1. |
Checkmate
04:03
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1.Checkmate
Mt battle for simmetry
My road to success
Led me to banality
Addictive distress
Antipositional moves
Played by my weak hand
I became the exposed king
A fool in command
So it´s time to clear my name
Redefine rules of my game – Checkmate! (2x)
Now the pieces are all set
It´s a choice of no regret – Checkmate! (2x)
I was given sympathy
And love in a foul play
Easily blockaded
I was led astray
My dreams were crushed in a game
Of short duration
All my plans were ruined by
Miscalculation
So it´s time to clear my name
Redefine rules of my game – Checkmate! (2x)
Now the pieces are all set
It´s a choice of no regret – Checkmate! (2x)
I will endure
I´ll find the cure
Wipe the blood from my face
Irascible
And tactical
I shall regain my space
My remotion
My promotion
A woodpusher no more
More sensible
Defensible
Ready to win the war
My army will march again
straight from the back rank
I´ll pursue my focal point
Your vulnerable flank
Time to face and counterattack
All that I´ve done wrong
Like a bare king on the board
I must move along
So it´s time to clear my name
Redefine rules of my game – Checkmate! (2x)
Now the pieces are all set
It´s a choice of no regret – Checkmate! (2x)
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2. |
The Black Rook
06:04
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The Black Rook
In solitude I stand
Grasping life with my hand
Watching out the strategies that were planned
Forever I shall last
In my body of clast
Rock solid thoughts build up from concrete past
All the chessboard is what the tower sees
Delusioned pawns who will fall on their knees
Chorus:
Black Rook, I have become a Black Rook, living apart
Look, look, the castle that I am
Black Rook, I have become a Black Rook, living apart
Look, look, the stones inside the man
All knights die by the sword
All bishops are unheard
For empty battles all imbeciles gird
Dark kingdoms built on grime
Queens worthless than a dime
I witness filthy schemes from time to time
I did the castling for a thousand kings
I carried the weight of a thousand stings
Black Rook, I have become a Black Rook, living apart
Look, look, the castle that I am
Black Rook, I have become a Black Rook, living apart
Look, look, the stones inside the man
I cast myself away
From this bad-tasted play
Depraved humanity in disarray
I am panoptical
I am perpetual
Unreacheable tower with no portal
The distant castle sees crowns fade away
Sad memories to remember and portray
Black Rook, I have become a Black Rook, living apart
Look, look, the castle that I am
Black Rook, I have become a Black Rook, living apart
Look, look, the stones inside the man
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3. |
Unfortunate
03:39
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Unfortunate
It was many years ago
That woman came to me
Revealing things that I’d never thought to see
Emotionless desires
Inherited my soul
An unwise decision I took, oh no!
Chorus:
Unfortunate, I was unfortunate (2x)
So unfortunate
Those times I wish to be forgotten
But I’m afraid of what lies ahead
I don’t know if she is alive or she´s dead
And I hope I´ll never cross her way
She´s the pain I cannot bear
She´s the ghost that turned joy into a nightmare
Unfortunate, I was unfortunate (2x)
So unfortunate
Her voice still walks on silence
It snakes into my ear
And perforates my brain just like a spear
Devoted to a dream
My life became so stirred
I was devoured by this monstrous word: love
Unfortunate, I was unfortunate (2x)
So unfortunate
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4. |
Forget my name
05:49
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Forget my name
I never confessed before
That I have gone too far
In this simulation of Life
I have acted out a role
I have never been whole
I couldn´t be what people need
A name I throw on mud
A hero who´s a dud
I chose to obliterate
Devoted to negate
Unchained from the past
My persona can´t last
I must reborn - That´s why
Chorus:
You must forget my name (4x)
I have tried to be ideal
I would die to conceal
The worst mistake, a man so fake
I have been only a slave
Of those dreams that deprave
A fool addicted to his own ego
Scratch out this vicious word
All syllables are blurred
Dare not repeat the name
I can´t afford the shame
I saw the curtains fall
I hit and broke the wall
Dead dreams haunt me - That´s why
Chorus:
You must forget my name (4x)
Take my empty name, erase it away
See the putrid idol lost in yesterday
All the false glory of my past identity
The cold empty smile of my own nonentity
I´ve told myself the lie
Now all the illusions die
A man under a cloak
A name that´s just a joke
I will never accept
The life I now regret
Then I kneel and beg – oh I beg!
