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Bless The
Child
End Of All
Hope
Dead To The
World
Ever
Dream
Slaying The
Dreamer
Forever
Yours
Ocean
Soul
Feel For
You
Beauty Of The
Beast
The
Wayfarer
Lagoon

Bless The Child

"I was born amidst the purple waterfalls.
I was weak, yet
not unblessed.
Dead to the world. Alive for the journey.
One night I
dreamt a white rose withering,
a newborn drowning a lifetime
loneliness.
I dreamt all my future. Relived my past.
A witnessed the
beauty of the beast"

Where have all the feelings gone?
Why has
all the laughter ceased?

Why am I loved only when I'm
gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child
Think of me long enough
to make a memory
Come bless the child one more time

How can
I ever feel again?
Given the chance would I return?

I've never
felt so alone in my life
As I drank from a cup which was counting my
time
There's a poison drop in this cup of Man
To drink it is to
follow the left hand path

"Where have all the feelings gone?
Why
is the deadliest sin - to love as I loved you?
Now unblessed, homesick
in time,
soon to be freed from care, from human pain.
My tale is the
most bitter truth:
Time pays us but with earth & dust, and a dark,
silent grave.
Remember, my child: Without innocence the cross is only
iron,
hope is only an illusion & Ocean Soul's nothing but a
name...

The Child bless thee & keep thee forever"

End Of All Hope

It is the end of all hope
To lose the child, the
faith
To end all the innocence
To be someone like me
This is the
birth of all hope
To have what I once had
This life unforgiven
It
will end with a birth

No will to wake for this morn
To see
another black rose born
Deathbed is slowly covered with
snow

Angels, they fell first but I'm still here
Alone as they
are drawing near
In heaven my masterpiece will finally be
sung

Wounded is the deer that leaps highest
And my wound it cuts
so deep
Turn off the light and let me pull the plug

Mandylion
without a face
Deathwish without a prayer
End of hope
End of
love
End of time
The rest is silence

Dead To The World

All the same take me away
We're dead to the
world

The child gave thought to the poet's world
Gave comfort to
the Fallen
(Heartfelt, lovelorn)

Remaining, yet still
uninvited
Those words scented my soul
(Lonely soul, Ocean
soul)

It's not the monsters under your bed
It is the Man next
door
That makes you fear, makes you cry,
Makes you cry for the
child
All the wars are fought among those lonely men
Unarmed,
unscarred

I don't want to die a scarless man
A lonely
soul
(Tell me now what to do)

I studied silence to learn the
music
I joined the sinful to regain innocence

Heaven queen,
cover me
In all that blue
Little boy, such precious joy
Is dead
to the world

Heaven queen, carry me
Away from all pain
All
the same take me away
We're dead to the world

Dead, silent,
constant
Yet always changing
- My favorite view of this
world

As he died, he will return to die in me again
Weaving the
cloth, giving birth to the Century Child
Who gave his life not for the
world but for me
Innocence reborn once more

Ever Dream

Ever felt away with me
Just once that all I
need
Entwined in finding you one day

Ever felt away without
me
My love, it lies so deep
Ever dream of me

Would you
do it with me
Heal the scars and change the stars
Would you do it
for me
Turn loose the heaven within

I'd take you
away
Castaway on a lonely day
Bosom for a teary cheek
My song can
but borrow your grace

Come out, come out wherever you are
So
lost in your sea
Give in, give in for my touch
For my taste for my
lust

Your beauty cascaded on me
In this white night
fantasy

"All I ever craved were the two dreams
I shared with you.
One I now have, will the other one ever dream
remain.
For yours I truly wish to be."

Slaying The Dreamer

I'm a priest for the poorest sacrifice
I'm but a raft in
a sea of sorrow and greed
You bathed in my wine
Drank from my cup,
mocked my rhyme
Your slit tongues licked my aching
wounds

Put a stake through my heart!
And drag me into
sunlight
So awake for your greed
As you're slaying the
dreamer

Swansong for the Wish of Night
God it hurts, give a
name to the pain
Our primrose path to hell is growing weed

Blame
me, it's me
Coward, a good-for-nothing scapegoat
Dumb kid, living a
dream
Romantic only on paper

Tell me why you took all that was
mine!
Stay as you lay - don't lead me astray!

