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Somewhere on Earth

by The Zen

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1.
(Instrumental)
2.
There is something weird behind your eyes Something I’ve never seen before Senseless and empty for mankind The eyes that won’t shine anymore This isn’t that we’d call a dream Same place, same time I’ve ever been Red wine on the wall… The fall shakes my chest and my soul Please, God, look at me I’m so terrorized Lend me your all-mighty hand Anything I try to do Turns into a burning breath Why me? Why now? Why you don’t? This rage will break my bloody chest Somewhere on earth! Does anybody feel my wrath? Somewhere on (Earth) There is something weird in me Whispering, drawing tears I think I’m gone I can reach the light and beyond Yeah, forced to get away So welcome to my runaway To my runaway Oh my Lord, I despise thou Will I ever reach your skies? “All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain” All those moments will turn in dust Out of conscience, beyond your mind Just behold their silent flight Thrown to distance, out of sight Dispossession, rape out of my wish Unearthly sight, skyline decrease If I could find someone out there As me so lost and desperate So lifetime circle… is complete Released, it seems the net caught me in the end The silver plankton floats among the darkest seas And the above term has just begun, the final sacrifice Coral of your mind still remains intact (Life)Do you feel my wrath? Somewhere out of this mad road? (See)Beyond this dawn Follow the stars, shiny shooting stars (Be)Enjoy your role Come close and look up your destiny (Go)Go forth Misplace the hate, will always consume your desires Put down your fingers, so reaper will be there Someday, for first time, you’ll be dead
3.
Confusion is here to stay; a cold sweat blinds my eyes Darkness devours my mind’s clarity Scepticism and questions, the answers remain hidden My steps don’t seem to make sense They move me away from reality Like a ghost with no sentence With no burden to be carried yet I prowl around this strange stage of suffocating surrealism. My senses own my body again The old scars and the memories burn so hard The afterlife is a proof of this tricky trap The afterlife is a proof of the oblivion’s lie Is this the consequence of a loathsome life? A proof, a punishment, a sentence Or a chance to rectify my deeds? My hands are shaking, they cover my eyes Fear devours my guts My conscience was never stained with blood ¿So do I really deserve this? A barren paradise, it seems a point of no return My life has been taken to be in this place It’s time to begin the journey; it’s time to face the truth I must know the origin of this wretched fate of mine I drift away from all I love, from all I once won The weight of darkness make so hard to reach the shore One second feels like one billion years My senses own my body again The old scars and the memories burn so hard. The afterlife is a proof of the oblivion’s lie. Refuse it, deny it, avoid it Feed The Fire! It takes us, betray us, it fakes us Beat The Liar!
4.
Checkmate 02:52
Was long time ago when I had been playing But never thought I’d be waiting for Death If I won or I lost, I don’t care Forget it, checkmate ends the game “Once the men had to be demigods Otherwise they would not have invented the chess” Strategy, a matter of reflection So the tactic is a matter of perception Elixir to prolong the life Cult of wisdom, almost a hymn To the virtue, the glory and, so, pride There won’t be such price like enemy’s scalp! But the things have changed all at once At the moment I looked to the adversary mate …No eyes, they’re just full of scrawls A little child who’s standing the challenge with me The son I once had! Blitz game for me! Do not ever leave your last game Chessboards not allowed I had fallen into this fake trap Death defeated me The ambush have penalized me with my life Cause no one overcomes death Checkmate!!!
5.
I can’t remember the reason why I’m here Will sworn of demons, release their capture of the day? Incoming lost souls, swallowed by hell’s gear Unleash the cry, ‘cause your terror will be mine! All dark stories, are carved on these lands Little hope feelings For long misplaced, disappeared Pain overloaded, so bad moments back to me Eyebrows wide open When horror takes its place Right now Why mankind deserve salvation? Compassionate… not Universe best point Eternity… for first time, lacking of knowledge Let their believe the braves are saved It is unfair, be judged, down here, without a voice Can’t defense my spirit, from the bondage? from the burn? Unbelievable All the fingers pointing to me The crowd is shouting That alien voices are crushing in my head! "I am guilty for living Guilty for being real...” Don’t despise that affliction Don’t waste that pain! You should not misspend the horror Of billions souls ago Below your feet “Oh no, no tears, please… it is a waste of good suffering” Deep in Hell’s core, boiling minds Feel the sorrow left behind So dreadful, so dire “Now look for freedom up to sky, up high”
6.
Past nightmares chasing your soul! Heated by those burning flames Which are feed with suffering I escape from the shrieking demons They try to snatch my mind away Gasping for breath, I run away I mock the pursuit of my death It’s illusory, but his claws Feel so real that makes me shudder Blaze a trail in time Hide to this threat, reach out for the light Tear down barriers And cross every dimensional gate Once I get rid of the horror And cries from the past have ceased I get into a new perception A new universal truth Time consists on thousands particles So different from each other Can see no end for this number Just colours, shapes and amazement Men, they have always feared the things that dwell inside The suffocating dark I’m about to reveal the secrets that remain In those obscure affairs [Chorus] Defy this mystic challenge And leave your tread in every world you reach Leave your fears behind Because you control every step you make When your black eyes are too blind to see And the gravity forces you to grovel Clench your fists in anger, get rise to your feet And rage against the oppressive force Make universe tremble! For you there is no redemption Consequence of your deceptions Won’t escape from this damnation Free way to mind domination So grit your teeth in pain Your efforts are in vain Don’t go against the grain Your loss is our gain! [Chorus] Defy this mystic challenge And make a stand against the cosmic will Leave your fears behind Trust your decisions, they will take you away