Chorus:
You must forget my name (4x)
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5. |
Heart of Steel
05:49
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Heart of Steel
I know that I´m just a number
Only a tear in the rain
One more shadow in the dark
A song everybody sang
But I also know I´m true
That my principles shine like gold
I´m a man of my Word
My wrong paths are so bold
If I could live forever
Then maybe I could be
The living symbol of beauty
That you would like to see
Chorus:
Heart of Steel – beats forever
Heart of Steel – living still
Heart of Steel – won´t stop never
Heart of Steel – Heavy Metal Will
I´ve accepted imperfection
As my twin brother
Everyday I learn to live
Side by side with a monster
Perseverence and Discipline
Make of man a deity
Clenched fist against chaos
Turns doom into destiny
Time is a deadly foe
Eating my precious dream
His hungry bites are vivid
In each line that I scream
Heart of Steel – beats forever
Heart of Steel – living still
Heart of Steel – won´t stop never
Heart of Steel – Heavy Metal will
Fade away, close your eyes and I will fade away
Between the syllables of all the words
That I could never say
Cut my skin
See the oil running through my veins
But deep inside
This metal heart
Makes my soul echo, echo, echo...
A silent soul
Inside me
My lonely heart
Makes me free
Chorus:
Heart of Steel – beats forever
Heart of Steel – living still
Heart of Steel – won´t stop never
Heart of Steel – Heavy Metal will
Heart of Steel – beats forever
Heart of Steel – it´s unbreakable
Heart of Steel – won´t stop never
Heart of Steel – indestructible (indestructible!)
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6. |
Rats
03:56
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Rats
The taste of Life is bitter and sour
Rodent mankind just exists to devour
My faith in everything that I came to be
Humanity decays ´till the last degree
Chorus:
Rats!
Dirty mice play the pipe and lead me away
Good men shake my hand in upcoming betray
Rattus Sapiens built up this grave new world
Like a bubonic love, Hope is a plague to be unfurled
Chorus:
Rats!
Why should I sing?
My words won´t change anything.
Why would you care?
Your life the rats will not spare!
Chorus:
Rats!
All moral values are disguised neurosis
All mercy is deadly just like leptospirosis
An honest world is everything the rats feign
Just to bite my eyes and feed on my brain
So come and join
The happy feasts
Your flesh and mind
Will feed the beasts
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7. |
I am
04:52
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I am
Gone without remark
Like a shadow in the dark
I can be just the man you won´t see
I´m the salvation
Born in imagination
I´m not the messiah you believe
The quickening inside myself – in my heart, nowhere else
Turns me into a force of life
Chorus:
I am – the real sign
I am – the one to shine
I am, I am
I am – the boldest play
I am – here to say
I am, I am – just a man
Stare at the mirror
You will see it clearer
I am there watching you can´t you see?
Birds of a feather
Shall always flock together
To this life we are both devotee
The force that pushes me forward – pushing me, pushing you
Makes of me more than a man
Chorus:
I am – the real sign
I am – the one to shine
I am, I am
I am – the boldest play
I am – here to say
I am, I am – a human
We´re alike, compreehend
Come here and take my hand
My flesh might be fragile
But my mind is a castle
Melting iron in my vein
Shows my nature so humane
-Chorus-
I am just a man...a man that you can be.
