Manticora - Roots Of Eternity (2001) by Manticora (보컬) on maniadb.com

Now that everything is lost my colours they are slowly fading
I cast no shadow but another level is waiting
Journey through the black abyss is only in my fevered mind
Even time and space have gone - impossible to find

From far beyond the nothingness - the end
A twilight voice is calling me back again

Waiting at the bottom of the sea in giant twisted cities
The story of mankind is soon to be unwritten
Boundaries of dim expansion growing to a roaring river
I'm screaming silent - I'm raving mad with fever

From far beyond the nothingness - the end
A twilight voice is calling me back again

I stare into the darkness
trying to believe my eyes
Through eons dwelling formless
Now it's time for you to rise

Come rest thy tired soul until forever ends
Rest until you know the future again on you depends
Then go and free your mind - make up another paradise
And the humans will be waiting...

When forever ends i'll be thy servant, i'll be there for you
your rotten smell is sweet - delight in mystery
I will gaze into your eyes with black amazement in my head
The Great Old Ones will now consume our hopes

From far beyond the nothingness - the end
A twilight voice is calling me back again

I stare into the darkness
trying to believe my eyes
Through eons dwelling formless
Now it's time for you to rise

Today the sky is gray
gray as the thoughts in my head
And i have been down for so long
always endless trails i tread
I've climbed the highest mountains
But I still can't reach the top
Looking at a wasteland
That just never seems to stop

Come walk with me the world to see
And look for understanding
Come walk with me blue sky to see
And hope to be set free

Then like from out of nowhere
a vision comes to me
Picturing the king of eagles
coming from the sea
He talks to me in tongues
That i have never known before
but i notice that i understand
as if it were my own

Come fly with me out to the sea
I'll show you understanding
Come fly with me the end to see
And i will set you free

So now im flying to the sea
To see the world with diffirent eyes
I've found a place to call my own
Where i can learn that i have been set free

I stare at the sky and see
What i've tried to see so many years
the purity of space and time
To see it all through intoxicated tears

Cratinf a trip through hexagonal space
Im fighting the laws of gravity
Burning my eyes to understand
blind agitation 'gainst my own sanity

you can fool a man forever
Fill him with you lies
You can fool mankind once
Drawing a web of lies
Burning their eyes to understand
you can't fool mankind forever

I've never tried to embrace myself tight
It's not how i want it to be
And i found in my head that i always did right
Even thoguh you speak angry with me

Spiraling confusing appears
As the world keeps coming back
What i felt is description of ALL
And madness is my only friend

you can fool a man forever
Fill him with you lies
You can fool mankind once
Drawing a web of lies
Burning their eyes to understand
you can't fool mankind forever

I eager for knowledge
And the power to travel beyond
It's the soul within i'm after
to journey with you is my bond

Towards Algol - The demonstar
We fly above valleys so deep
In the shining mists of Orion's sword
We'll meet beyond the walls of sleep

More than two thousand years from now
Evil empire Tsan-Chan will appear
And what you call ancient egypt
Is where i'll dwell next year

Towards Algol - The demonstar
We fly above valleys so deep
In the shining mists of Orion's sword
We'll meet beyond the walls of sleep

[THE SAGA OF THE EXILES PART 1&2]

(The timegate is opened...)

I'll desecrate your weak beliefs
You must feel so old
Went out to see another world
And found that it had turned so cold

Stranded in unknown sourroundings
In a place where time has no meaning
Cant seem to find my way out of here
Trapped in a nowhere land
Open my thoughts to the masses
The manticore is my illusion
Cant seem to open the door out of here
Trapped ina a nowhere land

Absent but absolutely there
Consciousness expanding
I know the meaning of it all
That's what im thinking

Stranded in unknown sourroundings
In a place where time has no meaning
Cant seem to find my way out of here
Trapped in a nowhere land
Open my thoughts to the masses
The manticore is my illusion
Cant seem to open the door out of here
Trapped ina a nowhere land

And so we fought...

(The timegate is closed...)

