One Hour by the Concrete Lake

Music: D.Gildenlow Poem: John Renshaw Sit for a while, why rush? The beauty is all around. The red sky of the morning, the different colours of the landscape, the freshness of the breeze. So sit for a while and rest with the spirit of the land.

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 25, 2025

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." I was told the pain and hunger was not my fault How could they be so wrong? And man, of all five billion people you're only one Believed them for far too long! Clean hands My land is my home I'm inside the big machine and it's eating me! And I am just a wheel in motion, too blind to see The way we are heading now I'm hollow I swallow, but… Inside I'm strong Inside I'm free Inside I'm young Inside I'm still me [Since 1990 there have been 93 wars in 70 states all around the world, with 5.5 million people dead. 75% of these people were civilians, 1 million of them were children...] (Guns don't kill - I don't kill. Do I?) Drink with me, laugh with me, friends for tonight Stay with me, sleep with me, happy tonight I only feel lonely outside this bar Look at me when I speak! Who do you think you are? Just look at me now! Inside I'm lost… Now I'm vain, numb this pain - why is it burning? Clean as rain, not a stain - so why am I yearning? I can't sleep - I twist and turn In too deep - I sweat, I burn I'm afraid that I'll awake, dressed up in a big mistake Then I'd break! What if I just closed my eyes? (I'm not clean…) What if I shut out the lies? (…blood unseen…) And what if I could hear my heart… (…all over my hands!) …accusing me for taking part of the Machine

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 25, 2025

Music: D.Gildenlow "Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly." 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? Candles burn down And in the darkness future comes around We smile - all aware But never speaking of the masks we wear Blind! Turning mirrors upside down Won't make dust fall off the ground Hiding wounds won't ease the pain Sleep won't make you whole again Change the inside! ...drink the rain... Dressing our words Seeing the dirt and flaws inside us hurts One final glass A sour taste from our promises I bid farewell and crawl out of my shell I'm awake! I see the mistakes I make Hiding wounds won't ease the pain Sleep won't make you whole again Change the inside... Today I found a seed of sorrow The harvest leaves a soil of shame Now I undress and face tomorrow And brave I walk to meet the blame I'll search my home outside these borders I'll run to meet up with the past A Resolution for the New Life This time I know it's gonna last And I will… Change the inside Drink the rain Open my wounds to heal the pain Learn the work of The Machine…

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 25, 2025

Music: D.Gildenlow "In time of war the first casualty is truth." "What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?" We've seen it before but safe on our suburb screens Now I am here in the flesh A witness of war in this godforsaken scene Far from those grey walls See children with guns hatred and fear in their eyes They shoot to release their pain A conflict to solve no matter if someone dies Protecting our interests… Look around, soon there'll be but ruins to be found Winner will be the last that stands Lethal moves in a game of chess for the depraved King or Pawn? Are you worth to save? (What is the prize for this game we play?) (And who are the ones that finally pay?) If we eat more we'll get a handful of nothing We'll be swallowing dirt If we push more we'll get a fistful of enough We'll be swallowing blood They told me that we could actually save human lives That armies would preserve the peace And my work would save, solve and build bonds Only lies! And I fed their wallets... It's strange how we speak of civilised views While we buy that media warface they sell A makeup for "Them" so we can decide who's to die Cause we love it easy… Here they are – take a good look at the beasts of war! Let the rain wash that paint away… Deep inside everyone's a mothers little child Longing home, lost and led astray And we prey on this decay! If we eat more we'll get a handful of nothing We'll be left with the dirt If we push more we'll get a fistful of enough I leave this machine... I left my life to ease my pain But I cannot find that cleansing rain... Look around soon there'll be but ruins to be found We can change - it's all in our minds... (D. Gildenlow) Step by step hate controls every heart every soul Every gun pointed at those we paint as Enemies We provide what they need to let the game proceed Stuck in machines somewhere we build the cross they bear Arm to solve, kill to save… God I've felt how it smells! "My land's my home" – we're blind! I'm sick of the blood I find! Step by step greed controls every heart every soul Arm to kill, kill to live - God how could I believe...

