Back Into The Shadows Lyrics - Higher Art Of Rebellion - Agathodaimon

In the night of my final sacrifice I sent my soul 

Into the vast and fathomless unknown to find a word 

A word, that indicates the beyond. 

It came back later and spoke: 

"I am myself heaven and hell!" 

Sculptured in time as another chapter of life 

Sharp are the thorns of the roses, which lay dank upon me 

For too long I knew that I had to arrive 

Yet destination isn't as linear as humanity 

Touch the feeling - touch the soul 

Touch the morning dew and see the glamour 

In my stark eyes reflecting 

The icon of a setting in a serene summer 

So many flowers give away to mystery and loneliness 

Their subtle perfume and their indifference 

So much jewelry's forgotten in the soil, in darkness 

But who dares to tread the silent meadows 

That lie beyond the mirror of one's self? 

Who dares to reach the phantoms of one's heart? 

To behold the murderer of life and art? 

And what is death? 

What gives birth? 

What sells good or has no worth, 

When everything you feel is cold? 

Why am I? Who's this hand? 

Whose decisions I can't comprehend... 

But isn't history foretold? 

There's a tide... in the affairs of men 

Which, taken of it's flood, leads on to fortune 

But all the voyage of their life 

Is bound in shallows and miseries...