SOULSPLITTER LYRICS

1. The Prophecy

[Music by Fenix Gayed, Daniel Gräupner]
[Words by Fenix Gayed]
[Daniel Gräupner - Piano]
[Narrator voice recorded and performed by Stroppo]
[String Quartet performed by Nuvola Quartet]
[Strings recorded by Thomas Reifner and Fenix Gayed at Musikhochschule, Lübeck]

Turn your heads
Open your ears
For darkest fears
Have turned to threats

Your kin has lost it's will to live
It's will to die, it's will to give -
Back to where all is coming from
Your mother's heart, your father's tongue

A sickness is taking all your best
A trick to keep you powerless

And Gaia weeps, her soul is broken
Eight billion shards, not quite awoken
The dying goddess calls for help
Her cry has reached the upper realms
To turn history into hers
To change the course of our world

2. The Transition

[Music and words by Fenix Gayed]
[Felix Jacobs – Bass]
[Daniel Gräupner – Piano, Organ, Programming]
[Simon Kramer – Electric Guitars]
[Fenix Gayed – Drums, Mellotron, Additional vocals, Programming]
[Lead vocals recorded and performed by Ophelia T. Sullivan]
[Additional vocals, harsh vocals and narrator voice recorded and performed by Stroppo]
[Theremin performed by Trautonia Capra]
[Acoustic guitar performed by Patrick Hänsler]
[Darbuka performed by Tayfun Ates]
[Theremin recorded by Trautonia Capra and Fenix Gayed at GEISTERFAHRER-Studio, Hamburg]
[Mellotron recorded by Matthias Schuster, Trautonia Capra and Jan T. Krahn at Old School Pub in Lohse]

The mind craves a place to feel safe
After all everything is familiar
Reluctant to let go of control
It's afraid of the realms of uncertainty

Love is a force that expands
Like time and space
Always moving forwards
It never stops to lead us to our fate

Stop resisting 'cause it's already inside you

Stop resisting!
Trust your instincts!

I guess I have to face this trial alone
A way to find the purpose of my soul
This is farewell to all
I must embrace the call
I need to trust that I will know
Where to go

And so, just like a pharaoh, he steps into the unknown
To be an alien again
A stranger in a strange world
To cure a goddess he shatters his soul
He moves through the vortex and finally sees
What he is!

3. The Moloch

[Music and words by Fenix Gayed]
[Felix Jacobs – Bass]
[Daniel Gräupner – Piano]
[Simon Kramer – Guitars]
[Fenix Gayed – Drums]
[Vocals performed by Manou Wolfsgruber]

The curtain falls
All memories are gone
Now merely a part of The Moloch
A cell in a being
That runs on black blood
Breathes paper
And feeds on the energy of those
Which are incapable of speaking for themselves

There's false teachings
Inflicted on them all
Disobedience is pointless
They're deaf to the call

How can you be so blind
To all the little miracles around you?
How can you face each day
Living someone else's dream
Believing that's freedom?

How can you be so blunt
To think that everything will be alright?
Even if you don't fight
Even if you don't do what's right

Open your eyes!

Your dreams seem out of sight
It doesn't care to see your light
It has its ears and eyes
It knows all your fears and all your lies

It captures your precious thoughts
With its mind and it's detention
Of what speaks from your soul

Your heart is not aligned
Nobody hears your silent cries

When all you need
To be free
Is to accept that
All you need
To be free
Is to accept where you are
And that you won't be ever understood

You all are part of it
You learned to pretend
You learned to fit

It captures our precious thoughts
With its mind and its detention
Of what speaks from our souls
You're not alone

Cloudy skies
Fade to gray
The radiance of our perception
Ruined by our ignorance
More weapons, more bullets

More pain, more slaughter
All for one purpose
Heighten the separation
To keep us from being all one

There's false teachings inflicted on us all
Resistance is futile
We're deaf to the call

How can you be so blind
To all the little miracles around you?
How can you face each day
Living someone else's dream
Believing that's freedom?
How can you be so blunt
To think that everything will be alright?
Even if you don't fight
Even if you don't do what's right

Open your eyes!
Open your eyes!

And you will see in time
That you are safe to leave this mess behind and believe

4. The Maze

The forest.
Safe haven for grounding and contemplation.
Also a doorway into the wild, where one is alone with their fears as Gaia confronts them.
Until eventually you break through the thicket - and you become a part of her.

[Music and words by Simon Kramer and Fenix Gayed]
[Felix Jacobs – Bass]
[Daniel Gräupner – Piano, Synthezisers, Programming]
[Simon Kramer – Guitars]
[Fenix Gayed – Drums]
[Vocal performance by LoOF]

Where am I really coming from?
Where do I belong?
What have I become?

