I know it must seem to you like the strangest thing to say,
But in the winter of his presence I've always felt warm and safe.
I always knew no skirt no suit would ever bother me, ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
From far beyond the veil of sleep some ancient voice does seem to whisper my forgotten name weakly, yet solemnly.
So remotely that one night think it had been but a dream, echo of ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
[text: by E.A. Poe]
From childhood's hour I have not been as others were - I have not
Seen as others saw - I could not bring my passions from a comon spring.
From the same source ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
[unpleasant reminder in a subterranean pathlogy department]
We are entering the operation theatre of the ramiliar morgue:
The student nurses are making a lot of noise,
Their voice...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
Shivering with... Awe... And delight:
"Here is my throat", he said,
As he bowed his head... In silence... To him.
Behold his white flesh... Shining in the velvet of darkness.
Take ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
Ivy kissed the shadows,
As mo(u)rning lusts for dew,
She with lips of sweetest pain,
Lies in wait for you.
With the dawn she went away,
Before mist veiled the earth,
Nothing remain...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
Every now and then it seems to me
That there is greatest danger lying hidden in the depths of sleep...
Saddesty the wanderer... Who is travelling here
For far to often..., or just ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
Wieder nur ein Käfig innerhalb eines Käfigs,
und jegliches Erwachen ist nur grausame Illusion,
ewig gefangen in der eigenen Traum; uschung,
wie der trügerische Traum innerhal...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
Hands folded in a prayer,
A rosary embedded in-between ... -
Tonight I'll join you in your sleep.
(... sleep brings no joy to me ...)
I'll bring you back to life this night,
It's...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
Unexpected... Suddenly... As if from nowhere they appear,
The monks are wearing fire-coloured gowns,
Their faces, friendly but determined, are hidden behind lacquered masks,
Painte...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows