Majesty, down to my dying breath
Calamity tears at my kingdom’s crest
It’s like a sickness of mind
Frantic thoughts running wild
Vicious creatures born in the night
Drawing from the schism’s might

Now that I walk ahead into the great beyond
All I’ve done and all I’ve failed is passed on to you
From now on

Eminence, a canon of ancient lore
Deliverance lies at the sanctum’s core
It’s like a holy grail
Far beyond our adamant veil
Blood on the stone to open the gate
And save us from a dreadful fate

My descendants in duty bound
Absolution befits a crown
Brace yourselves for what’s to come
We’re falling faster to oblivion

Now that I walk ahead into the great beyond
The dying flame of this world is passed on to you
From now on

INHERITANCE

I’ve been dreaming of a new world
Where our voices will be heard
Our rulers turn a blind eye to our hardship
I’ve been walking down a long road
I’ve been turning every stone
A sisterhood in hiding
Now we rise to take our stand

Break free from the abuser
The faceless persecutor
A vision of the future
A world that we define
Their dynasty is crumbling
Amidst the chaos tumbling
A vision of what’s coming
Engrained into my mind

Sofia, Sofia, turn to non-believer

Last to enter like a dark horse
Into this unspoken race
A wedge into the bloodline that we share
I’ve been mending what is fractured
First it really needs to break
Like oil into the fire
Will we smoulder or be cleansed?

I’m trailing the abuser
The army of intruders
To offer us a future
A world that we define
The earth is torn asunder
The spider-people wander
A horrid figure yonder
Has crept into my mind

Sofia, Sofia, the ominous leader

“Why would you seek out what cannot be found
You’re drawing the line but in blood we are bound”
“Sofia the wise one who cuts through the veil
Follow me to the lands where spiders dwell”

O savage giant, what depths of despair
I know you won’t hurt me, I know you’re still there
You raised me, you loved me like no one else would
I tore it wide open but your heart remains good
Farewell, my Gaius, they’re coming for you
By grief and by spiders we both are consumed

And when the dust has settled a silence grows loud
Leo, o Leo, won’t you lift your bloody brow
The champion of heavens, admired and feared
His own blade of justice his body did pierce
A schism of brothers, a schism of worlds
My eyes start to swim as their blood starts to merge

Atrium, hallowed place
Currents shift the cosmic waves
Echoes liquify
Bending the horizon’s eye
Turn me inside out
Entranced by the entrance now
Six-winged sentinel
Cast on me a binding spell
“Flesh and bone stripped away
Spirit may enter into our domain
Nothing is lost, nothing remains
Passing through the inner sanctum’s gates”

I have arrived, sanctum is within
Finally I've transcended this burden of my skin
All seems as One and has always been
Is this the end or where all things begin?

Soaring through the sky like the sun and moon
Blurring all the lines between glory and doom, cradle and tomb, me and you
Shifting paradigm, world within my womb
Eye of the divine sees the curse in the boon, the light in the gloom, the me in you

I know that I'm fading, it wasn't meant to last
Astral body shattered, a thousand shards of gleaming glass
Death approaches, companion in disguise
Rain turns into rivers, a cloud shall never die

Take me away
Into the grey
I will return one day

Crossing the divide in a cold embrace
Swift as a feather I'm gone without a trace
Given all my tears to the sacred well
May you live and breathe by my last exhale

Free at last
Untethered from the hands of fate I can finally rest
I am rocked gently into a dreamless sleep
Sinking, drifting, evermore

SOFIA (i. Dawn of a New World, ii. The Requiem, iii. The Sanctum)

Leaves, o leaves on the vine, remember who you are
Fall from treetops, sacred teardrops nourishing the ground 
Leaves, o leaves on the vine, remember who you are

Birds, o birds in the sky, remember who you are
When the morning sun awakens, praise the newborn day
Birds, o birds in the sky, remember who you are

Waves, o waves on the shore, remember who you are
A thousand eons, let the rain wash mountains into sand
Waves, o waves on the shore, remember who you are 

People near and far, remember who you are 
See yourselves in one another, open up your hearts
People near and far, remember who you are

Remember

Your voice burns deep inside of me
Like the side effects of Fluoxetine 
But when I see you in the morning light 
I feel alive, alive like a sinner on a Friday night 
When I think about my needs
When I can’t forget your deeds
What you’ve done to me is undeniably and socially insane
But I can’t, but I can’t let you go 
It’d rip my heart apart and more than just our tears would flow

Your love is, your love is
Your love is like a rollercoaster
Your love is, your love is
(Whoop whoop)

Left and right and up and down
Rollercoaster spinning round
Your love‘s a wave I love to ride
Hold my hand we’re taking flight

Left and right, all around
Your love has got me upside down
You’re like my image in the mirror
But to be true it’s getting clear
That I’m hanging on a thread up in the air
I need some medical attention here
This love, this hate, it’s so unfair
It’s like we feed on our despair
We used to love, we used to burn 
Every single day‘s taking drastic turns
I need to slow down, the vertigo
Is like a thorn in my head that I never show
Can’t we go back to the way it was?
Can we not try to see what’s beyond the flaws?
My fear is numbed by the chemicals
That make me fly and I can’t let go

