Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Song lyrics
The Last Aurora
Old Shadows Linger
Credits
Executive Producers: Shen Le
Producer: Felicia Lau Yoke Peng
Instruments: Shen Le's Piano
Art Direction: lardacil “Shadows of the Veil of Secrets”, “The Eye of the Storm”, Princess-of-flames “Lonely”
Music: Shen Le's Arrangements, Nokia, bmi freeplaymusic
Recorded in: Audacity
Converted by: Free MP3 WMA Converter
Engineered by: cdcovercreator
01 The Songwriter And The String
Sorrow has a human heart/Dreamer has a faraway look/Poet has an in depth soul/But I have only me/Lovers have each other/The cross has its hope/The ring has a promise/But I have my last song/My life lost in the cruel land/My song buried in sea of blood/My fall has rained from the sky/My tears have quenched your hope/My love has flown away/My soul has burned itself/My dreams have dissipated/Now I have only me/Come to me follow me/Try to make me feel better/In the world, comfort me/I have only you and me/Cry with me feel my tears/Dripping on your sorrow/Cover me, let me be/As I have loved you/The stars have fallen from grace/The birds have flown so far away/The flowers have wilted and died/Sadness, horror has been blooming/The trees have drooped the lifeline/The river has ceased its flow/The moon has lost its shadow/The mirror cracked from side to side/Chorus/For years I’m cursed and blessed/Dead to the world, alive for the dead/I questioned my sanity, reached for wisdom/And gave up my soul/I lived in a cave/At the ends of the world/I drank all their blood/And feast on their flesh/Call me wendigo/But nobody knows/Nobody cares/And now as I lay here dying/Who else exists in this hole!/Lie to me shield me from the coldness of the world/Question this cruelty why/Swallow me blinded me with your fury/Cover me with your dreams/Sow the seed plant the hope/Water it with your love/Shine the sun on me/In the cold, only you can grow/I was born from the shadows of your nightmares/Weaved the lifeloom for the world/Wrote the poem of the stars/Who wrote this piece?/You asked/I pity the songwriter in strings/Like a puppet, doing God’s bidding/No-one you know, I reply/No-one I know/My tears of pearl drops thread a necklace/Of human heads of broken lives/Chorus/I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together/We want to be free/Forgive me mother I’ve sinned/For eternity I must bleed/Sing a song for the child/Goodnight kiss for the neverfade/Search for me find my shadow/I will save us all, cry no more/Wipe away your tears for me/Say our farewell, if you can still see me/Lavia, lost in a land of everfrost
(Lyrics: Shen Le, Martin Luther King, Bible / Vocals: Shen Le / Voice: Felicia Lau Yoke Peng, Chen Yun / Music: Shen Le, Thierry Chaze “Larry’s Car”, Jim Klein “Quest” World Mix Vol 2, Arnaud Roy “High Ground”, “The Castle Fight”, “The Guild’s Army”, “The Path To The Guild” Classical For Film Vol 1, Peter Hawkes “In No Mood” Acoustic Guitar Vol 4 / Art Direction: deathtopanic “Controlled”)
02 Miasma
Wake up in your demise/Exsanguination caused by death’s rise/You still hold no raven’s fall/Compromise it all/Ocean’s end in sprite/Wash façades away/Said I won’t do it for you no more/Cause you won’t do it for me not now/Truth is love’s a scam all lies in tears/The way that it has been for years/Mirage of life in vain/Watching truths turn into pain/Sarcophagus with your face/Dripping blood dancing with grace/Fiery end in wrath/Burn desires up/Chorus/Miasma of poison blur the entity/Drawing dim breaths for asphyxiation/Bless my shroud with your face carved on it/Etched with the dust of hope/Wake up in your demise/Mirage of life in vain/Chorus
(Lyrics / Vocals: Shen Le / Music: Nokia “Caribbean” / Art Direction: 1alpha1 “Miasma”)
03 Eradication Of Pain
