1. Your Ruin, My Relief

[Verse 1:]
Caging myself beyond all reason
Witnessing the madness within
I am prisoner and jail guard
I'm virus and infected
Merging it all I am left a nervous wreck
Losing focus and losing track
Who's still preventing escape I cry
Finally perceiving my tears' reflection

[Pre-chorus 1:]
Shattering the mirror
This impostor made of glass
I realize my foolishness
And how all this could ever last

[Verse 2:]
Trading my love for mercy
My self-respect for surrender
Accepting my emotional suicide
Dead inside I crave for salvation
Crave for this hell to end
All that's left is to let you feel
We're done

[Pre-chorus 2:]
Shattering the mirror
This impostor made of glass
I realize my foolishness
And how all this could ever last

[Chorus:]
Turning my back on you
I return the hell you put me through
Now these days will end
The days you mauled my hand feeding

[Bridge:]
Your Ruin, My Relief!
Your Ruin, My Relief!
Release me now!

[Lead: Sheep Berger]

[Chorus:]
Turning my back on you
I return the hell you put me through
Now these days will end
The days you mauled my hand feeding

2. Breathing The Soil

[Verse 1:]
Scattered memories on a dusted shelf
Exhibited obviously only
To make sure that your so-called experience of life
Is Displayed for people's envy
This is all your life can offer
For I know these feet never hurt like mine
But it makes me release all the pain from within
A shape where I'm free of fear and sin

[Pre-chorus 1:]
In search for snow fields and oases
And all that's in between

[Verse 2:]
Perambulate all known terra firma
From Ayer's Rock to Cheop's Lair
Wash of the sand in Amazon River
And desiccate in the Valley of Death
All the things I need to be
Can not be grabbed by mortal hands
They are locked so deep within my soul
Never to be taken away from me

[Chorus:]
I follow my heart to take me home
Just to leave again and continue to roam

[Verse 3:]
Time after time I come back to the place
Where once I left and I will leave again
For I will not rest till I know
What made me choose this path
Nothing compares to learn the beauty of it all by yourself

[Chorus:]
I follow my heart to take me home
Just to leave again and continue to roam

[Leads: Sheep Berger / Kötterl / sheep Berger / Kötterl]

[Pre-chorus 2:]
Still searching snow fields and oases
And all that's in between

[Chorus:]
I follow my heart to take me home
Just to leave again and continue to roam

3. Behold A Burning Soul

[Verse 1:]
Turning back is out of hand
With all I dread unleashed
These thoughts are eating me up from within
As my tongue teaching to teach you

[Chorus:]
Could you ever understand me on the inside
Where all the wishes grow
Could you ever understand and have some insight
To where all the fear takes hold

[Verse 2:]
Counting my steps on this burning ground
The way back overgrown with thorns
With the ghost of a chance and shivering hands
I pass the point of no return

[Chorus:]
Could you ever understand me on the inside
Where all the wishes grow
Could you ever understand and have some insight
To where all the fear takes hold

[Leads: Sheep Berger / Kötterl]

[Chorus:]
Could you ever understand me on the inside
Where all the wishes grow
Could you ever understand and have some insight
To where all the fear takes hold
Behold A Burning Soul
Behold my burning soul

4. In The Wake Of My Demise

[Verse 1:]
Surrounded by pointing fingers
At the futility of my life
I feel so unwelcome
For my demise they strive
Suffering this self-loathing
I start to tie my own noose
The coin gets flipped another time
Heads - you win, tails - I lose

[Verse 2:]
Paranoia is the next step on my way
To a state where all I feel
Are the eyes burning holes into my back
The night of the unspoken rules
I will take my soul and flee
And leave them to feast on my body
I will leave them my heart to devour

[Pre-chorus:]
In The Wake Of My Demise the world rebuilds itself
Wipe me off the surface and the world rebuilds itself

[Chorus:]
Watching the Angels
I remember why
Why can not the stars lead me home
Alone I stray
Towards old Gaia's end
For all my sorrow
Will soon be safe
In her hands

[Bridge:]
Still this is long and winding road
My path will not seem to end
But turning back I want to read face
Nothing but lies!

[Lead: Kötterl]

[Verse 3:]
Surrounded by pointing fingers
At the futility that I bear
I feel so unwelcome
Why would they even care
Suffering this self-loathing
I just did not want to be used
The coin gets flipped this one last time
Heads - I win, tails - you lose

[Chorus:]
Watching the Angels
I remember why
Why can not the stars lead me home
Alone I stray
Towards old Gaia's end
For all my sorrow
Will soon be safe
In her hands

 

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