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1. |
Crossing the Rubicon
03:25
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Ooh, I can’t take it any longer
Ooh, the bloody writing is on the walls
Where hideous monsters are casting shadows
Only insanity rules this chaos
Ooh, I can’t take it any longer
Now is too late
They have crossed the Rubicon
Young men will face their fate
The war machine’s turned on
For an imperialistic leech
Hysterical fascist speech
Crossed the Rubicon
They have crossed the Rubicon
Ooh, how many lives should be spoiled?
Just to quench the thirst for oil
What a nonsense it is
War to Keep Peace
TV news showing endlessly
The merciful release
The merciful release
Now it’s too late
They have crossed the Rubicon
Young men will face their fate
The war machine’s turned on
For an imperialistic leech
Hysterical fascist speech
Crossed the Rubicon
They have crossed the Rubicon
(Ooh)
(Ooh)
(Ooh)
(Ooh)
Hysteria has to control
How hatred wasted lives in vain
Without any noble cause or gain
Same mistakes committed again
History had often shown no mercy or compassion
How much pain and grief fill our souls
They have crossed the Rubicon
They have crossed the Rubicon
They have crossed the Rubicon
They have crossed the Rubicon
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2. |
The Trap and the Mirror
05:08
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I’d made a trap in the past
I trapped myself, so blind I was
I am to blame, the stupid blame
For then just shame lies over my name
I opened gates I lowered my guard
I accepted the enemy with open arms
I let my heart go away from me
To watch me ruin, falling apart
Now there’s nothing I can do
Only time can heal those wounds
Now I laugh at my own misery
Pray to God have mercy on me
Mercy on me
So I face the worst foe
His shape fills me with such awe
And there he is standing still
In the mirror, the one I want to kill
In the mirror, the one I want to kill
Kill the man in the mirror
(Ooh)
(Ooh)
Kill the man in the mirror
Kill the man in the mirror
Kill the man in the mirror
Kill the man in the mirror
(Ooh)
(Ooh)
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3. |
Farewell
04:37
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The time to leave has come
Wave goodbye, a last kiss and go home
The sky ceiling is very low
Slowly fall some tears from it
The wind mourning is heard through the trees
A perfect analogy of how I’m feeling now
It’s just like this
It’s just like this
The path we choose splits here
Take your side, I’ll take mine
Nothing will settle down our spirits in fear
We’re blinded by the bright light
So farewell, goodbye
So farewell, goodbye
I’ll turn away to never look back
You will never look back too
Our choice is made, there’s nothing to do
For me and you
Go home now or it will be too late
The owl of despair will shriek
Frightening you to death
Making you unable to speak
The path we choose splits here
Take your side, I’ll take mine
Nothing will settle down our spirits in fear
We’re blinded by the bright light
So farewell, goodbye
So farewell, goodbye
(Like it did before)
(It will take you abroad)
(So drink the last one, one to go)
(One more for the road)
The path we choose splits here
Take your side, I’ll take mine
Nothing will settle down our spirits in fear
We’re blinded by the bright light
So farewell, goodbye
So farewell, goodbye
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4. |
Medieval
04:44
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Clashing days have just begun
Struggle from very far is heard
No one is safe, my dear friend
Forward to backward I know how it ends
(It’s a highway to your skull)
This misery of life is always the same
Foolish excuse for the world gets insane
The tension point will finally break
Then horrified you’ll be finally awake
(It’s a highway to your skull)
A dozen of dragons spit the fire fiercely
Drop from the skies their eggs with accuracy
The world watch astonished at your cruelty
While children crying, crushed under tyranny
(It’s a highway to your skull)
Kill for nothing die in vain
The cycle is turning again and again
Like in the Dark Age a mercenary crusade
Against a rough enemy you point your blade
You point your blade
You point your blade
You point your blade
You point your blade
You point your blade
You point your blade
You point your blade
You point your blade
(Ooh)
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5. |
Night Ride
03:31
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Take my hand and hold me tight
Let’s ride to the dark side of light
Meet the spectre in the polar arc
Meet the children of the night
Lost forever in the feverish light
