entropia (1997)
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l y r i c s
1. ! (Foreword)
2. Welcome To Entropia
3. Winning A War
4. People Passing By
5. Oblivion Ocean
6. Stress
7. Revival
8. Void Of Her
9. To The End
10. Never Learn To Fly
11. Circles
12. Nightmist
13. Plains Of Dawn
14. Leaving Entropia (Epilogue)
1. ! (Foreword)
[music & lyrics: Daniel Gildenlow]
Walk with me!
There are worlds to see!
Listen to me now - you
Listen to me now - you
Do my words mean more to hear
When I am standing here
On a stage like all your silly idols do?
Open up your eyes - all
Let your walls and grins fall
Would you reach for something new
If the crowds were reaching too
Are you close enough to taste their tears at all?
Your hate is but a worn-out lover sick and sear
"Rape me again!" you beg in pain dear friend
"But hey - just don't stop! The stillness makes me scared"
Listen to my plain words
That's all you'll get from me: words
The rest is up to you
Would you dare to let me through?
Are you brave enough to leave me in control?
...you're all afraid...
I'm not afraid
I'm not afraid of you
I'm not afraid
I'm not afraid anymore
I am a shipwrecked swept ashore
Life won't wash away your sins
Life can't wash away your guilt
Life will only make your conscience wilt
Somewhere a child just died
Yet another victim for man's endless strife
World could be better than this
There are so many ways to live (leave) a life
Would you claim you live yours right?
Right?
No
Take a stand!
The world is in your hand
I'm not afraid
I'm not afraid of you
I'm not afraid
I'm not afraid of you
We're just the same me and you
The same me and you
(Walk with me!)
I see myself in you...
2. Welcome To Entropia
[music: Daniel Gildenlow]
3. Winning A War
[music: Daniel Gildenlow / Daniel Magdic]
[lyrics: Daniel Gildenlow]
Once there was a world out on these fields that was untouched
Grateful for its love we thanked the earth that gave so much
And oh, I loved it so
Once there was a pair of eyes, unbroken just like my heart
Belonging to a father and his son, now torn apart
And oh, I loved him so
"Why, mommy?
Tell me why daddy is walking away
Leaving me..."
I remember birds of pray, dark shadows piercing the ground
Faceless men came shouting about a pride
to which we were bound
And oh, I searched for him so
"Faith darling, have faith my son
Your daddy is winning a war
...for you..."
Daddy need me, love and lead me
Your superseding war won't feed me
Watch fathers and sons pale cling to their guns
Marching line by line leaving reason behind
Their eyes now tense with fear, enemies are near
But all armies are only fathers and sons...
Earth bleeding through their proceeding
All greedy vultures are needing
War! War! Dad - who is winning a war?
And dad - who is it for?
I won't shed a tear
I won't show no fear
Won't disappoint you dad (all greedy vultures need war)
I won't miss you dad
I'll shut down
...but daddy, I miss you so
And I need you here - dad I'm alone here and
Daddy, I'm losing your war out here
Daddy need me, love and lead me
Your superseding war won't feed me
4. People Passing By
[lyrics by: Daniel Gildenlow]
[music by: Daniel Gildenlow / Daniel Magdic]
Daybreak
A September sun emerges through clouds
Chasing across the sky
Thoughts are evoked behind detached eyes
But people are just passing by
With smiles for protection
Unable to see
Behind the creature
That he seems to be
Once he was a child with burning desires
With hopes and dreams of what was to come
So he's lost some faith but still there are fires
Deep inside that he must drench to numb
If we could try to
Share some of his wounds
Just for a while but
We're all just people passing by
Midday
He's searching through crowds for one that is gone
Rejecting the facts one more day
Talking too loud to silence the glow
Coldness becoming his way
Empathy can't reach
Through all this blame
Smiles now forgotten
Locked in their frames
Now he's counting time in beggings and bottles
Fading away beneath old news
So he lost a war
"Will I be dead very long?"
He can still hear his voice through the coldness
If we could try to
Ease some of his pain just for a while but
We're all just people passing by
Once he was strong and filled with visions
With life ahead he set his aims
Then things went wrong
Now his ambitions
Have turned to smiles conserved in frames
Still could be strong
Could be a prophet
He would teach truth to every man
He'd see the light through every shadow
But Entropia denies he can
He's sitting numb while dusk is falling
Alone he whispers his "Goodnight"
Turning away when sleep is calling
From all the people passing by
5. Oblivion Ocean
[music and lyrics: Daniel Gildenlow]
Sleep is too quiet
Dreams are too painful
Truth is the bed of this ocean of lies
Sinking through layers of untouched oblivion
Soaking from spirits but still far too dry
Losing all barbed fences
Lucid - no defenses
"Where is my mother?" the child asked the soldier
The soldier was watching them both fade away
Nine words create an oblivion ocean
"Dad tell me will I be dead very long?"