Wake up, mow the
weed
You'd be nothing without me
Take my life if you have the heart
to die

You bastards tainted my tool
Raped my words, played me a
fool
Gather your precious glitter and leave me be
The Great Ones are
all dead
And I'm tired, too

I truly hate you all!

Forever Yours

Fare thee well, little broken heart
Downcast eyes,
lifetime loneliness

Whatever walks in my heart will walk
alone

Constant longing for the perfect soul
Unwashed scenery
forever gone

No love left in me
No eyes to see the heaven
beside me
My time is yet to come
So I'll be forever
yours

Ocean Soul

One more night
To bear this nightmare
What more do I
have to say

Crying for me was never worth a tear
My lonely soul
is only filled with fear

Long hours of loneliness
Between me and
the sea

Losing emotion
Finding devotion
Should I dress in
white and search the sea
As I always wished to be - one with the
waves
Ocean Soul

Walking the tideline
I hear your
name
Is angels wispering
Something so beautiful it hurts

I
only wished to become something beautiful
Through my music, through my
silent devotion

Feel For You

You were my first love
The earth moving under
me
Bedroom scent, beauty ardent
Distant shiver, heaven
sent

I'm the snow on your lips
The freezing taste, the silvery
sip
I'm the breath on your hair
The endless nightmare, devil's
lair

Only so many times
I can say I long for you
The lily
among the thorns
The prey among the wolves

Someday, I will feed
a snake
Drink her venom, stay awake
With time all pain will
fade
Through your memory I will wade

Barely cold in her
grave
Barely warm in my bed
Settling for a draw tonight
Puppet
girl, your strings are mine

This one is for you for you
Only for
you
Just give in to it never think again
I feel for you

Beauty Of The Beast

Long Lost Love

Trees have dropped
their leaves,
Clouds their waters
All this burden is killing
me

Distance is covering your way,
Tears your memory
All this
beauty is killing me

Oh, do you care,
I still feel for
you
So aware,
What should be lost is there

I fear I will
never find anyone
I know my greatest pain is yet to come
Will we
find each other in the dark
My long lost love

One
More Night To Live

Safely away from the world
In a
dream, timeless domain
A child, dreamy eyed,
Mother's mirror,
father's pride

I wish I could come back to you
Once again feel
the rain
Falling inside me
Cleaning all that I've become

My
home is far but the rest it lies so close
With my long lost love under
the black rose
You told I had the eyes of a wolf
Search them and
find the beauty of the beast

All of my songs can only be composed
of the greatest of pains
Every single verse can only be born of the
greatest of wishes
I wish I had one more night to live

A saint
blessed me, drank me deeply
Spitting out the misery in me
Still a
sinner rapes 1000 saints
Sharing the the same hell with
me

Sanest choice in the insane world:
Beware the beast but enjoy
the feast he offers

Christabel

"Oh,
sweet Christabel. Share with me your poem.
For I know now, I'm a puppet
on this silent stage show.
I'm but a poet who failed his best
play.
A Dead Boy, who failed to write an ending
To each of his
poems."

The Wayfarer

(Released on the single "Ever Dream" and the japanese
version of "Century Child".)

I went into the wilderness with Uncle Walt
I discovered
the wild
Learning to suck all the experience
Seeing the world
through cradle's bars

The wild blessed me with an errant
mind
Showing the way for the ultimate lore
I went around the world,
beyond the wild
Finding my home from an ocean
shore

Wayfarer, heartlander
What if I only had
One more
night to live

Home is where the way is
My road goes on
forever
One more voyage to go

Dead to the world
Alive
for the journey

Lagoon

(Not yet released.)

Imagine a perfect beach
Without a mermaid
Imagine a
perfect hideaway
Without a time

Ocean Soul

Imagine a
perfect Eden
Without a friend without a serpent

Ocean
Soul
Lonely Soul

"Feeling lonely and content at the same
time,
I believe,
is a rare kind of happiness"

Ocean
Soul
Lonely Soul