Astray - 1999
"Until I'm Cold Enough"
Track List:
1. From Sorrow To Sorrow
2. The Beast Is Awake
3. Universal Truth Divine
4. Until I'm Cold Enough

Line-up:
Vesa Moilanen: vocals
Markku Paakkonen: guitars, drums
Pekka Majaniemi: guitars
Janne Ahtonen: bass
Jari Maatta: keyboards

1. From Sorrow To Sorrow
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Like an endless wander in the path of gloom.
Wander, hand-in-hand with my own enemy.
The enemy that fills my deepest thoughts
and slowly suffocates my deepest dreams.

I walk in the light of darken sunset.
Trying to reach the dream what I've never seen.
With the cold and stormy wind, my aim is harmonized.
As far as the snow hears, from sorrow to sorrow...

Until the last tear of despair has frozen and covered with snow...
From sorrow to sorrow...

Did I wait too long? Too long to regret?
Did I go too far? Too far to return?
Did I see too much? Too much to forget?
Did I suffer too early? Too early to get away?

Despondency - filled my mind before I woke up and
realized that the enemy has become as a part of me and
romantisized mind was just belief in my own lie...
And so the pieces has found and joint together - the enemy inside.

Going astray, as a free. Awaiting cold night to be
together with darkness. Together with emptiness.
Trying to flee, as a fantasy. Much longer as I can see,
alone in emptiness. Alone in wishfulness.

With blood I draw the symbols to snow to see direction where to go.
With aim that never dies... With belief of own lies...
I thought, shall I follow this silence to end to reach the sorrow's
embodiment. With fear in the skies... With grief in my eyes...

I raise my hands and go down on my knees.
I hear the silent whisper of sadness within the wind.
This is my victory, this is my end.
I'm sinking under snowdrift and falling asleep. Forever.

Until the last tear of despair has frozen and covered with snow...
From sorrow to sorrow...


2. The Beast Is Awake
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We rise our arms to greet the decay.
The self-destruction is our way.
We feed the beast with our own flesh.
We let (need?) him to drink our blood.

I've found the nest of the beast
from the deepest depths of my soul.

You are waiting the sun that will never rise.
You are waiting the dawn that will never come.
But I've faced my demon (have I?)
and together we fight.
I've faced my demon (have I?)
and together we die.

The path we have chosen in the path of destruction
and pain. So let's drink this bottle of poison.
We have set up the flames that lick the sky.
We have made the pilars of heaven
crash down to the ground one by one.

Beast, awake! The world is yours!
We trust you more than our illusion of happiness.
Please burn these stagings of the paradise.
Lead us into the devastation.

Beast, awake! The world is yours!
We trust you more than our illusion of happiness.
Please burn these stagings of the paradise.
Lead us into the devastation.

The beast is awake!

We color the seas with blood.
We hail the dawn of decay.
We crush the heaven.
The season of light is end.
The beast is awake.

Awake!


3. Universal Truth Divine
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Did you see them trough the time?
Did you see them die?
Did you see them laugh in the sun?
Did you see them cry?
Did you hear them calling your name
in your weakest hours?
Or was it empty echo from
your imagination?

Did you believe what they said
trough the chosen ones?
The universal truth,
the answer for everything.
When is is your time to choose
the path to go,
shall it be left or right?
Or do you let them choose (for you)?

How to choose the right throne from the circle above our heads
to bow down? Why I just don't turn my back for them?
Maybe they are the only things that keep us alive.
Maybe they are the only things that keep us die.
Pilars of heaven are falling one by one as we
march into the sin. Laws and morals trampled
in the mud. Backs against the sky. Home is chosen:
it is the cold ground.

So many, many ways to choose.
So many, many ways to choose.
So many, many ways to choose.
And all they takes into the grave.

Did you believe what they said
trough the chosen ones?
The universal truth,
the answer for everything.
When is is your time to choose
the path to go,
shall it be left or right?
Or do you let them choose (for you)?


4. Until I'm Cold Enough
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We sleep on the symbols of apocalypse but no reason to fear.
Count the so called destiny from these accurate numbers.
Something went wrong from the very beginning. Who fell the 
first domino-block? Was it Devil or was it God?
The cradle of decay buried deep into the soul.
Rotten kingdom for the sons of God.
The shadow of the mankind is calling our names.
My vision is your truth in my vision.

Silky dreams, golden rings. He wears the mask of day.
He wears the mask of night. For who and how long?
Warmth calls but so the cold diamond. They both tries to seal
my fate. Echoes from yesterday, echoes from
tomorrow for me who is today.
Distance is not enough, I can still feel the warmth.
I'm between the right sides standing between the wrong sides.
The flames they burns me until I am strong enough.

My wounds... I'll freeze them!
I will just sleep over the night.
My icy shell...
I will never let melt again!

We sleep on the symbols of apocalypse but no reason to fear.
Count the so called destiny from these accurate numbers.
Something went wrong from the very beginning. Who fell the 
first domino-block? Was it Devil or was it God?
The cradle of decay buried deep into the soul.
Rotten kingdom for the sons of God.
The shadow of the mankind is calling our names.
My vision is your truth in my vision.

Wounds my heart.
Burns my eyes.
Until I'm strong enough.

Wounds my heart.
Burns my eyes.
Until I'm strong enough.