Submitted by The Void — Apr 25, 2025

Music: D.Gildenlow/D.Magdic Ground water moves very slowly. While water at surface can be measured in meters per second, the ground water will more likely be measured in meters per year! Contamination of the ground water causes severe damage for a very long time. Despite this, military and nuclear industry constantly pollutes large areas of ground water – in times of peace. I've always loved the sound of rain Touching so softly my windowpane And then the scent of dew at dawn Coming to greet me from my moist lawn ...home... (D. Gildenlow) I always took it for granted I never valued the drops I shed I failed to see the relation Between my self and world starvation (D. Gildenlow) Water's for the chosen But how come we expect us to be those few... ...me and you? [In this hot, desolate timeglass I met this man, wearing a worn old flyer's cap. Every day he had to dig 10 feet down for his daily ration of water – one poor gallon. And so he did - singing while doing it!] 10 feet of sand for the thirst But he gave me half of what he was given for a day All for thirst and sanity use While we use up hundred times more… What do we do with it? Pipes and bathtubs, sprinklers and fountains! Freshwater used as a dump for oil and nuclear waste! “Desert people turns humble” he said They know what they have But do they know what they lose when we flush? [But yet, sadly, he looked up to me. Felt a need for our greed…our "freedom". Said all he really wanted was a car and a radio. He too failed to see the relation ...between our lives...and his starvation] Water's for the chosen Water's for the few Life is for the chosen But only if we believe it to be true...but we do! (But I'm through!) I've always loved the sound of rain...

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025

Music: D.Gildenlow "The white man, he comes and goes. He can go…But that's our homeland for thousands of years. That's our home, and we will never leave. No matter how contaminated it gets. We live there! We have always lived there and we will always live there." This is our home - our roots go deep Where our ancestors sleep This is the land we've nursed for countless aeons But never ours to keep My tribe is crying – our land is dying But we can't leave – this is our home We can't let our past go... We're left with your legacy Wide awake, deep at our roots While you move on exploiting We'll sing lullabies for half a million years When my son asks why, what will I reply? But we can't leave – this is our home We can't let our past go... (Hallgren Hermansson D. Gildenlow) But we can't leave – this is our home! If you like concrete alone Then don't make your high lives depend On that past that you let go...

Music: D.Gildenlow ‘They tell all the people of Europe, it's a good, clean industry, it’s a great way to save the world. But I’m here to tell you that now they’re knocking on our door because they can’t find any place to store the damned stuff for eternity, They come to our homeland and they want to lease some land for 10,000 years!’ This was our home – we had our truth Bled for our creed – why must we still bleed? Your tailings are bound forever in this ground... So you come for our holy ground When your nature’s gone and your house has burnt down No! For hundreds of years you've hurt this land Eating what’s there, leaving a wasteland But there are no space to hold all your mistakes Still you come for our holy ground When your nature’s gone and your houses are all burnt down (instrumental) (Hallgren) 'To this day, they will not return our sacred land, even though their highest hypocritical court said that we could and indeed did, own the Black Hills. I still continue to struggle for the eventuality of regaining that sacred land...

Submitted by The Void — Apr 25, 2025

Music: D.Gildenlow "In fire, we can see our past and our coming. For, as with us and our time, these flames are solely born through the complete and utterly consumption of its surroundings. By which, the fire itself is also condemned to be destroyed. Demanding, beautiful and very lethal, it lives itself to death..." The higher I am reaching - the closer to the sun The more I learn the less I know for sure For each machine I’m leaving I find a bigger one For each step I turn wiser than before But it’s burning me... Pilgrim, where are you going? Pilgrim, your roads turning bleak Pilgrim, true to your knowing But what will you pay for the Grail that you seek? Though these roads seem endless And life seems out of reach The roads I left were better off unwalked If I had just been stronger If I had dared to see Maybe I would not have had to go this far But still I won’t give in... Pilgrim, where are you going? Pilgrim, your roads turning bleak Pilgrim, This quest is your calling ...the curtains are falling... Pilgrim, where are you going? And who sets the price on the answers you seek?

