Grand Materia (2005)

 MORGANA LEFAY

album: "Grand Materia" (2005)

1. Grand Materia

2. My Funeral Is Calling

3. Only Endless Time Remains

4. Hollow

5. Edge Of Mind

6. On The Other Side

7. I Roam

8. Emotional Sanctuary

9. Angel's Deceit

10. The Operation Of The Sun

11. Blind

12. My Task Is Done

13. Sangreal

1. Grand Materia

So it came to me - and I saw beyond

The dark reflection of myself in me

I closed my eyes and I flew away

And I inhaled eternal life

Behind – the deepest of my soul

Beyond the world you live in

I found a miracle I caught the shadowstone

With the knowledge in my hand

More alive than ever

With the seven astral planes within – I will live forever

So far away but somewhere inside me

An angel slumbers wrapped in shadows

Grand materia

Catch the shadow of your soul

I became alone

My gift was both a blessing and a curse

Because I couldn't tell, didn't dare to speak,

No one to trust

I kept my knowledge for myself

Alone but with a presence inside me

An angel is awake in the shadows

Grand materia

Tame the shadow of your soul

There is no end in my life – no final destination

Both blessed and doomed to walk the earth,

As an immortal transmutation

Something dark is always close- trying to control me

I think it wants the shadow back,

Through the barriers inside me

Alone but with a presence inside me

A demon is awake in the shadows

Grand materia

2. My Funeral Is Calling

Heartbeats pounding - almost sounding

Under my skin

In disguise – I'm about to begin

To stage my plan – my decease

Am I insane

Qualms of remorse – what a sinister deed

Betrayal – they're close to reveal what I am

Brothers I thought that I had

Greed takes possession of man

My funeral is calling

Dead man poor man - you'll die twice

To cover my life

Decomposed – in a chamber of mine

My death is done – soon I'm free

Vanished and gone

A dead man lives – a living man dies

Betrayal – they're close to reveal what I am

Brothers I thought that I had

Greed takes possession of man

My funeral is calling

Inquisition, church, disciples

I fooled you all

Veiled and secured – is the secret, my soul

O'er that grave – they will pray

For a dead man unknown

I will live on – through time and beyond

Betrayal – they're close to reveal what I am

Brothers I thought that I had

Greed takes possession of man

My funeral is calling

3. Only Endless Time Remains

Sometime I miss the life before

When there was no forever more

It's bittersweet to live forever

All the friends around me died

So did my emotions and cries

It took me a long, long time to learn to live my life

In the mists of my memories

And on the shores of the centuries

I do sometimes find a piece of harmony

But I recall pain as well

Tremendous sorrow and regrets unveiled

It's bittersweet to live and never die

I have seen it all and even more

I have lived through countless wars

But love torments me more than anything I know

In the corridors of time

Behind the doors to my deepest mind

I will always keep the ones I loved alive

In the mists of my memories

And on the shores of the centuries

I do sometimes find a piece of harmony

But I recall pain as well

Tremendous sorrow and regrets unveiled

It's bittersweet to live and never die

Only endless time remains

In the corridors of time

Behind the deepest of my mind

Well, only endless time remains

4. Hollow

[Nicholas Flamel:]