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Temptation (will bring me down)
My rough voice cries for life
In the depths of my will
It screams inside my head
Your voice gives me the urge
To eat pieces of glass
To throw myself on you
It´s fire
Desire
Barbed-wire
Your so sweet smile
Your touch´s a wile
Turning me vile
Chorus:
Temptation Will bring me down – bring me down, bring me down!
Temptation Will bring me down – bring me down, down, down, down...
Love is a distraction
A kind of addiction
A lack of proper medication
Love makes bodies forget
What´s pleasure and what´s pain
That´s why we lay on nails
It´s Mundane
It´s Insane
Our Bane
The serpent´s bite
Demonic rite
Vicious delight
Temptation Will bring me down – bring me down, bring me down!
Temptation Will bring me down – bring me down, down, down, down...
Sin and sanity collide
In poetic paradox
The surrendering of my pride
(The surrendering of my pride!)
I am the first offender
Convicted by my essence
Suffering and splendor
(Suffering and splendor!)
The same hand that caress
Will be the one to rip apart
To backstab then save my life
(To backstab then save my live)
All the sins I cannot confess
They inspire my sick art
They are my pen, my voice, my knife.
(They are my pen, my voice, my knife)
Your absence is the scar
That carves me into a man
Reminding me that I am human
I kiss your poisoned lips
Worship your baroque face
Put my life in the palm of your hands
Cynical destiny
Dirty devotion
We´re bonded to each other ´till death do us part
And deep within
We laugh in sin
We cry and grin
Temptation Will bring me down – bring me down, bring me down!
Temptation Will bring me down – bring me down, down, down, down...
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9. |
Madman in Chains
05:01
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Madman in chains
Go on – Yes, he must go on
For there isn´t any choice
Just a chord out of tune comes out from his voice
Alone – oh, he walks alone
For no one would understand
If they only knew he´d be forever banned
A solitary man among the crowd – lost among the crowd (2x)
Keeping alive, keeping unbound
Chorus:
Madman in chains, madman in chains
Corrorise sorrow flows in his veins
Insane – labelled as insane
In the life he left behind
In the maze of despair where he was confined
He shall not be once again imprisoned – never locked again (2x)
For his mental state, his sick vision
Chorus:
Madman in chains, madman in chains
Corrorise sorrow flows in his veins
Madman in chains, madman in chains
Fatal tomorrow that his mind strains
And his face wears the mask of sanity – mask of sanity (2x)
His mind carries the curse, the profanity
Madman in chains, madman in chains
Corrorise sorrow flows in his veins
Madman in chains, madman in chains
Fatal tomorrow that his mind strains
The madman in Chains (2x)
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10. |
Dark Disease
07:47
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Dark Disease
Our Love is registered in epic poems
written on Patient Information Leaflets
Of all anticonvulsive
Antidepressive
Antipychotic
And Antimyself Medicine
You force me to take, my Dark Disease...
I´m just a little piece of a broken mirror
I´m just the old torn book that´s fallen from the shelf
My hands shall bring only destruction to your life
My thoughts are the mist cloudening the human self
So don´t get contaminated
By this thing inside me, my
Dark Disease (4x)
Time goes so fast to me but I can´t grasp its flow
Laughing at me, the clock put its claws on my neck
Confusion is the mistress that lays in my bed
Consuming my head ´till my emotions become wreck
So don´t come close, protect yourself
From this worm inside me, my
Dark Disease (4x)
Lots of voices
Distract me
Tapdance over my sanity
Psycho thoughts
Invade me
Feed up my comorbidity
A condition
And a curse
It´s the ball and chain of my mind
Medicate me
Isolate me
Before the maniac rises
My birthmark is this disorder
That devours my brain
And nobody can discover
This thing that brings me Pain, my
Dark Disease (4x)
Dark Disease – you can´t save me, you can´t take it!
Dark Disease –you can´t take it, lock me away, please!
Dark Disease – Forget me, forget me, forget me, forget me!
Dark Disease – you can´t save my mind, you can´t save my soul!
Lock me away!
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