Schizoid
Music and Lyrics: Bernklau
My self just slipped away, I’m thrown into a cell,
Waiting to emerge from a self-inflicted hell.
I see the other me reflected from inside,
The hate that he creates through mental override.
Disturbed, Restrained, Distraught, In Pain!
The voices are driving me insane!
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Schiziod, that’s what I’ve become.
Torn in two by the darkness and the sun.
I made the choice, I cast the stone.
I’m always by myself, but I’m never alone.
Here I am again, my role again is cast,
I’m feeling like myself, but how long will it last?
How can we live my life? I’m constantly at odds.
Someone has distorted the justice of the gods.
Disturbed, Restrained, Distraught, In Pain!
The voices have driven me insane!
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SOLO: Bernklau
I feel the other drawing near,
creating the rage from my fear.
The Scream
Music and Lyrics: Yoksas
Emotions locked in their place, no expression on my face.
When situations grow tense, silence is my best defense.
When tension expands ‘til the calm is no more,
A manic explosion; an uncontrolled roar.
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It finds me, controls me, it strikes without warning. The scream!
It creeps up slow and silently. The scream!
Release the fire inside of me. The scream!
SOLO: Yoksas, Bernklau, both
Sometimes when nothing goes right, it seems that there’s no end in sight.
I stay in control all the while, the fury builds behind the smile.
When patience subsides and my tolerance dies,
Awaken the echoes and unleash the cries.
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The anguish that builds up inside, these feelings are so hard to hide.
The pieces of reason now fall, which maintain this unfeeling wall.
A pillar of stone torn apart from within.
I’m crumbling inside, is emotion a sin?
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Before the Sin
Music: Alsing, Bernklau, Yoksas
Words: Yoksas
SOLO: Yoksas
She haunts me always in my mind, a face I’ve known through endless time.
A vision that I always see, the power she holds over me,
Playing with my sanity.
Memories lurk in shadows of the soul,
the places and the faces that we’ve not yet come to know.
Unexpected, fate will throw our way,
Memories unresolved from yesterday.
Am I repeating myself?
Learning a lesson I already know.
Answers I search for, I’m starting all over again.
Confronted by her, there’s nowhere to go.
One more life. One more place. One more time I see her face!
The instant she walked through the door, I knew our souls had touched before.
Familiar smile and piercing eyes, that brought me back to other lives.
The one that I’d been waiting for, I ached to make her mine once more.
As we stood there face to face, transcending time to another place,
I saw us both as we had been, in happiness before the sin.
The pain I caused, too much to see, I carry now eternally.
The vision gone, she turned away, and left in pain is how I stay!
The tides of time beat down upon the shores that shape my soul.
The winds of change will carry me away.
Another place, another time, this life.
No recollection why the price I pay.
No more repeating myself!
No need to learn a lesson I already know.
Forgiveness I search for. I won’t let it happen again.
Condemned by her, there’s nowhere to go.
One more life. One more place. One more time I see her face!
SOLO: Bernklau
One more time I see her face.
A sin I can’t recall, through centuries and countless lives,
And still I pay, her face I see, each time I close my eyes.
Shadows
Music and Lyrics: Bernklau
Evil reaches out to me, I feel her deadly kiss.
Darkened hopes and noble lies, I’m trying to resist.
Now I run to save myself, from the pain that I once knew.
I’ve traveled much too far to throw it all away.
I can’t accept this lie for the truth.
Live my life! Be myself!
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Throughout this life of mine, I’ve tried to rise up above what I am,
But sometimes I fall, I’m only a man.
And throughout this life of mine, I’ve often wondered how long I can last.
Just when I thought the shadows had passed.
If I could tell you all my secrets, you’d realize that I’m quite mad.
But sanity is relative when considering the past.
No control of the reality I had.
Live my life! Be myself!
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SOLO: Yoksas
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No Requiem
Music: Alsing, Behnke, Yoksas
Lyrics: Yoksas
Ashes to ashes, he returns to the ground.
No one to mourn his departure is found.
Leaving no loved ones, he drove them away.
He lived by himself and he died the same way.
“Oh... I must be dreaming. I’ve awakened in some strange new land.
Oh... Something is wrong here. Something I don’t understand.”
“I remember the accident, but that’s about all.
I’m still alive, yeah, but where did I fall?
Why do they say that I’m dead, why can’t they see?
Why don’t they look at or listen to me?”
“Where am I? Can’t you see I didn’t die?”
