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The Seed of the Fire
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The Seed of the Fire
"I still hear you I still see you I still feel the Fire"
Distant sounds to raise the dead
have they been real or in my head – I still sleep ith open eyes
Now shake the dust off from these bones
after those years of yawns and moans again we will rise
But why do we have to wake up now – ain't that a shame?
Why do we have to rise again now – why can't we rest?
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Anyway a way
04:59
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Anyway a way
There are many ways
and there's the way you had to take
making it the only way
Across the barren fields
familiar bodies by your side
in the ditch and left behind
And an instinct guides the way through the dust and ruins
Drowning cities burning trees and and deserted heavens
That's the way it is, you see,
and the ay that sets you free
But there's the other way
that in the distance slowly fades
tha poisons your reality
Running out of breath
the way descending into haze
the stumbling and the sliding starts
Below these broken windows, next to the roaring sea
junctions, skhortcuts but still a choice
And we will choose and choose one day – sooner or later, long or short-
the last way.
Now choose your way
And the ay we gonna choose is the way we gonnna go
it's the way we gonna be probably free.
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Religion Plagues
05:50
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Religion Plagues
Religion plagues the mind and stains existence with reproach and the love of decay
Religion plagues the world and breaks to pieces with a phrase – country and god
And those who speak of hope - the same that made you small and hopeless in the first place
Where order is divine and suffering ideal is easy ruling.
Possessed by afterlife neglecting present flaws – now in whose interest could that lie?
Fear is still a tool and even if you die in god you're dead in the end. Halleluia.
Religion plagues the children and will burn their doubts with fire – the scum has to be kept in fear
Religion plagues the lovers and will ostracize desire – there'll be profit in that
"Law and State, Belief and Religion"
Pray for the victims who were killed by those who asked for god's blessing
before their deed. Now pray
Maybe the world won't care if we don't understand but do we have to simplify?
I'm still more inclined to shame than to wearing the presumptious crown of creation.
I'll leave you your religion if you leave me my doubts – as both will kill us in the end.
And probably I'd die for my beliefs but sure won't kill for them.
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Aftershadows
04:33
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Aftershadows
Modifications for reasons of safety
freedom maintained by building new walls
Values defined by blaming the alien -
We have seen it before. And forgot.
Pithy expletives disguised as solutions
identity finds reconnection with race
Unconcealed daydreams of world domination -
We have heard it before. And forgot.
And we cheat and we lie under a hole up in the sky
and we grow and we die
dreaming of better lives dreaming of future worlds
and perish NOW
Money returns in the shape of deseases
we are randomly killed by the same weapons we sold
Not from outer space but across the waters -
We could have known it before. And we did.
Is the past catching up with us or are we running towards?
And fear is still a force and will be used as a tool.
And there's hope if we try – or is hope another lie?
In the noise you have to cry, not to be heard will make you die.
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We are Interpretation
04:42
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We are Interpretation
The candle in your hand draws shadows on your brow
the flame is in your eyes and flickers in your breath
and fights to be burning
Light in your hand again to guide the way again
but what is beyond the cone is darker even more
it reaches out to show that when we go
We all go wirth secrets
We all go untold
Our words and our lives leave interpretation
I stand within this cone of light which way is there to turn?
The half extinguished flame will blaze up once again
dangerously high but it will eventually die.
Te things that were not said
the things that were not done
will fill the empty space when we are gone
For we all go with secrets
Half of our life is darkness – the rest is obscure.
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The Hand that fans the flame
Now that pain is real sit down by the fire and speak of dreams and derangement
Now the day is near and with the slightest of moves
your face will shine in the light.
Then I'll get up and fan the flame
and time will bend with resignation. It's as simple as that.
No it is not.
Darkness Silence Music and Love
Comfort and Torture
But now it's real and only pain ensures us
that we still feel.
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We are the Maggots
04:45
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We are the Maggots
And with the waste of a thousand words
we prove the voidness of all we have done
Like in a prayer we will lift our hands
to shield our eyes from the glare of the sun
Under the sun look at me crawling under the sun
We take a step onto colder grounds
but every movement speaks of being too late
and like a stone in an idiot's fist
we are thrown into the dark waters of fate
Under the sun look at me crawling under the sun
Under the sun and what will keep me under the sun
We are the maggots in a dead dog
Under the sun your eyes may keep me under the sun.
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The last Summer before
04:35
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The Last Summer Before
And we watch the women passing by
but let our laughter drown their cries
under our backs the firmness of the earth
that will devour us in no time
Can we be sure that we will meet again
in this last summer before the war?
Turn away, ignore the signs
And we slip into the silent pond
let its dark waters close our ears
we dive and swim under the surface
when we emerge there will be war
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Abide
05:26
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Abide
We hear sirens
singing of war and distant crimes
We see faces
wearing a mask from forgotten times
Far from the cliff edge
we watch the sea and a boat in distress
And we are sliding
as the shadows draw near we first struggle and then let go
and wait for pain or relief in the dark
Abide with me the day is spent
The day is far spent it is toward evening
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instrumental
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These are the Dark Days this is the Life
Past time tomorrow no time today
feet on the treadmill will follow the way
Out of the shadows into the light
colourful display may offer some light
This is the darkness these are the days
Nietzsche is dancing and so are we
Freud knows the answer and it's plain to see
And we see very impotent persons around a nd above
this is the poison were once had been love
Here are the cold facts were once there was love
our thoughts will be fake news that say it's enough
and all of our notions are turned into shame
old impotent madmen are ruling again
These are the dark days this is the life
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Friendly Fire
05:31
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Friendly Fire
And certainly there's pain but there is also poison
help me move aside the dead to screw upon the graves
and the way things really are says nothing about how they should be
I was born so I will die – you must agree it could be worse
Yes, but it could be better too
Run though the friendly fire into open arms
that will not hold you
run in the fading light of the glowing pyres
and all you have is but a single try
And maybe god is not dead only mortally wounded
his wild last kicks in agony who's in now for the mercy blow?
The freakshow has been closed down – where do we find our new employment
and the pennies for my thoughts put them on my eyes when I am dead
Wait for the signal and then
Run...
It's the same room at another time – participants changing
One day we'll wake up and find out what this was all about.
Perhaps.
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Love upon a Ground
04:23
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Love upon a Ground
Yet there is love, don't you see
to break resistance tenderly
May there be love, driven snow,
to save our imprints when we go it is love plain and cold it is love
What do you think will keep me here
in this divine conglomerate of hope and fear
what will keep me from killing myself
what will keeop me from killing everybody else only love to love and be loved
It places existence at the reach of your hand
you stare into fire but the orld on't end
Like silence and darkness it's torture, comfort and fraud
and as in music there is a notion of god
But when it comes down to it it is only a word
that has to be put into a phrase like:
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Alexander Dust Germany
Alexander Dust is the lead singer and mastermind of the Goth/Dark Wave Band ALSO. Alexander Dust started working as a Solo artist in 2010 and released 7 albums on his own label "Painful Scream Records" so far. Apart from that, he is supervising the release of the ALSO backcatalogue. www.facebook.com/dustalso ... more
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