We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Dystopian Future Inside the Utopian Past

by THSL

supported by
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €14 EUR  or more

     

1.
How far must we go to feel free?
 A million miles or a single step, wouldn’t matter to me. See - I’ve been a prisoner of my own conscience I’ve drowned with these chains, as they pull me down I struggled to reach the surface I craved for a breath of liberation - and – I suffered these waves of torment, all alone, and yet, all I ever wanted was to be strong enough to face them alone – Because freedom - is only earned - alone. To carve a new path in paradox ambitiousness This greed of excellence Deprives our nature of humanity Yet so naive and pure Ambitions based in dishonesty We substitute our insufficiency With black scars And when the judgement day comes We stand there numbed In the glimpse of our demise In the deep blue of our endless strife In an ocean of a predetermined fate Our breath keeps running low Yet for to rise above We must break and let go These chains of uncertainty And to trust (to) this world to come We must deny all deceitful helping grasps Rely on our sole might For in the Deep Dark blue Abyss We shall Persist x 2
2.
Life is a strange path between reality and illusion So many times i ask myself, if i am real or just pretending All the things that i have done And those that will come to be Scares me so much cause i know I know there’s no redemption For my actions that i regret There’s no turning back to fix them right I will get what i deserve For good and evil that I’ve done For we all meet the judgments day On our life’s strange path I might failed to understand my purpose I have tried to live a life that matters But what I’ve never told before Is that there will be Karma in the future (x3) There is nothing worst than fear the unexpected You must prepare yourself for what comes in the future You cannot escape... I might failed to understand my purpose I have tried to live a life that matters But what I’ve never told before Is that there will be Karma in the future (x3)
3.
Under a black sky The ashes of a burnt world fall on me Lost in the madness Blame on us people Exploiting nature led us to this fail Facing extinction I can remember days of joy Trying to make our dreams come true We thought we had it all but we were blind Now i see it crystal clear There is no future We'll pay the price of our greed There is no life in here Our world is wasted Under a dystopian world we live I walk through the ruins of the world And death walks beside me Everything i knew is gone The dream has turned to nightmare There's no return I'm on the end of something That I can't see That I can't feel
4.
I never thought that kindness would feel like something bad Remember back when we were kids, nothing made us sad But now that you're still reminiscent, come to realize Can't you see? Youth never comes back There's no turning back to joy And at the end of the rainbow, there's the past that you destroyed I can't control this feeling Is there anybody there? Someone to warm my heart Let's go back again, when love was pure Come grab my hand and take me We'll walk together down that road, once more Now turn the journey into joy There is no other way No matter how hard it is Heaven above or hell below In my mind I see it Shows those who truly love, who stands here by your side Can't you see? Youth never comes back There's no turning back to joy And at the end of the rainbow, there's the past that you destroyed I can't control this feeling Is there anybody there? Someone to warm my heart Let's go back again, when love was pure Come grab my hand and take me We'll walk together down that road, once more Now turn the journey into joy There is no other way No matter how hard it is
5.
No more lies left To tell myself and ease the pain No dreams are good enough To make this world a better place A shadow folds my soul For all I’ve done i deserve this misery My past is full of wrong decisions that i regret Failure is on me But this is not the end Now the sun rises once again for me Countless choices open paths to carry on Awaken from the lethe Free to breathe again Born again to live my life I find the strength to move ahead In little things I never thought before You'd be surprised how easy is To get your life back once more For every day that I have lost I owe myself a year of joy And that’s a promise that I take From now and on I’ll never fall This is my life This is my time How can I be so fool to miss my chance? Now the sun rises once again for me Countless choices open paths to carry on Awaken from the lethe Free to breathe again Born again to live my life
6.
Here I stand at the crest of the oblivion mountain Staring down the world trying to find myself Through a dreamy cloudness Is this all for real Or it’s just a dream I placed myself out of this illusion long ago And all the love we shared fails to heal my soul If I had to say if this was good for me If I had a chance to go back in time I'm really not so sure if I would change a thing Tomorrow is waiting No reason in wasting more time into you How fool I've been to live a life I never choose So little time is left to me to do things that I want So this is no more dream This is reality My dreams like clouds over a desperate world If I had to say if this was good for me If I had a chance to go back in time I'm really not so sure if I would change a thing Tomorrow is waiting No reason in wasting more time into you
7.
Is this a dream? I'm falling into nothing It feels I' m on a road of no return A desert stands before me laughing Am I the one to blame for wrong decisions? I live a life full of illusions This is no way to go This is no life to live I cannot endure the confusion This is no life for me A scary silence stands between me and you And words of love that never been spoken So I try to get away And create my own illusion From a world I cannot live in To feel free in my delusion No one sees what I see No one feels what I feel Now we say our last goodbye In a world of endless lies There is only black and white And it takes your dreams away So you suffer day by day I need to reach the surface breathe again I have to save myself Got to make it through Let me live my own illusion So, I try to get away And create my own illusion From a world I cannot live in To feel free in my delusion No one sees what I see Now we say our last goodbye
8.
Every time I look out of my window I hope to see you again waving me goodbye And if was this for real I would come out at once Take you in my arms Never let you go Cause this was the last time This was the last goodbye Oh God how I regret For all the words I never I never said to you We didn’t last for ever And now I'm all alone With you gone to heaven How can I live again without you? Run out of tears A broken heart beats inside me I have no reason to live anymore Frozen world I' m dead inside Desperate cries but no one hears me Time stands still I'm trapped to an endless moment of regret And if there was a choice for me to bring you back I'd give my life away to make it happen This is all I need Oh God how I regret For all the words I never I never said to you We didn’t last for ever And now I'm all alone With you gone to heaven How can I live again without you?
9.
The call for the final decision Is falling on me and i got no excuse A man on the edge seeks his freedom Now it’s the time that i need to be strong I got nothing to fear I got nothing to lose Is this right Is this wrong No one will give me for free what i want The strongest of will Is what takes for one to move on to the future? I got to believe That the strength is in me to escape the delusion There is one way to go Getting my life back again Nothing will stop me i' m back on the road Step by step i will rise A peace of mind need to find Stand up high take control And finally heal my soul I got nothing to fear I got nothing to lose The strongest of will Is what takes for one to move on to the future? I got to believe That the strength is in me to escape the delusion There is one way to go Getting my life back again Nothing will stop me I'm back on the road
10.
The world is falling Humans are fading like The sun under the black glass See them no one cares Feel them no one loves Free me from the pain set me free now Hold me tight again warm my heart like then Make me trow again in my dreamland Give up all you love and waste away Wither from the pain in soul decay (I don’t know where I am, who is taking who is yelling, who is - stop obey me don't betray me don't you stare me) Voice from beyond says now come to me In the mirror black glass Forbidden for us Forsaken we are God left us and see how nobody cares God please don't listen to them Voices from beyond whisper in my ear This curse shall lay on your soul Voices from beyond linger I can't see- come to me- this curse shall lay on your soul In the mirror black glass Forbidden for us forsaken we are God left us and see them no one cares Feel them no one loves Free me from the pain Black glass on the sun, rise
11.
This Gaia has been covered by thick darkness. Our path of emptiness is full of thorns and dreamcatchers. Darkness rises and light falls. Does liberation imprison and destroy us? Let’s embrace dystopia, And let it show us whether it takes one step or a million for the path that leads to the light. Staring in the paradox, Voices are heard from the past into the void Are we in this world for a purpose or is it all in vain? Forlorn ghosts of long-lost humanity Hunting our future past. We’ve lost. The light inside us, gone dark long ago. Now as damned we embrace the dystopia. Humans are cured and doomed Prayers are dying with us The holy people’s fall Thy mighty words prevailed How can we live provoked? Do they devour our souls? Darkness arise again Please don’t forsaken me Staring in the paradox, Voices are heard from the past into the void Are we in this world for a purpose or is it all in vain?

