The Eva Verses-Volume One
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Child of legend & myth:
He was abandoned, in a world so cold. Many times his story's been told.
Hear it once again. Shimmer in the heat of the day.
Summer perpetual, hear the cicadas. Songs ringing on torn landscapes.
A reminder, but it's too far gone. Memories fade with the setting sun.
The child is trapped, all is decided.
Not knowing what to do, turns into his shell.
A voice deep inside whispers to him.
"You must not run away! Stay! Fight another day. Then you shall be free."
He knows he must not run away, so he stays to fight another day.
Only one more time, he swears.
On and on, the voice inside whispers. Is it him, or someone else?
Still he struggles on. Time goes by, the seasons stay the same.
Who's to blame? Trapped by his integrity.
I, Devil?:
Your ignorance is not your own fault.
As your time of reckoning approaches, you smile mysteriously.
From where do you come? Where will you go?
You cannot understand those surrounding you.
That is wisdom. They are nothing. You are nothing.
And to nothing you will return.
Child of legend & myth II:
Have you truly awakened, child?
You are ignorant only for a time....
For you have felt the fiery kiss of the crucifix.
It doesn't matter what you do.
So come, let the truth melt the flesh from your soul.
The Cry of The Beast:
Tormented in this darkness that surrounds me. I have no eyes to see.
This mask shields my silent tears. There are ripples on the sheltering moon. Men hate this darkness also, but they ignore the light. Listen to me now. I am not your prisoner, you are prisoners of yourselves.
The Editor speaks to Humanity:
You are a bit piece in the epic that is life.
A silent cut, a happy moment gone. Who will notice? Nobody.
Nobody witnessed your beginning, not even heaven.
So, do you exist? My arrogance has peaked. Now begins my fall.
Nodecs Micapt:
Witness the beauty of the icy paradise, but do not be deceived.
These crystals hide the gates of hell. Matter slowing, the mind detached.
How much longer now? A flash of light. Signal distorts.
The snow is gone. But hell remains.
Untitled:
Standing alone, your tears mingle with the rain.
Your loneliness reaches out to the stars, but they ignore you.
As does the world. But do not be sad, man has forgotten heaven,
but heaven has not forgotten man.
Free:
The order ignored, the cup falls, stains the floor.
The realisation, the remorse. Wandering this city, evil flowing around him.
Sleeping in the alleys, maintaining pride. What is he achieving?
He is free, is he not?
Free to do everything, he does nothing.
Dubtitle:
Today I heard you singing, sweet melody's sigh, and I started to cry.
Your voice is the same, but your words have been changed.
Meaning is shifting on an eternal plane.
Your truth couldn't be sung, so this change has been done.
What of your intentions? The same they are still. Irony.
Initiation:
Ratios good. Scales falling from eyes. Cold mercury in mind, slowly warming.
Soul suspended in the blackness. Watch it tumble.
Good turns to dangerously perfect. This pool grows deeper. This pool is me.
Inky blackness brightens to an endless horizon. A door. A choice.
Choice unmade, floating. Possibilities infinite.
When man becomes God? Maybe now, maybe never.
I, Survivor:
Emotion. Loyalty. Conflict. Heavy metal love song. My love for you is rolling thunder.
The perfect storm. I need a smoke. Try to light a cigarette.
Break a match, break another. Someone lights it for me.
How nice. Lungs crispen, familiar feeling. Lost in the crowd.
Stare at the burning tip of my cigarette. Memories come rushing.
I was there. Room closes in around me.
Hear a whisper? Maybe, can't be sure. You are not here.
You are elsewhere, naturally. I walk the beach alone, feeling fine.
Somehow... although I can't explain, I feel things are about to change.
Premonition. Mouth turns dry. Dark voices whisper in my ear.
I must get out of here. Climbing the mountain, I reach the summit.
Stop and stare. You are gone. The perfect storm.
Unauthorized Duplicate:
For years I've floated here. Feeling. No soul to call my own.
Off the register, purpose unknown. A flicker of intellect?
How can I be thinking this? Art is beauty, soul, and grace.
I am just a shell. Perhaps I'm feeling another's thoughts.
Collecting them broken, making them whole. Mind without soul? Interesting.
I, Survivor II:
Shock is setting in. Blood in mouth. Cigarette droops, unlit.
Weapon loaded, taste the brass. Battle raging all around, walls breached long ago.
There are no people. Bright lights and dark clouds.
New perspective. Must be dying, never have things been so clear.
It's all for you. Even though you're gone.
You would have wanted this. Explosion. Ears ring.
Overhead the sky is darkening. Rain falls from heaven, washing away the blood.
I will fight till the end. For love? Yes, for love.
Letdown:
Reaching down, you picked me up. Made me realise I was something. Never asked for anything.
What can I say? I let you down. Trees turn to amber. I knew this lady once.
She taught me to live up to my word. Maybe it's your own fault.
You can be a fool sometimes. But it's mainly me. So caught up in my own world,
no time for anyone else. So honestly? Sorry. I was blind. But I see now.
I wish you luck out there. Maybe when we meet, a friendly greeting, pleasant argument? Sincerely. Goodbye.
Lonely Hedgehog:
No dreams, no ambitions. Good.
Your dreams cannot be crushed, nor your ambitions thwarted. You may roam the confines of this beautiful park, but you mustn't cross the road. Ah, a limitation!
Feel the flicker of happiness die. You will never be happy. Cross a thousand roads.
Life is meaningless, like a hentai manga. Cross highways, cross bridges,
take a ferry across the ocean!
For years you roam, running faster and faster.
Meet a thousand hedgehogs, all happier than you.
But that's not unusual. Anything is happier than misery.
Finally, you freeze. Before you is the park.
You smile, but inside you have died.
Fallen:
Get up, Fightstar! The battle's unwon. Though you burn, you aren't beaten.
Trying to rise.
What is this change I see? No longer a child? Are you a man?
This fire consumes, but you endure. Everyone stops and stares.
Crawling through your pain. A sight to behold.
Even the spirits stop and stare. You rise in tormented majesty.
Aim and fire. Hands of a god. Fight! Fight!
Track ??:
Cracked mirror reflecting the end. Refraction.
What is here is there, what is not becomes. Swallows frozen in flight.
Seagulls look just like doves.
Origami oni sing the closing song to an audience of chocolate fish.
Cracks spread. The end. Or is it the beginning?
Drummer gives the final speech.
Tim Jensen takes some lemon in his tea, Honorifics much ignored.
Chocolate fish are getting bored. And so they sing another song.
Robert-33
Revision 2, May 2008.
readability improved and typos fixed.
