1. Pass away I take a look at life's ravenous grin I don't understand how could I lose Only things that I've lost will remain It's so terrible to live among lycanthropes You turned your back - he turned his face A quiet rustle sounds behind You will pass away soon Pass away! Irony of fate is ready to dance Silver bullets are impossible to find Desperation inside gives me to know You can't sleep but on a minefield Passing away till someone takes the place Passing away with hope to survive another battle Life is unpredictable. Our hopes and dreams may be ruined in an instant, our health or our freedom may be hurt. Our relatives may leave or betray. But no matter what happens, no matter what pain we suffer, we must not lose our heads, we must not give up. It may seem impossible to do something, but it's not like that. We can always stay unbroken, keeping inner integrity. There's always a way to fight time and it will inevitably lose. Because our consciousness, our understanding of life and existance lies beyond time limits. 2. Death fetters Thoughts falling down Like napalm from the skies Spilling like shadow Of our fetters A day and an hour will come When there will be no us The only thing we're guaranteed to get in our life is death. We don't have to think of it under any circumstances. Death's always available, but as long as we live we stand a step away from it. This step is a possibility not to feel death fetters. We must use this possibility. 3. Lies / Obsession (two songs in one) Caught in a box of dramas From the past days long time forgotten That always change colour Under will of those who use us Our memory is clueless Ready to accept everything that surrounds us Locking us down once and for all In a vicious bloody circle I sweep off all the lies Seeking other ways But it's so hard To find one Time flies, generation after generaion, history takes shape. Knowledge is kept in minds and with time people inherit it. There are many ways to transmit information in space and in time. We receive knowledge from our parents, relatives, schools, books and all kinds of other media. From basic life principles to special knowledge - most of it comes from outside. We are to process it, to test it, to master it and to make conclusions. The process of transmission is closely connected to the process of modification. Deliberately or not, people change and share information. Every single man, every single structure operating the information have their own aims. Unfortunately, these processes often become a source of autoritarism. Emergence of mass media made it possible to effectively manipulate public conscience. A niche that must be taken by public opinion is forced to be cleaned and filled with the results of work of specialised institutions. Anything can be distorted regardless of time. Useless heroes are restricted and forgotten, useful - show up and get praised. Hatred is concentrated where needed. Attention is drawn where needed, while important things stay out of people's sight. In that way we lost the most important thing - human personality development. Human stops his evolution, stops thinking over his deeds, loses his or her own opinion. We ourselves make information space with which we interact more and more agressive. Every second we make requests to this field and the answer we get gets bigger each time. We move ourselves into false information space, exchanging our own life for illusions and immitations made by strangers. ~ I'm possessed by an evil spirit My friends now think I'm out of my mind Everyone wants to treat me Crosses turned upside down Darkness in churches The dead are dancing Upon the coffins Everyone is able to develop spirituality and everyone starts it from scratch. It's really not necessary to use ready-made schemas in this process - especially those elaborated and controled by specialised institutions. 4. Life in exchange Will be lost in a cold cave In loneliness and faith Could be saved by someone Who will not let the life go A weakened fighter For a world of rotten hearts A pawn of taunt A mockery of cruelty We face obstacles Whose only purpose is To take life in exchange For whole lot of needless problems People have built an unbelievably great number of mechanisms and gave them important functions. And many of these mechanisms are so integrated into society, that no one pays attention to them though they went out of date and need to be replaced. Why must somebody take part in functioning of those mechanisms and give away life for something that has nothing in common with his or her life? Why people are forced to believe that they owe something to someone? Why are they forced to believe that their life will be secured? How can we survive and avoid all those obstacles in this sick rusty society? 5. Loss of sense A nice little poem I found And went to take over the souls Need to turn the volume up To drive everyone crazy It's a pity the sense and the way have been lost That could change everything Main thing is to shout aloud Sometimes making lots of noise without a sense we lose contact with reality, we lose our way and start to ramble with our eyes closed. Make lots of noise with purpose. Thanks to Anton, Dasha and all other photographers for pictures used in inserts. Thanks to Pasha for mobilography for cover. Thanks to Jenya for logo. Thanks to Valera of Hospise (http://www.myspace.com/hospise) for translations. Recorded at spring 2010 on "Antrop" studio. Thanks to Igor for recording and mixing. Anton (vocals), Artem (guitar), Denis (drums), Nikita (bass). frostbite@hiddenrainbows.ru hiddenrainbows.ru/bands/frostbite/