Haggard

Charity Absurd

The murmur grows - until they rage
It is not a scenery
At this market-place in middle-ages
Somebody - in the crowd -
Speaks a prayer
Hundred burning torches rise
In their light appears the silhouette
Of a mighty FUNeral pile

Headling with some unknown herbs
- Rising suspicion -
"Death" - they say -
"is what she deserves!"
- An innocent victim -
"Instruments of torture
will tell us the truth!"
And it feels like
Oooohhh...

"I'm representing the church
Somebody said, in you might lurk
Things - still not seen by human eyes
Is is dark magic, you are practicing?"

After there are no tears left
And they thought, they'd feaced the fact
"Nothing is as it should be
You're accused of witchery!"

"If there is a creator
If there is a god...
You will pay for all the dead
There's punishment above!
And somebody outside
this chamber of horror

Knows my fear, knows my sorrow
YOU preach, how could I learn?
'cause in this faith is
CHARITY ABSURD!"

After this words wer spoken
The cowd wants to see her die
The way to the confessor
Will it be the last one in her life?

The murmur grows - until they rage
And somebody speaks a prayer
A prayer...

Mind Mutilation

"A teardrop falls down from eyelash
The abusion has begun
Say, is this the way YOU love me?
All my might is gone...
If your eyes are blind, I'll tell you
I am one of the human race
Don't you see that wounds of violence
Slowly leave their trace?"

Help? From neighbours?
No chance: they ignore
Don't dare to discover
A little boy must suffer

Listen...
"You're scum since your day of birth!"
- Hammered in his head -
Receiver of second-hand emotions
Degraded in slow motion
It's an unforgivable crime
What they're doing to their child
Did you ever hear about the right to live?

Did you ever see:
You are dangerously sick?
And you never learned
Controlling your frustrations
Exit: Mind Mutilation

Listen...
After hours of heaviest violence
A little body had no chance
An explosion of brutality
Is the sad reality
Can't you see, your child is dead?

To the most around they seemed to be
A family in harmony
One point others couldn't see:
They're stricken by brutality...

Help? From neighbours?
No chance: they ignore
Don't dare to discover
A little boy must suffer

Incapsuled

Victim of a tragic accident
To survive she really had no chance
And they thought, that all in her had died
But ONE part was still alive...

So they couldn't hear
The silent scream
As they connected her on this life-machine

An embryonic existence
Incapsuled in a corpse
Artifical rescue of a lost life
The decision: Right or wrong?

Let live? Or let die?
If it would be on you,
how would YOU decide?
An abortion, a solution - maybe
But taking the right to live from the
Baby away?
Why punish to die?

Is it murder or not?
Can they bear the blame in front of their god?
And a fear of the medical disciples:
Maybe the child will be born
CRIPPLED!

Medical history hey write
A solution for a later life?

In the night to the 17th of November
- The point of time -
the world will remember -
As s manipulation-trial has failed
And an embryonic existence passed away

Progressive...

Nowadays they are called
"Progressive Wars"
So seen near ARABIA
CROATIA and BOSNIA
Politicians preach with their greatest pride
The last thing we need is a nuclear Suicide!

Mankind will be sorted out...

Daddy Was Her First Man

A sweet girl of eleven years
Within her brain: The darkest fear
caught by absolute disaster
Her virginity - lost to the own father
There he comes with alcoholic breath
Now her mind is fallen, emotions are dead
Cold by routine she's accepting her fate
Which she must endure since her age of 8
People close their ears
And they close their eyes
They're only open for a moment
When somebody has died
The weak, little victims have no voice
And falling tears don't make a noise
How long does it take
'til a bit of compassion awakes
Something... disgusting!
Covered as a harmless game
Abnormality is reflecting
In all the things that happen
To other girls with different names
- Left without being protected -

"Hey, your daddy is doing a crime
To you and your little mind
A defect will always be
In your mental factory"

Locked inside the darkend room
As the horror passed her by...
The kitchen - place for the next rape
In despair she reaches the butcher-knife
And she refuses doing that once again
At a certain point of panic she cuts away
His little friend!
Justice now is sealed
But do you think now she is healed?
You can give her shelter
You can hold her tight
But you can't take away this horrible
frigth
When memories of the past appear
To control her life in fear...

