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Sopor Aeternus - In Der Palästra
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Sopor Aeternus - A Strange Thing To Say
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Sopor Aeternus - Beautiful
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Sopor Aeternus - La Prima Vez
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Sopor Aeternus - Children Of The Corn
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Sopor Aeternus - Consider this: the true Meaning of Love
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Sopor Aeternus - Dead Souls
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Sopor Aeternus - A Dream Within a Dream
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Sopor Aeternus - A Little Bar Of Soap
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Sopor Aeternus - Holy Water Moonlight
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Sopor Aeternus - If I Could Go Back In Time
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Sopor Aeternus - Les Fleurs du Mal
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Sopor Aeternus - The Virgin Queen
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Sopor Aeternus - Backbone Practise
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Sopor Aeternus - Do You Know My Name?
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Sopor Aeternus - If You Could Only Read My Mind
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Sopor Aeternus - La Mort D'Arthur
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Sopor Aeternus - The Encoded Cloister
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Sopor Aeternus - You Cannot Make Him Love You
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Sopor Aeternus - 20.000 Leagues Under The Sea (Or The History Of Steampunk)
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Sopor Aeternus - Across The Bridge
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Sopor Aeternus - Always within the hour
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Sopor Aeternus - and Bringer Of Sadness
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Sopor Aeternus - Carnival of Souls
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Sopor Aeternus - Cornflowers
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Sopor Aeternus - Ein Freundliches Wort Hat Meine Seele Berührt
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Sopor Aeternus - Eldorado
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Sopor Aeternus - Feralia Genitalia (Arrival Of The Jugglers)
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Sopor Aeternus - Gebet: an die Glücklichen Eroberer
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Sopor Aeternus - Hades "Pluton"
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Sopor Aeternus - I Am Done With Men
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Sopor Aeternus - Imhotep
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Sopor Aeternus - It Is Safe To Sleep Alone
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Sopor Aeternus - Leeches & Deception
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Sopor Aeternus - Little Velveteen Knight
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Sopor Aeternus - One Day My Prince Will Come
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Sopor Aeternus - Poison
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Sopor Aeternus - Powder
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Sopor Aeternus - Résumé
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Sopor Aeternus - Shadowsphere II
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Sopor Aeternus - Sleep
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Sopor Aeternus - Tales From The Inverted Womb
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Sopor Aeternus - The City In The Sea
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Sopor Aeternus - The Curse Of The Mummy
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Sopor Aeternus - The Devil's Instrument
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Sopor Aeternus - The Goat
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Sopor Aeternus - The Sleeper
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Sopor Aeternus - There Was A Country By The Sea
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Sopor Aeternus - To Walk Behind The Rows
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Sopor Aeternus - Todeswunsch
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Sopor Aeternus - We Have A Dog To Exercise
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Sopor Aeternus - Little Dead Boy
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Sopor Aeternus - A National Acrobat (By Black Sabbath)
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Sopor Aeternus - Abschied
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Sopor Aeternus - All good Things are Eleven
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Sopor Aeternus - Alone (The Innocence of Devils) 1
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Sopor Aeternus - Alone Ii
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Sopor Aeternus - An Die Sterne
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Sopor Aeternus - An Die Sterne Tradução
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Sopor Aeternus - Angel Of The Golden Fountain
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Sopor Aeternus - Anima I & II
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Sopor Aeternus - Architecture II
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Sopor Aeternus - As Flores do Mal
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Sopor Aeternus - At The Stroke Of Midnight Gently
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Sopor Aeternus - Autodestructive State
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Sopor Aeternus - Bang-Bang
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Sopor Aeternus - Baptisma
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Sopor Aeternus - Beautiful Thorn
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Sopor Aeternus - Beyond The Wall Of Sleep
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Sopor Aeternus - Birth - Fiendish Figuration
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Sopor Aeternus - Bis Zum Hahnenschrei
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Sopor Aeternus - Bitter-sweet
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Sopor Aeternus - Black Magic Spell
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Sopor Aeternus - Burial Ground
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Sopor Aeternus - Cage Within A Cage
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Sopor Aeternus - Cold
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Sopor Aeternus - Collision
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Sopor Aeternus - Consolatrix Has Left The Building
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Sopor Aeternus - Cornucopia D'amour
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Sopor Aeternus - Dark Delight
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Sopor Aeternus - Day Of The Dead
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Sopor Aeternus - Deathhouse
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Sopor Aeternus - Der See Des Vergessens
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Sopor Aeternus - Die Bruderschaft Des Schmerzes
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Sopor Aeternus - Die Knochenblume
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Sopor Aeternus - Die Stimme Im Sturm
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Sopor Aeternus - Dio N'arap
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Sopor Aeternus - Do You Know About The Water Of Life
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Sopor Aeternus - Do You Know My Name? / What Has Happened While We Slept?
