1. ISLANDS OF LIGHT

Running in the darkness, rolling back in time
Following the voices howling in your mind
Under you the frozen lake crackles till you halt
When the frosty mirror breaks, will you hear the call

Come admit your secret plan to make it to the top
Hear the sirens as they sing till the day you drop

Fall through the ice, into my eyes
Islands of light guide you tonight
Drowning in your daydreams, hiding in your bed
They keep on complaining, it´s all in your head
Come admit your secret plan to make it to the top
Hear the sirens as they sing till the day you drop

Fall through the ice, into my eyes
Islands of light guide you tonight

Don’t you recognize your voice in our coven’s song?
Don´t you know it´s not the music? - it's you that danced along
See the moon riding the tide, the reflection swims
As the ice begins to melt, we see a form within

Fall through the ice, into my eyes
Islands of light guide you tonight


2. PRECIOUS DARK

There’s a place I don’t want you to know of
Hidden deep in a blindfolded heart -
Where the desperate walk in silence,
Waiting for the ghosts to depart
There’s a game I don’t want you to know of
Masquerade, Cirque du Dècadence
A pawn in an empty chessboard
Moved around by a hand of a fool

Never played it safe
It’s a wicked game
Any hand, any call, I’m in

It said: "Love like you’ve never been hurt
And dance till dawn like you’ve just been born
A perfect toy made by perfect tools
Playing Ring Around the Rosie with a crowd of fools
Take a hold of my hand, I have sights to show you
Gingerbread house, Pleasure Island, Big Blue
Turn off the light, close your eyes wide shut
And welcome the precious dark"

I have seen far, I’ve never seen close
There are no mirrors on my wall
Silent is the call of my ocean
And the sirens washed ashore
All the sins they have long shadows
Turn the switch and the past comes alive
Live and learn, 1,2,3, know your ABC
It’s their answer to every "why"

Never played it safe
It’s a wicked game
Any hand, any call, I’m in

It said:" Love like you’ve never been hurt
And dance till dawn like you’ve just been born
A perfect toy made by perfect tools
Playing Ring Around the Rosie with a crowd of fools
Take a hold of my hand, I have sights to show you
Gingerbread house, Pleasure Island, Big Blue
Turn off the light, close your eyes wide shut
And welcome the precious dark"

There was always a place that you knew of
You were holding the keys all alone
There was always a game that you knew of
Now you’re one of them washed ashore


3.CHILDREN OF FROST

Hear the night toll in my breath
The cold lights dance overhead
Here the lake stares with dark eyes
Trees are their lashes of ice
See the star’s glare float upstream
Shedding its skin with dead leaves
Seems like the sky’s falling up
The wind wraps itself with my lungs

The sea that we saw was a desert of snowfall
The children of frost marched into the deadly dawn
In their great awe they found an old seesaw
And as they got on, the season of dark had gone

Dream with the nomads of light
Their dogs and their gods are all blind
Sing as white pours from dark veins
Bless all the earth that it paints

The sea that we saw was a desert of snowfall
The children of frost marched into the deadly dawn
In their great awe they found an old seesaw
And as they sat down, the season of dark had come

In our great awe we found an old seesaw
And as we sat down, our season had come

The sea that we saw was a desert of snowfall
The children of frost are wrapped in the dawn
At a great cost we found an old seesaw
And as we sat down, a new season had come
The sea that we saw was a desert of snowfall
My children of frost march on and greet the dawn


4. LILJA'S LAMENT

Strolling under harbor lights, Lilja reads a line
‘Poor Tatiana’
In another library, Rochester arrives
Oh lord, he’s half-blind
Lancelot and Guinevere came nowhere near the pier
No love this year
Marian called Robin Hood to save her from the sea
But words are cheap

Stories had been spun, a sea of metaphors were done
And Lilja heard but wonder’s thunder
All the books she read kept her in bed and hurt her head
Her tragic flaw was not a blunder

Percival got drunk and tossed his cup into the snow
Where’d the grail go?
Catherine found her Heathcliff but the Brontes died alone
Air gets so cold
Wind revives the balladeers sentenced to their words
Fog means return
For the bards and troubadours, sentences are worlds
We long but don’t learn

Stories had been spun, a sea of metaphors were done
And Lilja heard but wonder’s thunder
All the books she read kept her in bed and hurt her head
Her tragic flaw was not a blunder

Teeter totter by the harbor, Lilja looked up saw a starfish
Holding her hand was Ophelia,
Smith, Elliot; Plath, Sylvia

Stories had been spun, a sea of metaphors were done
But Lilja lived her blunder thunder
All the books she read put her to rest on a seabed
Her tragic flaw still makes me wonder


5. IN PASSING

Little sister,
Playing hide and seek
Even though mama told you I’m really gone
If you miss me
Sneak a peek at my diary
Or read the peek-a-boo sky that lights the night
I’ll say this once:

Light up the night,
Stardust!
When it hurts inside
Read all the signs
Follow
It’s okay to feel down
And just remember
That nothing’s made to last
I know you’re sad
That too will pass, that too will pass

In passing,
Little sister
Ignore local news
Papers come from trees we’ll never climb
What a joke!
They made me look so sad
That bad bad lake’s okay; it washed my hair
And the waves said:

Light up the night,
Stardust!
When it hurts inside
Read all the signs
Follow
It’s okay to feel down
And just remember
That nothing’s made to last
I know you’re sad
That too will pass, that too will pass
That too will pass
That too will pass
You’ll recall all that
Till one day
You too will pass.