That is guiding us up high
Skip the elders resting spot
Try this time to live in the dot
It’s the night ride
We’re running out of time
It’s the night ride
We’re running for our lives
That’s just a way to survive
In the chaos of urban life
Nothing can hurt us now
Nothing has changed at all
Crying out into the night
Something is missing in our minds
Kissing sanity goodbye
Reality is about to die
It’s the night ride
We’re running out of time
It’s the night ride
We’re running for our lives
It’s the night ride
We’re running out of time
It’s the night ride
We’re running for our lives
It’s the night ride
We’re running out of time
It’s the night ride
We’re running for our lives
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Oh, how I wish I could remember who I am
Now I’m on a hospital bed
Almost left for dead
Bandages on my head
Handcuffs on my hands
I have some flashbacks
When the room turns black
Some visions of wine
Running like a flood
If only I could remember who I am
(Oh)
(If only I have just one more chance)
(If only I have just one more)
I woke up sweaty and in fear
With a man standing next to me
As I woke up from a bad dream
But I woke up for a nightmare indeed
If only I could remember who I am
If only I could remember who I am
He didn’t speak a word
I saw his eyes grew cold
He took a picture off his coat
As felt a lump in the throat
If only I could remember who I am
If only I could remember who I am
(Oh)
(If only I have just one more chance)
(If only I have just one more)
I laid my eyes upon the picture
That a hideous scene had captured
Like a cold steel in my spine
What I saw wasn’t wine
It was blood and not mine
I recall now what I’ve done
To a child, a wife
From my loved ones
I took their lives
And now, Oh Lord, I remember who I am
And now, Oh Lord, I remember who I am
And now, Oh Lord, I remember who I am
And how I wish to die
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7. |
Black Rain
04:16
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Every single nerve just waiting to blow up
Silently counting the last seconds to go
One by one dripping on the head
One by one... dripping
Down on shadow hills, down on the trial
On the bloody river of wasted lives
Down without honour, down without pride
The sorrow drives to the fatal dive
The almighty choir of the machinery
Is echoing through the howling wind
Freezing inside, pushing against the wall
That is broken down, but still didn’t fall
Down on shadow hills, down on the trial
On the bloody river of wasted lives
Down without honour, down without pride
The sorrow drives to the fatal dive
Useless screaming under the Armageddon soundtrack
Quietly yearning to survive as the rain turns black
Every single nerve just waiting to blow up
Silently counting the last seconds to go
One by one dripping on the head
One by one... dripping
Down on shadow hills, down on the trial
On the bloody river of wasted lives
Down without honour, down without pride
The sorrow drives to the fatal dive
The almighty choir of the machinery
Is echoing through the howling wind
Freezing inside, pushing against the wall
That is broken down, but still didn’t fall
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8. |
Mudsong
05:55
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Forbidden town, forbidden fruit
Forbidden sight, forbidden love
Forbidden ways to where no one goes
Meet the swamp man forgotten in his blues
In your dreams a strange mud turns all green
In your dreams a strange mud turns all green
Drowning us in, drowning us in
We are sinking down
Dream a thousand of dreams
Hear a thousand of sounds
Feel a thousand of sensations
See a thousand of lights
Meet the swamp man forgotten in his blues
Meet the swamp man forgotten in his blues
In your dreams a strange mud turns all green
In your dreams a strange mud turns all green
Kiss the black orchid
Kiss the black moon
Kiss the cold skin
Kiss the cold mud
Drowning us in, drowning us in
We’re sinking down
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9. |
Escravos
03:02
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Vejo no escravo da gravura em seus pulsos as algemas
Subitamente vejo-me refletido, almas gêmeas
Em meu pulso o relógio dita as ordens
Somos escravos
Na caverna escura vivendo em correntes
Na caverna escura atado às regras
Deste jogo de sombras pouco sabemos
Aquele que vislumbrar a luz
Será posto a ferros, trancado na cela solitária
Numa camisa de força se do que vir disser
E o que descreverá ninguém entenderá
Deverá ser calado
A gota a diluir-se no mar
A gota a diluir-se no mar
E para sempre assim será
Para sempre será
Para sempre assim será
Para sempre, será?