I want to show you what I have become/I want to hear you whisper to me/I want to see you kneel before me/I want you to kill me/The sins I had done cannot be washed/The dress that was stained cannot be new/All the good in the world will do no more/Than veil my sins in the wind/All the sorrow in the world was caused by me/All the worries that plagued you was sent by me/All the tears that flows are not mine/Why is me all alone am I dead/I want to show you your worst nightmares/I want to become your darkest fears/I want to sleep on your grave/I want to die alive/The things I said cannot be undone/The sword that had broke cannot be used/All the strength that I had will be ash/The day I was saved by God/Chorus
(Lyrics / Vocals: Shen Le / Music: freeplaymusic “Mi Corazon” / Art Direction: intano “Agony inside”)
04 You Are My Sin
Scarlet whispers blooming underneath the rot/Bleeding through the white façade/The temptations come from within/You are my sin/Toying with my heart licking the blood/Messing with my brains/The hell tastes like heaven/I bow down to you/You are my sin/Anything I do for you/The blood in me listens to your call/Lost forever in your eyes/Be it you who cut me I will bleed for you/Untold tales of horror plagues me/Sweet melody of your haunting gives me pleasure/Water glistening on your skin/Rhythm of your breath thudding on my chest/You are my sin/Your innocence is so sweet to devour/After all that do you enjoy it/Lost from within too late now/For I am my sin/Chorus/The day will come when we join as one/In an unholy union/For you are my sin/Chorus
(Lyrics / Vocals: Shen Le / Music: Guillaume Wilmot “Nightmares” / Art Direction: LuneBleu “My Sweetest sin”)
05 Nobody Knows
She hangs around in school after class/Nobody knows how long she’ll last/She wants a home to call her own/Where she won’t be alone/She looks for someone she can call/To catch her before she falls/A broken soul on the edge of life/A place where she’s been since time began/She wants to escape from there/Before she drowns in her despair/Sometimes she thinks that nobody cares/Whether she lived or what she feels/Alone she stands/Who understands/She wants to go/Nobody knows/Alone at night she finally cries/Yet by day not a tear falls from her eyes/She walks a lonely road/Nobody knows what she holds back/She refused to let them beyond her mask/She feels betrayed/She lost her way/Chorus/A battered heart breaking/A fragile shell shielding/She wants to be someone else/She cannot kiss and tell/Her life is a living hell/She lives in a prison cell/A broken soul nobody knows/Nobody knows a broken soul nobody knows/Chorus
(Lyrics / Vocals: Shen Le / Music: Patrick James Slattery “In Remembrance” / Art Direction: Hitoshii “Welcome To My Life”)
06 Murder For Madness
I don’t see the sunset/I just feel the rain/Floating in the night air/Your bloody gown/I don’t hear your whispers/Just the tortured cries/I can’t bear to escape/Frozen in stone/Cause I don’t have the will to escape your love/I can’t help but to fall under your spell/Bring me down under your domain/Icy fortress to chain a day/Keep me clean save me/From the insanity within me/I don’t taste your sorrow/I just taste your blood/Crowning glory of your eyes/They’re black forever/I don’t smell your horror/I just smell your fear/Afraid of you or someone/Who lives inside me/Chorus/She was found dead in the forest/Her bloody dress in tatters/Who could have done this to her?/Maybe it’s someone she loved/Someone she could never imagine/Would do this/Now you’re perfect, you will never age/I’ll treasure you to forever/Lie still in my arms/As I dream of being with you in hell/Chorus/You are arrested for the murder of a 16 year old girl./Do you plead guilty?/Guilty? What guilt is there to love a person?
