- Rèsumè...
Over there that little mountain rises,while some others dissolve into a plain.Time redefines itselfand falls in sadness grain by grain..."Time, my dear, heals all the wounds",the two-tongued echoes seem to say.But...
- Die Stimme Im Sturm
Jenseits der Grenzen dieses Reicheszog eine Bardin weit durch das Land.Sie kam mit dem Wind und sie folgte dem Morgen,der Spielleute Freiheit ist fern aller Sorgen...und so fand sie das Schloss an der Klippe Randund...
- There Was A Country By The Sea
There was a country by the sea,but I cannot say for certain,whether it was part of a lonely isle,or merely some coastal region.A landing-stage of rotten blanksstretched carefully into the waves,and for one moment I...
- The Dog Burial
"Rasch, beeilt Euch, steigt hinab,ich hort' ihn atmen dort im Grab! Bringt Licht herbei, brecht auf den Sarg! Was zaudert ihr?! Tut, wie ich sag', bevor sein Herz gibt auf den Schlag...!"
- Ein Freundliches Wort Hat Meine Seele Berührt
" `s wird wohl ein Tag wie all die ander'n werden" so sagt' ich mir, war innerlich bereit die üblen Worte aufs neue zu ertragen, den täglich' Spott, das altbekannte Leid. Doch zaubrisch,mächt'ge Dinge die können...
- The Feast Of Blood
Today they've found another one,Lifeless on the cold subway-floor.His face was turned to his back ... -The same way the other died before.Drain the mortals to their last convulsionand veil the ancient cause,Let off...
- Hades Pluton
I dreamt that I was lying on the bottom ofThe dark and never-ending seaOn a bed that my dead lover was preparingWith his own skeleton for me("...bring us a goat and we'll show you the wayStraight through the realm of...
- Stake Of My Soul
Would your bare your neck ... to the walking dead ...Secretly, at least, within the safety of your head?Tell me, isn't it nice - every once in a while -Being the centre of attention of a loving,Handsome ......
- Something Wicked This Way Comes...
Perhaps this is the saddest story,it is full of pain and hurt,because, of all the names and phrasesof this mortal world,there is only one that I hatemore than any other,and this most disgusting termis the one of...
- Time Stands Still...
That little mountain raises (silently)while other dissolve into a plaintime redefines itself (irrationally)and falls in sadness grain by grain..."Time heals all the wounds"The two-tongued echo seems to saybut nothing,...
- The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller
Alles ist nur Illusion und von mir erschaffen, Doch ich vermag ihr nicht zu entflieh'n, Bin in meinem eigenen Trugbild gefangen,Und meine armen Augen erkennen kein Ziel. Die Antwort kann niemals im Aussen sein, Sie...
- Drama Der Geschlechtslosigkeit I
Bin weder Mann, noch bin ich Frau,bin irgendwo zwischendrin,Weiß nicht wohin ich gehöre, Weiß nicht was ich bin... Traurigkeit erfüllt meine Seelein jedem einzelnen Augenblick,was vor mir liegt kann ich nicht...
- Holy Water Moonlight
Undead ... and still suffering,Always suffering.Wooden stake, come, impale my heart ... -Driven through this ancient heart !Holy water, heal my wounds ... -Everything has now changed sides;Walking through the garden...
- To A Loyal Friend
Once there was a timewhen the conquest of painwas all that I could hope for, had been my only aim.Happiness or joy merely unwords without meaning,they were unwanted anyway as surely out off-place.All I wanted was the...
- Anima II
The Woman I am no mirror can see,My breast are still small and my voice is so deep. The Woman I am unable (she cannot) feel love, I wish to cut my genitals and feed them to the dogs. The woman I am prepared to...
- Freitod-Phantasien
Two half figures stand ashorethe darkest lake embraced by coldveils of mist and icy breathblows the leaves away...And the old black trees spread their long dead arms.As the souls of the dead call across the...
