1. In Waking Hours

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2. Wintertide

I am an echo
A lightless beacon in a cutting storm
An empty shell within a maze straying back and forth
A thought never vanished
A wound that would never heal

Have been northbound
Months and years in hiemal
Winds that bite like spells – briskly they enfold
The leafless tree
This will be the end of all

Endless nights, a barren heart
In dreadful morrow – defoliation
And here I am in my wintertide of faith
What have I become? – I am a shadow!

A relentless mirage
Dire circles of reminiscence
So distant now what once did lie so clear at hands
A rout I can't atone
A wound that would never heal

Counting hours – years in desolate
Who chose failure – now will have to live with it
Dreams ignite! And die – by the fireside

And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries
In a slumber, in a dream, in the glistening white I see
In night-time longing and wintertide reveries
In the welkin, in a breeze, in crystalline euphony

Believe!

But tonight only clamor and dismay are echoing
Over firn and ice and back they bring
All them voices muttering of chagrin and defeat
Was in reach of orb an crown
Could be king to the fire
Could have ruled in purple gown
Now all that's left is ire

Believe!

A dismal truth
Innards that no sun has ever seen
No further tales will ever sever
The hour is growing late for the weak and faint-at-heart
A comfort never earned, deserved

Coward!

Frail. Deceit. Defeat.

This is the end of all.

In my woe. A world aglow. Let go of me

Dreams ignite. And then they die
Let go of me. Forever and a day.
Right here, this will be the end of you
A feather to the four winds
A sparrow to the sun

In my woe. A world aglow. Let go of me. Let go of me.
Dreams ignite. And then they die. Let go of me.

In night-time longing and wintertide reveries
In a slumber, in a dream, in the glistening white I see
In night-time longing, wintertide reveries
In the welkin, in a breeze, in crystalline euphony

Whenever I close my eyes
And stare into the sun
Whenever in memories
Through golden fields we run

In every waking sleep
In every time of need
Whenever the soul will weep
Carry on!

Here in my wintertide of faith

3. The Great Unknown

With the morning sun came a sadness
Swift and silent. took luster and pride
Bereaved and forlorn, abiding the torment bright

It sparked outrage. Condemnation
Discaged flame to fire and heart
Let loose all of fetters, restraints and poses demure!

Turn your head now! To the sun
Turn your head now...

And run!

Over hills and mountainside
To the crests of monuments – rise to the sky
From glen to glen, from sea to sea
All burden shall perish, all doubt recoil
May your feet stamp all failures into soil
And cast all shadows far far away

Turn your head now! To the sun.
Turn your eye now! become undone

I'm staring at the firmament
From mires of regrets
The morning turns no pages blank
All remains unsaid
What have you done to me?

What lies beyond?
The great unknown
Cast your doubts into the wind
From glen to glen
From sea to sea
Pull me under
What have you done

Turn your eye now! to the sun

There are places in the vast and the unknown
I dare not ever see
How can I chase away all these fears
Of night has come the day
Keep all gates closed and lights dim in eclipse
Cause all I want is stay
And never leave
The brave new me
Vanished in the morning light
With no return at night

Brave new me – ha – afraid of things that he cannot see

I'm staring at the firmament
From mires of regrets
The morning turns no pages blank
All remains unsaid
What have you done to me?
What lies beyond? the great unknown cast your doubts into the wind
From glen to glen
From sea to sea
Pull me under
What have you done

To see what lies beyond this daunting ridge?
Lands of fire and demise?
And what if there were just another morrow waiting
In fraud and disguise?

4. A Shimmer In The Darkest Sea

Once I notices a shimmer in the darkest sea
I'd hold my breath and dive so deep
A light I did find that will ever shine for me

Locked it up inside, made it mine
Kept it hidden from the world
Held on tight, don't let go
Below the mountain spur
The darkest light for no one else to see
And it shall ever shine for me!

My hands are cold, my soul it feeds
On failure and catastrophe
My silence sings an endless song
It weeps until the morning comes
Let water run let water sough
And gently hollow out the stones
Let silence be an endless see
Forever. Let go of me

How come I am always ending up
Where I started so long ago
Will this path that I took ever see the day?
The more things change the more they stay the same

Locked it up inside, made it mine
Kept it hidden from the world
Held on tight, don't let go
Below the mountain spur
The darkest light for no one else to see
And it shall ever shine for me!

My hands are cold, my soul it feeds
On failure and catastrophe
My silence sings an endless song
It weeps until the morning comes
Let water run let water sough
Carve every word I say in stone
Let silence be an endless see

Forever
Let go
Of me

5. The Liberation

...and the fires burn with mere confabulation
Cast their flames into the wide
Draw an image of summer
That so long I put aside

Is this to be my fate?
To linger here in wait
To be a lightless beacon in a cutting storm?

