Heart of Steel (2016)

Beyond the Haze

You see me walking down the street
The world is crumbling under my feet

Here I go once again
Lost in the abyss of my brain
Deep inside my twisted mind
I see a light, one of a kind
Familiar blaze, beyond the haze
Of sweetest times too long ago
So bittersweet, so incomplete
You’ll never know…

I love you
I hate you
I don’t know
Please don’t go

You break me
Forsake me
Again and again and again and again…

 

Again

Are you looking for the final answer?
Well, I can not provide it; I am just a tiny dancer
In this big blue endless world
That keeps turning though a life sells cheap

And amidst the hunger, fear and pain
Love was killed and they have buried it deep
And even though I have been silent
All my life, inside I have been crying

But today it’s better to burn out
Than to fade away

And now I feel it again:
I am gonna die in the end
So don’t waste it, keep smiling
This is a fight worth fighting

No flag, no rule, nor god above
Could ever teach me how to love
No army, no posession that I got

I’m not mute, I’ve got a voice
To scream, revolt and make a noise
That echoes as remnant of my choice

But today it’s better to stand tall
Than to kneel and pray…

 

Go Away

You hate my simple life
I see it in your eyes
You look so posh tonight
And you don’t need me any more, any more

You wanna change your life
Leave everything behind
You wanna run away
Don’t need my body any more, any more

You wanna disappear
Won’t stay no longer here
You don’t want rainy days
You want a sunny place
And now I see there is no place for you and me any more

You are watching me with empty eyes
You are feeding me your dirty lies
And you drove me to insanity
Suddenly I feel that I can see the light, ooh…

Go, go, go away
You are no good for me
Go, go, go away,
Unleash me, set me free

Gotta, gotta, gotta get away…

 

Wonderland

Clear your mind and grab your dreams right now
Rise above all fear and don’t wait too long
I can feel your rage and I turn around
See it is too late to calm you down, down, down

Let it shine through, the precious fire of your life
Let it shine through and free the soul that sleeps inside

Spread your wings and fly into the light
Leave your pain behind and join the height

I can feel your rage and I turn around
See it is too late to calm you down, down, down

Let it shine through, the precious fire of your life
Let it shine through and free the soul that sleeps inside

Let’s talk about the fire and your former fantasy
Let’s talk aboutthe fire and your endless energy
Let’s talk about the fire and the feeling to be free
Let’s talk aboutthe fire and the life you wanna live
In wonderland…

 

Dreamer

I am the voice screaming inside your head
And the one who can send shivers down on your back
So much stronger in your mind, the devil inside your dreams
Your daydreams

I hear you shout, the others gather all around
Wanna see you cry in despair, see your tears falling down
So much stronger in your mind, the devil inside your dreams
Your daydreams

Dreamer, dreamer, the mountains you climb
Are the direct way to your demons inside
And no fear, just the hate, drives you through the next day
Burns you out…

 

What You Mean to Me

I dream of butterflies, dandelions and sunlit skies
Filled with flyingunicorns that ride across the blue horizon
Towards the setting sun, they make their way until their gone

There’s a hunger inside of me
A lingering darkness that I must not feed
A secret desire to make them see

What you mean to me
What you mean to me
What you mean to me

Light and darkness exist in one
Through the power that we’ve become
To show the world what we will be

What you mean to me
What you mean to me
What you mean to me

I don’t care for time or space
The obstacles that we might face
It won’t change my destiny

What you mean to me
What you mean to me
What you mean to me
What you mean to me
Come on, come on, yeah
What you mean to me

 

Salvation

Torn and scared
I pray to the gods of love
To release me from this curse

Torn and scared
I’m down on my knees
Just me and the voices
’Cause that’s all I need

Shallow encounters and terrible lies
I’m breaking down, I’m breaking down
Haven’t you seen their hateful smiles
Come take my hand, come take my hand
As I walk down the streets right into the fire
So you will see, so you will see
No more and no less, just me and the voices
‚Cause that’s all I need, that’s all I need

Tell me what is good and what is bad
’Cause I’ve stopped caring long time ago
Tell me a story of love and of hate
Tell me what you see
‚Cause that’s what I need

Hungry for love and starving in anger
I’m fading away, I’m fading away
Here I stand, I’m not your clown
I’m taking you down, I’m taking you down
Gimme your hand I’ll feed on your kindness
Help me, help me
Throw me away, I’m the god of my world
‚Cause that’s all I need, that’s all I need

Hungry for love and starving in anger
I’m fading away, I’m fading away
Here I stand, I’m not your clown
I’m taking you down, I’m taking you down
Gimme your hand I’ll feed on your kindness
Help me, help me
Throw me away, I’m the god of my world
‚Cause that’s all I need, that’s all I need
That’s all I need, that’s all I need!

