The Funeral Album
1. May Today Become The Day
2. Ever-Frost
3. We Are But Falling Leaves
4. Her Last 5 Minutes
5. Where Waters Fall Frozen
6. Despair-Ridden Hearts
7. Vengeance Is Mine
8. A Long Way To Nowhere
9. Consider Us Dead
10. Lower The Flags
11. Drain Me
12. Karu
13. End Of The Road
MAY TODAY BECOME THE DAY
Rain trumps the lifeless ground
Drops as cold as ice
The doors breaking
The trench are shaking
The fire hits us all around
When the siren cries
Forward, forward we go into attack!
May today become the day
As I plunge into the grave
Let it slide in
All the signs are there
They all think that I'm brave
The strongest link of our chain
But really I gotta say that ain't how it's like
Closing in, I'm slowing down
warren fire, blood
our lines breaking and death is taking
All our men from all around
Into pools of mud
Forward, forward, there is no turning back!
May today become the day
As I plunge into the grave
Let it slide in
All the signs are there
They all think that I'm brave
The strongest link of our chain
But really I gotta say that ain't not how it's like
The fallback calling as the soldiers keep falling
Forward, forward, I am not turning back!
May today become the day
As I plunge into the grave
Let it slide in
All the signs are there
They all think that I'm brave
The strongest link of our chain
But really I just wanna bullet between my eyes
Aim high
EVER-FROST
The accusations and the blame...
True or false, they seem the same
Filthy fingers rise in rows
And out of shit a flower grows
I'm amazed how damn low people can go only by being themselves
Those with hearts of ever-frost
Will always know we never lost
Flames rose high...
Not enough to melt the ice
Tiny minds and virtous whores
A bunch of morons with a cause
Jesus saves? - We will piss upon your graves!
Three wise men came to the north
On their donkeys they rode forth
Whining I'd commited sins
Moaning I'm too everything
Still amazed how a whole trio of men can have only two brain cells
Those with hearts of ever-frost
Will always know we never lost
Acid rain: Urine on your flames
Those with hearts of ever-frost
Will always know we never lost
Flames rose high...
Not enough to melt the ice
Tiny minds and virtous whores
A bunch of morons with a cause
Jesus saves? - We will piss upon your graves!
Placid rain: Urine on your graves.
WE ARE BUT FALLING LEAVES
Think of your lifetime as one day
It's fading away, the shadows are growing long
Think of existence as a flame, and death as rain
Storm clouds there right along
At life's eve our flames will cease
Eternally, unavoidably
Eventually all paths will lead to the cemetery
We are but falling leaves in the air, hovering down
Unaware we are spinning around
Scattered fragments of time, like blinks of an eye
We are
That's all we are
Think of your lifetime as one year
Look, autumn is here
Getting colder... the winter's impending
Your conclusion's drawing near - certain austere
Yes, only the circle's unending
At life's eve our flames will cease
Eternally, unacoidably
Eventually all paths will lead to the cemetery
To the prior deceased
We are but falling leaves in the air, hovering down
Unaware we will hit the ground
Scattered fragments of time, like blinks of an eye
We are
Just when we realize that we are alive
We die.
HER LAST 5 MINUTES
Must have been a week
Since she drew the curtains down
I don't know if it's night or day
And I don't care
Our hopes seem so bleak
But she's pulling through somehow
While I'm trembling in dismay
In despair
I can see you're scared and tired of all this
I can see the torment, the damge it has done
Still we both know what the other alternative is
Not yet the only one
The good moments are brief
And there's nothing I can do
When it comes haunting her again
And turns it worse
She shivers like a leaf
As the waves of pain heave through
The ruthless bringer of the end
Fierce, perverse
I can see you're scared and tired of all this
I can see the torment, the damge it has done
Still we both know what the other alternative is
Not yet the only one
Don't go yet
Don't let go
Not yet, my only one
Don't go yet
I can't let go
Not yet, my only one
DEASPAIR-RIDDEN HEARTS
All bridges... on fire!
As onward and onward we ride
The smoke rises higher, higher...
Up the ever-darkening sky
So quickly everything swirled; descent of the world
Now it's all a chaotic ruin
Burning eerie, saphire
The foretoken of closing doom
Glowing dreadful and dire, dire...
Is the ever-haunting moon
So sickly everything twirled; the end of the world
Now it's all a chaotic ruin
We came so far
We came so far
So deeply wounded and so scarred our despair-ridden hearts
Frail as we are
Frail as we are
Firmly united we will stand 'til the world falls apart
VENGEANCE IS MINE
I am stunned, you caught me by surprise.
Assault and run, you outdid yourselfs.
Beaten numb, I didn't see you sneaking 'round the corner, how could I?
There is no sight in my third eye.
We're not done, I will hunt you down.
One by one, I'll blow you all to Hell!
For you faceless, nameless cowards cannot hide,
the day of reckoning will arrive.
Strike from behind and knock me to ground.
Kick me while I'm down!
Stab me in the back you bastards,
tear my heart out of my chest.