Who are you to challenge my faith?
Demon of the flames
Who are you to brand your heart anew
Into the canvas of my heart

It laid dormant with the highest expectations
Ancient temple to the light
Chant the praises of a dawning
Through the fire came the mourn

Free of consternation
Ascending to depart
Clear of all the veiling
The end for the weak at heart

Are you forever my dancer in the dark?
Spirit and the spark
Are you forever the mirror without veil?
That kind that helps me see

Beneath the calm beyond facades
Tempests rage and scream for liberation
Cast my fist into the ground
Break the ice and melt the firn
Whatever word now shout it out
Spin and turn and run with open lungs
Gasping for another breath
Open up the soul
Condone and forgive

And turn your eyes to the sea
And give your thoughts to the breeze

And higher and higher and higher I go
And deeper and deeper and deeper the flow
And higher and higher and higher we go
And deeper and deeper and deeper we fall

So, what if all your dreams would slowly wither
And with time were to pass away
What if all the paths that you took would sliver
And you feel you were led astray
What if all your chances never taken
Were to fade and disappear
What if all your dreams were disillusioned
And you feel you were led astray

A breeze, we drift, like vessels, across the seas
In gales, we are carried, beyond,
The great unknown, let go

Set sails for new and distant shores
My dancer in the dark
Let's leave this place without a name
Today we will embark
The oceans sighs – allying
All remains unclear
The beginning of the end
In time we disappear

Beneath the calm beyond facades
Under heaven's morrowsun
In whispers and with seagull tongue
A tale is being sung
What is the dark, what is the night
Shadows around you
The beginning of the end they sing
And time... will disappear

Set sails for new and distant shores
My dancer in the dark
Let's leave this place without a name
Today we will embark
What is the dark, what is the night
Shadows around you
Why not take heart in this new day?
A new dawn draws near

Away with shadows
No silent maybe!
From glen to glen from sea to sea
In solitude I wander
Drifting across the sea
A new dawn draws near

And higher and higher and higher I go
And deeper and deeper and deeper the flow
And higher and higher and higher we go
And deeper and deeper and deeper we fall

So, what if all your dreams would slowly wither
And with time were to pass away
What if all the paths that you took would sliver
And you feel you were led astray
What if all your chances never taken
Were to fade and disappear
What if all your dreams were disillusioned
And you feel you were led astray

6. Time To Let Go

Whatever we agreed on
Whatever we declined
Whatever we were dreaming of
Dancing in the glow of the sun
We are seasons ever passing
Harbors to the sea
The tides keep receding
And everything will drift away

In time we will reconcile
A halt without and end

It's time to let go
This was a fallacy
A dream in the dark
Time to let go
Shadows and mystery

In a maze of moments
Wandering in need
Begins a new beginning
In the shades of long gone days

Still wrapped in echoes
You stare across the sea
Turn to new horizons
Wherever they lead
You will see

And time will reconcile
A halt without and end

It's time to let go
This was a fallacy
A dream in the dark
Time to let go
Your demons and misery

It's time to let go
This was a fallacy
Let it drift away
Time to let go
The wintery heart will sail

Forever. Staring beady eyes and sunken cheeks
Barren lands, broken hopes and blackened leaves

At night everything will drift away
Tonight everything will drift away

Forever. Staring beady eyes and sunken cheeks
Barren lands, broken hopes
It's time to sail away.

It's time to let go
This was a fallacy
A dream in the dark
Time to let go
Demons and misery

Wherever we roam
Wherever we go ashore
Let it all drift away
Time to let go
The wintery heart will sail

7. The Mountain

I bid you farewell, old friend
I'm leaving now
Good night and everlong dreams of the stars
Our lonesome paths are ending here
In the void and blackest snow
My voice is mute – your limbs are numb

I know your grief, your scorn,
The ties around your chest
The gelid air you breathe from gorge to crest
You persevered with ardent zeal and fortitude
I thank you so
But today I go

In everlasting evenfall
Where do we go
What do we know

Our river runs in vertigo
Where will it flow?
What do we know?

I embrace this day, alas you stay,
No more words I want to hear
I know your tongue and binds
Belief will break the weir
And then I turn, and dare to depart from here
I thank you so
From soul to soul
I thank you so
Now I leave you to your nothingness!

Nothing.

Tonight we are like stars revolving
Tonight we are in deepest craving
Tonight we light the empyrean

Where were you?

On nightward ways once upon another life
How can I even dare to return?
With assumptions in the air I can't breathe –
Dismiss – eliminate
We are one – our hearts are shattered

I hypothesize: the coming of the end
Cast your wishes to solstice fires and pretend
That you know– no! you don't know anything
Just breathe
This does not mean you're a betrayer!

Betrayer
G?ra

What do you know?

And thaw sets in at evenfall
What do you know
A world aglow

Our rivers run in vertigo
Where will they go?
What do you know?

8. Between

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What are the words
Can't read between the lines
Only an hour left to cover for weeks

And seasons pass by with the winds
Too much unspoken on the wings of the night

We are...

Passengers
Riding across the sea
For all I know
We will miss again

You find yourself in backwoods and the cold
Unfold
All crossing lead the same

The trees are whispering the way to go
A lure in covert down this winding road

We are...

Passengers
Riding across the sea
For all I know
We will miss again

What happened here will never go away
From nightfall til the early break of day
And this our life I fear it whirls astray
I see.

I know.