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The Play Of Pain

by Fright Night

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1.
His Death 06:03
Surrounding substances of life Have perished in their mocking laughter. A dancing image of a knife. On tides of blood you'll float hereafter A pallid hand with curdled blood, A ghastly mortuary silence. The last of all you've ever loved Have rendered you this final guidance- To faint away on fields of gray, Let death awake remains of passions; To smell the death but live a day Before they burn you into ashes. Your dirty blood now stains the soil As you have stained her soul with tears. Your death is born from midnight broil With foul scream for none to hear... A lady pale with lips of red Who once had shared your dissipation. You'd laugh recalling what she said. You'd laugh refusing your salvation. You can't recall her poems long For bitter gin was all you fancied. Your skill to fascinate them all Have brought her love and brought you hatred. An insincere roses smell Will no more haunt your bedroom entrance. No more a man- an empty shell. Of death you bear an honest fragrance. On tides of fate a grain of sand You did your own death presage. And in the night a killer's hand Have brought the end. Have brought the end. You sleep and dream an ailing dream Of deeps of blue with ancient treasures. The vices of your soul they keep Well guarded by the fiends and devils. The last euphoria will come When sunset lits your hall with fire And show a mortal soul undone By constant flow of wild desires. And into nowhere you will pass, Will turn to soil and air and waters. To fall as raindrops on the grass. A victim of a bloody slaughter. You'll be no more but substance fair And vasts of time cognized appear And ancient spaces you will dare And music of the stars you'll hear And wisdom of the world you'll share. On tides of fate a grain of sand You did your own death presage. And in the night a killer's hand Have brought the end. Have brought the end.
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What is here but darkness and dread All around me and in my heart... Before me blood of hundreds is shed Will I see you once ere I’m dead? I feel lonely and frightened as hell Still I love you and ever I shall. But my orders they sound like the knell Will I live till the morn? Time will tell... You must know that my chances are few If I write no more- pray for my soul. When this spring I have parted with you I knew not- I shall not see you more... The advance- it is set for the morn. In the first line am I to face gore. And if I leave this world at the dawn You will know- I shall not see you more. You're a star in the night- guide my way! You're my angel- don't leave me behind! Stay with me on this path or I stray... On your way do not fear, do not cry...
3.
The Blood 07:06
This is all I before your feet can present... Breathing the smoke of the funeral pyre Unavailing offer to gods of your descent... Blood is my gift to your altar of fire. This is all I before your feet can present... Crimson light from my heart outside doth shine Hazes of scarlet now shroud my sight I shall no more be, cease the light of life divine. And the venomous tears they burn and bite. And a scar is left from those colours of thine. All I desired- To live without pain and sin I dreamed of virtue I dreamed of savior within... This is all I before your feet can present... Thus disillusioned by what you are now... You have nothing, no pity. You laugh and resent Seeing me wounded, my blood pouring down Being all I before your feet can present... I just hope as I bleed that your turn will come Turning from master to a tortured slave. Someone leaving you to bleed as a toy undone. Will you recall then those whom you could save?! Oh how I would like then to see and feel as it will run Your Blood... The nature of love is simple. Romantic feelings are caused by a combination of chemicals produced in a human brain. If all the conditions are right the real quality of the object doesn't really matter. Thus- attraction is never a choice. But sometimes it becomes a doom. A doom they have to carry to the end
4.
The Summon 04:24
Dawn! Will it heal my troubled mind Redeem me of my soul disorder May darkling mirrors face the light And cut my life an hour shorter. My dreams are of no one but you Each vision makes me cry and shudder Tombstone with your image on the blue. You speak to me and call me under! I lay and close my eyes and pray And see my churchyard and the way To where the snow falls on her grave. And all is calm on winter's day. No! Do not call me by your side! Don't summon me! Do not ask for What's wrong! Dreams but dim my morbid mind. What for to die... To live what for?
5.
We Will Go 04:55
Faster still we live these days Prophets banished from our ways Now alone we stay in haze To guard our home... Falsehood looming all around Like the mists near ancient mounds. Still our wounded hearts are bound! We will go... We will go And you surely will live We will go To You Our Light to Give We will go By this and only way We will go Better essence to gain They don't trust nor deed nor word Through the air a moan is heard And against all dooms of worlds We have left our own.. Where are sages? Where are fair? Dreams are broken and ensnared Life went wrong but no one cares So into death we go... We will go And you surely will live We will go To You Our Light to Give We will go By this and only way We will go Better essence to gain We will go We feel crowded in here We will go In the flames disappear We will go Our fate to obey We will go There forever to stray! We are dead- away from lies Sons of stillness, not of cries. Our oaths we don't despise Yet we have been so marred! Our faith our death has been Life is waning ever still Have no time for what we feel And ways of death lead far...
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7.
Two Roses 05:46
You slumber deep. Dim is the light. A pair of roses I have brought thee Where trees in twilight cast their sights Beyong the ancient garden grating. I speak to you, your lips I kiss And no reply I hope to hear No thorns, no pain can wake from this. No words can raise you from the bier... The world is silent as you are We are alone. November's ringing The death-knell in the hills afar. The autumn took you in it's keeping. A dying garden cries with rain Your face is pale, your cheeks are hollow. The candle have been burnt in vain And died. And I will surely follow.
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Come and see what's left of your love Your sharp words they now sound so wrong. High's the cross and steep is the bluff Where the pyre's to roar it's song. Soldiers stand encircling the hill "They wait for the sun to decline..." You're there and you're standing so still. "I have come to watch as you die." Crucified midst piles of the wood... "Staring at the lowering sun..." Death and love is all left of truth. "Death will pass and love will be one!" Tears can't quench the torches they bear. "They are but to empty my soul..." Waste not what you still have to share. "None will have what you only hold." There they come they bring the fiery brand. "They can burn thy shell but not thee." I will soon be scattered over land "Yet our souls are tied eternally..."
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Shadows had smoked all the walls Crawled from outside your head You can not live alone And you can not forget. Shadow it haunts you still, Craving to let it rest Prisoner of you will Waiting for your caress. This is me This is me The one who's within me shut Yearns now to play his dark role. This hair-raiser's final cut Leaves no place where he is sole. Like Christofer Lee... Like Christofer Lee... Not just an actor's he Night dwells within the film Night there revels free Night rules it's own realm. Sanity leaves your mind Fear it takes it's aim. Dare and look behind- Shadows will rise again. This is me... This is me... No borders can hold me since I need not a word to perform I'm here, I'm your charming prince May celluloid be our home Like Christofer's Lee... Like Christofer's Lee... And pain it awaits you here In clutches of dreams insane Forever I'll be with thee Let Evil now be my name. Your blood I will turn to wine In vices we will abide. In cues of all movies mine Forever we'll stand beside
10.
Black 04:10
Recall that woeful day. As I was coming And fire in my soul did burn. And midst my wild dreams of her A rose did blacken. Or was it doubt that turned it gray? But thus it happened. I cared not. I chased my dream. Time running lifeless And chill as in a frozen stream. There stood my mistress And by another was embraced! And anguish dire As lack of air had quenched my fire. The rose had hit the snow As murdered dreams had stopped their flow. I lay just by. My love's, my flower's parting cries Fell silent like my song...

