The Grand Enigma, by Sad Serenity Official

The Grand Enigma

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1.	Vivid Dreams 03:07	lyrics
(Instrumental)
2.	First Awakening 08:54	lyrics
Gracious slumber giving way to Colors, scents and sounds familiar Feeling battered yet continue A change of pace long overdue Feeding wheels Head over heels The water‘s rising on the inside Night to day and day to pain A camouflaged usurper‘s reign Enigmatic simplicity A million veils of reality What is life A gift a curse a travesty A mind that’s spinning round and round A beacon on a burial mound What is life A gift a curse a travesty Stuck inside the rabbit’s hole Set adrift a dream Control Obligations, duties, urges Circadian rat race Dull and faint Entangled tightly, tell me how can we endure this perpetual strain Run, malice, run! Escape the cradle Your inner Babel Finding shelter Within yourself A journey inwards A task afield A path to follow A place concealed To break the chains we disavow Enigmatic complexity A billion veils of reality What is life Your gift your curse your travesty A mind that’s spinning round and round A beacon on a burial mound What is life Your gift your curse your travesty Stuck inside the rabbit’s hole Set adrift a dream Control Bruised and wounded Bent and broke Paralyzed by fear of life Too blind to see The you in me Spoiled and nurtured Well acclaimed A gorgeous mask The me in you Finding old when craving new What is life My gift my curse my travesty A mind that’s spinning round and round A vessel stranded underground What is life My gift my curse my travesty Falling down the rabbit’s hole A dream a nightmare Lose control What is life Our gift our curse our travesty Minds go spinning round and round A beacon on a burial mound What is life Our gift our curse our fallacy? Crawling down the rabbit’s hole A distant mountain to behold
3.	Clinging 11:44	lyrics
Still hanging in the balance Subliminal longing A strive for reason Our inner treason Disintegrating This constant joust A rise and swell Insight drowned by the urge to quell An endless cycle? She cannot tell Lay your head Rest Observe this inner sphere Wide awake Screw this waste of time Pour out your horns of plenty over me Babylon whore Come feed me more Quench my thirst Ensnare my worst Babylon whore Come feed me more Quench my thirst Ensnare my worst of traits Back on the road to nowhere The feeling‘s right so what‘s the deal? This bill won't be served today anyway That foul old hag Going up in smokes Feasting on her brittle bones To boost my „I“ To claim my throne Burn Blow away the ashes of my past Intruders My dance of self-defeat Turn Away from everything that weights me down I tumble Embody the tempest Babylon whore Come feed me more Quench my thirst Ensnare my worst of traits Babylon whore Come feed me more Quench my thirst Ensnare my worst A slumber did my spirit seal I had no human fears She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years No motion has she now, no force She neither hears nor sees Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees A slumber My human fears Those things I could not feel Throughout the years In motion A chance to see This omnipresent source Inside of me Sets me free Babylon whore Come feed me more Quench my thirst Ensnare my worst Babylon whore Come feed me more Quench my thirst Ensnare my worst of traits Outgrow
4.	Treacherous Calm 01:49	lyrics
(Instrumental)
5.	Dukkha 07:49	lyrics
Tantalized A shadow fleeting Keeps on slipping Lurking out of sight A game of hide and seek Suffering His kin and offspring Fuel the downswing Ties around his chest What once was born of love A source of inner joy Transformed slowly Breathe in the pungent yet enchanting reek of decay Time is a healer or so they say If pain is certain why try to evade We stride through the ashes of our past Why do the good things fail to last? Mystified Distastes and wantings Dos and Dont‘s Confusing life and death A compass needle spinning round and round Endlessly The source of misery Of woe to end and start again The law of inevitability What once was born of love A source of inner joy Transformed slowly Breathe out the pungent yet enchanting reek of decay Time is a healer or so they say If pain is certain why try to evade We wade through the rivers of neglects The noose around our necks Choke! A glimpse of starlight Walk the ruins of misreadings Observe the present Do we harvest what we‘re feeding? A glimpse of starlight Walk the ruins of misreadings If pain‘s a lesson Can‘t we agnize what we‘re needing now?
6.	He Who Floats Thy Boat 11:05	lyrics
Ache This omnipresent pattern underneath Wallowing in misconceptions What is real - what fuels my zeal? Vain Staring to the mirror, asking why Those questions unexplained I cannot push aside Who am I - Lord of the Flies? These distant memories Discordant lullabies Fragments, layers, dissociations Fall into place when the time is right Now lift the veil and face the pain A puzzle boxed by life itself Unearth your grail, unite the frail A servant cloaked as sovereign Go live the tale and break the spell Just let it go Conundrums not to be solved by your mind I The notion of a deeper source within myself Push aside the branches, gaze into the well Ripples on the surface hide what yearns to show, to take shape ... Lie This journey inwards still a quest to excavate A habit handed down so long I cannot tell The wish to break the stumbling blocks, disrupt the shell And grow ... These distant memories Discordant lullabies Fragments, layers, dissociations Fall into place when the time is right Now lift the veil and face the pain A puzzle boxed by life itself Unearth your grail, unite the frail A servant cloaked as sovereign Go live the tale and break the spell Just let it go Conundrums not to be solved by your mind Echoes of the past Cascading flashbacks trickle up and down my spine This garden of Eden Or what I thought it was A shattered mirage Frozen time Third eye invocation Oh come and clear my sight Expose this band of mimes Foundations crumble Flickering shadows fade Reveal thy verity sublime Now tear the veil Transcend the pain A truth that‘s found within yourself Stop searching among the leaves what‘s hidden in the roots So shake the bale and lead the frail The prison door wide open The mountainview clears and a stairway appears Spiraling upwards and downwards at once
7.	Boomerang 11:13	lyrics
(Instrumental)
8.	Second Awakening 06:22	lyrics
Seasons of bliss Safe inside translucent walls The path is clear now Transcend your thoughts Permit the flow Behold the summit This oh so simple truth inherent Bide amidst the watchers A prison in your mind A fortress stretching out ‘til zero Enigmatic human kind Hardest of times evoke the hero Just as the taste of salt defines the ocean This lesson tastes of liberation It doesn‘t matter how hard the past You can choose now to start again Carry the water And chop down those trees Become the current The wind in the leaves Mountains may crumble Pipe dreams can fade Radiate nothing but love Endure the simplicity Embrace reality Endure the simplicity Embrace reality now Endure simplicity Embrace reality Endure simplicity Embrace reality now

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Sad Serenity is the musical baby of German guitarist, pianist, composer & teacher Marcell Kaemmerer. Blending all he loves about Progressive Rock & Metal into a deep, unique and soulful experience, he's here to take you for a ride. Marcell is being joined by vocalist George Margaritopoulos (Wardrum) and guest artists like Progressive Metal legend Richard Henshall (Haken).

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released March 17, 2023

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