate mi kerida, salvadora de mi vida.
Descubrite i avlame, sekretos de tu vida.

4. Bang-Bang

I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight

He shot me down
I hit the ground
That awful sound
My baby shot me down

Seasons came and changed the time
When I grew up I called him mine
He would always laugh and say
Remember when we used to play

Music played and people sang
Just for me the church bells rang

Now he's gone I don't know why
Until this day, sometimes I cry
He didn't even say goodbye
He didn't take the time to lie

He shot me down
I hit the ground
That awful sound
My baby shot me down

5. The Boy Has Built A Catacomb

The Boy has built a catacomb,
he's living in a tomb
below the ground
where there's no sound...
he's hiding from the world.

6. Carnival Of Souls

If your world has crashed around you,
and your hopes and dreams are gone.
If you wish your life was over,
but it drags you on and on.
Then lock up your heart forever
with all your ruined goals.
throw away the key,
come along with me
to the Carnival of Souls.

It's an easy thing to cash in
all your chips and buy a ride,
and the kind of life that you lead
doesn't leave that much behind.
When your flame grows dim
with darkness, and, at last,
a lone bell tolls.
Listen well to me... that bell tolls
for thee from the Carnival of Souls.

But think twice before you enter,
once you're there you can't return
to the world as you know it,
and the hardest thing to learn
is... the heartache and the sorrow
will stay warm like glowing coals.
Yes, it's sad, but true,
they're a part of you
in the Carnival of Souls.

Yes, it's sad, but true,
they are forever a part of you,
and they will burn you
like glowing coals
in the Carnival of Souls.

7. Confessional

Where do I begin,
where should I start?
So much to tell... or nothing at all.
At the end of the day it is all the same,
'cause that's how things are.

No-one ever writes, no-one calls,
only replies, so I have to go first,
which is tiring and sad,
but all that I have,
so I just go ahead with it.

Because:
I DO believe,
I DO believe, I DO believe, I DO,
I DO believe in friendship...-
in FRIENDSHIP and in TRUTH.

I often try picturing what it
would be like to have a friend,
someone who spends his time
with me, enjoys my company
as much as I like him.
Someone who calls for no reason
at all, simply out of a whim...-
whom, at the end of the day,
I don't have to pay
like everyone else.

Someone, who has no gain from
knowing my name, my weakness
or strength, who doesn't pretend
and isn't afraid to share pleasure
or pain, is honest and true.

8. Under His Light

Like sunlight on winterskin,
such is the pleasure he brings.
Down, down, down... to the
high-pitched sound of insect-like
buzzing machines.
Will he be waiting for me?

Bottles of ink and parchments
of glory, all testify to the
intricate story that slowly unfolds
in my mind...-
how could I not bath him in light?

Yet, true is the heart that asks
for nothing in return.
I can't tell him how I feel,
just abandon all hope as I lean back
and close my eyes...-
there are scars in the evening sky.

Green is the light of the
healing heart... or the demon
that tears you apart.
Down, further down.. to the
ever soothing sound
of busily humming machines.

He had not been waiting for me.

The autumn-flower of spring
knows that hope is a terrible thing.
Content with what little may come,
his hands are warm like the sunlight
dancing on pale winterskin...-
I cherish the pleasure he brings
to me.

9. You Cannot Make Him Love You

You cannot make him love you,
not even, if you tried.
The reason for your failure,
it hangs between your thighs.

No, he will never love you,
no matter what may occur.
This road is closed for you here,
because you're just not her!

No, he will never love you,
so do not even try.
The reason for your failure,
right there between your thighs.

No, he will never love you,
consider yourself cursed.
This road is closed forever,
because you are not her!

10. Into The Night

[Instrumental]

11. If You Could Only Read My Mind

If you could only read my mind,
you would know what I feel for you.
If you could only read my mind,
it's only friendship that I seek
and truth.

If you could only read my mind,
you would know that my trust
in you is complete.
If you could only read my mind,
you would know that I cannot
lie or deceive.

If you could only read my mind,
I don't want to scare you away.
If you could only read my mind,
all my life I've been alone,
and I'm afraid... that this might
never change.

Hoping, and waiting, and secretly
praying that I didn't say a wrong word
(or that I've gone too far revealing).
But I have never learned to hide
the things that I carry within me.

If you could only...

12. It's Just That My Sadness

Please, know... my sadness goes
all the way through.
But, please, don't ever think
that I did not believe you.

It's just, when I don't hear
from you in a while,
then the old ghost of doubt
comes back and haunts my mind.

Born from a past, a childhood
made for the most part of hurt
and pain, and it has come here
to show me once more, how it
is all repeating again...

...that my fragile and sad attempt
of finally making a friend
has been once more ridiculed,
and my trust has been betrayed...

...again.

Please, do not ever think
that I am doubting you.
It's just that my sadness
really goes all the way through.

13. Under His Light (2)

[Instrumental]

14. Miniature

Let me tell you a secret, one from
accross the divide; when I saw you
with her that day, I...
...I don't know how I felt,
to be honest. Confused, maybe,
at first and sad, because of the usual,
but just for a moment...-
and then it all changed.

Because there was also another
sensation, one I had never
encountered before:
a genuine pleasance,
a warmth overcame me, and I was
surprised that the only cause for this
was the fact that YOU were happy,
and to witness this fortune
that wasn't my own, was enought yet
for me to abandon my sadness
and delight in the joy...
...that you clearly had found.

But then, as it is with a mind that is
tidal, at the end of the day the sadness
returned, along with the cruelty of my
condition: forever denied... what now
became hers.
To put it more bluntly: I pitied myself.
I sat there and cried and sobbed like
a fool that nature had built me in such
a foul way...- that I will never be
what she is to you.

Yet, as I compared my grey solitude
to the golden halo of your blissful joy,
that warmth from before once more
overcame me and stayed in my heart
till this very day.

So, let me tell you a secret now:
it's almost like I am no longer myself,
I am bathed in a wonderful feeling...-
for I now that you're happy and well.





SOPOR AETERNUS LYRICS