The 13th Floor (2009)



The Path To Decay

Life brings nothing for the sane
Keep searching new days on the horizon
While time just seems to slip away
I'm leaving no trace along the way

Seems like I'm falling deeper, deeper inside myself
Feels like I'm growing weaker, much weaker each day
Along the path to decay

The lights are fading day by day
No cure for the lost, there's no ascending
When life could not become more pale
A new dawn is here, another day

Seems like I'm falling deeper, deeper inside myself
Feels like I'm growing weaker, much weaker each day
Along the path to decay

Darkness within us all
We're feeble and stand to fall
The daylight has long since gone
But a new dawn has yet to come

Seems like I'm falling deeper, deeper inside myself
Feels like I'm growing weaker, much weaker each day
Along the path to decay

Lost In Life

A fading hope and a broken dream
Is all there is for me
It's all there was and will ever be
And I keep falling further down

We are lost in this life, you and I
We've been living a lie
Time keeps passing us by, but we can't deny
We've been lost all the time

There's no way to cope for these wasted years
Nor for these long lost tears
I'm giving in to all my fears
As I keep falling further down

The Mind Maelstrom

I can feel a sorrow linger in my mind
And the dark that follows
Makes me falter in my life
There's a darkness, there's a light
A narrow path and a wide

There is no tomorrow for the lost and blind
There's no glee, nor sorrow
In the maelstrom of their minds
There's an hour, there's a time
Is this the end of the line?

There's a fire fading deep within
Lost its spark, its will to be
There are seven doors within my dreams
I've found them all, but still no key

The Seventh Summer

The vapour in my mind makes it hard to find
The things in life that I lost back in time
And the trail of my heart has turned all roads so dark
So hard to find, so hard to overcome

And all the things that I believed were true
Were never roots to anything but lies
To demons in disguise
And all the roads that I've been strolling down
Now I've found they all seem to be marooned
So profoundly doomed

And the vapour in my heart makes it hard to love
The things in life that I used to love
And the trail of my soul, has made me feel so cold
So lost in life, so down and so alone

Aeons are passing in the blink of an eye
Moments frozen, all the years I've tried to deny
Memories haunt me as the years pass me by
Feel the dusk, feel the fall, feel the winter inside

On the seventh summer of my life
Saw you turn your back on it all, and left me far behind
There's a river between us, it's become so wide
I wish that you could be right here
To mend my broken life

Beyond Life's Scenery

There's a voice that speaks of time
There's a growing void inside
There are doors in life that I can't seem to find
There's a fire in my dreams
Fading day by day it seems
There's a narrow path beneath the fallen leaves

The years we tried to deny
Still haunt us now

There's a garden deep within
Where all life is withering
There's a fall and there's a wall and there's a sin
There are nails through my heart
All hope is torn apart
There are footsteps leading to my epitaph

I see you stand forsaken
On a desolate and distant shore
You have been lost for so long
No one can ever take you back to how it was

Down, feeling down, falling down, sinking further down
Misery circles around

Wane, feel the pain, gone insane and this life's to blame
Seems like it's all in vain
Dark, the past was dark, the present's dark, the future seems so dark
Alike our hearts
Deep is the sleep that life keeps beyond it's scenery
What life sows, we'll never reap

The years we tried to deny
Still haunt us now
The pain still burns deep inside
As life flows by

The Lucid Door

In my dreams
A lucid door is fading as the walls close in
On all my dreams
I walk with you through fire

Through endless nights and everlasting desire

Wane...all the lights they seem to fade
All so dim and all so frail
They all seem to pass away
I can see them getting weaker every day

Silent screams
And stalking strangers
Haunt me in my darkest sleep
I feel them stare at me
A thousand eyes on fire
Penetrate my mind when I'm all wired
All so high and wired

Enigmatic is the wheel of time
Loosing grip as the years pass me by
Drifting further away from the light
Into the arms of an endless night

I still cling on to the will to be
Though overthrown by life's insanity
Collapsing in anxiety
Will the demons ever set me free?

Led Astray

I go through the pages of my own life, day by day
Like a dream on the horizon, they seem so lost
All led astray
I see them passing away

These feelings inside me
Keep bringing me further and further down
Been lost for so long, can't find my way home
I don't even know where I belong

I've faced all the ages all alone, by myself
Never ending is the treason in every night
And every day
The circle drives me insane

Winterborn 77

There is a feeling deep inside
As dreary as a winternight
It darkens all my pride
And drives away the light
There is a feeling in my soul
It feels marooned and far too cold
I stand alone to face the wheel of time unfold

Darkness falls inside of me
And the sorrow's growing day by day
And though my life's a broken memory
There's a door and there's a key
Sorrow comes with silent tears
And the dawn still haunts my darkest fears
What have we both become throughout these years
There's a serpent in all tears

There is a river in my dreams
That runs so wide, that runs so deep
And by its riverine
I still can hear you weep
There is a winter in my heart
So freezing cold and utter dark
It keeps me down and tears my sanity apart

Sirens Of The Seven Seas

Lead me down to the sea
To where the sirens call and where the waves are raging free
Sing for me, all of your sweetest melodies
And then let me drown into your arms, into the sea

Hear the sirens of the sea
They're calling for our hearts and they will have them eventually
Sing for me, all sirens of the seven seas
Take me away, lead me astray in your deceitful ways

Hear a thousand voices calling me
Down by the deceitful sea
They sing for me
The sirens of the seven seas
Their eyes are all fixed on me

I heard you call my name
On a stormy day
From beneath the waves
I watched you slip away
And I knew it was far too late

The Path To Decay (Radio Mix)

[Bonus track]

Life brings nothing for the same
Keep searchin' new days on the horizon
While time just seems to slip away
I'm leaving no trace along the way

Seems like I'm falling deeper
Deeper inside myself
Feels like I'm growing weaker
Much weaker each day
Along the path to decay

The lights are fading day by day
No cure for the lost, there's no ascending
When life could not become more pale
A new dawn is here, another day

Seems like I'm falling deeper
Deeper inside myself
Feels like I'm growing weaker
Much weaker each day
Along the path to decay

[Guitar solo]

Seems like I'm falling deeper
Deeper inside myself
Feels like I'm growing weaker
Much weaker each day
Along the path to decay

[Choir]