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Fallen Sun
01:21
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Imperial Blaze
04:10
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For the first time in my life, I’m looking across the skyline
Thinking of the children that have died so unexpectedly
As they all have died before me, so shall I follow
There is nothing left but to commit to my destiny
Don’t grieve for me, my love, it has always been my fate
to die for my fatherland
I’ve summoned the courage with all my inner might
and I will go down with pride
For the first and last time, I’ll strike down for our nation
Give my kind regards to our neighbors and family
For I've been given the order to give my life for you
so that our country can still go down in history
Worship! Praise me!
All that is left is to carry out the duties for which I’ve been trained
and to fulfill the Imperial mandate
With this I give you my farewell
But do not worry, I’ll meet you again at the Yasukuni shrine
We continue to live with the souls of the fallen heroes of war..
With this I give you my farewell
But do not worry, I’ll meet you again at the Yasukuni shrine
For the last time in my life I’m looking across the skyline
Ready to pass on with honor and dignity
As my comrades have gone before me, so shall I follow
There is nothing left but to press on and fulfill my destiny
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3. |
HARA-KIRI
04:05
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I’m finding myself in dire straits
and believe I can no further endure
Rather than live in such disgrace
I wish to die in honor
In the presence of the court
Before the winter solstice comes
and the frost ascends the sky
to become the first glimmer of dawn
To die by ritual suicide is my dream
before I wander on..
I wish to die in spring, beneath the cherry blossoms
While the springtime moon is full and bright
By my sword, my soul, the noblest way to die
A slow and miserable way to die
Yet the ultimate sign of strength
For since my birth, I’ve lived by the code
It guided me through life
and so shall it guide me through death
before the sunrise dies out in me..
To find such power, honesty and strength
it can only come from a most profound resolve
So I ask the higher court to grant my wish
and to let me die by the blade
And to bless my self-inflicted wounds
with a strike to slice of my head
So that I can put an honorable end to my life
to atone for my crimes, and regain my pride
I’ll expose to you my insides now, for I have nothing more to hide
Let the color of my blood be a symbol
For I shall not leave this land behind without pride
And in the wake of my transcendence
my dream goes wandering on..
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Drawn from sorrow and hate
a passionate fire
For only black souls are able to find beauty in pain
In the everlasting night
a comforting time
Where only the moon is able to shine its light
But it’s isolating in my broken mind
Embraced by the curse of the dawn
So with certainty I’ll pick up the knife
My last piece of work shall be known as the end of my life
I regret the choices I’ve made, but they’ve led me this far
Now I am finally able to release myself
from the burden of life
All the cruelty, an endless string
This life has been nothing but pure insanity
All the cruelty, this tragedy
The gates to eternal rest are waiting for me
It’s so insulating in my fractured soul
Brought by the dawn of my sins
When all is forgotten and I drift away
My last piece of work shall be known to humanity
How I’ve wasted time, but it has led me this far
And now I am finally able to release myself
from this burden called life
My final breath, the cold within
It chills my heart, my soul and skin
Tormented by pain that might never die
Now on the altar for the final sacrifice
My dream is to rejoin my creators
Those luminesced like a neon light
To become again one with the source
All I need to do is end this empty life
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5. |
O.dio
01:48
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6. |
Lonesome Kingdom
04:42
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All alone once again, in silence
When all hope is lost
A cry out for help, but no one’s around
Can’t even recall when you became
this empty shell
or a social recluse, as people would say
On the throne of a lonesome kingdom
Not even the rats notice that you’re here
In this palace of solitude
Where the only oppressor is you
Away from the sunlight, in darkness you dwell
You thought the lack of humans would release you from this hell
..and their acts of evil
You crave the moonlight and this emptiness
but sadness befalls and what was left is now gone
Condemned to dwell…
This dream of fire rubble
your skin bulging like that of a reptile
Shiny, without a strand of soft hair
in the pale red light of the setting sun
It calls back to my lips the taste of my family’s bones
In the shadows of thick dried scabs
Wear the crown in a lonesome kingdom
Not even the bugs notice that you’re here
In this fortress of loneliness
Where the only oppressor is you
Embraced by darkness…
You’ve weld the scepter for way too long now
Your final days as king will come
But until the day you die, you’ll rule the land of no return
You wear the crown and perish
In this land far beyond, where the sea is made of tears
and the mountains are piled up filth
And when the sun rises, you wake up from a dream
in which you were where you belong, you saw the other side..
