Fear Land

Tracks

1. 1

   Spring

   5:02
   Lyrics

   My spring, the silence of yellow violets, has caught the scent of regret, my spring, how cold How narrow the world looks to me without your eyes all your breaths still well up from my blood You, drunk on the smell of rain, calm and brokenhearted after you, the dust of night has settled on my soul Desire has drawn a wound across my body again madness and restlessness have cut off my breath Helpless and silent, I've sunk down onto the dust a cage spun around myself out of impure grudges A stranger, you blossomed from a soil of lead and iron you weren't of this world, my vanished spring

2. 2

   In Remembrance

   4:47
   Lyrics

   The clocks have stopped, no more moving, no more play you don't want to lose your raw love your body is covered with wounds and dust a love that thirsts for one spring day I painted a sky on the yellow ceiling of the house You, drunk and tired, though, from the dance of tears and cheeks My body greedy and thirsty, restless for a pure scent your body drowned in the scent of rain dancing on the soil In my heart, a hell full of ugly people a yellow, worn-out pride left over from the past Without you, the delusion-filled darkness of my mind has become a graveyard and the song of my decline In your eyes the trace of a gaze still remains of wanton eyes whose light is black

3. 3

   You Look at Me

   4:51
   Lyrics

   You see me, and with every breath you deepen my pain; I see you, and with every breath my longing grows You never ask how I fare, I don't know what you intend; you don't try to cure me, do you not know my pain? This is no way, to leave me in the dust and flee; pass by again and ask after me, so I may become the dust of your path I won't let go of your hem except in the grave, and even then, when you walk over my grave, I'll rise as dust around your hem My breath has sunk under the grief of your love; how long will you keep beguiling me? You've ruined me, yet you won't say: I ruined him One night in the dark I was searching your tresses for my heart again; I saw your face and drank again from a crescent cup Suddenly I drew you into my arms, and my heart was caught in the coil of your hair; I laid my lips on your lips and gave up heart and soul Be glad, and stay with Hafez; go, tell the foe to give up his life; since I find warmth in you, why fear the cold-breathed foe? Poem: Hafez

4. 4

   I

   6:17
   Lyrics

   Singing along with autumn's song the poppies yellow, I'm brimming with poems Far from you, belief stained with blood memory of the city of terror, memory of the exfoliated flower Feet in the chains of an endless story the sky is yours, my share is prison I'm an old dream emptied of passion born in fire, alive in the grave Poppy, come back from exile my crazy one, the night shone down into the alley It was the body's swamp, steeped in grief, the heart that was my only homeland I'm a beginning to the devil's poem your red blood is the seal of this pact

5. 5

   Tumultuary

   6:34
   Lyrics

   More turbulent than the sound of rain more wounded than the desert's burning wind Scream, so that your ugly night might come to an end one night Like painting on the body of a shadow are curses and taunts at what has passed If I was gone with the wind, and you were gone too stay proud, and without complaint In that moment my heart is full of certainty that this caravan is sorrowful with shame "that that traceless caravan master" "is more innocent than the dust of the earth" Your altar was the color white the city's idol-house full of filth "As long as one pure idol stood on the earth" "you took it on with your life to break it" "Stay devoted, for love is pure" "even if it's for a stone, which is made of earth" "even if tears are forbidden for a stone" "how painful the end of my night is" (The lines in quotation marks were part of the poem and were cut from the song because the arrangement required it.)

6. 6

   Minutes

   5:25
   Lyrics

   Again I see the minutes slow and sluggish again I see God's eyes shut on me To calm my heart I wander off into the alleys I laugh in people's faces, I rain down in the darkness On a snowy road I search for the end in this blue dream I'm still a prisoner of pain Because the world has lost its color in my eyes because my sky was made of some alien stuff The rain of my tired eyes has washed away the color of waiting as if without you this broken heart of mine has no song My love isn't like lust, the color of bitter memories dusty stories I closed my eyes on From dawn to dawn the sky is cloudy and dim like the lump in my chest, it has no will to rain Your words smell of rain, the tears in my eyes are restless my love is winter's bite, your love is spring's thrill

7. 7

   Flower Exfoliated

   5:36
   Lyrics

   A flower exfoliated in the winter wind has taken root in a ruined land its stem and leaves full of dust its share of the sky is snow and hail O prisoner of cold, dark shadows the night's moaning comes from near and far Don't sell the blue of your dream for blackness I won't let you be forgotten there Oh thirsty flower, I've reached the sky I've drawn the face of God on the walls As long as your root is captive in the soil my night's song will stay mournful Still the sky of the city of terror is black with hypocrisy the life of my love wasted by power's yellow deceit Cold, but the stem's body no longer feels anything it won't turn green again even if the sky rains

8. 8

   Last Page

   4:45
   Lyrics

   The clock was past midnight and once again I took up my old habit from the start it dripped off the paper as I wrote without you, my rain, I'm like dry, ugly dirt As I wrote, the flower was exfoliated, winter again the minutes went slow and quiet the season of blue dreams came to an end too even if word came from you, O flower Helpless, I took flight again out of your memory drained, I took up cursing and moaning Damn this love, this blue dream tainted with an old craving, you're asleep The ceiling of the house was yellow, ugly and old I painted a lover's sky on it I'm forgotten, you're silent, and in remembrance I'm that same moon of lust you threw to the wind The clocks have stopped their moving and their play you don't want to lose your raw love drunk on rain, a dance of tears and wild mint craving the smell of your body like madness O spring gone from my wasted life I'm a word under a black line Helpless and silent, I've collapsed onto the dirt a cage I've spun around myself from filthy grudges