Something's here, it's everywhere

It's sad and cold, it's in the air

Hollow voices, mumbling talk

Limping steps, when someone walks

Staring eyes, from a sallow face

In the mirror, in the haze

A bell that chimes, from behind

The walls or doors, or from the other side

Hollow – there's the hollow sound of a bell

Hollow – hollow sound of hell

The soul: I want you no harm, just make a friend

In this lonely endless end

I sense your fear, I feel it well

I hear it too, the sound of a bell

Hollow – there's the hollow sound of a bell

Hollow – hollow sound of hell

Hollow – there's the hollow sound of a bell

Hollow – hollow sound of hell

Entity: you deny me, when I'm there

As if I was just, mist and air

I will reach you with my chime

I'm the ringer of infinite time

Nicholas flamel: shadows move, haunting me

Sucking all my energy

The soul: why don't you come, when I call

You never speak, no never at all

Entity: I summon you, with my chime

I want your soul it is mine

The more I crave, the more you die

The more I sense that I'm alive

Hollow – there's the hollow sound of a bell

Hollow – hollow sound of hell

Hollow – there's the hollow sound of a bell

Hollow – hollow sound of hell

5. Edge Of Mind

Life – deep within all lies a

Shadow a soul

To find – and to hold it is to hear

How insanity roars

Something comes with the

Knowledge of all

That is deeper and darker and

See through my soul

Face to face – I crumble before

The being of all

The edge

At the edge of all life and beyond

The edge at the end of my mind

Time – is wrapped all around me

And choking my thoughts

And eyes – staring right through me

For secrets I hold

Trying to find

The shadow inside me –

Find it and take it

While I'm petrified

Face to face – I crumble before

The being of all

The edge

At the edge of all life and beyond

The edge at the end of my mind

6. On The Other Side

If I open up my mind

And receive the other side

Where the day reflects the night

In frenetic timeless time

And knowledge is a well

There in heaven there in hell

Where every thought and fantasy

Is reality

On the other side in the immutable

Eternity

On the other side in the impalpable

Eternally

There I face my soul

Angelical – unbound

A shadow of the free

Forever meant to be

And the presence that I feel

From my kindred soul

Strengths my life – my energy

Through eternity

On the other side in the immutable

Eternity

On the other side in the impalpable

Eternally

There I've found the power

The secret source

The grand materia

The shadowstone – my soul

There I drink the knowledge

There I find the truth

But it can be hard to stand

The menacing and sad

That is beyond my grasp

Like heartbeats in the vast

That entity that's haunting me

Searching for my soul

It's everywhere – unreachable

Not tangible

On the other side in the immutable

Eternity

On the other side in the impalpable

Eternally

7. I Roam

Wherever I walk no shadow will fall

I hold it inside me, the angel my soul

This dark opacity-following entity fly

Inside my domains, prisoned in mind

I tamed my shadow and

I roam – in my non- existing shadow

I roam – in a world that goes round and round

Can the eyes of a man understand what they see

When they see the loss of the shadow of me

For your eyes non existing, invisible, missing and gone

But your brain's apprehension will tell that it's there in the sun

I tamed my shadow and

I roam – in my non- existing shadow

I roam – in a world that goes round and round

I roam – with my invisible shadow

I roam – in my non- existing shadow I roam

You walk - this earth - with a dark reflection - a curse

That has to wait – until the end – of your life to get free and transcended

But not the shadow of me – no, not the shadow of me.

I roam – in my non- existing shadow

I roam – in a world that goes round and round

I roam – with my invisible shadow

I roam – in my non- existing shadow I roam

8. Emotional Sanctuary

I have found a little hideaway

It's a place not so far away

Like a nest in my mind

Where I rest and sense no time

There I am as much as I can

As an old and crumbled man

And I hide from the pain and sorrow

That I fear

Behind this barrier I can

Just deny all the thoughts

No cause and action (effect/consequence) there at all

An emotional sanctuary

Time has gone too far to turn around

The pain I feel

Will fade away

‘ cause life goes on

In a colder way

An emotional sanctuary

Like a spider in a web of dreams

I control my sanctuary

And the walls that I've built

Are my lost memories

Cause I'm living in aworld of madness

And the only place to heal

Is the place too close for man to find

And feel

Behind this barrier I can

Just deny all the thoughts

No cause and action ) there at all

An emotional sanctuary

Time has gone too far to turn around

The pain I feel

Will fade away

Cause life goes on

In a colder way

An emotional sanctuary

9. Angel's Deceit

Black eyed strangers trapped in time

Oh, bitter angels caught behind

The thought – given only to mankind

Legions of the seraphim

The fallen army stained with sin

Patiently they're waiting for the end

The fall of time

From where fallen angels rule

The hatred never seems to fade

Their malicious dark deception

Closing in

From where fallen angels rule

The hatred never seems to fade

Their malicious dark deception

Soon fulfilled

Giving coded secrets to

Some chosen of the race of man

So that grand materia can be found

Eagerly they're waiting for the

Monumental moment when they fly

Once again free and unbound

They are trapped in time

[x2]