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Sopor Aeternus - Drama Der Geschlechtslosigkeit
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Sopor Aeternus - Dreamland
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Sopor Aeternus - Ein Freundlich’ Wort Einst Unverhofft
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Sopor Aeternus - Epitaph
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Sopor Aeternus - Everything Is An Illusion
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Sopor Aeternus - Existence
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Sopor Aeternus - Feed The Birds
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Sopor Aeternus - Fire Kissed The Echo Twins
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Sopor Aeternus - Flesh Crucifix
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Sopor Aeternus - Flowers for the God .
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Sopor Aeternus - Freitod-Phantasien
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Sopor Aeternus - Goodbye
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Sopor Aeternus - Hearse-shaped Basins Of Darkest Matter
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Sopor Aeternus - Hello
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Sopor Aeternus - Helvetia Sexualis
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Sopor Aeternus - Holding Out For a Hero
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Sopor Aeternus - I Am So Glad It's Over
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Sopor Aeternus - I Don't Believe In Ghosts
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Sopor Aeternus - I Fell For One (Who Loved Me Not)
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Sopor Aeternus - Ich Wollte Hinaus In Den Garten
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Sopor Aeternus - Idleness & Consequence
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Sopor Aeternus - If Loneliness Was All
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Sopor Aeternus - Im Garten Des Nichts (A Secret Light In The Garden Of My Void)
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Sopor Aeternus - In An Hour Darkly
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Sopor Aeternus - Infant
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Sopor Aeternus - Inschrift/Epitaph
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Sopor Aeternus - Interlude - The Quiet Earth
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Sopor Aeternus - It's Just That My Sadness
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Sopor Aeternus - Lament / Totenklage
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Sopor Aeternus - Let Me Say It Now
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Sopor Aeternus - Lied Der Todesfee
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Sopor Aeternus - Light In The Attic
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Sopor Aeternus - May I Kiss Your Wound?
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Sopor Aeternus - Memalon
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Sopor Aeternus - Memories Are Haunted Places
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Sopor Aeternus - Miniature
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Sopor Aeternus - Minnesang
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Sopor Aeternus - Minotaur
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Sopor Aeternus - Modela Est
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Sopor Aeternus - Mourning
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Sopor Aeternus - Nightbreed
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Sopor Aeternus - No-one Is There
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Sopor Aeternus - Not Dead But Dying
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Sopor Aeternus - Oh, Chimney Sweep
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Sopor Aeternus - Omen Sinistrum
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Sopor Aeternus - On Satur(n)days We Used To Sleep
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Sopor Aeternus - Only The Dead In The Mist
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Sopor Aeternus - Penance & Pain
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Sopor Aeternus - Polishing Silver
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Sopor Aeternus - Psychoplastic Experience
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Sopor Aeternus - Reprise
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Sopor Aeternus - Saltatio Crudelitatis (Der Tanz Der Grausamkeit)
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Sopor Aeternus - Saturn Devouring His Children
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Sopor Aeternus - Saturn Rising
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Sopor Aeternus - Saturn-Impressionen (Jusa, Jusa)
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Sopor Aeternus - Schattengesang
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Sopor Aeternus - Schwarzer Spiegel
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Sopor Aeternus - Shadowsphere
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Sopor Aeternus - Shave, If You Love Me
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Sopor Aeternus - Sieh', Mein Geliebter, Hier Hab' Ich Gift
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Sopor Aeternus - Sister of Selfdestruction.
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Sopor Aeternus - Some Men Are Like Chocolate
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Sopor Aeternus - Something Wicked This Way Comes...
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Sopor Aeternus - Somnambulist's Secret Bardo-life
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Sopor Aeternus - Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est
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Sopor Aeternus - Soror Sui Excidium
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Sopor Aeternus - Spellbound
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Sopor Aeternus - Stake Of My Soul
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Sopor Aeternus - Starlight Seen Through Veils Of Tears
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Sopor Aeternus - Sternblumennacht
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Sopor Aeternus - Synchronicity
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Sopor Aeternus - Tabor C'alan O'itana
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Sopor Aeternus - Tabor C'alan O'itana.
