1. PHOENIX RISING

reborn by fire
these healing flames
envelop my body carrying a new life ・a new life

I will now sink
in the glowing flames
knowing I will ・I will live, I will live again

now, hear my roar
the phoenix is rising again
from the burning flames
the phoenix is rising again

I'm reborn from the shell
struck by the sun rays
In three days I'm back again
The phoenix is rising again

I can feel
the fire burning me
taking me higher, higher to a new life ・a new life

you were all so sure
I couldn't stand again
mine was just a corpse, a body torn apart ・torn apart

from the ashes, after the fire
you'll see I stand again
reclaiming my throne, all that's mine
as the rightful heir

2. IDEAL

This hill is his world
the man who kept fighting for others
this desolate land, this is what he obtained

His wish was betrayed
He didn't want to see anyone cry
But in the end, he could only see crying humans forever

Faker! Hypocrite! Those are the words just spoken to me
by my future self
who's standing right here in front of me

Faker! Hypocrite! For I want to save everyone
Is it really an ideal leading to hopelesness?

Betrayed by many things
and in the end, betrayed by his ideal,
the only thing in which he believed

Even if I know my final destination
I will continue on this path
to protect what's dear to me

3. ECHOES OF DYING MEMORIES

All is now so empty
In this room I used to know
the tears that I cry
while you're not here

Every glimpse I take,
In this room I used to know
still echoes of your shape
while you're not here

You blame a man because he's only a man
If I really went too far...
If there really won't be a paradise for those who live a hell...

As they crawl inside me
These memories, they leave me hollow
I feel so cold,
while you're not here

But it's not the time to stay
I have to stand
And wake up from the illusion
That keeps me here

Worry not about echoes of dying memories

You blame a man because he's only a man
If I really went too far...
If there really won't be a paradise for those who live a hell...

I Give up the road, I stay back motionless
Far from the rest of the world
An experience of ten solitudes

4. DREAMING

I'm living in a world
where nothing's what it seems
behind the veil of lies, there lies a new reality

hidden are my perceptions
among all these fake puppets and idols

I'm playing hide-and-seek with my inner-self
disguised as a kid with a red baloon in his hand

He looses the grip, the baloon is soaring high,
untill it explodes and breaks the sky

reality unfolds before my eyes
revealing that I was just living in a dream

Always remember to question yourself and what you see

My whole life, I've been pretending,
but now it's time to wake up and break the veil that burdens my life.

stretch the veil of mistery
break it and see what lies beyond

5. REJECTING ME

I can't recognize myself anymore
what is left of me, it's only an empty shell

My will to go on
is fading out
like a feeble dream

What should I do, when even ordinary things seem so difficult to me?

My own body rejecting me ・rejecting me
I'm giving up on this fight ・on this life

What's left of me?
This pain I feel inside
What's left of me?

As the morning haze in front of the first rays
of the sunlight I am fading away

My hands, my reflection
like a stranger
not the same anymore

6. THE WINTER OF YOUR SUFFERING

instrumental

7. BURNING ABYSS

From bridge to bridge we came
And we halted to behold the marvellous dark

a boiling lake of pitch lies in front of us
a black devil's approaching

His appearance: ferocious and ruthless
with open wings and light upon his feet

I'm the traveler of the burning abyss
In the fire lake of the burning abyss
I am the pilgrim of the burning abyss
In this fire lake

He leads the Evil Claws
their grappling-irons were turned against us

"Be none of you malignant!"
my master spoke and the devils stopped at once

"Let me go on, for it in Heaven is willed
That I another show this savage road."

I'm the traveler of the burning abyss
In the fire lake of the burning abyss
I am the pilgrim of the burning abyss
In this fire lake
I search for her, the lady of eternal
I am the pilgrim of the burning abyss

8. SCARS

Walking under a pale grey sky
heavy clouds darken the sun

with no marks outside
full of scars inside
I carry them with pride

each one full of meanings
even the ones still open wide
they remind me what I paid for, to be me

I am who I am
'cause of the scars I carry with pride

Beaten up, I've been destroyed,

And now I can't be broken anymore
Bring out your fear, your face, your pride

I am who I am 'cause of these scars

brought to the sky and then crushed to the ground
what I've been reduced to, it wasn't a man

But now I stand,
every scar carrying the memories
carrying them and making me stronger

9. RUINS

My mind has weakened
becoming a labyrinth
in which I'm lost
not knowing where to go

These walls look the same everywhere I turn,
The longer I'm in, the deeper I go, the more I drift away

There's no escape from the tricks of my anxious mind
I am Teseus without the thread of my Ariadne
Oh, I drift away

I drift away, in the blackness.
I lose my way in this labyrinth
In this labyrinth with fear
In this labyrinth with fear

Your efforts to save me won't show me the way
from the ruins of my soul
Your efforts to save me won't show me the way
from what's left of my own

My soul is restless
entrapped in this labyrinth
in which I'm lost
not knowing where to go

Now the walls are changing
Now that I'm near its center
There's a monster
Standing in front of me

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