Pain Of Salvation

It was '79 and the world seemed more kind. And it was still okay to be modest. The sixties were gone but their soul lingered on. And the eighties were still just a promise. And I remember me and you. Two children of six still playing with sticks. And wha...

Touching ground Going home to those I miss Safe and sound Weeks of exile turn to bliss But there's something in her voice When she' is calling me A trace of blood to lead me Trough roads of agony With blood taste in my mouth And clouds before my eyes I kneel b...

You brought us the a-bomb in so many ways endorsed by God and The Book so god loves a war monger? hey Mr. Blix: forget Iraq and the time it took 'cause I know just where to look "could we have a vote please?" They came with a song - America they would...

Sheets of spotless white Voices fading out Thoughts are growing dim As my longest night begins A dry taste of morphine Fluorescent lights all gleam I'm stuck beneath my mind This isn't my night Fallen angels Spread your wings Take me from this Wor...

I am I am I am I was not then I came to be I cannot remember NOT being But I may have traveled far very far to get here Maybe I was formed in this silent darkness From this silent darkness BY this silent darkness To become is just like falling asleep You ne...

You claim I don't know you, but I know you well I read in those ash eyes we've been through hell I've walked with the weakest just to feel strong You've given your body just to belong Let's burn together Let's burn together This pain will never end These sca...

Through a dusty window I watch the clouds draw near A lovely vision of my doom The sunlight's fading - reflections start to dim Through the dusty window in this room I'm walking through my memories as I'm staring through the glass I have to claim I'm inn...

And SEX was always there from when I was only eight years - tempting me leave thirsty Sweat, skin, a PULSE divine to balance this restless MIND - it seemed so wonderfully physical Oh the BLOOD, the lust, the bodies that color the world: all drugs to die for! W...

This was our home - we had our truth Bled for our creed - why must we still bleed? Your tailings are bound forever in this ground... So you come for our holy ground When your nature's gone and your house has burnt down No! For hundreds of years you've hurt th...

Wait If you could ask me to wait If you could ask me to take a break Before I fall to pieces and break If I could ask you to wait (Wait darling wait on the road to who you really are) Break Break (I'm driven too far) Break (If you want to know me jus...

Walk with me And see the world I see It is our home It's where we all belong Life is flair A brittle dress we wear A fleeting sigh But though pointless it may seem: Live as death were but a dream You don't have to walk their way You don't have to watch the...

I lie awake watching your shoulders Move so softly as you breathe With every breath you're growing older But that is fine if you're with me I pledge to wake you with a smile I pledge to hold you when you cry I pledge to love you till I die Till I die: [Herm...

This world is what we can give Scarred from the way we lived All those dreams we shared for you How I wish they could come true We dreamed of a world in peace But killed for a life of ease Now we leave the wounds for you What else can the dying do?  

(We were too weak protest or to care) Our ugly lies will outnumber us by far Your beautiful dreams You must close tour eyes (You'll pay in soul for the cutting of our loss) Will your eyes be mine the day when you regret When you pay our debts to recover life...

You claim I don't know you, but I know you well I read in those ash eyes we've been through hell I've walked with the weakest just to feel strong You've given your body just to belong Let's burn together, let's burn together (baby) his pain will never end Th...

Day after day, nothing's changed you're far away But I want you to know I can't sleep anymore By the nights Night after night the stars are shining so bright Though my pain is larger than Universe tonight Want you to know I can't sleep anymore By the nights,...

"Please let me be yours please never leave Please stay here close to me All love we shared where is it now? Please let me be better than I was Please don't give up on us The thought of leaving you - I don't know how" "I can feel the pain you have inside...

Please let me be yours please never leave Please stay here close to me All love we shared where is it now? Please let me be better than I was Please don't give up on us The thought of leaving you - I do not know how I can feel the pain you have inside I see...

(...Now he's counting time in beggings and bottles fading away beneath old News so he's lost some faith, but still there are fire deep inside that he Must drench to numb ...deep inside, that he must drench to numb...) 

Never thought that you were conditioned. Never thought that you could be sold. Or controlled. Well, I'm the TV being on in the background. The girl who used to like you in school. I'm the one who's making you feel like. You are nobody's fool. But you...

The only cribs that we should care for are the ones that we are here for the ones belonging to our children that do what we do scar from our wounds the only cribs that make a difference where the magic really happens don’t come with a Mercedes Benz or a wide s...

Your love is beautiful. Your love is sensual. My love will puncture your skin. My love goes all the way in. Your love is poetry. My love is sodomy. Your love is Everything. My love is Anything. We believe it's personality, but it's really sexuality. We put f...

We always were to close - one day I'll overdose. The cross I can't wait to bear, the sweetest drug I love to fear. Creep up on me from behind, without a sound. Sweet darkness of mine. Autumnal grace you are, mother of every scar. You walk this road alongside...

[I. Mr. Money] [Miss Mediocraty:] "Hey there sweetie. Don't I know you? I swear I recognize your face... and those beautiful eyes... You know, they say the eyes are the doorway to ones soul... There's a smile. A little shy, aren't we? Hey, do you wanna g...

I watched you die Though you had always been there Since I first came into this world Outside people smile I ask - why this deep blue sky? When you have left this world today Does it not know when to weep? All my life I've looked up to you A humble old man wh...

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[Breaching the Core] [Imago:] (I will never submit to all the things you've said god!) No! We're breaching the core - we're breaching the core We're breaching the core - we're breaching... To taste it To touch it Cut my hand To crave it Enslave it...

TONIGHT I’LL FALL tonight I’ll fall looking for something wonderful yet casual extraordinarily temporal and there you are let’s go you hooked me on the dance floor so here I am back for more you seem experienced just an inch too keen on getting exposed having...

I run my calm on fumes. I run my calm on fumes. I've let you have your way around. But I'm warning you. I'm warning you. You pushed me just that one more time. And I'm done with you. Oh I'm done with you. Down to the bone. I go with the wild. You'...

And so I find myself here once again - First step down Remedy Lane. Budapest you tore my world apart - Well, here I am Worn with rope ends on my mind, Torn with blood scarred in my eyes But now I'm back to shake that from my life. ENDING THEME ENDI...

I am an old bird Careworn from flying Caught in the down wind far from home I used to fly I was fire Mine was the sky and the sun Maybe I'm too far gone and my wings too beaten and torn (now I'm lost and I'm tired) 'Cause I spin and I stall But I hop...

Watch them dance... She is intimacy - a wonder of closeness Fighting hypocrisy - a lonely child that Never could believe, yet never give up On life's insanity Understanding is all, she fails to find it She can never fall All her life she's longed to be weak...

I long for the summer I long for the sun gently touching my face I'll open my eyes let it burn every splinter unleash desert storms on its way to my heart and I had this coming every day of my life this is where I stop fighting eyes open wide you took this bla...

WALK WITH ME! There are worlds to see! Listen to me now - You. Listen to me now - You. Do my words mean more to hear when I am standing here? On a stage like all your silly idols do! Open up your eyes - all. Let your walls and grins fall. Would you reach for s...

I never signed onto this mankind No color, race or creed felt truly mine Never had a country or a flag And never had a culture, kin or kind I could never really belong Too loud Too wild Too silent or too shy Too everything is what defines my mind I'...

You are all defining me Like you know me inside out If I let it get to me You'll damage me beyond repair I have always done my best To block it out and keep myself But lately it has been so hard And I don't know where I end and you start These are the words...

I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Ha...

We've seen it before but safe on our suburb screens Now I am here in the flesh A witness of war in this godforsaken scene Far from those grey walls See children with guns hatred and fear in their eyes They shoot to release their pain A conflict to solve no mat...

Heal me now. Remove these old scars from my soul. Heal me now. Unhinge this dry skin from my bones. And even though I can't forget the many times I've cried. And even though I can't forgive the many ways I've died. I am healing now. And I still kick th...

Looking at you I see her face Through all these years, just waiting It all catches up to you when you slow down I'm back in that yard, tasting that shame Of pushing her down, Of kids and her games ...their strongholds We had a bigger world - we had a better...

Holy Diver You've been down too long in the midnight sea Oh, what's becoming of me? Ride the tiger You can see his stripes but you know he's clean Oh, don't you see what I mean? Gotta get away Holy Diver! Yeah Shiny diamonds Like the eyes of a cat in the bla...