From where fallen angels rule

The hatred never seems to fade

Their malicious dark deception

Closing in

They are trapped in time

In terrestrial skies

Fallen angels, darkened angels, blinded angels, poisoned by their hate

From where fallen angels rule

The hatred never seems to fade

Their malicious dark deception

Closing in

10. The Operation Of The Sun

As below, so above;

And as above, so below

With this knowledge you may work

Miracles (I know)

And all things emanate,

From the one who is the cause (fate)

All things are born (after their kind)

From this one

The sun is the father, its mother is the moon

Earth – the guardian and its nurse

It's the father of all things

Eternal will is contained (within)

This is the truth, with out falsehood,

Certain and most true

I possess the three

Parts of the philosophy

Of the whole world

The operation of the sun

This is what I know

The consummated sum

Of the work –

The operation of the sun

(Thou shalt) separate the earth from fire

The subtle from the dense (bla bla)

Gently with, unremitting care (and wisdom)

It ascends from earth to heaven

And again descends to earth

And receives the strength of the

Superior (and the) inferior

This is the truth, without falsehood,

Certain and most true

I possess the three

Parts of the philosophy

Of the whole world

The operation of the sun

This is what I know

The consummated sum

Of the work –

The operation of the sun

By means of this one thing

All the glory of the world

Shall be yours

And all obscurity (shall) flee from you

It is power of all power

It will dispel all ignorance

By this one, the world was created

This is the truth, without falsehood,

Certain and most true

I possess the three

Parts of the philosophy

Of the whole world

The operation of the sun

There's nothing more to say (nothing more to say about)

The consummated sum

Of the work –

The operation of the sun

11. Blind

Here I am seven centuries away

From the discovery

That led this way

My eyes can testify to miracles

You wont believe the things I've seen

In my immortal life

I see the truth behind every lie

And I sense who shall live

And who shall die

The knowledge of the blind humanity

Where insanity controls the world – I weep

Open up your eyes

Knowing just as I

Blind

You are blind

Blind

The room bulges and every atom is pulsating.

The hollow sound of a wind chime rings pleasantly

In the distance. my fear is gone and a feeling of

Calm is spreading through my body.

Your chime

Is calling

I'm coming

I'm yours

Oh, time

Nothing

Matters to me anymore

I am harvested by the scythe of time

I'm not the virus that I where before

Time will heal all wounds – I'm sure

Its ascending, descending course

Strikes with out remorse

Finally it finds

The scythe of time hits blind

Blind

You are blind

Blind

Time strikes blind

12. My Task Is Done

[Ready to Die]

Knowledge

Beyond the knowledge I had

A fool was I for sure

Still my thoughts belong to my mind

But slowly they are fading

Away to become

A part of timeless time

I wonder who I am and why

Where am I and why am I alive

It's time to rest now

Rest and reconcile with time

Silence I'm drifting away with the currents

Of time to become

Absorbed by timeless time

And there by the shores – the beginning of all

My shadow is waiting for me to be whole

I'm the essence of my soul

I wonder who I am and why

Where am I and why am I alive

It's time to rest now

Rest and reconcile with time

It's time to rest now

My task is done

I wonder who I am and why

Where am I and why am I alive

I thought that I was doomed to die

But here I am to face a blood red sky

13. Sangreal

[Bonus track on double vinyl]

Every truth and lie wear a sign

Just open your mind

Every search needs wide open eyes

Cause blind you can not find

Of all metaphors in all those tales

There's the quest for the grail

You can't find the chalice

But the blood that were betrayed

Sangreal – explore the shadows of Christ

I see creation in all

It's in the wheel of time

Two parts combined to spread

New life – what's more divine

All the gospels about the truth

Of the Christ and his life

Were ignored and twisted so

It never could be revived

One way

One truth

It's imbedded in life

Just find a way to see through the lies

Explore the shadows of Christ

Sangreal – explore the shadows of Christ

A heretic emperor

Converted to the church

Just to gain his power over

The empire he gave birth

All the ancient beliefs

And all the symbols and rites

Were declared as evil,

An obscure path away from the light

Sangreal – explore the shadows of Christ

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Charles Rytkönen - Vocals

Tony Eriksson - Guitars

Peter Grehn - Guitars

Fredrik Lundberg - Bass

Robin Engström - Drums