1.Anthropocentric
Lyricist：Robin Staps
As the symbols of the metaphysics
Of the hangman are taken off
The walls of our living rooms
Humanity emancipates
Christ statues fall and die of age
Just like us in organic decay
The myths of the martyrs have waned
No longer do we mourn their loss
Their children dance and play their games
In the shadow of the great old white cross
Wealth heals all wounds
And alleviates any kind of pain
The shroud of collective oblivion coats
Any individual scars
The widows of the skeptical
Have passed away before they ever could retaliate
And those who baptized the world with the sword
Have long been buried and have not arisen from their graves
The guardians of righteousness
Have lost their immaculity
The rise of the enlightenment
Has defeated Christianity
But its legacy of fear and submissiveness prevails
In many brave man's heart and soul
The saddening conception
That humanity cannot choose its own destiny
With our lives based on the hope for salvation
The humanist paradigm is nothing but a charade
Condemned to inertia, a passive race
We wait and contemplate
And even in these days and age some people still believe
That earth is at the center of God's own universe
And that man was made the 7th day, evolution is a myth
And that even bones of ancient creatures are no evidence
Of the fact that we are not the end of the chain
And they won't leave their ship that is sinking
They refuse to leave their ship that is sinking
And while they spoke of grace and love
Forgiveness from above
They nailed thousands of non-believers
To their crude symbol of love
And they won't leave their ship that is sinking
They refuse to leave their ship that is sinking
The myth that man is the crown of God's creation
Breeds the excuse to deplete the earth today
The myth that man is the crown of God's creation
Supports our present anthropocentric misconception
And even in these days and age some people still believe
That earth is at the center of God's own universe
And they won't leave their ship that is sinking
They refuse to leave their ship that is sinking
The myth that man is the crown of God's creation
Breeds the excuse to deplete the earth today
The myth that man is the crown of God's creation
Supports our present anthropocentric misconception
2.The Grand Inquisitor I： Karamazov Baseness
Even if I did not believe in life＊
If I lost my faith in the order of things
Were convinced in fact that everything is a disorderly, damnable
and devil-ridden chaos
If I were struck by every horror of man's disillusionment
Still I would want to live
And having once tasted the cup
I would not turn away from it
Until I had drained it
You are trying to save me
But perhaps I am not lost
Is an unworthy, uncaring father still entitled to the love of
his sons？
3.She Was The Universe
Lyricist：Louis Jucker, Robin Staps
I had a dream which was not all a dream
The sun was extinguished
And the stars wandered darkling in space
Ray less and pathless
And the icy earth swung blind
And blackened in the moonless air
And men forgot their passions
In the dread of this, their desolation
And all hearts were chilled
Into a selfish prayer for light
They did live by watch fires
And the thrones of crowned kings
Habitations of all things which dwell
Were burnt for beacons
I lack strength
I lack strength to turn and leave you
There's no confidence
I lack strength in my hesitation
Happy were those who dwelt in the eye
Of the volcanoes
Their mountain torch
A fearful hope was all the world contained
Forests were set on fire
But hour by hour they fell and faded
The crackling trunks extinguished with a crash
And all was black
The brows of men by the despairing light
Wore an unearthly aspect, the flashes fell upon them
Some lay down and hid their eyes and some did rest
Their chins upon their clenched hands and smiled
I lack strength
I lack strength to turn and leave you
There's no confidence
I lack strength in my hesitation
She was the universe
She was the universe
And vipers crawled and twined themselves
Among the multitude
Hissing but stingless, they were slain for food
A meal was bought with blood
And each sate apart
Gorging himself in gloom
No love was left
I lack strength
I lack strength to turn and leave you
There's no confidence
I lack strength in my hesitation
I lack strength
I lack strength to turn and leave you
There's no confidence
I lack strength in my hesitation
4.For He That Wavereth
Lyricist：Jonathan Nido, Loic Rossetti, Robin Staps
Somehow by a miracle
And from then on to swim in it
As in the least ambiguous of elements
And even just a glance towards land
The thought that one perhaps might be there, ah
Oh, for something else as well as swimming
Even the slightest impulse
Of our amphibious nature is sin
What they want is an eternal song over the waves
In which reason has drowned
5.The Grand Inquisitor II： Roots ＆ Locusts
It is not for us to resolve things that are not of this world＊
A world with God would be even more disturbing than a universe
without him