This is our home - our roots go deep Where our ancestors sleep This is the land we've nursed for countless aeons But never ours to keep My tribe is crying - our land is dying But we can't leave - this is our home We can't let our past go... We're left with y...

silence cold skin black mind blue light broken shut down knuckles all white babel cold fact core mine black gold failure lockdown gun-hands all sold we're waiting so close your eyes relax and take a deep breath now believe the lies when you wake up you'll be...

It all comes back to me Face to the floor Heart in my mouth My forehead hits the pavement Again - numb - again Sharing this humility A circle of humanity Momentarily black in me Immomentarily black So black Memory leave me be Close that eye leave...

Tell me my friend If this is the end For once do we Make amends And all has been weighed Measured and paid No aces left No prayers prayed I've hidden your knives I've cut down your ropes I flushed your pills To save your life Flowers are dead Pe...

If you wait If I could ask you to wait I'll get back, somehow To you If I could ask you to wait I will pray myself Home to you I walk on this road Through mud, through grass, through dust, through rain Whatever remains Running away [...] I'll be with you Ho...

Spring came with awakening, came with innocense and joy Spring came with fascination and desire to deploy Summer came with restlessness and curiousity Summer came with longing for the things we could not be Take me to the forest, take me to the trees Tak...

She walks these empty streets alone Looking for something they call "home" Hoping to find some peace of mind Sometimes we need to walk alone She is set on running away Though her mom was yelling she must stay A wind beaten bird for reasons unheard Sometimes i...

Once there was a me who always knew the way, who somewhere on the road led me astray. And I've seen so many broken souls, broken in despair, lying at the curb gasping for air. Always thought I'd change somehow, altered by the road, and become what I was alway...

I was told the pain and hunger was not my fault How could they be so wrong? And man, of all five billion people you're only one Believed them for far too long! Clean hands My land is my home I'm inside the big machine and it's eating me! And I am just a wheel...

So finally my journey ends And through this wound my soul can mend Guilt is my blood I'm being drained This is my home, I will stay... ...inside! There's always someone inside Fighting to get outside The "knowing-right-from-wrong side" Our home is inside! I'...

I woke up today Expecting to find all that I sought And climb the mountains of the life I bought Finally I'm at the top of every hierarchy Unfortunately there is no one left But me I woke up today To a world that's ground to dust, dirt and stone I'm the king...

Mother, at my first breath Every paragraph was set As I inhaled the scent of debt Mother, that first stolen air On papers saying I'm not mine "We crown you, the King of Loss... Better get on your feet Best be one of us Better get yourself on the list...

Someone sells us Toys in a cheap cartoon someone sells us Cars in the latest Bond that’s coming soon someone sells us Trends through a sitcom star someone sells Herself in a docu-soap that goes too far Life on sale can someone please just tell me what happened...

walk with me and see the world I see it is our home it's where we all belong life is flair a brittle dress we wear a fleeting sigh but though pointless it may seem: live as death were but a dream you don't have to walk their way you don't have to watch the s...

[A Scene in Brown and Yellow:] At first I don't know why your presence fills me with unease Though I've missed you more than Life itself I freeze It's like you've been lost and now you're glad to see my face But as you sit down my confusion turns to distress N...

She keeps the world at bay With walls built to stand come what may And when the corners on this bay, they held on 'til today She would hold her own Running all alone Ridding her of every grain To stay in control But now She cries Alive Suddenly she is down o...

I'm at the line - I see it all I am Nauticus now And so much more I am all you know I'm at the line - just at the line An eternity at the blink of an eye In this place called time I'm everything Everywhere I am all Omni "BE" [Nauticus II] I fee...

I still smell of sweat still the scent of my giving in tried to feel regret but I wanted to stay on my skin. I still fantasize Close my eyes to the wrong again still those "fuck me" eyes as I'm licking the palm of my hand. How the hell am I supposed t...

For as long as I can remember I have wanted to Silence every beating heart; every sound of breathing Now there is something inside of me that aches as I hear you Breathing here when you sleep between these morning sheets I am the tears in your mouth I am the...

