1. |
The Emperor
05:38
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You're full of life
and full of hope,
you strive for the best
but you’re tied with rope.
It hurts a lot
when you inhale –
and yet you'd better die,
than comfortably fail.
The emperor –
he wears no clothes,
his words ain't his -
they're simply quotes.
You know about him
more than about you
and who ever doubts
what he says is true?
Ch.: The emperor, my king
the name in which I sing,
how many children will
it take to break the still?
Now you gnaw the rope
with bare teeth
and shout out loud
about your feat.
Then when you were child
you could expose
the emperor -
who told your eyes to close?
Ch.:...
(Solo: Nikola)
But silently, by slow degrees,
with moving lips or bended knees;
it hath not been my use to pray -
ere on my bed my lambs I slay.
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2. |
Hello
04:47
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Floating darkness turns my soul
and it covers all the way
to the room of self-control,
hidden underneath my plain.
You know the gestures of the mind
when you look for exit hole
but it takes so long to find
that you return to starting pole;
moments of enlightenment come and go,
nothing changes, only pain gets more.
Have you felt the day is night
and the sun is turning black,
and the future of mankind
is the future of a wreck?
Have you felt the whirlwind of despair,
blowing out your blood in place nowhere?
I have seen the pictures of decay
scattered all along the winding way,
I have heard the voice of misery
speaking of regret and memory,
speaking of the loss and waste of time
and of what could easily be mine,
I had only to give little more,
but it’s late, it’s gone, it’s nevermore.
Hello, Darkness, how are you?
Do you like it when I cry?
Leave me now or pass me through
what you hide, then let me die.
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“Heaven sent for Margarita
and it took in whole her glitter
while the Master was alone,
sitting naked by the phone.
He was waiting for her call,
but he only felt her fall.
"Margo, see you back tonight,
I am begging you to fight, forever!"
Ch.: "I will keep receiving
all this love you're giving,
it's the only thing
I cherish in this world.
Run away from heaven,
don't look at the seven,
join me in eternal
peace, escape the third"
So the Master talked for long,
he pretended he was strong,
though he sensed his Margarita
was away on the billionth metre;
to the peace she had preferred
light forever, fuck alerts,
no more love, forget the Master,
rip the sky and ride it faster, forever!
Ch.: "Take me back to clinic,
maybe there the Cynic
shall explain to me why
Margarita's gone.
I am pretty sure
she was nicely lured
by the light of Him who
proved her she'd been wrong"
"Masquerade, nothing's real",
said the Master loud,
"can you see the seventh seal,
can you smell the ground?
I will die, you will die
but I know it's fake,
though I’m sure Margo's mine,
still inside I
break down this hell,
burn heaven well,
tear down these walls,
let's smash the world
for it is false.
When the last word he said
reached the darkened sky
lightning stroke and his love
stood amidst the rye.
Lifting hands to her face,
sighing "Margarita",
he could touch only air –
the mirage was bitter.”
(Solo: Nikola)
Life is dirty, blind and mean
and this story’s so unclean;
public images of fighters,
dancing on the graves of writers;
do you talk as in a novel,
do you choose a pen or shovel?
Dig your gardens, dig your brains,
they’ll be wrapped in rusty chains, forever!
Ch.: “You know why they call me
“Master” – that’s enthralling:
I foresee your future,
I revive your past”.
It was all he told me
when I saw him wandering,
how they knew it was him? –
writings on my chest.
Nothing is real.
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4. |
Long Ago
08:03
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Long ago, on younger Earth
when our mothers gave it their first births,
and the Spirit was created,
as the Matter was reborn.
Long ago, on younger trees
we were drying our memories
but the sun was very strong then,
and it burned them into ash.
We were crawling through the wastelands
and would just surrender when we felt
shivers which we wondered what meant
and from where and by whom they were sent.
Many roads in many lands,
many lights in many different hands,
how to choose the road to wisdom
and the light with furthest range?
Then we learned to keep a secret
and to stare into each other’s face,
to caress it and to kiss it
and to float into each others’s space.
Long ago, when we were very brave
and the time had come the world to save
free from everything that hid the good,
bold and fearless on the edge we stood;
and it was that day we realised
that the shivers were just to disguise
all the emptiness and evil cold
that we could fight but some didn’t want to.
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5. |
Bridge To Nowhere
05:54
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Inside a dream into which I felt so clean
a dialogue without any sense evoked
confusing thoughts made of nothingness and faults,
my system failed and my sanity derailed.
