Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows

In my version of the story, Nemo makes out with Arronax, below the surface of the oceans, in the uncharted, murky depths. In those lower regions of this world, where the cruel light reaches not, they kiss and touch, and kiss again ...- oh, and then dist...

wish I was a little bar of soap I wish I was a little bar of soap I'd go slippy slippy, slimy over everybody's heinie I wish I was a little bar of soap Bar of soap Hmm- ba - bar of soap Slippy, slippy, slime Hmm-ba - bar of soap Wouldn't that be fine?...

I know it must seem to you like the strangest thing to say, but in the winter of his presence I've always felt warm and safe. I always knew no skirt no suit would ever bother me, as long as he is present, as long as this man stayed close to me. I do like his...

Seinem Geiste bekenne ich mich, ein Sehnen verzehret sein schönes Gesicht, daß, ermattet, von Güte beschattet, allmächtig ist. Sein Körper bewegt sich nicht...- im Traume sich endlich sein Zwingen vergißt. Den heulenden Jubel erkenne ich nicht, der...

From far beyond the veil of sleep some ancient voice does seem to whisper my forgotten name weakly, yet solemnly. So remotely that one night think it had been but a dream, echo of some illusive call of fleeting memory. Yes, to believe such vain idea no probl...

From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw; I could not bring my passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken my sorrow; I could not awaken my heart to joy at the same tone; And all I love...

Over many years we have erected walls that even he could never penetrate. His well-trained voice is of enormous power as it's based on many years of practise and an iron will of a certain kind ... - melodiously it carries wide, pervades each space, regar...

Autodestructive State Sell out everything. Free hands for crooks. Apologies for killers. Prosecution for victims. Act as if nothing ever happened. When the dirty money warms up your pockets Then play it off side and blame somebody else As I see and fe...

We are entering the operation theatre of the ramiliar morgue: The student nurses are making a lot of noise, Their voices echo from the bare tiles walls... I improvise a fainting fit: "I cannot bare these voices anymore...!" The tiny spineless spider,...

Shivering with ... awe ... and delight: "Here is my throat", he said, As he bowed his head ... in silence ... to him. Behold his white flesh ... shining in the velvet of darkness. Take him now, and he will be yours ... - Can't you see, how he longs to be yours...

Exposed with hands as empty as the opposite space, crawling we move to where the final station lies, to whom is the debt that we are forced to pay...? Real forces dare to appear only when we turn away, truth reveals itself Reveal yourself! A face ordained to h...

Was ist das geheimnis von Der seltsamen attraktion, Wenn er auf der seite liegt, Voll, bekleideit, erigiert...? Mach' die augen zu Mach' die augen zu Keine gest und keine wort Führt sein gedanken fort Wahr ist's schlie lich g'rade dann, Wenn niemals...

Well this is such a sad affair I´ve opened up my heart so many times But now it´s closed Oh my dear every salted tear It wrings Bitter - sweet applause But when the show´s in full swing Every once in a while High stepping chorus lines Mean i´m forgetting Mein...

The undeniably straight archer is dead. Sadly masculine his naked body lies beside me, stretched out on the pale sheets of my otherwise deserted bed. I do not know how he got here. I am not even sure, if I am hiding him. Trophy or lost property ... –...

Can I trust you, mortal boy? You say, you love me - oh, sure you do - , but what exactly does this affirmation mean? I do not have the slightest notion, no idea of what you understand by "love" and other terms as worn-out such as this old song and dance,...

If I had... oh, if I only had a proper cunt, I would be delighted to lift my skirt for you. I would gladly take your hard cock in my hands and bury it, ever so deeply, in the darkness of my TOMB. Come, my handsome GHOST of lust, and masturbate for me, I...

I do not eat because I'm hungry though this sometimes happens too, I only eat because I'm lonely and I got nothing else to do. I recently discovered it's the perfect way to pass my time I'm wolfing down all kinds of shit To fill the emptiness inside I tend t...

Unexpected...suddenly...as if from nowhere they appear, the monks are wearing fire-coloured gowns, their faces, friendly but determined, are hidden behind lacquered masks, painted black&white, they're having the shape of over-dimensional skulls. Quick...

Hidden behind merciful shadows, beyond the cruel daylight, living to hunt and kill, we are the... damned children of the night. Dragging our immune existence through thousands of centuries and from dusk to dawn we suffer from our immortality. Hosts contam...

By a route obscure and lonely, haunted by ill angels only, where an Eidolon named "Night", on a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly, from an ultimate dim Thule. from a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, out of space, out of tim...

I shattered all the mirrors fearfully hoping that they won't be able to remember my face. Darkest of all lights most greedy to embrace surrounded by demons and breathing in life... "I don't want to be a perverted temple of my Lord... thought His hand I am I h...

I remember the day Like it was yesterday... Minus the happiness I'm kind of in the same place... again, 'Cause nothing does ever change, old friend... And, yet... I am not the same (at all) 

Alles ist nur Illusion Und von mir erschaffen Doch ich vermag ihr nicht zu entfliehen Bin in meinem eigenen Trugbild gefangen Und meine armen Augen erkennen kein Ziel Die Antwort kann niemals im Außen sein Sie liegt stets im Inneren Schläft in mir drin...

Zahl' von 11 ruckwarts bis 7, wurd's auf Morgen gern verschieben; frag' mich ob sich noch was lohnt...- Tragheit als Einz'ge hier noch wohnt 

I found myself in a room that resembled a bath, saw my image reflected, watched my genitals falling off. Oh, what a sight when I understood the fright and what it (really) was: -as the old shape- deceased the transformation increased...- "the unexpected pat...

Mors voluntaria venerabilis es dea me suaviari cum labris frigorum tu obscurissima omnes deorum... 

I dreamt that I was lying on the bottom of the dark and never-ending sea, on a bed that my dead lover was preparing with his own skeleton for me ... ("...bring us a goat and we'll show you the way straight through the realm of the fallen and slain ...") I...

I've been alone with him inside my mind And in my dreams He kissed my lips a thousand times I sometimes see him pass outside my door Hello, is it me you're looking for? I can't see it in your eyes I can't see it in your smile He's all I've ever wanted,...

What is is a game for scholars So: it was sheer necessity nothing but chance that for reasons hidden to the world has led the two soul here Made them equal like dog and owner annoyed but neutral spend the night sharing the same bed they did slumber beneath two...

I've been so very patient I've wasted so much time I've waited forever, it seems But he never came. Such is my greatest weakness Oh, occasionally I care But I am out of patience now I am so done with men I may be dissapointed But I am not surprised...

If I could go back in time To see myself as a child Would I speak of what lies in wait Or would I just watch myself play? If I could go back in time To appear to myself as a vision of light Would there be guidance in prophecy Or nothing but shattering...

"...Armes, Dunkles Wolkenkind, hast Dich erneut in Sturm gehullt, im fadenschein'gen Pechgewand Dich selbst in ew'ger Nacht verbannt. Die undurchdringlich' zweite Haut, hat die Grenze zur Welt erbaut...- als Eierschale, hart wie Stein, lasst sie kein Li...

As through the pipes the waters fell down to the bottom of the well, in listless apathy I gazed at the cold waters ... - as he bathed. I half beheld that scenery and its most sensual masculinity. Yet, disappointment, oh, can't you see, is still the cau...

When I was a little child We often walked the country-side in brightest sunlight, or in rain my mother took me by the hand and as she had me in her tow a frown then came upon her brow she turned her head, looked down at me and spoke these words of proph...

The old monk of a somewhat Thelemite, or "crow"-related order dressed in a torn, old grown of jute, had been locked up in a tiny box inside a wall this cubic room was painted in dark(est)-red and midnight blue When the door was opened again, he was screa...

Oh, I the wetly weak claw led by his strong warm paw walking the forbidden path through high uncut summer grass while hunters nose dive membranes servants to their flight were buzzing all around our heads black parasol, balance and shades Those little...

Infants like phantoms, denied and suspected, their existence discovered always when least expected. Prepared for the day, the knight, he just cannot keep the perfect mask in its place, when he is falling asleep. Faces slacken in slum ber, each rigid muscle rel...

Who is the old man, who fills my heart with greatest pain yet his name remains unheard? I look at you and true tears shake my eternal saturnworld. Who is the old man, whose picture burned itself down to the bottom of my soul. You push me back and raise me...

Oh, wie gern' würd' er Euch kunden Von der Welt und wie er sie sieht, Doch wie könnte von etwas er sprechen, Von dem er absolut nichts versteht?! Wie gern' würd' er Euch singen Von der Liebe, die alles durchwebt, Doch ihm bleibt nur die traurige Klage,...

Now and then I'm scared, when I seem to forget how sounds become words or even sentences ... No, I don't speak anymore and what could I say, since no-one is there and there is nothing to say ... So, I prefer to lie in darkest silence alone ... listening to th...

Take my hand in the old 'Theatre Of Seven Hells', a ferry that bowed its wings, we call Her: 'Moon by Day'. Life - a book of painful tongue that hurts our ears. Flowers of the end, their seed shall grow. Your breath shall be my coat, the underworld is, oh, so...

Oh, Chimney Sweep The Chimney Sweep he came at two o'clock, I showed him where the furnace was, and he showed me his cock. Chicken pox The Chimney Sweep The Chimney Sweep he came at two o'clock, I showed him where the furnace was, and he showed me...

On Satur(n)days we used to sleep all motionless and still ...-While shrouded in an oppressive gloom we're handed over to the dream. A sleep so dark, this "Moon by Day", of powers strange and weird, through mystic veils her silver rays are glowing carefully. Wo...

The living ... have a look at the living: Dancing blindly ... losing balance, Will you chose pain ... or will you prefer the penance; The penance. The living ... have a look at the living: Dancing blindly ... losing balance, Will you chose pain ... or wi...

I could be like a snowflake fallen all the way from heaven into a magpie's nest, only to place my powdered cheek gently upon his hairy chest. I could be his Maiden Marianne gift-wrapped in cloak and silken hood, oh, a robin-redbreast sitting high up in the...

I once made a confession, I won't happen again, I've killed all my desires ...After that fateful day… I once had an erection, Well, sort of, at the age of five: We fumbled in the bushes, Yes, we made out in broad daylight. Not sandbox, slide or jungl...

Over there that little mountain rises, while some others dissolve into a plain. Time redefines itself and falls in sadness grain by grain ... "Time, my dear, heals all the wounds", the two-tongues echoes seem to say. But nothing, nothing changes here, this...

Tongue of silence, lick my lips, steal my thoughts, steal my pride. My soul lies offered as I'm waiting, intoxicate me when you step inside... Hold my hands, my hands are trembling, your charming beauty takes my breath, fragrant perfumes veil my senses,...

This is a sad day here in the world of shades but even pain has its own beauty even pain can perform a lovely face. Blinding stream, double-edged, in an extra-terrestrial gloom, beautiful creation of steel grown in my barren womb... They way into the light wil...

Wax the monkey, shave the bear, jungle-creatures won't be fed in here, trim the hedges, cut the trees, then you'll know how affection feels. Shave the monkey, wax the bear, such hairy creatures cannot stay in here, cut the hedges and trim the tree ... -...

Schatten, Schatten, komm' herbei, auf diesem Lager harrt ein Leib! Die Brust, die unstet steigt und sinkt, der Atem neues Leid nur bringt...!" Ein Seufzen, schwach, er zittert arg, sein trüber Blick nimmt nichts mehr wahr, sein stummer Mund sagt: "...

Gentle words had been my weapons careful openness, and fragile honesty had gradually begun to slowly win him over snd somehow had lured him here Despite my obvious display of defect my miserable frailty of which I never made a secret I disarmed him wit...

I have no body and I feel no pain for I am no longer here again. Now I can fly through-out the widest space finally I'm set free from all my chains. A farewell to heaven and a farewell to old hell, from now on we shall never meet again. Neither light nor...

"... kiss the corpse, the blessed sigh, enter the garden of the night. Shed a tear, suspended in fear ... - Every soul is starving here ..." The silence of the graves is not silent at all: Millions of the dead are crying in their graves, But no-one can he...

Is it a Belly of Muscles I see shaping underneath that turtleneck? I never ever dreamt having the rusty trunk of a car against my Backside... That's poison for my piles, the street is glimmering, 'cause it had rained all night. Please, do not think that I...

Tongue of silence, lick my lips, steal my thoughts, steal my pride. My soul lies offered as I'm waiting, intoxicate me when you step inside... Hold my hands, my hands are trembling, your charming beauty takes my breath, fragrant perfumes veil my senses, hold m...

Ein scheuer Knabe, ach Zerbrechlich und gänzlich wunderbar Dessen kleines Herz weit vor der Geburt Bereits schon längst verzaubert war Und der in allem, was er auch suchte Und mit samtener Vorsicht tat Von Neugier und Unschuld geleitet In allem nur Schö...

White as snow lie my lover's bones in the soft, velvet soil of the vault, And I, his bride, sleep by his side, To celebrate our sacred love. At times it seems that I'm existing only within some fading memory, But dreams are all sacred, dreams are all hol...

(the mirror ... is the theatre ... where the autopsy ... begins) please, be so kind to leave this place, none of your kin(d) is wanted here; a dreadful tremor shakes these walls ... your presence vibrates violently. over many years we've built the utmost...

Today they've found another one, Lifeless on the cold subway-floor. His face was turned to his back ... - The same way the other died before. Drain the mortals to their last convulsion and veil the ancient cause, Let off ... of them ... and see them tumb...

There is an old goat Knocking at my window-pane, Standing upright in a frock-coat, Somewhat earthcoloured and plain. He is staring down at me And the place where i have chosen to hide In my futile attempt to dissolve... - I discovered this cell as a child. T...

Comes the golden Light of the Dogday afternoon... waiting for the sacred Hour when he comes to my Room. He brings me Flowers beautiful, he's been doing that for Years, and photographic Memories, Trophies of his... Victories... ... Vouchers of Conquests, b...

Alles ist nur Illusion und von mir erschaffen, Doch ich vermag ihr nicht zu entflieh'n, Bin in meinem eigenen Trugbild gefangen, Und meine armen Augen erkennen kein Ziel. Die Antwort kann niemals im Aussen sein, Sie liegt stets im Innern, schläft tief in...

After the boy had taken a walk with his dear - deceased - Grandmother, his feet were somehow led to a small, ancient church, giving quite an imposing grandeur. Partially sunken in the morass of the marshland all foggy and chronically overcast...- the anc...

Where the exit-door leads in he scrutinises circling clockwise counting two out of the three slightly above the first degree "Has there been blood?" he asks politely as once a year we do explore with my head resting on the pillow gateways towards Plu...

Will I become like the old man from next door? Obsessed with fear of losing his mind, he soon couldn't take care of himself anymore. He had no friends or relatives to look after him, only once a week some male nurse dropped in. He was found in his bed,...

At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, And, softly dripping, drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain top, Steals drowsily and musically Into the universal valley. T...

Do you feel - most people do - depressed, when you go to the lou? That's just because it reminds you of the love you've lost. Well, if you're fed up being sad, come, try a new approach instead: There's a fountain made of gold, a gift straight from the under...

The Virgin Queen Panda-ghost-face Oh, dear me I do still ponder on The old "first question" I ever raised Was by mistake, a "singular" one Handsome and straight I only detect the safety of denial The "masculinear", slap in the face There are some tear...

That little mountain raises (silently) while other dissolve into a plain time redefines itself (irrationally) and falls in sadness grain by grain... "Time heals all the wounds" The two-tongued echo seems to say but nothing, nothing changes still pain remains,...

When the old ghost of suicide creeps slowly back in to your mind then everything is bleak and blurred, down here in the short-sighted world. yet, this time i have to insist on the sharpness of the things i missed. this once so loyal friend he's not that...

When you love a man, Who can never love you back... ...Well, not the way thnat you'd want him to... Oh, what can you do? When your heart is true, You cannot even walk away... Some part of you will always stay No, you can never really part, Because he...

I wish that he and I at least once in a While had something small in common ...- a secret, if you like. But there's no common ground here, not a single thing we share, on the same Planet we live, but in two different Worlds. He clearly did not like me, t...

From very early in my life I trained myself not to enjoy Any of the vain things that might come, So I would not despair the day they're gone. I thought this clever strategy Would save me from the pain of loss, But the Beast has many faces, And by accid...