Emily is sad Emily is sad Emily is sad She used to be glad Now Emily's been had Emily's been had Emily's been had She might never be glad Oh, but there is something deep inside her Oh, if we could only see inside her Now she's mine, all broken inside A produ...

We’ll cut you down to size There is a woman burning at the center square Raven black eyes and long let out hair Screaming, while cloaked vultures Holier-than-thou circle and glare At sweat drops on pale skin like satin And as the raging flames wor...

[drifting] Oh Lord Oh Lord Won't you hear a sinner's prayer Oh Lord Oh Lord Oh Lord Won't you help me find the way When I'm lost and lead astray Oh Lord Mmm... Oh Lord Oh Lord Won't you help me to stay humble Oh Lord Oh Lord Oh Lord Won't...

When I was a little child, I once found a bird lying on the ground. It would not ever fly again. I held the bird up in my hands, I shed my tears over the lovely song that not longer could be heard. Never learn to fly. With dirty hands I dug a hole and gently...

So once again Another New Year's Eve will ease our pain Faith for the few And rites that will make us so brave So new We laugh and we cheer for a Happy New Year Happy? Candles burn down And in the darkness future comes around We smile - all aware But never s...

Cold winter winds blow away autumn leaves now. Misty world fades away before my blinded eyes - WHY? Now when I stand at the end of the line, I cling to life when I should decline. I always thought I would welcome this day But now when it's here - could there b...

[Homines Fabula Finis] "See me" "Hear me" "Need me" Some things will never change "Touch me" "Heal me" Mankind remains the same Oceans Forests Nations Now everything bears our name While Earth is bleeding Nothing will remain Nothing prevails...

There is no way that you can love her like I do. Oh no, there is no way - I see through you. 'Cause when I hold her in the night, All that is wrong will become right. And I know that she feels it, too, 'Cause no-one loves her like I do. There is no way that y...

Sleep is too quiet dreams are too painful truth is the bed of this ocean of lies. Sinking through layers of untouched oblivion soaking from spirits but still far too dry. Losing all barbed fences Lucid - no defenses "Where is my mother?" the child asked the so...

Sleep is too quiet, dreams are too painful truth is the bed of this ocean of lies Sinking through layers of untouched oblivion soaking from spirits but still far too dry Losing all barbed fences Lucid - no defences "Where is my mother?" the child asked the s...

Come break my bones, come spread my ashes. Come wear me down, come wear me down. In life a king, in death a failure. Come help me cry, come help me cry. I wanted to be changed by the road. I so wanted to change the road. But somehow we both resisted change. S...

I've walked this road and fed its hunger I wore it down, it wore me down Seen every bend, seen every crossroad Now I sit down here on the ground Salt in my face, salt under my boots Salt is this road, salting my wounds A boy once king sits here a failu...

She is twelve and I'm only ten buried in this soft mountain of pillows Parents away She asks me have I been touched Have I done the thing with anyone yet Silence - a shy no And there is nothing That we'd rather share Than that bodily warmth if we'd da...

I see us in you Nauticus Came so late but I pray At the last light of day There might still be a chance To save this beast of clay I see us in you Nauticus As you're drifting along Built to last Young and strong Will you find us the answers Before...

I was born in this building It was the first Tuesday I had ever seen And if I live to see tomorrow It will be my Tuesday number: 2119 How life has its way of turning your best suits the wrong way As if to smile and say: "I feast on the irony my friend...

Part first "awakening": Daybreak: A September sun emerges through clouds, chasing across the sky. Thoughts are evoked behind detached eyes but people are just passing by: With smiles for protection. Unable to see behind the creature that he seems to be. Once...

Just a perfect day Drink Sangria in the park And then later When it gets dark, we go home Just a perfect day Feed animals in the zoo Then later A movie, too, and then home Oh, it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spent it with you Oh, such a perfect day You ju...

The higher I am reaching - the closer to the sun The more I learn the less I know for sure For each machine I'm leaving I find a bigger one For each step I turn wiser than before But it's burning me... Pilgrim, where are you going? Pilgrim, your roads turning...

"I'm here now, by your side" Sheltered from the cold, a soldier guards a boy. Clocks are cutting as times pass by their pain (bringing release through the book on his knees) (keep trying, keep trying, keep dying inside) "Hush now little child, it's time to s...

