Nightly Gale

ithout any sham
Know your evil deeds
Answer yourself
What kind of soul?

Honest and true

God sees everything
What’ve you become
Foreign desires
Cause you believed
They’re your own

What are you Escaping from?
What frightens you so?
Show them what You are worth
Stare the truth in the eyes
What are you Running from?
Where are you Running to?
You can’t hide From yourself
What are you Escaping from?

Are you chasing something?
To steal the happiness
Of the luckier Few souls

Others
Those who know
The world outside
This is no wargame
This is no place

For emotions
For folklore
For war

Comprehension
In its worst form
Truth always in
Eye of the beholder
But even the most
Distressing truth
Carries with it peace
Only a fool

Could say otherwise
This time

Truth as it is
Brought peace
Serenity and light
Which filled the room
A colourful rainbow
From the magic box
Sown from happiness
For use all alone

2. Laura

Laura
This is what they call me
Though it isn’t my name
I’ll use it from now on

For the rules of secrecy
I must keep
For when my truth Is revealed
I’ll lose my soul

They watch me all the time
They conspire against me
I can’t allow them
To win this battle

Saw their plans
Patience’s paid off
Now I know
What I must do

The new heart
Which contains
My secrets
I must recover

Hide them
deep Inside me
So no-one can know
The whole truth

Perfect chamber
Created from my body
Will a fouled secret be
In my enemy’s hands

The secret which was
To save my soul
Killed me physically
Twisted in pain

3. David

A boy in a dress
Spent his childhood
Cause of his mother
Pretending to be a girl
Result of her sickly
Maternal desires
Broke up the family
Gained his sanity

Reset the relationship
Between the sexes
Saved by his father
Cared for by others
Left with the sick
To become healthy

Maybe the place
Maybe the people
He found the joy
To recreate the child
Grew up a man
Sensible and wise
With an aim in life
Plan for the future

Yet no-one found
His dark secret
Which allowed him
To be happy
It let him leave

The walls of home
With fistfuls of joy
The jar overflowed

Remember why
Remember whom
Remember aim
Forget the curse

With his liberation
Came the hunter
His prey became
Those happy souls
Twisted methods
And devious ways
Of squeezing everything
To never stem the joy

Sinking ever deeper
Into the psychopath
Only fearing when
The joy runs dry

His downfall
Caused by his greed
No-one for a moment
Ever doubted that

He was insane for
What he had done
It could only mean
Nothing to him

For he still used
The evil sorcery
So long as the jar
Of joy never ran dry

4. Jar Of Joy

Jar Of Joy
Object of desire
Cause of envy
Misery maker
Glass box
In which you
Can collect
Special emotions
Those few unique
Most unsaid
Life sacrificed
To know his name
Jar of joy
Created for him
Transparent
Tube of memories

Every soul who
Lost his reason
Wants to regain
The feeling
On discovery
Jar of Joy
Will find a way
To keep it close

Each single soul
Who's able to have
Just a moment
To possess it all
Must remember
Moderation
When stealing joy
From innocents

If you commit
The sin of greed
Harvesting all
Happy clean souls
Will he ever see
his dark image
Shown in the jar
the trapped screams

Help me - to find
Help me - to know
Help me - to use
Help me - to feel
Help me - abuse
Help me - forget

The voices in my head
Will never let me forget
About my happiness
Screams at my emptiness

Screaming at me everyday
It never goes away
Such a high price to pay
For something we should save

5. Martha

The Sound of flint
Beguiles a flame
In this cold
And merciless place
A heavenly fire
Purest flame
Which burns pain
Heals all wounds

Slowly forgets
The feeling of pain
Upon the body
From the torture
Let her reach
Where everything
Has its end
And the beginning

Burnt flesh
Odiously spread
That essence
Brings euphoria
Awareness
Of the closeness
Of the first attempts
The road of pain
I’ll suffer gladly
To die like my
Sweet offspring
Burnt yesterday
Nothing I have
Left to cherish
Bereft of joy
Poison chalice

No approval
Is needed
The tortured
World understands
In the eyes of
All the patients
I charred my soul
Legs, torso
Face and arms
For eternity
To be united
With my child

From ashes it came
To ashes it’ll go
In order to repent
For all it’s sin

6. Would (Alice in Chains cover)

Know me broken by my master
Teach thee on child of love hereafter

Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way

Drifting body it's sole desertion
Flying not yet quite the notion

Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way

Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way


Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home?
Have I gone?
And left you here alone?

If I would, could you?