SYLVAN LYRICS

1. Not Far From The Sky

Wait… approach them inside… jointly expectant and quiet, awhile…
Here… not far from the sky… with a case, in the flickering light, beside…

Loved… their seed inside, feel feather-light… with faith in their clear eyes…
A drought… it’s passing by… just volatile… it followed them here and tonight

This once… I feel this is my chance… I’m sure we are, no doubt, somehow at home now!
Deeply… I sense that it grows in me… oh please let it, this time, be my cloud nine!

This is a magical and pure and an extraordinary time!
Here, full of candy-coloured garlands I can leave it all behind!
And in this land of milk and honey waits my natural paradise!
Where we can settle down forever, no matter what will wait outside!

Here... where prospects reside...
they're about to find out what the case could hide...

2. Shaped Out Of Clouds

Now they read 'bout things that they should know: of break-ups and divorce
Statistically the figures tend to grow, this article deplores

Virtually impossible, it seems, that couples coexist
Literally interpreted it means that dreams might not persist...

But our love, eternally, withstands and braves this storm with ease... for sure!

Logically..., this paragraph concludes, ...society bears the blame
Regrettably - and this is nothing new - a bitter taste remains...

But our love, our family will face this dare and finally succeed... oh, please!
And our confidence will hopefully prevail over tendencies... I know...

Lift me up and never let me down!
Lift me up where you can form the clouds with me!
And our castle we will shape here out of
these clouds will prove unshakable for me...

... and then they put them down... those scrapped articles that they have found...
... where the candle sends off light of doubt... they open the door, look back and blow it out...

When you wake I'll receive you, and that moment I'll greet you...
With my heart I will touch you... and that day we will shine!

3. In Between

Rockets waiting to traverse the iron wall
Threateningly towering above it all
Targeting a homeland that's about to change
Every house and every home is within range... and...

From those cold days soars a breath to touch her face
When, back here, she opens up the tempting case
What she reads unveils a feel she used to know
Bring back images from thirty years ago

Don't you let it out!

When she was a child she often felt alone
Without family and always without love, without home
And she often wondered where to find her source
That's when history was just about to take its course

In between those rockets she was not afraid
For there was no homeland to annihilate
When she puts the old article back inside
Once again she feels just like the orphaned child

Don't you let it out!

Soldiers waiting to invade and governments who escalate
When psychopaths can play the boss and no-one cares of human loss
Raving nuclear armament, huge flattops, anti-aircraft tanks
And I can't sort thing out, no, I can't sort it, I can't get it!

Troops intimidating us with wild testosteronic lust
And a child is sitting in between, my home, where deserts should be green
Will childhood innocence transform to something different?
How could I?

Nothing grows on wrong, nothing grows on right...
Nothing sees the day when it can not stand the night...

... and the situation starts to escalate...
... as bilateral tensions now exacerbate...
... diplomatic ties were broken off tonight...
... red alert proclaimed this morning nationwide...

4. With The Eyes Of A Child

Worn and drained, innocent, so weak and faint
Huddled for us, now bled white in exchange for our life

Hear it's call... this is our last unicorn...
Wounded and displaced, unheard it will fall... then we will have lost it all…

Exploited lands... depleted soil... feigned ignorance
Here, timidly... from dreams reborn... she draws the lonely unicorn...

With the eyes of a child, we'd trace it!
With the eyes of a child, we'd see!
We would cherish the world, full of roses!
And our last unicorn, it would live!

What a choice... will it be...
from where it came to me?
What on earth... our legacy...
can it live truly?

5. Black And White

Thoughts, sometimes sad and sometimes bright, once conceived won't go away
With time, somehow cruel and volatile, they intensify
Somewhere they have reached her, unperceived, so faint, so quiet
And she is so fragile, like the vulnerable child that she keeps inside...

The paintings that you draw in your world, so easily they grace and they shine
A fancy from your childhood returned, but sometimes you just draw it black and white

Dreams, sometimes shaded, sometimes light,
once they're forged they fade away
At times, with a stroke of wing they fly off eternally...

The paintings that you draw in your world,
so easily they grace and they shine
A fancy from your childhood returned,
but sometimes you just draw it black and white

Stillness spreads out slowly, makes itself at home
In this house where she thrived, she now feels alone

Whispers from a foretime fill her heart with rain
Once somebody left here all the grief that never died away

6. The Sound Of Her World

Flowery meadows and green coloured lands
Beating the fields, touching grass with my hands
Cartways I walk on, broad acres I roam
And then afar, within sight, there's home!

In your hands I believe I can reach for this dream quite easily
In your hands I believe, yes I feel that it's near...

Hold me, tight... enough for me now... Lead me, right... enough for me now...
Know me, wise... enough for me now... Show me, in sight...

Now the fields she has roamed are covered with haze
And a mist from the east now darkens the days
When the sirens afar are starting to scream
When no hand is in sight she wakes from her dream

And the sound of her world is starting to change
And the sound of her world become twisted and strange
And in the sound of her world a discord appears
Somehow the sound of her world's infiltrated by fears

My love, can you hear this shrill sound! It's as if it followed us out of my dreams...
And now it is spinning around! All that once was near now seems beyond arm's reach!