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"Fright Night is a gothic rock project by singer, guitarist and composer Marianna 'Winter' Lukyanova and her band. She is joined on lead vocals by Alexey ‘Ergil’ Ovsiyenko who has an extraordinary deep voice akin to Brad Roberts of Crash Test Dummies fame, and his spoken passages are especially effective and atmospheric. It is a welcome change to have a male vocalist who actually sings rather than growls, I wish more gothic band would take note. Marianna also has a deep dramatic voice, so you get double deepness, an unusual combination. Their music is a unique blend of The Fields of Nephilm, gothic era Damned, The Mission, Lacrimosa, Skeletal Family, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Camel and Ennio Morricone spaghetti western. ‘His Death’, ‘The Blood’, ‘We Will Go’, ‘The Cross and the Pyre’, ‘Black’ and my favourite ‘The Letter of the End’ are all multi faceted songs with a wide variety of textures and tones, from the melancholic to the rocking. The mournful ‘The Summon’ features just Winter and piano, and the ghostly ‘Two Roses’ has Ergil narrating over a backing of Winter’s flanged guitar arpeggios and howling winds. ‘Rainbow Demon’ is a cover of the song by that behemoth of British heavy rock, Uriah Heep, which they turn into a spaghetti western, I expected a dust covered Lee Van Cleef to walk through the door! The most remarkable song is ‘Christopher Lee’, Ergil’s narrated paean to the master of horror with the equally deep voice, which sounds like the sort of off kilter lounge jazz that Leonard Cohen does so well. The highly melodic music is full of superb keyboards, and Winter’s guitar work is most excellent, especially her solo on ‘The Letter of the End’. A special mention must also be made of the deep and very poetic lyrics. I will sum it up as progressive spaghetti gothic jazz alt rock, which just about covers all bases. The obvious customer base is gothic rocks fans, but it will also appeal to fans of off beat artists like Leonard Cohen. Available from CD Baby, and their Myspace is www.myspace.com/frightnightband . Frightfully good stuff."


Reviewed by Phil, Ravenheartmusic.com

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released February 1, 2010

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