Elizium was released in 1990. Love, betrayal, dreams, angels and ancient times. An epic and dreamlike journey through the land of Sumer.
1. Dead But Dreaming
[Instrumental. The only real Kthulhu reference on this recording, who lies "not dead, but dreaming" under the sea.]
2. For Her Light
He said, How lonely you are
Waiting at the Sunday park
I'll elude you, I will lose you
Insisting we're no soul apart
You stand, stand on a platform
Your effigy dissolves in my hands
When I feel like someone to lie on
And I feel like someone to rely on....
You can't wake up, you can't wake up
You can't wake up
You can't wake up, you can't wake up
You can't wake up
Illusions born of the air
Something seems so precious there
I'll elude you
I will lose you
As rehersal of my despair
When I feel like someone to lie on
And I feel like someone to die on....
You can't wake up, you can't wake up
You can't wake up
You can't wake up, you can't wake up
You can't wake up
3. At The Gates Of Silent Memory
[A man's voice is heard in the background. This is the only known recording of Aliester Crowley's voice, reading lines from his poem "At Sea"]
"Crowley:
'Love of my life, God grant the years
Control the chrism from rose to rood
Annointing love, asperging tears
In the sanctifying solitude ...
Controls my heaven, controls my hell'
Yes today, the life that I knew
So sick of all the people
A blind fool
Over to the window
Where the night has become
Elizium for the sleepless souls
And our days to come
You stand, stand with Delilah
Maybe I'll just pass away
Or maybe I'll stay
But I feel alive with you
And I felt some kind of heaven
Oh, I fell deep inside her
And I felt some kind of heaven
Hear me
Give me....
Give me some kind of heaven
Crowley:
'Such light she gives as guides my bark
Controls my heaven, controls my hell
Love of my life....
Man is so infinitely small
Man is so infinitely great!'"
4. Paradise Regained
[This, along with the previous track, is the nearest the Nephilim has come to a love song.]
"Come in from the cold
I'll owe you my heart
Be my shelter
Be my love this night
Love of my life
Pour your light
On the faith I can feel
Make it real
Make it real"
5. Submission
[Chaos in all her rage. Dreamlike fury and violence, souls trapped in flesh with death as release.]
"It moves between us
For one moment --
Like opium in your heart
We've remedies from the ancient gods
To heal the morals of our shadows
Devil come to me
Open up the door!
Lead the sinner
To the center of it all
She opened and cried
With arms outstretched
Lay down next to me
And take what's left
She cried
Holding me with someone inside
Too cruel to suffer
For what she wants
Condensation on the window
Peering back at myself
Through the webs we have weaved
' Til this radiant morning
Somewhere else...
Where have I been?
Where have I been?
Where have I been?
Where have I been?
Her lips were hard
My heaven is cold
Lose her!
Who's inside me?
Let's use her
For what she wants
What she wants
What she wants
Take light --
Take my mind
Well it slips away
Well it slips away
Hold me
Hold me
Hold me
Hold my hand
Loosen up
Loose enough"
6. Sumerland (What Dreams May Come)
[Again the Watchers are here. We were expecting them after Psychonaut; the promise is fulfilled.]
"You're tempting me
To all of life and all it's pleasure
Take me to the dream
To the highs and the depths of my soul
Here we free thoughts inside
Giving up, for giving time
But a world without end
Where no soul can descend
There'll be no Sumertime
How lost life's been
Afraid of waking up
So afraid...
To take the dream
Take the dream
Take it
Take the dream
Shapes of angels
The night cast
Lie dead but dreaming
In my past
And they're here
They want to meet you
They want to play with you
So take the dream
Take the dream
Can't break free
I can't break free
And I hear them call
They want to plague you
And they're here once more
They want to lay with you
They want to take you
To shape the darkness
Take the dream
Take them
Meet me far away
Take them
There I'll fade away
Let them hide
Let them hide
Well I can't break free
And I cannot die
And I can't hide
And I cannot die
I'll take the dream
Take the dream
We're but fools of our fate
On this earth I shall wait
By the roots of my soul
I am losing control
Take the dream!
The sleepers in you
Shapes of angels
So deep within you
Feel your soul
Drowning
Unloosen your soul
Drowning
Drowning....
Drowning
What is reality?
Tell them
What is reality?
Tell them
What is reality?
Tell them
Tell me thoughts of god
Do dreams fall from god?
Tell me what dreams may come
Break free -- thoughts are gone
We all come down
Take me here
All come down
Take me here
All come down
Tell me here
What dreams may come
Take me here
All fall down
All come down
All come down
You're my ticket here
My ticket out of here
Lead me out of here"
7. Wail of Sumer
[We escape and are airborne over the desert, looking down on the ruins of Ur. In this place, past and future times are one.]
"You can see the earth
We're high here
Climbing over Sumertown
You can kiss the air
We're gliding
Follow me for Sumerland
No sound, life, no essence
We lay estranged
In our curious ways
Memories lay
Beside us
I'm seeing through an age
Who I am
Through Sumerland
Lead me
Through Sumerland
Lead me
Taken from God
Forgive us
Sent in to the dark
To play
From life here
I led them
Taken away
From where they laid
Through Sumerland
Lead me
Sumerland
Lead me
Getting old together
To breathe myself
Free I'll stay
We're high here
Forever
No tomorrow
And no today
Through Sumerland
Lead me
Sumerland
Lead me"
8. And There Will Your Heart Be Also
[We arrived in paradise at last. Earth and incarnation are accepted as parts of a a soul's journey.]
"We must suffer
To free our pain
Can you help us
To find our way?
You're here to stay
Stay here in paradise
I'll end this moment
To be with you
Through morphic oceans
I'd lay here with you
Only to stay
Stay here
In paradise
Only to stay
So lonely
From this maelstrom
Free are you
Stay...
Stay here in paradise
Only to stay
So lonely
From this maelstrom
Free are you"
