- 1979
It was '79 and the world seemed more kind.
And it was still okay to be modest.
The sixties were gone but their soul lingered on.
And the eighties were still just a promise.
And I remember me and you.
Two children of six still playing with sticks.
And whatever we found in the forest.
Our grandpas were strong and our parents still young.
- 7. Dea Pecuniae
I. Mr. Money
Miss Mediocraty:
”Hey there sweetie. Don't I know you? I swear I recognize your face... and those beautiful eyes... You know, they say the eyes are the doorway to ones soul... There's a smile. A little shy, aren't we? Hey, do you wanna get out of here
Mr. Money:
Hey Miss Mediocrity, gee, I’m sorry
You’ve seen me on TV, I’m Mr. Money
- Ashes
You claim I don't know you, but I know you well
I read in those ash eyes we've been through hell
I've walked with the weakest just to feel strong
You've given your body just to belong
Let's burn together
Let's burn together
- Be. 13. Iter Impius
I woke up today
To a world that's ground to dust, dirt and stone
I'm the king upon this withering throne
I ruled every forest, every mountain, every sea
Now there're but ruins left to rule for me
And... you see, it beckons me;
Life turned its back on us
How could you just agree?
- Be. 8. Vocari Dei
8. Vocari Dei
[Sordes Aetas - Mess Age]
[Music and arrangements by Daniel Gildenlow]
0:00 "I just want you to speak to me."
- Be. 9. Diffidentia
9. Diffidentia
[Breaching the Core]
[Imago:]
(I will never submit to all the things you've said god!)
No!
- Beyond the Pale
And SEX was always there from when I was only eight years - tempting me leave thirsty
Sweat, skin, a PULSE divine to balance this restless MIND - it seemed so wonderfully physical
Oh the BLOOD, the lust, the bodies that color the world: all drugs to die for! Won't you share my fire?
How can LOVE make that world a minefield of forbidden GROUND?
A map of untouchable skin and SILENCED desire?
And love was there in vain, PROFOUND and deep but traced with pain - too early for a child of TEN
Loving the pure and sane he sought the goddess unstained - watching them turn to flesh again
- Chain Sling
"Chain Sling" Слова песни
"Please let me be yours please never leave
Please stay here close to me
All love we shared where is it now?
Please let me be better than I was
Please don't give up on us
- Conditioned
Never thought that you were conditioned.
Never thought that you could be sold.
Or controlled.
Well, I'm the TV being on in the background.
The girl who used to like you in school.
I'm the one who's making you feel like.
- Cribcaged
The only cribs that we should care for
Are the ones that we are here for
The ones belonging to our children
That do that we do, scar from our wounds
The only cribs that make a difference
Where the magic really happens
Don't come with a Mercedes Benz
- Curiosity
Your love is beautiful.
Your love is sensual.
My love will puncture your skin.
My love goes all the way in.
Your love is poetry.
My love is sodomy.
Your love is Everything.
- Dedication
I watched you die
Though you had always been there
Since I first came into this world
Outside people smile
I ask - why this deep blue sky?
When you have left this world today
Does it not know when to weep?
- Disco Queen
Disco Queen
[One: Tonight I'll Fall]
Tonight I'll fall, looking for something wonderful yet casual
Extraordinarily temporal, and there you are - let's go!
You hooked me on the dance floor
- Eleven
I run my calm on fumes.
I run my calm on fumes.
I've let you have your way around.
But I'm warning you.
I'm warning you.
You pushed me just that one more time.
- Ending Theme
And so I find myself here once again - first step down Remedy Lane
Budapest you tore my world apart - well, here I am
Worn with rope ends on my mind, torn with blood scarred in my eyes
But now I'm back to shake that from my life
Ending Theme, ending theme
Ripping at the seams, for an opening
- Enter Rain
RUNNING
In just a year another storm will come
to wash away an inch more blood
its lack of hatred, politics or creed
left us blind
open wide
our gun hands tied
- Flame To The Moth
Flame To The Moth
I long for the summer
I long for the sun, gently touching my face
I'll open my eyes, let it burn every splinter
Unleash desert storms on its way to my heart
And I had this coming every day of my life
- Hallelujah
"Hallelujah"
I’ve heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music do ya
It goes like this the fourth the fifth
the minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing hallelujah
- Healing Now
Heal me now.
Remove these old scars from my soul.
Heal me now.
Unhinge this dry skin from my bones.
And even though I can't forget the many times I've cried.
And even though I can't forgive the many ways I've died.
I am healing now.
