ILLUMINATA LYRICS

1. A Story Unfolds

[Instrumental]

2. Eternity Of Today

3. Violet's Compass

Whether it's going to die
The eye of the violet unfolds
Caressed and treasured in my heart
And given all the time to wither

The needle guides me
To a tiny spot of calmness
Amongst flower-swarms tender and sweet
Earnest and pure
At my feet clamour of blue
Craving for more and less

Whether it's going to die
The eye of the violet unfolds
Caressed and treasured in my heart
And given all the time to wither

Earth weeps just a tiny core of stillness
The sundown in your eyes a fragile light
At the entrance to your soul
At my feet clamour of blue
A single colour among all the greys

Whether it's going to die
The eye of the violet unfolds
Caressed and treasured in my heart
And given all the time to wither
Away again

The needle rested
Just for a while
We sang and danced and laughed
The music was the message

Whether it's going to die
The eye of the violet unfolds
Caressed and treasured in my heart
And given all the time to wither
Away again

4. Arbitrary Asylum

[Inmate:]
Entombed in every broken soul
looms a light-forsaken place
contorting, breaking, taking toll
leaving scars without a trace

Twinkle, twinkle little light
where are you heading to tonight?

Mirrors mirror lock and key
when the warden sets the pace
and everybody not on edge
is taking too much space

Twinkle, twinkle light of morn
my edges frayed my fabric torn

[Warden:]
Your mind implies selective order
Stop struggling let new worlds emerge
unpleasant, unproductive dreams
obstruct your duty to cohere
Wake at the sound

[Inmate:]
The padding looks peculiar here
Prowling patterns haunting hues
While from a different realm it turns
Its dull yet lurid screws

Beyond the creeping shadows roam
Our torments intertwine
I rave I crave to tear it down
Be their friend and dance

[Warden:]
Each inmate died within these walls
and trails the padding all alone
A maze of pain if wandered once
Releases nevermore
Step away now

And still you resist the cold voice of reason
In God's name I will slaughter the savage in your soul
You are the last
You are my masterpiece

[Inmate:]
Count the animal's legs and prepare to suffer its claws

[The Last:]
Cascading darkness beckoned
A serpentine line joined the lost
As one leaves another may arrive
In this world at last
Truly the last

[The Fallen:]
As bones return to dust
and skin crumbles to ash
From sanguine soil
only insanity will bloom

When you have neither won nor lost
And you are not alive or dead
the only wish worth waiting for
is for the clock to reach its end

5. White Heart

Thy grave upon this lovely cliff
With flowers all around
Oh how in life our anguish to
the beautiful is ever bound

From the day you left my side
I swore to laden skies
I shall find you again
and never left go

I walked to you so many night
as tears defeated sleep
your flickering flames within my heart
the only gifts I dare to keep

From the day you left my side
I swore to laden skies
I shall find you again
and never left go

As I travel into the dawn
and the sun sets on life
I shall only find peace
in the light of your eyes

At your eternal home
in evening's golden glow
I see and hear and breathe your soul
in everything I know
As the rolling waves return
and carry me to sea
I know we were blessed
and always will be

6. Phoenix

Forever I've been one with the skies
Now dressed all in black and greys
All you can find in unseeing eyes
Are feeble tears of a dying blaze

Wings broke and hearts followed suit
As fire never dies alone

Hand in hand on embers we dance
Step by step through fire and flames
Shedding tears of cure and demise
Again and again from ashes we rise

I soared above the clouds with effortless grace
Carried by ambition and driven by desire
I fell dissolved in smoke and haze
A storm arose turn sparkles into fire

Wings broke and hearts followed suit
As fire never dies alone

Hand in hand on embers we dance
Step by step through fire and flames
Shedding tears of cure and demise
Again and again from ashes we rise

In embrace of nothingness and energy I opened my eyes
My skin sealed with the ash of time and memory
Bearing the mark of forever endeavour
As blood pump pale to colour the echoes of fading requiems urge
For the highest and lowest once more