And yet another time, you said you’d wait a day
But now that you’ve seen the peace that’s waiting for you
the time to end this misery and to take off the crown has come
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7. |
Aftermath
06:48
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I remember that morning when the siren rang
The cloudless sky could not predict such tragedy
The summer sun, nothing compared to the heat
that would put our city in great calamity
A sudden flash of light was followed by a deafening blast
Windows shattered before flames rose from the ground
The blast of air was so intense, it knocked me off my feet
I wish it was a dream, this grim reality
No signs of life in all this madness
Will I too meet my demise or shall I live and die alone?
The cloudless sky had turned to black
A shadow cast over the noble sun
So many lives in fear, pain and grief
The cruelty of war
When I crawled out of the rubble, that’s when I saw
the corpses scattered on the ground in front of me
Covered in the ashes of their brothers and sisters
What could have caused such inhumanity?
I was terrified as I couldn’t find my family
A crushing fear told me they too had died
That’s when I found the body of my father
and shattered like the windows had just before
The distant cries of broken families
Will they ever regain hope or shall they grief until their deaths?
The cloudless sky had turned to black
A shadow cast over the noble sun
So many lives in fear, pain and grief
The horrors and the cruelties of war
I clench my fists and scream..
The memories are engraved in my mind
The swollen faces, the melting skin and exposing flesh
Never will I recover from that sight..
I remember that morning when the siren rang
The cloudless sky could not predict such tragedy
The summer sun, nothing compared to the heat
that would put our nation in great calamity
That day thousands of us have died
and part of those who lived have died inside
The aftermath of the bombs has left its scars
Engraved in our minds, for all eternity..
That day the dark crept upon our land
Too many lives have paid the price of war
A darkness cast over the virtuous sun
The cruelty of war
The swollen faces, the melting skin and exposing flesh
Never will I truly recover from that sight
Is this the apocalypse, the world’s demise
or just our nation’s?
This great calamity
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8. |
Woods of Eternity
04:48
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In front, a mountain amidst the haunted trees
Where tortured souls will find eternal peace
So desolated, no life, bird or deer
Only the silent moaning of dying humans here
What made them wander deeper into the green?
How many went before them?
Why did they wander into this maze of trees?
And breathe their final breath in the woods of eternity…
Behind the golden tape…
What’s going on in nature’s cursed grave?
Beyond the path and trails, in endless soil and moss
Where skulls make forest litter and blood the midnight frost
Still scratches on the branches which once held up the noose
And on the ground some ashes, relics of self-abuse
What made them ponder and go behind the trail?
How many lives will follow?
Why did they roam into this sea of trees?
And spend their final day inside the woods of eternity..
Inside this wretched place
They go beyond and end their cruel days..
There comes a time when we cannot go on..
And all that’s left in us is the desire to go beyond..
Too I shall crave to find my rest, just like the rest of them
But will I have the strength to take my life?
Too I deserve eternal peace and to be rotting just like them
How much I envy them..
One day I too shall feed the woods with my corpse
And I’ll be something that’s far greater than a man
I shall live eternally, I shall be the woods myself
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9. |
Forgotten Existence
05:21
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As I linger on the edge of death
I realize I’m all alone
Wondering how long it takes
before someone to notice that I’m gone
As the cold creeps upon me
the fact that no one’s there to grieve
or care about where I will be
It gives me a sense of relieve
From the act of dying
a certain comfort I retrieve
For no one’s hurt after I’m gone
and no one was when I still breathed
My blood stains the ground
Liquids dripping through the floor
The scent .. A stench of rotting flesh
Yet no one seems to know that I’m dying
Underneath my bed
A writhing mass of maggots
and disgusting black bugs
On my body they feast
The decay of my social bonds
have let my body to decay
Broken beyond repair
All that’s left is to fade away
I remain a rotting sack
A source of life to pests
At least now I have worth
Take as much as you need
From the act of dying
a certain comfort I retrieve
For no one’s hurt after I’m gone
and no one was when I still breathed
My blood stains the ground
Liquids dripping through the floor
The scent .. A stench of rotting flesh
Yet no one seems to know that I’m dying in solitude
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