- The Dreadful Mirror
White as snow lie my lover's bonesin the soft, velvet soil of the vault,And I, his bride, sleep by his side,To celebrate our sacred love.At times it seems that I'm existing onlywithin some fading memory,But dreams are...
- Cage Within A Cage
Wieder nur ein Käfig innerhalb eines Käfigs,und jegliches Erwachen ist nur grausame Illusion,ewig gefangen in der eigenen Traum; uschung,wie der trügerische Traum innerhalb eines Traums...
- Infant
Would your bare your neck ... to the walking dead ...Secretly, at least, within the safety of your head?Tell me, isn't it nice - every once in a while -Being the centre of attention of a loving,Handsome ......
- The Sleeper
At midnight, in the month of June,I stand beneath the mystic moon.An opiate vapour, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim,And, softly dripping, drop by drop,Upon the quiet mountain top,Steals drowsily and...
- Shadowsphere I
This is a sad day here in the world of shadesbut even pain has its own beautyeven pain can perform a lovely face.Blinding stream, double-edged,in an extra-terrestrial gloom, beautiful creation of steel grown in my...
- Dark Delight
Hands folded in a prayer,A rosary embedded in-between ... -Tonight I'll join you in your sleep.(... sleep brings no joy to me ...)I'll bring you back to life this night,It's meant for the flesh at least ... -I'll join...
- If Loneliness Was All
Imagine what it would be like if loneliness was all...!No fulfillment, nor hope inside, could I endure this sadest fateif loneliness was all...? (scene cut)"Will i ever find the onei've waited for a thousand...
- Do You Know About The Water Of Life ?
In my subterranean tower...-yes, it was "love" that has brought me here,there are no numbers, but one and eleven,and an uncertain feeling about the persence of three.Built brick by brick and fear by fear...-Oh,...
- Gebet: An Die Glückligen Eroberer
Ich ruf' Euch, Würmer, denn diese Leich' hält Einzug nun ins Totenreich. Zu schwerer Erde, kalt und klamm,trau' ich Euch meinen Liebsten an.Sein Leib, entseelt nun, bald Gebein, soll für Euch Fest und Wohnstatt...
- Anima I
The Woman I am no mirror can see,My breast are still small and my voice is so deep.The Woman I am unable (she cannot) feel love,I wish to cut my genitals and feed them to the dogs.The woman I am prepared to receive...
- Memories Are Haunted Places
- Penance & Pain
The living ... have a look at the living:Dancing blindly ... losing balance,Will you chose pain ... or will you prefer the penance;The penance.The living ... have a look at the living:Dancing blindly ... losing...
- Saturn-Impressionen
Der kalte See liegt schweigend im Nebelund ewig wird er sein.Sie alle hat er bereits empfangen,und auch ich tauche bald in seine Fluten ein.Die Zeit, sie liegt schon weit zurück, als das Erste von uns sank in die...
- Alone
From childhood's hour I have not been as others were - I have not seen as others saw - I could not bring my passions from a comon spring. From the same source I have not taken my sorrow;I could not awaken my heart...
- Flesh Crucifix
Mors voluntariavenerabilis es deame suaviari cum labris frigorumtu obscurissima omnes deorum...
- Omen Sinistrum
Kiss the corpse, the blessed sigh,walk in the garden of the night.Hold the carcass, sweetest lie,bury the body you chose to deny.Shed a tear, suspended in fear... -every soul is starving here.
- Lied Der Todesfee
Dunkel die Wolken und grausam der Wind,seit so vielen Zeitendurchschreit' ich die Weiten,denn ich bin der Einsamkeit Kind.Ziehen die Raben den Toten auch nach,so werd' ich doch suchen,die Sonne verfluchen...mein Grab,...
- Beautiful Thorn
Ivy kissed the shadows,As mo(u)rning lusts for dew,She with lips of sweetest pain,Lies in wait for you.With the dawn she went away,Before mist veiled the earth,Nothing remained - except for the wounds -The only gift...