For if He tolerates atrocities
If he condones such cruelty
Who would want to worship such a maker anyway？
They locked her up for 30 days
In a dark room under the roof
They broke her will with the cane
She'll remember everything
You are trying to save me, but perhaps I am not lost
It is not God that I do not accept
It's this world of God's, created by God, that I cannot agree to
accept
I dragged myself out to the Ocean
And stared all night into the sky
The only lights I saw were far below me： Black waters full of
life
I too lived on roots and locusts
I too have been in the wilderness
I too was striving to stand among They elect
Among the strong and the powerful
I too lived on roots and locusts
I too prized the freedom with which Thou hast blessed us
But I woke up and would not serve madness
The kiss glows deep in his heart
But the old man adheres to his idea
I too lived on roots and locusts
I too
6.The Grand Inquisitor III： A Tiny Grain Of Faith
'I think that if the Devil does not exist, and has therefore
been created by man, then man has created him in his own
likeness and image'＊
The devil sows in you a tiny grain of faith
And it will grow into an oak tree
You will dine on locusts
You'll wander in the wilderness to save your soul
7.Sewers Of The Soul
Lyricist：Louis Jucker, Robin Staps
The soul must have its chosen sewers
To carry away its ordure
This function is performed by persons
Professions, the fatherland the world
Or for the arrogant
Christianity has been from the beginning
Life's nausea and disgust with life
Merely concealed behind
Masked by, dressed up as faith
In another or better life
A casual stroll through the asylum shows
That faith proves nothing
A casual stroll through the asylum shows
That faith proves nothing
8.Wille Zum Utergang
'Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal
of anaemia, its 'holiness', draining all blood, all love, all
hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality;
the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean
conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever
has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul,
against life itself.'＊
9.Heaven TV
Lyricist：Jonathan Nido, Robin Staps
There is no comfort in the idea
Of the eternal soul to me
How could it live on without the experience
Of the color of the sea？
If heaven was to be an empty white sphere
Devoid of anything that you could taste and feel
Without feeling need
I take more comfort in the idea
That one day my eyes will cease to see
What's right there in front of me
Are you prepared to face that one big question
Have you lived everyday as if it had been your last？
What would you see？ What would you see？
What would be on Heaven TV？
What would you see？ What would you see？
All that you never dared
All the things you were to scared to try
You haven't lived everyday
As if it had been your last
If heaven was to be a blank projection screen
For all your most secret dreams
What would you see？ What would you see？
What would be on Heaven TV？
What would you see？ What would you see？
All that you never dared
All the things you were to scared to try
You haven't lived everyday
As if it had been your last
The infamous inventors of eternity
Have ruled our lives long enough
They refuse to see that we are animals
We need to feed, fight, sleep and make love
What would you see？ What would you see？
What would be on Heaven TV？
What would you see？ What would you see？
All that you never dared
All the things you were to scared to try
You haven't lived everyday
As if it had been your last
Have you lived everyday
As if it had been your last？
Have you lived everyday
As if it had been your last？
They refuse to see that we are animals
We need to feed, fight, sleep and make love
And I tell you one thing
When all you put on the table
Falls short of all your great promises
Then I don't want my share in any of this
10.The Almightiness Contradiction
Lyricist：Jonathan Nido, Robin Staps
If He knew it all
If He knew everything there is to be known
That would mean that He would always know
What to do next to change the course of history
He could choose to suspend the laws of nature
He would always know the past and the future
But this would make His own knowledge untrue
For if He knew everything
He could not do anything different from what he knows
And even if he could hear our prayers
He could not encroach
There's no one here who knows it all
There's nothing there beyond the world we know
There's no one here who knows it all
Is there something there beyond the world we know？
There's no one here who knows it all
There's nothing there beyond the world we know
There's no one here who knows it all
Is there something there beyond the world we know？
There's no one here who knows it all
There's nothing there beyond the world we know
There's no one here who knows it all
Is there something there beyond the world we know？
11.The Grand Inquisitor IV： Exclusion From Redemption
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