The Day As Heaven Wept

One of man's darkest chapters, it has just begun
In the sign of the cross they rise
It's the epoch of the inquisition
Too many brothers and sisters have died...

..left with no life inside to be awaken
They will never see the morning sun again
Hypocrisy killed the forsaken
Who thought, faith would be their only friend
Faith would be their only friend

The scenery shows the ashes of some who tried to refuse
Rising smoke becomes one with the dim light of the pale and lurid moon
Can dark clouds hide the hidden from the mighty eye of God?
Using his name on the pretext of deciding who's allowed to live... and who's not!
(It's a very dark night, nobody outside...
Silence wraps up the land, as suddenly
Hoof beats destroy all sleep
In a very dark night...)

Who's allowed to live... and who's not!

From high above the Lord silently watches and grieves
And sadness rises from his inner deep
"For thou, my son hath been crucified..."
All the angels laid down their trumpets and cried

"One shalt be sent to foresee mankind's death!
Rain shalt be my tears and thunder my wrath!"
Sitting on his throne, left of all hope he once kept
On the day, as heaven wept

As heaven wept

Origin Of A Crystal Soul

As dawn is weaving between fallen autumn leaves
The poor ones gather under naked trees
Asking how to survive, 'cause the winter breaks
And medieval coldness now from a deep sleep awakes

Libera me, domine, de morte aeterna in die illa tremenda
[Free me, oh Lord, from eternal death on that terrible day]

It's December, 14th 1503, as the ones above stop their mourning
As the one arrived - selected to foresee - something changed without a warning!
(Libera me, domine, de morte aeterna in die illa tremenda)
[Free me, oh Lord, from eternal death on that terrible day]

Es war geboren in des Christengottes Zeit
[It was born in the time of Christian God]
Ein Bub - so die Legende - mit des Schöpfer's Fähigkeit
[A boy - so says the legend - with the Creator's power]
Zu sehen, was sein wird, im Verborgenen, unerkannt
[To see what will be, in obscurity, unknown]
Denn der mit dem Leumund des Ketzers würd' öffentlich verbrannt
[Then he that's known as a heretic would publicly be burnt]

Die Hand, die - greifend nach dem Schönen - blutet von der Rose Dorn
[The hand, that - reaching for the fair - is bleeding from the rose's thorn]
Der Trieb der Menschen Habgier, bestraft durch Gottes Zorn
[The human instinct of greed, punished by the God's wrath]
Er, der Spiegel eurer Seele, spürt die Trauer, Kummer, Gram
[He, the mirror of your souls, senses the mourning, grief, sorrow]
Er, der Träger dieses Namens: Michael de Notre Dame
[He who bears this name: Michael de Notre Dame]

In A Pale Moon's Shadow

Hostem repellas eternus
[May you forever repel the enemy]
Pacemque dones et protinus
[And give us peace, and from then on]
Ductore sic de praevio
[With you, our leader, in front of us]
Vitemus omne noxium
[We shall evade all evil]

Hostem repellas eternus
[May you forever repel the enemy]
Pacemque dones et protinus
[And give us peace, and from then on]
Ductore sic de praevio
[With you, our leader, in front of us]
Vitemus omne noxium
[We shall evade all evil]

A dream deep in the night
As the firstborn awakes with the sign
A little dreamer... but are dreams always to define?

"Do not fear, my son! Awaken the dragon inside
For he may guide you, being the world's hidden eye
Through a dark time, when mankind is bleeding within
Oh little dreamer..."

Hostem repellas eternus
[May you forever repel the enemy]
Pacemque dones et protinus
[And give us peace, and from then on]
Ductore sic de praevio
[With you, our leader, in front of us]
Vitemus omne noxium
[We shall evade all evil]

Analyzing the midnight sky
And in the early morninglight
He just feels the warming heart
Beating in his head

To declare the reason why
Should I survive this sadness
"God reality back in my mind" - beating in his head

It's a very dark night
Nobody outside
Silence wraps up the land as suddenly:
Hoof beats destroy all sleep

And a wooden coach loaded with innocent ones
Accused and sentenced, their end has begun
And their eyes can't cover their fear... can't cover their fear

And he thinks he must be dreaming
Lifts up his head, sees the sky is gleaming
Heaven burns as red as blood

And all they have caught, they won't return
The sky reflects, from superstition they burn
When will they ever learn... They never return!

