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Reflection
03:43
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You feel the border between you
As your touch leaves a fingerprint
On the glass that you look through,
Searching for every little hint.
Each time you see your reflection,
You feel it's different -
Like you're losing connection
And the severance is imminent.
Your twin in the mirror is better
Than you are in all respects,
His empty eyes make you shudder,
It's uncanniness he projects.
Looking in the mirror, have you ever tried
To cross the fragile border to the other side?
Have you ever wondered which of the worlds is true,
Which one is the reflection and which one's really you?
Each time you see your reflection,
You feel it's different -
Like you're losing connection
And the severance is imminent.
Every night you have the same nightmare -
Your fist makes the mirror smash,
And each shard shows your death stare
As the cracks pierce your own flesh.
With one strike you seize your existence,
You wake up with a choking scream,
With a wild guess that drives you to madness -
That you're just someone's mirror twin...
Looking in the mirror, have you ever tried
To cross the fragile border to the other side?
Have you ever wondered which of the worlds is true,
Which one is the reflection and which one's really you?
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2. |
Stones in the Well
03:36
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I go down on my knees
By the eye of the sacred well,
Throwing stones down the abyss -
I have come to make a spell:
One - for betrayers,
One - for those who were unfair,
One - for the scoffers
And the rest - for those who never cared...
Every splash from a stone
Gives the power to my curse,
For so long my pain has grown,
Made me say those gruesome words:
One - for betrayers,
One - for those who were unfair,
One - for the scoffers
And the rest - for those who never cared...
Spirits of the sacred well,
Make them pay for all my pain!
No one answered to my prayers,
Free my poor soul of this strain!
Spirits of the sacred well,
Make me feel alive again!
Only you can hear my prayers -
You're my last hope and my bane...
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3. |
Follow Your Tracks
04:42
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Through the empty streets
I follow your tracks,
So vague and embroiled
Among those hollows and cracks.
You seem to disperse
Every time I get near.
With the feel that I nurse,
Am I that what you fear?
Your tracks fade away -
Am I that what you fear?
Hope is lost day by day -
Am I that what you fear?
In the empty streets
I see you from behind.
Took me so many years
To admit I was blind.
Now I'm right on your tail,
But I feel only pain.
Without dropping my veil,
I walk away in the rain...
Your tracks fade away -
I am that what you fear.
Hope is lost day by day -
I am that what you fear.
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4. |
New Man's Born
03:52
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Watch the fire dance around,
Burning cities to the ground.
Bits of ash stick to your skin -
Now forget what you have been.
Watch the rain fall all around,
Washing ashes from the ground.
Let the water sooth your skin -
Now you're free of every sin.
Let the flames whipe out your past,
Human essence changes so fast.
Let your sins go with the rain,
New man's always born in pain.
Watch the wind caress the grass.
Is there hope for all of us?
On the ruins of human strife
Man of the Future comes to life.
Let the flames whipe out your past,
Human essence changes so fast.
Let your sins go with the rain,
New man's always born in pain.
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5. |
Kangastus
03:15
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Oliko se koskaan siellä tiedä en -
maa kadonnut ajan virtaan lejumaan -
sen silti usein nään, sinipunausvaisen
kuin piirtymässä hatarain harhain taustaan.
Autioille sararannikoille veivät suuret nummet,
mahtilinnut kaartelivat pieksäessä tuulten.
Siell' lymysi kylä, ikivanha, valkotapulinen
ja moikui iltakellot, mi korvissain viel' kuulen.
Tornit kummalliset ja liplattavat virrat,
sokkeloita ihmeineen holvija matalia valoineen,
haaraumia, mi' poikki leikkitaivaan kurottavat
haaveiden lailla kuin talvi-iltaan sitten käviten.
Nimeä tuon maan en tiedä - rohkene en
udella milloin, miksi olen tai kuka lienen.
Nimeä tuon maan en tiedä - rohkene en
udella milloin, miksi olen tai kuka lienen.
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6. |
Too Late to Flee
05:12
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Nothing stirs the timeless darkness -
Just a lonely candle's glimpse,
Wind is drowning the reflections
Of your guardian angel's screams
You have come alone to to plunder
To the caverns deep and rife
With the secrets of the Old Ones -
Secrets of eternal life
When the wind blows out your candle
It's too late for you to flee,
And the shapeless arms of Evil
Tear you in deadly spree
You're devoured by a nightmare,
You won't live to see the light
And no one will hear you screaming
Through the stormwinds of the night.
