Penumbra - Seclusion

PENUMBRA

SECLUSION (2003)

  1. Tragical Memories
  2. Cursed Destiny
  3. Seclusion
  4. The Prophetess
  5. Hope
  6. Crimson Tail
  7. Conception
  8. Enclosed

PENUMBRA

SECLUSION

1. TRAGICAL MEMORIES

I can see blood
Tears and pain
Frozen faces too
Yet expressive
Like these paintings
Engraved in our memory
Which we're gazing at
In a deafening silence

I see your face again
Its angelic lines
Overcome by this evil spell
Which will do us part
Some would see in it
Visionary signs
But all this belongs to the past

This curse blinds us
Something makes me so oppressed
Well, I thought I could see you in the darkness
Why has nothingness
Nothingness replaced your face

In your eyes
I saw my tragedy
In your tears
I felt how sad it may be
There is no place
For us here
No rule for memories

I long to bring you back to life
Whatever means I have to use
Black magic
Love
A mysterious cult
I don't care
I don't care

In your eyes
I saw my tragedy
In your tears
I felt how sad it may be
There is no place
For us here
No rule for memories

Sometimes I miss
All our memories
So unreal
But so deep inside
Deep inside

I miss you
So unreal
But so deep inside
My heart was ill

Tragical memories
Tragical memories

Why should we content
Ourselves with memories

Why do you think death
Gave you another chance

I don't only want
To make my dreams come true

Have you been brought back to life
To live again

I want to fulfil
My purpose in life

To live ordeals
Just to see your love
Stronger

To live for a dream
I leave that to the fools
To men

Are you sure these ones
Belong to the past

You are the actors
Of a dramatic tragedy
But let the show begin

To live ordeals
Just to see your love
Stronger.

2. CURSED DESTINY

Two worlds are within me
They live together just as one
Giving the feeling of existing
And the means of ruling

I despise them both
Refusing to belong to something
As a dying slave
I have been reduced to nothing

Why do I still believe in this love?
This pathetic silly love
Selfish, coward and pitiless
This I've been

I believe in this love
Stronger by your treachery
Coward and pitiless
This is who I used to be

I feel human
Can't this love defeat you
You rule this world
And you pretend to set your people free

Leave me
Leave me
Release me
Release me
Let me
Let me
Blossom for eternity

I'll show you the way
To free your soul
From these idols

I'll show you the way
To free your soul
From these idols

Shall I reveal the truth
Or leave them in ignorance
These puppets want to be like you
And decide on their destiny

I despise them both
Refusing to belong to something
As a dying slave
I have been reduced to nothing

Your empire is but a shroud
By pure appearance
So deadly in the end
So morbid
So devastating

I believe in this love
Stronger by your treachery
Coward and pitiless
This is who I used to be.

3. SECLUSION

Through mysterious ages and places
Fights and tragedies play out
In front of us
With different meanings
Some fight to survive
Others to see a face
Which one is the cruelest
No one knows it
No one can say it

In this war
All your wounds will be mine
Your victory, my salvation
For you I'm ready
To lose my mind
My death is your resurrection

I'm so eager to touch your skin
To see your eyes
To feel you that I kill
I kill
In this blood I can see
How hateful I can be
In the name of
In the name of love

I'm so eager to touch your skin
To see your eyes
To feel that I kill
I kill
'Cause the fears
My enemy is my own
I kill to see in his blood
How so hateful I can be
In the name of love

In this war
Your wounds will be mine
Your victory, my salvation
For you I'm ready
To lose my mind
My death is your resurrection

An appalling army all over me
My companions are crying endlessly
Endlessly
Their nightmares come to me
Every time we try to fall asleep
To fall asleep

An appalling army is all over me
My companions are crying endlessly
Endlessly
Their nightmares come to me
Every time we try to fall asleep
To fall asleep

All the time
Their own death frightens them
Showing the weakness of humanity
But what is it, compared to a ruined love
Burnt by the idols you venerate

I see the burning torches
Of my enemies
Sparkling in a fairy way
Till merging with the stars
Come to me, wretched slaves
I'll fight to the end
Killing one man each day
Until I find you again.

4. THE PROPHETESS

Walking for you so impatiently
I know what you want
My roots are yours too
From that look in my eyes
You can really see
Men are not like us
So will you sacrifice
And live on lies

Whatever is your request
I will comply
I don't think it will help you much
But don't ask me why
In return do me a favour
Open up your mind
Let me look inside you
And dissect all your signs

Why does she betray us
Why does she help him
Is her life so boring
Why does she want to die

When I hear these words
Failure and destiny are so linked
I stand frozen by her eyes
Petrified like those who saw Medusa

I won't reveal the answers
That I have seen in you
Go ahead and kill me
Because my life is through

She has this cruel beauty
I cannot see you in her
But I know better than no one else
What is behind such a face
I have to slay her
Looking for my answers
I won't ask her anything else
Not even the end of my story

Has this world its perversions
As delicious as our own
How can we renounce to such gifts
Only to know this obvious answers

What matters to me is to find you again
The future is an insult
She's a witch
She has no dreams
I think she's jealous of us

Has this world its perversions
Today she saw her murderer
As delicious as our own
She had no fear in her eyes
How can we renounce to such gifts
Would death be deliverance
I think so but it doesn't matter
Only to know the obvious answers.

5. HOPE

Do you know that mad girls go to hell?

One word
Just one word to exist
Precious as a jewel
Cruel as a farewell
Like an echo in my head
Showing your obsessions
All the hopes that I fed
Just can't be illusions

Hope
I refused to say it
Thinking it was
The only privilege
Of the weakest ones
Of the weakest ones

Not believing
In hope meant for me
That I decided
On my destiny
All these sufferings
I am ready to endure them

Just to find you again
Just to find you again

Now you hang on this world
Like the condemned man clings to life
You'll defend the beauty of it
Killing the one who will profane it

Believe in the purity of this world
As you believed in us
Running away from your hate
May be the way to save you

I often misused words
To define love
I burnt icons for you
I just need symbols
Whatever they are
Why
I couldn't say

Why do people pray before a cross
Today mine is but a word
So pure
So pure
So magical
So magical
I wish it would last forever

Notre sang coule dans tes veines
Pourtant tu oses encore espérer
Penses-tu réellement rejoindre ta reine
Crois-tu pouvoir encore l'aimer

Ou est passé ton honneur
Celui que nous t'avons inculqué
Tu seras damné pour cette injure
A jamais renié
Nous graverons sur ta tombe ce mot illusoire
Ce mot qui provoquera ta perte
L'espoir

Hope
I refused to say it
Thinking it was
The only privilege
Of the weakest ones
Of the weakest ones

Not believing
In hope meant for me
That I decided
On my destiny
All these sufferings
I am ready to endure them

One word
Just one word to exist
Precious as a jewel
Cruel as a farewell
Like an echo in my head
Showing your obsessions
All the hopes that I fed
Just can't be illusions.

6. CRIMSON TAIL

Madness fills the air
Easing your bleeding hands
Madness
Madness

Crying tears of pain
Dying in the end
Rescue me
Oh, rescue me

What has become of our love
Deep rooted
Feeding my blood
Like a candle
Fading away
It's doomed to death

I can't believe
I'm loosing you
This infinite quest led us
Away from our love
Our goal was in sight
Hatred and fears
Destroyed everything

Do you think you're back to life
To love again and get another chance

Enjoy your victory
Enjoy our pain
But never forget
That wounds leave marks
Forever

Our vengeance has come
But our hate will remain
As your dreadful
And eternal pain

You left me here alone
He left her
I'm lonely now
She's lonely
Tell me how you feel
Did you leave me for real

I left you all alone
With your bitter tears
I'm sorry for what I've done
I know how you feel
Because I left you for real

Madness fills the air
Easing your bleeding hands
Madness
Madness

Crying tears of pain
Dying in the end
Rescue me
Oh, rescue me

What has become of our love
Deep rooted
Feeding my blood
Like a candle
Fading away
It's doomed to death.

7. CONCEPTION

Remember
Remember this passionate love
So innocent
We lived an immortal life

The pain still lingers
From this weird embrace
We still bear the marks
Of our vows and vices

Come with me
And rejoice in my tears
Let our bodies be one
In this last embrace
And the fruit of this union
Will live for ever

Heartbeats
Remembrance of sufferings
This birth will bring
A sense to our fallen love

Despite of our lost illusions
I can smile and laugh again
The one I call my love forever
Forever will be by my side
'Till I'm dead and gone

I still hope
To find him again
To be his lover forever
Tender

Don't you see the evil in me
Ready to smother and kill thee
Growing stronger in a divine revenge
What an absurd love doomed to fail
Don't you feel who I really am
The one who will destroy you

Don't spare them, don't spare them
Don't spare them, no way
Don't spare them, don't spare them
Don't spare them, no way
They must pay, they must pay
They must pay today

Everything in me
You don't understand
Are the first signs
Of my master's anger
Be blind and your pain
Will be so much harder
I am the instrument
Of their creation
This murdering hand
Of their machination

Don't spare them, don't spare them
Don't spare them, no way.

8. ENCLOSED

I can hear their laughter
Whistling in the wind
This is my punishment
The price of my betrayal

I can feel their hate
Floating in the air
I can see their faces
I can feel their fear

Death can't be a refuge
This is the sad privilege
I have inherited
For ever

Why can't I move
Everything's confused
How did I get here
Strange, I feel no fear
My body's floating
The earth is moving
Oh, set me free
Please, please, forgive me

Come to me
My sweet angel
I will set you free
And I am falling apart
Soon you will rest forever in me
Can't you see I'm falling apart
You will lay under sycamore leaves
God, I wish to die
I will bring you to the kingdom you seek
In your last moment of reason
I can see your smile
Maybe you will know the peace
You always tried to find

I thought a fallen love
Would be enough for you
But you wanted more
Much more
But you wanted more
Much more
You will never satisfy
Your craving for vengeance
Neither will I
It hurts deep inside

In my agony
I see my enemies
They will be the keepers
Of my final destiny

This is the end of the play
Look around you
What do you see
Your quest has made you blind
And you have lost everything
Some will know this story
But don't expect compassion
Don't expect emotion

I have only death to offer
To spare her suffering
To prevent her madness
From killing her slowly
Forgive me my love
For this last deed
This is the only thing
I can give you

Forgive me my love
For this last deed
This is the only thing
I can give you

So the angels have foreseen
So the angels have foreseen
Your quest has made you blind
Your quest has made you blind.

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