Your love is, your love is
Your love is like a rollercoaster
Your love is, your love is
(Whoop whoop)

Left and right and up and down
Rollercoaster spinning round
Your love‘s a wave I love to ride
Hold my hand we’re taking flight

Your Love Pt. 1 (Left and Right)

These dirty tracks is what we call home
The ghost of the river and the earth shakes its bone
All day long I rode until the desert sky began to bleed
I met this merchant with a smile of gold
His words were delightful but his eyes were so cold
Supernatural, he carried just the thing that I need

I said okay (okay), we’re gonna have a good time 
When it rains (it rains) upon our dusty town

Hey, let them bodies sway
We’re summoning the storm that’ll wash this filth away
Whoa, rivers overflow
Lightning in a bottle, make the devil‘s cactus grow

The morning after when the sun rose high
The land was as dried up as the bottom of my vial
Same shit as before, the vultures circling endlessly 
So I went to the merchant with the mystic supplies
He held out his hand and he asked for twice the price
Some day I swear this fucking town will be the death of me
(So I bought two, naturally)

Okay (okay), we’re gonna have a good time 
When it rains (it rains) upon our dusty town

Hey, let them bodies sway
We’re summoning the storm that’ll wash this filth away
Whoa, rivers overflow
Lightning in a bottle, make the devil‘s cactus grow

I don’t care (I don’t care)
If we’re going down the drain (going down the drain)
And when the mob comes knocking it’ll be raining shotgun shells 
I need more (I need more)
It’s tingling in my brain (tingling in my brain)
For half an hour in Heaven I will spend my life in Hell

Hey, take my pain away
I’m summoning the storm because I’ve had a shitty day
Whoa, thunder from below
Lightning in a bottle, make me feel less alone 

Hey, let them bodies sway
We’re summoning the storm that’ll wash this filth away
Whoa, rivers overflow
Lightning in a bottle, make the devil‘s cactus grow
Make the cactus grow

Lightning in a Bottle

Wide awake in a dream
Watching my reflection in a honeyed pool 
Amnesia, a cloud of endorphin
Ripples of forgotten lives passing through 

Hello, is there anyone listening?
No sign of life in the yellow stratosphere
From afar the world peacefully spins
I need to find myself before I completely disappear

Elephant in a cage 
Never seen the outside of my ego walls
Mesmerize, asphyxiate
Death is only one of many doors

Hello, is there anyone listening?
No sign of life in the yellow stratosphere
From afar the world peacefully spins
I need to find myself before I completely disappear

You know life is just a step
When your feet are off the edge
You know death is just a door
Have you been here before?

(Life is just a step
Death is just a door)

Hello, is there anyone listening?
No sign of life in the yellow stratosphere
From afar the world peacefully spins
I need to find myself before I completely disappear

Mellow Yellow

Some days I can’t seem to bear myself on the wall
Draw the curtains close and kill all the lights until tomorrow 
All of my hurt comes back to taunt me
Some days I can’t seem to feel myself at all

Who’s gonna call?
Who’s gonna change me?

It’s all smoke and mirrors standing on the other side
You’re not yourself in that silver-white
Deep down you know that it’s true
It’s all smoke and mirrors, it’s not the real you

Some nights I ponder the ways that I’ve failed myself
How I came to slip, a part of me still laughs at my sorrow
All of their words come back to haunt me
Some nights I wish that I could be someone else

I’m gonna fall
Who’s gonna save me?

It’s all smoke and mirrors standing on the other side
You’re not yourself in that silver-white
Deep down you know that it’s true
It’s all smoke and mirrors, it’s not the real you

Sometimes I keep watching when you’ve looked away
I like it when you believe in every word I say

Ghost on the wall
The image you made me

It’s all smoke and mirrors standing on the other side
You’re not yourself in that silver-white
Deep down you know that it’s true
It’s all smoke and mirrors, it’s not the real you

Mirrors

The hill we climb broke our staff
The clouds we chase obscure the path
Withered flowers stare
Form mirrors in the air
And our images disappear 
Look at the queen as she’s high on her throne
Gold in her hands in the autumn‘s glow

And all we could be is a face in the crowd
When the cards do turn
And all that we’ve been is dispersed in the smoke
When the incense burns

The wheel turns round, time has slowed
We’re reaping now the seeds we’ve sowed
Walls of black and white
Arisen from insight
But from the towers I see the light 
Death holds the key and she opens the gate
Life is a moment that we create

And all we could be is a face in the crowd
When the cards do turn
And all that we’ve been is dispersed in the smoke
When the incense burns, burns

Tarot

They’ve called me a saint and a traitor, eradicator
Like Coraline you crossed the line, so now I’m gonna break ya
The undertaker manifesting out of cosmic vapour
It’s the end of the line, you cannot deny
Predator’s right to take what is mine
You’re only there to satisfy my
My appetite, so let me inside