- Idioglossia
It all comes back to me
Face to the floor
Heart in my mouth
My forehead hits the pavement
Again - numb - again
Sharing this humility
A circle of humanity
- Imago
Spring came with awakening, came with innocense and joy
Spring came with fascination and desire to deploy
Summer came with restlessness and curiousity
Summer came with longing for the things we could not be
Take me to the forest, take me to the trees
Take me anywhere as long as you take me
Take me to the ocean, take me to the sea
- In The Flesh
She walks these empty streets alone
Hiding from something they call "home"
Hoping to find some peace of mind
Sometimes we need to walk alone
She is set on running away
Though her mom was yelling she must stay
A wind beaten bird for reasons unheard
- Innocence
12. Innocence
Once there was a me who always knew the way,
Who somewhere on the road led me astray.
And I've seen so many souls,
(Always thought I'd change somehow, altered by the road)
Broken in despair,
- Inside club10733785
[Music: D.Gildenlow/D.Magdic/K.Gildenlow/F.Hermansson]
'What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and
humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered,
and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the
Axis Powers alone.'
- Inside Out
'30 years ago, society believed
that no price was to high,
we thought that industry could come
at any cost. We cannot afford to pay
that price any more.'
So finally my journey ends
And through this wound
my soul can mend
- King Of Loss
Mother, at my first breath
Every paragraph was set
As I inhaled the scent of debt
Mother, that first stolen air
On papers saying I'm not mine
"We crown you, the King of Loss...
Better get on your feet
- Kingdom Of Loss
Someone sells us Toys™ in a cheap cartoon
Someone sells us Cars™ in the latest Bond™ that's coming soon
Someone sells us Trends™ through a sitcom star
Someone sells Herself™ in a docu-soap that goes too far
Life™ on sale!
"Could someone please just tell me what happened?
- Linoleum
She keeps the world at bay
With walls built to stand come what may
And when the corners on this bay, they held on 'til today
She would hold her own
Running all alone
Ridding her of every grain
To stay in control
- Morning On Earth
For as long as I can remember I have wanted to
Silence every beating heart; every sound of breathing
Now there is something inside of me that aches as I hear you
Breathing here when you sleep between these morning sheets
I am the tears in your mouth
I am the weight on your shoulder
I am the scream that wants out
- Mortar Grind
Emelie is sad
Emelie is sad
Emelie is sad
She used to be glad
Now Emelie's been had
Emelie's been had
Emelie's been had
She might never be glad
- Mrs. Modern Mother Mary
(We'll cut you down to size)
There is a woman burning at the center square
Raven black eyes and long let out hair
Screaming, while cloaked vultures holier-than-thou circle and glare
At sweat drops on pale skin like satin
And as the raging flames work her into cinder
Said in their defence:
Stupidity and ignorance, prejudice and intolerance
- New Year's Eve
So once again
Another New Year's Eve will ease our pain
Faith for the few
And rites that will make us so brave
So new
We laugh and we cheer for a Happy New Year
Happy?
- Nightmist
Cold winter winds blow away autumn leaves now
Misty world fades away before my blinded eyes
Why?
Now when I stand at the end of the line
I cling to life when I should decline
I always thought I would welcome this day
but now when it's here
- Nihil Morari
Nihil Morari
(Homines Fabula Finis)
Music, lyric and arrangement by Daniel Gildenlöw
"See me"
"Hear me"
"Need me"
Some things will never change
- No Way
There is no way that you can love her like I do.
Oh no, there is no way - I see through you.
'Cause when I hold her in the night,
All that is wrong will become right.
And I know that she feels it, too,
'Cause no-one loves her like I do.
There is no way that you could know her like I do.
- Oblivion Ocean
Sleep is too quiet
dreams are too painful
truth is the bed of this ocean of lies.
Sinking through layers of untouched oblivion
soaking from spirits but still far too dry.
Losing all barbed fences Lucid - no defenses
"Where is my mother?" the child asked the soldier.
The soldier was watching them both fade away.
- Of Dust
"Of Dust"
Come break my bones,
Come spread my ashes.
Come wear me down,
Come wear me down.
In life a king,
In death a failure.
- Omni
[Permanere?]
[Imago:]
I see us in you Nauticus
Came so late but I pray
At the last light of day
There might still be a chance
To save this beast of clay
- People Passing By
[Part first: Awakening]
[Daybreak:]
A September sun emerges through clouds, chasing across the sky.
Thoughts are evoked behind detached eyes but people are just passing by:
With smiles for protection.
Unable to see behind the creature that he seems to be.
Once he was a child with burning desires with hopes and dreams of what was to come.
- Plains of Dawn
"I'm here now, by your side" Sheltered from the cold, a soldier guards a boy.
