1. |
THE TERMINAL SUMMIT
04:31
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I've come so far
I've grown so weary
I've lost my purpose
Desired so deeply
The life has withdrawn
Replaced by rocks, my heart became one of them
There is no reason
To continue walking
Yet nothing else is left
So I must keep pushing
I shed the pain
Same as I have shed every burden
Until resolve is all that's left of me
This terminal summit is the epitaph of hope
A barren testimony of foolish erand
Nothing to be found here
Still I push through the pain
So I may be redeemed by suffering
By the only thing I am capable to feel,
The only thing reminding me that I am still living.
I've come so far
I've grown so weary
I've lost my purpose
Desired so deeply
I shed the pain
As I have shed every burden
Until resolve is all that's left of me
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2. |
LOOKING BACK
06:04
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I allow myself
to stop for a while
To take a look back l
just one last time
Suddenly I'm left to wonder
what is it that I've become
I haven't seen it
coming so soon
My skin got thick
I doused my fire
To face another day
to get over another loss
I‘ve lost more than there is to find
Oh it's alright
It is all fine
I wish I'd burn bright
as I used to
For all the colours,
all the flavours
Instead I burn another day
The right man in the right place
always at the wrong time
I raised the walls
to take it all
nothing gets through,
Even I can‘t get out
All I'm left with
are tears of rage
I tell myself
Here you go that's life for you
Oh it's alright
It is all fine
I wish the headache is over
I feel like an empty bottle
I am wounded as every other
What a sad world to call home svět
I‘ve lived a life long enough to learn all about pain
One short enough in love to know I wasted both
All I ever wished for was…
Oh nevermind
It is all fine
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3. |
FOLLOW THE NORTH STAR
05:02
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Once again I‘ve lost my faith in happier endings
Time again the tunnel vision leads to aching
All around me I feel like all is dying
It‘s been me each time, a flaw in character design
Every friendship
lost to circumstances
is expression
of my own negligence
It‘s just so tempting
to drown in regrets
to give up trying
overwhelmed by sadness
per ardua ad astra!
per ardua ad astra!
As every nightmare
comes with an awakening
Each struggle‘s proven temporary
Who needs happy endings
I‘ll take the of peace of deep sleep
All it takes is
to follow the north star
until we get there
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4. |
TO THE MOUNTAINS
08:39
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It feels like ages
Since I came here
To seach for answers
Why am I like this
What’s my purpose
Why should I go on
How can I leave
my mark on on this world
should I even?
There is mercy
in snow white darkness
intimacy in freezing
Through the silence
snow is chiming
my doubts echoe
I hoped for solace
in solitude of forests
I sought to silence
the calling within me
the innate flaw
of a human heart
I hoped to find
a world free of pain
I came to these mountains
to learn their wisdom
I asked the trees
how far can they see
I asked the rocks
how old they feel
I asked the herds
how safe they are
I am no wiser
I’ve got no advice
I have no answers
I just stopped asking
I tried to learn
to forget on purpose
to find I out I can
only when I resist
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5. |
VALLEYS FULL OF MILK
06:48
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One day in autumn
The winds changed to tender breeze
I walk ankle deep in leaves
And through my memories
I listen to the beating of my heart
Fueled by regret and grief
I look to the valleys bellow
Hidden under blankets of fog
Such silence full of feeling
Towards those hidden in the fog
Distant and unconnected
Yet still deep inside my soul
As night sets the dark
Crowds of lost ones join my walk
We are walking hand in hand
Towards spectre in the fog
Her shape starts to show
I‘m a moth to her inner glow
The most cherished memory of all
One day in autumn
The winds changed to tender breeze
I walk ankle deep in leaves
And through my memories
I listen to the beating of my heart
Fueled by regret and grief
I look to the valleys bellow
Hidden under blankets of fog
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6. |
THE EMPEROR OF STORMS
05:06
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Ominous clouds congregate
as I wade through deep snow.
The winds rise along
with my fearful suspicions
A sinister premonition
delivered by distant thundering
I grow aware
my resolve is going to be tested
The omnipresent shadow
lurking in my mind
Is growing ever stronger
Gusts of wind carrying thunder
Dim flashes of lightning
in thundersnow blindness; I hear him!
In midst of the storm I kneel
I pray to overcome
The divine rage of nature
the malice of the Lurker.
I’m the unrivaled ruler
Your fears incarnate
The blizzard emperor
The maker of your fate
Born out of your doubts
Inescapably you
As the storm grows weaker
I tremble in fear
I wade on in the snow
on pilgrimage through my soul
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7. |
JIZVY
05:15
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Bloudí nocí
zamazaná blátem
s kocovinou po převratech,
Zase jednou znovu
pro ideál krás
vykřičela si hlas
Noc rozpíjí světla lamp
Najednou jsou z nich hvězdy
Jaké stvoří jen slzy
Je daleko jen na nataženou ruku
Jen jeden krok navíc mi chybí
Ale poznám, když dojdu na konec cesty
Z Pyrrhova vítězství zůstanou jí vrásky smíchu,
v nich sražená krev obětí padlých pro její pýchu.
Když úsměv se vstřebá, bude pořád bloudit nocí,
o trochu silnější, zraněná a uvržena do bezmoci.
Hlavou napřed pro tisíc krás
Její tváří je bolest v nás
Trýznivě blízko, nepřekonatelně daleko.
Životní ironie, ze které jsem naměkko.
Jsi daleko jen na nataženou ruku
Jsi fantomová bolest a roky stesku
Všechno zmizí, jizvy zůstanou
Navždy z hloubek ozvěnou
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8. |
THE AFTER
07:15
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I drag on my corporeal shell, an offering
to the carrion birds circling above me
lured by my countless wounds,
a company in a funeral march
The silence up here is sacred
and although I run out of life,
I stand taller than ever
Whatever comes through me the last
I will become till the end of times
To redeem myself or to stay in pain I love is
the last earthly choice I am yet to make
Not a choice for me really
to hell with every paradise
the pain I made friends with
shall be my companion
If I am to become the last thought crossing my mind
as unfullfilled and painful as it ever was, I chose to become love
Head first into the after
My essence flows
from the wounds
inflicted by feeding
vultures
Free from the terrestrial bounds
I am a principle in the purest of forms
I am what I always felt
I am what I felt the last
For the last thought crossing my mind
I give up Annata
Oh bardo hell embrace me
Although misplaced, I‘ll always be love
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9. |
SLUMBER
08:24
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