Anekdoten - Official Bootleg [live] (1998) by Anekdoten (보컬) on maniadb.com

i've drunk my fill, sunk my will,
bored myself with talk
end the dreaming,
time for seeing life as real as now

synchronized in sharp focus, tuned with space and time
led by instinct and emotion, ruled by heart and mind

taking it all in
for each breath I give i'm closing in

the path that leads you back is there all the time
no doors have been shut to keep you outside
benevolent skies will lead the way
on from yesterday

losing our sight of the goal,
we run around in our mazes alone
we run...
the treadmill is spinning around...

taking it all in
for each breath I give i'm closing in

I know I fail to see you as I should
I scrabble on blind, but want to do good
fearing the fears that hold the door
love is the key to all

I feed on fire
so that I can keep the dark at bay
I have known you
I long to speak your name

sink the stone
and heal the wounds to make me whole again
moving closer
we dance into the flame

surreal, still and shining
come and wash me away

face my fears, my soul is absorbed into black
dry my tears, fear and pain is what I lack
broken, torn I live with my light-eye drowned
ease and calm you give,
but life begins and ends with pain
my time has come now, this bird has flown
a glimpse of hope, but still an everlasting moment

walk with me, for I shall go no futher now
dance for me, my soul shall end its futile ride
dressed in gold I rise with my face to the sun
open the shallow skies
but life begins and ends with pain
my time has come now, this bird has flown
a glimpse of hope
but I walk this earth no more

watching the world through the eyes of a child
leaving the past behind me
curiously peeping behind each door
already longing for tomorrow
there's no need to fear as long as you're here

it's not always easy, not always plain
you cannot evade your sorrow
those are the terms in this old game
give and forgive for tomorrow
there's no need to fear - I will be here

all of the reasons were lost in the wave
I scrabble around for reassurance
dragging my grapnel athwart the sea
scanning my book of hours

Purposeless man of clay
Darkness: roll away
A silent stream leads the flow,
moving on and on

Random lines fall in place,
adulterines slowly fade away
I'm sucked in deep by the flow,
taken in by the undertow

how long the wait?
clouds are hanging over me
obscurity prevails
wearing the face
of doubts, hopes and promises
I wish that you would stay

don't blunt the edge
I breathe through my senses
the flesh and the divine
delicate moves
surrender into strangeness
and I can't make out the signs

fall through the air
groundbound and giving away

your secret is safe
unless it would break in two
heaven's still unbound
cling to my wings,
the dreams and the things we knew
now would you want it to?

fall through the air
groundbound and gliding
giving away

I watch the clouds through my window, sail across the sky
and underneath the canopy, gulls, they wheel and glide
the shoreline stretches endlessly along these windswept plains
I wander through this barren land where solitude remains

i've made myself a universe in this far-off home
unseen from the outside world, here I live and roam
and though i've tried assiduously to heal the wounds with time
you'll haunt me in my memories until I die

if I should meet you after all these years,
how could I find the words?
i'd greet you with silence and with tears for all the time we've lost

the days get shorter as weeks pass, summer turns to fall
the birds will cease to sing and chant and follow with the call
it's getting clearer and the truth unsparingly reveals
i've drifted imperceptibly out to sea

if I should meet you after all these years,
how could I find the words?
i'd greet you with passion and with tears for all the time we've lost
time lost

my mind's falling down endless tunnels
until I find myself in the void
somewhere down there I could hear them calling me
through walls of silence I heard them weep

the wheel was just about to roll me over
and for a moment I lost control
stars were falling and worlds colliding
I always knew that they would track me down

tried so hard to break through to the surface,
but entered into yet another dream
I held tighter on to the lifeline
and sensing light I broke free!

awaken - I am reborn - seeing - calling - roll away the stone - rising

pacing through the ashes, holding fast the rope
finally believing in love and life and hope

beauty - sky, earth and moon - always moving - beating in tune - turning around...

reaching - drawn to the light - wanting - shooting into the night - glowing

getting ever deeper, closer to the core
the purpose and the meaning, the essence of it all!