(Lyrics / Vocals: Shen Le / Background Vocals / Voice: Shen Le, Felicia Lau Yoke Peng / Music: Shen Le, Qian Nu You Hun / Art Direction: Kiraya00 “the story of a murder”)
07 In A Darkened Room
In a darkened room/Beyond reach of God’s faith/Lies the wounded/The shattered remains of love betrayed/And the innocence/Of a child is bought and sold/In the name of the damned/The rage of the Angels left silent and cold/All the precious times/Have been put to rest again/And the smile of the dawn/Brings tainted lust singing my requiem/Can I take the day/When I’m tortured in my trust/And watch it crystallize/While my salvation crumbles to dust/Forgive me please/For I know not what I do/How can I keep inside/The hurt I know is true?/Why can’t I steer this ship/Before it hits the storm?/I’ve fallen into the sea/But still I try to swim for shore/Tell me when the kiss of life becomes a lie/Thus burns a scar of skin too deep/To hide behind this fear/Of running to you/Please let there be light/In a darkened room
(Lyrics: Samad / Vocals: Shen Le / Music: freeplaymusic “Autumn Nights” / Art Direction: razorbed)
08 Lavia
The moment you were born/The world rejected you/Cast in a place so forlorn/You have no friend loyal and true/No mother’s love for this duckling/Forsaken you left you to die/What is love the feeling/Who can hear you cry/Lavia, do you know why I killed you/This is all to save you from the world/Lavia, I did what I had to do/May you rest forever in heaven/Mocked by men to shame/Little girl with no name/In this cruel children’s game/They burn her ugliness in flames/Forbidden to be someone/She shed her name nemo/Wanting a love for her heart/She became Lavia/Chorus/Little match girl freezing in the snow/The only people who know her don’t love her/Only death deigns to take her in its arms/Only perdition is the road to heaven/To everlasting peace/And the poetry without an end
(Vocals / Music: Shen Le / Voice: Felicia Lau Yoke Peng / Art Direction: Brightii)
09 Grendel’s Demise
When the evils of fornication/Plagues this cold nation/Grendel tried to stop the desecration/Beowulf slayed him for a kingdom/Grendel took them one by one/But Beowulf had him done/Perdition of hope is gone/As Beowulf stands in the sun/Across the whale’s road he came/And leave our home in blood and tears/Killed the son/Took the mother as dame/In the hearts of men installed fear/So much blood where so many have died/Washed ashore on a crimson tide/Just as now there was no mercy then/Dogs of war gnawed the bones of men/Brave and strong as they fell in the fight/Feeding death’s endless appetite/Only the legend of the fiend, a Geat/Will live on, not the poor he defeat/Chorus
(Lyrics: Caitlin R Kiernan, Shen Le / Vocals: Shen Le / Background Vocals: Felicia Lau Yoke Peng, Shen Le / Music: Andrew I. Mendelson, Scott P. Schreer “The Dream Of Three”)
10 Our Farewell
Can you can you hear me/Do you know that I miss you/Sorry that I never took the time to spend with you/Took you for granted/Should have cherished you while I had the chance/Now you’re gone you’re not coming back/I don’t know what to say/I watch you ebbing away to a place far from my life/I miss you miss your smile the grief cuts me like a knife/You don’t know how I feel until it’s too late/Now you’re gone nothing to say as you enter heaven’s gate/I do I do remember/You’re forever in my heart/Treasure each memory deep inside/Think of all the good times we had/Not of you lying on the stark thorns/The rosy flesh gone from the cold exterior/I don’t know what to do/Chorus/It’s time to say goodbye/I’m not ready/I never will be/Please wait for me up there/At least you don’t have to suffer now/Chorus
(Lyrics / Music / Vocals: Shen Le / Art Direction: FrozenStarRo “Farewell”)
Old Shadows Linger
Credits
Executive Producers: Shen Le
Producer: Felicia Lau Yoke Peng
Instruments: Shen Le's Piano
Art Direction: lardacil “Shadows of the Veil of Secrets”, “The Eye of the Storm”, Princess-of-flames “Lonely”
Music: Shen Le's Arrangements, Nokia, bmi freeplaymusic
Recorded in: Audacity
Converted by: Free MP3 WMA Converter
Engineered by: cdcovercreator
01 The Songwriter And The String
Sorrow has a human heart/Dreamer has a faraway look/Poet has an in depth soul/But I have only me/Lovers have each other/The cross has its hope/The ring has a promise/But I have my last song/My life lost in the cruel land/My song buried in sea of blood/My fall has rained from the sky/My tears have quenched your hope/My love has flown away/My soul has burned itself/My dreams have dissipated/Now I have only me/Come to me follow me/Try to make me feel better/In the world, comfort me/I have only you and me/Cry with me feel my tears/Dripping on your sorrow/Cover me, let me be/As I have loved you/The stars have fallen from grace/The birds have flown so far away/The flowers have wilted and died/Sadness, horror has been blooming/The trees have drooped the lifeline/The river has ceased its flow/The moon has lost its shadow/The mirror cracked from side to side/Chorus/For years I’m cursed and blessed/Dead to the world, alive for the dead/I questioned my sanity, reached for wisdom/And gave up my soul/I lived in a cave/At the ends of the world/I drank all their blood/And feast on their flesh/Call me wendigo/But nobody knows/Nobody cares/And now as I lay here dying/Who else exists in this hole!/Lie to me shield me from the coldness of the world/Question this cruelty why/Swallow me blinded me with your fury/Cover me with your dreams/Sow the seed plant the hope/Water it with your love/Shine the sun on me/In the cold, only you can grow/I was born from the shadows of your nightmares/Weaved the lifeloom for the world/Wrote the poem of the stars/Who wrote this piece?/You asked/I pity the songwriter in strings/Like a puppet, doing God’s bidding/No-one you know, I reply/No-one I know/My tears of pearl drops thread a necklace/Of human heads of broken lives/Chorus/I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together/We want to be free/Forgive me mother I’ve sinned/For eternity I must bleed/Sing a song for the child/Goodnight kiss for the neverfade/Search for me find my shadow/I will save us all, cry no more/Wipe away your tears for me/Say our farewell, if you can still see me/Lavia, lost in a land of everfrost
(Lyrics: Shen Le, Martin Luther King, Bible / Vocals: Shen Le / Voice: Felicia Lau Yoke Peng, Chen Yun / Music: Shen Le, Thierry Chaze “Larry’s Car”, Jim Klein “Quest” World Mix Vol 2, Arnaud Roy “High Ground”, “The Castle Fight”, “The Guild’s Army”, “The Path To The Guild” Classical For Film Vol 1, Peter Hawkes “In No Mood” Acoustic Guitar Vol 4 / Art Direction: deathtopanic “Controlled”)
02 Miasma
Wake up in your demise/Exsanguination caused by death’s rise/You still hold no raven’s fall/Compromise it all/Ocean’s end in sprite/Wash façades away/Said I won’t do it for you no more/Cause you won’t do it for me not now/Truth is love’s a scam all lies in tears/The way that it has been for years/Mirage of life in vain/Watching truths turn into pain/Sarcophagus with your face/Dripping blood dancing with grace/Fiery end in wrath/Burn desires up/Chorus/Miasma of poison blur the entity/Drawing dim breaths for asphyxiation/Bless my shroud with your face carved on it/Etched with the dust of hope/Wake up in your demise/Mirage of life in vain/Chorus
(Lyrics / Vocals: Shen Le / Music: Nokia “Caribbean” / Art Direction: 1alpha1 “Miasma”)
03 Eradication Of Pain
I want to show you what I have become/I want to hear you whisper to me/I want to see you kneel before me/I want you to kill me/The sins I had done cannot be washed/The dress that was stained cannot be new/All the good in the world will do no more/Than veil my sins in the wind/All the sorrow in the world was caused by me/All the worries that plagued you was sent by me/All the tears that flows are not mine/Why is me all alone am I dead/I want to show you your worst nightmares/I want to become your darkest fears/I want to sleep on your grave/I want to die alive/The things I said cannot be undone/The sword that had broke cannot be used/All the strength that I had will be ash/The day I was saved by God/Chorus
(Lyrics / Vocals: Shen Le / Music: freeplaymusic “Mi Corazon” / Art Direction: intano “Agony inside”)
04 You Are My Sin
Scarlet whispers blooming underneath the rot/Bleeding through the white façade/The temptations come from within/You are my sin/Toying with my heart licking the blood/Messing with my brains/The hell tastes like heaven/I bow down to you/You are my sin/Anything I do for you/The blood in me listens to your call/Lost forever in your eyes/Be it you who cut me I will bleed for you/Untold tales of horror plagues me/Sweet melody of your haunting gives me pleasure/Water glistening on your skin/Rhythm of your breath thudding on my chest/You are my sin/Your innocence is so sweet to devour/After all that do you enjoy it/Lost from within too late now/For I am my sin/Chorus/The day will come when we join as one/In an unholy union/For you are my sin/Chorus
