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Rating: Just over a year after the previous GOTHIC, the third work of Paradise Lost presents notable differences from its distinguished predecessor. While Gothic was a Doom Metal masterpiece—slow, dark, and oppressive, with a sound that left no room for hope—here, from the very first track, MORTALS WATCH THE DAY, the band's ability to not be pigeonholed into one genre is spotlighted, brilliantly alternating between Death assaults and slow, decadent pieces like the following CRYING FOR ETERNITY, which stands out for its excellent final guitar solo. EMBRACED shows us how this album is suffused with destructive rage, elevated by an extraordinary vocal performance from Nick Holmes, perhaps at his peak as a singer here.
After the long DAYLIGHT TORN, it's the turn of the phenomenal PITY THE SADNESS, an electric ride distinguished by its stunning lyrics and the sense of harrowing despair that pervades it. It is followed by the structured NO FORGIVENESS and the unsettling YOUR HAND IN MINE, introduced by an eerily spectral choir of voices.
But it is the last track that represents the album's pinnacle. AS I DIE, that song destined to be the anthem of Paradise Lost, perhaps not their best track but the one that, for the anger, emotions, and intensity it releases, is the key to understanding the meaning not only of this album but of the entire career of the English group.
" TAKING A CHANCE / AND TAKE WHAT YOU GAIN / MY SOUL IT HAS NO PRICE / TOTAL RELEASE IS OUT OF HARMS WAY UNTIL I CAN DECIDE / YOU PUNISH ME / CAN'T YOU SEE / I'M NOT REAL / TEARS ARE FLOWING FREE / PASSING BY / AS I DIE "
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Mortals Watch the Day (05:12)
Plead forgiveness father
All my troubles fade from view
Pale the four walls surround
Have I madness in my eyes?
While mortals watch the day
Our fear will pave the way
Hidden until the end
See a room of crimson
Nothing I have seen before
Coldness wrapped around me
Struggle not for hell is here
While tyrants close the doors
Each one will know the score
Sorrow takes it all
Saved the sick of life's bliss
Charity of utmost guilt
Fear the blinded temper
It has lied it's way to you...
While mortals watch the day
And light has turned to grey
What lies up ahead
Light shines into your eyes
That I'm blinded by, your eyes
Mortal throughout the days
Until we're saved (...we're saved)
Turning to black
I can't see through this
No option from turning away
We will see another day
(Turning away... will we see another day)
03 Embraced (04:29)
Pain... is what we are waiting for
Lying deep in comfort, I awake now
I cannot believe this tale
I cannot believe the echoes... or your petty lies
Take away our world, thrown into the stars
Take away our world, worship all that's ours
Cry at echoes in your heart
Lying in the ocean until the end of time
Solitude embracing us
Suicide our hearts embrace
Life and death become the race
Take away the world, hold it to the sky
Take away the world, pity your demise
Array of fear, controls me now
And I cry - in dark despair
Take me away
Take away our world
Take me away
Take away our world
05 Pity the Sadness (05:05)
Sadness lives after we die
The pains of life increased outright
Contempt and sins priorities...
To crush good fortune to its knees
Morning...
Morning's calm, inside I cry
This painful live has raped my mind
Take me down, slow release
From sorrow's penetration
Morning...
Life is there for me
Hell is there for me
Sunlight greets my open wounds
Morning's light reflects the doom
My soul is free, it lives again
To roam alone in darkness
Morning...
I've cried for god
And I've cried for you
I pray that in the end your sense will break though
Sadness lives after we die
The pains of life increased outright
Contest my sins priorities
Crushed my spirit to its knees
09 As I Die (03:46)
As I die
Stare as eyes uphold me
And wait to see right through
And curse me... The love has crippled you
Shadows haunt the night
Burning my disguise
As I die
Reaping through the truth
Life becomes untrue
Sin the last diversion
My fate will be untouched
Dismissed now, the anger of a fool
Shadows haunt the night
Forgive me as I die
Taking a chance
And take what you gain
My soul it has no price
Total release is out of harms way until I can decide
You punish me, can't you see, I'm not real
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