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from The Gathering - Souvenirs (2005)
Razor sharp I cut
The bull from my life Too blunt your knife To slay this dreamer We might be dogs astray No running line will hold us So rather kick and kill me I'll be butchered all the same No words are spoken But the world is broken 'Cause I want something Something all wrong done A life instead of mere living Folding crumbling withering oh hell What difference when working the way The crown of my work Is what I shall gain At the end of my days Daylight awake to a puppet world No strings attach to this body of mine Folding crumbling withering oh well The punished pushed along the line All my actions, all my moves A life all mine to lose The crown of my work A life all mine to lose A life all mine Is what I choose At the end of my days [Trickster G & Anneke van Giersbergen] |
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from The Gathering - Almost A Dance (2005)
I feel like I am hurt
Can't you see I try to express But I act like you're a stranger to me I want to share, but don't know how My eyes can't speak And my mouth won't write it down And there's so much confusion as I want to clear it up Cause when I start, suddenly, the end has begun Maybe if I touch, you will feel what I mean but you're acting strange Cause my eyes look differently Caught by death, I do not hope that my release is decided long ago I try to get out To jump at once in a place Where it's all right or wrong and I won't be afraid I open myself for you and all those others Who cared when times were rough for me |
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from The Gathering - Always... (2005)
(Sometimes words can not say what the heart feels. Music can express the things that our language cannot.)
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from The Gathering - Black Light District (2005)
Blaming global infection
for the illness in him Little knowledge of the non-affection between him and his kin Old, grey, bitter, anxious and collapsed Like a wallflower once blooming Withered to apparent death Blaming the guilt Crying the tears Torture the pain Leaving the emptiness behind Apparently he had no reason To harbour the trust He'd forsaken inside. Apparently he left his reasons Forsaken the trust that harboured within Walk, I cannot walk For I am blind, blinded I am By the pitch of dark, so dark is it The narrow street, never ending narrow Clogs my throat Silently I try, Try to walk, blinded by the pitch The narrow darkness, clogs the street I am speechless I am speechless Fear puts a rush on my steps As I stare into the spinning depth The end is not near the sight that I am hoping for And all the light that paves the way for me Is the wish and will for the end to see The bright light is the end of the black light district |
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from The Gathering - Souvenirs (2005)
[piano version]
Strange vibe circles round Tries to comfort buzzing sound Form an arrow point at us We the target are the one Drop yourself in the grass Breathe the air at last Hold on tight Don't fall down Breathe the air through the water Form an arrow point at us We the target are the one Place your bet on the best The fastest horse you can find Drop yourself in the grass Breathe the air at last Hold on tight Don't fall down Breathe the air through the water [album version] Strange vibe circles round Tries to comfort buzzing sounds Form an arrow point at us We the target are the one Place your bet on the best The fastest source you can find Drop yourself in the grass Breathe the air at last Hold on tight Don't fall down Breathe the air through the water Form an arrow point at us Be the target of the center Find the key lock the door Close your eyes for encore Drop yourself in the grass Breathe the air at last Hold on tight Don't you fall down Breathe the air through the water Find your peace turn in sight You're the target you're the center Find the key lock the door Close your eyes for encore Drop yourself in the grass Breathe the air at last Hold on tight Don't you fall down Breathe the air through the water |
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from The Gathering - Black Light District (2005)
[piano version]
Strange vibe circles round Tries to comfort buzzing sound Form an arrow point at us We the target are the one Drop yourself in the grass Breathe the air at last Hold on tight Don't fall down Breathe the air through the water Form an arrow point at us We the target are the one Place your bet on the best The fastest horse you can find Drop yourself in the grass Breathe the air at last Hold on tight Don't fall down Breathe the air through the water [album version] Strange vibe circles round Tries to comfort buzzing sounds Form an arrow point at us We the target are the one Place your bet on the best The fastest source you can find Drop yourself in the grass Breathe the air at last Hold on tight Don't fall down Breathe the air through the water Form an arrow point at us Be the target of the center Find the key lock the door Close your eyes for encore Drop yourself in the grass Breathe the air at last Hold on tight Don't you fall down Breathe the air through the water Find your peace turn in sight You're the target you're the center Find the key lock the door Close your eyes for encore Drop yourself in the grass Breathe the air at last Hold on tight Don't you fall down Breathe the air through the water |
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from The Gathering - Black Light District (2005)
Darling, baby
Don't say maybe Disobey me, I'll be Like a bad penny I twist the truth I love your youth You're losing grip Take a trip, you, You're going down Going down You're going down Like fallen angel I will mesmerise You will paralyse Framed in your game Slowly fading No one knowing We are through Count your blessing Count to eighteen Souls to perish For a few stolen dream only As we've walked down the ally On the misty afternoon No one looked back nor forward The city walls felt distant Never at our reach We're sentenced to your world You're going down You're going down You're going down With me You're going down with me I will mesmerise You will paralyse Like fallen angel |