Ein drohendes Pochen in tiefschwarzer Nacht
[A threatening rapping in pitch black night]
In Träumen geseh'n und nun wahrgemacht
[In dreams foreseen and came true]
Die Diener der Kirche sind hier, sie zu holen
[The Church's servants have come for her]
"Brennen sollst du mein Kind! - Der Herr hat's befohlen!"
["You shall burn my child!" - It's the Lord's command!]

Do not fear my son! Awake the dragon inside
For he may guide you, being the worlds hidden eye

Als am Pfahl sie brennt, nun schwarz ist ihr rotes Haar
[When on stake she burns, now her red hair is black]
Niemand mehr zweifelt, daß des Teufel's Weib sie war
[No one doubts anymore that the Devil's broad she'd been]
Geschlagen, getreten, bespuckt und belacht
[Beaten, trodden, spat and laughed at]
Die Flammen dem Leiden ein Ende gemacht
[The flames made an end to the suffering]

A scream deep in the night
As the firstborn awakes with the sign
A little dreamer... but are dreams always to define?

Die Flammen dem Leiden ein Ende gemacht
[The flames made an end to the suffering]
Die Flammen dem Leiden ein Ende gemacht
[The flames made an end to the suffering]
Ein Ende gemacht
[An end to it]
Und wieder pocht es in tiefschwarzer Nacht...
[And another rap in a pitch black night...]

De La Morte Noire

Born through astral constellation
Those pictures are now getting clearer
Inside his head
And sent by the highest god
They start to rise from the deepest depth

"My King - dead - no!!!!!
Dying by the lance... so slow..."

He wipes the tears
Away, and tries to think
As clear as the falling rain
But his hope begins to sink
But his hope begins to sink...

.. down to this point
Do you fear? Yes you do, and you always will!
The bleeding of another part
Crawls into your mind and still...

Es kam zu erinnern
[There came, to remind]
An des Menschen Buße
[About Man's repentance]
Die Maske des Vogels
[The mask of the bird]
Nickt höhnisch zum Gruße
[Bows for a mocking salutation]
In Schwarz gehüllt
[Clad in black]
Auf schwarzem Rosse getragen
[Carried on black steed]
Die Menschheit zu knechten
[To subdue humankind]
Kam der Herr der Plagen
[Came the Lord of the Plagues]
Pest regiert mit strafender Hand
[The plague rules with punishing hand]
Und Leichen bedecken das Land... das Land
[and corpses cover the land... the land]

Es kam zu erinnern
[There came, to remind]
An des Menschen Buße
[About Man's repentance]
Die Maske des Vogels
[The mask of the bird]
Nickt höhnisch zum Gruße
[Bows for a mocking salutation]
In Schwarz gehüllt
[Clad in black]
Auf schwarzem Rosse getragen
[Carried on black steed]
Die Menschheit zu knechten
[To subdue humankind]
Kam der Herr der Plagen
[Came the Lord of the Plagues]
Pest regiert mit strafender Hand
[The plague rules with the punishing hand]
Und Leichen bedecken das Land... das Land
[and corpses cover the land... the land]

Out of the sorcerer's chamber?
Or do they come straight from the hands of the goal?
This roses' leaves seem to be magic
And saved all the poor population below
"My wife... sons... no!!!!!
Diphteria creeps, and no one knows..."

Lost (Robin's Song)

Running away in the autumn rain
Did you ever see a little child sleeping?
"To be near them will my sorrow drain..."
Suddenly I stocked, their bodies weren't breathing anymore
And I couln't help!
They captured my heart with their sorrow... it grows

Due to the ones who fear
Dance in the morninglight
Due to the ones who fear
Slaves to this innocent might

Due to the ones who fear
Dance in the morninglight
Due to the ones who fear
Slaves to this innocent might

Carrying away the ones I love
Folden hands, they have been blessed
Now I feel angry 'bout the ones above
Just no warning, no sign
Hey, yes, I fear!
And I just really feel darkness inside
Lost without a chance to hide

Due to the ones who fear
Dance in the morninglight
Due to the ones who fear
Slaves to this innocent might

See me down
Down on the ground
Hoping that nobody hears
The sound of this falling tears

Endless bleeding
Hoping that nobody sees
What you did to me!

