Vi står och betraktar världen. Alla drömmar, alla saker som vi känt. Vi står och betraktar oss själva. Alla chanser, alla broar som vi bränt.
Livet kommer som en svallvåg, sveper oss bort och vi fastnar i stunden. Ingen tid att reflektera, sitter fast i en maskin som rör sig. Försöker bryta, försöker stanna, men vi dansar till någon annans pipa.
Det liv vi ville ha var inte det vi fick.
Om alla drömmar var illusioner, finns det någon mening med att fortsätta kämpa? Det liv vi ville ha, är det för sent?
Fortsätter längta, fortsätter drömma. Vi fortsätter för vi måste göra det.
Det liv vi ville ha, det kan bli vårt. Det ska bli vårt.
Vi är här. Det liv vi lever nu, det tillhör oss och bara oss.
Vi står och betraktar världen. Vi står och betraktar oss själva. Det vi inte gillar kan vi ändra. Det vi inte gillar måste vi ändra.
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The life we wanted isn’t the life we got
We stand here and observe the world. All the dreams, all the things we felt. We stand here and observe ourselves. All the chances, all the bridges we have burned.
Life rolls in like a tidal wave, sweeping us away and we get caught in the moment. No time to reflect, stuck in a machine in motion. Try to break away, try to stop the machine, but we are dancing to someone else’s tune.
The life we wanted isn’t the life we got.
If all of our dreams were illusions, is there any reason to keep on fighting? The life we wanted...is it too late?
Keep longing, keep dreaming. We go on because we have to.
The life we want, it can be ours. It will be ours.
We are here. The life we are living belongs to us and only to us.
We stand here and observe the world. We stand here and observe ourselves. What we don’t like, we can change. What we don’t like, we must change.
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This album is haunting, beautiful, and cathartic. One of the best post-black metal albums out there. I bought a cd on Discogs, but needed the vinyl. Доберман Сатз
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Hearing the songs while reading the narrative behind the lyrics, I felt overwhelmed by this tragic story in which humans and artificial intelligence couldn't coexist side by side. Their reciprocal annihilation was inevitable. Except one "sole survivor, in a ship filled with memories. She had become the proof of Earth, proof that life had existed there, a voice for all the species and beauty we once knew". A dystopian concept dressed up in brilliant musicianship! @Slevin, thanks, I owe it to you! Umbra Cornuta