Look out I’m coming to get you 
Send shivers running down your spine 
Look out I’m coming to get you
I’m knocking on the walls of your mind

I am your own worst nightmare you can’t forget, the beast that’s under your bed
(When will these horrors ever end)
It’s like a clock that’s ticking down the days you’ve left, that noise inside your head 
Knock knock
Knock knock
Knock knock, motherfucker, knock
Knock knock

Knock knock at the door, won’t you let me in?
I long for fresh blood in my abdomen
For every ounce, every last drop of adrenaline 
As you start panicking
You’re so miserable
Time to throw out your prescription pills
You better go and join a religious cult, it’s about to get biblical

Look out I’m coming to get you 
Send shivers running down your spine 
Look out I’m coming to get you
I’m knocking on the walls of your mind

I am your own worst nightmare you can’t forget, the beast that’s under your bed
(Visions I cannot comprehend)
It’s like a clock that’s ticking down the days you’ve left, that noise inside your head 
Knock knock
Knock knock
Knock knock

„Think of a knocking that comes from everywhere
That beats against the boundaries of Space and consciousness 
That comes as the intrusion of an utterly unknown dimension into our own familiar world 
Let me in, let me in
I love you so much I could eat you
I love you to the very core
Especially the soft and juicy parts, the vitals most tender and alive
Surrender to this agony and you will be transformed into me
Dying to yourself you will become alive as me
We shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, on the morning when the last trumpet sounds
For behold, I am he that stands at the door and knocks“

I am your own worst nightmare you can’t forget, the beast that’s under your bed
(Over my body he ascends)
It’s like a clock that’s ticking down the days you’ve left, that noise inside your head 
Knock knock

(Bohème 73 explicitly distance themselves from Neil Gaiman - this was written pre-allegations and we couldn’t be bothered to change the lyrics. Take care)

Koputus

Lately I’ve been living each day inside my own reality
Lost in a dream
So lonely, it’s like I’m sending you a sign from distant galaxies
Oh baby, can’t you see?
I’ll call out your name, will you call mine?
We’re not here to stay 
We’re just passing through 
You know tomorrow can wait for us

Can’t we talk things over?
Settle all our doubts
Days are getting colder 
Honey, let’s go south, go south

Lately I am scared of fighting through though I‘m in love with you
I’m not able to 
Do what you need from me, stuck in that one melody overtaking me
Exceptionally 
Now where are we to go
From here, out of my hole
We are not here to stay
We’re just passing through 
Maybe tomorrow‘s too late for us

Can’t we talk things over?
(Distant galaxies, baby can’t you see?)
Settle all our doubts
(We‘re not here to stay, we‘re just passing through)
Days are getting colder
(That one melody overtaking me)
Honey, let’s go south, go south

On a peaceful island
Or down by the lake
We will ride all the waves we can take
We could stay forever 
Where the sun keeps us warm
In the eye of the storm

Can’t we talk things over?
Settle all our doubts
Days are getting colder 
Honey, let’s go south, go south

(My reality, lost inside a dream 
Distant galaxies, baby can’t you see?
I’ll call out your name, will you call me too?
We’re not here to stay, we’re just passing through
I am fighting through, I’m in love with you
That one melody, overtaking me
Where are we to go, from out of my hole?
We’re not here to stay, we‘re just passing through)

Your Love Pt. 2 (Eye of the Storm)

Leaves on the autumn tree
Waves on the shore
Don’t mean a thing to me 
Anymore

Dazzling, unraveling
Until there’s nothing left 
Vanishing, remembering
Until there’s nothing left to forget

Living a daydream, head over heels
Stare out the window, year after year
Nothing is changing, nothing‘s the same 
Frozen in motion, wither away
Love of my life, now where do we go?
Send me a sign, I feel so alone, so

Dazzling, unraveling
Until there’s nothing left 
Vanishing, remembering
Until there’s nothing left to forget

Deafening, enveloping
Until there’s nothing left for me

No more laughter, no sound to hear
No more water to shed a tear
No more hunger, I disappear
Nothing else that I feel because I’m

Perishing, dissembling
Until there’s nothing left of me

My worst nightmare’s coming true
Over and over, same deja vu
Need to run but I cannot move
A thousand paths that could lead back to you

Who am I? I can’t tell
Silver curtain, cry for help
Lightning strikes, thunder roars
Something’s looming at the door
Off the edge, soaring heights
Vanishing into the night

(Now there’s nothing left to forget)

Walking out into the sunshine
Have we met before?
Would you walk with me for some time 
And talk a little more?

Easy, I can go easy
You know I can go easy
When you’re with me

In the mirror there’s no reflection
That I can recall
Now I’m struck by the perfection
Of your image on the wall

Easy, I can go easy
You know I can go easy
When you’re with me
Leave me, I hope you never leave me
Your love will never leave me
When you’re with me

(When the morning sun awakens praise the newborn day
Birds, o birds in the sky, remember who you are)

Forget

Life is just a step. Death is just a door.
MIRRORS - out now

Bohème 73

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