Endless weeping
Hoping that nobody hears
The sound of this falling tears

Endless mourning
Hoping that nobody knows
This feeling below

A Midnight Gathering (Outro)

In the woods we met you, stranger
And though we don't know your face
Take your fiddle, come on over
Sit down 'round the fireplace

Watch the flames are dancing higher
They are longing for the sky
Heroes now will be awaken
Elder stories let their spirits fly

Watch the flames are dancing higher
They are longing for the sky
Heroes now will be awaken
Elder stories let their spirits fly

In the woods we met you, stranger
Now it's time to say goodbye
Like all the stars that lead the blind
We're hiding with the morningrise
Hiding with the morningrise
Hiding with the morningrise

Pestilencia

Aides moi...
[Help me...]

Oh, il est tombe! Mais, qu'est-ce qu'il a?
[Oh, he's fallen down! But what's wrong with him?]
Saint vierge! Au secours!
[Blessed Virgin! Help!]
Venez! Venez! Venez!
[Come! Come! Come!]

C'est la peste! C'est la peste!
[It's pestilence! It's pestilence!]
Sauve qui peut! Sauve qui peut!
[Run for cover! Run for cover!]

Dominus vobiscum
[May the Lord be with you.]
Et cum spiritu tuo. Quid est, quod vis?
[An with thy spirit. What is it, that you want?]

Iter! Claudite fenestras et portas! Nunc manus
[Go! Close the windows and the doors! Now the hand]
Dei punientis pestilentiam etiam
[of God that is punishing has brought the Pestilence]
Agentem apportavit!
[to Agen!]

Domine, serva animos nostros...
[Lord, guard our souls]

Heavenly Damnation

Suffering dementia
Unchains the secret's bearer
Unholy visions "God forgive me!"
Are coming nearer - coming nearer, Amen!

Lux perpetua, domine
[The eternal brilliance, Lord]

Dementia slowly unlightens the mind
And satan steals the morninglight

Domine
[Lord]

Viju svet V notschi tumanoi
[I see the light in the mist of night]
Ne prognat mne prisrak strany
[Can't banish the strange ghost]
Svet Negasnusei svetschi
[The light of ever-burning candle]
Gorit, Gorit V notschi
[Is burning, burning in the night]
Svet Negasnusei svetschi
[The light of ever-burning candle]
Gorit, Gorit V notschi
[Is burning, burning in the night]

So God has found him weeping
And wrath flickered deep withing His eyes
So thy shalt suffer
As long ago the one's been crucified
The keeper of the Lord's mark
Is rising up with this ability
Heavenly damnation
So thou shalt trust the seer...

Svet Negasnusei svetschi
[The light of ever-burning candle]
Gorit, Gorit V notschi
[Is burning, burning in the night]

The Final Victory

We are writing the year 1543 AD, the time the black plaque struck
Agen, here Michael Nostradamus lived with his wife and two children.
He confidently began to treat his fellow citizens, but - unfortunately -
Was not able to save his family from his old enemy...
This was also a time the holy cross was rising with unstoppable might
Again, a trace of tears and blood covered the land

The final victory
Has crushed the autumn silence
The final victory
Has crushed the autumn silence

Mortius, domine, lux perpetua luceat
[For the dead, Lord, may eternal light shine]
Mortius, domine, lux perpetua luceat
[For the dead, Lord, may eternal light shine]
Mortius, domine
[For the dead, Lord.]

Viju svet v notschi tumanoi
Ne prognat mne prisrak strany
Svet Negasnusei svetschi
Gorit, Gorit v notschi

So God has found him weeping
And wrath flickered deep withing His eyes
So thy shalt suffer
As long ago the one's been crucified
The keeper of the Lord's mark
Is rising up with this ability
Heavenly damnation
So thou shalt trust the seer...

Awaking The Centuries

Awaking the Centuries

In the books of what will be
Written by the demon lord?
Never lift your head up to the east
'cause darkness wakes the best!