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from The Gathering - Souvenirs (2005)
You think you were earning
Burning the church of your god You were yearning Learning the birth of your dirt Did you think you earned it Burning your god That you thought messed up your life? You spill red On my cloudy carpet You think you were earning Burning the church of your god You were yearning Learning the birth of your dirt Did you think you earned it Burning your god That you thought messed up your life? You spill red On my cloudy carpet Your skin turns dust On my cloudy carpet You think You were earning Burning Your skin turns dust No more you were yearning Burning Burning Your skin turns dust Your skin turns to dust When holding it close to the sun And it burns the skin from you're your precious sun It burns the skin It burns the skin It burns the skin [Anneke van Giersbergen] |
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from The Gathering - Always... (2005)
Open the gates of the past
With the key to our hearts Dream of the years gone by Centuries through mankind's eyes In the wasteland that grows inside Within me I shall find myself Slowly walking, pacing front See through these blind eyes Stepping on shadows, touching air Stones move as I stand still Seek the answers in the skies As we don't even know ourselves Silent, as the sun sets before our eyes In the wasteland that grows inside Within me I shall find myself For years of space technology Still we haven't learned Like children we explore Things we can't yet comprehend Open the doors of the past With the beating of a heart Dream as the years go by Carrying our own cross Seek the answers in the skies As we don't even know ourselves Silent, as the sun sets before our eyes |
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from The Gathering - Souvenirs (2005)
As the sand
spreads wide open and the glow of the sun pearls the skin All hope is craving fluids and the yearning to where we've been Golden grounds so absorbing When the heat of the sun boils the skin We have to stand the test of nature to return to where we've been Hold on my saviour Keep my heart in holy dimensions Drag me on your back for one more day One more day One more day You give You learn You live You learn I guess what ever you may find It's all right to eat a piece of your mind [Anneke van Giersbergen] |
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from The Gathering - Almost A Dance (2005)
That poem is not funny
You're just laughing about those words That describe my feelings, when I am hurt But I just couldn't resist to show you those lines I just gave you a diamond and you act like that's a crime And I just got down in my soul down on my knees Give my permission to bleed That look on your face makes it all clear that my fear is not worth the tears You have permission to go and die on the streets where I find the words to ease my mind that bleeds I curse the damned who just laugh in you face Give me permission to rearrange Just laugh in your face Drawing blood from people People that are in pain I never tried to gain the soul from the fraim |
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from The Gathering - Almost A Dance (2005)
Can't do that, please forget
The things I need, there's more than only to breath Twisted and dreams, crying and defeat Love and fear, Buried beneath those facts Which controle, it's all there Sent me grief, sent me joy To become myself, trying to gather the truth Eternal faith, blame myself Pleasing the one, from inside Cause there is where it's at, take my breath Wet my eyes, turn me inside out and never lie And if you cry, I'll take the side That needs in the first place Be my guest, I will not push I will not try to take more than you want Cause what would you have done if the truth was done wrong And please forget, we can't have those thing And please forget, we'll act like we've just met And please forget, we can do it all over again Please forget we'll act like we've just met I don't wanna do it right Wonder about her last flight |
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from The Gathering - Always... (2005)
The cruelty of this world persists
The cold wind speaks for our lost Whispering words, weaving worlds Her time has come, alas A man of stone with opened eyes One stepped out of a dream With a view held within his mind The tears for his bride redeem Watching his world falling apart Like the dreams in a shallow sleep Countless are the nights they shared The mourning in his tears But morning still has broken A light in his world of dawn All beauty turned to rot His flowers, all are gone Close the eyes of eternal love Buries his face in his hands Her face looks so alive In the morning sun But morning still has broken A light in his world of dawn All beauty turned to rot His flowers, all are gone Dreams are only but illusions Illusions for one to see It's the visual projection of our inside And as empty as the heart in me |
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from The Gathering - Souvenirs (2005)
My friend
She tipped over Out of childhood into sadness She's always shining But nevertheless Her beautiful heart is drowned in grief Sugar horse, lives inside Like a friend In need Far and wide she'll gaze Upon the flowers bloom Jaded, her mind in a daze From the medicine gloom They leave her with her friend A force of nature filled with strength Sugar horse, lives inside Like a friend In need [Anneke van Giersbergen] |
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from The Gathering - Always... (2005)
In everyone hides a king for a day
Nature's actors, in tragedies we play But deep bows the head that bears the crown For the weight of might can always pull us down Soon my reign will end I, a king without hands Soon this day will end As my tears descend Everyone has his own dragons to slay Look in her eyes, never turn away Soon my reign will end I, a king without hands Soon this day will end As my tears descend Every treasure you find And every road you take Has it's opposite side Sacrifices to make Dream on... Sleep on... Time is my only fear An enemy of sand My dreams are old A new king will rise |