- On Satur(n) Days We Used To Sleep
On Satur(n)days we used to sleepall motionless and still... While shrouded in an oppressive gloom we're handed over to the dream. A sleep so dark, this "Moon by Day", of powers strange and weird, through mystic veils...
- Modela Est
Modela et specie pulchra est. Libenter hadie domum meam mecum eam auferam. Frigidam videtur auram tenere, neminem sibi patiens accedere, sed ante camera demonstrat artem suam. Vinum scatens bibit, recte, nocte in...
- Memalon
Who is the old man, who fills my heart with greatest pain yet his name remains unheard?I look at you and true tears shake my eternal Saturnworld.Who is the old man, whose picture burned itself down to the bottom of...
- Schwarzer Spiegel
Weit fort von jedem bekannten Land,hinter den Grenzen, in Steine gebannt...dort ruht ein Geheimnis von dunkler Macht,welches jedem, der's sah, grosses unglück gebracht.Dort, verschlossen in tiefstem Gestein,hinter...
- Sternblumennacht
Es war Mitternacht im Feenwald,das Licht des mondes... bleich und kalt.Rauschend... der Wind... in uralten Bäumen,und Nebellicht, voll von verlorenen Träumen.Da sah ich sie blühen am Wegesrand:Sternblumen... -hell,...
- Dead Souls
Hidden behind merciful shadows, beyond the cruel daylight,living to hunt and kill, we are the... damned children of the night.Dragging our immune existence through thousands of centuriesand from dusk to dawn we suffer...
- Alone II
From childhood's hour I have not been as others were I have not seen as others saw I could not bring my passions from a comon spring.From the same source I have not taken my sorrow;I could not awaken my heart to joy...
- Not Dead But Dying
Take my hand in the old 'Theatre Of Seven Hells',a ferry that bowed its wings,we call Her: 'Moon by Day'.Life - a book of painful tongue that hurts our ears.Flowers of the end, their seed shall grow. Your breath...
- ...And Bringer Of Sadness
Oh Saturn, come ... devour me,save in your Darkness I long to sleep.I'll make my heart a sword of steel,I will not doubt, will never feel.All petrified I shall not fear...(... though petrified I'm breathing fear).Oh...
- This Profane Finality
Bury me deep in the blackest earthdrunken on maggots, home of thousand worms. Nail me up into the blackest coffinand bed me down into the deepest pit.Shrouded I am waiting for me cold friends - the final beasts.You...
- No-One Is There
Now and then I'm scared, when i seem to forget how sounds become words or even sentances... No, i don't speak anymore and what could i say, since no-one is there and there is nothing to say... So, i prefer to lie in...
- Transfiguration
Nothing in this world can be as immaculate and pureas the love of us Cold Ones for the dead. Our love lives only in those fleeting moments of recollection...memories we're fearing to forget.Our love knows neither...
- Sieh', Mein Geliebter, Hier Hab' Ich Gift
"Schatten, Schatten, komm' herbei, auf diesem Lager harrt ein Leib! Die Brust, die unstet steigt und sinkt, der Atem neues Leid nur bringt...!" Ein Seufzen, schwach, er zittert arg, sein trüber Blick nimmt nichts...
- Ãœber Den Fluss
He woke up, as his flesh fell off ... slice by slice,Floating high up in the air, more than ten-thousand miles.He said, he was crucified underneath a baneful sky,Had nails through feet and hands,Yes, also nails in his...
- Baptisma
Shivering with ... awe ... and delight:"Here is my throat", he said,As he bowed his head ... in silence ... to him.Behold his white flesh ... shining in the velvet of darkness.Take him now, and he will be yours ......
- The Devil's Instrument
Thoughts are spinning their inescapable threadstransforming us cruelly into marionettes.Everything I feel is painand the Devil holds us in his hands.Buried desperately in my chest a rose for myself and a rose for...