Der Kerzen Schein
[The candles' light]
Er leuchtet fahl
[Is palely shining]
Als das Sonnenlicht er stahl
[When He stole the sunlight]
Und nur das grosse Himmelszelt
[And only the great sky's tent]
Bezeugt das Ende dieser Welt
[Is witness to the end of this world]

So feed the spark
Welcome to the land of dark
Death in all the centuries is what I left behind
Take my hand
Forgotten in the promised land
Death in all the centuries is what I left behind

The knowledge, brought to the world
Is growing with a bitter taste
In a dream I saw things that will be
Centuries away

Des Mondes Schein
[The moon's glow]
Er leuchtet fahl
[Is palely shining]
Das Herz der Finsternis er stahl
[He stole the Heart of Darkness]
Nun glei�end Lichte ihn umgibt
[Now glistening light surrounds him]
Und doch des Menschen Hoffnung siegt...?
[And so Man's hope prevails?]

So feed the spark
Welcome to the land of dark
Death in all the centuries is what I left behind
Take my hand
Forgotten in the promised land
Death in all the centuries is what I left behind

The night when evil steps out of the dark
And the cross is rising again
And fires are keeping the light
Burn, my friend...

And the sign of humanity is burning tonight
I can't escape from this ritual silence
Humanity's burning tonight

When I open my eyes
I see soldiers in the fields
Dead bodies on the ground
There are children inbetween
Explosions shock the land
And the evil shows its face
The one called Hister rises
This is the fall of grace...

Beast ferocious from hunger will swim across rivers
The greater part of the region will be against the Hister
The great one will cause it to be dragged in an iron cage
When the German child will observe nothing

In the books of what will be
Written by the demon lord?
Never lift your head up to the east
'cause darkness wakes the best!

Der Kerzen Schein
[The candle light]
Er leuchtet fahl
[Is palely shining]
Als das Sonnenlicht er stahl
[When He stole the sunlight]
Und nur das grosse Himmelszelt
[And only the great sky's tent]
Bezeugt das Ende dieser Welt
[Is witness to the end of this world]

So feed the spark
Welcome to the land of dark
Death in all the centuries is what I left behind
Take my hand
Forgotten in the promised land
Death in all the centuries is what I left behind

The knowledge, brought to the world
Is growing with a bitter taste
In a dream I saw things that will be
Centuries away

So feed the spark
Welcome to the land of dark
Death in all the centuries is what I left behind
Take my hand
Forgotten in the promised land

Death in all the centuries is what I left behind

And the sign of humanity is burning tonight
I can't escape from this ritual silence
Humanity's burning tonight

In A Fullmoon Procession

As the evening breaks
The night awakes
And the land is mournfully wrapped in silence
Sorrow last
And remains the past
cause this will be my ending day

Then the moonlight dies
And torches rise
See the crowd longing for the ritual burning
Holy rhymes, as the churchbells chime
cause this will be my ending day

Silent thief
Take me away
Let my soul rest in the realm of fairytales
And as the fire enlightens the dark
I see the face bewildered with guilt
And nobody's speaking a word

As the dark night enters

See the soul that's coming out of darkness into light
Pictures, I can't fight
Appearing in front of my eyes
Like silhouettes in the night

Like they give bread to the beggars
They get ready for the feast
Cruelty absorbed by their eyes
Within this midwinters breeze

Silent thief
Take me away
Let my soul rest in the realm of fairytales
And as the fire enlightens the dark
I see the face bewildered with guilt
And nobody's speaking a word

As the dark night enters
As the dark night enters

Prophecy Fulfilled

[Prophecy Fulfilled]

Out beneath the nightly sky
Squat down on the ground
His breath warms up the wintry air
The truth hurts, that he found

He might be the chosen one
The one, allowed to see
God's eye for the human race
That ends in misery

Nobody knows...
That it is real, nobody knows... that it is real!

It's so powerful to foresee
With divine astronomy
The light inside the crystal soul
Protecs me from the wintry coldness
But a dark might is on the lead
And thy scares start to bleed... again...

[And The Dark Night Entered]

And Michael Nostradamus began to wander
through Europe for the next six years, where
he first became aware the awakening of
his prophetic powers

Divine astronomy...

So god has found him weeping
And weath flickered deep withis his eyes
For thy shalt suffer
As long ago...

Sadness comes from deep inside
There are so many shades of winter
His breath warms up the wintry air
Punishment to all the sinners

Dementia slowly unlightnes the mind...

So god had found him weeping
And wrath flickered deep withis his eyes
For thy shalt suffer
As long ago...

