Christian K. Mark

Wakeup now, and join all in -
into this dance you came to see.
Watch me now for I am born
I'm born to fit this melody.

And no one asks how I might feel
A creature built to do this task.
I'll live with you this hour long
And fade with the lights as you go.

But that's what's there to bother me
For you are here - you paid to see
A tale so pretty, yet sad and mean,
And not an "Idea" in agony.

So enter this life and choose the squares
Choose wisely where you really want to stand.
So start ticking time and mark the end.
So I know when it dies, so I know the aim.

I love the feverish tickle that gets me
When all again - and again - is set to fall
When they think they've been running for ages - on and on.
But hardly moved a square at all - at all.

Now sleep my pawn - to play the game
The game that all of you have come to see.
The game that's played for you alone - me alone?
And be amused how it struggles on - and on.

Enter the lies - on to the stage!
And close your eyes - go on - be born!

I welcome you - my spark - come light me!
Start beating now - you heart of mine!
Electrify my humble being
Fall dreaming into this well of life.

For all around these endless whispers
Are there to keep me safe and warm
Embedded in eternal humming
Never again I'll feel so calm

My world is water - it's there to warm me.
Within her darkness no one can harm me.

With this spasms of the world
Surpressed into the world
The bitter taste of reddish eyes
In sweat and tears between her thighs

Within this spasms of my soul
My body lost her soothing calm
I heard her distant fainting beat
I took a breath - to start to scream.

My world was water - just there to warm me.
Within her darkness no one could harm me.

Where are you now - you spark - that lit me?
To start this torturing heart of mine?
To click the clock that ticks and tingles
While falling into what they call life.

And how I miss those endless whispers
Surrounding me holding me warm
So deep within perpetual humming -
Never again I've felt so calm.

Sometimes when I await sleep
The memories that lie so deep
Flood up and then I start to cry
When I recall how I started to die.

A distant whisper touched my sleep - A longing for the reason
Before my spell will set you free - meet me again so bitter sweet.

The Springtime's all renewing lights
Unvailed to me a crawling ant
As unimportant as it seemed
Still lit worlds noone could see.

Days passed years my gaze remained on glimpses of this tiny life
It cannot be - no never no - not human - so low and imprisoned in its time.

So shall I break the ancient rule?
Shall shame fall on untroubled life?
Am I the first to take this step?
Risk all I have for what I only feel?

I swung my cape over your body
My silverish sting scratched your heart.
"On behalf of Love" I screamed - you died.
and left the vail on shadow's ground.

In coming minutes - years or lives
I drank forbidden wine alot
Looks - dreams and all was tempting me
To drain too much; still wanting more.

So dazzled as it left me standing
Amidst those sunshine thunderstorms
So unprepeared I was and wondered
Forgot that things can have a heart.

The times we had were only mine
My will unbeaten in the skies
Broke shattered by this tiny plant
I picked from a rocky-water-ball.

So shall I rhyme this ancient spell?
Shall lips form these forgotten words?
Save the pawn to lose the queen?
Wake the fool and fool myself?

Divide us now my ancient spell
Take memory from this chosen one
I envy you: for you a dream
For me the ever lasting pain.

The empress so everhigh
will wander spheres - can never die
The ant will crawl untouched by those
Just stand under - not understand - at all.

Hast thou seen this looking gass of her's.
She found though no one forced this step?
Are you willing to play your part?
Or shallst in darkness fall again?

I have not seen - yet have I felt
The looking-glass that broke the spell
I join again to fit my part.
And play "The Game" until the end.

Mine is the power to end what has started
Mine are the words to end this game
Mine is the hope to stop the lying
To lead my steps to where I came (from)

A window opened to the sky
A widow's tale spins through the night
A willow whispered into my ear:
"You've wanted to fall for all this years".

And on the cliff's edge of these nights
The sea's so tempting to say goodby
And (along) with the spirits in my eyes
Vanish into the morning light.

A window opened to the sky
A widow's tale spins through the night
A willow whispered into my ear:
"You've wanted to fall for all this years".