7.
Tabula Rasa 02:58
Shapeless, apathetic No conscience of time Tabula Rasa! My feelings wither Memories don’t hurt anymore Home of hopeless Slaves of chance The voiceless ones Tabula Rasa! I could not say how many winters Have taken this cursed place Can you see my eyes? How dull and sad they look? You, lord of the void You left me to your realm of emptiness! Sand will deicide How lengthy will be my wait on here No good, no evil Here’s no place for this matter Just miles of nothingness I become disheartened I raise my hands They both lay bare Choose my fate Since you took my will so long ago I beg you, don’t blame me You put me into weakness My sins and my passions Were preceding me in the past I Cry! Oh I Cry! You show disdain for me Stare at me! Point at me! Shattered hopes, destroyed dreams This limbo beat my faith So it’s time to weed out all your mistakes To take a new chance. Rise from your fall, crush your limits And Cross The Line! Tabula Rasa!
8.
Origin 03:38
I watch all like in dreams The never seen… And the eyes look around, to the unknown To a dark hole, where fears sure will be proved For sure, or not Perception and wit still being gone No time, no facts Not yet created, so far Show must go on Stuck when implosion burn cosmos all-wide Blasting away from the stars Fading in drops, As gleam light rain falls Within the walls now created into this space The inception of being leads to life I can just run on that light speed pipe Blessing and gazing those wonders alive Between the void and the nothing, the Gods leave And spirit of time claim its own right to be [Chorus](x2) Little pupils on the universe shout The Iris so dark is, will laugh at us the hounds Immortality promised all along Stay reach the end and the light will turn on Immortality, vanity for soul Promise in decline when the master takes control Origin, prodigy, wonderment, glow for me Where the sun brings the path Back and forth within time Go ahead, from inside Where the stars will collide Back and forth into light Claim Your Right To Be!
9.
Going back to the point which it all began Thousand million times rain covered the barren earth This never ending voyage seems to make sense The forces of cosmos are capricious, they play with me Earth remains the same after all Nothing is what it used to be, though The creation of man turns insignificant Since we lost control of everything for so long So I’m standing here alone and cold My feelings once numbed they awake We all are linked to this concept We won’t scape from this great truth A taste of immortality will haunt you, will trap you But they’re just playing tricks on you It will take ages to understand That we’re just a product to be recycled There’s no peace, no eternal rest But millenniums and aeons to be covered Come here and gaze, try to look beyond the dawn There’s no choice but walking alone Born again! Die again! Face the end! Lay to rest! Take my hand! See the light! Come with me! Walk with me!
10.
The Calling 04:18
When a big sun dies, when it blows up Space spread all its light, like wind with dust Light is carrying me, it tells me something I can’t hear no words, just know it all You don’t be afraid Finally comes Gifted you will Forever and again Dark illusions Must be punished We, the saviors Soul raiders on the role From the hell’s core From the heavens Who the fuck cares The eternal quest remain Within the time Raised and still doing We, death prophets The wildcards of the gods [Chorus] Beyond this gate Where Demons await I’m sinking in the dreams That they’ve made for me It’s weird, and hard Say goodbye to mind And spin like a wheel In those alleys of time Fall, you down! Your conscience will drown One instant of memories Through eons got lost The state of grace That, chased by human race Wanders in cosmos Awaiting for me No way, do not fear the fear itself Now, chance to beat it Once and for all! (x3) [Chorus] It’s said and sealed Our reached fate unseen… Crawling and crawling To jump from the cliff This plot, this act We’re all in, in fact Don’t be afraid of this masterpiece craft A small spark of wisdom in memory breeds My own little piece of immortality
11.
Only through the end of times sight We can get back and start again, and again When the end shows another path And the Ferryman points the way forward “Should I run and never look back..?” From death to live, and live to know I’m here again To see to hear, and hear to learn And learn to tell We give them more than we can give Until decease Stagnate as flesh in a cloudy fate I breathe away Crawling, dreaming Waiting to rise Shouting, crying Feeling the cold So here I am, I’m a part of all again Plummeting incredibly across the clouds and air That “wisdom spark” Soon gone and lost in time Crush my conscience and stuns my new senses Hundreds of thousands of years have passed From the rise of the immortals To the vast painful ground Some kind of deathless Stronger thing I’m supposed to be Through incalculable myriads of millenniums I’m back I feel the heart beats of all the living beings Along the entire world, them all… Somewhere here You’ll be back Where you will land? No one knows Before the darkness growl (When the master takes control) The stars are there to tell (Blasting stars along the ride) Ten billion years ago (You were the origin) My soul resides somewhere… (Somewhere here on the Earth)
12.
Reborn 02:19
(Instrumental)

