Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

1. Lightning & Snow There was a flash of lightning, Followed by snow In a moment of silence (for myself), After a shock to the soul With a look of disbelief, Alone and numb to the cold I knew the last moment had passed, Before enduring years of sorrow There was a crack of electric light, coming down from a darkened sky My dreams flashed before my eyes, as they were erased from my life. There was a flash of lightning, Followed by snow Twas just the moment of change, Before years of sorrow The shock and awe, the fright and woe I only had one life to live, and life said no. The loss of love, has left me hollow All bliss twists into pain, Where there was joy, years of grief have followed! There was a flash of lightning, followed by snow It struck my heart, only once...which made me want it more The emptiness it left in me, will always need to be filled For it will be there all the time, from now on, forever more. There was a crack of electric light, coming down from a darkened sky My dreams flashed before my eyes, AS they were erased from my life. There was a flash of lightning, Followed by snow Twas just a moment of pain, Before years of sorrow The shock and awe, the fright and woe And when I asked for a second chance, life said no.

2. Death Is Not An Exit The bleak life and modern times Of grey skies and electric light Life... life... So life is precious, after all Respect the body, for it is all you really are Life... life... So life is precious after all Protect the body, for it is all that keeps you on We are confined, to the nature of reality Where the failure of our system, will be the end of our dream Between the fields of darkness, before and after we exist Earth is a spiritual place, but there is nothing after this. We were nothing... for a billion years before our time And we will be... nothing more again, for an eternity yet to come Whoa! Death is not an exit (death is the flick of the switch) Whoa! Death is not an exit (death is a flick of off the switch) The bleak life and modern times...Of grey skies and electric light In the bleak life and modern times...Of grey skies and electric light

3. Keeper of the Ledger It is a fair and noble arrangement This business of life and existence Where everything we take from the earth Will be taken back and returned The face of god has always been disguised As the mother / giver of all life But the keeper of the ledger for the cult of nature Only concerns that your body returns on time Return to the earth, Pay the price for your existence Into the hand of earths domain, For there is balance to be maintained The count is cold and calculated, The precision is exact No one is exempt or unaccounted for, All that was taken will be taken back. The gods have always been believed to love, And care for the quality of our lives But the keeper of the ledger for the cult of nature Only concerns with the quantity of your time We create our myths and purpose, To fill our lives with hope and wonder But to the keeper of the ledger for the cult of nature Your body is just...a(nother) number. It is a fair assumption, of our human nature to assume... That the business of nature... is inherently good (When) Nature comes collecting, It doesn't care at all about you Nature comes collecting, It doesn't care at all to know you (When) Nature comes collecting, It doesn't care to hear your story Nature comes collecting, and only wants you for your body Nature is the man (after all), Nature is the mob (after all) Nature is the business (after all), Nature is the cult

4. Travelling Alone When I look around you I understand why you believe I see your evidence of God, all around me You have so therefore you are But I have not. You've seen the evidence of God in your life, but I have none. When I was questioned, I shook my head and starred I was traveling alone, and had nothing to declare He asked how I knew for sure And would I tell everyone I knew If it would hurt to know the truth I can be thankful to be alive but I despise this life. in all my years, at best, have only learned just to survive. But When I look around you I understand why you believe I see your evidence of God, all around me You have so therefore you are But I have not. You've seen the evidence of God but I have not and I have none (When he asked me,) I shook my head and laughed I never had a taste for life and I felt there was no turning back Would I try to take away their hope? Replace it with reality / and offer them reality Exchange their joy with my bleak view And leave them miserable like me? I have searched and I have tried to find a place where I can be I love my homeland dearly but never carved a place in society But When I look around you I understand why you believe I see your evidence of God, all around me You have so therefore you are, but I have not You are too rich for hate, and I am too poor to love. When I asked him, he shook his head and stared “I see no evidence of God, in the men from the west

5. Adora Vivos A moment of silence... but not one moment more The dead are to be forgotten, we are here to be...adored Look me, in the eyes, don't believe a word they say For life is good, life is glory, though we live, one life only Tell me, in real time, don't hesitate to profess Love me, in the flesh, don't wait ˜till death to sing my praise A moment of silence... but not one moment more The dead are to be forgotten, we are here to be adored IN the bleak life and modern times, Under grey skies and electric light Mortal men are living gods, More real than any God ever was Adora Vivos - Our people are civilized... Love the living while they're still alive Adora Vivos - Our people are civilized... we shouldn't worship the dead. In The bleak life and modern times, Under grey skies and electric light Where the living still walk the earth alone, more real than any God ever was In bleak life, (We are realer than gods!) - More real than any God ever was In modern times (we are realer than Gods!) - More real than any God ever was Under grey skies and electric light, we the living still walk the earth alone Where mortal men are living gods, more real than any God...ever was. A moment of silence, (for the dead) but not one moment more They've all gone to be forgotten, were still here, to be adored Look me, in the face, and don't believe a word I say This life is hard, this life is lonely, and we are here, for one night only See the pain, in my eyes, the defeat, of my age Feel the urgency of time, and don't wait ˜till death to sing my praise A moment of silence (for the dead), but not one moment more The dead are to be forgotten, we are here to be adored If you're waiting for tomorrow, save yourself for another day But if you're living in the moment, don't wait (˜till death) to sing my praise In The bleak life and modern times, Under grey skies and electric light Mortal men are living Gods, More real than any God ever was

