ÿþSylvan - Posthumous Silence Germany 2006 ProgRock Records (70:10) www.sylvan.de 1. Eternity Ends (2:03) 2. (I) Bequest Of Tears (3:19) 3. In Chains (8:38) 4. (II) Bitter Symphony (1:20) 5. Pane Of Truth (9:06) 6. (III) No Earthly Reason (1:57) 7. Forgotten Virtue (6:43) 8. The Colors Changed (5:58) 9. (IV) A Sad Sympathy (1:42) 10. Questions (6:59) 11. Answer To Life (5:56) 12. (V) Message From The Past (3:00) 13. The Last Embrace (3:27) 14. A Kind Of Eden (4:55) 15. Posthumous Silence (4:59) - Marco Glühmann / vocals [got the academic degree of a doctor of physics] - Matthias Harder / drums, loop programming, sound effects - Sebastian Harnack / bass - Kay Söhl / guitar - Volker Söhl / keyboards [teaching music in Hamburg] Guest musicians: - Stefanie Richter / cello - Guido Bungenstock / additional guitar - Ensemble Vokalkolorit / choir SYLVAN POSTHUMOUS SILENCE LYRICS *****Eternity Ends Heat grows cold, light becomes dark And the dust returns to the earth as it was *****Bequest Of Tears In the quietness of my silent walls Where the shadows play the dance of you All around me  where each part once told your life Where the window still reflects your smile Still I feel you, still I'm trapped within our time Wondering vainly  why you left, my child When my fingers start to open your bequest Clutching tightly the lifeless book you left & for me ******In Chains Cold spreads out a chill of fear when the wind blows Used to freeze and bind me here & and now it grows Feel they will exploit my crude naivety Things I will reveal to you  my diary Put into words what I m feeling, put into words my whole life & In chains  when will I freak out in chains? Thoughts that are about to rise will be unbound Doubts  I try to verbalize and write them down Push the narrowness aside incessantly It s just in you that I confide  my diary Searching, I m searching the world in my head Hoping, still hoping to find it somewhere Traveled through landscapes in quest of this place Where peacefully sugary roses await & Mellowly in arms wide open  they comfort me in peace Countless people notice me and listen honestly Colorful but open-minded they tolerate me all Wouldn t it be great if I can find this lost imaginary world & There are times, when  through the haze  I find it hard to see There are times, when I regret there s no-one here for me There are times, when I m alone, I m crying desperately There are times, when I miss Daddy s hand that s guiding me & When do I quit the labyrinth of my life ? When do I quit the labyrinth inside ? When do I quit the labyrinth & sometimes ? When will I quit the labyrinth of my life ? Find me  and I would take you on this trip with me Guide me  you d use my eyes to judge what I can see Raise me  I ll show you all the things that worry me Please help me  this is my SOS & my diary In chains  when will I freak out in chains? ******Bitter Symphony Close your pages, lay them down Dim the light and look around Feel the sorrow invades me Feel the bitter symphony When you searched me I wasn't there When you called me I didn't care All the signs that I ignored Now I learn the fights you fought *******Pane Of Truth Lying in my bed of tears, haunted by the eye of sorrow Overloaded sceneries  living side by side Voices from this mouth of screams tempted me with thousand faces Waiting in this room of fears hope to fall asleep [Refrain] Once in times so long ago when I heard the breeze of laughter Innocence so warm and neat like sunbeams through the pane of glass and Now that all those years gone by  fading light replaced by sorrow Wonder if this light was just a dream & Starring through the open hole, paralyzed and full of anger All the people that I see since the world has changed Visions of distorted lust  travesty of human nature While this window silently suffocates my screams & [Refrain] Pieces cut out elementary  Paranoia fades out gently & fade out, you lies  fade out and die & Looking at the flattened walls  thought I saw a trace of something Lying in my room of dark, windowless but safe Once in times so long ago when I heard the breeze of laughter Innocence so warm and neat like sunbeams through the pane of glass an Now that all those years gone by  fading light replaced by darkness Wonder if this light was just a dream & *********No Earthly Reason Lift my head and look outside See the city sleeps Watch the lights and breathe the air That tries to dry the tears in me Haunting thoughts are whispering I try to understand And the voice that speaks from deep Uses the words you left for me ***********Forgotten Virtue Each day I leave my realm, step out of my door  I breathe in carefully Then from the black façades I watch the rain fall  and courage falls in me I try to see the sky but I just see walls  they trap me silently Some people shout at me and it's a known call: the city jeers at me And I can not, I can not stand it all & It bruises all my life and all I lived for  unfurls so ruthlessly Exists to vandalize, I hate it much more  it kills the child in me And naturally surrounds me day in, day out, phagocytizes all They call it just progress I call it breakdown  am I the only one? And I can not, I can not stand it all & Scaffolds rising through the sky & so threatening & They sprout and spill their concrete lies If this is what you want to live through  just myopic curiosity If this is what satisfies you  then I lost the faith I had in me & Oh, you got to feel & False vows paired with false intentions  but they drown in all the other lies But if there's something I believe in, then there has to be another side It leads my away, it drags me away, it pulls my away, it drives me away Each day I leave my realm, step out of my door  I breathe in carefully Then from the black façades I watch the rain fall  and courage falls in me I try to see the sun but I just see clouds  and people pass my way So with a known disgust I quickly turn round  it's just a normal day ************The Colors Changed Fought my way through gloomy alleys, felt the storm in my face Looked around me as I noticed some flowers covering stony space And it felt like a rush of blood to my head And it woke in me feelings I had hidden away Colors please grow for me, paint my world rosily, Show me & Was it raining from the facades when the walls started to fade? Look around me and it seems like all the colors have changed. And it feels like a rush of blood to my head And it wakes in me feelings I had hidden away [Refrain] Colors please grow for me, paint my world rosily, Keep me just sheltered and warm. Save my lost blossomy, values I trusted in Show me & And it felt like a rush of blood to my head And it woke in me feelings I had hidden away And I start to paint this place as marvelous as it can be And I paint it colorful to cover all the cracks I see Draw the lines I should have made so long ago with grateful strokes Let it fill the place of distrust and impenetrable smoke Colors in my eyes replace the achromatic atmosphere Do I fantasize or it's the sound of birds that I can hear? When I chase the falling leafs and track their path so mindfully Will they finally guide me to my world and to eternity? Would you shoot up, grow my garden, please my Eden grow for me. Show me how you decorate the streets that brought me misery Outspread all your roots and blow up all these stones that build the wall Shatter all that binds me here, don't give me up, please hear my call & [Refrain] *************A Sad Sympathy Look up faintly and I lack the power to cry Fall down deeply and I dream again Reach to touch the drawing that described your mourning And it is as if I understand & ********Questions They move in the rhythm of their time and keep it inside They rush through the alleys of their lives and think that's alright They see through their visions what they want to see Act in their courtyard like they want to be They think they can hear it, but they're deaf indeed Spread out their ideas egoistically When I'm locked-in, will I break down? When I grow up, will I freak out? Will I crack up when they change all? Will I dry out, will my mask fall? Will they change me? Will it ease me? Will they shape me? Will it pull me under? Will it tear me? Will it ruin me? Will it reach me? Or just pull me under? They move in the rhythm of my time and rub off my signs They rush through the alleys of my life and repaint them with lies Will they catch up, will they get me? Disappoint and then they blind me Will they brand me, yet they're hurting me, will they wound me? They're deserting me *********Answer To Life When they talk to me  I just shut my ears When they shout at me  pretend not to hear And they laugh at me  let they have their say They're approaching me  and I turn away At the border of sense  left a wasteland behind I have built it alone  that's my answer to life At the limit of strain  found the nature in me I have put down my bags and I'll stay endlessly Now my former friend  though you seem confused Ceased to understand our old speech we used Once you let me down, should have thought before Now you fade away  don't exist no more & this is the answer to life & ************Message From The Past I m starring into space, falling quietly, captured by her pages In the corner of my eyes I note instinctively how my chamber changes And the white leafs  moving slightly  they re caressing my hands Look around me and it seems like all the colors have changed Now that I m broken at the end of the road Naked of power and naked of hope I d give all my fortune to stop you tonight To keep you from falling, to save you, my child & *********The Last Embrace Easy is nothing, nothing is near  it used to be my garden but the rules ceased Silence, why is the silence in me ? I fight the need to struggle with it endlessly Within and possibly without  I chase the reason and by the way pursue my doubts Teardrops of night or teardrops of day when it turns to dust and finally dust will stay Stop me now or let me go I am your child and you are my God  I'd take your hand but will you follow me now? Nearby is somewhere, somewhere's so far  I break the chains of life to break your heart Leave me or simply leave it to me  for decisions are close and my decisions deep, please Help me though there's no help I can see  from far I came to end it without me Stop me now or aid my soul Keep me here or let me go I'm sick of it all  I have to break up my chains These walls have to fall  I'm going to kick them away I'm fed up with life and life is fed up with me So once and for all I'll leave and I will be free ***********A Kind Of Eden Feel it faintly ... & feel it shyly & feel it ineffably & feel it truly & feel it so silently & feel it eternally and feel it expectantly & feel it always In a place that's full of peace, where the calm surrounds me Swim through liquid mysteries, drop the chains that bound me In this place so clean and wild - free the world I leave behind Sink into the deepest quiet - unchangeably I close my eyes Please let me know you'll understand, it's not your fault I'm leaving I'll cry the tears for you, oh Dad, please let me reach my Eden Disappear into thin air  a new leaf's turned over Vanish from the world out there, for the wind got colder Pleasantly I found the truth guiding me back to my roots Finally it leads me soon to origins where I belong ***********Posthumous Silence In the quietness of his silent walls Frail und sunken drops her pages down While the sorrow like a moral guilt falls due He released her, but she'll mourn for sure. In the deepness of his apathetic dream How to notice  also his world turned As the places that once told her life do wane Darkened spaces  only dust remains & Lost and forgotten at the dawn of the night Naked of people and naked of light We failed to notice to show her we tried To keep her from falling, to safe this sole child & *******END OF POSTHUMOUS SILENCE LYRICS