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After the overwhelming response on our second album Touch in the dark, we were looking forward to work on our third album. We went to the studio again with Hans Pieters and Sascha Peath as our producer.  Due to circumstances Transmission Records wasn't able to release the album....

Pearls in Dirt Asrai Gothic Rock
Lucky we found in Season of Mist our next recordlabel. and we released

Pearls in Dirt

 
 November 12th worldwide and November 20th in the US.
  • Delilah's Lie
  • Your Hands So Cold
  • Stay With Me
  • Go
  • Lost
  • Something I Said
  • Awaken
  • Sour Ground
  • Roses
  • Chain Me

We had a photoshoot with Alex le Heux, for the artwork of  Pearls in Dirt

I can't breathe this poison.

It strangles little girls.

The marks of pain remaining.

Upon her face a pearl.

The water's black and

the moon drifts by.

Orchestral nights perform their rites

Sinking in Atlantis

They dance on their way down

 

Buried the ssun with the mysteries within.

Blood on my lips from

the dagger that I kissed

Feed me with your last breath.

Embrace your destination

Take me as far as you dare

I'm on the edge so

Never to last.

Never would there be

Another question to ask

Forgotten in a dying flame

 

Lyrics

Delilah’s lie

Buried her head in her hands

Buried the sun with the mysteries within

She played her perfection

The lie was waiting to be

The words left unspoken

Now you will see… 

 

Her lips are sealed

And dead in a kiss

The promises, she made and touched her lips 

Sleep through the fear, through the din

Blood on my lips from the dagger that I kissed

Now death I have tasted

Though I had sensed your treason

Your virtues lay wasted

So it will be… Her lips are sealed

And dead in a kiss

The promises, she made and touched her lips

Burn in her fire with your passion within

Go to sleep my little sin

 Go to sleep my little sin… 

Her lips are sealed

And dead in a kiss

The promises, she made and touched her lips
Her lips are sealed

And dead in a kiss

The promises, she made and touched her lips

Burn in her fire with your passion within

Go to sleep my little sin

Your Hands So Cold

Forget my past in your game

This is just a bruise

This is just the mirror meant to show the truth

Dusty eyes set free to rise, changing over soon

Dusty eyes to see now the changes in you 

Your hand’s so cold… forgive me

Your hand’s so cold… forgive me 

I can't breathe this poison

It strangles little girls

The marks of pain remaining

Upon her face a pearl

A trail for all, a sinner’s ball

Stare with hungry eyes

A trail for all the sinners

Staring as you rise 

Your hand’s so cold… forgive me

Your hand’s so cold… forgive me

All that's left until the end

All that's left, our time be damned

Your hand’s so cold 

 

Oh, forgive me 

This is the mirror

It reflects what is real

Sinners stare as you rise

And they kill with their eyes

This is the end

Our time may be damned

As you trip, as you change

As you slip out of range

This is the mirror

It reflects what is real

Sinners stare as you rise

And they kill with their eyes

This is the end

Our time will be damned

As you trip, as you change

As you slip  

Your hand’s so cold… forgive me

Your hand’s so cold… forgive me

All that's left until the end

All that's left, our time be damned

Your hand’s so cold

Stay With Me

Where will I stand

When there’s nothing left to say?

Stay with me

What will you choose

When there’s nothing left to lose?

Time stands still

 

Hide behind the walls

Where a house is not a home

Stay with me

I can’t break through

When there’s nothing to be told

Stay with me

 

Stay with me

When there’s nothing left

Stay with me

 

How can I breathe

When the sky has turned to grey?

It fades away

I don’t understand

Does it always feel so cold?

Breathe with me

 

Do the nightmares find your head

Staring to the face behind?

Time is all we have

When the sky has turned to grey

Stay with me

 

Stay with me

When there’s nothing left to say

Please stay

 

Stay with me

When there’s nothing left to lose

Please stay

Go

A craving is calling me

Desire in all its splendor

Pulsating, rushing sounds

Getting louder and louder 

 

Go, go

Show you the secret me

Flaunting my desire

Moral virtues are beneath me

Oblivious to pain 

Go, go To the underground

Hey, heyLet’s die forever

No, no no limits here

Open up, you know you want to

Let's go                                                                                                             

Feed me with your last breath

Embrace your destination

Take me as far as you dare

I'm on the edge so.... 

Go, go To the underground

Hey, heyLet’s die forever

No, no no limits here

Open up, you know you want to

Let's go                   

Feel the force out of control

Shattered dreams are taking over

Fears have lost their lustre now

Excel in all my senses

Give it up

Give it Go, go To the underground

Lost

Shelter for a frightened girl
Who lost so many years
Lost track of all the tears
Shelter in a bitter world
Protect her from her fears
She needs shelter now
Give her shelter

Never was she scared before
Death tempted her away
Gave meaning to her days
Never did she dare explore
The feeling held at bay
And she never will
No, never

Forever we severed
The ties that bind together
Keeping us alive
We're losing, refusing
The cry that keeps us choosing
Was she hearing mine?
Did she take the time?

Wander through your fate alone
Where madness rules the weak
Too painful there to speak
Wonder why the love has gone
Your loss is not unique
So you wander lost
And you wander

Forever we severed
The ties that bind together
Keeping us alive
We're losing, refusing
The cry that keeps us choosing
Was she hearing mine?

