1. The Weakest Spot

I’m not invisible
so how dare you ignore me?
I’m gonna show you something
that no one else will see
Let me open your eyes
if needed to with a vice
And if you want to go
I’m gonna make it slow –
’cause I said so.
Are you ready to face it?
You have, you have to embrace it!
There is no recipe
to get my sympathy
It only starts when you think it’s over
Just believe it or not
I know your weakest spot
Where is your four leaf clover now?
I feel the anger rise
the source of your demise
“level down” for your self-defenses
Temperature’s heating up
there is no way to stop
Does it heighten your senses now?
I know your weakest spot …
I know your weakest spot!
This is overwhelming me
I’m slowly losing control
Like rapture of the deepest sea
it starts to take its toll
Give in today!
– You want me to take the next step
Breaking away
– There is no way back
I know what you’ll say
– Because you are
I am, you are, I am my weakest spot
Tell me what’s on your mind
Are you ready to face it?
Whatever you’ll find:
You have to embrace it
Are you afraid, a little scared?
Now you regret what you have dared:
One step too far and one too close
on the pathway that you chose
Never happy and never sad
a little crazy and a little mad
Take it from me, I’ve seen it all
it’s the ivory tower before the fall
This is overwhelming me …
Take it away!
This is overwhelming me
I’m slowly losing control
Like rapture of the deepest sea
it starts to take its toll
Give in today!
– You want me to take the next step
Breaking away
– There is no way back
I know what you’ll say
– Because you are
I am, you are, I am my weakest spot
my weakest spot
my weakest spot
I am, I am, you are
my weakest spot

2. Static

All these deadlocked views
they are rigid as concrete
And slowly emotions raise up to the heat
For years, when it must be
on our youth – still though –
there’s a darkening cloth above
in our youth – still though –
we did the things we wanted to%
But now the consequences are killing me
And I’m squirming like a flickering torch
in the grasp of my own disruption
Just a small blow of your life
that shatters my foundation wall
Our moments fade away
like tears in an ocean
I am drowning in your eyes
I am caught in static
Is this the punishment
for the way we lived –
excessive and obscene?
Our minds, they are free as birds –
caught up in a golden cage
with a feeding dish full of failures
Still we obey the patterns of our behavior
Can we break out?
We’re running down in circles
running down in circles
And I’m squirming like a flickering torch
in the grasp of my own disruption
Just a small blow of your life
that shatters my foundation wall
Our moments fade away
like tears in an ocean
I am drowning in your eyes
I am caught in static
“I still remember when I saw your face that
night for the first time, a photo on a
profile. No, I can’t explain what it was that
kept my attention so rapt, maybe those
differences between you and me, killing us
right now.
So, we filled up our divides with senseless
conflicts instead of building bridges …
And I blame these evenings – feeling alone
at all – it would have been just one last
heart-wrenching phone call to catch your
voice through the static.”
On the swell to endless grey
we try to keep in motion
And with the final sounding chimes
I’ll break through the static

3. Feeding the Aftermath

Fool me as much as you like
but you cannot destroy my dignity
Tear down the fortress of pride
the bittersweet taste of victory
Where is the meaning in your words?
There is no sense at all!
A spider in a web of lies
without her arms to call
I hate the thing that I became
This whole new aspect’s too arcane
Rising – trying to incinerate
my conscience is falling asleep
Sleeping – My senses are starting to
fade
And slowly you disintegrate
I’ve never heard this – no, no!
I’ve never heard this – no!
I’ve never heard this tickin’ of your heart
for whenever you’re about to step ahead:
You’re up to leave
I’ve never heard this clicking of your
chains keeping you locked for whenever
you’re about to disbelieve
I hate the thing that I became
Mind murder in the first degree
This whole new aspect’s too arcane
A spirit – never free
Rising – trying to incinerate
my conscience is falling asleep
Sleeping – My senses are starting to
fade
And slowly you disintegrate
Though at least who will restrain?
Remain? What will remain?!
Remain!
For the sake of my own thoughts
For the sake of my own thoughts
It’s all changing, once and for all:
’cause in the end
then all of my praying
seems hopeless considering
the wicked cross that lies within
Rising – trying to incinerate
my conscience is falling asleep
Sleeping – My senses are starting to
fade
And slowly you disintegrate
I’m not playing your version of chess
just lose the pawn
that would henceforth bleed
Atrocity seems confineless
Obey the rules and fail!
Disintegration proceeds …

4. Rise And Fall Of...

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5. A Dying Heart

Make your cross, carry the cross!
But never cross the line
Move along ’cause the deed is done –
Now everything is fine
Step aside, turn off the light
there’s nothing behind the curtain
What you saw is your own flaw
yes, we are almost certain
It’s a little hard to digest
with a knife inside your chest
sometimes a wound
cannot heal on its own
Answer now to me!
We have come to one conclusion:
trying not to see
tables turn
Answer now to me!
We will start a revolution
Here’s the place to be –
time to burn!
Do confess your own excess!
Try to shield your senses
Now wake up and never stop
to lower your defenses
Step aside into the light
Who’s hiding behind the curtain?
What you saw is against the law
so how can you be certain?
Be certain!
It’s a little hard for your vote
with a knife against your throat
some of those scars
will break up on their own
Answer now to me!
We have come to one conclusion:
trying not to see
all the tables turn
Answer now to me!
We will start a revolution
Here’s the place to be –
time to burn!
Mind ignoring splices
pain exploring devices
Behind the lid:
The lying grid
entices me
Soul detesting vision
fear infesting precision
within the chart:
the dying heart
exhibition
Will you, will you
answer this to me?!
Trying not to see
Answer now to me!
We will start a revolution
Here’s the place to be –
time to burn!

