Do You Know My Name? / What Has Happened While We Slept? - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows

We have revived the water… or perhaps it simply woke up on its own.

Anticipating… it is murmuring now along its acient bed.

Where is the stone… the tower… that worships… and reveres us?

No such a stone is here, I swear… well feeling that there should be On hottest rods we’re shooting through the night along a private garden-way…

though we no longer have any business being here

On the left-hand side the greenhouse of a market garden…

what fragile shoots are being sheltered there?!

Merry Rock, dressed in the midnight gown of tears,

he is sitting on the floor and cries

his eyes are gazing at the western sky…

Oh everything seems lost to him

Tapping his shoulder gently,

my desire hardly concealed:

You’ve done alot already, and much more you will achieve!

Sweet syrup consolation is dripping from my mouth…

Can I, myself, believe this soldemn vow?

I shattered all the mirrors fearfully hoping

that they won’t be able to remember my face.

Darkest of all lights

most greedy to embrace

surrounded by demons

or breathing in life…

Between the tides the time seems endlessly

the force of habit or whatever

pulled me back into a well-known pain.

What uses the knowledge of my progression

when the old world is gone

without a new in sight, with my new found life

I am homeless again…