The Maze, by Lichfield

The Maze

by Lichfield

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1.	Nocturnal 04:19	lyrics	buy track
When I ripped myself clean in two I denied To assemble the truth I spoke While I lied Then I shredded my words in twain And I tried To reassemble the truth I wrote While I lied Seeking words in darkened places While I try to see the truth Every poem is its own world None of them consists of two A nocturnal alley A backstreet poem A story that improved reality A nocturnal valley A midnight poem Another story where I told the truth Reassemble the words I chose While I lied Then I shredded the truth in twain Misaligned Tried to gather the words I spoke While I lied Seeking words in darkened places While I try to see the truth Every poem is its own world None of them consists of two Seeking words in While I tried to see Every poem None of them is a world A nocturnal alley A backstreet poem A story that improved reality A nocturnal valley A midnight poem Another story where I told the truth A nocturnal world A nocturnal poem My reality A nocturnal world A nocturnal poem So much better than … A nocturnal alley A backstreet poem A story that improved reality A nocturnal valley A midnight poem Another story so much better than your truth
2.	Of Silent Spaces 05:24	lyrics	buy track
Leaving together to uncertain worlds When can we cease to be hurt by the words By the Words all sound hollow Echoes too clean Nowhere to follow Nothing to see Silence cuts right through my safe space Silence cuts right into my space Tearing all which has once been safe Sentinels on watch Vigilance in futility Realign your gaze Your prey has left captivity Silence cuts right into my space Tearing all which has once been safe Several people all craving the dirt Why is there no honesty in your words In your Words all sound hollow Echoes too clean Nowhere to follow Nothing to see People are hollow Faces so clean Phrases too shallow I want to scream Silence cuts into my space Tearing all that seemed too safe Silence cuts right into my space Tearing all which has once been safe Sentinels on watch Vigilance in futility Realign your gaze Your prey has left captivity Silence cuts right into my space Tearing all which has once been safe Sentinels on watch Vigilance in futility Realign your gaze Your prey has left … Several people all craving to hurt Why is there no honesty in our words In our
3.	Hell Of My Own Design 04:31	lyrics	buy track
Voices ring hollow in my home I used to wait until they’re gone Today they chant familiar songs Of who’s to blame and who is wrong Defiance To the Labyrinth Compliance Full of Bitterness Reliance To the Maze I made to protect to erect this Monument of Dust Now I find Myself In this Hell of my own design And I Decline A punishment of the divine Defiance To these walls of stone Compliance Cause I can’t atone Reliance To the strings attached to escape to reshape this Monument of Dust Voices ring hollow in my home I realized the are my own Now I find Myself In this Hell of my own design And I Decline A punishment of the divine (The Punishment of Me) Now (Now I) I find (I find myself) Myself (In here) In this Hell of my own design (In this Hell of my own Design and I’m) And I (Inclined to) Decline (Decline, this is) A punishment of the divine (The Punishment of the Divine)
4.	With The Gravity Of A Thousand Suns 04:39	lyrics	buy track
Where time is meaningless I float in endlessness Reaching for the star that’s dead ahead The radiation burns away the doubts I might have had Being attracted Being directed To a being so much greater than myself Solar activity Calls to the old in me Leave the world to someone else I want to disappear Out of the atmosphere The horizon seems so small from here Faking passivity In my captivity Falling closer to the pull of your gravity In the silent darkness I discerned an ancient call In the wake of my mistake I’m ready for the fall I realize it’s madness, to leave in a sudden haste I accept the outcome of my foolish chase I have to pass the nothingness to escape in your warm embrace Everything’s cold I feel its hold Void empty space Dark astral grace I want to disappear Out of the atmosphere And when the skies are clear The horizon seems so small from here Being attracted Being directed To a being so much greater than myself Solar activity Calls to the old in me Leave the world to someone else I want to disappear Out of the atmosphere The horizon seems so small from here Faking passivity In my captivity Falling closer to the pull of your gravity
5.	Reqiuem 04:32	lyrics	buy track
An empty room filled to the brim With a cheering lifeless crowd Their noises growing to a hymn A sacrificial vow Oh my holy requiem Is not all I had to share But I won’t share it with them I now belong to her She A desecration of belief When I reveal, when I adhere To her Teachings Of sorrow and desire I’m a martyr I will die On a pyre The congregation fixed on me Masks reflect the light A craven coven of deceit They won’t come off tonight Their priestess sends them to their knees A silent call to prayer We consummate excessively It’s far too much to bear She A Desecration of belief When I reveal, when I adhere To her Teachings Of sorrow and desire I’m a martyr I will die On a pyre Heal Salvation and relief I show to them My requiem On my pyre Calming light Flickers A knife in her hand Warming red Bloodstream A stream of cold She A desecration of belief When I reveal, when I adhere To her Teachings Of sorrow and desire I’m a martyr I will die On a pyre
6.	Incinerate 05:53	lyrics	buy track
