1. Spirits Of The Dead

(intro)

2. From Wolf To Peacock

Since the first of hours
of childhood and thereon
In all my views and pond'rings
I have felt alone

Beauty I had savored
in other sights than all
and a twisted grandeur
I've seen in things that fall

I always found fulfillment
being on my own
and in my plays and passions
I hit my distinct tone

From their source of delights
Peace I never found
But from deep within me
my true self was unbound

Enter the wolf

Night
Hunt
So Cold

Wolf
Heart
So lone

Soul
Eyes
so Blind

Dark
Star
so Bright

Sprawling was my anger
being chained to their
notions uniforms and
ambitions so austere

But that wrath transcended
to a thing divine
Creations and catharsis
and Pride! – they were all mine

Pride! – alike the peacock –
I felt it to the core
From every cell and marrow
its results did outpour

Like the bird's adornment
the wheel magnificent
it had manifested
in beauty of no end

Now spread thy wheel...

3. The Kindred Of The Sunset

Like a drapery falling downward
The dark spreads out in exquisite elegance
Melancholy reaching climax
Betimes you feel its wraith in all the elements
Aflame – the heavens seem to burn now untamed
While the earth is clad in a luscious blueish dress
Ignite – these candles need to burn now
The night unveils its echoing spook of death!

We are the kindred of the sunset
We are – to fade
We seem like a blackened silhouette
We are the children of the sunset
We know – we are
To burn – a blaze of night ahead

We are the kindred of the sunset
We are the children of the sunset

We are to fade – we seem...

We know – we are to burn...

Nocturnal haze coming forth
A ghost... devouring my secrecies
Gliding over fields as mist wailing grievously
Extinct! The heavens seem to burn no more
The Earth is clad in a funeral dress
Elapse! The hourglass got turned once more
So pleased we sip the elixir of death

We are the kindred of the sunset
We are – to fade
We seem like a blackened silhouette
We are the children of the sunset
We know – we are
To burn – a blaze of night ahead

We are the children of the sunset
We are the kindred of the sunset

4. Into The Unknown

Step into the dark
Drag yourself along the twine

That's been out there
and was spun for you
since a long time

Allow the pain
So agony can teach
Its exalted secrecy

Overcome the fear
Take yourself into
The great maelstrom's whirling eye

With mind aloof
And heart aflame
I shall never be the same

Into the unknown
Where the obscure reigns
I shall never be again
– the same again

Nocturnal pathways call
– Harken now! –
they summon you

Heavy fogs
That enshroud the mind
Dim your view

Look upward
and from the firmament
Pluck the stars inflame

From the light
and from the dark within
You will know your very name

5. Ancient Heart

Antiqua
nobilis
et fortis
Anima

The heart, the heart is old...

Precious and strong
Unrivaled heart
Invincible and never wrong
Wise from the start

Let loose from the chain
Untamed and arcane
is my ancient heart

Most sublime blood
In endless flood
Through my ancient heart

Fire and flame
(of) unwavering aim
My ancient heart

The heart, the heart so pure...

Most sublime blood
In endless flood
Through my ancient heart

Let loose from the chain
Untamed and arcane
is my ancient heart

Ravishing pride
The Self undefiled
In my ancient heart

6. The Whine Of The Cemetery Hound

Forgotten and forlorn
Graveyard corridors
Remains with mold adorn
Voiceless orators

Been haunting here so long
Observing everything decompose
Tombstones that sink into the ground
until they are gone

Assimilating stillness
into grave poetry
In these vaults so lightless
Being home to me

This is my kingdom
Reich of the Dead
Where shapes sepulchral
In patience outspread

The Quietus
The Fall
O Ruin and Decay

Ash and Dust
Earth and Stone
O gray pits of dismay

Time has no sense
in the realm of the dead
Where silver-tonqued souls
are quietly met

This is my kingdom
Reich of the dead
Shrouded in myth
– the idle imbed

7. How Deep Lies Tartaros?

Where dark shadows reign
Once you've fallen in disgrace
in their spell you will remain

Tartaros
Chasm vast
Tartaros
Abyss of past

Trembling, naked I lie
Licked by tongues of flames so cold
Here abandon has no ally
Notions so cruel that endlessly unfold

Where the painting
Where regret
Where the dark compulsion
...dwells

There is no exit from this place
Where past shadows dwell
For in their tight embrace
Lies the deepest hell

Where the pain
Where regret
Where the dark
is the truth

Tartaros
No way to flee
Tartaros
Abyss within me

8. Who May Oppose Me?

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9. The Fragrancy Of Soil Unearthed

Moonrise...
At last
Sufferer
join the enigma

Nightfall...
The call Ponderer
unto the omega

In the truthful light
of this starlit hall
I am yet to fall

Until the stars die
Until the fate
Until the end's nigh
and all the hollow mirth is spent

Until the sun fails
Until the worm
Until the earth hails
until my body shall descent

Here I am king
Here I am truth alone

Star-dome extend
Wanderer into night transcend

When silence then
encompasses all
I am yet to fall

Here I am king
Here I am truth alone

Fall, fall
light is gone
Fall and fall
O dying sun

Darkness
– be my guest
When all the hollow noise
the soundless shrieks
and senseless words
are gone.

Gazing up into the stars
Into velvet crimson skies
Conducting from the earth
the great orchestra of silence