How can I be completed?
A light to fill this emptiness
I'm looking for my counterpart

Here they are
Unaware that I'm watching
Unaware that I feel what they're thinking

My heart gives in
I'm leaking love
And it tears me open

Let your dreams be spoken – and heard

Don't be afraid
Just keep your faith
This is your Fate
Don't be afraid
This is your fate
Don't be afraid
Follow the Maze

It's me that I can behold
I see the path unfold
"Don't look back!" I'm crying in despair
The path I run leads nowhere

I reach the point of no return
And finally I feel it burning

I see the eye in the sky
Ignites all my hopes and it sears all the holes
And now I enter the light
I know that it's right
I know that it's by my side

5. The Sunset

[Music by Simon Kramer]
[Felix Jacobs – Bass]
[Daniel Gräupner – Piano]
[Simon Kramer – Guitars]
[Fenix Gayed – Drums]
[Programming by Adam Laszlo]

The symbiosis allows to enter a state of psychedelic awareness.
A world of symbols, where every detail holds profound meaning.
Deeper and deeper they drift into the dream. Layer after layer of their selves is
being stripped from them - and reality is but a fading memory...

6. The Dream

The eye of eternity is wide open.
As you stare into it the whole cosmic drama unfolds - and you recognize it:
It's your own eye. Your story. Your dream.

[Music by Simon Kramer, Fenix Gayed, Daniel Gräupner]
[Felix Jacobs – Bass]
[Daniel Gräupner – Piano]
[Simon Kramer – Guitars]
[Fenix Gayed – Drums]
[Solo violin performed by Nathan Kirzon]
[Additional guitar performed by Simon Backes]
[String orchestra performed by Nuvola Quartet and Christian Gayed]
[All strings recorded by Thomas Reifner and Fenix Gayed at Musikhochschule, Lübeck]

7. The Eye of the Cyclone

Finally you've found yourself in the other!
Now, how do you not get lost in the reflection? How do you stay on track?
The urge to help creates expectations, frustration - stagnation.

[Music and words by Fenix Gayed]
[Felix Jacobs – Bass]
[Daniel Gräupner – Piano]
[Simon Kramer – Guitars]
[Fenix Gayed – Drums]
[Vocals performed by Vic Anselmo and LoOF]
[Strings performed by Nuvola Quartet]
[Strings recorded by Thomas Reifner and Fenix Gayed at Musikhochschule, Lübeck]

Rain
Constant downpour that obscures my sight
Where is the line?
Pain
A hail of needles aiming to expose my heart
Control my love

The purpose fades, I lost my flow
Decisions made, I can't let go

You were supposed to be
Divinity for me
Now dependency trapped me in your zone
You're the eye of the cyclone
With ev'ry step away from you it seems
To increase the pain
So I just keep pushing against the gale
I must prevail

Once in a while a beam of light tries to provide
Temporary shelter

Dust
A veil of indecisiveness that's just
As if gazing through a looking-glass
I must
Find a way to shatter it to see the sun
Be as one

The purpose fades, I lost my flow
Decisions made, I can't let go

You were supposed to be...

You were supposed to be
Divinity for me
Now dependency trapped me in your zone
You're the eye of the cyclone
With ev'ry step away from you it seems
To increase the pain
So I just keep pushing against the gale
I must prevail!

8. The Sacrifice

Pain is inevitable.
It only becomes bearable once it is truly felt.
With acceptance comes liberation. And ultimate freedom requires the ultimate sacrifice.
To live is to die.
To die is to let go of control.
To let go of control is to fully live.

[Music and words by Fenix Gayed]
[Felix Jacobs – Bass]
[Daniel Gräupner – Piano, Programming]
[Simon Kramer – Guitars]
[Fenix Gayed – Drums, Marimba, Programming]
[Vocals performed and recorded by Marian Feistritzer]
[String orchestra performed by German Pops Orchestra]
[French Horn performed by Isgard Book]
[String orchestra conducted by Florian Sitzmann]
[String orchestra recorded by Dennis Kopacz, Adam Laszlo and Fenix Gayed at Popakademie, Baden-Württemberg]
[French Horn recorded by Thomas Reifner and Fenix Gayed at Musikhochschule, Lübeck]

The light is gone
I wander through the darkest night
(Aimlessly)
Where should I go?
How can I save a world
When I can't even save my love?

I don't know how
To clear the clutter in my thoughts
(Everything so loud)
Deafening silence surrounds
And through it all
A voice cutting holes in my head:
"It wasn't enough!"

The light is gone
My restlessness is killing me
Confusion reigns
I'm craving for a place to be
Cry of despair
Lost in the air
No one's listening
Havoc in mind
Need to rewind
Into the night

I just can't be your hero
For as long as I just can't believe you
That you dare to expand beyond reality
And mutualize our destiny

Urgency is growing stronger
I can't continue any longer
The rite of passage has begun
Seed is placed and deed is done
Now I need to move on
Please, release me

Gaia calls me to her womb
So I step into my tomb
To let go of what
I never meant to retain

We can make this world anew
We're in charge of what to do
And we know it's right
As we fly into the light

My soul stays with you
We are one
Our connection conquers space and time
I honor you
We are one
Deep within we share a mutual core
Don't worry now
We are one
Not apart, not quite together
I have faith in you
We are one
You will see that you are not alone

I just can't be your hero
For as long as I just can't believe you
That you dare to expand beyond reality
And mutualize our destiny
We can be free!







SOULSPLITTER LYRICS