- Synchronicity
Saturn-Orion, Saturn-Orioninto the night, we call Saturn-Orion beyond this darkness sense Jupiter arise travelling in silencewe tranvce-form our minds beyond this darkness sense Jupiter's risemit offenem Geiste...
- Little Velveteen Knight
Infants like phantoms, denied and suspected,their existence discovered always when least expected.Prepared for the day, the knight, he just cannot keepthe perfect mask in its place, when he is falling asleep.Faces...
- Schattengesang
In kalter Nacht voll Silbermond,der Eule Schrei klang weit...das Mädchen fand wohl keinen Schlaf,griff Mantel sich und Kleid.Ging fort, weit in die Dunkelheit,der Warnung unbedacht, dass:"...Geisterstimme heller...
- May I Kiss Your Wound ?
May I kiss your wound ?Maybe that will heal my soul.Free me from this tomb,light my darkness, make me whole!Let me take your hand, and together we shall flyto a lonely place, where as "lovers" we can die.In a land ......
- Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est
"... kiss the corpse, the blessed sigh, enter the garden of the night.Shed a tear, suspended in fear ... - Every soul is starving here ..."The silence of the graves is not silent at all:Millions of the dead are crying...
- Shadowsphere II
Black wall eat up my life and suffocate,This is a sad day in the Shadowsphere...Two suns are dancing cruelly in the dark,Forcefully swimming through-out this space....
- Tanz Der Grausamkeit
Tongue of silence, lick my lips,steal my thoughts, steal my pride.My soul lies offered as I'm waiting,intoxicate me when you step inside...Hold my hands, my hands are trembling,your charming beauty takes my...
- Totenlicht
Den Raum verändernd schließ' ich meine Augen.Ich reise, doch ich bewege mich nicht auf der Suche nach Dir, der Du es verstehst,wie man sich meinem Bewußtsein erfolgreich entzieht. Das Ziel meiner Reise sollst Du...
- Der See Des Vergessens
Weit fort in einem fremden Landund hinter eines Waldes Rand,wo mancher schon sein Ende fand...dort liegt Lazemare.Dunkel, unergründlich tief,wo mancher in sein Schicksal lief,den das Wasser zu sich rief...Lazemare,...
- Soror Sui Excidium
"Step into my thought, blades sharp and long !"While I dared to gaze inside myselfand caught a glimpse of what...yes, perform your own destructionand I feel the same delight share the wish to die. Spiritualized this...
- Saltatio Crudelitatis
Tongue of silence, lick my lips,steal my thoughts, steal my pride.My soul lies offered as I'm waiting,intoxicate me when you step inside...Hold my hands, my hands are trembling, your charming beauty takes my...
- Tales From The Inverted Womb
Alas, let me tell you about the beauty of the tomb:the stained glass, all viole(n)t, enhancing the gloom.Dark flowers, all withered, fragile and old,yet, their perfume still lingers like a secret untold.Like a dream,...
- Totes Kind
Gestern zählt' ich noch kein Sieben,doch heut' bin ich schon tausend jahr'.und scheint mein Leib auch gleich geblieben,ist meine Seel' dem Tod doch nah'.Wo vormals bunte Blumen waren,wetteifernd in Wuchs und...
- Va(r)Nitas, Vanitas... (...Omnia Vanitas)
Knochen verbrennen bei 760 C, und damit ist eigentlich auch schon alles gesagt.Komm', lab' uns spielen "Konig & Konigin",dreimal darfst Du raten, wer von beiden ich dann bin! Doch in Grunde ist dies alles einerlei,...
- Die Bruderschaft Des Schmerzes
By a route obscure and lonely, haunted by ill angels only,where an Eidolon named "Night", on a black thronereigns upright,I have reached these lands but newly, from anultimate dim Thule.from a wild weird clime that...
- An Die Sterne
Ich sehe Dich, Stern, dort am Himmel,so kalt und so unendlich weit...-und doch hast Du Trost mir gegeben,warst mir immer treues Geleit.Deiner Schwester, der Mondin, entsagend,gleich meiner Hoffnung auf Licht,zieh' ich...