Music: D.Gildenlow Karachay… This lake in Kyshtym has swallowed nuclear waste for almost fifty years now. Radiation was earlier so high that one hour at the shore of this lake would cause death in just a few weeks. Karachay, the entire lake, is now covered with concrete… Don’t disturb me now I can see the why, the when and how Looking back to see all bridges burn I have reached the point of no return this is zero (Shore Serenity) This is all that is left of me… A broken man at a broken sea To be or not to be a wheel in the big machinery That is not the matter of the game Just as long as you can sense the frame of the big picture (Wheels make The Machine) This is all that is left of me a broken man at a concrete sea But now I know that one cell can kill and a big Machine stands and falls with…a wheel…

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 25, 2025

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Through a dusty window I watch the clouds draw near A lovely vision of my doom The sunlight's fading - reflections start to dim Through the dusty window in this room I'm walking through my memories as I'm staring through the glass I have to claim I'm innocent Though I can't remember what I've done these past few nights I can't be the one that Father Kane believes I am I see myself now, in the dusty glass, all wired up in this chair My face is foreign and my weary eyes are black, I see myself through that stare Eternal alleys that lead to walls hidden behind unlocked doors I claim the handle, I need to see Even though I'll surely be afraid of what I may find... ...beyond the mirror! (Inside the circle) I walk through mazes of cold corridors Searching for the core of my mind My heartbeats reach out to find another pulse That once was bound and confined The two different heartbeats, becoming one Are causing the coalescence of my soul A quiet outcry - a silent scream - is filling me as I am driven back From shadows that dwell... ...beyond the mirror! (Inside the circle) [Hallgren/D.Gildenlow/Hallgren/D.Gildenlow] My world is frozen as I'm staring through the glass Gazing through the window at my memories Not longer foreign, though I wish...they were The glowing fingers of a violent raging sky In search for evil find a path They rush through my veins, they invite my pulse to die They end my life with frenzied wrath Amidst the shadows of a whisper land I feel that something's binding me to life Confined in nowhere by no ones hand I realise the pact is unfulfilled, I'm trapped on the edge... ...beyond the mirror! (Inside the circle)

The Timeweaver's abode is deep under ground As interweaving history he us creates He weaves in eternity not to be found The Elder's legend that braids our fates Hoary and hollow-eyed Older than the sun Abiding his destiny to reverberate time There's no one to remember how it began In rooms filled with candles he reverberates time Timeweaver, tell me my history that I've been searching so Timeweaver, reveal the mystery that I've been letting grow He once was given his mission by three The Holy, The Sacred and The Ancient Dream He doesn't exist for those who don't believe He's nothing but stories for those who don't deem Hoary and hollow-eyed Older than the sun Abiding his destiny to reverberate time There's no one to remember how it began In rooms filled with candles he reverberates time Timeweaver, tell me my history that I've been searching so Timeweaver, reveal the mystery that I've been letting grow Spider's webs decorate dusty shelves lightened by old candles glow Ancient prescriptions from the times that don't even exist in memories [D.Gildenlow/Hallgren/D.Gildenlow/Hallgren] Guarded by spells he reincarnates time Gives birth once again to a century's child Hoary and hollow-eyed Older than the sun Abiding his destiny to reverberate time And now I can remember how it began In rooms filled with candles I reverberate time Timeweaver told me a history - I didn't want to know Timeweaver revealed the mystery - two became one to grow! Timeweaver...time...will...be...here...now...and...now

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 25, 2025