about

This album is dedicated to dystopian days we live and we are going to live as humanity.

credits

released October 1, 2023

Special thanks to: THANOS for vocal lines, lyrics and for his judgement on the mixes of all songs. Also special thanks to: Olympia Valkyrie, Nastia Manoli & Liliam Carmilla from Colombia for their priceless belief in this attempt of mine to accomplish this album in these difficult times as a pre-listeners and as three of my closest fans. I also want to give many thankful wishes to Rich Melville for bass recordings & to Eleni Nota from AnKor band for recording drums and for honored me by her participation.
Special thanks from my bottom of my heart to: THANOS (PowerCrue, Lightfold, THANOS), Mora, Maya Kambaki (ex-Kosmogonia), Panagiotis «Parthos» Papageorgiou (Parthian Shot, ex Voice, The Knights of Palermo), Anna Alexandridou (Mute Tale), Chris Kappas (Achelous, ex Reflection, Whisper Killers), Kostas Tokas (PowerCrue, Reload), Argyro Igkilizian (Tapeworm Electric-Diamond Signs-Fallen Angel) & Tugce Beserler (Solo Artist) for their amazing and true performance of all songs.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

THSL Athens, Greece

Greetings people .. My name is Thanasis Labrakis/THSL and I'm the founder of Lightfold a prog-power metal band.This is My personal debut album called MEMORIES OF A DREAM. I give you a multi genre album which I produced mix and master it for you. Give the opportunity to yourself and listen this record coz your heart will understand my MEMORIES OF A DREAM. ... more

contact / help

Contact THSL

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like THSL, you may also like: