L'Ame Immortelle

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Warum erkennst Du nicht einmal
Im letzten Augenblick
Daß Du ein Leben nur aus Lügen lebtest
Ohne klar zu sehen

Daß das Gesicht unter der Maske ist
Zur Fratze nun entstellt
Daß nichts mehr von Dir übrig ist
Was Dich zusammenhält

3. Changes
M: Medwenitsch / T: Rainer

Another daybreak waking up
Drinking from a bitter cup
That's somehow sweet and oh so tender
This poison confirms my surrender

Surrendering to all day life
No more wars and no more strife
Stars upon a deep dark sky
I bow down and I ask why

But in the end it all stays the same
No changes made, no lessons learned
Am I the one who is to blame
For smashing crowns that I have earned

New possibilities each day
They offer me a different way
To live, to walk or just to be
Or lead me into misery

I am just as small as you
Although I do not want me to
With all the powers I posess
I'm just afraid of loneliness

Let me dream here of a freedom
That will never be my own
If I do not pay the prize
Of forever being alone

4. Another Day
M: Medwenitsch / T: Rainer

As I sit along the shore
Of my wishes and my dreams
My pride lies scattered on the floor
With the fading sunlight beams

My thoughts embraced by nothingness
Mindwaves passing by so slow
I long for your tender caress
As innocent as young fresh snow

As the silence fades away
I gather strength for another day
Another day I've to go through
Another day here, without you

To flee from my addiction
I go out, to seek the voices
That speak an empty benediction
Of hollow words and empty choices

But these words, they keep me sane
Until the moment you return
Where I let go of all the pain
Free of anger and concern

And I feel your warmth and love
As it into me doth flow
I come to only one conclusion
I will never let you go

5. Ich gab Dir alles
M: Rainer / T: Rainer

Ich gab Dir alles
Meine Seele, mein Licht
Doch wo bist Du jetzt
Ich seh' nur Dein Gesicht
In einem Traum so fern
Der mir einst so nah
In einer Zeit der Liebe
In einer Zeit so wunderbar

Ich stieß den Stern herab
Nur für Dich
Ich fiel vor meinem Stolz
Nur für Dich
Ich verneinte mein Wesen
Nur für Dich
Ich kniete vor dem Schwert
Nur für Dich
Ich wurde krank und schwach
Nur für Dich
Tat ich es ohne Grund
Nur für Dich

6. Tears in the Rain
M: Rainer / T: Rainer

Hollow cries and fading faces
Searching all those empty places
Alone in pain, alone in fear
And rain washes away my final tear

The words I suffered in decay
Leave me no more room to stay
The things that you have said to me
Are washed away, along with my memory

We are all lost
Like tears in the rain
And the water from above
Kills the final flame

Dreams I've dreamed and wishes ceased
I feel the inner demon's pleased
The wheel keeps turning endlessly
I let the rain fall down on me

The gentle water flowing down
A collapsed soul that wants to drown
This was my kingdom, now it's lost
In the gentle rain, I trust

7. Stern
M: Medwenitsch / T: Rainer

Für dieses Welt da scheint mein Leben
Von Schmerz und Leiden stets verschont
Und niemand wagt es zu erahnen,
Dass hier ein finst`rer Schatten wohnt

Dass in der Hülle, die da scheint
Als ob nur Freude ihr entspringt
Ein schwarzes Loch stets um sich greift
Eine Seel' um`s überleben ringt

Doch irgendwo in finst`rer Nacht
Scheint ein Stern für mich in seiner Pracht
Er scheint für mich, für all mein Leid
Und träumt wie ich von Geborgenheit

Was ist es was mich dazu bringt
Sobald Menschen mich umringen
Und Wörter wie aus Strömen fließen
In eine Rolle mich zu zwingen

Das ist mein Leben und mein Fluch
Ein Auge lacht, das andere weint
Und mein Mund in Deinem Auge
Immerfort zu lächeln scheint

Doch irgendwo in finst`rer Nacht
Scheint ein Stern für mich in seiner Pracht
Er weint für mich, für all mein Leid
Und träumt wie ich von Zärtlichkeit

8. Close your Eyes
M: Rainer / T: Rainer

Embraced in somber darkness
Muted and blinded by desire
Thoughts flow into nothingness
The mortal shell burns on the pyre

Two bodies they float into one
The world around us fades
Like in the evening does the sun
In our small cascades

Close your eyes and come with me
Into my own reality
Where no chains do bind our souls
Where we can roam eternally

No fear does trap us in this hour
Nothing holds us back tonight
Come with me my fragile flower
March with me towards the light

Don't be shy, this little pain
Is just the price you have to pay
It`s oh so small, for what you gain
These are the final words I say

9. At the End
M: Medwenitsch / T: Rainer

Trodden paths they seem outdated
To many reasons I have stated
The path divides I have to decide
A new life, a new way to stride.

Hollow eyes are watching me
Tell me which way to go
Do not believe the fading footsteps
In this winter`s snow.

Hear the thunder coming down
Dreams of forbidden lands, where I do drown
Here at the hilltop, proud I stand
A new beginning at the end

Trees that have seen many ages
I hear them speak to me
Moving forward, hide away
The consequence is hard to see.

Reflecting 'bout what might be
A life of lust, and restlessness
Or full of love and warm retreat
The goods I currently posses

10. In the Heart of Europe
M: Rainer / T: Rainer

Our landscape raped by different armies
Soldiers, slaves who have no faces
Control our ways and lives completely
Our minds are torn, time left its traces

Controlled by TV screens and letters
That point out assimilation
To trends and movements from outside
Fall victim to this infiltration

Everybody's just consuming
What the media's dictating
And they all have just forgot
The joy that is to creating

Here in the heart of Europe
No one stands up proud no more
Here in the heart of Europe
Our culture is a dying whore

No room for individuality
Grey masses who think one way only
More like robots through the streets
In our thinking we stand lonely

Once a land of art and culture
Now slave to streams from outside
Our nations culture, doomed and dying
Like a candle's fading light.