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from The Gathering - Almost A Dance (2005)
A scar inside
For such a long time I'll do it all over again Can't face the wounds Have to go on Stop remembering Time by time shades reach the surface A mental breakdown, they provide Accept, clear up, clean up, go on and soon I'll show some pride There's enough to go on further Don't force to forget Till the day I'm done with the shades The rage I create towards myself, the hate To claim the blame that I feel To damage the dreams I need Facing uncertainty Facing the truth Got to get on through Blaming myself Blame at last ...And please forget |
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from The Gathering - Souvenirs (2005)
All you need all you need
All you need Is all is now All you need all you need All you need Is not what you're getting All you live all you give All you live Fits in a teardrop If you come closer I'll show you how it feels All you need all you need All you need Is all is now All you live all you give All you live Fits in a teardrop Give what's worth remembering Give what's worth dying Give it al Oh, back for more You just give it all Oh, back for more If you come closer I'll show you how it feels High is high Low is low Love is gone The best ones are the first to If you come closer I'll show you how it feels High is high Low is low Love is gone (Zlaya Hadzich) |
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from The Gathering - Almost A Dance (2005)
Behind those mountains is a land
That is owned by geniune men They wear a stone around their neck Which they borrowed from a river That supplies them with food and nutritious minerals And if you follow the river to the north You find their place Where they hide their children and women The women who wash during the day Are so beautiful you fall on your knees, start to pray The children are the ones that play all day Are happy and shining all these days Behind those mountains there's a life we can share Cause nobody dares Behind those mountains there's a life we can share Cause nobody dares What they need you can see everywhere An ocean of green grass, the grazing buffalo Who they killed to have food and shelter In the winter when the wind is cold And a white ocean is all you see The women are still washing The children still play during the day And the men wear a buffalo coat to live their land That is cotton by frozen river As it's spring in the mountains, I see Behind those mountains there's a life we can share Cause nobody dares Behind those mountains there's a life we can share Cause nobody dares |
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from The Gathering - Almost A Dance (2005)
I have an injunction, don't look surprised
Time to get even in this unproved life Questions all over the years I live Time for some answers, beware of my drift So on, be true, denial won't work And there is nothing you can't do A feast arises, be glad you're invited The future has no past, pass the wine All those worries about all those dreams All those nights when I screamed Captured in security, a babbling brook Let's drop a bomb and act like fools But a true feast arises when you're done And you're done when prospects are gone Cause when you're down in the mud cause dreams won't come, pleasure is gone what did you do wrong And you're trying to gain the fortune and fame of the ones you admire, don't try to remain. Security is just a game |
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from The Gathering - Almost A Dance (2005)
Denial
The first... Sweeter than honey The second time What's left No time A pleasant surprise All the time Proof Always answers Sharing feelings With me I would like to clear it up for once Please Proof Safety at last Gone And I think all the time About the dawn and the night All the answers The wrong and right When we kiss, when we fight And love in its most natural way All the time All of my life Till the fire's burned down again Proof It's all gone, Away |
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from The Gathering - Always... (2005)
What is left of our world, today
Walls have fallen with peace But walls are build within our hearts Wars are fought within A cloak lies over our world A misery show without an end The masses follow the masses The blind will lead the way To see the colors that rest within your mind The paradise we seek lies inside Who's to blame, who will lose Now the dice have been rolled We must find the guilty ones Instead of condemning what has been done Who shall we praise now When all our gods are gone Living is not just to live In a conrete or cardboard box Think in a carbonized world Where all has been done before The thought of a perfect world On the pile of broken dreams To see the colors that rest within your mind The paradise we seek lies behind Who's to blame, who will lose Now the dice have been rolled We must find the guilty ones Instead of condemning what has been done From the smoking cities we shall rise And on the ashes we will build Praying for that one day The sun will rise again... |
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from The Gathering - Souvenirs (2005)
Jump in heat
Plunge to your truth Agree with your youth Consider defeat Part and part And separate We will Brand new paths In ways to soothe Never disagree with your youth Part of your heart Will separate It will The gift of your life All what was concealed No skin-deep a dive Your childhood revealed You jump in heat Plunge to your start Don't underestimate You're own point of view Don't part your art Or hesitate Your will The gift of your life All what was concealed No skin-deep a dive Your childhood revealed You peel all the layers of forever You start the beginning of the end Breathing is bridging the gap Between black and light And now you feel alive! And now you learn to dive you know! Breathing is bridging the gap Between black and light |
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from The Gathering - Always... (2005)
And the dreamer sets his sails...
