The Gallery
Album • 1997
This track is instrumental.
What started once now approaches to its aim There was a long and stony way to go We've always tried to reach the next dimension It was so hard to bring about the jump So hard to balance on the razor's edge Let's fly away on the tender wings of sandess Into the realm of forgotten hope Against dismay, against the loss of gladness In favour of new ways to go Still we're in search for reasons of correction 'Cause we all know it's so much to be done If there'll be strength to stand it to the end Maybe we'll drown in floods of aimlessness But certainly we'll never fade away Insecurity, fear and hate are the self-inflicted wounds The greed is sneaking among the crowd But no one recognizes Are we stupid, are we blind? Ignorance my dear! Kiss my ass we're not your slaves But sand inside your gear
Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025
Nightfall came according to powers I could not obey, just defy 'Cause I've made one step further I've seen the cold abysmal emptiness, so black Mysteries, the creeping desire To reveal the darkest secret of life 'Cause I was meant to see treasures That I had better never seen I awake from my cry in the middle of the night Free myself from the voice of the darkening light Can't numb the pain that I have to go through Can't forget all the fears haunting me every few Imagine you would burn And no one extinguishes the fire When you are the screaming dumb Imagine you would drown And down on the shores The blind-eyed are feeding blackfeathered swans When nightmares are reality And sleep becomes release Then life starts gradually to cease I close my eyes as if to die Embedded in cold sweat But what I've done I'll never forget Imagine you would burn And no one extinguishes the fire When you are the screaming dumb Imagine you would drown And down on the shores The blind-eyed are feeding blackfeathered swans Imagine you would cry And no one is watching your tears 'Cause they're laughing against the sun Imagine you would choke 'Cause you don't want to breathe Finally awake by my side but let me sleep Awake but let me sleep!
Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025
In search for the truth of the genesis I think I've lost the thread Because of what we come and go? The wisdom's for the dead Tell me the sense of life and death Tell me about the fall Of those who tried to live in peace And finally died in war. Like a veil now it's falling from your eyes A friend called disillusionment is driving me insane So I can't endure this terrible certainty Truth's too bad to enjoy the life in a world of greed Future comes on the burning wheels of fate And we're still crawling like some slugs In a one-way street Without hastening we won't see a happy end Fuck the past! Creation calls! Finally move your ass! Oceans of pain and floods of despair Were drowning the ancient polarity I have travelled them throughout those years Of disappointed trust The more you try to search for ways To realize personality The more you'll meet the sickening fact Of a dying dream I have seen mankind's lost wisdom rise and fall The balance sheet's an only tragedy
Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025
Once upon a time when the real human Was a being without fear and shame Once the leisure kissed The minds of all the true men Kalokagathia was its name I wish I could return this Glorious ancient time The human was a being Proud, strong, ardent and fine But now he's just a marionette In a bad and rotten game Created by own siliness Just born to drown in flames What was beautiful, what was pure in heart Now is depraved, false-just as well a lie What meant joy and fun Now means deep depression But we don't understand, we all shall cry The ancient land became fantasia We've built on sand, Kalokagathia Now the time arrived when the real human Is a numbered robot without name And the progress pissed Into the minds of true men All what counts in modern age is fame
Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025
My life is watching me, so intimated, so warm All sorrow yields from me away There is no cause to hail all evilness nor harm Forever I want you to stay Because I need you, I need you by my side You are the morninglight after the gloomy night Because I want you, I want you to stay here Once I've been sad but now in love Shall drown in fear In course of time the awy We've gone became the right All our burdens we left behind And by degrees our sorrow got out of our sight You're steady anchored in my mind All I see in your eyes is truth There's no room for lies Pure as water my thoughts for you Read 'em without remorse Because I need you, I need you by my side You are the morninglight after the gloomy night Because I want you, I want you to stay here Once I've been sad but now in love Shall drown in fear
Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025
Dying our will to live Within an age of ignorance Corruption and decay No one cares for anyone As we turn to slaves Of our own malicious importance It seems there's no way To avoid this fear, this bitter taste of truth How could we do such an estate That is nothing but a remission A heritage left behind by some dangerous fools "Taking to leave and never to give" Your false prophet's new generation A hungry ideology is devouring itself When the last spark of cordality Has died by emotional coldness There will be no one to laugh On this black ship of fools Drifting to shores of sources unknown Untouched by profane vandalism A natural soil where reason's repressing the rules Pain strikes deep in me Life is running low
Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025
Slumbering the ocean of silent green Where flowers are turning to stone The weeping ground - a home for those Who have been gone Mourning for centuries the willowgrove So old and so grey and so sad It's doomed to guard the undisturbed sleep of the dead Oh, when life is fading away Grief's cutting wounds forevemore to stay As we took leave of those who stole Their joy and the fun in our life Some tears fell down into the burial ground Oh, when life is fading away Wounds become scars forevemore to stay Don't conceal the pain To handle with emotion's so important to gain Now indulge in tears With power they will drag along and bury the fears Oh, when life is fading away Wounds and scars shall rest within me Meadowland - it's an ocean of flowers Meadowland - final resting place Meadowland - it's the sponge of all powers Meadowland - clearing full of grace When days are growing longer all the tears and the fears Will be memories of the past Once more the game of life and death was played And we'd to look back paralyzed But we're doomed to live on and with strength This game will be won, it will be won
Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025
Wieder einmal Schritte Jenseits dieser Tage Morgen is alles anders Wenn die Türen zuschlagen Und du rote Rosen kaufst Die du irgendwann zertrampelst Wer, verdammt, we ist das, wer Der in dir lügt, stiehlt und mordet? Was, so sag doch, was heißt Leben Wenn sie es aufgeben Und in die Fluten stürzen Schwer wie ein Berg granit Jagst du in die Tiefe Auf die Welt gevögelt, ja Aber das Fliegen nie gelernt Du willst nicht mehr? Dann ertrinke in dem Element Das so durchsichtig Wie dein Alibi für die Flucht Wer, verdammt, wer ist das, wer Der in dir betrügt, schreit und peinigt? Was, so sag doch, was heißt Fliegen? Wenn sie immer tiefer fallen Immer tiefen fallen
Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025
As I put down my feet into the river of time I realized it wasn't the same The only thing I felt was that I left behind My focal point of life I raise my hands up to the sky I'm calling the cleaning rain To wash away the aching past To wash the pain away Without water the wheel won't turn Yes, so I had to grasp Won't you return to be my water? When things getting closer Already at the end of time Then I hope it won't be too late There's no cause for life If life is without aim Conquer the only thing And it won't be the same It's foreign energy
Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025
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