The Shadow Self

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1. Innocence
2. Demons In You
3. No Bitter End
4. Love To Hate
5. Supremacy
6. The Living End
7. Diva
8. Eagle Eye
9. Undertaker
10. Calling From The Wild
11. Too Many

1. Innocence

You’re not alone below the moon
All of us wait for moments gone too soon
You and me breathe to ignite the reason
Freedom scream again

Inside of me doors will stay open
A thousand lives to live
Waiting like universes do without an end
Love break into my innocence

Stay close to me
Everything you knew left with the wind
In times like these we do
You and me breathe to ignite the feeling
Freedom, scream again

Inside of me doors will stay open
A thousand lives to live
Waiting like universes do without an end
Love break into my innocence

2. Demons In You

Endless
My war to reason
Falling to pieces
When I could see
Now I don’t understand
Empty
My fears of treason
Trying to blind me
The brightest void is sucking me in

Like a million geysers still asleep
Demons in you
Lost in the light
Eternal seek for paradise
Scared to lose the fight with what’s in me
Found another side
The darkest thoughts
The deepest sea
Where sun and moon arise
It’s me

Chaos and isolation
Your only truth
What we can hear no one can understand
Madness
In desperation
A burst of anger
The shadow self is taking over

Like a million geysers still asleep
Demons in you
Lost in the light
Eternal seek for paradise
Scared to lose the fight with what’s in me
Found another side
The darkest thoughts
The deepest sea
Where sun and moon arise
It’s me

3. No Bitter End

There’s a road for everyone
‘cos every heart’s the same
To forgive what you have done
A silent wish for change

Desire is a flame alive when dreams are far away
Open up your inner eye, let hope save the day

She will fall all over you
Like a rain, shine the new
And will make the path for you to take
Till the end, walk you through

Time won’t wait!
Lead your fate!
Never let go!

Black out the sun
Light nowhere
Tell me you don’t need it anymore
No bitter end

Hold on don’t run forever
Stay yourself, the one that you defend
No bitter end

Suddenly, mysteriously
How brave worlds are born
They cut away the misery
For hearts to find home

To be there with all you need
And nothing left to prove
Take a chance, go, but never leave
Know it all starts with you

Time won’t wait!
Lead your fate!
Never let go

There’s a road for everyone
‘cos every heart’s the same
To forgive what you have done
A silent wish for change

4. Love To Hate

Made of stone
Behind the walls
A heart afraid of breaking
Shades of fear
Stained your life
A child afraid of waking
Numb within
The sadness won’t find you

No return
No way home
You’re burning all the bridges
Stories told
I’ve read your book
Where anger writes the pages
Search within the empty words
The answers you’ll find at the end

Who do you think you are?
I gave you the stars
You made them fall from the sky
So this is my goodbye

Swimming in the scarlet rain
Far away, far away
Embracing a thousand blades
Flies away, far away

Break the cage
Run against the flames
Distrust and bitterness
It dies today
Lose your rage, save what still remains
Despair and loneliness
Why you love to hate?

Washed the pain
Time in vain
Thinking of tomorrow
Dust of shame
No more rain
Brush away my sorrow

5. Supremacy

Wake to see your true emancipation is a fantasy
Policies have risen up and overcome the brave

Greatness dies, unsung and lost, invisible to history
Embedded spies brainwashing our children to be mean

You don’t have long,
I am on to you. The time
it has come to destroy

Your supremacy!
Ahhh!

Ooh oh
Ooh oh

You don’t have long,
I am on to you. The time
it has come to destroy

Your Supremacy!
Your!

Supremacy!

Yeah ooh yeah oh

6. The Living End

Is the song that’s forever
There’s no need to surrender

Here with you now
Lights in the air
Devoted
No yesterday
Dying to live this moment

Growing stronger, taking over

Truth in your eyes,
See through my heart
It’s open
Make me believe
Gives life to the path I’ve chosen

Blind desire, reaching higher

Is the song that’s forever in the flame within
The living end
There’s no need to surrender, I will sing it
The living end

Sounds like colours raining down
Burning up the night

7. Diva

We can laugh at it now
I don’t mind all the burning daggers
Piercing me, shaping me
Turning the blade on you

I revealed my escape
Sweetest mutiny, ship was sinking
Deeper and deeper and deeper
On top of you