Clocks are cutting as times pass by their pain
(bringing release through the book on his knees)
(keep trying, keep trying, keep dying inside)
"Hush now little child, it's time to say goodnight.
Find rest in my lullaby this night
I'll still be here when the nightmists draw near"
- Reconciliation
I thought I'd seen hell
Thought I knew it all
Now I know too well
Hell is to wake up
But it makes all the difference
Tasting the tears in my mouth
Taking the weight on my shoulders
- Road Salt
This time I've tried not to get hurt
This time I'll stay untouched by pain and dirt
This time I'll stick to what I've learned
This time I'll fly so low I won't get burned
Maybe it's not enough
Maybe this time it's just too much
Maybe I'm not that tough
- Rope Ends
She is still young...
Another day of emptiness
This life is wearing her down
The room around her is a mess
Her children safe with her mom
She is still young but feeling old
- Second Love
Day after day
Nothing's changed you're far away
But I need you to know that I can't sleep anymore
By the nights
Night after night
The stars are shining so bright
Though our pain is larger than the universe tonight
I want you to know I can't sleep anymore
- She Likes To Hide
She likes to hide.
She likes to hide.
She likes to hide, and I don't know why.
I'd ask but she's too hard to find.
She likes to hide.
This Tuesday I almost tried to ask her why
But she got that look in her eyes.
- Sisters
When all are dizzy and happy from too much wine
I leave the party behind
To be alone with my thoughts and this spinning mind
Through this cold night
But there she stands
And she walks like you
And she smiles almost like you
- Sleeping Under The Stars
Wait darling wait,
for that sound of electric guitars.
Wait darling wait,
you will soon be in bed with the stars.
Wait darling wait and don't worry cause you will see,
semen stains wash out surprisingly easily
from leather back-seats of expensive cars,
- Softly She Cries
She pours herself another glass of wine.
Tells herself yet another time she's fine.
But earlier today she lost an hour.
A gaping hole just like.
Inside her.
Inside her.
Whenever a plane is passing by.
- Spitfall
[1: Introducing Star]
(We saw you every day)
with your hands on your crotch and so much to say
You went from bouncing toy cars with golden motors
To neon striped BMWs and a court of drugged up nodders and quoters
Namefucking fame on all photos,
All cheered on and applauded by even richer promoters
- The Deeper Cut
All my life I have been afraid.
All my life scared to lose my way.
All my life led me to today.
The day when I must learn the hardest way.
Every step leading to this day.
The day I learn to lose and fail.
A deeper cut into the flesh of life.
- The Perfect Element
Yesterday found him today
Caught him at his last breath
These walls built to stand come-what-may
Lie shattered in the ashes
His skin against this dirty floor
Eyes fixed on the ceiling
He has stretched those chains of sin
Far beyond all feelings
- The Physics of Gridlock
[I Gridlock (All Is Mine)]
Silently I sit on this road.
Sifting the dust through my hands.
To feel that I belong.
Silently I weep for my soul.
There's always been something I need.
- This Heart Of Mine
This Heart Of Mine
I lie awake watching your shoulders
Move so softly as you breathe
With every breathe you're growing older
But that is fine if you're with me
I pledge to wake you with a smile
- Through the Distance
When I was a child I saw her every day.
I never dared to touch her,
Scared to break that spell,
And now the years have passed us by,
And all that could've been is left behind
'Cause I loved her safe from the distance
Every day a million people flow the street, their faces blank
- To the Shoreline
I'm far from sober.
And she's far from sane.
When she takes my hand and she pulls me away.
She leads me down to the shoreline.
She leads me down to the shoreline.
She leads me down to the sea.
She pulls me into the water.
- Undertow
Let me go
Let me go
Let me seek the answers that I need to know
Let me find a way
Let me walk away
Through the Undertow
Please let me go
- Used
1. Used
"I am the unclean
The black drop at the bottom of your cup
You'd better drink or throw me up
'Cause I am on your lip and tongue
God
I'm not yours as much as you are mine
- Vocari Dei
0:00 "I just want you to speak to me."
0:05 "I'm still waiting for you, God. I pray because this hell to be finished. Goodbye, God. Goodbye to you all." (in some languanges like Spanish and Italian "because" is the same as "for", so this is a normal mistake)
0:15 "I don't trust in any God. I don't know who God is, but I know what God should be."
0:21 "Well, take a look here, take a good look at what you've created!"
- Where it hurts
Tell me where it hurts, so I can reach the pain.
Tell me where it hurts. Just pump it through my vain.
Be brave and tell me where it hurts.
There's something deep inside than you don't want to show.
There's something that you hide, 'cause you're afraid I'll go.
But no.
Tell me where it hurts.