1. |
Prelude: The Architect
02:13
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Most time of your live you’re in a hurry, under pressure,
and more and more you lose focus on the things that once were so important to you
And you realize that the lifelines that once were strongly connected
are now separated, isolated, without connection
Most of your friendships have dried up like flowers you`ve forgotten to pour
and then, you wake up in a late autumn night and you realize that your live is purposeless, useless, without any meaning
And you sit there, in your dusty ivory tower - confused, tired and scared to death
a prisoner of your own labyrinth in which you led yourself astray
And you look to the sky, without destination
You, the architect of your own destruction ...
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2. |
Of Lambs And Lions
08:49
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These days, they seem to be endless
far away, cannot feel my inner self
In this place, alone and defenseless
I’m hiding in a shell, cause can't bear the pain
But you gave me new perception
And I knew: “This is a new beginning!”
I was torn, now I´m picking up the pieces
New horizons, I´m slowly coming back to live
Save your soul - I was so close to the edge
Save your soul - To end these wars in my head
Save your soul - A light that is shining on me
Save your soul - God's children shall be free
Mind Control, to make you whole
Until you know who I am
I am your energy, I want you to follow me
So come to the places they'll never see in their apathy
I am the remedy, your mind is an enemy
so behold your death and keep marching for victory,
Fulfilling the prophecy, we’re killing our enemies
So come, human race ain't never see their tragedy
I am the remedy, glorious supremacy,
so come, catch your breath and lay all of your trust in me
My heart was filled with sorrow
Despair my invisible friend
But this promise of tomorrow
Will make me change
I can change, rearrange
and the time that I can borrow has boundless range
I make you bleed, just like sheep
The poisoned seed, I must proceed
I break the spine, of mankind
So cross the line to your decline
Twisted lies and lullabies
Blinded eyes, you're paralyzed
Your burning soul, is my control
Depravity, my only goal
And again, my life`s a shattered zone of broken pieces
And I know, sad spirits turn toward the dead
I stare into the frozen light of my prison cell
Dreams die, as I walk along a dead-end street
I was blind, hoped you save my soul from drowning
Paralyzed by the anguish of a torn mind
Heaven’s will, just the obsession of a madman
I was brainwashed, I wish I could just turn back time
Save your soul - I was so close to the edge
Save your soul - To end these wars in my head
Save your soul - A light that is shining on me
Save your soul - God's children shall be free
Mind Control, to make you whole
Until you fall
If I could turn back the time, back to the roots of my crimes
I was content to be blind, how could I do this?
this question tortures my mind, but I cannot rewind
I’m leaving ashes behind, how could I do that?
I should rather be dead, there’s something's wrong with my head
I must have been totally mad, to pull the trigger
The loss of humanity, a pledge of insanity
A tool of conspiracy, how could I do that to you?
My heart was filled with sorrow
Despair my invisible friend
But this promise of tomorrow
Will make me change
I can change, rearrange
and the time that I can borrow has boundless range
I make you bleed, just like sheep
The poisoned seed, I must proceed
I break the spine, of mankind
So cross the line to your decline
Twisted lies and lullabies
Blinded eyes, you're paralyzed
My control, like a black hole
My deadly goal: Your burning soul!
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3. |
Lifelines
05:45
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I kept those memories in my mind
we were stricken, deaf and blind
one million miles away from our lives
We were drowning in the quicksand of time
and the years went passing by
Two different souls in turning tides
stood at the crossroads of their lives
You left me here in ruins of wasted time
Oh I wish I just could turn back time
but the years keep passing by
Most times of our life we walk over battlefields
we close our eyes in search for the light
Our world is upside down
we`ll get back on our feet again
In circles we spin while we hang by a thread
We´re leaping into the void
to unveil the mysteries
inside the dark
to find something profound
We´re searching high and low
in need to find our way back home
our castle in the sky
is ready to fly
And we will prevail
our souls will stand the test of time
We´ll walk with open eyes
reconnecting our lifelines
Now that we’re old, I must confess
my sad mind reflects a sadder mess
the astronaut still circles around a black star
all illusions fading in our minds
while the years went passing by
Most of our life we walk over battlefields
we close our eyes in search for the light
Our world is upside down
but we`ll get back on our feet again
In circles we spin while we hang by a thread
Through the noise
we hear eternal melodies
beyond the dirt
finding rivers underground
We´re searching high and low
and we are not alone
our castles in the sky
so pure and divine
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4. |
Tightrope Walker
06:56
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Now there´s no chance to turn and start all over
I´m reeling in a daydream that falls apart
The world is moving too fast for my imperfection
I’m trapped in my own mind with a burning heart
I´m striding through the center of the storm
I´m striding until the rope is torn
the rope is torn
They´re waiting to see me falling
watching the sky, me and my tightrope
They pray for my death, my failure
as I pass the edge, the point of no return
And I follow the stars
no matter how far
and search for the place that I once knew
I tried hard to be like you
I tried to break through
Now I´m on my way to get all over you
Guess I´ll never redeem
my impossible dream
but I had to shut this theater down
All your dogmas have failed
I cannot be saved
The blind are leading the blind into damnation
deluded by the factories engineering their minds
and they want to force you to rewind, obsessed and clueless
projecting all their anger onto the dissenter’s life
I´m drifting through the echoes in my mind
I`m tumbling on the tightrope of my life
They´re waiting to see me falling
watching the sky, me and my tightrope
They pray for my death, my failure
as I pass the edge, the point of no return
This is the point of no return
And I follow the stars
no matter how far
and search for the place that I once knew
I tried hard to be like you
I tried to break through
Now I´m on my way to get all over you
Guess I´ll never redeem
my impossible dream
but I had to shut this theater down
All your dogmas have failed
I cannot be saved
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5. |
Spirit Of The Sea
08:44
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Oh, please take me back to the sea
this life just brings me down
until I´m drown and gone
The sound of the wave symphony
is only unreal
when I cease to dream
Erase and rewind
cut it out
I´d like to see
how it could be
My dark thoughts fly far away
Obscured by clouds of a summer day
to lighten up my dark
Just like the sand under my feet,
I will retreat, you won´t find me
I´d like to rest just a while at the seashore
I want to feel the soul of the sea
Goodbye, blue sky
the sun is high,
and my trembling spirit flies
Let me stay at the breaking waves
Nothing left to say
til I awake someday
My troubled mind is swept away
by the sound of the breaking waves
I look up to the sky
The setting sun is guiding me
the roaring sea, come and cover me
a perfect day to die
My silent cries
behind closed eyes
the prisoner of time
Goodbye, blue sky
a perfect day to die
and let go of my life
Let me go
carried by the flow
Into the great below
In arms of undertow
Pain - life is a prison
Insane - endless tunnel vision
Chains – forced to machines
Remains – my silent screams
Flesh – a lifeless shell
Helpless – a prison cell
Infest - nothing left to heal
Depressed – to agonized too feel
Why – don’t they just let me
Die - my mind is in a frenzy
Lies – I know it’s hopeless
Cries – I’m a ghost without focus
Death – I wait for my final
Breath - nerves ripped from the spinal
Press - turn off this machine
Bless - my infinite dream
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6. |
Interlude: Shadowplay
02:26
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7. |
Sacrilege Of Sisyphos
06:27
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Some say I´m a rebel
but I´m just a sad devil
I must pay for my deception
Oh, I fell in disgrace
Release me from this pain
Release me from all this sorrow
my heart`s filled with ashen gloom
this is my mournful doom
Once I was a king
Yeah, once I was a guardian
I lived a perfect life
but now my days are filled with sorrow
gods never forgive
gods never forgive
There's a small spot up on the mountain
The king that has fallen from grace
This is my curse, an endless rebounding
it never ends
The lunatic is in the hall – forever
I can hear his haunting calls – forever
no aspiration, no relief – just sorrow
to cease my pain
I push the rock
to the top
frown
I push it up
it tumbles back
down again
sinister clouds
like a shroud
down
no way out
this roundabout
so is my pain
The lunatic behind the mask – is screaming
Forced to fulfill his infinite task – the bleeding
That’s the price for eternal life
Break the spell or just let me die
There's a small spot up on the mountain
The king that has fallen from grace
This is my curse, an endless rebounding
it never ends
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Yes, I know from whence I came!
Discontented as a flame,
Upon myself I live and glow.
ll I grasp like lightning flashes,
All I leave behind is ashes:
Flame I am - that much I know
I just try to live my life
like I want to
But in my mind, the demons rise
and they laugh at me
10.000 lies, like war cries
welcome to the machine
My life is like
a paper ship on the open sea, so lost
this is a distress call,
can´t you hear me call
bring this war to an end
So here I stand
with a heart filled up with sorrow
my castles made of sand
washed away by the waves of the sea
So I set my world afire
and the pain soon will cease I thought, but
as the flames went higher
I realized that was caught in a maze
Hypnotized - you will never make it
Mesmerized – you don´t even try
Inside my mind - you will never make it
It´s do or die!
From the ashes of my mind
I rise to dig a bit deeper
I see shadows of a trace
to find a way out of the dark
My whole world collapses
I must leave it behind, and I look
through the eyes of a stranger
to see the devil cry
black tears from his eyes
crucified - and you just take it
tantalized – you don't even cry
Inside my mind - and you just take it
to be alive!
I - I´m the offender
AM - and must surrender
IN - awake from dreaming
SANE - and face my demons
FIX - I am the monster
MY - slave and employer
SICK - and as I´m burning
BRAIN - my soul´s returning
I - crucify me
MUST - annihilate me
LEAVE IT BEHIND
at last I feel it
a future spirit
HEAL - a crumbling image
MY - resting unfinished
blind open eyes
I have built my own giant maze
to wait for the end of my days
Sitting and waiting for time to stand still
Breathing deep the gathering gloom
as the colors start to fade
surrounded by darkness I murdered my will
buried in the impossible dream
behind these walls in my head
when will I wake up and peel off my skin?
I'm crawling back to life
It´s time to rise, erase my prior life
See, the fire´s all around
burning castles, shattered crowns
the labyrinth is breaking down
Here comes the flood, so I can drown, to live
I - I built a prison
AM - by my decision
IN - beyond the borders
SANE - mental disorder
FIX - cold and cynic
MY - a stillborn spirit
SICK - but as I´m burning
BRAIN - my soul´s returning
I - burn my ego
MUST - no more placebo
LEAVE IT BEHIND
at last I feel it
a future spirit
HEAL - a crumbling image
MY - resting unfinished
BLIND OPEN EYES
I have built my own giant maze
to wait for the end of my days
Sitting and waiting for time to stand still
Breathing deep the gathering gloom
as the colors start to fade
surrounded by darkness I murdered my will
buried in the impossible dream
behind these walls in my head
when will I wake up and peel off my skin?
I'm crawling back to my life
It´s time to rise, erase my prior life
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9. |
Epilogie: Miniature No.1
01:58
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Life Artist Soest, Germany
Life Artist is a Progressive Metal band from Germany. After the success of their first
Demo "Faith"
(1991) and tour support for Psychotic Waltz and Gypsy Kyss they had an album release in 1992 (A Diary Of Inner
Visions"Visions).
In 2012 Ingo Holzhauer and Marco Witte decided to reanimate Life Artist.
The new album "Lifelines" will be available on August 27, 2021 (CD via Ragnarök Records).
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