 

Making Machines

We are workers, we are strong
Things we build are lasting long
We have built the Taj Mahal
We have made the Berlin Wall
Everything you use and prize
Has been something we devised

Working class people go
We’re high in the moonlight, build it up
‚Cause we’re making machines, making machines

We are working in the night
The glow is our only light
When we’re mounting steel on steel
And hammer with a blazing zeal
Piece by piece, one by one
By the dawn our work is done

Working class people go
We’re high in the moonlight, build it up
‚Cause we’re making machines, making machines

We are reading Marx and Engels
We are proletarians
Our thoughts make history
Your swords are weaker than our pens
We build your car and forge your life

Working class people go
We’re high in the moonlight, build it up
‚Cause we’re making machines, making machines

Working class people go
It’s your time now, dance on the streets, and down to the factory
Live it up, make it yours, do a riot on the floor

Working class people go
We’re high in the moonlight, build it up
‚Cause we’re making machines, making machines

 

Soldier

Burning faces, kids on the run
Crying women, men with guns

Strange soldier, death all around
Strange soldier, can’t take me down

It’s not enough, it’s not enough to wield a gun

Burning faces, kids on the run
Crying women, men with guns

All your rage and all your hate
Won’t ever cause our spirits to break
Look at yourself and try to realize what you’ve done
Aah…

Strange soldier, death all around
Strange soldier, can’t take me down

It’s not enough, it’s not enough to wield a gun
It’s not enough, it’s not enough to shoot and run

 

Heart of Steel

Born on the other side, blood on my wings
Got no angel to stay by my side
Under a bloody sky, the whole world in flames
Got no savior and nowhere to hide

Born on the other side, strange are the chimes
As a new love is born from the tide
Under a bloody sky, united we stand
’Til we finally enter the light

Anyway, anyway
I’ve done a deal with a heart made of steel
Anyway, anyway I’ve done a deal with a heart
made of steel

 

All That Love

What do you want? What do you need?
Love, hunger, pain, overload
What do you want? What do you need?
What do you see? What do you see?

Love, hunger, pain
Love, hunger, pain, overload
All that love
Take it all, take it all

For the moments that we last
They don’t mean anything
By the time we will have passed
All my fears, all my dreams
Love, hunger, pain, overload
All my fears, all my dreams

Love, hunger, pain
Love, hunger, pain, overload
All that love
Take it all, take it all

For the moments that we last
They don’t mean anything
By the time we will have passed

 

Too Late

High are the mountains and high were my dreams
But I look through the window and know it’s too late

High are the mountains and high were my dreams
But I see all the graves and I know it’s too late

When I was twenty years I decided to go
Said goodbye to my mother, went down on the road

And I looked at the distance and traveled away
Hoped to find what I need, hoped to find it on my way

Found on my way happy hours and pain
Saw hungry people and rats in the drain
Spent my time in the dark, spent my time in the rain
Didn’t find what I searched, didn’t find what I need

 

 

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Waiting for Harpies (2014)

Supernova

Universe of the day
I feel the nova in my hand I feel that I am big
Shining in my face
Are the remnants of a once majestic blaze
Gone is the meaning of my words
Shattered by the misery of this world
I am but a minute, but a moment
Lonesome, a traveller in time

Was it all just a waste of thoughts
Nothing but wishful thinking,
vanished in the maze of all these possibilities
Am I not free to pursue my dreams
Not free to do as I wish, far beyond the sacred borders of existence
Carved my words in stone, king without a kingdom
Here I am, my universe is falling
How can I save myself, yesterday‘s king
May I dare to remain

„Medium te mundi posui, ut circumspiceres inde commodius,
quicquid est in mundo. Poteris in inferiora, quae sunt bruta,
degenerare, piteris in superiora, quae sunt divina, ex tui animi
sententi a regenerari.“

Wasn‘t my word far more than a spark
Wasn‘t it more precious than the
banishment by Innozenz for all these bitt er years
Freedom is a dream that will never come true,
I feel my faith is crumbling
And I‘ve lost my hope to ever start anew
Carved my words in stone, king without a kingdom
Here I am, my universe is falling
How can I save myself, yesterday‘s king
May I dare to remain

 

Your Time

Haaa…
Your time will come

Cold is the way that you force me to go
Colder than ice on the windows
Shall I regret that I‘ve ever been born
And turn to stone, and turn to stone

Haaa…
Your time will come
Your time will come

Foolish reflections and nervous breakdowns
Keep your fire deep inside
You have to learn that your time‘s just begun
With a fight tonight, yeah a fight tonight

Haaa…
Your time will come
Your time will come

On your way you need somebody’s love
Please believe me that I can’t be wrong
On your way you need somebody’s help
Cause you can’t reach the sun on your own
Wayward clown

Haaa…

 

Ire and Pain

Gaze at me, gaze at me, the posture of my neck
Gaze at me as I‘m standing here, awaiting your attack

Ire in your eyes, affection in disguise

Gaze at my soul, what‘s taking control
is the pleasure of my pain

And why was I not stronger years before,
to crave the fury that I see, to feel the agony

It‘s easier with ire in my eyes to love what I despise, mmh

Gaze at me please, gaze at my grief
that you detest and you loathe

Gaze at me lover, I won‘t be your loss now
for you are the cross that I bear

Why is that I am drawn to you
when all you lust for is violence

I am not vile or unloving
so gaze at me unti l I‘m gone

 