I'll rise from the ashes, from these ruins of mine.
From the wreckage
I'm right on your track, you bastards.
A dozen of eyes for an eye, vengeance is mine.
I have dreams of hammering your skulls,
fantasies of bashing in your brains.
Obsessively... I am watching, I am stalking,
I am following... And then the massacre begins.
A LONG WAY TO NOWHERE
AApproaching the moment now.
A long, hard journey in its end.
It's starting to loom right now...
The final round, and then it hits you, it kicks you, it splits you in half.
All the toil and all exhaustion,
all those times we hated.
All the losses, sacrifices,
all those things we missed.
All the suffering and distortion,
shit we tolerated.
All that we abandoned... All for this?
Our scattered hopes fall down,
the zeal turns to negligence.
The shattered dreams all down,
Crumbled around, that's when it shakes you, it quakes you, it breaks you.
It jades you, it fades you, degrades you, it laughs!
Enough's enough, too much,
it's more than we can take.
All those hits we took, persistence was in vain.
Enough's enough, too much,
it's all that I can say.
All down the drain, just bitterness remains.
It shakes you, it quakes you, it breaks you, it hates you, desecrates you, it laughs!
All the battles, all the dirt
and victories we tasted.
All the tension, all the misery
and all the bliss.
All the passion, all the hurt,
and all the love we wasted.
All the purgatories... All for this?
There's nothing there.
CONSIDER US DEAD
Feel it... And how it's weighing in your hand.
Cold and loaded.
See it... Oh, how it's shining in my hand.
Cold and loaded.
I know I haven't got the balls to pull this through
and therefor I'm laying all my faith in you.
Raise the gun, take aim and shoot me.
Put a bullet through my head,
consider us dead.
Raise the gun, take aim and blow me away.
Squeeze the trigger, free the lead,
consider us dead.
We're leaving... This human ruin behind.
Too cold and empty.
Yes, leaving... For there's nothing more I can find.
In this cold and empty.
The choice is mine so don't be afraind to pull this through,
just get a grip, I'm dying to get rid of you.
Raise the gun, take aim and shoot me.
Put a bullet through my head,
consider us dead.
Raise the gun, take aim and blow me away.
Squeeze the trigger, free the lead,
consider us dead.
I know I haven't got the balls to pull this through
just get a grip, I'm dying to get rid of you.
Raise the gun, take aim and shoot me.
Put a bullet through my head,
consider us dead.
Raise the gun, take aim and blow me away.
Squeeze the trigger, free the lead,
consider us dead.
LOWER THE FLAGS
He's gone, he is dead.
His remains upon the hearse ahead.
As silently we wander through the mist, he's free.
This is the end.
Your journey's over, night descend.
Below into the abyss, farewell my friend, you will be missed.
Lower the flags,
a good man has passed,
he has reached the last of frontiers.
Lower the flags,
down to half-mast,
for again the world has taken a turn for the worse.
He's done, he is dead.
Six feet of earth upon his head.
Now lay your wreaths upon the one who lies beneath.
Although you're gone,
in memories you shall live on.
Asleep, in peace now rest, the weight of the world is off your chest.
Lower the flags,
a good man has passed,
he has reached the last of frontiers.
Lower the flags,
down to half-mast,
for again the world has taken a turn for the worse.
That mourning light I'll always remember,
and these August nights: cold as December.
Lower the flags,
a good man has passed,
he has reached the last of frontiers.
Lower the flags,
down to half-mast,
for again the world has taken a turn for the worse.
DRAIN ME
Always pretending to want you.
It's so easy to make you play my game.
Always deceiving to get you.
So goddamn easy to make you scream my name.
No remorse, no repent.
Still to you I'm heaven-sent.
I don't need a reason to hate you.
I don't need a reason to brake you.
Just keep that mouth wide open
And drain me my darling
Drain me my darling.
I don't need to care if you want me.
I don't need to care if you need me.
Just spread that pink wide smile
And drain me my darling
Drain me my darling.
For so many years I've been faking.
It's so hard to keep lying and smiling in vain.
For so many years I've been taking.
Innocence soiled, hey babe, your loss is my gain.
No remorse, no repent.
Still to you I'm heaven-sent.
I don't need a reason to hate you.
I don't need a reason to brake you.
Just keep that mouth wide open
And drain me my darling.
Drain me my darling.
I don't need to care if you want me.
I don't need to care if you need me.
Just spread that pink wide smile
And drain me my darling.
Drain me my darling.
END OF THE ROAD
Here we are, now layed burden down
We're coming to the end of our road
Sorrowful yet glorious somehow
To be humming this one last thought
so calm and still
It wasn't all that bad or was it?
Now fulfilled it doesn't only hurt to end it now
... The funeral ...
The memories beneath the dust of years
They seem like those of someone deceased
There's no more to be done or hoped or feared
Just waiting for the final release
so calm and thrilled
It wasn't all that bad or was it?
Now still it doesn't only hurt end it now
Is life over? This life's over! Or has it only just begun?
The close corner starts to moulder
Coming apart yet still not done forever on