LYRICS: SHIFTINGS (2013)

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Her name was Thanatos

I met you in a dark and cold night You were right in front of me, smiling gently I met you once again the other day, when someone tried to break my bones You were hiding and looking at me, looking as if it was the end O blessed power, regard my ardent prayer, and human life to age abundant spare You send me signs that flesh is just a lure I let go all I know - all I know is vanishing You're not the same, but I come to you I can't remember, I can't say your name A lifelong suspense is made, reaching your bed at last Soon or later we'll join whatever my path is My days are coming, I won't deny the things I owe you to pass me by Crossing the lake by your side, facing your realm for the final act What your name was... What's it again?

Awakening

I've been asleep for so long I cannot remember My eyes are open and sunlight penetrates me The darkness is fading, the blinding is full I've been buried for so long until you came here Don't you know we're not gonna wait here Don't you know they're gonna hate this Flesh and bones, radiant like the sun You revive me, wake me then burn We are on fire but it is dark It slowly flows inside of us Take me, take my last breath My wounds are sick but you're just right here, telling me to stand up as my body aches My hands, my feet, my brain, all yours, and I move it around you, my sweet fucking necrophile Don't you know they're not gonna let this pass, let my corpse out there Don't you know you already are like my plague, my salvation, what I need We're getting higher in inner space The embrace - all and nothing - it keeps you out of my sight Next time I will open my mouth, and reverse everything

Corrupted

Day after day I am chasing horizon They tell me that it doesn't make any sense It's like getting closer to something else It keeps me focused on something The deeper it goes I'm alone I start to think about things I don't even own My mind is burning but I'm cold Alterated I'm watching their fall Here I stay It's alright I can change Will I be able to handle it Corruption, obsession, needing I don't know why I like it so far I'm out of my mind, slaving I think I was corrupted by some virus infecting the heart, then the chest This Evil is strong and I can't cope, but I don't want to get back to my former self I don't know what I want I don't know what I should want or not If I'm corrupted I don't know how to stop, how to end all confusion Fuck it, I can't control

The Monster

There’s a monster living inside you Dreaming of devouring everything on its path Nothing left, nothing kept Just getting rid of Life There’s a monster living inside you But you look so fucking pure… You look so fucking fine Perfect hunter, imperfect bride Wrapped with beauty, you kill to shine Now walls yield and I see the end This hunger has turned you in a thing you can’t see Unable to touch it I’m watching you falling Slowly, deeper, you’re going crazier It’s allright, it won’t hurt, ‘cause you can’t, feel anymore Like these creatures afraid of light You can’t feel it, you can’t feel it Light fades today, night looks so fresh I wonder when it got started She’s the bitch that she once hated She’s the whore, she’s not the same Nowhere to hide from her fangs She’s fucked up, just throw her away It’s in your eyes, it swims in your veins I can feel it through my fingers, in every filthy word you say Miracles - it is all that I'd want here now I wish you could just see, I wish you could just believe me You dragged me down to this hell You’re the first, you’re the one, the monster I love

Cold shapes

Come out, I know you're hiding somewhere inside But you don't need to fear me We are more alike than what you could feel I know your soul and even more Me and you, we are the same When you cry, we both feel pain Time and space can't tear us apart Because we are one, see how the world is ours My shape is cold and so is yours Your shape is cold and so is mine Me and you, we are the same When I'll die, you'll sing my name Time and space won't tear us apart Because we are one, see how we're getting closer Our shapes are cold

Messiah

Fine like a rat in a cave I guess this is what I came for Blind like I know their justice Love is not what I thought You taught me to be a man, and you took me everything one can give My only wish was you to let me in You know not what you do… Lies are my everyday Your eyes are so beautiful No pain for feeling this No chains more obscurantist My existence = your salvation Nice apple trees in all seasons I would give my arms if yours were cut It would pass because you're like my flesh Tearing me like shitty old clothes A wounded piece of skin, bleeding blue The establishing act of Love Even the dead knows what you create This endless night could stop right now, but I carry your cross You didn't stay the same Like you had once felt it before you fooled me and you praised me like if you cared, like I am your messiah It won’t stop, won’t heal, won’t cease, won’t change anything to the path we made Oh God I saw it before I had come to help you, to make you feel, to make you true I wish you saw in me this pain I cured in loving you But you ate my flesh, drunk my blood Made me trust in nothing but lies, extolling me to crucify me... We both know how this will end

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

Desillusionned, devolution With nowhere to go nor hide nor wait, just a darker place It's here... Deshumanised, desensitized Make joy turn into pain and hate and anger - just a bitter end Come with me my friend, there is so much I'd like to show you So similar desires but blinded convictions, and all my wounds burn Die with me my love, it's a perfect way to stay together So much people, an ocean of life between us, beneath us So afraid to see it So in touch with you, so afraid to live I can't pretend not knowing why but this place just looks surreal It's here

Astrid

Life must find a meaning in the end Like a falling star can born again Mother said your wings were thrown away You don't need it you will find a way These days we think slow, can't remember The pain you felt before you died Like an old vision, well-known surprise This picture means somebody's gone So let's remember the day you fell right through the sky Oh, come on let's dig deeper Two wounded wings might catch the eye Falling star, sky is your home Without a sign, you fell and go Once you bet they would remind you, a little bit of kindness You trusted a nation of liars-liars-liars, yeah so many dumb ones You hate what you don't know We all die one day

Hippocampus

The more I get to meet you in this room The less I can recognize The more I get to touch you and hold you The more it makes me feel like drowned How could I just be so blind when you were slowly changing shape before my eyes How couldn't I be choking enough, I couldn't see I was just deserving to die High tide, sea horses Your mind is an eternal abyss, the one which I will never see the end Your legs are changing, I can hardly see Your skin is getting so aqueous High tide, sea horses making me sick She wants me, she got me breathless, she knows me Seeds trapping my nub inside a world of red seas Desire sinking down to the bottom, losing myself in your hole Down in depths, just one sanction: the Great Silence

To live is to wait

Nowhere to run Long quiet river, strewn with thorns and romance Sometimes the storm gives way to summer Sometimes the wind stirs up my wounds Coming to us, for once, as we need this sweet omen Surroundings shall become like arms Surroundings are wooden coffins To live is to wait Too far from ourselves, meeting in this place of too much consciousness, of too much materialness Forever we stand, looking at the sun, inventing some sense for this wait to end, for these signs to mean something We are the ones to walk the line We are the ones to rule our life We are the ones to improvise We are the ones who know we die All I wait is you All I wait is you to make my life true Tear me apart! Make me see what I miss! Smash me down! Make me accept my fate, for fuck sake! Drag me in the mist, swallow this, digest, regurgitates This wait is so long, some of us plunder the earth, others create some Gods just to... Go where we should? But there is nowhere to run! All life is await - and after centuries of mankind we're still at the same point All these things that were never said because we can't accept it, we are too numb All I wait is you

Shiftings

I'm walking on a road, avoiding its pitfalls Climbing then going down, and drifting with the flow Ground slips, I see through Shiftings define myself Arriving in a place where everything seems clear Patient for one moment I rest, then the clock starts again Run far so I can start over again and I will shift again Elusive game, elusive... I haven't been the same for a long time and I don't plan to I don't believe what they say I am, say I'm not Tonight I'm leaving out all these endless days of wandering Sunlight is so vain, so exasperating, yeah I'm done with your light, I had enough, I'm done with your lack of darkness I love the way it moves in the dark, I'm born again, now This place is meant to change, new pitfalls in my sight Just try to understand - I have to run away Can't stare these concrete fields where no one ever screams The bricks are watching me, but I don't fear them