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Introduction
02:45
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Destitution
05:14
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Destitution
Echoing in the eternal slumber’s void
Who is going to tear us from its reign?
What is it going to take to stop this everlasting pain?
One decision, one bomb resulting in whole cities destroyed
Still hearing the shatter of the bombs
Sirens, screams nothing left but catacombs
Still hearing the shatter of the bombs
Sirens, screams nothing left but catacombs
The flash of her beautiful smile
left me back with denial
This was paradise
until we realized
it was all just a disguise
Waking up with tears and sweat covering my body
Still hearing the shatter of the bombs
Sirens, screams nothing left but catacombs
Opening the cracked window, seeing somebody
One of the few survivors broken by this meaningless war
Evolution, destitution, resolution, devolution
How long is it going to take us to restore?
Still hearing the shatter of the bombs
Sirens, screams nothing left but catacombs
Still hearing the shatter of the bombs
Sirens, screams nothing left but catacombs
To start anew we swore
until we fall once more
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Civilisation – Rise again
Civilisation – rise again!
Thirty-nine years old
Keeps a secret still untold
By society folded to a mould
The aching whispers enfold
Her empty shell distraught
Beautiful yet fractured
Merging to such an enraptured capture
A tiny image in a big picture
Another chapter in this sad scripture
To bear a child in this post-war era
An inevitable onus carved into her brain like a chimera
Gratitude to the test-tube fertilisation
Another invention by the superior civilisation
Now pregnant in her thirty-forth week
Her whole world turns gradually bleak
The contraction suddenly kicks in
Leading to a paroxysm in her chin
The contractions getting stronger and stronger
1 - the feeling ineffably catharchic
2 - another child born
Another maternal death
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Socialisation
03:41
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Architect of Life
07:15
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Architect of Life
Lost in mind-bending thoughts
Everything there was I brought to naught
A prisoner of my own fantasy
Driven away from my own reality
I am the architect of my own dreams
Nothing is quite exactly as it seems
Complete absence
yet still an essence
Offering this strange presence
Will this be my final sentence?
Infusing the life with a new meaning
Nothing is quite exactly as it seems
A prisoner of my own fantasy
Driven away from my own reality
I am the architect of my own dreams
Am I still dreaming?
It feels like being a victim of the treachery of treacheries
A prisoner of my own fantasy
Driven away from my own reality
I am the architect of my own dreams
A shrine of immortal memories
I am in the mind
of my own child
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Mourning
01:45
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Gratitude
04:21
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Gratitude
Gratitude
Solitude ousted by commonality – Gratitude!
The feeling of your empathy – Gratitude!
Made no room for immorality – Gratitude!
The terrible inner emptiness – Gratitude!
Filled by your presence’s prettiness – Gratitude!
Emotional generosity surpassed the ruthlessness – Gratitude!
Ruthlessness…
Ruthlessness… Gratitude!
Hope overcame despair – to let me enjoy and pass along my inner sanctum - Gratitude!
Without you it would have been the other way around
I just hope it is not too late
to express my deepest gratitude
Gratitude
Gratitude
Gratitude
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Solitude
04:19
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Forsaking
05:30
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Forsaking
Forsaking
Forsaking
Constant fear fills the air
Death comes closer with every breath I take
No one around that takes care
One decision, everything I loved is at stake
Forsaking
Forsaking
Creeping void in the room I rest
Sound of the machine that keeps me alive
Not a single plant that can thrive
My own silent companion, the heartbeat from my chest
A blurry memory of my family
Tears dropping on the wet bedsheet
Shivers crawling up from his feet
Ravens hitting the window that lead to the balcony
I pull the plug as I realize
that I am no one to the ones I loved
That I am no one to the ones I loved!
Forsaken!
Forsaken!
Forsaken…
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Absolution
05:38
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Absolution
A feeling starts to spread relentlessly
Dark clouds appear on the horizon majestically
The moment I’ve received the message of his sudden death I felt only consternation
Could not move, as if I’ve stared too long into the eyes of a gorgon
A rush through the body - Sudden failure of the respiratory organ
A paralysis with the intensity of the earth’s creation
A splinter of my heart dissolved like bones in an acid solution
As I read his handwritten suicide letter
with a trembling voice at his funeral
If I had known, oh, if I only had known
Tears blend in with the rain and drop on the engraved tombstone
Knowing to have spent too little time
with my last relative – too ephemeral
Please free me from this perpetual penance and grant me absolution
If I had known, oh, if I only had known… absolution!
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The Parting (Outro)
06:00
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Mourning (Instrumental)
01:45
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Gratitude (Instrumental)
04:21
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Solitude (Instrumental)
04:19
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Forsaking (Instrumental)
05:30
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Endark the Brightness Basel, Switzerland
Endark the Brightness is an Atmospheric Black/Death Metal band with Doom influences and was founded by Stephan Weber and André Sümeghy in 2009 in Basel, Switzerland
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