A figure approaches from out of the black.
“Maybe he’ll know how I might get back.”
“You blind little man, don’t you know where you are?
You died yesterday when you crashed in your car!”
SOLO: Bernklau
“Oh... I must be dreaming. I’ve awakened in some strange new land.
Oh... Something is wrong here. Something I don’t understand.”
“I’ve come here for you by the Master’s command.
He’s the Dark Prince of Evil who rules this land.
I am the one who was sent for your soul.
You can not fight now, you’ve lost all control.”
“I’ll take you to your destiny: To Hell for all eternity!”
Date With Destiny
Music and Lyrics: Yoksas
All Solos: Yoksas
Now the darkness closes in, my dreams are ripped apart again,
And when I’m giving it my all, harder I try, harder I’ll fall.
No more love and no more pain, no more feelings running through my veins.
No more sadness, no more sorrow, no more hope in my tomorrows.
I wonder what the future will bring.
I can see that time is racing far ahead of me.
I wonder what the future holds in store.
Life’s too short to let it pass me by, I’ll wait no more.
When I’m down, I get so low, to feel the pain I’ve come to know.
Look in the mirror, all I see, there’s no one there to blame but me.
No more love and no more pain, no more feelings driving me insane.
No more sadness, no more sorrow, I need hope in my tomorrows.
I hope for what the future will bring.
I can see that time is racing far ahead of me.
I hope for what the future holds in store.
Life’s too short to let it pass me by, I’ll wait no more.
There’s so much left for me to do, a new life out there to pursue.
Look to the day when I’ll be free from self created misery.
No more guilt and no more shame, no more need for me to take the blame.
No more anger, no more strife, no more need for me to live that life.
I live for what the future will bring.
I can see that time is racing toward my destiny.
I live for what the future holds in store.
Life’s too short to let it pass me by, I’ll wait no more.
Wreck-Creation
Music: Yoksas, Behnke, Alsing
Lyrics: Yoksas
All Solos: Yoksas
With each passing life we travel through time,
Searching for wisdom which we all hold inside.
We come with a goal which we select,
Forgotten oaths which we often neglect.
Into the past, if we only knew,
How we went wrong and what we must do.
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All you do will come back to you, unpaid wounds will not heal.
Back to undo the lives I’ve scarred, karmic pain I now feel.
If you do not believe then you can’t know,
all things in life are in our control.
Think of your life, the power inside.
All power’s lost in you selfish pride.
The pain that’s inside is just consequence,
Of acts committed at other’s expense.
In our selfish quests of cold desperation,
We find ourselves lost in our own wreck-creation.
Our time is now, we’re given the chance,
To make up for the past so we all can advance.
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Until the End
Music and Lyrics: Yoksas
SOLO: Yoksas
On the very day I met you, I was captured by your spell.
Do you know what you meant to me? I can’t tell.
What can I say? I’ve thrown it all away.
Maybe things are better off this way.
Until the end... when separate paths will meet again.
I think of all the good times and the bad times that we’ve shared,
I only wish you knew how much I cared.
Is it just me, or do you see?
Maybe this is how it’s meant to be.
I know in the end all will be right,
As we take our separate paths into the night.
You need not fear, though I’m not here.
My heart will always be near.
Until the end... when separate paths will meet again.
SOLO: Raap, Yoksas
Until the end.
Do not worry now, I’m always on your side.
‘Til we meet again when separate paths collide.
When things look bad, remember good times that you’ve had.
There’s no need for you to be so sad.
You must always believe in the things you know are true.
Live our lives with confidence in everything we do.
Happiness will be. We get what we choose to see.
Life is perfect if we let it be.
SOLO: Raap, Yoksas, Raap, Yoksas, both
Prophet
Music: Yoksas, Behnke, Alsing
Lyrics: Yoksas
Prophets through the ages have predicted what will be,
But little did the old man know that he would also see.
He saw it in the tarot, he held the future in his hand.
The embodiment of judgement was to reap across the land.
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Omens... Oh, I feel it coming nearer.
Omens... Every time a little clearer.
Omens... Judgement’s on its way.
The omens grew much stronger now as visions in his head.
He knew the time drew nearer when the living join the dead.
The Seventh Omen was the final blow against the Earth.
Death to the world of old, to pave the way for its rebirth.
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SOLO: Raap, Yoksas, Raap, Yoksas
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All songs Copyright 2001 Septagram Music, ASCAP