Alone, but for your Celeste At your reverent feet, I rest And plead forgiveness I face the blinding sun And ask for my last rites Oh, Celeste... forgive me Sunset To bathe in your milky red radiance Like a God Illuminates, enraptures, captivates Woe The grey clouds are shedding tears Oh, how they weep I share their grief, and so do you I know... and you know It is clear the storms are everlasting And forever... The unspoken heart of ebony The unbroken heart of ebony The undying heart of ebony... Seems to beat not for me Oh, Woe... The grey clouds cast a shadow overhead The last sunset, your fall I dread On bruised and bended knees I throw my hands to my face And I tear shreds of skin away, in vain Forgive me.
Bricks are heavy, 1992
When I get mad
And I get pissed
I grab my pen
And I write out a list
Of all the people
That won't be missed
You've made my shitlist
For all the ones
Who bum me out
Shitlist
For all the ones
Who fill my head with doubt
Shitlist
For all the squares who get me pissed
Shitlist
You've made my shitlist
Shitlist
Shitlist
When I get mad
And I get pissed
Shitlist
I grab my pen
And write out a list
Shitlist
Of all you assholes
Who won't be missed
Shitlist
You've made my shitlist
Shitlist
Shitlist
Vision thing, 1990
When you don't see me...
It's not a matter of going to grow
It's not a matter of time or how I fell
I'm throwing off the shadow of a better man now
What you see is what you never had
Get real
Get another
I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when your not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when were apart
But when you leave I disappear
When you don't see me...
Oh, its kind of different when you're not there
You can lease the peace of mind
You bought a mask, I put it on
You never thought to ask me
If I wear it when you're gone
Get real
Get another
I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when your not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when were apart
But when you leave I disappear
When you don't see me...
You never learned
You bought me
Everything and less
I turned
You couldn't let me move
I guess, I don't deny, it don't disprove
What you see is what you lost
If I were you I wouldn't try
Get real
Get another
I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when your not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when were apart
But when you leave I disappear
When you don't see me...
Lake of sorrow, 1998
Lost by the past
Of another soul
Waiting till the end of
Pain from the past
Silent pain I hold inside
Silent pain, this is my fate
Silent pain, with no light
Silent pain, as I want to die
All that she lives
All are winter tears
All alone in the race of time
Holding as the fear
Silent pain I hold inside
Silent pain, this is my fate
Silent pain, with no light
Silent pain, as I want to die
All one in the dark
Find no friends
Waiting for the time
When her misery ends
Silent pain I hold inside
Silent pain, this is my fate
Silent pain, with no light
Silent pain, as I want to die
Operation : Mindcrime, 1988
"I've had enough and I want out!"
"You can't walk away now"
I looked back once
And all I saw was his face
Smiling, the needle crying
Walking out of his room
With mirrors, afraid I heard him scream
You'll never get away
Cold and shaking
I crawled down alleys to try
And scrape away the tracks that marked me
Slammed my face into walls of concrete
I stared, amazed at the words written on the wall
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
(Don't ever trust)
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries
Cries your name
Wet and raving
The needle keeps calling me back
To bloody my hands forever
Carved my cure with the blade
That left me in scars
Now every time I'm weak
Words scream from my arm
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
(Don't ever trust)
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries
Cries your name
(Don't ever trust)
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
(Don't ever trust)
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries
Cries your name
Joke, 1980
The atmosphere's strange
Out on the town
Music for pleasure
It's not music no more
Music to dance to
Music to move
This is music to march to
Do a war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
Look at graffiti
Scrawled on the wall
You know the reason
Outside the door
You got something
Nasty in your mind
Trying to get out
Do a war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
Shh, shh, shh, ah
Haha
You've opened the pit
Honesty is sick
You try to be honest
Look what you get
The food runs short
And then the money talks
One way out
Your premonition is correct
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
A war dance
Sabbath bloody sabbath, 1973
How people look and people stare
Well I don't think that I even care
You rot your life away and what do they give?
You're only killing yourself to live
Killing Yourself To Live!
Killing Yourself To Live!
Just take a look around you, what do you see?
Pain, suffering, and misery
It's not the way the world was planned
It's a pity you don't understand
Killing Yourself To Live!
Killing Yourself To Live!
I'm telling you!
Believe in me!
Nobody else will tell you
Open your eyes!
And see the lies!
Oh yeah!
Smoke it!
Get high!
You think that I'm crazy and baby I know that it's true
Before that you know it I think that you'll go crazy too
I don't know if I'm up or down
Well the black and whites are blue and brown
The colors in my life are all different somehow
Little boy blue's a big girl now
So you think it's me who's strange
But you've never had to make the change
Never give your trust away
You'll end up in paying till your dying day
Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be, 1971
I woke up this morning
My girl was not inside
Not inside my billfold
She's done me wrong alright
We've been all night a rockin'
At the house of blue night
Ah, ah, ah
The band was really groovin'
With the shades of Jerry Lee
Somehow jiving, yeah she was taking me
Now she's gone and left me
Oh, baby let it be
Ah, ah, ah
I didn't understand her
You know I mean her scene
Sleeps around for money
Or kick's that's twice as mean
But if I cross with her again
She'll find that I'm not green
Ah, ah, ah
This woman's a hooker
I can't stand her
She's doing me wrong
This woman's a hooker
Lemuria, 2004
Jordanes told us the story
Yes, of Berik
Gather all the Ostrogoths
And Visigoth
Ride like an arctic storm
Across the world
Gather all the Gothic tribes, all the sons of Berik
On three ships you sail away on a pagan crusade
Tyrants of the Christian world fear you more than their God
Theodoric, Gothic king, Gog iste Gothus est
The flashing spear of the sublime
Is flying in the air
Like the fear of the divine
The Goths are everywhere
Those once loyal, 2005
Scattered on foreign fields
Lie the burnt out hulls of our dead armour
Old landscape wreckage
And this earth now scorched
Selfless acts of bravery
In the face of overwhelming force
Hold position - position held
Retained new glory sought
Shattered defences now alone
Cover the tactical withdrawal
Outgunned, outnumbered
Though never outclassed
Spent the ammunition of faith
Weaponry exhausted
Now reduced in numbers
Numbers reduced
To the Last
Face to face with cold dead eyes
The final register of death
Crushed are the adversaries
The kill rate ratio rising
One hundred to one
Honours withheld in travesty
Presented falsely to another
With courage unspoken
All heroes die