The Morning rose, my thoughts remained
Upon these foggy shore of Clare
Though my mind was willing there to stay
(Walked firmly) into the dawning of another day.

Farewell now my griefing thoughts
For I once gave you flooding powers
This flaming fires shall return
To warm my days and light my hours

I might once meet you on my way
To celebrate in drunken nights
But shall the flaming sun's return
Seperate our lifes again.

As all the days were still beginning
And all the lights were there to light
And as the time marked hundred waves/ways
I never cared where I might go.

My steps ploughed through this early wheat
The hands could grab what lies could meet
What eyes so swollen by the light that
Burned bright into the dawn... of the night.

The springbreak's wells sprang out of sight
A summerday's love outlived the lies
The autumleave fell upon thee
Who's lost - so deep within my stream.

Now as these hurting dreams of summer
Turned on to autumns in-so-different sights
I stroll along this all-tamed river
The only one close by my side.

The distant flower's shaking heads
And not a beauty that could match
A dream - a lie - a hope - MY dreams
I'll stick to you my soothing stream.

Springbreak's wells sprang out of sight
A summerday's love outlived the lies
Autumleaves fell upon thee
Who's lost - so deep within my stream.

And as I walk my hand starts shaking - For all this time - and all these days
And as I talk my song is braking - So many lies upon my ways.
Into the waves I came to see. - My world is water!
Welcome me home eternaly!

Wakeup now, and join all in -
into this dance you came to see.
Watch me now for I am born
I'm born to fit this melody.

And no one asks how I might feel
A creature built to do this task.
I'll live with you this hour long
And fade with the lights as you go.

But that's what's there to bother me
For you are here - you paid to see
A tale so pretty, yet sad and mean,
And not an "Idea" in agony.

[Part I - The Beginning]


I was down and I found no need to live
Walked around with the moonlight guiding me
Met a man who was sitting by a tree
Went to him and asked him: 'Won't you help me please!'

So the man looked up and stared at me
His eyes bore wisdom and relief
His lips didn't move as I heard him speak
What I heard I felt in me - 'You're doomed eternally!'

[Ref.:] 'If you want to lift this curse of yours,
Leave your home and walk the distant woods,
See (the) Inferno and the Paradise,
See the beast and god with your own eyes.'

'Where to go and whom to ask', I screamed -
Wrung my hands in hate and agony -
'I'm alone no one's here to follow me!
I'm scared and lonely - and I'm doomed eternally!'

But the man just looked away and smiled
As he slowly faded before my eyes,
Left alone but with an aim to live
Went the moon to follow as a guide to my release.

repeat [Ref.:]

[Part II - The Dream]

The evening

As the night fell down across the land, a man comes to his house.
A lonely house for no one waits - no children cry, no children's cries.
He takes off his clothes and goes to bed, his mind's so numb - his mind's so
dumb.
As he sloses his eyes he wishes to die (to) die in his peaceful sleep - in his
sleep.

The dream

[The fugutive:]
Embedded in a velvet heart of jasmine roses in the dark.
The light of sunrise kissing minds to wake the sleeper in the night.
'Wake up you (- you) dazzled troll -
for you enface a bleeding hour,
where all your sins in pain will leave the veils of mind to set you free.'

[The birth of a king:]
I dropped my mask on to the ground of deserted wasteness in the sand.
But where it fell a flower bloomed she smiled at me -
we were alone.
But as the spring to summer fell of april's healing,
blessing rain,
the desert round me gave its life to plenty colors full of light.
So where i went the flowers bloomed,
the birds they sang a lovely tune.
the children looked and smiled at me
' This man was born a king to be'

The virgings with their herbal spice, they kissed my face to say goodnight.
The holy mother bowed her head mumbling:
'Do not forget this could be life and not a dream'

[The return:]
The mother raised the dagger high, and blessed by the wells in her eyes,
I opened my chest to heart my lies to accept the judgement of her knife.