Hand in hand on embers we dance
Step by step through fire and flames
Shedding tears of cure and demise
Again and again from ashes we rise

Hand in hand we walk through the flames
Again and again and perhaps to no end
With passion so real it is hard to control
Not better nor worse
Just different

7. The Brass Ring

ENTRANCE

Again cracks open the colourful gaze
the box hums to a cheerful prance
while all around the dark joins fate
on arid vast in fatal dance

MENAGERIE

with the wild chase cross deserts and woods
under the sea and cut through the clouds
tossing and turning and laughter and burning
in a time of beautiful new and boring know

all darting senses in vivid, strange dreams
till eyes fall on the land and they fall on the lion
void of everything out wonder
a young soul opens and offers pure passion to all

BRASS RING

Our candles flickering seized by the spin
childish dreams torn over thrones within
from peaceful love lasting longer than we
springs ever a sparkle of hope for me

KING-HORSE

Then one day all the wonders would cease
in displays and levels behind glasses to please
the conscious masters are destined for keys
to a world unfolding piece after piece

So gallop along in holy crusades
act in your favour with flowers or blades
steer clear of sentimental charades
know right and know wrong and no other shades

BRASS RING

Our candles flickering seized by the spin
childish dreams torn over thrones within
from peaceful love lasting longer than we
springs ever a sparkle of hope for me

CHARIOT

Up atop the coach and two
racing over charred earth
surveying all things bound in rule
the earth and people as his tool

And nothing but an aged fool
yet still perhaps someday a man who'll
see the world for what it's worth
embracing nature life and you

BRASS RING

Our candles flickering seized by the spin
childish dreams torn over thrones within
from peaceful love lasting longer than we
springs ever a sparkle of hope for me

JUMPER

Wise heart which now the willow brushed
by love and reason sometimes hushed
It lived and grew in entropy
defying deformed symmetry

Where soul and body break their join
and no ones longing breaks the tide
on eyes once restless rests a coin
for the next elating ride

BRASS RING

Our candles flickering seized by the spin
childish dreams torn over thrones within
from peaceful love lasting longer than we
springs ever a sparkle of hope for me

EXIT

Thus is the way we all come and go
many in strive of gain and success
yet crown they will only remorses and woe
with a wish to have treasured more
- and less

8. Entwined

9. Danse Macabre

10. The Phantom Rickshaw

11. The World Constructor

BLUE SKIES
Once I knew a poet
We met between the lines
beneath domes of verse
so vast and sublime

walked me past gardens
adorned by flowers of youth
cast a trusting curtain
on future's stain on truth

From the rusting page
resounded songs of love
in a flutter the words
rose all around
and have fueled the embers since

It was the day I learned to live

Every piece a gift to life
unchain again the endless skies
We live the dearest hope
To leave but beauty in our fall

Once I met a painter
between the green and blue
A face lined like canvas
carved with joy and woe

As the colours trailed
Off into the dark
in gentle strokes
and the smiling eyes closed
for a world they had caressed so long

It was the day I learned to die

Every piece a gift to life
unchain again the endless skies
We live the dearest hope
To leave but beauty in our fall

SCORCHED EARTH
how profound are lines of idle dreams
What is the vain fool to the world
A child afraid of growing up
as wells of olden days run dry
all dreams will unpavel at dawn

THE INNER CIRCLE
I may have nothing else to show
than revelling in the flows of all
although too soon my time is high
I'll be beyond the curtain call
A dew-boin soul who learned to fly
and that is all I need to know
Flying upon a frozen sea
of souls cold and full of atrocity
hope to wake up afraid what will be
But is it a dream or reality?

Two fragile silhouettes closely embraced
their world hidden in a floating crystal ball
fulfilled with the greatest and purest gift of all
each crack mended by love

THE CORE
Every piece a gift to life
unchain again the endless skies
Though the world has showing us cold
in all our hearts the stories unfold

Blessed by weeping eyes we'll never see
a blessing dormant in you







ILLUMINATA LYRICS