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INTRO
01:14
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He was lost in the deep forest
In the mist, a caravan of carriages
In a light there was a figure
A man of great stature stands beckoning
With a deep voice, like the whisper of the wind
He bed him welcome to his game
“Enter the mirror-room
where the lies are the truth
Here you will see your life
Here you will feed on demons in your mind”
Here comes a soul again
A soul of damned darkness
He takes the challenge with smiling eyes
But the gamekeeper changes the rules
So follow me into the shadows
Here you will sleep forever
With cries of fear, blood on his hands, he ran out
and prayed for peace of mind
“Oh please still my heart
for what I saw cannot be
and I will not take it as the truth”
“What is wrong? It´s just a reflection
a trick of light or can you feel it it´s more than you can see
No my friend, keep the faith, collect your strength and enter the room of light
Where fear and doubt shine"
Here comes a soul...
And again he´s thrown to the ground
Cries of visions of dreams
Of a love long gone
Of his life that he wasted and sold
“You tricked me, you lured me into your trap
Why do you posses me?"
“No, you came to me
You took the challenge
You praised my words
Now pray for your soul”
And the game was played again
There was a smile in the desperate soul
He really thought he had won
But the gamekeeper changed the rules once more
“So follow me into the shadows
Here you will sleep forever"
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Wake up, the game is far from over
The blind will see everything
Open eyes see only shadows
Searching for anything to soothe this dream
In the darkness a light whisper
A soft voice a malevolent note
Suddenly risen lifted by invisible hands
Dragged forwards to a darker black
The game is far from over
The next act starts, the path continues
A room of shards of distant memories
His fractured mind cannot join the pieces
The cuts shallow and deep
The stains tasteless
Pondering how many scars a body can bear
Until the darkness envelops him
Until his heart beats again
He'll fall far into his fate
Until his heart beats again
The stench of the red rust
The rise of droplets
From the floor, from the walls
Blood covers all
And there is an altar
A wreck of flesh, a beating heart
Monstrous and charred
He chokes on the emptiness
The hole within flooding with fear
Here now hear the echoes
A wide chasm of spectral shadows
As he struggles to breathe
Choking on the black waves
Thrashing this husk of what once was a man
This hollow being willingly damned
His own voice his undoing, his words the scythe
His every memory a ruin
From every direction a deep beating
Slow sick and fading
He knows he'll choke in this hole
Within his own heart he'll vanish, in this cavern lost
The game is far from over
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Wake up....you are it now... wake up... remember
Remember the cages
He remembers flashes of fear
He remembers distant tears
He stands on trembling legs
A worn crimson coat
A nameplate pinned to his chest
Mist hides the sun
Frost glitters as wagons glides
Softly through the trees
No driver in the seat
Somehow he knows he must take the reins
And guide this show through this waste
A door swings open to an impossible space
Its dark draws him in
Inside stoic silhouettes
Shadows frozen in the haze
Among these mannequins there's nothing to hide
Hollow mouths whisper only of their plastic hearts
With their silent smiles their dead eyes see all
Choose your mask carefully
Choose a life
Welcome to your eternity
No choice just despair void of hope
Rise as the darkness that you sought
A new guide, a new game, a new host
Adorn your mask
Keeper of beasts, wild and raging
Apathetic and cold
Distant and fading
In cages caught, left in the rust
So there he now sit
A swaying wagon on creaking wheels
A cold morning, achoking mist
The world seems empty, eternally old
He searches this waste alone
He'll ride forever for he cannot leave this game unfinished
A play performed eternally
Rise rise keeper
Remember the cages
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of the cold Sweden
Musician from Kiruna, Sweden.
OF THE COLD, INFINITE BEAST and ANTE.J are my solo projects, I´m otherwhise singer
for melodic death band CHAOS WITHIN
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