Compos Mentis
Album • 2007
Away upon waves of red I depart from your gentle rivers of words Now sail me off to strange worlds of plenty, tonight Take me dancing on oceans of death Sacrifice my soul to the blue fields of freedom Let me sail away on uncertain streams of ecstasy and fizz Shatter my body into tiny pieces See how mountains of foam lift me up and the poles unite Hear me now unfold like a suffering, but golden butterfly The wind breathes new life into the never stagnant surface Building massive towers at my sides Opaque liquids cause bubbling naivety of the unseen, a heady voyage Penetrating my mind with a watery rush and swallowing me Let me sail away on uncertain streams of ecstasy and fizz Crystals taking shape to puncture tired dreams And old nightmares that'll reform anew Hard and beautiful as a diamond's secrets Illuminating the twilight like clouds Floating in dissolved gravity beyond the ticking of time Tickling, stirring and tasted by all possible senses Thunder rumbles beyond the vault A crack splits the sky into fluttering clouds Now the eyes are lured closer to the spiral hole Where the smashing waves kiss my wooden hull Let me sail away on uncertain streams of ecstasy and fizz Awake me when it's time
Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025
Look into that ancient mirror All dressed in gold, Silver and scentless Flowers in bloom Tortuous tongues welcome you From beyond the dusty glass So seductive But the words have a hollow ring Cannot hold on to the phantasm And the reflection fades away Turned cold and dark, the blank mirror Now leaves you to your silent screams You're stuck in an illusion The fragile glass is shattered You're stuck in an illusion Gazing at the idle, golden drapery The mind must open its eye Behold the might of your quintessence The mind must open its eye Look at that ancient mirror Now covered with mold, Verdigris and lifeless Excrescences that loom The broken glass depicts a four-legged creature But as the remnants decay And your illusionary self seeks deeper You feel the harsh burden of heaven
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025
We see it as a narration but in the womb of winter time stands still Nothing echoes and nothing moves With a universal affection The winter takes it all Like a spreading disease Crimson stains conspicuously on the ground Cloaked in pestilence, it bleeds Like a spreading disease A cold winter morning Crystalline rime on the ground White diamonds and pearls And the world opens its eyes A cold winter morning Bright drops dwell on the pane Meet in cold embrace And the world opens its eyes Like the sirens' song, the winter reveals itself As a deadly temptress, fraudulent and haughty Arraying us in its wintry veil Leaving us cold and numb In the womb of winter A cold winter day Bare trees go down on their knees Stroke the soil with their branches The pale sun is crossing the sky A cold winter evening The snow descends from above And drapes the ground in white And the world closes its eyes
Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025
A cold caress awakens me An omen of nightmares to come Illumination and darkening amalgamate Blinded, I resign Imprisoned behind imperceptible bars I am in a daze I reach out for the outside world But it escapes my embrace We are all caught in a web of meanings A web that we have spun ourselves Humanity walled up in this prison of its own Portrait of an attempted escape We strive to read the book of nature But it's our own story that we tell Oh, please let this nightmare stop! I shiver as I suddenly comprehend The nature of my beliefs Illusions invoked by tradition Deception descended on mankind Imprisoned behind invisible walls This I cannot face I reach out for the outside world But it escapes my embrace
Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025
Whirling through claustrophobic tunnels Thrown from side to side, relentlessly I'm surrounded by viscous walls That reach out for me I flee with broken wings Through the darkness of eternity Shadows of memories repressed long ago Pierce my thready mind A flight from myself A flight in myself I flee with broken wings Through realms of forgotten nightmares Raped by the deepest fractions of my mind It leaves me bleeding A flight from myself A flight in myself But the fear abates As my hope fades away Every feeling subsides In line with the advance of nothingness
Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025
She aches like she's sinfully untamed in chains Like a wicked destroyer of our sedated world Humming deformed bullet songs from her darkened chamber Dancing like a possessed madman on fire She looks like a six barrel shotgun Adorned with furs that blindness caresses An endless reptile collage of displaced repetition That speaks a foreign language of unknown exits Embrace me in your misery She wants to take you higher Towards the burning desire She wants to draw you near Towards her evil beauty that you fear She dares to hear the whispers of stagnant motions Like a wooer to our prostituted bulk of flesh Her poor riches can't be forced by law She's unconjured magic that haunts our dwelling I embrace you in my misery
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025
In my dreams the world dissolves And I'm absorbed into the fragments Leading an army of ghosts I conquer the strongholds of the sky In my dreams I speak with a thousand voices Of dimensions that don't exist I show to the world what it is And exceed the limits laid down I am the source, pure and clear From which magic pours I transcend time and space And embrace every corner of the world The final spiritual objective: Ultimate independence of the matter How could human conceit ever reach this point? Trapped in a cave with beautiful greyscale paintings on the wall Wasting dreams on the outlined land, when this could be our haven In my dreams I dream that I'm awake And that my world of dreams dissolves I show to the world what I am And the limits become obsolete Storms die at my feet And light waves give in Laws of nature are forced to collapse As my will prevails
Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025
What pale ghost crept through the curtain? Cleaved the doze with its tongueless speech As the double-horned moonship sailed among the radiant eyes of the dark A being with a thousand haunting faces riding a rhythm Towards the eternal landscape of death The creature of the underworld Drags me down inside the bowels of the earth Waiting for me to recognize this strange circle of one Rainbow in bloom, crude colours unfold Penetrating the cracks of a long lost soul That squirms in sheets and tangled nightmares Anxious eyes seek the glimpse of answer As the poisoned injection ink the veins And make streams of blood run cold I feel my hollow fears are all caught dead
Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025
A journey through the land of the dead and hollow Towards the radiance where treasure is dug Down through the valley of the shallow Escaping silently from the forest's fog My precious shadow, it might now seem That time has come to revive your flame The wilderness' daze has blurred your gleam But I´ll obey the calling and surrender to the game Expand the narrow horizon with streams of wine Before the milk will strengthen my sorrows I seek for what was always mine The rise and fall of a kingdom's prime Brief visions of a flag that time has torn Mountain peaks lend voice to the wind Angel choir cries, enticingly they sing As I reach for the dawn in sin Forgive this obsession and the forging of wings Humility is blessed with nothing but scorn To the piercing sound of the hollow horn True will dares death without tears The rise and fall of a kingdom's prime Brief visions of a flag that time has torn Towards the beautiful view with the immense roar Prayers under the azure emptiness of time
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025
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