Hinter den Flammen [English translation]

I see myself going to the cellar

I see myself standing before the furnace

The hatch opens by itself with shrill screeches

Just as if it were a mouth

Aren’t my fingers burning, doesn’t it smell like flesh?

I stare until my eyes are sore

Panic squeezes the air from my lungs

I sense the danger is too strong

It has devoured so many before me

It looks over and perceives me

I fall to my knees

And I don’t really know what's

happening to me now

Nor what will befall me

I feel the threat like a wave

That has buried me underneath it

It’s as if everything beautiful, everything good, has flown away

I know now, it wants to have me

To feast upon my soul

There’s something stirring behind the flames!

Monstrous and millenniums old

There’s something stirring behind the flames!

A grotesque nightmarish figure

The malice oppresses me

Its sight almost drives me mad

Like something spawned by a sick mind,

Strange and inexpressible

It looks inside my head

I am a worm in its eyes

Worthless and breakable

And it mocks my entire being

I want to crawl inside a deep hole

It will remember who I am

I can clearly smell my cold sweat

It reaches for my being

I crawl like a child,

Panting, coughing, and almost blind,

toward the door

The saving door?

It wants me, and I must surrender myself

I see Astoria emerge

And suddenly I can raise myself up,

stand upon my weak legs,

I cannot stop my weeping

There’s something stirring behind the flames!

Monstrous and millenniums old

There’s something stirring behind the flames!

A grotesque nightmarish figure

There’s something stirring behind the flames!

An indescribable horror

Now I know from whence the parts originate,

The collective that digests as a swarm

Epilogue:

A will done, and soon the kingdom will come

Father and Mother and Ending together

The selection followed, much was learned

It awaits just one last distant victim

• Artist:ASP
• Album:Verfallen folge 2: Fassaden