Oh, how does it feel?
Now when there’s no way out
You married your own Hell
Couldn’t get out of your own mind

Now I have the key
Out of the downwards spiralling conspiracy
Just look at me
Just look at
Diva, Diva, Diva, Diva

When you chiselled your scene
So delusional, almost got me
Started to question my sanity ‘cos of you

I’ve been tasting the salt
Couldn’t stand all the rats on board
I walked down the plank as the curtains fell down
On you

Oh, how does it feel?
Now when there’s no way out
You married your own Hell
Couldn’t get out of your own mind

Now I have the key
Out of the downwards spiralling conspiracy
Just look at me
Just look at
Diva, Diva,
Diva, Diva

8. Eagle Eye

I’ve been to the end of earth, the waters, end of sky
I’ve circled the mountains, the forests, across the nights
Over the land that I have seen
Where the wind swept my heart clean

I found a way to feel alive
Leaving behind your eagle eye

Love like a dancing fire, untamed, blazing high
The power to dwell as one, unchained, will not die
When you have burned so deep within
Rest the ashes, then begin

I found a way to feel alive
Leaving behind your eagle eye

Over the land that we have seen
Where the wind swept our hearts clean
When we have burned so deep within
Rest the ashes, then begin

Eagle eye

I found a way to feel alive
Leaving behind your eagle eye

I found a way to feel alive
Leaving behind your eagle eye

9. Undertaker

Bring out your dead
I’ll bury them all
Leave them with me

Dress them in silk
Black as the night
Where no one can see
Paint them with dirt
Shallow their graves
Silent their names
Swallowed by Earth
Written in dust
Killing the fame

How did they die?
Oh, the despair
So many lost
Original sin
Gone in thin air
That is the cost
No one recalls
All that is left
Nameless farewell
Minding the fall
Cover the theft
Welcome to Hell

Meet your maker
Ring your bells in vain
Undertaker, I am why you came
Feed your life with every need you have
And down below, forever
Oh, how sad

Covered in thorns
Knocking the wood
Scratching the lid

Legends are born
Without fine jewels
Here I forbid

Walk amongst you
Sing to you sweet dark lullabies
Giving you rest
Tainting your dreams
Cover your eyes

Meet your maker
Ring your bells in vain
Undertaker, I am why you came
Feed your life with every need you have
And down below, forever

Meet your maker
Ring your bells in vain
Undertaker, I am why you came
Feed your life I care for every need you have
And down below, forever
Oh, so sad

See the world as one
Find what grows from stone
Roam our circles
Come home

10. Calling From The Wild

On my ocean, are you shadowing me
Breaking the surface to connect again
For a moment, I can feel what you feel
So clear and I am with you again

In my air, I feel you covering me
Out of trust, you gave the power to them
And if only they could see what you see
Wind and love never hide
Into the sky

One more stand for freedom
Calling from the wild side
For life
Reason
There’s no life without a dream
No power strong enough to hold it back
In a never ending stream
See the world as one
Listen to the call and stand for
One more

From my trees I know you’re following me
Through the wind I hear you speaking of love
And a message that I want to believe
That we forgot and now I’m with you again
Wind and love never hide
Into the sky

One more

There’s no life without a dream
No power strong enough to hold it back
In a never ending stream
See the world as one
Listen to the call and stand for
One more

11. Too Many

Many, too many
Living their fears
Only few won’t fade away
Not too many facing their tears
When sunrise outshines the grey

She couldn’t see the world within her hands, so beautiful
No one could hear the silence calling her

Missed forever, wonder why
Close and far as you and I
Like ice flowers trapped in time

What if I could rescue us?
If I could fight back life?
Break my pride for a moment in time

Many, too many
Living their fears
Only few won’t fade away
Not too many facing their tears
When sunrise outshines the grey

He couldn’t heal the broken memories, a sacrifice
No one could read the silence in his eyes

Just a canvas in the sky
Perfect sunset, long denied
Spirits flying
Birds that cease the wanderlust fall

What if I could rescue us?
If I could fight back life?
Break my pride for a moment in time

I could reach the sun
I could touch the stars
And you’d stay for a moment in time

Many, too many
Living their fears
Only few won’t fade away
Not too many facing their tears
When sunrise outshines the grey