(Lyrics / Vocals: Shen Le / Music: Guillaume Wilmot “Nightmares” / Art Direction: LuneBleu “My Sweetest sin”)
05 Nobody Knows
She hangs around in school after class/Nobody knows how long she’ll last/She wants a home to call her own/Where she won’t be alone/She looks for someone she can call/To catch her before she falls/A broken soul on the edge of life/A place where she’s been since time began/She wants to escape from there/Before she drowns in her despair/Sometimes she thinks that nobody cares/Whether she lived or what she feels/Alone she stands/Who understands/She wants to go/Nobody knows/Alone at night she finally cries/Yet by day not a tear falls from her eyes/She walks a lonely road/Nobody knows what she holds back/She refused to let them beyond her mask/She feels betrayed/She lost her way/Chorus/A battered heart breaking/A fragile shell shielding/She wants to be someone else/She cannot kiss and tell/Her life is a living hell/She lives in a prison cell/A broken soul nobody knows/Nobody knows a broken soul nobody knows/Chorus
(Lyrics / Vocals: Shen Le / Music: Patrick James Slattery “In Remembrance” / Art Direction: Hitoshii “Welcome To My Life”)
06 Murder For Madness
I don’t see the sunset/I just feel the rain/Floating in the night air/Your bloody gown/I don’t hear your whispers/Just the tortured cries/I can’t bear to escape/Frozen in stone/Cause I don’t have the will to escape your love/I can’t help but to fall under your spell/Bring me down under your domain/Icy fortress to chain a day/Keep me clean save me/From the insanity within me/I don’t taste your sorrow/I just taste your blood/Crowning glory of your eyes/They’re black forever/I don’t smell your horror/I just smell your fear/Afraid of you or someone/Who lives inside me/Chorus/She was found dead in the forest/Her bloody dress in tatters/Who could have done this to her?/Maybe it’s someone she loved/Someone she could never imagine/Would do this/Now you’re perfect, you will never age/I’ll treasure you to forever/Lie still in my arms/As I dream of being with you in hell/Chorus/You are arrested for the murder of a 16 year old girl./Do you plead guilty?/Guilty? What guilt is there to love a person?
(Lyrics / Vocals: Shen Le / Background Vocals / Voice: Shen Le, Felicia Lau Yoke Peng / Music: Shen Le, Qian Nu You Hun / Art Direction: Kiraya00 “the story of a murder”)
07 In A Darkened Room
In a darkened room/Beyond reach of God’s faith/Lies the wounded/The shattered remains of love betrayed/And the innocence/Of a child is bought and sold/In the name of the damned/The rage of the Angels left silent and cold/All the precious times/Have been put to rest again/And the smile of the dawn/Brings tainted lust singing my requiem/Can I take the day/When I’m tortured in my trust/And watch it crystallize/While my salvation crumbles to dust/Forgive me please/For I know not what I do/How can I keep inside/The hurt I know is true?/Why can’t I steer this ship/Before it hits the storm?/I’ve fallen into the sea/But still I try to swim for shore/Tell me when the kiss of life becomes a lie/Thus burns a scar of skin too deep/To hide behind this fear/Of running to you/Please let there be light/In a darkened room
(Lyrics: Samad / Vocals: Shen Le / Music: freeplaymusic “Autumn Nights” / Art Direction: razorbed)
08 Lavia
The moment you were born/The world rejected you/Cast in a place so forlorn/You have no friend loyal and true/No mother’s love for this duckling/Forsaken you left you to die/What is love the feeling/Who can hear you cry/Lavia, do you know why I killed you/This is all to save you from the world/Lavia, I did what I had to do/May you rest forever in heaven/Mocked by men to shame/Little girl with no name/In this cruel children’s game/They burn her ugliness in flames/Forbidden to be someone/She shed her name nemo/Wanting a love for her heart/She became Lavia/Chorus/Little match girl freezing in the snow/The only people who know her don’t love her/Only death deigns to take her in its arms/Only perdition is the road to heaven/To everlasting peace/And the poetry without an end