Your wish shalt be denied...
So do you hear the echoes of the ones that'll slowly die?
Prophecy fulfilled
And torture comes at midnight
A dark sign's burning brighter than the light

So do you hear the echoes...?

Out beneath the nightly sky
Squat down on the ground
His breath warms up the wintry air
The truth hurts, that he found

He might be the chosen one
The one, allowed to see
God's eye for the human race
That ends in misery

Nobody knows...
That it is real, nobody knows... that it is real!

All'inizio È La Morte

[At The Beginning Is Death]

[Music: A. Nasseri / Lyrics: A. Nasseri]

Tremens factus sum ego [I shake because of the facts]
Et timeo [and I'm scared]
Dum discussio [while I talk]
Venerit at que ventura ira [it will come to the upcoming wrath]
Et timeo [and I'm scared]
Dum discussio [while I talk]
Venerit at que ventura ira [it will come to the upcoming wrath]

Herbei, ihr Leut' - das Fest beginnt [come run up you people, the celebration starts]
Nehmt Platz auf besten Rängen [take your seats on best places]
Seht, wie der flehend Mann dort kniet [see how the begging man kneels there]
Seht den Ketzer, ich sag, er soll brennen heut' Nacht [see the heretic, tonight he shall burn I say]
Soll ihn spür'n, den Tod, er kommt langsam und lacht [(he) should feel death, it comes slowly and laughs]
Und als die Töchter des Teufels er nennt [and as he tells about Devil's daughters]
Die Sense den Faden des Lebens zertrennt [the scythe severs the thread of life]

Und als sein letzter Schrei erstirbt [and when his final scream dies]
Die Flammen ihn verschlingen [flames consume him]
Und Kindesweinen bricht die Still.... [children's crying breaks the silence...]
Seht zur Asche ward er, der die Lügen erzählt [see to ashes he went who told those lies]
Im Zeichen des Kreuzes [under the sign of the cross]
Hat er seinen Tod selbst gewählt [he chose his death himself]
Doch unsere Seelen sind rein... [but our souls are pure...]

Doch unsere Seelen sind rein... [but our souls are pure...]

Schenkt aus den Wein! [pour out the wine]

Profundis Clamavi [endlessly we cry out]
And as the dark procession then has been fulfilled
For their god - a sacrifice - his blood was spilled
So Death took him to mother's chest
Where he may rest...

And the weather says, it's springtime
See the leafs of darkest green
And his screams hall in the nightly breeze
As the darkened sorrows feels

Dark are all the autumn nights
Where mind and stars unite
Knowing forbidden wisdom
And all the things he sees
Collected in a chamber
Secrets of astronomy

The rage in their eyes
Torches in their hands
And the power of the cross
Bringing fear to all the land
... and darkness will come to us all!

Profundis Clamavi! [endlessly we cry out]

And as the dark procession...

Schenkt aus den Wein! [pour out the wine]

Per Aspera Ad Astra

[On Rough Course To The Stars]

[Music: A. Nasseri / Lyrics: A. Nasseri]

(Adesso sono qui...) [now here I am...]
An old dungeon hidden from all the light
Thirteen candles enlighten the dark
Shadows are playing their games on the wall
And a shimmering glow fills the arch

Now, as night steps aside, and a new dawn will break
Silently a new age of science awakes

Old theory that has been wrong
Power of the universe
Will take me to the place where I belong

Through the clouds of lies and fear
In silent moments it comes near:

In my deepest hour of darkness
They will shine...
(feel my scorn)
endlessly...
(The sword that killed the unicorn)
Splenderanno... per aspera ad astra [they will shine... through adversity and space]

His theories and knowledge
Mean danger in these times
And those accused of heresy
Will not longer be alive
Hide, hide your secrets well
For in your darkest hour you should dwell

(Adesso sono qui...) [now here I am...]
An old table covered with parchments and rolls
The great one has children of four
Callisto, Europa, Ganymed e Io
The bright universe to adore

Old theory that has been wrong
Power of the universe
Will take me to the place where I belong

Through the clouds of lies and fear
In silent moments it comes near:

In my deepest hour of darkness
They will shine...
(feel my scorn)
endlessly...
(The sword that killed the unicorn)
Splenderanno ... per aspera ad astra [they will shine... through adversity and space]