These are the reasons These are the reasons These are the reasons The reasons These are the reasons These are the reasons These are the reasons The reasons [Verse 1] "Are you true?" True to me or you "Are you free?" I thought I used to be "Are yo...

I thought I'd seen hell Thought I knew it all Now I know too well Hell is to wake up But it makes all the difference Hej! [tema] Tasting the tears in my mouth Taking the weight on my shoulders The hours and days of your life Don't necessarily make...

I thought I'd seen hell Thought I knew it all Now I know too well Hell is to wake up But it makes all the difference Tasting the tears in my mouth Taking the weight on my shoulders The hours and days of your life Don't necessarily make you older I'm sick of...

An eye for an eye. A tear for a tear. A lie for a lie. The weak dress in hatred to hide their fear. We cling to symbols for our mind - hour by hour we're losing us. Defenceless for the weak to bind - second by second abusing us! A wound for a wound. By silenc...

This time I'll try not to get hurt This time I'll stay untouched with pain and dirt This time I'll stick to what I've learned This time I'll fly so low I won't get burned Maybe it's not enough Maybe this time it's just too much Maybe I'm not that tough Maybe...

She is still young... Another day of emptiness This life is wearing her down The room around her is a mess Her children safe with her mom She is still young but feeling old Two children with different fathers She sits on the bathroom floor alone The show...

SICK It's all SICK, I feel sick I'll be sick, then it's fine I'm conform to your norm With a bucket full for me I'll be free, finally I will see what you mean with your freedom This world you call home Not alone, happy drone Won't be sick of these cars All th...

Day after day Nothing's changed you're far away But I need you to know that I can't sleep anymore By the nights Night after night The stars are shining so bright Though our pain is larger than the universe tonight I want you to know I can't sleep anymore B...

She likes to hide. She likes to hide. She likes to hide, and I don't know why. I'd ask but she's too hard to find. She likes to hide. This Tuesday I almost tried to aske her why, but she got that look in her eyes. She likes to hide. She likes to hide. Last...

Don't disturb me now I can see the why, the when and how Looking back to see all bridges burn I have reached the point of no return this is zero (Shore Serenity) This is all that is left of me... A broken man at a broken sea To be or not to be a wheel in the...

Push me over Make me shiver You’re my cover Let your river flow Flow Flow going high and low Leave me open Leave me fretless Peel my cold skin Make me reckless Run Run Run for the morning sun Baby, wrap me in your silent gold Let the saddest sto...

When all are dizzy and happy from too much wine I leave the party behind To walk alone with my thoughts and this spinning mind Through this cold night But there she stands… And she walks like you And she smiles almost like you A child of the wild just like yo...

Wait darling wait, for the sound of electric guitars. Wait darling wait, you will soon be in bed with the stars. Wait darling wait, and don't worry 'cause you will see, Semen stains wash out surprisingly easily, From leather back-seats of expensive cars,...

She pours herself another glass of wine. Tells herself yet another time she's fine. But earlier today she lost an hour. A gaping hole just like. Inside her. Inside her. Whenever a plane is passing by. Or migrating birds fill up the sky. Something is s...

This world is what we can give Scarred from the way we lived All those dreams we shared for you How I wish they could come true We dreamed of a world in peace But killed for a life of ease Now we leave the wounds for you What else can the dying do? ...all th...

INTRODUCING STAR we saw you every day with your hands on your crotch and so much to say you went from bouncing toy cars with golden motors to neon striped BMWs and a court of drugged up nodders and quoters namefucking fame on all photos all cheered on and appl...

(watching corners and crossing watching all the red lights watching the stress watching beggars and bankers and rushing cars I'm drowning in this mess) Help me! Rescue me! Save me! Set me free! (watching all the stress) It is strange - among all people I feel...

There's a me who always found his way, but I can't seem to find him just today. If sometimes I ask you where to go, just don't help me find the road. Tell me you don't know. Please tell me so. There was a me who always knew what was right - that's who I need...

Welcome inside the machine It hurts! Go numb, go blind... One's drilling out a pipe One adjusts the aim One makes trigger parts Weapons as a game! All trapped in killing routine Washed clean... ...by this machine On these grey walls Lovely pictures of the w...

All my life I have been afraid. All my life scared to lose my way. All my life led me to today. The day when I must learn the hardest way. Every step leading to this day. The day I learn to lose and fail. A deeper cut into the flesh of life. A sharper...

[Verse 1] Though life has worn us down Through sun and rain Your eyes are still the same Deep blue against all gray "Love, don't be afraid" You seem to say "I am here for you All the way My lover, my best friend" Do you remember us? Is that first J...

Yesterday found him today Caught him at his last breath These walls built to stand come-what-may Lie shattered in the ashes His skin against this dirty floor Eyes fixed on the ceiling He has stretched those chains of sin Far beyond all feelings Still,...

[I Gridlock (All Is Mine)] Silently I sit on this road. Sifting the dust through my hands. To feel that I belong. Silently I weep for my soul. There's always been something I need. To feel that I am whole. I'm taking a trip down the line. Watching t...

Some nights I just feel this need to run Some nights I just wanna burn to death just like the sun Some nights I just long to lose control Some nights I just wish for destiny to touch my soul It's the feeling that it's all Too safe and sound And I need s...

I dream my dreams at night - my life's a cartoon of black and white I'm sick of this paint on my face! I'm always the one to make the show - a laughing clown, wings black as a crow I carry this large mind with pain A mind in this world seems in vain I remembe...

When I was a child I saw her every day. I never dared to touch her, Scared to break that spell, And now the years have passed us by, And all that could've been is left behind 'Cause I loved her safe from the distance Every day a million people flow the...

(Sorrow turned into hate. Anger became a thread, to climb with faith. Tasting the life she shed) "Time will heal" they told him - just if they knew his pain. "Time kills!" he whispered. Not a word: they watched him leave again. Grief need not her grave - nothi...

I'm far from sober. And she's far from sane. When she takes my hand and she pulls me away. She leads me down to the shoreline. She leads me down to the shoreline. She leads me down to the sea. She pulls me into the water. And then she whispers to me:...

I cry in the shower And smile in the bed I cry in the shower And smile in the bed I cry in the shower And smile in the bed I cry in the shower And smile in the bed "Don't be afraid" I hear people say As if it will let me live If I'm just brave The...

Let me go Let me go Let me seek the answers that I need to know Let me find a way Let me walk away Through the Undertow Please let me go Let me fly Let me fly Let me rise against that blood-red velvet sky Let me chase it all Break my wings and fall...

The black drop at the bottom of your cup You'd better drink or throw me up 'Cause I am on your lip and tongue God I'm not yours as much as you are mine So let me in to be your lung Just breathe me deep and take another sip So still A taste so sweet but so bitt...

i just want you to speak to me. i'm still waiting for you, God. i pray because this hell to be finished. goodbye, God. goodbye to you all. i don't trust in any God. i don't know who God is, but i know what God should be. well, take a look here, t...

Ticking... Ticking... Wishing... wishing... Standing here in Buda trying to explain To myself and to the girl beside Why I feel so weightless and free from all my pain Telling yourself that you're here inside For the wind is in my hair as we are on this s...

I've always loved the sound of rain Touching so softly my windowpane And then the scent of dew at dawn Coming to greet me from my moist lawn ...home... (D. Gildenlöw) I always took it for granted I never valued the drops I shed I failed to see the relation Be...

Tell me where it hurts So I can reach the pain Tell me where it hurts Just pump it through my vein Be brave and tell me where it hurts There's something deep inside That you don't want to show There's something that you hide 'Cause you're afraid I'll...

Once there was a world out on these fields, that was untouched. Grateful for its love we thanked the earth that gave so much. And oh, I loved it so! Once there was a pair of eyes, unbroken just like my heart. Belonging to a father and his son, now torn apart....

Once there was a world out on these fields That was untouched Grateful for its love we thanked the earth that gave so much And oh, I loved it so! Once there was a pair of eyes Unbroken just like my heart. Belonging to a father and his son now torn apart And oh...

Yellow raven sipped the air Of thunder and of rain Yellow raven sipped the air Gentle eyes kissing the rain Where do you go, fantastic dreambird? Answer to my yearning Take me away from here Where do you go, fantastic dreambird? Take me away somewher...