6. How Far Would You Go?

Have you ever wondered
what your life would be
if something happened that
no one could foresee?
All the little things you loved
are different now
Nuances shifted over –
It’s a different feeling somehow
And all that’s left for you
is to embrace this lonely state?
But there is one thing to do
to change your fate
Now I feel betrayed
by the feeling deep inside
How long must I wait
before I lose this fight?
What has been and what will be –
Who is here to blame?
I am blind, too blind to see
I can’t take this pain!
Trying to fulfill your dreams
would you ever take a life?
Even if you had the means
break the rules just to survive!
Would you take it all the way
past the point of no return?!

How far would you go?
“Take your time
it’s no crime
you’ll be fine,”
they have said to me –
Yes it was a lie
“What you feel
is not real
it will heal,”
they have said to me –
Just another lie!
“Take your time
it’s no crime
you’ll be fine,”
they have said to me –
All these lies …
“What you feel
is not real
it will heal,”
they have said to me
Trying to fulfill your dreams
I won’t hesitate a while
Although I know what it means
I will go the final mile
I will take it all the way
past the point of no return
but how far, how far
would you go for me?
Trying to fulfill your dreams
would you ever take a life?
Even if you had the means
break the rules just to survive!
Would you take it all the way
past the point of no return?!
How far, how far would you go?
Trying to fulfill your dreams
I won’t hesitate a while –
How far would you go?
Although I know what it means
I will go the final mile –
past the point of no return
How far, how far
would you go for me?
Have you ever wondered
what your life would be
if something happened that
no one could foresee?

7. Mental Takedown

This threat came unexpected
stress factor risen up
The smell that finally led me
brought me the final cut
No, I won’t compromise
I won’t admit
I’ve crossed the edge
and already slipped
Within these cold corridors:
neon lights that tease me
Can a dull mirror
be placed to shine again?
In those splinters
in which my feelings refract
I will not fail, no, I won’t break
though this is killing me
all in the end
No one will save me – not a time
to start this war behind my eyes
before the break of dawn
Can I deny?
Can I deny?!
This one thing that is keeping me
down‚ yeah, I do regret all
I came too close to limit
too close to turn away
my mental takedown
beyond all faith, beyond my soul
beyond my sense, addicted to …
… to what had only started
as pure amusement
but finally turned out into bad habit
I face my torment, I face the enemy
and try to get my boundaries split
No one will save me – not a time
to start this war behind my eyes
before the break of dawn
Just try to save me one last time
to end this war behind my eyes
and enjoy my own break of dawn
My mental takedown
my mental takedown
my mental takedown
my mental takedown

8. Counting Stars

As my thoughts collapsed with your world
it could have killed us well
Words – like slivers – turned into my brain
and I fell
While I tried to stop the ashes of our
mourning
life’s slipping through my cold and yet
anemic fingers
Roads we oughta know
– forgotten and unseen –
to places we will never reach
and those where we have been
A million miles away
a million miles apart
as echoes from the nether void
we tried to see the stars
Roads we oughta know –
forgotten and unseen
Who broke the stairway to our dream?
Now there’s this ever changing scheme
beneath our feet that makes us fall
The pillars of the hope we bore
are rotten deep down to the core –
Foreshadows to regret it all
We’re counting stars to keep us awake
If we could only reach their lights
to blind our fate
Counting stars to sort our minds
but then we lost control
as the world went blind
After all there’s not much left of all these
precious
Things went wrong as we left the path
but we could never turn around
We have done things we won’t forget
behind our facades
They could be found, they could be
locked
It cuts my thought, it knocks me off
Your shining eyes that turn to grey –
I fade away …
We’re counting stars to keep us awake
If we could only reach their lights
to blind our fate
Counting stars to sort our minds
but then we lost control
as the world went blind
We tried to lock ourselves down
in an oubliette made of our own …
Fragments of the future
shattering the past
Bonds we could not nurture
how long will they last?
How long?
How long will they last?
We’re counting stars to keep us awake
If we could only reach their lights
to blind our fate
Counting stars to sort our minds
but then we lost control
as the world went blind
And still we’re counting stars
we pray and plead
we feast on their lights to forget
this life is a disease –
to forget this life is a disease

9. Devolution

It is apparently alright
if someone is crossing borders
We get it, nevertheless
exemplified every day
Because laws are elastic
and people corrupt
tales can be modified –
all expenses paid
And we live in cotton
– in a small dreamworld –
surrounded by gleaming
and luminous billboards
This all is really pissing me off!
Have you forgotten who’s the force
or are you all born half-baked?
Just believe in what they say
and conform to their will:
your limited guarantee
that you live in security
Pay for their bills
conform their will
stand still in line
and if necessary:
get criminalized
Pay for their bills
conform their will
stand still in line
and if necessary:
get criminalized
And I walk through the streets
where I see all their misery:
blinded by glossy photos
that define their destiny
Who believes in a democracy
where no one acts but everybody talks?
Let yourself be supervised –
for your own good
Biometric passports, data retention
taken down, numbered, coded and
scanned
But to exercise caution
just prejudge ’em all
If it’s nothing worth for
then it’s saving time for denunciation
And we live in cotton
– in a small dreamworld –
surrounded by gleaming
and luminous billboards
This all really fucks me off!
Have you forgotten who’s the force
or are you all born half-baked?
Just believe in what they say
and conform to their will:
your limited guarantee
that you live in security
And now we’re off to new directions
and we praise them to the sky
how ironic they will never
they will never lead us right
How ironic they will never lead us right …

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