Trial by fire A molten cup of stone Selective ire In reverent tone Trial by fire A searing feast of ash Any starving body won’t end my desire Help me Embers will light my way They won’t lead me astray Lead me, set me alight My Corpse will shine so bright Help me, help me burn up I will drink from this cup I will not die in these flames Incinerate I will ignite and erase I will not die in these flames Incinerate We all ignite in this place Incinerate Save me Scorch marks follow my way They won’t lead you astray Leave me, leave me alone On my passage of bone Save me from burning up I must drink from this cup Trial by fire An empty cup of stone Desperate desire For which I can’t atone Trial by fire A vessel for the flesh But a burning body’s claim made me a liar I will not die in these flames Incinerate I will ignite and erase Thoughts, lies and prayers All burnt away I am on fire I am a king Of what has been Set me on fire Soot, ash and stains Is what remains I will be fire
7.	Coherence 05:56	lyrics	buy track
Today I found that I had lost a precious thought It was like I was missing more and more and more Today I found a thread that I had followed once It was like leaving even more of me be Reckless time Ripping away the veil Reckless mind Weaving another tale Confusing, leading keeps proceeding Knowing that I am a lie That I am a lie Thought by thought crashing like waves Washing away all sense of me Drifting alone past breakwaters safe What’s left of me can surely see I lost coherence Broke down walls while losing consciousness Lucid erosion Of what’s real and what is true I lost coherence Breaking walls and losing conscience and a song Walk through the cold while burning alive Kept by the endlessness in me Nocturnal screams still torture my sleep What’s left of me will truly be Wrecked and blind Lost in the maze again Threadless mind Weaving another tale I walk around, I lie about Connecting worlds, while I was hurt I recreate again, that which I destroyed. Helplessly crashing into the void What never ends will never be Shall I forget that which I destroyed What’s left of me will never see Confusing leading, keeps proceeding Knowing that truth is a lie My truth is a lie I lost coherence Broke down walls while losing consciousness Lucid erosion Of what’s real and what is true to you I lost coherence Ripping seams while killing memories I lost coherence Breaking walls and losing conscience and a world
8.	Reassembly 02:00	lyrics	buy track
In dreams I find a way To set this hell ablaze I realized today I cannot leave this maze In dreams I find a way (I dream of) To set this hell ablaze (Reassembly) I realized today (I realized) I truly want to leave this maze
9.	Wayside (bonus track) 04:23	lyrics	buy track
I have fallen too many times To simply dust off this coat of mine By the wayside, far from the light But I still hold, I hold the line I have committed too many crimes To not be able to see the signs Yet I can't walk off into the night Because I still hold, I hold the line For those I love and pray to keep For them who would be there to weep When I smile with final jest And at last lay my mind to rest I have born far too much pain To ever feel whole again Broken fragments, scattered soul When all is done, we pay the toll For whatever we have done No matter how far we run We're overtaken in the chase Stumble into empty space I have fallen too many times To simply dust off this coat of mine By the wayside, far from the light But I still hold, I hold the line I have seen too many things To still believe that it's alright Yet I can't walk off into the night Cause I still hold, I hold the line For those I love and pray to keep For them who would be there to weep I have fallen too many times To simply dust off this coat of mine By the wayside, far from the light But I still hold, I hold the line
10.	Eventless Horizon (bonus track) 04:58	lyrics	buy track
I have grown so tired of this world The monotony of being, the stillness of time Exhausted by the dreary days That force a gaze upon myself The breaking wheel of ceaseless sorrow To which we are strapped and bound With lashes of an empty madness That tear the flesh away from bone All the disturbance of our kind Sit as stones upon my chest They drag me down the final length Of cord from which my pain was born The breaking wheel of ceaseless sorrow To which we are strapped and bound With lashes of an empty madness That tear the flesh away from bone A birth which I dare not to blame For fear of what the walls may echo As preached dementia in my ear Deafening my ending heart The pain is this, our haunted life Casting shadows out of the mire I have grown so tired of this world The monotony of being, the stillness of time Exhausted by the dreary days That force a gaze upon myself The breaking wheel of ceaseless sorrow To which we are strapped and bound With lashes of an empty madness That tear the flesh away from bone I have grown so tired of this earth The eventless horizon at edge of sight The pain is this, these wasted words Spent searching for a restless grave
11.	Dead Trees (bonus track) 03:58	lyrics	buy track
The snow hits the land By the whim of a hand Seasons have changed again I cast off the brand Where the frozen trees stand The past shall forever remain I remember it well The first time I fell Into eyes, so clear and bright Yet I heard the knell As we approached hell And were left in the darkest of nights The snow hits the land By the whim of a hand Seasons have changed again I cast off the brand Where the frozen trees stand The past shall forever remain I remember it well The first time I fell Into eyes, so clear and bright Yet I heard the knell As we approached hell And were left in the darkest of nights The frost maims the land By the slight of your hand Seasons have changed again I cast off your brand Where the dead trees stand My life shall forever remain

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Recorded and mixed by Lichfield, mastered at Sound Seducer Studios by Rene Ritzmann.

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released April 12, 2024

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Lichfield HE, Germany

Lichfield is a metal band from southern Hesse, Germany. With experienced members from different musical backgrounds, Lichfield delivers its own brand of melancholy, influenced by classic acts such as Amorphis, Paradise Lost or Sentenced.

Uwe: lead guitar
Sebastian: rhythm guitar
Frank: bass
Kris: vocals
Niko: drums ... more