- Only The Dead In The Twist
Old, senseless thoughts half frozen in loneliness,faster and faster we're spinning in circles; imprisoned in pain, floating without sound,the death in the mist aimlessly wandering around.Our sad eyes say: "We have...
- Todeswunsch
Chill is dripping silently,I am drowning in myself.My hope has left me alone and barren,my grave - the only loving place.I hate my own loathsome smell,this stench and old-age and maledorous fear. How I hate each...
- Saturn Devouring His Children
We know the secret reason,the reason for his parricide,the silent and illusive try to stop the fleeting hand of time.A strategy, that will always bebut a hopeless venture, bound to fail,and all he ever does conceive...
- Somnabulist's Secret Bardo-Life
I have no body and I feel no painfor I am no longer here again.Now I can fly through-out the widest spacefinally I'm set free from all my chains.A farewell to heaven and a farewell to old hell,from now on we shall...
- Reprise
Hanging down from the ceiling ... the old pendulum now rests,Time stands still ... - like iron - ... in the house of the dead.Our fragile souls lie weeping, sealed in sleep and balls of lead,All flowers here are dust,...
- Feralia Genitalia
I found myself in a room that resembled a bath, saw my imagereflected, watched my genitals falling off. Oh, what a sight when I understood the fright and what it (really) was: -as the old shape- deceased the...
- Do You Know My Name?
I shattered all the mirrorsfearfully hopingthat they won't be able to remembermy face.Darkest of all lightsmost greedy to embracesurrounded by demonsand breathing in life..."I don't want to bea perverted temple of my...
- Memalon II
Who is the old man,who fills my heart with greatest pain yet his name remains unheard? I look at you and true tears shake my eternal saturnworld. Who is the old man, whose picture burned itself down to the bottom...
- Across The Bridge
From far beyond the veil of sleep some ancient voice does seemto whisper my forgotten name weakly, yet solemnly. So remotely that one might thinkit had been but a dream, echo of some illusive call of fleeting...
- Birth - Fiendish Figuration
Exposed with hands as emptyas the opposite space,crawling we moveto where the final station lies, to whom is the debtthat we are forced to pay...?Real forces dare to appear onlywhen we turn away,truth reveals...
- Ich Wollte Hinaus In Den Garten
Ich wollte hinaus in den Garten, zu begraben meines Liebsten Gebein', doch als ich kam zu der Tür seiner Kammer, da öffnet' ich sie und trat hinein. Dort lagen noch all seine Sachen, ganz so, als wär' er nicht...
- Freitod - Phantasien
Two half figures stand ashore the darkest lake embraced by coldveils of mist and icy breathblows the leaves away... And the old black trees spread their long dead arms.As the souls of the dead call across the water...
- Inschrift/Epitaph
Hier, unter diesem alten Stein,liegen eng beieinander die Gebein' zweier Wesen, die wie eines war'n. Denn als von beiden das Eine verstarb, folgte das Andere ihm ins Grab... nach nicht einmal ganz einem Jahr.
- Abschied
Seinem Geiste bekenne ich mich,ein Sehnen verzehret sein schönesGesicht,daß, ermattet, von Güte beschattet, allmächtig ist.Sein Körperbewegt sich nicht...-im Traume sich endlich sein Zwingen vergißt.Den...
- Backbone Practise
(unpleasant reminder in a subterranean pathology department)We are entering the operating theatre of the familiar morgue:the student nurses are making a lot of noise,their voices echo from the bare tiled walls ...-I...
- The Skeletal Garden
Will I become like the old man from next door?Obsessed with the fear of losing his mind,he soon couldn't take care of himself anymore.He had no friends or relatives to look after him,only once a week some male nurse...
- The Encoded Cloister
(The MIRROR ... is the THEATRE ... where the AUTOPSY ... begins)Please, be so kind to leave this place,none of your kin(d) is wanted here;a dreadful tremor shakes these walls ...-your presence vibrates violently.Over...