(They came from a galaxy far away
to fight their holy war in
The pliocene world called Terra
The manycolored land)

They take a sadistic delight of destroying
In a world of coercive power and might
breeding a new type of hyprid child
To conquer the world without a fight
To condemn the power of strength
The astonishing mental capacity
The tool to obstruct the second
Chance of trying for humanity - for humanity

Healing every wound
No sickness - no aging - no dying
Living for a thousand years or more
The human exiles are crying
To serve the exotics of Tana
They're feeling the gray torcs around their necks
All can they stop mental punishment
If unitu'd fight its way through - fight its way through

A group of lowlifes refusing to submit to the host
Making a plan to destroy the ruling race
the non-born king of humans has the solving in his hands
Deceiving his own - and shows his real face

(Yes...we adopted the humans. They fight our battles, they grow our food,
They operate our mines and factories, they administer our commerce,
They infiltrate our sacret guilds,
They mingle their very blood and genes with our own.
But that is not all. We are faced with the ultimate humiliation -
And once again we have brought it upon ourselves.
For a human now aspires to our high kingship...)

Interrogation - humiliation - blind agression - devastation

The maddened raven creates the earthquake
to break down the barrier to the sea
Killing the host with the flood - catastrophe
Water remains there to be

One hour ago - a step back in time
The season drew the pupils in my eyes
When the water turned to blood
It turned my guilt into the lies

Gold is the metal of purity
My body has turned in for good
Every crawling corner in my mind
Changing the things i understood

How can it be - That you're blinded again
You can hear them dying within
the souls under your skin
Crunple in a sea of sin

Gold is the metal of purity
My body has turned in for good
Every crawling corner in my mind
Changing the things i understood

So well - so bright
Im flying away - i cannot stay
dawn breaks free
and pale faces are turning the night

Gold is the metal of purity
My body has turned in for good
Every crawling corner in my mind
Changing the things i understood

So well - so bright
Im flying away - i cannot stay
dawn breaks free
and pale faces are turning the night

Standing up - I'm looking down
at the ground below
Can't change my situation
by execution

How can it be my life it means so much to me?
I'm doomed anyway - my friend can't you see?

There's no god to save me
From this private hell
No angel of mercy
Comes to my cell

How can it be my life it means so much to me?
I'm doomed anyway - my friend can't you see?

Standing up - I'm looking down
at the ground below
Can't change my situation
by execution

How can it be my life it means so much to me?
I'm doomed anyway - my friend can't you see?

[Part one]

[ETERNITY]

Instrumental

[PART TWO]

[ROOTS]

I can't see whether it's me or my blood that drags me down
thoughts in my head tell me i'm not even around
I can't see no solution to the suffering of the weakest creature of all
One for me is the rope around my neck but i don't want the curtain to fall

illusions of better days - ignored
Buried in a state of mind - absorbed

I don't care anymore cause my world is gone
No hope for you - no hope for me
No hope for everyone

How can i tell the truth when i dont even know if its the truth i tell
Damn it, my friend, i don't care if you won't help
But would you please then put me into my shell
Draw a line in the sand to keep me knowing where your boundaries explode
I don't wish to die but if i had the choice i'd rather not corrode

I will always cry inside - Profane
Inapproachable, yes - insane

I don't care anymore cause my world is gone
No hope for you - no hope for me
No hope for everyone

carved in me to make it last, read it through the splintered glass
Swallowed whole my only hope to lift the grief hiding from the past
Dare not look into these eyes all too aware of the pain i'll find
But i can't resist the temptation search for my soul to leave it all behind

All locked doors inside my head - betrayed
Shadows haunt my loneliness - depraved

[PART THREE]

[LAST CRY]

I quite dont know why i smiled back then
It must have been a memory
Of a place that i have been

Sorry if i said too much and now you know my name
It's just a way to hide myself
Can you tell me why i came
there's no miracles no more and life it goes its ways
water feels like fire
In my hands i'll find my face

For much to long i had my conscience on the floor
Been drifting in a circle till i smashed my head
into the door

[PART FOUR]

[THE END]

It's because the roots are no longer below
they're dead and it's easy to show
Take my hand let's walk through the night
wait for the end - There's no reason to fight