VENI DOMINE LYRICS

1. In Memoriam

All left is nothing
Abandoned here with tears and ashes
Questions, no answers
Left with all my fear and rashes...pervades
So cold the insight
As I walk the isle of sorrow
So long until daylight
Will I ever see tomorrow...again?

Some may say this pain will fade
Wonder how I'm so afraid...to live

War with my senses
Torn apart by grief and anger
Have no defenses
As I'm falling deep in clamber
Sometimes I try to hate you
When my tears just cannot save me
Is there a way through?
I cling to all the straws that may be...

Strong enough to hold me there
Long enough away from despair

Gone away but still there with me
Away, but I can't let it go
Gone away, Lord, give me strength to carry on
Give me light when lost in shadows
God, help me, I am gone astray
Give me light, come give me strength to carry on

Sometimes when lying on the floor,
I haven't stood up for days
Because all I see is your face
I can feel the presence of peace around me
Someone who holds me and comfort me to sleep...
Just to fall next day again

You left the room and you threw the key
(The final step that "would set you free")
Without a sign that your hope was gone
(You walked the way that you knew was wrong)
What went through your mind that day?
(Into darkness you faded away)
I wish I knew that you fought in vain
(But I know that someday)
We'll meet again

(x2) Gone away but still there with me
Away, but I can't let it go
Gone away, Lord, give me strength to carry on
Give me light when lost in shadows
God, help me, I am gone astray
Give me light, come give me strength to carry on

To prevail
To let go
To survive

2. Farewell

I know where this path ends
I’ve seen these walls inside my head
Passing through the chosen door
Familiar, yet a stain of grief
Sadness, brother and pain
Cycles back again

Lay down, lay low
Depressed you go
Lay down and dwell
This fate you sell
Every thought, every trace
Of the satanic embrace, farewell

I know where these thoughts lead
I lived this course, a grinding hell
I fought the lies and lived
The well of pain dries soon and kills
A thirst that can’t be fed
By man-made hurt and fantasies

Lay down, lay low
Depressed you go
Lay down and dwell
This fate you sell
Every thought, every trace
Of the satanic embrace, farewell

Lay down, lay low
Depressed you go
Lay down and dwell
This fate you sell

3. Hope

Long gone, another day has turned the page
Pale light trickles through my room
A new dawn, as I try to disengage…
From pain

All these hours of staring, all awake
Thinking, as I wait for sleep
Sinking slowly, drowning in the wake…
Of grief

Let me feel the presence of Your purity
Let me see the comfort in Your eyes
Lift me up, embrace me with Your trinity
You’re the hope for those who cry
Who tries in vain, to fight the pain
…the eternal strain…

Wish to find a reason for this life
Answers to tell me, “why I’m here?”
Ones so certain, not as now, grieving
Come Dawn and let these shadows fly away

[2x]
Let me feel the presence of Your purity
Let me see the comfort in Your eyes
Lift me up, embrace me with Your trinity
You’re the hope for those who cry
Who tries in vain, to fight the pain
…the eternal strain…

4. Where The Story Ends

There is a red light flashing
At the end of reason
A stroke of coloured flare
Gray will be seasoned
The thoughts go ‘round and ‘round
Bound by the fall of man
The wise will cast their spell
Thoughts on heaven and hell

Where the story ends
The real will follow
At the gates of life
Just hope, no sorrow

The waste that filled our needs
And scorned our honest beliefs
Will lay ashamed alone
A newfound wisdom
And how it all began
And the spark of life
The answers then untold
The truth will now unfold

Where the story ends
The real will follow
At the gates of life
Just hope, no sorrow

Then no new stories will be told
Then the sun will light the way for everyone
No more shadows will prevail and stain the minds
The minds of the chosen ones
And that’s us, we are the chosen ones

I saw a new heaven and a new earth
For the first heaven and the first earth are passed away

[2x]
Where the story ends
The real will follow
At the gates of life
Just hope, no sorrow

Then no new stories will be told
Then the sun will light the way for everyone
No more shadows will prevail and stain the minds
The minds of the chosen ones
And that’s us, we are the chosen ones

5. Preludium

[Instrumental]

6. Last Silence Before Eternity

So quiet…
The sound of waiting as the world is pending
How late…
What will come before the day is ending

Silence…captured by this silence
As we bide Your guidance
Let the nations know
Silence…strike down their defiance
The sacred, God’s alliance
Let Your whisper fill their hate with grace

All signs…
Seven cachets numbered, now all broken
Foretells…
Seven were the prophesies once spoken

See the incense rising
With prayers from all the saints
The censer filled with fire
To be thrown to earth like thunder

Silence…captured by this silence
As we bide Your guidance
Let the nations know
Silence…strike down their defiance
The sacred, God’s alliance
Let Your whisper fill their hate with grace

Sorrow, there will be no sorrow
There’s a new tomorrow
Tears, they will be wiped away
See them, saved from tribulation
Hear their exaltation
The voices from a thousand souls

7. The Hour Of Darkness

The flight of sanity will show
In the eyes of those who know
The fall of darkness is at hand
It will burn our weakened land

This is the hour of darkness
When the lie will pierce our souls
This is the hour of darkness
The one with might will force control
God, let Your Son come again
Revelations come to life
God, let Your judge be just
This is the hour of darkness

Evil is marching on
Deceiving the trusting man
Few will sense what’s going on
Before our eyes, but yet unknown

This is the hour of darkness
When the lie will pierce our souls
This is the hour of darkness
The one with might will force control
God, let Your Son come again
Revelations come to life
God, let Your judge be just
This is the hour of darkness

8. Waiting

Years I travelled far through the landscapes
Unexperienced yet well discovered
Inner spaces filled and then drained dry
Full of emptiness and a shy face

I left a shore of gold
For a cold and stormy sea
I turned my ship for own goals
The wind will lead me home

I’m waiting
I’m waiting for you

Sometimes I leave just for one day or
Sometimes I will stray for a single minute
You will keep me close to Your heart still
The love of the bloodred wood echoes

I left a shore of gold
For a cold and stormy sea
I turned my ship for own goals
Spirit, lead me home

I’m waiting
I’m waiting for you

9. Oh Great City 2014

Fallen fallen is Babylon the great
She has become a home for demons
For all the nations drank of her poisonous wine
The wine of her adulteries

Come away from her so that you will not share in her sin
So that you will not be the carrier of her plagues
Given payment for what she has given - for what she has done
As much torture and grief as the glory and pleasure she gave herself

Babylon - the abyss is calling her name
In only one hour your doom will come
Babylon - fall Babylon fall
The shining will never be seen in her again

When all the kings who shared her pleasures
See the smoke from her burning
Terrified they will stand far off and cry
"O great city - O Babylon"

"I sit as a Queen and not a widow
And I will never mourn"
Therefore in just one day her plagues will engulf her
Will engulf her

Babylon - the abyss is calling her name
In only one hour your doom will come
Babylon - fall Babylon fall
The shining will never be seen in her again







VENI DOMINE LYRICS