An Embracing Space (Part II)

Today's tune comes from that same band that seem to have disappeared totally. Regicide offer the second half of "An Embracing Space" again alternating between the Bass and Soprano singers.

While this part plays on immediately from the first part the piano interlude gives it a sudden brighter feel. The first half has the feel of being trapped, what ever the reason, while this part is all about getting out. Reaching outside of that which confines you.

What I really love about this piece of music is the combination of the vocalists carrying the theme of multiple personalities the one is basically questioning the other while the other is pleading their case. A classic case of being in two minds.

Entwined by fear I stand alone dwarfed to walk
Precariousness suffuses my soul
(just feel how it embraces you)
She leads but she is certainly not omniscient
This incandescent path allures but I...
...I just don't want to loose myself...

You will be released! Come, take my hand! Let your heart lead you!
You must have no fear; just see: There is a light above
You are asleep and I am here to recover your consciousness
I am sure that this will be
The freeing of this daydream

There is the light!
There is the outside!
There lays my soul!
There is the solution

There is the light!
There is the outside!
There lays my soul!
Is this freedom?

I meander through this confusing path within myself
But I was relieved as I saw you
As a mirror maze
Now I know why we can't break out of
This embracing space
We have to discard all anger and fear
To yoke our souls

There is the light!
There is the outside!
There lays my soul!
There is the solution

There is the light!
There is the outside!
There lays my soul!
Is this freedom?

We're at the destination
We will be free again
We will reach each other
And end this schizophrenia

Will I ever get out of this embracing space I'm in?
Will you ever get out of this embracing space?
//Will we ever get out of this embracing space?//

There is the light!
There is the outside!
There lays my soul!
There is the solution

There is the light!
There is the outside!
There lays my soul!
Is this freedom?

Reach for the light, break out or you'll be left wondering what ever really happened to your soul.

An Embracing Space (Part I)

Today's tune comes from a band that seem to have disappeared totally. Regicide were an interesting grouping of classically trained musicians, opera singers and rock stars. Guess the world is a little poorer for their loss.

"An Embracing Space" is actually played out in 2 parts (although I believe that their is supposed to have been recorded at some point) and each line kinda alternates between the Bass and Soprano vocalists. I think we're all stuck at times thinking how we'll ever get out of what ever it is that might be holding us... holding us in, holding us back, or perhaps it is us simply refusing to let go?

Will I ever get out of this embracing space I'm in?
Will you ever get out of this embracing space?
Will we ever get out of this embracing space?

How was I trapped into this space?
Just feel how it embraces you
Why must I bear this punishment?
You'll learn what this life is for

Why was I chosen by destiny?
Don't ask for the reasons!
Do I succumb a higher might?
The highest one lies in your mind

May I die?
These feelings are mortal
But I just don't want to loose myself!

Please, come into my tragic kingdom
But be careful, you cannot linger!
Take my wisdom, just step forward!
Cause time has no meaning, take these vistas from your past

Do you think that I am a fool?
I just want to lead you to light
Did I say I want to forget?
This is the wish of your heart!

Everything seems unsettled to me
My cranial seems to explode
You didn't understand that this is not trivia
Am I not in this space, am I finally through?
I didn't hesitate
Your soul took no rest, do you really bother?

But where is the light?
Where is the outside?
Where lays my soul?
Where is the solution?

I'm not here to bring you perdition
No, I am here to guide you out of this

So where you lead I will follow
I trust in you, but don't cause disaster!
So where you lead I will follow
(Where I lead you will follow)
I trust in you, but don't cause disaster!
(Trust in me, but don't cause disaster!)

Will I ever get out of this embracing space I'm in?

Look back over the past and move on. The best one to lead you forward is you.

Funeral of Tears

This one sounds rather glum, but actually I find it somewhat liberating. As with so many songs it's your own personal interpretation that really gives it meaning.

"Funeral of Tears" by Regicide is another classic. I like the fact that the end can be a new beginning. After all, every beginning comes from some other beginnings end.

This is the funeral of tears
I exile the last sad years
Future's coming over me
But there's not much hope to see

So just look up – up to the sun
The end can be a new beginning
So just wake up – don't defy your life
Look out, don't be misleaded

Stop the rain...

A fog creeps through my brain
Befuddles without shame
No lights anywhere to see
So this might comes over me

So just look up – up to the sun
The end can be a new beginning
So just wake up – don't defy your life
Look out, don't be misleaded

Yes, I look up – but where's the sun
It's the beginning of the end
Well, I'm asleep – defy my life
I look inside and I'm misleaded

Without further ado this feeling surrounds you

But it's as small as pebble running down a wall
What a cliff is this I must jump onto
What a misery I am going through

So just look up – up to the sun
The end can be a new beginning
So just wake up – don't defy your life
Look out, don't be misleaded

I'm having a funeral for all of these tears. The end... is just another beginning.

Lonely Voices

For the longest time what I can only describe as the screaming in my head. Yup I'm pretty mental. Then there was the calm. Now... I guess, nothing is left of them but the "lonely voices". The parts of me that no longer have a place. That no longer need to be heard.

This has to be one of the better compositions I've heard in quite some time. This is a rather interesting mixture of metal, classical and gothic themes, Regicide (who are no longer performing sadly), "Lonely Voices".

In my dreams I still can see
The life that used to comfort me
But I know it fades away
In every minute – day by day
Now it seems I've lost my way
Searching for a place where I could stay
I became a living lie
While lonely voices started to cry

And so I face the setting sun
Our past can never be undone

Paradise I tried to find
And nothing else I had in mind
With blind eyes I walked on by
The things I didn't even try
Looking back I only see
Failure – endless misery
That is why I hear at last
Just lonely voices from the past...

And so I face the setting sun
A cage-bird - trying to fly with broken wings
Our past can never be undone
What lays beyond remains a mystery to me

And so I face the setting sun
A cage-bird - trying to fly with broken wings
Our past can never be undone
What lays beyond remains a mystery to me
To me...
Lonely voices in me...

Who knows what tomorrow brings? But I'm leaving the voices behind, somehow I think they'll understand.