Losing all I lived for
Losing all I fought for
Oh god if you save them
I swear I'll always hold them in my hand
Oh god if you save them I'd take them west
We'd start again in the promised land
When life is wearing thin we pray
The gods are close at hand when man is astray
But when it all is said and done
Is he to thank the gods for just taking his son?
Sleep is too quiet
Dreams are too painful
Truth is the bed of this ocean of lies
Words can create an oblivion ocean
"Dad tell me will I be dead very long?"
Losing all I lived for
Losing all I fought for
Oh god if you save them
I swear I'll always hold them in my hand
Oh god if you save them I'd take them west
We'd start again then
Oh god if you save them I swear
I'll always hold them in my hand
Oh god if you save them I'd take them west
We'd start again in the promised land
6. Stress
[music: Daniel Gildenlow / Daniel Magdic]
[lyrics: Daniel Gildenlow]
(watching corners and crossings watching all the red lights watching the stress watching beggars and bankers and rushing cars I'm drowning in this mess)
Help me
Rescue me
Save me
Set me free
(watching all the stress)
It is strange - among all people I feel alone
Very strange - despite the sun I'm cold to the bone
If this is progress let me out
Up on the rooftops I feel alive
Lovely detached from the human hive
Up on the rooftops I feel so free
Far from the city that's suffocating me
(watching corners and crossings watching all the red lights watching the stress watching beggars and bankers and rushing cars I'm drowning in this mess)
Is this what we want?
I believe
Beneath the surface we turn to stone
Can't you see?
We meet our neighbors over the phone
I'm awake - watch me
I'll escape - watch me
If this is progress help me to regress
Alone by the ocean I feel alive
Lovely detached from the human hive
Alone by the ocean I feel so free
Far from the city that's suffocating me
You live too shallow act too deep
Fail to sow but proudly reap
...and you still need more
Indians show us where you're from
Stress indicates what we'll all become
In time you'll awake
In time you'll escape
In time you'll awake
You'll see what's at stake
Is this what we want?
...is this what we need?
7. Revival
[music: Daniel Gildenlow / Daniel Magdic]
[lyrics: Daniel Gildenlow]
An eye for an eye
A tear for a tear
A lie for a lie
The weak dress in hatred to hide their fear
We cling to symbols for our mind
Hour by hour we're losing us
Defenceless for the weak to bind
Second by second abusing us
A wound for a wound
By silence we breed
Learn the hate that keeps us blind
From the hands that hit and feed
Children teach each other pain
Hour by hour they're learning it
Dreamers in the wheel of reign
Second by second we're turning it
Around
Closing the books of the prophets
Closing our eyes for the visions that die
And then we weep
"Why do I still need to cry
When I'm so happy now?"
Saviors come forth in times of need
Prophets seek me
For you I will bleed
Cry little lonely world cry
I won't close my eyes
I'll be your tears when you're dry
Pouring to the ground
Scar by scar
We're all becoming seeking prophets now
I won't bear the cross
One step further
I won't bear your hate
Any longer
Free I will rise
Come to me now
Feel the revival
Follow me now
Join the revival
See me
Believe in me
Hear me - I'll speak to you
You are the prophets
Come forth and I'll bleed for you
I'll bleed for you
8. Void of Her
[music: Daniel Gildenlow]
9. To The End
[music: Daniel Gildenlow / Daniel Magdic]
[lyrics: Daniel Gildenlow]
Sorrow turned into hate
Anger became a thread
To climb with faith
Tasting the life she shed
"Time will heal" they told him
Just as if they knew his pain
"Time kills" he whispered
Not a word - they watched him leave again
Grief need not her grave
Nothing left to save
She went up with the sunrise that day
Planned her future as every day
Spent her last minutes in tomorrows
She would never experience
Live your life each day
Meet the tides my friend
We're all nomads forever on our way
A journey to the end
She walked there every day
Without even knowing
It was the place
To which she was going
If you knew the number
Of the steps you would ever take
Bitter I wonder
Would you run or cease to walk?
For her sake he lived
Nothing more to give
Looking back now he could have saved her
But there's no one left to save him
'Cause we're all walking in tomorrows
We may never experience
Live your life each day
Meet the tides my friend
We're all nomads forever on our way
A journey to the end
So now he has knowledge but what has he won?