The morning

And so the lonely man with no will to stay wakes up in the morning.
Hi mind is gray the fog will stay forever in his head.
He puts on his clothes, he tries to forget his boring life -
his boring life.
He can't remember the dream he just had -
no one will remember his life!

[Part III - The Meeting]


[Dante:]
Isn't it a strange thing that all the roads - along
I'm wandering are leading into nowhere's land.
A life of no memories a stony hidden place
A world grown apart from what my mind refused to see.

People dying while they're living
Sometimes they were never born.
If you never ask the questions
you'll never (have to) fear the answers

I cannot tell you right from wrong
I have to leave this greyness walls
(so) believe me now and follow later
- things are never what they seem to be to me
- what they seem to be to me alone.

[Narrator:]
For he went on to seek his life - Komodia
Or infernos and of paradise - Komodia
So it has to end as it began - Komodia

[Beatrice:]
So did I wake thou slumbering feeble
And did I shake the sleeping fool
Thoust thou think you would have escaped?
Yours shall not be reality!

[Virgil:]
Long we've waited in these woods
And talked about our long lost son.
We knowyou never are to make
A heavenly normal happy life.

[Beatrice:]
We've watched your steps since early days.

[Virgil:]
And sent to you the old wise man.

[Beatrice:]
To break the curse you laid on yourself.

[Virgil:]
We've come again to save your mind.

[Dante:]
Memories form Satan's roaring laughter and smiles
Beatrice! Virgil! My long lost friends.

[B & V:]
The fog has hidden our memories of the days
when Dante was another man.

[Dante:]
And now to you my charming guides
as I once lay my trust in you
I still shall follow your command
Take my hands to guide a fool.

[Beatrice:]
To guide you to the wicked one

[Virgil:]
To lead you into paradise

[B & V:]
Was a simple task to do
compared to what awaits (you now)
You have to find your aim in life
You have to find your way.

[Dante:]
You woke me up and brought to me
The memories of my shining past
Don't leave me now - guide my way
For I've been lonely far too long.

[Beatrice:]
You will assemble your state of mind
The one where you were still a child.

[Virgil:]
Remember when you saw the moon
And followed him along.

[Dante:]
The last thing I ask of you to do
As for I have to walk alone
Is just to kiss my face again
And say goodbye and not goodnight!

[B & V:]
Our hearts are with you every day
But leave us now to find your way.

[Part IV - The Ending]


Walking through the unknown woods
The angels fell asleep (that night)
But my steps were firm and strong
(As they were) in the light of day.

I held my eyes straight in the dark
To scare the beasts that cross my way
There'll never be a widing road
That stops my quest and ends my prayers.

[Ref.:] I know until the judgement day
When all the seas gone dry
There will never be another one
Who's lonelier than I.

I saw (the) inferno and (the) paradise
I saw the beast and heard its lies
I heard the sirens sing their songs
I still don't know my way.

I wandered as I always did
A sphere of darkness followed me
As I saw a clearing light
That marked the end of all (my journeys).

[Ref.]

And as I entered the place of light
A bird appeared before my eyes
And it twittered brightly into my ear
"Your aim is death, your grave stands here!"

So I lie down in the grass
Relax my arms my feet my heart
The burdens of my quest are gone
Now I know where I belong!
Now I know my way!

Rettiseert was sitting
behind his desperation's wall
Rettiseert was crying for
his long lost home - so long ago.

The air so cool - so pretty
The sunny spells so warm.
Of springtime - summer - fall -
The winterair's so cool - them stars so near - her eyes were there.

[Ref.:] Trees were my fate
and trees were my home
Trees in the morning sun
of winter tears so long ago.

He used to sit on trees
and watch the sun - sun go by.
The stars had looked at him
as if her eyes were there, love everywhere.

Just another night
and he was on - on his tree
His lady came to him and said: "Live your life -
without my love - without the stars"

Rettiseert so lonely
went home and built a wall.
Brick for brick behind a door
that closed his mind (his mind) his sight (his sight)

Rettiseert's now sitting
to wait for him to die.
And as the final hour struck he smiled
and said" "Goodbye my love, bye - bye my love"