Compos Mentis

Arusia, Arusia Bones and skulls jut out of your forest fl oor Arusia, oh Arusia The foul signs of times seep through the pavement Far, far away where the peninsular land Slopes down and assembles brook and town Behind its smile, inside the bowels of Aru...

Farewell my beautiful bride to be Let thy raven guard upon thy soul Thou shall not be forgotten No, not by any chance Trust in me to be thy raven A soulless carrier Devoted in nothing but thy memory Chosen and trusted Beyond salvation Let me be the one to carr...

Black clouds gather Small drops are born and whirled down They splash against the cold ground Perplexed and ignorant of what to come Engulfed by a stream and carried away by the current All attempts to get away are in vain And the stream just keeps going, kee...

Soldiers at fortress dania, in you we trust For generations you haven't let this kingdom down We will soon have stopped this invading enemy And this war will once again be part of history It's so cold here in the middle of nowhere Just got command to ret...

What pale ghost crept through the curtain? Cleaved the doze with its tongueless speech As the double-horned moonship sailed among the radiant eyes of the dark A being with a thousand haunting faces riding a rhythm Towards the eternal landscape of death The cr...

As I look into the mirror all I see is a shadow of what I used to be This is I - strangled in conformity Somewhere deep within, I know the embers glow but the flames refuse to burn This is I - dying while trying to live All I want is to spread the wings of pa...

Unfairness I now see A man whose fate so terrible grim A life in glory has been ripped away from his honest hands A bride to be Now nothing but a fantasy Left alone with half a soul And no more tears left to pour But suddenly now I see Raging from within a dar...

Whirling through claustrophobic tunnels Thrown from side to side, relentlessly I'm surrounded by viscous walls That reach out for me I flee with broken wings Through the darkness of eternity Shadows of memories repressed long ago Pierce my thready mind A fli...

Why, oh why, why are you so cruel? Your vengeful soul is draining my lust I want to fulfil but am constantly punished So I ask why, oh why? I watch the light as it fades into black Turning day into night I am filled with the deepest eternal sorrow For the lif...

In my dreams the world dissolves And I'm absorbed into the fragments Leading an army of ghosts I conquer the strongholds of the sky In my dreams I speak with a thousand voices Of dimensions that don't exist I show to the world what it is And exceed the limits...

Down the streets of the eastern parts of our kingdom Ghosts haunting all the little isles that my eyes have seen Ghosts among the masses rushing down Main Street A little ghost is hiding in the merchant's sack of gold There are ghosts in the corners of th...

And all the pebbled paths feel crooked and winding Behind yellow walls of reminding It feels as if someone is quite near In the garden of the dead I feel cold and lost In the garden of the dead Tumbled tombs and broken sprouts Just outside the dear cit...

We see it as a narration but in the womb of winter time stands still Nothing echoes and nothing moves With a universal affection The winter takes it all Like a spreading disease Crimson stains conspicuously on the ground Cloaked in pestilence, it bleeds Like...

I see an endless rain over the isle, saddening bars Drenching the feet with safety and shame This purple isle of decay pins the timidity Freedom peeks through the cracks and triggers the run Silhouetted trees, so eerie and crooked Whistling sickly in the...

No one here really quite knows The far-off origins of your roots Enough to hoist the colours Up high from whence they came You're towering high and tall As a broad-shouldered giant of small Though the ground may be as turbid from above As the sky seen f...

The metropolitan suburbia is a cage Wings are naïve banners, but keys I see you in your jail of despair Yeah, see you in your jail of despair Suburban bird lost in gentle pain I see you strangled in your fears Spread your fantasy and unlock this repress...

As I look at the river the colours change Fading from bright dark to bloodred green A stream of blood passes while our pride expires Proudly sculpturing a headless culture An old legend that is borne by the fairy tale land A literary masterpiece abused b...

As I scrutinize my inner self I see what I really am I understand that evil is a part of me I don't know what to do All my life it has been suppressed Now I can't hold it back Abrupt outbursts of rage keep confusing me And I have lost control I don't know why...

She aches like she's sinfully untamed in chains Like a wicked destroyer of our sedated world Humming deformed bullet songs from her darkened chamber Dancing like a possessed madman on fire She looks like a six barrel shotgun Adorned with furs that blindness c...

A cold caress awakens me An omen of nightmares to come Illumination and darkening amalgamate Blinded, I resign Imprisoned behind imperceptible bars I am in a daze I reach out for the outside world But it escapes my embrace We are all caught in a web of meani...

A journey through the land of the dead and hollow Towards the radiance where treasure is dug Down through the valley of the shallow Escaping silently from the forest's fog My precious shadow, it might now seem That time has come to revive your flame The wilde...

Cast among the waves of an ocean of hate, His mind is like a storm Torrents of thoughts drift aimlessly around Yet they only focus on one thing The moon embraces him with her cold light As he is swallowed up by the clear and frosty night Darkness flows throug...

The ramparts are standing so frail tonight Surrounding the pleasure of our play This view feels so exposed and haunted Now, hold me near to your heart Oh listen, something's rustling at the door Extended shadows looming tall This night a cold breeze is...

Suffocating silence, devoted light fades into mist Soon to come the fi end of horrendous consistence The king's city swallowed up in incompressible fascination This beast must be nothing but profanity's creation The confusion hides in me, Am I gods' crea...

Away upon waves of red I depart from your gentle rivers of words Now sail me off to strange worlds of plenty, tonight Take me dancing on oceans of death Sacrifice my soul to the blue fields of freedom Let me sail away on uncertain streams of ecstasy and fizz...

Chaos surrounds me, my world has crumbled up Only fragments left of what I believed in Leaves me with a broken soul, bewildered I yearn for the times that were Hate flows through my body as I realise Years were wasted, I based my life on a lie Subjects of an...

Look into that ancient mirror All dressed in gold, Silver and scentless Flowers in bloom Tortuous tongues welcome you From beyond the dusty glass So seductive But the words have a hollow ring Cannot hold on to the phantasm And the reflection fades away Turne...

We're all trapped in diabolical madness Battles are fought all around us We just don't know it yet but if you listen carefully You will hear them cry out this two thousand-year-old prophecy Roar again, my friend, the timing is now right Darkness is upon us on...

Red flowers come out around the body While her life slowly fades away. All they ever had is ruined within seconds Love is a sin 

I had a dream I saw into the future We all have nightmares Thou were gone... forever But the scent of thee Was still overwhelming Alone - alone again Lost in this world And the present had become past Alone Why - why me Isn't there somebody else who can't b...

Welcome to this splendid gathering Today you will witness a perfection of scientifi c charity With an ice pick staring up at us Let's cut out each and every irregularity And make this wretch an ordinary human being again We will make you a free man Devo...

I was born to fulfil a terrible destiny The greatest punishment of all Punished for what I didn't do and what I couldn't change Every attempt to avoid just lead me closer to the inevitable I committed the biggest sin of them all towards myself How could I avo...