Of A Might Divine

[Music: A. Nasseri / Lyrics: A. Nasseri]

Requiem eternam [rest eternally]
Et dona eis domine [and give to the Lord]

Ride, ride, over the land
Sorrow comes without a waring, dear
And do never start to sacrifice your faith
They, they, they betray
And poisoned voices creep into your mind
For this will be their final stand

Ride, ride over the land!
Outside - a light!
He awakes in the deep of a stormy night
They have come to get him now
A feast for the raging crowd
With torches still alight

Suppressed by a might divine
"Your science of the dark"
Revoke what has been told
Or at the break of dawn you will feel the holy spark
Of a might divine

La falce della luna è lutto questa notte [The scythe of the moon is mourning tonight]

"Inside - I cry
All I trusted in should die?"
An instrument to ship the blind
Through the sea of ancient times
Of a might divine

Now the night breaks
And the final trial awakes
Pressure's getting more and more
Betrayed - all I was living for
Of a might divine

All over the land
Without a warning
Supressed by a might divine
"Your science of the dark"
Revoke what has been told
Or at the break of dawn you will feel the holy spark
Of a might divine

La falce della luna è lutto questa notte [the scythe of the moon is mourning this night]

Requiem eternam, et dona eis domine [Lord, give them the eternal rest]

Herr Mannelig (Long Version)

[Music: Traditional / Lyrics: A. Nasseri]

All'alba, prima che il sole sorgesse [At dawn before the sun arised]
E gli uccelli cantassero la canzone [And the birds sang their song]
La donna del troll con la lingua falsa [The woman of the troll with the false tongue]
Ed ingannevole propose al signore: [And deceptive voice proposed the gentleman]

Herr Mannelig, Herr Mannelig mi vorrei sposare [Herr Mannelig, Herr Mannelig will you want to marry me]
Per tutto quello che io ti darò? [For all that I will give you?]
Se vorrai, rispondi solo si o no [If you want to, just say yes or no]
Farai così o no? [Will you do it or not?]

Ti darò i dodici mulini [I will give you the twelve mills]
Che stanno tra Tillo e Terno [That are between Tillo and Terno]
Le macine sono fatte del più rosso rame [The grinders are made of the most red copper]
E le ruote sono cariche d'argento [And the wheels are loaded with silver]

Herr Mannelig, Herr Mannelig mi vorrai sposare [Herr Mannelig, Herr Mannelig will you want to marry me]
Per tutto quello che io ti darò? [For all that I will give you?]
Se vorrai, rispondi solo si o no [If you want to, just say yes or no]
Farai così o no? [Will you do it or not?]

Se tu fossi una donna cristiana [If you were a Christian woman]
Riceverei volentieri regali così, [I would gladly receive gifts]
Ma io so che sei il peggiore troll [But I know that you are the worst troll]
Figlio degli spiriti maligni [Son of the malignant spirits]

Herr Mannelig, Herr Mannelig mi vorrai sposare [Herr Mannelig, Herr Mannelig will you want to marry me]
Per tutto quello che io ti darò? [For all that I will give you?]
Se vorrai, rispondi solo si o no [If you want to, just say yes or no]
Farai così o no? [Will you do it or not?]

The Observer

"I do not feel obliged to believe
that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use"

So all the stars
Will guide us on our way
The Sextant as a leader
Has duration for all days

Look at the amazing skies
In long and profound discoveries
With a strong and a clear mind he's encrypting
More secrets of astronomy

In endless nights
He entirely observes the skies
His publications will change the world

Galileo Galilei

Only what my eyes will see, I will believe!
Day and night - separated by the light

In Pisa he's required
To teach the theory
That the stars and all the planets
Revolve around the earth
But he believed
In a different truth
The heliocentric one
Proposed by Kopernikus
A new age has begun

The stolen sun
Makes their fear rise
And man will sacrifice
The moon is the reason why

The amazing skies...

In endless nights..

And all the servants of the cross - they will deny
Will deny the starlight

In Pisa he's required
To teach the theory
That the stars and all the planets
Revolve around the earth
But he believed
In a different truth
The heliocentric one
Proposed by Kopernikus
A new age has begun

Eppur Si Muove

[However, it (the Earth) moves]

[Music: A. Nasseri / Lyrics: A. Nasseri]

Aside the one in sorrows
To release my darkened mind
And never meant to bought my way to thee
A light that blinds the blind
God end this suffering
My blood and tears that flow for you
My King

My Son, beware...
... of all that your eyes cannot see
Trust your mind
And strengthen your abilities

Did you ever touch the starlight?
Dreamed for a thousand years?
Have you ever seen the beauty
Of a newborn century?

