Rendering
(instrumental)

Nothing Lasts Forever

A world of wonders, long-long gone
Yet dreams and magic linger on here
But dust and glitters, you’ve become
A faded princes in a faded kingdom now

The straps and corners, fringed and torn
Stickers and drawings, added beauty
Repaired and mended, just one more time
Through stains and crumbles, happiness lived here

She carried kingdoms on her back
She carried kingdoms in her bag
She could see it all come to life
She would make it all come to life again

Just a single moment, frozen, caught in time
A vivid resurrection by the magic chime
Just hidden not forgotten, if you learn to see
The memories will follow
Memories die young

Fantasy lives on, imaginary friends
The princes that is you, your saga never ends
Just rusted up inside you when you looked away
Can you hear them calling?
Can’t you hear them calling?

The ruins of what ones was - petrified and cold
Abandoned situations, stories never told
Just left to be forgotten, left without a thought
Cause nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever!

She, she could see it all effortlessly
She, she could do it all effortlessly

A world of wonders, long-long gone
Yet dreams and magic linger on here

And when the time moves on and shadows drawing near
You’re left but memories that you were ever here
Enchanted fairytales with stories left untold
Stuck in foreverland as you are growing old

When I’m thinking back at all that you could do
It reminds me that I once had magic too
But now the fairy dust turned ashes of my fantasies
And magic’s lost forever

She carried kingdoms on her back
She carried kingdoms in her bag
She could see it all come to life and
She would make it all come to life again

Just a single moment, frozen, caught in time
A vivid resurrection by the magic chime.
Just hidden not forgotten, if you learn to see
The memories will follow
Memories die young

Fantasy lives on, imaginary friends
The princes that is you, your saga never ends
Just rusted up inside you when you looked away
Can you hear them calling?
Can’t you hear them calling?

Just ruins of what ones was, petrified and cold
Abandoned situations, stories never told
Just left to be forgotten, left without a thought
Cause nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever!
Nothing lasts forever!
Nothing lasts forever!

Landfill

We build our hills just a little bit higher
Upon dead interests and cold desire
The weekly flavour, the steal and borrow
It’s here today - it is gone tomorrow

Stoked on the goods from the sell-out channel
Awaiting verdicts from the talent panel
For each release we extend our chain
We burn our loved ones and then buy them back again

And when you’ve had enough, letting go ain’t that tough
Calling it “own free will” - just drop it in your landfill
Your landfill!

All that’s good, what should, what’s moral
You keep it in heart and head
But when it comes to save your ass
You’re dancing over the dead
You point fingers to hide your wrongs
To ease your mind but still
It consumes your thoughts, it haunts you
Deep in that mindfill

Nothing to do about them human urges
Nothing to save as the end emerges
Nothing to change when it’s all behind us
Nothing to show if they’ll ever find us

When all you know is true, trade it for something new
When you’re too numb to thrill just stuff it in your landfill
Soon you will reach the shore to find nothing’s there no more
There’s nothing left to kill, all in the grand landfill
Grand landfill!

The Almosts

You stare quite disgusted at us, as if we were just a glitch in your code
You wrote all the rules but then failed to add exceptions for those like us... like me

We dance in the shadows, so far away from the searchlight’s blinding rays
We root in the cracks where your pavement cannot stop us from tapping the living soil

You built your entire empire out of smoke, cold air and shifting sand
You hid us, tame beneath your tide, ‘The Almosts’, driftin’, cast aside

We’re the rip current, out of view
Too deep for rules, too strong for you
Our powers grow where lights won’t go
Silently striking undertow

“The Almosts” waiting here for you to see the light
“The Almosts” waiting here for time to be just right
“The Almosts” waiting here for you to take your fall
“The Almosts” waiting here for you to lose it all.

Incurrent rip current coming from the deep
Outcurrent rip current carry out the sweep
Incurrent rip current coming from the deep
Outcurrent rip current carry out the reap

We are “The Almosts”, we are the ones you hid away
You are “The Normals”, you are the ones who turn to grey
We are “The Almosts”, we are the ones you pushed aside
You are “The Normals”, you are the ones who’ll meet the tide. 

Intermezzo
(instrumental)

Nothing Stays The Same

Valliant erosion, patiently waiting
Endless devotion, silently contemplating
Once the tallest mountain, rain is whispering down on you

Fearless corrosion, tirelessly bleeding
Lack of emotion, constantly drinking, feeding
Once the tallest structure, rain is whispering down on you.

You’re the ancient ruins
You’re the dust and grime
Grain by grain you’re changing to the silent vote of time

Aeons revolving, don’t know how to stop
Endless evolving, bringing you to the top
The superior species, rain is whispering down on you

You’re the future ruins
You’re the dust and grime, to the silent vote of time.

Nothing Stays the same!

The Fields

Ignorance in multitude in the world of brave and free
Alternate realities, that’s how someone like you came to be
Hidden in your hollowness - all the things you left behind
Locked away in secrecy, deeds that someone like me wouldn’t find

By a harvest field, golden as it’s crowned
In their worn-out boots firmly on the ground
In the Summer’s heat, yet the air is sweet, now everything is done
In the sunset stands a farmer and his son

By a killing field, where only death be found
In their blood stained boots weary to the ground
As they breathe they choke on the ash and smoke, now everything is gone
In the sunrise - still a farmer, still a son

Ever ruling emperor in your world of make-believe
When you snap your fifingers there’s nothing someone like you can’t achieve
Nullity in consciousness keeps you sound asleep at night
You set the world on fire - a war that someone like me has to fight

The farmer and his son, now on the very brink of what man can take
Sitting on their fields of nothing, the boy askes:
Oh father, how much damage can one man, just one man make? 

Before I Fail Asleep

I wear make-up just to own my name
- name this hollow man -
Mantled costumes wearing down the blame
- blame this straining strap -
Trapped in corners - where do we all belong?
- longing for before -
Forced and moulded, knowing no right from wrong
- wrongful and too late -

Name the monster and call it to its face
- faceless are the damned -
Damn these patterns and damn this winded race
- racing through the dark -
Darkness conquers - can you all feel the pain?
- painful scrape and scrub -
Scrub our souls clean - can we all be the stain?
- stains aren’t coming off -

What if everything we knew and everything we cared for turned out obsolete...
Tell me would you soldier on or throw your hands into the air and claim defeat?

Leave me lifeless, beat and broken
Leave me with myself

You turn religious as you pray for help while kneeling in your piles of gold
You’re late to realize that backs are turned now all the winds are blowing cold

It riles me just to think that all my failures will relapse
No matter how I try I’ll only end up with the scraps
Cause in my head they’re buzzin’ - every failure every word - they’re mine!

And every time I saddle up to ride back into war
The smallest word will push me off, my pride hitting the floor
And when I fifinally get in there and when I speak my mind - they’re gone!

in the dark
of my mind
take it off
before I sleep

Hiding in the darkness of my mind
Where I can take my make-up off and breathe
Before I fail asleep

father of
own mistakes
I’ve acquired
meek desire

I am the father of my own mistakes
And living is a habit I’ve acquired
With angst and meek desire

Binary

Uncover my ears
There’s noise all around me and I’m listening, only listening to her voice.

I open my eyes
There’s darkness around me and I’m watching, only watching her every move

And then she calls me with sound and sight
And all my circuits ignite

Extending my arms
Caressing the spaces she has left me, I can feel no interface

I take a deep breath
I’m tasting the air that is around me, all around me… and I feel

And then she calls me
Analogue chills turn into binary thrills

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And when she calls me with sound and sight
And all my circuits ignite
And when she calls me
Analogue chills turn into binary thrills