Somos escravos nesse labirinto sem paredes
Somos peixes presos em nossa própria rede
Que tecemos dia a dia, noites a fio
Pois é seguro sem medo, sem frio a frente da TV
Anestesiando mentes, drenando-as via satélite em rede
Presos na própria rede
(Para sempre assim será)
Presos na própria rede
(Para sempre assim será)
(A gota a diluir-se no mar)
(Para sempre assim será)
(A gota a diluir-se no mar)
(Para sempre assim será)
(A gota a diluir-se no mar)
(Para sempre assim será)
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Under a leaden sky
I saw loneliness walking by
All dressed in black
As black as a raven
As black as these days
As black as the passion
Into my gloomy room
She came up and stopped by
The air grew cold
As cold as ice
As cold as marble
As cold as your “die”
Sinister smile, she took me by the hand
I’d like to run away, but I can’t
There’s something here
That makes me bear
Her cold arms, her salty tears
Over a ranging sea
In the spider’s nest she’s having me
Cruelly like a black widow
A slow death scaring me
For so much to do
For so much to lose
I’m sinking my life in quick-sand
I guess I have bore more than I can
Once more here, I’d like to see you
To save my day to numb me
Over a ranging sea
Under a leaden sky
I saw loneliness walking by
Stopping by
Having me
La, la, la
(La, la, la)
La, la, la
(La, la, la)
La, la, la
(La, la, la)
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11. |
In a Dead Loss
03:46
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Write my life and tear it apart
I must learn to live alone
I must wait
I look into your eyes
Crystals blend in a dead loss
I look into your eyes
Rest in brown waters again
Life is too long when you’re waiting
So when we think it’s over
The road rises again
I look into your eyes
I can see inside it
I look into your eyes
Kaleidoscopes invade my mind
I look into your eyes
I can see inside it
I look into your eyes
Kaleidoscopes invade my mind
(I look into your eyes)
(Crystals blend in a dead loss)
(I look into your eyes)
(Rest in brown water again)
I look into your eyes
(I look into your eyes)
I look into your eyes
(I look into your eyes)
I look into your eyes
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12. |
Underworld
04:39
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Violating the silence of desert avenues
Disconnected outsiders from the society issues
Living apart, out of the time of glory and fortune
Thrown away, down by law
Hope running dry like dunes
This is where you shouldn’t be
Down in Underworld
Maculate your purity
Lost in Underworld
A foul air so hard to breath
The creatures of Underworld
Overhead and under your feet
Down in Underworld
Disguising low lives
No remorse or regrets
Glowing eyes
Someone cries:
“Run away while you can”
Embracing the shadows
Of the gloomy pitch black cave
Echoing like marble in this natural grave
Nest hunters lives spent
On demand for exquisite food
Following the paintings
Signs of a sudden mood
And you never should be
Down in Underworld
Maculate your purity
Lost in Underworld
A foul air so hard to breath
The creatures of Underworld
On your head and climbing up your feet
Down in Underworld
(OH)
And you never should be
Down in Underworld
Maculate your purity
Lost in Underworld
A foul air so hard to breath
The creatures of Underworld
Overhead and under your feet
Down in Underworld
(Down in Underworld)
Lost in Underworld
(Down in Underworld)
(Lost in Underworld)
(Down in Underworld)
(The Creatures of Underworld)
(Down in Underworld)
And you never should be
Down in Underworld
Maculate your purity
Lost in Underworld
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Elegia São José Dos Campos, Brazil
Formed in 1989 influenced by the '80s British Post-punk bands. The first CD was released in 2000, Elegia performed at Wave-Gotik-Treffen (WGT) in Leipzig Germany (2000, 2001). In 2004 Underworld was released. In 2007 an EP and 2013 E3 the 3rd album. Current formation: Dimas Ricardo (bass), Escobar (drums), Igor Klaus (bass), Marcelo Ota (guitar), Mayumi (vocals) and Paulo Gotoh (vocal) ... more
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