And now's the time to enter
A new way, things to see
Man is just a weak reflection
In evolution's history

And in the hour of darkness
It will guide your way:

La bellezza del paese di Galilei [the beauty of the country of Galilei]

E nella mia ora più buia [and in my darkest hour]
loro splenderanno [they will shine]
per me [for me]
all'infinito [for ever]

As I the one in sorrows
To release my darkened mind
And never to guide my way to thee
A light that blinds the blind
God end this suffering
My blood and tears that flow for you
My King

Geboren im flackernden Kerzenschein [Born in the flickering light of a candle]
Verfasst in dunkler Zeit [Enscripted in dark times]
Ein altes Stück von Pergament [On an old parchment]
Sich mit der Feder vereint [The pen slides]
Der Zeichnung seines Arms entspringt [And from his arm borns]
Der Universen Zelt [The tent of the universe]
Es ist der Zeiten Anbeginn [It is the beginning of the times]
Und ändert diese Welt [And it will change the world]

Des Universums Zelt [The tent of the universe]

Nato al lume guizzante della candela [Born in the flickering light of a candle]
Scritto in tempi oscuri [Enscripted in dark times]
Sulla vecchia pergamena [On an old parchment]
Scorre la penna [The pen slides]
E dal suo braccio nasce [And from his arm borns]
Il disegno delle volte celesti [The design of the celestial times]
È l'inizio dei tempi [It is the beginning of the times]
E cambierà il mondo [And it will change the world]

My son, take care...
Of all what the cross wants you to be
Trust your eyes
And strengthen your abilities

Did you ever touch the starlight?
Dream for a thousand years?
Have you ever seen the beauty
Of a newborn century?

And time has come to doubt
About the holy verse
It is just a weak reflection
In our endless universe

And in your hour of darkness
The beauty guides your way:

La bellezza del paese di Galilei [the beauty of the country of Galilei]

E nella mia ora più buia [and in my darkest hour]
loro splenderanno [they will shine]
splenderanno per me [shine for me]
all'infinito [for ever]

Herr Mannelig (Short Version)

All'alba, prima che il sole sorgesse
e gli uccelli cantassero la loro dolce canzone
La donna del troll della montagna con lingua falsa
ed ingannevole propose al signore:

Herr Mannelig, Herr Mannelig mi vorrai sposare
Per tutto quello che io dolcemente ti darè?
Se vorrai, rispondi solo si o no
Farai così o no?

Ti darò i dodici mulini
che stanno tra Tillo e Terno
le macine sono fatte del più rosso rame
e le ruote sono cariche d'argento

Herr Mannelig, Herr Mannelig mi vorrai sposare
per tutto quello che io dolcemente ti darè?
Se vorrai, rispondi solo si o no
Farai così o no?

Se tu fossi una donna cristiana
riceverei volentieri regali così,
ma io so che sei il peggiore troll della montagna
figlio degli spiriti maligni e del demonio.

Herr Mannelig, Herr Mannelig mi vorrai sposare
per tutto quello che io dolcemente ti darè?
Se vorrai, rispondi solo si o no
Farai così o no?

The Origin

It had already become day as he opened the big wooden door and stepped out of the shadows.

The sun had shown behind the eastern forest, bright and warm in a cloudless sky.

As his eyes closed, he slowly raised his head.

Gently, the morning wind caressed his face and rustled through his long hair

The chatter of the birds had become one with the whispers of the black elders, melding with the rhythmic babbling of the little brook, which wound its way to the distance behind the humble grange.

But it has not always been like that.

One thousand seven hundred years ago, during the celebration of the two moons, the enemy forayed over powered the villagers under the cloak of darkness.

Brave men were cut down where they stood in the cold crisp autumn night.

The ones who still had life in their veins escaped in despair, but regathered quickly and formed a resistance.

Many among them, women and children, only armed with axes, torches, and pitchforks.

And it seemed as if all hope was forsaken...