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leaVings
02:53
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Instrumental
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Dark Is The Night
04:51
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There was a day the sun had died - A fiery ring on blackened skies
The monarchs of this world decide - To kill its light and all subsides
Winter followed with endless rain - The cattle flocked and pain remained
The wolves have gathered with iron will - Feast on the sheep in violent thrill
Their eyes’ are blind their mouths are shut, torn wounds still shed the victim’s blood
Are we born to see the light? Or will we die by one man’s might?
The vulture in its glory flies – its wings and shadow cloud the skies
The morning gone, the day has died –Dusk has come, dark is the night!
Kneeling and praying – all is said and done
Light up the sky and all will die as one!
No one will carry all our loss
Embodied lies nailed to the cross
Then came the day, the end was near – their bodies choked with endless fear
Come flood! Come fire! Endless night! Let all the pyres light the sky!
A purgatory human made – decisions made and still too late
The dying’s wishes stay unheard – their shattered voices dead to our ears
The flood hit land in southern skies – the waves crushed everything in sight
The plague that followed then remained – in our hearts and souls restrained
We kept illusions hanging high and painted them with blood so bright
Our life is gone, the earth has died –Death has come, dark is the night!
Kneeling and praying – all is said and done
Light up the sky and all will die as one!
No one will carry all our loss
Embodied lies nailed to the cross
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Home
03:40
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Taste the divinity – still caught in mystery
A shroud of silence in this terror of humanity
Let’s throw oil on the fires, ignite our homes
Through the ashes we crawl, the taste is bittersweet
A great leap forward to extinction that we seem to seek
A final bullet to our head
All we are – lies manmade
A parade of fools to be slain
By our own hands, fingers clenched
The final blow is heaven sent
And may the stars all come and go
And with passing eons cease their glow
None of these monuments stands watch
Through all time
Oh can’t we imagine that we’ll fade?
Born in a rotting corpse’s fate
Shall we fight for infinite life
Caught in this flesh?
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Stellar Tempest
03:53
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(1)
Pump the hate from your veins to your fingertips
Grind their will to live down into nothingness
Mark their lives with your words full of odium
The seed you sow to reap your private perfect storm
You’re nothing new, nothing special – just the average
Just an ape with a toy that is your leverage
Without valor to stand openly for your cause
You are a rotten soul no one would cry about
You’re just the reason we stand where we are
We fell prey to the ghoulish race you are
Feed the violence!
For all, for all.
Slay the silence!
For all, for all
And inside us
The fear, the fear
Break the silence! Become what they fear
Seed the clouds on the morning of the brightest day
This is the terror they need to keep them all at bay.
All dark predictions they’ve told are now reality
Was our own downfall a self-fulfilling prophecy?
You’re just the reason we stand where we are
We fell prey to the ghoulish race you are
Feed the violence!
For all, for all.
Slay the silence!
For all, for all
And inside us
The fear, the fear
Break the silence! Become what they fear
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Binary Sparks
04:00
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Through the crowded streets at night
All the fires still alight
Falling rain – like tears of a god
We’ve come undone
We’ve created our own hell
A glowing Sulphur neon spell
Roaming souls on an endless path
Blind to the light
Our souls are castaways
trapped in binary shells
Made of code – what’s the purpose of our road?
Bound to this floating raft
A soulless fleshly graft
Close your eyes – it’s the essence of our lives
Borrowed time in foreign flesh
Chasing lines caught in a mesh
Where the soul is immortal
Death’s infinite
Behind the eyes the soul resides
Strangely hidden in plain sight
We’re all monsters of our own device
Life’s infinite
Our souls are castaways
trapped in binary shells
Made of code – what’s the purpose of our road?
Bound to this floating raft
A soulless fleshly graft
Close your eyes – it’s the essence of our lives
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Heaven Is Void Of Light
04:40
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From the beginning of time we were bound to this shell
Still advancing as a race towards infinite hell
All the skies have turned dark from the breath of our breed
May the stench of burning flesh may be our final deed
This is the hell we’ve created in a place we call home
And the distant skies still laugh at our decaying throne
Are we the crown of creation or an error in time?
A public execution – and you are next in line
Breathe in – breathe out
Do you feel the calm of the chaos you don’t care about?
Breathe in – breathe out
This is the sweet taste of doubt you’ve never cared about
Breathe in – breathe out
Were you ever in doubt that there is no way out?