Day to Die

What a good day to die and to crumble away
What a day for the lie that‘s the farewell‘s dismay
You rest alone in your grave for all time
Hellfire burns but no sun keeps you warm

What a day for the love, but your ears ring with hate
What a day for a laugh, but a stone grinds you down
Your cloud is dark and your soul slips away
You hide your face from the morning sun

Haaa…

What a day it is to die and to crumble away
What a day for the dash in your frozen brain
You rest alone in your grave for all time
Hellfire burns but no sun keeps you warm

Haaa…

You have to go when your fire burns out
You‘ve lost the race when the devil claps hands
You have to learn how to love and to cry

In a deep stream, in a deep stream
You go down, you go down
Haaa…
In a deep stream full of fear, in a stream
You go down, you go down
Haaa…
Yeah, you go down

 

The War Outside

After the night no new morning exists
Only cries underneath bloodred skies
You think it‘s a dream, but when you wake up
You can hear it‘s the war outside

You hear it‘s the war outside
You hear it‘s the war outside
The demons are on the ride

Haaa…

When you look at the stars they fall down from the sky
As they shatter all hope in your eyes
You try to escape but you don‘t stand a chance
It‘s the day when you burn and break down

You hear it‘s the war outside
You hear it‘s the war outside
The demons are on the ride

Haaa…

Where is your sister, where is your mom
No flowers are on their graves
Where is your daddy and where‘s uncle Tom
Their angels are flying away

When you look at the stars they fall down from the sky
Only cries underneath bloodred skies
You think it‘s a dream, but when you wake up
You can hear it‘s the war outside

The war, the war is outside
The war, the war is outside
The war, the war is outside
The war, the war is outside
The demons are on the ride
Haaa…
Don‘t cry anymore
Don‘t cry anymore
Don‘t cry anymore
That‘s enough

 

No Good Place

There‘s no way out of this for me
I can‘t seem to go my way
I am lost in an endless dream
I‘m alone and I can‘t kill off my fear

You don‘t know what it‘s like
To be the one who‘s left behind
Do like I do or do it alone
And nobody‘ll want to stay with you

Can‘t you see, there‘s no running away
Can‘t you see, it‘s not your day, not your day
It‘s the same when you turn out the light
It‘s the same when you go tonight

You want to feel the mighty high
You want to rush the rising tide
Do like I do, or do it alone
And nobody‘ll want to stay with you

Can‘t you see, there‘s no running away
Can‘t you see, it‘s not your day, not your day
It‘s the same when you turn out the light
It‘s the same when you go tonight

Can‘t you see, there‘s no running away
Can‘t you see, it‘s not your day, not your day
It‘s the same when you turn out the light
It‘s the same when you go tonight

 

Why

Just as I thought that I’ve got a woman
I must comprehend that she’s gone

Well I must admit I’m a little bit crazy
A loser, a dreamer, anyone
A loser, a dreamer, anyone

But I cry, I cry “Baby, why?”
But now I cry, now I cry “Baby, why?”

Just as I learned of beauty and love
I get that you’ve closed the door

Why Baby, why don’t you lean on my shoulder
so sweet that I long for the night
so sweet that I long for the night

But I cry, I cry “Baby, why?”
But now I cry, now I cry “Baby, why?”

(Tell me all your troubles,
tell me what you feel
tell me what you need)

But I cry, I cry “Baby, why?”
But now I cry, now I cry “Baby, why?”

 

Waiting for Harpies

Waiting for Harpies you’ll repent your lies
A trail of salvation, embracing your cries
Soon all your sorrow is drowned in a void
From down in the abyss, a shriek – to the light!

On mighty wings they ascend into the night
The Ferryman is waiting on the other side
Hey, hey

Waiting for Harpies, denying the knell
You’ve punished your soul with a ticket to hell
Damnati on awaits you when you close your eyes
Echoes of darkness, they hail: to the light!

On mighty wings they ascend into the night
The Ferryman is waiting on the other side

On mighty wings they ascend into the night
The Ferryman is waiting on the other side
Hey, hey

Waiting for Harpies, you see them arrive
They strangle your mind, they entangle your life
They tear and they rip and they take you apart
Dragging your spirit away – to the dark!

On mighty wings they ascend into the night
The Ferryman is waiting on the other side

On mighty wings they ascend into the night
The Ferryman is waiting on the other side

On mighty wings they descend into the dark
Now the Ferryman is ready to embark

 

Dark Wave

Asleep in a dark wave – I try to forget
all the falseness and all that you‘ve done
I lie in my bed and can’t help but regret
this whole fake and the fact that you‘re gone
Day after day I feel a cold wind
and the pale rays of light from the sun

We all live to win, only to begin
another life full of pain

Day after day I feel a cold wind
he reminds me that I‘m on the run

Day after day I feel a cold wind
and the pale rays of light from the sun

We all live to win, only to begin
Another life full of pain
What are we living for, what are we fighting for
Just for graves in the sand?

Day after day I feel a cold wind
he reminds me that I‘m on the run

Haaa…
he reminds me that I‘m on the run

Haaa…