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Sopor Aeternus - Tanz Der Grausamkeit
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Sopor Aeternus - The Boy Has Built a Catacomb
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Sopor Aeternus - The Broken & Shattered Moon
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Sopor Aeternus - The Conqueror Worm
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Sopor Aeternus - The Devils' s Instrument.
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Sopor Aeternus - The Dog Burial
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Sopor Aeternus - The Dreadful Mirror
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Sopor Aeternus - The Feast Of Blood
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Sopor Aeternus - The Haunted Palace
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Sopor Aeternus - The Hours Of Sadness
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Sopor Aeternus - The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller (A Fragment)
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Sopor Aeternus - The Lion's Promise
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Sopor Aeternus - The Simple Joys of Maidenhood
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Sopor Aeternus - The Skeletal Garden
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Sopor Aeternus - The Urine Song
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Sopor Aeternus - The Void
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Sopor Aeternus - The Widow's Dream
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Sopor Aeternus - This Profane Finality
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Sopor Aeternus - Through Your Eyes
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Sopor Aeternus - Time Stands Still... (...But Stops For No-one)
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Sopor Aeternus - To A Loyal Friend
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Sopor Aeternus - Totenlicht
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Sopor Aeternus - Transfiguration
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Sopor Aeternus - Über Den Fluss
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Sopor Aeternus - Untitled I
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Sopor Aeternus - Untitled II
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Sopor Aeternus - Va(r)nitas, Vanitas... (...omnia Vanitas)
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Sopor Aeternus - Von der Einfalt
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Sopor Aeternus - When You Love A Man
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Sopor Aeternus - Where The Ancient Laurel Grows
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Sopor Aeternus - Where The End Begins
There Was A Country By The Sea
Sopor Aeternus
A landing-stage of rotten blanks stretched carefully into the waves, and for one moment I did wonder, what frightening purpose it might serve.
O, heavy, roaring, endless seas, what secrets does this rage entomb? Have ancient memories or hungry ghosts, gathered all their strength, to call for this storm?
Deep-seated gardens, almost a labyrinth, walled in by ruins and rocks ivy-clad, perhaps this strange place had once been a palace, where now viole(n)t bushes bear dark thorns instead.
A young boy was taking me by the hand and unerringly he was leading me down below the gardens, which I hardly remembered, the moment I took the first step underground.
We came to a room with only small windows, and to my suprise I could somehow still hear, though reduced to a murmur, now chant-like and humming, to once savage voice of the roaring sea.
The boy has built a catacomb, he is living in a tomb, below the ground, where there's no sound, he is hiding, from the world.
Something resembling an altar was built there, a secret overshadowed structure and use, underneath, in inanimate self-contemplation, lay a jet-black mass of coal-like granules.
Yet, this dark material had an unearthly lightness, and when I touched it, to feel what it was, it did seem to totally ignore my presence ...-without leaving a trace, it came trickling off.
Then out of a sudden from under the barrow something, appeared, unexpectedly: it was the bones of the little boy's mother, which he had placed with greatest care underneath
[Chorus]
There must have been something in my look(s), 'cause the little boy started to speak, and to my unvoiced Question of why he had done this, he answered these words to me:
"This is the only way I can be save from her, only this can guarantee, that she will not rise again, because when she does, she is always following me.
There's just no alternative, I cannot escape from her, because as soon as I try, she will get up again, merely to haunt me...-oh, believe me, I have tried numerous times!
But here in these vaults I have finally found something that works like a seal, these jet-black granules do keep me from harm, and her bones can no longer hurt me.
Piled up in a certain, specific form, all the remains must be covered with it, then everything keeps still and for a brief moment I can pretend, that she does not exist.
Yet, all the time I must be on my guards, because now and then it can happen indeed, that frequently the earth does tremble and shaken, and some of the stones are Starting to slip.
So, constantly I have to control the barrow, the jet-black darkness of the coal-like mass, in order to be there, to repair the damage, to pile all back safely and to replace..."
The boy has built a catacomb, he is living in a tomb. below the ground, where there's no sound, he is hiding from the (terrible) world. It took me a while to realism that we all have secrets and fears ...- is it then a surprise that we close our minds from the pain that is causing these tears ?