Birth in – death out
There is no circle to break, no play to know about
Every moment left to be
Another step towards infinity
Of darkness and the void
On this vast asteroid
We were born to come undone
Taste the divine when we’re gone
In total darkness we’ll reside
Cause all our heavens are void of light
When the countdown starts where you’ll think you’ll be?
On the plains of your mind in self-hypocrisy?
Counting seconds and days and things still left to do?
Paralyzed by the thought that you can’t get through?
Have you ever believed that there’s a place called home?
This plague ridden spot on the galactic crown.
We were born as gods and leave as scum
This is the final calling to our lesser throne
Breathe in – breathe out
Were you ever in doubt that there is no way out?
Birth in – death out
There is no circle to break, no play to know about
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The Night Sky
04:25
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The Weight Of The Void
05:36
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Enclosed inside – displaced by all this time
Your ghost still wanders - through this halls of paradigms
Enshrined in time – Contained by all you’ve done
The fog still wanders – through these halls of stone
Your presence through time still haunts me
Your image so vague but still so real
I’m lost inside the maze of your life
The void you’ve created inside me
Keeps tearing me down with your gravity
The silence inside is the weight of your void
Torn by your might – There’s nothing that can be done
Even the spring of this life has now dried up and died
In the wake of your sun….
The moon that night a last fried still by your side
The candles alight as the sun slept so tight
In the void that you’ve left grow on
Your presence through time still haunts me
Your image so vague but still so real
I’m lost inside the maze of your life
The void you’ve created inside me
Keeps tearing me down with your gravity
The silence inside is the weight of your void
This haven is vast and feels empty
I cannot erase what you’ve done to me
I’m lost inside the void of you love
This silence inside is still screaming
My name and urges me into acting
I’m lost inside the weight of the void
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Far From Home
04:25
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Taste the divinity – still caught in mystery
A shroud of silence in this terror of humanity
Let’s throw oil on the fires, ignite our homes
Through the ashes we crawl, the taste is bittersweet
A great leap forward to extinction that we seem to seek
A final bullet to our head
All we are – lies manmade
A parade of fools to be slain
By our own hands, fingers clenched
The final blow is heaven sent
And may the stars all come and go
And with passing eons cease their glow
None of these monuments stands watch
Through all time
Oh can’t we imagine that we’ll fade?
Born in a rotting corpse’s fate
Shall we fight for infinite life
Caught in this flesh?
The hourglass cracked inside
And fingers bleed the sands of time
All born inside this mess
No chance to flee or to confess
Buried alive behind enemy lines
Ourselves betrayed by all mankind
Numb yourself, escape the pain
This world will shatter, just dust remains
Purge this place of purity
Deny the sins that we can’t seer
Those are the nails that we hammer straight
Into our coffins already made
Burnt alive by our own will
And hung by those that love you still
Every trip around the sun
Through passing light, the end has just begun
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When all light fails shadows glow
Devouring darkness lies below
When all your havens cease to be
How can we dance? How can we feel?
As the fires all align
The trumpets blown - all life’s resigned
Under horizons far and wide
Make your choice to either side
On this sea in blackened space
We are alone – one fighting race
Inside these borders we can breathe
Causing death is our deed
On seas of Black - a Light house our sun
We’re destined to fail, to sink before shore’s sight
How did we come this far?
We've Set aflame the ark we're on
As the water Starts to rise
choosing the best place to drown
From all this darkness
There's still Light, a reason to be
Step out of the shadows
Light your Flame for All to see
What’s our purpose in this all?
Our structural errors – we’re bound to fall?
We’re just pawns in our own game
We’ve set the rules – we are to blame.
Coded to perish – coded to strife
The sequence inherits – break through this senseless line
Why did we went this far?
Can we tame the burning sun?
As the fires starts to rise
choosing the best place to hide
From all this darkness
There's still Light, a reason to be
Step out of the shadows
Light your Flame for All to see
All life will come to pass
Beneath the sun's own mortal gloom
Be your own Light inside the dark
Shelter your mind from All human doom
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Toad In Transit Saarbrücken, Germany
Toad in Transit are:
Sebastian “Gutzjen” Laudwein – (Acoustic) Guitars, Clean Vocals, Co-Production
Henrik Groß –
(Acoustic) Guitars, Shouting and Growling, Backing Vocals, Keys, Programming, Production, Mixing and Mastering
Nils Vogel – Acoustic Guitars, Bass Guitars, Co-Production
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