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@ALBUM: always
THE GATHERING "ALWAYS...


The Mirror Waters
Subzero
In Sickness And Health
King For A Day
Second Sunrise
Stonegarden
Always...
Gaya's Dream


Line-up:

Frank Boeijen - keyboards, grand piano
Hugo Prinsen Geerlings - bass, flute, triangle
Hans Rutten - drums, windchimes
Rene Rutten - electric and acoustic guitars
Bart Smits - vocals and backing vocals
Jelmer Wiersma - electric and 12-string acoustic guitars

Marike Groot - all female vocals


All music by "The Gathering".
All lyrics by Bart Smits.
Recorded and mixed 28 February '92 - 7 March '92 at the Beaufort studios
(Bovenkarspel, The Netherlands).
Produced and mixed by H. Swagerman and "The Gathering".


Info: The Gathering

c/o Hans Rutten c/o Bart Smits
Albardastraat 51 Ruusbroecgaarde 1
5344 HB Oss 5343 JG Oss
The Netherlands The Netherlands


@SONG: THE MIRROR WATERS


"Birth, age, death. The sudden realization
of aging and attempts to hide from time.
Time is crucial yet essential.
For ever and never, life lies between them."


Slowly...Flying silent
Touching the wind as it sadly sings...for me

Aging on the outside
With my youth in my empty hands
Lost all that I was living for, live no longer

Couldn't resist looking in her eyes
I saw myself, tears were falling
The seas in her eyes reflected my old age
Youth grows old, like winter follows spring

Faster...Falling kingdom
Dancers on winter winds, they dance...for me

Nature's ways
Life can't always be contolled
Controlled by fear
Scared of the months and years, fear no longer

Time leaves its mark
The years come but never go
Masked is my face
The mask of age will fall, hide no longer

Couldn't resist looking in her eyes
I saw myself, tears were falling
The seas in her eyes reflected my old age
Youth grows old, like winter follows spring


@SONG: SUBZERO


"Imagine emotions as being a lake
the water can be calm or stormy.
But can it be frozen; can emotions
reach freezing point ? "


The bowels of my thoughts, icy lake
Drain emotions from my bleeding soul
Tears that follow burn my skin
Dread to see myself, I ain't me

The sun encircles my shape on the ice
In my shadow I see the people below
Their frozen faces staring blank
All crying without a sound

Thousand degrees below
Ice age has begun, Subzero
Emotions running low
My heart is so cold, Subzero

Hatred in words, spewing from their mouths
Verbal injection of a freezing void
Sunrise in three directions
As all their faces turn to laugh

Thousand degrees below
Ice age has begun, Subzero
Emotions running low
My heart is so cold, Subzero


@SONG: IN SICKNESS AND HEALTH


"Through marriage we're bonded
by death we're separated. But sometimes
our dreams can keep us together.
Life is transitory but love can be eternal."


The cruelty of this world persists
The cold wind speaks for our lost
Whispering words, weaving worlds
Her time has come, alas

A man of stone with opened eyes
One stepped out of a dream
With a view held within his mind
The tears for his bride redeem

Watching his world falling apart
Like the dreams in a shallow sleep
Countless are the nights they shared
The mourning in his tears

But morning still has broken
A light in his world of dawn
All beauty turned to rot
His flowers, all are gone

Close the eyes of eternal love
Buries his face in his hands
Her face looks so alive
In the morning sun

But morning still has broken
A light in his world of dawn
All beauty turned to rot
His flowers, all are gone

Dreams are only but illusions
Illusions for one to see
It's the visual projection of our inside
And as empty as the heart in me


@SONG: KING FOR A DAY


"Stories about unicorns and dragons are just
fairytales, so we're told. But don't we all
have our personal dragons ?
Fantasy is a world not far from reality."


In everyone hides a king for a day
Nature's actors, in tragedies we play
But deep bows the head the bears the crown
For the weight of might can always pull us down

Soon my reign will end
I, a king without hands
Soon this day will end
As my tears descend

Everyone has his own dragons to slay
Look in her eyes, never turn away

Soon my reign will end
I, a king without hands
Soon this day will end
As my tears descend

Every treasure you find
And every road you take
Has its opposite side
Sacrifices to make

Dream on...
Sleep on...

Time is my only fear
An enemy of sand
My dreams are old
A new king will rise


@SONG: SECOND SUNRISE


"Peace comes through thinking with your
heart and not with words. Until then we'll
just light another candle for this world."


What is left of our world, today
Walls have fallen with peace
But walls are built within our hearts
Wars are fought within

A cloak lies over our world
A misery show without an end
The masses follow the masses
The blind will lead the way

To see the colors that rest within your mind
The paradise we seek lies inside

Who's to blame, who will lose
Now the dice have been rolled
We must find the guilty ones
Instead of condemning what has been done

Who shall we praise now
When all our gods are gone
Living is not just to live
In a concrete or cardboard box
Think in a carbonized world
Where all has been done before
The thought of a perfect world
On a pile of broken dreams

To see the colors that rest within your mind
The paradise we seek lies inside

Who's to blame, who will lose
Now the dice have been rolled
We must find the guilty ones
Instead of condemning what has been done

>From the smoking cities we shall rise
And on the ashes we will build
Praying for that one day
The sun will rise again...


@SONG: STONEGARDEN


"The dreamer walks a lonely journey. Through the
sky he flies but with his feet on the ground.
knowing the moon is always with him."


And the dreamer sets his sails...
Avoiding all cliffs and stones
But the dreamer is never alone
Always trying to catch the moon

Sailing on winds of desolation
Horizon's my destination
Through tears I see the moon slowly sets
And another attempt has failed...

The waves of the see drawn to the moon
Like lovers they meet
Carry the light to a distant unknown
Catch it if you can

Always will there be the stars
Always will there be the moon
Always will there be the rocks
Will I always be alone ?

Always...


@SONG: ALWAYS...


"Sometimes words can not say what the heart feels.
Music can express the things our language cannot."


@SONG: GAYA'S DREAM


"Infatuated by the extensiveness of the universe,
it's easy to forget one of the most complex
enigma's of this world: The human mind,
a universe of its own."


Open the gates of the past
With the key to our hearts
Dream of the years gone by
Centuries through mankind's eyes

In the wasteland that grows inside
Within me I shall find myself

Slowly walking, pacing front
See through these blind eyes
Stepping on shadows, touching air
Stones move as I stand still
Seek the answers in the skies
As we don't even know ourselves
Silent, as the sun sets before our eyes

In the wasteland that grows inside
Within me I shall find myself

For years of space technology
Still we haven't learned
Like children we explore
Things we can't yet comprehend

Open the gates of the past
With the key to our hearts
Dream of the years gone by
Carrying our own cross
Seek the answers in the skies
As we don't even know ourselves
Silent, as the sun sets before our eyes