Nothing stirs the timeless darkness
Just the falling drops of red
Heavens failed to be your safeguard
'Gainst the ancient gods of dread
You have come so stay forever
In the belly of the beast
Falling yet another victim
To the Elders' bloody feast.
When the wind blows out your candle
It's too late for you to flee,
And the shapeless arms of Evil
Tear you in deadly spree
You're devoured by a nightmare,
You won't live to see the light
And no one will hear you screaming
Through the stormwinds of the night.
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7. |
Never Part
03:26
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I’ll stay with you forever,
We’ll never ever part you said
We’ll be as one, believe me,
You told me just before you fled
I’ll stay with you forever
For now I live inside your head
Nothing will make us sever
Or else I’d rather see you dead
Two minds in one head, we share a single body
My voice won’t let you go, my blood is on your hands
My essence is undead, I live to see you bleeding
We’ll never be apart, our story never ends.
I’ll stay with you forever
‘Cause I want you to feel my pain
My dark thoughts burrow deeper
Each day it’s driving you insane
Two minds in one head, we share a single body
My voice won’t let you go, my blood is on your hands
My essence is undead, I live to see you bleeding
We’ll never be apart, our story never ends.
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8. |
Sleeping Beauty
04:24
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Look at her - she's a sleeping beauty
In her concrete castle tower
With the sound of her faint heartbeat
Her wide-open eyelids flutter
Through the solid vault of ceiling
Her stare pierces time and substance
But she's locked inside her body
So unsheltered in her blindness
As the time flies by, she's static
In the streams of lights around her
And the glass walls of her chamber
Keep her deep in dreamful slumber
No prince comes to break the dark spell
Though she sees his image clearly
He is crying from his own shell
But his voice is weak and bleary
Through the solid wall around her
If she woke up for a moment
She could notice him beyound it,
Sharing even dreamlike ailment
Through the solid vault of ceiling
Her stare pierces time and substance
But she's locked inside her body
So unsheltered in her blindness
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9. |
Fade in the Dark
03:55
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Look back at you life and tell me
Have you ever heard the voices from the other side?
When their silent whispers enshroud you
And then fade away with the wind in the dead of the night.
Is it just your dream?
Or are they real?
They know of things
That you conceal
And you hold your breath when you open your eyes and see their faces
But before you’re out of the daze the figures just fade in the dark
Remember the cracks on the mirror
Have you ever thought that something’s trying to break through?
When the lights die out after sunset
Shades behind the glass on the wall start staring at you.
Is it just your dream?
Or have they come
To take your life
For what you’ve done?
And you hold your breath when you open your eyes and see their faces
But before you’re out of the daze the figures just fade in the dark
You hear the crash,
The glass falls down
They are real now
They’re all around
And you hold your breath when you open your eyes and see their faces
But before you’re out of the daze your figure just fades in the dark
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10. |
Leaving
03:55
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Feel the wind, feel it touch your hair,
Feel the raindrops on your face
Make the chill run down your spine.
Feels so new, though you know that feel,
Coming from the deep,
And it seems to turn back time.
Now's the time to make you see,
Just take one step and you'll be free.
Now take my hand, come with me,
When there's no one left around you
In this world full of shades
'Cause this place is dead -
We're leaving it tonight!
Leave behind all the pains you had
In this made-up world
That they want you to call home.
Leave behind all the words unsaid
They won't hear them anyway
From their shells of monochrome.
Now's the time to set you free,
So break the chain and follow me.
Now take my hand, come with me,
When there's no one left around you
In this world full of shades
'Cause this place is dead -
We're leaving it tonight!
Now take my hand, come with me,
When there's no one left to love you
In this world full of shame,
You just need to find the secret door.
Now break your cage, feel the heat,
You're reborn to change the future,
Nothing holds you anymore,
'Cause this world is dead -
Let's fire it up tonight!
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IX reflections Moscow, Russia
Russian female-fronted trio based in Moscow, IX REFLECTIONS started out in 2017 and managed to revive the best traditions of early synth-bands, simultaneously combining them with thick gothic atmosphere and melody, natural freshness and authenticity.
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