6. Silver Come when you need me, leave me when you need to be free Come when you want me, leave me when you need me to understand Did you fall out of love, because you fell in love again? Did you fall out of love, because you fell in love, with someone new? When the new love, shined with all the promise of all I couldn't give to you. And the new life offered all you wanted, and you had to choose I helped to carry you, I took good care of you, I wanted us to continue But I knew, that you would leave, when the time was right for you. Life was a relay I passed it off to you. You ran away, and won the race You never looked back, to see what happened to me, For I was only second place When the new love, shined with all the promise of all I couldn't give to you. And the new life offered all you wanted, and you were asked to choose. We come together to share your sorrows - where you save yourself for someone else. You keep your distance in times of hope, while I cry (for you) all by myself When you're silver, you never come first, When you're silver, the truth always hurts. I don't want unconditional love, Ill always need to be judged I don't want a traditional love, Ill always need to be wanted/loved by someone else When did the city make you so cold? We share your sorrows but I dine alone... When did the city make you so cold? I cry alone - while you dine with someone else When did the city make you so cold? We cry together but I dine alone... When did the city make you so cold? We share your sorrows but I dine alone... I always dine alone...

7. Career Suicide (Is Not Real Suicide) We were born to live, in a desperate time Where it seems the death of dreams, is the end of life But we have only one life to live, just one opportunity And failure is not the end of the world, that's just society! Career suicide is not real suicide, Career suicide is alright Career suicide is not real suicide, Career suicide is fine We are all expendable, and we can be replaced. They have supplies of infinite lives, and no time to waste. But we have only one life to live, one time to exist And though there is no afterlife (after all), there is still more to life than this! Career suicide is not real suicide, Career suicide is alright Career suicide is not real suicide, Career suicide is fine Career suicide is not real suicide its not real suicide at all... Career suicide is not real suicide, its not the end of the world... Death is the failure of our parts, Failure is just the death of dreams There's more to life than suc-cess but only death is real... ONLY DEATH IS REAL! Death is the failure of our parts, Failure is just the death of dreams There's more to life than suc-cess but only death is real... Career suicide is not real suicide, Career suicide is alright Career suicide is not real suicide, Career suicide is fine Career suicide is not real suicide its not real suicide at all... Career suicide is not real suicide, its not the end of the world...its not the end of the world.

8. Modern Life Architecture When we’re young, we design a plan, we work, we build, we make it real and in the moment it becomes complete, The first cracks start to appear A weak foundation, finally revealed in the desperation, when the walls came tumbling down Oh, In my prime - Oh, never to return Oh, as I once was - A broken man, Living half a life... (without you...) On the path to recovery, As a sign of the times, with the empires crumbling I left all dreams abandoned, On the steps of a modern life In defeat we redesign the plan, and we give it just one more chance As we take another deep breath, and prepare for the worst, again A life in crisis, is always threatened by time For the longer it takes to be restored... the less likely it is to occur. Oh, In my prime - Oh, never to return Oh, as I once was- A broken man, Living all alone... (without you...) On the path to recovery, with the empires crumbling I left all dreams abandoned, On the steps of a modern life On the path to recovery, with the empires crumbling I left all dreams abandoned with you, On the steps of a modern life There is always hope, of course, that one day, we will rise again but this modern life architecture, Is crumbling, under the weight of the world

9. Kiss My Ashes (Goodbye) (Pt.1) To mourn the end is to say goodbye Not To yearn for that which we will never have again We cry for our life together - because we know it will end And we try to understand, how we could ever love again Save your tears, at the end of our time... We've cried enough in our lives, at the end of our time, just kiss my ashes goodbye We miss them so much now that they are gone Took them for granted for living, so long We read their words again, and we listen to them again as we start to understand, what they were trying to say, all along Ohhhh, save your tears, At the end of our time, kiss my ashes goodbye. Whoa! Kiss my ashes goodbye.

10. Kiss My Ashes (Goodbye) (Pt.2) Curse all those who were so vain who felt entitled to hold a place on the earth as a grave for their remains but no monument for me, please... I am not one of them I didn't need it in life, I wont need it in death Whoa, just kiss my ashes goodbye Whoa, when I die...kiss my ashes goodbye When words become irrelevant, and you start to feel as though ...you've been misled Keep me out of sight, leave me out of mind... when the thought no longer serves you when I no longer serve you, just let the memories die (...and move on) Whoa, kiss my ashes goodbye Whoa, when I die...kiss my ashes goodbye

11. Finality When we have all gone, to the silence of eternity... To first be forgotten, and lost in, the records of the earth Could I still miss you, then, in the time and space after life When no one is searching anymore, and where we are nowhere to be found We didn't spend our life together and I will miss you forever The choice was mine, To long for a time, that will never come Though we leave the world apart, I, still went peacefully, quietly, with you, still, firmly... in my heart. I will wait forever. I wait...

12. Alternate Ending In the darkness, under the stars, With enough warning, to pull off to the side, in time In the end, was there anyone to share in your joy? I woke up one day...and realized it was already over Back On the highway, under the moon, my final moments, still wondering about you... In the end, was there anyone to share in your joy? I woke up for years without you, to realize it was already over, for me Now making amendments... to the dream / story... Changing the ending, as I would like it, to be We were together, in a memory And We live forever, in finality. Holding on...To a dream... When the end... couldn't come slow enough for me. Holding on...