All pages are empty - he's already gone
He lost what he lived for and losses won't mend
Alive just to enter a journey beyond the end
10. Never Learn To Fly
(Japanese bonus track)
[music & lyrics: Daniel Gildenlow]
When I was a little child
I once found a bird lying on the ground
It would not ever fly again
I held the bird up in my hands
I shed my tears over the lovely song
That not longer could be heard
Never learn to fly
With dirty hands I dug a hole
And gently laid the bird to rest in soil
A wound in the tear-stained mud
My tears wore rain as I revealed
The secrets of a tree - a cross of bark
To speak through wooden grains:
"Never learn to fly"
I sang a song that I remembered
My old grandma used to sing for me
When I was sick and laid in bed
Then I cursed that day
For showing me my own mortality
For then I knew that all that lives turns cold
Cold and dead
And now time has passed by beneath my wings
That was then I'm older now
But still I can't forget that rainy day
I raged against the ending times
Though some day soon my son will maybe
Find the tree I cleansed of skin
No chain-sling will ever climb its rotten limbs
And when the time has come for me to die
I want to lie beside that bird
Never learn to fly
When I was a little child
I once found myself dying on the ground
And now I'll never fly
11. Circles
[music & lyrics: Daniel Gildenlow]
...now he's counting time in beggings and bottles fading away beneath old news so he's lost some faith, but still there are fires deep inside that he must drench to numb... deep inside, that he must drench to numb...
12. Nightmist
[music & lyrics: Daniel Gildenlow]
Cold winter winds
Blow away autumn leaves now
Misty world
Fades away before my blinded eyes
Why?
Now when I stand at the end of the line
I cling to life when I should decline
I always thought I would welcome this day
But now when it's here
Could there be a heaven behind that gate?
Love or hate?
Wait by my side
Count the seconds till I die
Hold my hand
Smile and tell me that you care
'cause I'm scared now
Now when I stand at the end of the line
I cling to life when I should decline
I always thought I would welcome this day
But now I can see it is yet a bird of pray
God
Hear my voice
I turn to thee
You've got to tell me
What will become of me?
Why shall I die?
Oh God
Hear my voice
Tell me there are no questions
Please give me a few more hours of this flair life
It's mine
As I am leaving alone and afraid
I'm thinking of all the mistakes I've made
I wish of my heart I could change only one
I'd want to say "sorry" just one more time
Before I am gone
13. Plains Of Dawn
[music & lyrics by: Daniel Gildenlow]
"I'm here now, by your side"
Sheltered from the cold, a soldier guards a boy
Clocks are cutting as times pass by their pain
(bringing release through the book on his knees)
(keep trying, keep trying, keep dying inside)
"Hush now little child, it's time to say goodnight
Find rest in my lullaby this night
I'll still be here when the nightmists draw near"
(blind figures controlling his life)
(keep falling, keep falling, keep falling down now)
"Have faith my son
Reach for my hand and I'll walk with you
Till the sun goes down
Follow me now
We will meet again in your land
Have faith my son
Now I'll lead you home"
Opening stillness
Reaching through illness
They walk in nightmist
"Now, we meet again
I'm so close to you now
Again we laugh"
Where shallow waters reach
For unknown mystic shores
They gaze at the horizon and smile
"Behold my son
Reach for the vision that fills your mind
Just let go and run
Follow the path that was meant for you long ago
Behold my son
And cross the plains of dawn"
Wordless questions
Tearful confessions
They meet at last now
When it is time to go separate ways
(fading pages)
They have touched through ages
"Remember me my son
It's time to say goodbye
I'll free you from your prison - now go
You're free now, the wave meets the shore"
(keep running, keep running, keep running home kid)
(winning a war made him lose evermore)
"Farewell my son
The tubes that were straining you
To a death within life are gone
Wait for us
I and your mother will cherish you my son
I cry as I'm watching you run across plains of dawn"
And so through that evening
A soldier is leaving his son once again
And a war has been lost
Forlorn he is reeling
Unmendably kneeling
But fate leaves no choice
Now he must close the book
14. Leaving Entropia (Epilogue)
[music & lyrics: Daniel Gildenlow]
Walk with me
And see the world I see
It is our home
It's where we all belong
Life is flair
A brittle dress we wear
A fleeting sigh
But though pointless it may seem
Live as death were but a dream
You don't have to walk their way
You don't have to watch the show
You don't have to play their game
And you don't have to die to leave entropia
All remains
Forgotten smiles in frames
Two fleeting lives cut down to pocket-size
Walk with me
And change the world we see
We'll cease to be
Just people passing by
Home is where we all get by
You don't have to cry for more
You don't have to have it all
You don't have to win a war
If death is but a dream
Then don't let me...
...fall asleep
Recorded during spring 1997 at Roasting House Studios.
Produced by Anders Theo Theander and Pain of Salvation.
Mastered by Rockfile Mastering and Pain of Salvation.
Artwork by Patrik Larsson / Peel Productions.
Daniel Gildenlow - vocals / quitars
Fredrik Hermansson - keyboards
Daniel Magdic - guitars
Kristoffer Gildenlow - bass
Johan Langell - drums
Concept idea and all lyrics by D.Gildenlow 96-97
6 Comments
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Marcelo Pereira says:
ReplyWhy is the only song in this session ! (Foreword)? I have all the lyrics on my CD booklets, so I'm asking just for curiosity...
PS: CAN'T WAIT FOR ROAD SALT PART 2!!!!!!!
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Angela says:
Reply"Alone by the ocean I feel so free
Far from the city that's suffocating me"I love it! It's true! I feel the same!