(Vocals / Music: Shen Le / Voice: Felicia Lau Yoke Peng / Art Direction: Brightii)
09 Grendel’s Demise
When the evils of fornication/Plagues this cold nation/Grendel tried to stop the desecration/Beowulf slayed him for a kingdom/Grendel took them one by one/But Beowulf had him done/Perdition of hope is gone/As Beowulf stands in the sun/Across the whale’s road he came/And leave our home in blood and tears/Killed the son/Took the mother as dame/In the hearts of men installed fear/So much blood where so many have died/Washed ashore on a crimson tide/Just as now there was no mercy then/Dogs of war gnawed the bones of men/Brave and strong as they fell in the fight/Feeding death’s endless appetite/Only the legend of the fiend, a Geat/Will live on, not the poor he defeat/Chorus
(Lyrics: Caitlin R Kiernan, Shen Le / Vocals: Shen Le / Background Vocals: Felicia Lau Yoke Peng, Shen Le / Music: Andrew I. Mendelson, Scott P. Schreer “The Dream Of Three”)
10 Our Farewell
Can you can you hear me/Do you know that I miss you/Sorry that I never took the time to spend with you/Took you for granted/Should have cherished you while I had the chance/Now you’re gone you’re not coming back/I don’t know what to say/I watch you ebbing away to a place far from my life/I miss you miss your smile the grief cuts me like a knife/You don’t know how I feel until it’s too late/Now you’re gone nothing to say as you enter heaven’s gate/I do I do remember/You’re forever in my heart/Treasure each memory deep inside/Think of all the good times we had/Not of you lying on the stark thorns/The rosy flesh gone from the cold exterior/I don’t know what to do/Chorus/It’s time to say goodbye/I’m not ready/I never will be/Please wait for me up there/At least you don’t have to suffer now/Chorus
(Lyrics / Music / Vocals: Shen Le / Art Direction: FrozenStarRo “Farewell”)
we finished our sophomore effort!
we did it! we finally recorded finish 'murder for madness', our final song. it was especially hard because it features the wind, panting, girls screaming, judges thudding their gavel, and echoes. and the final result is way cool!
here's the track meanings:
01 the songwriter and the string: shen le as the songwriter has no choice but to write whatever her brain comes up with. she is controlled by God, like a puppet on strings.
02 Miasma: a scorned girl cursed her worthless boyfriend.
03 eradication of pain: a sinner repents as he suffers the agonies in hell.
04 you are my sin: eve tries to subdue her seducing temptations to take the forbidden fruit.
05 nobody knows: shen le writes about how child abuse has affected her.
06 murder for madness: a passionate man kills, rapes, then eats his girlfriend when she does not want to marry him.
07 in a darkened room: drug addicts writes about sufferings drugs has cost them in jail.
08 lavia: a woman tries to kill her child to protect her from the cruel world.
09 grendel's demise: an ode sympathising with grendel as a man who is just ugly, so everyone hates him.
10 our farewell: a girl sings about her family member dying.
since this is called "old shadows linger", the stories behind the songs are all pretty dark. but there is a glimmer of hope for the third album...
here's the track meanings:
01 the songwriter and the string: shen le as the songwriter has no choice but to write whatever her brain comes up with. she is controlled by God, like a puppet on strings.
02 Miasma: a scorned girl cursed her worthless boyfriend.
03 eradication of pain: a sinner repents as he suffers the agonies in hell.
04 you are my sin: eve tries to subdue her seducing temptations to take the forbidden fruit.
05 nobody knows: shen le writes about how child abuse has affected her.
06 murder for madness: a passionate man kills, rapes, then eats his girlfriend when she does not want to marry him.
07 in a darkened room: drug addicts writes about sufferings drugs has cost them in jail.
08 lavia: a woman tries to kill her child to protect her from the cruel world.
09 grendel's demise: an ode sympathising with grendel as a man who is just ugly, so everyone hates him.
10 our farewell: a girl sings about her family member dying.
since this is called "old shadows linger", the stories behind the songs are all pretty dark. but there is a glimmer of hope for the third album...
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