- Idleness & Consequence
The boy took a stroll along the shores of the well-constructed brook,carefully climbed a waterfall, built of semiprecious rock ...-and gazed at the crystal that he had picked up from the ground.Washing the boy's bare...
- Hearse-Shaped Basins Of Darkest Matter
On the left side ... again ...black fish are being bred ...-cultivated in vast amount.Harboured by enormous tubs, all of them made of glass,they are resembling massive moving planes;one of these even has the shape of...
- Feed The Birds
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- Consolatrix Has Left The Building
Strolling all alone ... across the ancient cemetery ...-tell me, isn't everything here ... of a timeless green?!I see that several visitors are also gathered here,having an idle, little saunter on the old graveyard...
- Interlude - The Quiet Earth
Ach, hätt' ich heut' drei Wünsche frei,die Wahl fiel mir nicht schwer,drei Wünsche nur, das reichte aus,ich bräuchte gar nicht mehr.Mein erster Wunsch, gesteh' ich gern,wär' nur für mich allein ...-ich würd'...
- Beyond The Wall Of Sleep
Every now and then it seems to methat there is greatest danger lying hidden in the depths of sleep ...Saddest the wanderer ... who is travelling herefor far too often ..., or just longer than his mortal mind would...
- Imhotep
(Schwarzer Drache mischt einen Sturm)"... Armes, dunkles Wolkenkind,hast Dich erneut in Sturm gehüllt,im fadenschein'gen PechgewandDich selbst in ew'ge Nacht verbannt.Die undurchdringlich' zweite Haut,hat die Grenze...
- Leeches & Deception
The old monk of a somewhat Thelemite, or "crow"-related order,dressed in a torn, old gown of jute,had been locked up in a tiny box inside a wall,this cubic room was painted in dark(est)-red and midnight-blue.When the...
- We Have A Dog To Exercise
When the old ghost of suicidecreeps slowly back into your mind,then everything is bleak and blurred ...-down here in the short-sighted world.Yet, this time I have to insiston the sharpness of the things I missed...
- The Lion's Promise
After the boy had taken a walkwith his dear - deceased - grandmother,his feet were somehow led to a small, ancient church,which was giving quite an imposing grandeur.Partially sunken in the morass of the marshlandall...
- Day Of The Dead
Unexpected ... suddenly ... as if from nowhere they appear,the monks are wearing fire-coloured gowns,their faces, friendly but determined, are hidden behind lacquered masks,painted black & white, they're having the...
- The Goat
There is an old goat at my window-pane, standing upright in a frock-coat,somewhat earth-coloured and plain.He is starring down at me ...and the place where i have chosen to hide ...in the futile attempt to dissolve...
- The Conqueror Worm
Lo! Tis a gala nightWithin the lonesome latter years!An Angel throng, bewinged, bedightIn veils, and drownd in tears,Sit in a theatre, to seeA play of hopes and fears.While the orchestra breathes fitfullyThe music of...
- Minnesang
Oh, wie gern’ würd’ er Euch künden von der Welt und wie er sie sieht, doch wie könnte von etwas er sprechen, von dem er absolut nichts versteht?! Wie gern’ würd’ er Euch singen von der Liebe, die alles...
- Von Deir Einfant
Bestimmt seit tausend Jahren schon … auf dem kalten Grund des Meer’s ; ach sag’, mein Kind, Du kennst den Schlaf: wie lange ist es wohl schon her? Wie Du, so sind auch wir geschlagen … und im Tode träumen wir. Du...
- Voices Of The Dead
Out- out are the lights- out all!And, over each quivering form,The curtain, a funeral pall,Comes down with the rush of a storm
- In An Hour Darkly
In einer dunklen Stunde, ach, alle Stunden sind dunkel hier. Aus einem Bechervon zartestem Flieder trinken wir Tee allein mit mir.My name is BROKEN CHALICE and leaden I am filled all the way up to thebrim; filled with...
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