And so this dream was projected on my screen,
it stood for long, as if bonded very strong;
I had to wake to avoid impending break,
producing cries I could not open my eyes.
Ch.: Can you hear me,
oh please do not fear me,
I am really clean inside the brain;
Leave me somewhere,
burn the bridge to nowhere,
so I never lose myself again.
At last I woke and for long I rarely spoke –
the sights of dark had extinguished every spark;
it took me days to expose myself to rays
of sun again – they at once removed the pain.
Ch.: Can you hear me,
oh please do not fear me,
I am really clean inside the brain;
Leave me somewhere,
burn the bridge to nowhere,
so I never lose myself again.
Can you feel me,
are you here to steal me,
I will give you as much as I can.
The bridge is burning
and the world is turning
so I can embrace some peace as then.
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6. |
Out There
07:07
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Lines are moving on the ceiling,
writing tales from other living,
as if branches from a tree eternal.
I can’t give them any reading,
though they give enormous feeding
for my soul in way so universal.
And I don’t feel as if I know you
when the stars collide and call you
with so many different names and colours,
though I feel as if I’ve shown you
all collisions – they appalled you,
now you seem to count remaining hours.
Hey, I know what’s overcome you,
I can feel the dome above you,
bending under loads of doubts and questions.
There is only intuition,
all the rest is on a mission
for obscuring the reflective tensions.
And I don’t feel as if the ocean
in my head is giving notion
of the buried smouldering subconscious,
limitations overwhelming
with extensions set their realm in
ourselves – the meaning of obnoxious.
(Solo: Lachezar Georgiev)
And time is turning on and on,
who knows if we’re alive or gone,
and what we see, we’ve seen before,
and what we dream, we’ll dream no more.
(Solo: Svetoslav Zarov)
(Solo: Nikola)
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7. |
The Keys
06:19
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As the stars are flashing,
as they countless are,
as the travelling galaxies
situated far,
we are specks of dust and we've too
much, too much to learn,
in the boundless Universe I,
maybe you, will burn;
vast rooms of matter
light years ahead,
and the boundless Universe
unnoticeably spreads;
ignorance, obscurity and
nothing we can see,
is it just to raise our children
the meaning of to be?
Imagine for a moment you're at
Qs & As with God -
will you have the guts to ask It
what's beyond the dark?
In our heads burn the flames of forever
and the winds of tomorrow are changing the weather,
cloudy, sunny or thunder and lightning come crushing down,
hitting the stakes made of dreams, going underground;
feel the impulse, let the unknown load yourself,
look at the sun, it will give you all its help,
this is the world, we must take it as it is,
and for the rest someone else still holds the keys.
(Solo: Rumen)
(Solo: Nikola)
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8. |
The Dolphin
11:44
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(Guitar intro: Rumen)
So the dream comes to the end
and it's time to rest and carry on,
but I know I have one more
thing to do before I let it go -
I recall my memories to find
when I started out to lose my mind
Thinking back I reach, it seems,
out the point that I am looking for,
though it's so hard to decide
what remains and what I must ignore;
I was standing peaceful by the sea -
like unearthly siren was the scream.
Ch.: He was the flame and I was the darkness,
he was the Master - I was so helpless,
slowly revealing, out of control,
hidden emotions tenderly ravaged me
Great inspiration, cosmic intrusion,
my old existence was an illusion,
onto the fields of knowledge and time
I took the long and winding road to the stars
Then the sea did part in two -
vision I had had so long ago,
and the sight of bottomless
valley opened deep a blissful sore -
I was occupied with endless love
as I saw him rising high above.
Ch:...
Waves and water shades
shone, sparkled, entwined,
how come the world turned into point
and everything then was mine?
On through the darkness
he, walking candle, did guide,
and all those reflections around
were slowly transforming my mind;
tunnels unending,
marked with unreadable signs –
strange, hieroglyphic-like
different in colours and size.
He was walking, I was stalking,
who knew where we were going?
“Go on!Keep on!” –
as if the water was shouting –
“Hold on!Get on!
Get on to your dream – it’s a mountain”
I closed my eyes,
asking myself when’d this mountain fall?
(Solo: Rumen)
(Solo: Nikola)
(Solo: Svetoslav Zarov)
(Solo: Nikola)
Ch:...
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Revival Sofia, Bulgaria
Est. 2011
Sofia, Bulgaria
Rumen Pavlov – vocals, guitars
Nikola Ognyanov – guitars
Alexander Benev – bass
Bozhidar Davidkov - drums
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