...the loneliness is coming... the loneliness is coming... sound of her world...

Hold me, tight... enough for me now... Lead me, right... enough for me now...
Knows me, wise... enough for me now... Show me, in sight... Enough for me now!

7. Sleep Tight

You, my dear, sleep tight! Leave the day behind you...
You, my love, sleep tight! Let me read out tonight...
I'll promise to soothe you, no danger will stray...
All worries that haunt you, I'll blow them away...

Swallowed the pill to fool you, nightmares gobbed distorted lies
Implicit trust that led to awakenings with bitter cries

Take it away from me... take it away!

So unscrupulous and pharmaceutically blasphemous
It kills a motherly happiness she once could feel...
And in her sleep relentlessly emerges an imagery that won't go away!

Am I asleep or awake? Is it night, is it day? I don't know ... don't know ...
But for god's sake, please blow it away!

I could not trust in you, how should you ever trust me? And I sleep...

You, my dear, sleep tight! Leave your past behind you...
You, my love, sleep tight! Let me blow out the light...

8. Off Her Hands

That day the clouds brought rain and it went viral in her head
She could not quite explain - was it due to what she read?
That's when her thoughts spread out and the wind raged above her...
Somehow the storm brought doubts - now they'll stay there...

What if you needed shelter, that I can't provide?
Could I always protect you from all that's outside?

Was she afraid to be vulnerable here? Just because she once knew it?
She got infected by threads and old fears… got intruded…

What if you needed shelter, that I can't provide?
Could I always protect you from all that's outside?

Every night and every day, she's not immune, it won't go away
What's the price that we'll pay? Is it our punishment? Who's to say?
Battlefields of our life, the enemy's here and it waits inside
In our veins, that is where it will fight... so insatiably!

What if you needed shelter, that I can't provide?
Could I always protect you from all that's outside?
How should I ever love you with pain in my heart?
For the fear I could lose you would tear me apart!

That day the clouds brought rain and she plagued herself with dread
It did not wash away all these headlines in her head...

9. Shine

So long ago but still no end...
the creeps that I feel
More pain than a young child could stand...
much too real
I skim these lines with trembling hands...
do they speak of me?
Forlorn child... forlorn child...

Out of the dark, please shine, my child, don't cry!
Against all this pain, please fight, despite... please try!

And while I have fight my tears I live it again...
My bruises start to reappear... like back then...
Forgive me, I was far too weak... but I was just a child!
A forlorn child... forlorn child...

Out of the dark, please shine, my child, don't cry!
Against all this pain, please fight, despite... please try!

What the hell, they think they're doing? Can't they feel the shame?
Stainless innocence they ruin! Who will take the blame?
Killing sanctimoniously... filthy, heartless men...
I am you and you are me... it won´t take place again!

10. Point Of No Return

I got to shut them up... I got to rule it out...
I got to bring them down... and find a way somehow...
Speak to me every day... voices inside my head...
I must not take the charge... that´s what the voices said...
No time to hesitate... feel how it starts to burn...
Approach the final day... the point of no return...

It´s a breeze, you feast on dirt that you eat... just this you´ll learn right here!
Disturbingly, get real, go down on your knees... the weakest have to bleed!

Over the cloud-covered sky... where sorrows unwind...
Here against the head wind I fly... and leave it behind...

Victimized, you bite the bullet and hide... oh boy, you are dead right!

Over the cloud-covered sky... where sorrows unwind...
Here against the head wind I fly... and leave it behind...

11. All These Years

In a corner of her head lies a known but dead-end place
Where the torments hunt her down since she found Pandora's case
In her hand she holds a note,
it was buried here all those painful years, all her life
... and it strikes her down!
As she sinks down on the floor, as she cries
just to deplore the disgrace with tears on her face:
What have you done? Why did you throw me away?

My dear, did I quite let you down?
And I thought I followed you through all these years...
My love, I was always around! I was the cold wind,
brought you shivers of fears!

In her mind the time stands
still and no sound can reach her ear
Singularity of sense... then the words just reappear
They were written long ago, soaked in tearfulness,
a bitter consequence... even now
... and it strikes her down!

All the relics of this world,
all the reasons they were kept in this case...
she screams in a rage
Mother, you lied!
How could you throw me away?

My dear, did I quite let you down?
And I thought I followed you through all these years...
My love, I was always around!
I was the cold wind, brought you shivers of fears!

Hold me, tight... enough for me now...
Lead me, right... enough for me now...
Know me, wise... enough for me now...
Show me, in sight...

12. Home

Here... she sits down and cries...
With the case, in the flickering light, beside...

Now... it's time to decide...
and the breeze of her mother, with time, falls quiet...

And now, that they have brought to life
A treasure that has grown inside
Devoid of fears, beyond the past,
they realise it's worth at last

The case is gone, the wind has ceased, each day they value now with ease
And closer to the sky, it seems, they finally arrived...

When you wake I'll receive you, and that moment I'll greet you...
With a rose I will paint you... and today it will shine!







SYLVAN LYRICS