credits

released November 16, 2012

Produced, recorded and mixed by Aleix Archs & Jordi Mas at BLOQ, Cornellà de Llobregat ; between June 2011 - January 2012
Mastered by Julián Silva at On Air, Brooklyn, NY during May 2012
All songs & lyrics written and arranged by The Zen except “Lifetime Circle” & “Reborn”, by Guillem Rejón & Xavi Diví
Guest featuring vocals: Pau Murillo, Daniel Pérez, Sergio Hernández & Guillem Rejón
All drums recorded by Josep Grau at BLOQ
Samplers & keys by Guillem Rejón, Scott McLean & Xavi Diví

Cover artwork by David Tejero Valle
Booklet artwork: Andrea Padrós, Marc Roken & Jaume Molero
Artwork design: Guillem Rejón
Lay-out: Copylab, Esplugues del Llobregat
Original band photos by Sorgin
Merch & CD edition: César Prados
Logo by Guillem Rejón
“The Zen” symbol by Sebastian P.M.

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The Zen Barcelona, Spain

The Zen rised after the dissolution of Assalt 43 (Hardcore/Punk/Metal). Between June 2011 and January 2012 the band recorded it's first studio album ever, Somewhere on Earth. It's a conceptual album, about the passing of a human soul through death levels and dimensions before falling again on Earth after myriads of time and it's journey to the origin of cosmos. ... more

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