Absence: Distant Memories Of Life Lyrics

[Music by Absence, Lyrics by Timo Lehtonen]

Snow covers the earth
It's winter once again
There's no rebirth
This time dark will reign

Nothing feels the same anymore
All colours faded away

Old thoughts returning to me
And it's hard to deny them
Towards the pitch-black sea
Drawn away from false haven

This festering wound
In my mind is taking over
Forgetting so soon
How it was to hold her
Distant memories of life
A faint, dying whisper

The icy water cast my reflection
I can't recognize myself
This is only a shell
'Cos I am empty inside

Nothing left to offer
Nothing left to say
It would be a torture
To live one more day

[Music by Absence, Lyrics by Timo Lehtonen]

Someone once said
"Have hope and have no fear"
I had only one of them
Couldn't make it disappear
I tried to break the cycle
I tried to release myself
But now because of you
I'm tied to this hell

Stuck into this void
Here is no time
Every second feels like forever

Why don't you
Let me go
As we all
I'm alone

Take away my pain
This is not your struggle
All your efforts in vain
I've already lost this battle

A prison without escape
There's only one way out
But no one can hear
When I scream and shout
Can't you see I suffer
Take a look in my eye
And see my last request
I wish to die

What have I done to deserve fate like this?

What have I done to deserve fate like this... far worse than death?

Why don't you
Let me go
As we all
I'm alone

Take away my pain
This is not your struggle
All your efforts in vain
I've already lost this battle

On this everlasting moment I curse the day I was born

[Music by Absence, Lyrics by Timo Lehtonen]

This can't be true
All I see is ruins
I close my eyes
And hope this could be undone
The further I go
Less human I feel
This tragic scene
Is now reality

No one else did survive
No one else left alive

This innocent one
Doesn't even get a tomb
'Cos the unborn son
Dies into mother's womb

Eerie silence
Has filled the air
Something so precious
Is now forever lost
How can they be so blind
This way reaching the light
Priviledge of misunderstanding
Key to their anger never ending

[Music by Absence]

[Instrumental]