6. SCISSOR, PAPER, ROCK

I’m river and I’m stone
I shiver but I know
I’m young but oh so old

Played scissor paper rock
I’d run till I was caught
Games end but nothing stops

The rocks will turn to dust
The scissor starts to rust
The ink will fade with us.

A lily builds a home
It grows inside my bones
Been there since I was born

You can brood by a brook
And whisper to water
Don’t worry, the dawn will dry your tears
See the daylight as it flows
It fills the holes… and souls grow whole
You can moan to the moon
You can swoon in the sunset
Don’t hurry, your world won’t disappear
See the waves that drape the shore
They fill the holes …and souls grow whole and old

I’m drifting towards the end
The sand keeps closing in
But water turns the bend

The trees reach for the sky
The roots begin to dry
A nest becomes a shrine


7. A WAY AWAY

I found a way away … and sailed beyond the waves of pain
No Jonah in my sea, no whale to hide inside these days
I’ve lost my sky
Feels I was born just to die here
Born in a dry well
Lie here till one day I’m swallowed by time.

Stars no longer shine, faith has left us far behind
We have no more signs, and all our seers are blind
Lost in the night,

Once love was with me but I left
The sea turned violent
We crucify all the lights we can find.

Born to be silent
Bored and misguided
We simplify all the mystery of life

But sometimes hearts begin to stir
And in my head a notion whirls
As all I know becomes a blur
My words fill my world


8. AS IS

As if, as if

As if it matters
Innit, innit ‘what happens, happens’?
As if as if’s were enough

Is it, is it a fit of angst we see
Is it a bit the fear of failure
It is as if we gave up

It’s like we lack nothing
Kind of kind and so mind numbing
It’s kind of like losing touch

And I can’t find me inside
I hide in an empty smile
And I have left me behind
In words that aren’t mine

The scene, the scene - the screen’s endless
In style in style... check out my new stress
I’ve seen this stream – did I ditto that?
Like I really care!

Pretend pretend life’s a bluescreen
Upload dreams in your B-movie
Its kinda like life - but not

And I can’t find me inside
I hide in an empty smile
And I have left me behind
In words that aren’t mine


9. STRAIGHT AND ARROW

Road’s getting narrow, with snakes in the shadow
And the shade where you sleep is formed by the gallows
Where a man with an arrow was hung by the shallow
Little boys little boys little boys who became what they feared

Who would have thought that the ones who spoke of trust would come to betray us?
Who would have sought love from those who prayed for peace while sewing hatred’s seed?
Who would have fought for a land where blood flows till it clots each river?
Who would have sons knowing all the orphans they would soon deliver?

Kneel beside me, in this field of memory
Don’t become those you fear; don’t kill what you’ve been

Cause the straight and narrow has snakes in the shadow
And the shade where you sleep is formed by the gallows
Where a man with an arrow was hung by the shallow
Little boys little boys little boys who became what they feared

You should have known: the snakes were figments of imagination
You should have shown: the roads and gallows were your own creation

Sleep beside me, there’s no time to worry
The sound that you hear - it comes from your ear

Cause the road gets narrow, with snakes in the shadow
And the shade where you sleep is formed by the gallows
Where a man with an arrow was hung by the shallow
Little boys little boys little boys - there’s a choice!

The straight and narrow has snakes in the shadow
And the shade where you sleep is formed by the gallows
Where a man with an arrow was hung by the shallow
Little boys and their toys; little boys who became what they feared

Weep beside me in this sea of memory
Don’t you see what I see… you’re the men that you fear

When the road gets narrow, with snakes in the shadow
And the shade where you sleep is formed by the gallows
Where a man with an arrow was hung by the shallow
...What’s the point!

When the road gets narrow, with snakes in the shadow
And the shade where you sleep is formed by the gallows
Where a man with an arrow was hung by the shallow
little boys little boys there’s a choice there’s a choice

When the road gets narrow, with snakes in the shadow
And the shade where you sleep is formed by the gallows
Where a man with an arrow was hung by the shallow
little boys little boys little boys don’t become what you fear


10. EERIE EDEN

Sorrow´s sound, it swirls all about you
Dry fallen leaves that rise like a cloud
Time is a torch in a field of lost faces
Kissed by the mist, you kneel on the ground

Shadowed by years, smiles you remember
Half-recalled movements float in the fog
There’s no dread you’ll forget in the dead of December
Hear the dawn’s breeze echo night’s song

Remain on, build your eerie Eden
Swim in your enchanted land
Seek your heaven, build your eerie Eden
Memory is a sea of sand

"Eternally yours", you read from a letter
Torn as the earth where the sender lies
Worn out by dreams, sinking in sunlight
You see no lips but still hear the cry

Remain on, build your eerie Eden
Swim in your enchanted land
Seek your heaven, build your eerie Eden
Memory is a sea of sand