Lost inside this memory
Break under the weight
Will my fate be doomed
To make the same mistakes?

Something I said

Don't close the door

It's cold outside

Nothing is the same anymore

It’s all changing

It’s cold outside 

Don't close the door

I feel one with the cold outside

And now nothing seems the same anymore

It’s all changing

And I’ve absolutely no control

So tell me now 

 

Is it something I said, is it something I did?

Is it something in between you and me?

Just you and me

 

My words turn into accusations
Yours into excuses

The distance creeps between you and me

So why don’t you just go on and tell me now 

Is it something I said, is it something I did?

Is it something in between you and me?

Oh, just tell me nowIs it something I said, is it something I did?

Is it something in between you and me?

Just you and me No matter what I say here, I'll still be losing

No matter what I do, I am lost anyway

What’re you saying?

Just tell me now

 Is it something I said, is it something I did?

Is it something in between you and me?

Oh, just tell me nowIs it something I said, is it something I did?

Is it something in between you and me?

Just you and me

Is it something I said, is it something I did?

Is it something in between you and me?

Oh, just tell me now

Is it something I said, is it something I did?

Is it something in between you and me?

Just you and me 

And it cuts me like a knife

A different story, waiting for your lies

Is it something I said?Is it something to regret?

So tell me now…

Awaken

Wake up little girl

We’re running out of time

I know that you’ve been running

On a long, lost line

They cut your tongue in pieces

Denied you any rights

They burned you with their secrets

And taunted you to bite

 

You never fear the darkness

The light will only see

The struggle you’ve been into

The gashes on your knees

The chains of filth and aching

The barbs of suffering

They almost seem more beautiful

Than this life

 

Just let her sleep

On a bed of wild roses

Seems peaceful to me

Thorns pierce her skin

As I kiss her goodnight

I kiss her goodbye

 

I never know, so tell me

The colour of your eyes

It turns all red and scorches

Every time I ask you why

Frightened of the truth

Or can’t I recognize the lie

Can I ever find the courage?

To conquer this and…

 

Just let her sleep

On a bed of wild roses

Seems peaceful to me

Thorns pierce her skin

As I kiss her goodnight

I kiss her goodbye

 

Sour Ground

She wrote her name in sand

And lived a lie within

The sadness and sorrow

For the loss that came again

Water washed the tears away

But the emptiness stayed

Tamed itself with outrage

And spit the bitterness away

 

 This water won't feed the earth

Nothing grows on sour ground 

She cannot calm the screams

To silence in her head

Staring with her empty eyes

Try to feel what she had

She wrote her name in sand

And loved a lie within

Where beauty can be cruelAnd beauty takes it all

 

This water won't feed the earth

Nothing grows on sour ground 

 

I will swim with you

And play amongst the waves

Where mermaids will be singing

Where the sweet song remains

Like a comfort whisper

To be together again

She wrote her name in sand


And believed her lie within 

This water won't feed the earth

Nothing grows on sour ground

This water won't feed the earth

Nothing grows on sour ground

Roses

She puts on her makeup

And roses in her hair

She smiles to the face in front of her

And tries to be sincere

Tomorrow seems so far away

When the moon shines silver light

Shines her silver light

That blazes through the night

 

Never to last

Never would there be

Another question to ask

Forgotten in a dying flame

 

She opens her heart up

In hope of better times

A sliver of a trust betrayed

Of old, forgotten rhymes

Her eyes, they cast their twisted spells

And thorns tear through her dreams

Petals falling hopelessly

With nothings as it seems

 

Never to last

Never would there be

Another question to ask

Forgotten in a dying flame

 

Questions never been asked

In the silence of the night

And even when she tries to talk

I forget, I forget myself

 

Escape in lonely stories

Too sad for her to tell

No one there to comfort her

She sighs, “It’s just as well…”

 

Never to last

Never would there be

Another question to ask

Forgotten in a dying flame

Never meant to last

Never would there be

Another question to ask

Forgotten in a dying flame

Chain me

Change my life, seize me

Change me, chain me

Change my life, please me

Change me, chain me

 

A lonely beach in the distance far

The building sites, the city lights

Seeking her Atlantis

Beneath a windy town

 

Lost in her fantasies

Drowning in her dream

The waves so wild

Pounding patterns into white

Modern times descended

The dream is taking flight

 

Running from the beach, suspended are the lights

“What’ll I find,” she says, “In the ropes, death or life”?

Returning to the folds, like her mother’s dress

She heads for the structure, for eventual re-birth

 

Change my life, seize me

Change me, chain me

Change my life, please me

Change me, chain me

 

The water’s black and the moon drifts by

Orchestral nights perform their rites

Sinking in Atlantis

They dance on their way down

 

A figure slowly exiting from this crazy scene

And Neptune smiles with his trident come to life

He summons me to the sea

To be his liquid wife

 

Standing on a bridge, I can see for miles

“Change my life,” she says

A cab drives by and she smiles

Spinning round in the city light, she got up without a word

Turned around and disappeared into the night

 

Change my life, seize me

Change me, chain me

Change my life, please me

Change me, chain me