Avoiding all cliffs and stones But the dreamer is never alone Always trying to catch the moon Sailing on winds of desolation Horizon's my destination Through tears I see the moon slowly sets And another attempt has failed... The waves of the see drawn to the moon Like lovers they meet Carry the light to a distant unknown Catch it if you can Always will there be the stars Always will there be the moon Always will there be the rocks Will I always be alone? Always... |
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from The Gathering - Always... (2005)
The bowels of my thoughts, icy lake
Drain emotions from my bleeding soul Tears that follow burn my skin Dread to see myself, I ain't me The sun encircles my shape on the ice In my shadow I see the people below Their frozen faces staring blank All crying without a sound Thousand degrees below Ice age has begun, Subzero Emotions running low My heart is so cold, Subzero Hatred in words, spewing from their mouths Verbal injection of a freezing void Sunrise in three directions As all their faces turn to laugh Thousand degrees below Ice age has begun, Subzero Emotions running low My heart is so cold, Subzero |
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from The Gathering - Almost A Dance (2005)
Its quest around the sun
Mankind on the run Overwhelming indifference Destruction fills my eyes Blue and full of life Wandering through time Being outer space It looks ya right in the face The Vessel on its way Saving the grace Bright gentle face A life saving case Propulsion a mistery Science, the missing link But damage they cause By inventing machinery Inventing my greatest fear There's so much to discover Blaming each other tomorrow Hurting each other today Fading away Denying the facts Turning the Vessel into a wreck Blowing prospect away Not trying to save the day Tomorrow fading away Following time makes me afraid |
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from The Gathering - Always... (2005)
Slowly... Flying silent
Touching the wind as it sadly sings... for me Aging on the outside With my youth in my empty hands Lost all that I was living for, live no longer Couldn't resist looking in her eyes I saw myself, tears were falling The seas in her eyes reflected my old age Youth grows old, like winter follows spring Faster... Falling kingdom Dancers on winter winds, they dance... for me Nature's ways Life can't always be contolled Controlled by fear Scared of the months and years, fear no longer Time leaves its mark The years come but never go Masked is my face The mask of age will fall, hide no longer Couldn't resist looking in her eyes I saw myself, tears were falling The seas in her eyes reflected my old age Youth grows old, like winter follows spring |
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from The Gathering - Almost A Dance (2005)
Confidence and hope
I'm looking forward to future plans Not able to realize yet Makes me wanna take a rope or swallow some pills any time But let's have a look In the distance I see light Gives me satisfaction Keeps me hangin' on When stability is gone I take my own life I make the decisions I have a goal That's worth living Confidence in what I do realising my hope That's the bright side I'm looking for But I know how to take it In times when my life looks shattered and I'm not feeling to well Confused when I think Which direction not for sure Dreams far away Time doesn't seem to go on |
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from The Gathering - Souvenirs (2005)
He worries no more than he
Necessarily needs to fill his void As big as space never ending thrill He meets his will by choosing hate Why choosing? Need us to smile too? Alright Struggling to prevail Foretaste The aftermath Which will be black As black as waste We'll throw in an extra dance For just a little over 5 pence Need us to smile too? You'll turn our limo into a hearse Weighing just enough to run it over your curse Need us to smile too? You lie, you lie, you lie [Anneke van Giersbergen] |
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from The Gathering - Souvenirs (2005)
Lying - down on
Sidewalk - lying Running - tears down His ears - lying Lying - brought us fear Where do we go from here? One day - sixteen Woke up - sixty Gasping - hurry Hurry Where do we go from here? (Zlaya Hadzich) |
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from The Gathering - Souvenirs (2005)
Now that we're through
the hell with you We don't mind We just give it a sigh We hardly knew what you were capable of doing But why don't you give it a try Oh, you learn about it Oh, you harvest (untill you can make no more) All that's eating inside All that's eating inside We hardly knew what you were capable of doing But why don't you give it a try Oh, you learn about it Oh, you harvest (until you can make no more) All that's eating inside All that's eating inside Can't take no more.. Oh, you learn about it Oh, you harvest (untill you can make no more) All that's eating inside All that's eating inside Can't take no more.. (Anneke van Giersbergen) |
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