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DARC ENTRIES - Opaque
2ooo UpSolution Recordings - SPV
Bestell-Nr.: SPV 00662
1. What you don’t need to know...
2. The ones involved...
3. Tracklistin
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4. Lyrics...
5. mp3
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1. What you don’t need to know... so
... this is it. the last and latest sign of existence. so far. we did only one concert after releasing ‘OPAQUE’ in May 2ooo, nothing more and nothing less, as this album really
burnt us out. monetarily, but also (and primarily) emotionally -- if that’s the right word, I don’t know... of course, well, to understand this you’d have to know more about us and how
we make our livings and stuff, but I’m not going to tell you, ok? the only thing you need to know is that we don’t live on music, meaning it doesn’t pay our rents nor anything else. and
as I said, money was not the only thing that vanished with the time going on and on while we were working on this piece of shiny plastic, spending every day we could get off work and
studies on its completion and waiting for its release and what rewards it would get and gain us (I’m trying to be joking... and I don’t have to tell you that there were none. rewards, I
mean. nor much reactions either. which did not really refill our energy or enthusiasm accounts. hm. strange...)so what... this is not a product of or a reason for frustration, no -- this is the best thing
we’ve done so far (just what you’d expect a band to say about their latest making, right...), and we’re unconventionally and extraordinarily happy with what we have achieved on this
record. speaking mainly of songs, sounds, and production. (as for the ‘artwork’ -- that’s quite a different story. I shall tell you more about it in another update, as soon as I find the
time and nerve to write about it...). now, we recorded ‘OPAQUE’ in the winter 1999/2ooo at the Voodoo Garden Studios, again,
which were by then relocated in Stuttgart, Germany, technically assisted by Dierk Budde, again, and - judging from the outcome of the recording and mixing sessions - that seems to
have been a good choice. we knew what working there would be like (underestimating digital and derivational problems, though, among other things, but nevertheless...), we knew
what we’d have to pay special attention to when making the end-mixes there, and so on. and we had augmented our preproduction process to such an incredible extend that we’d still be
paying ridiculous rates for this production without it. there we were, the three of us, backed up by a guitar player named Michael Glück for the
first few sessions, who then had to be replaced due to an overload of other obligations, but gave us this harsh and hard sound for the rhythm guitars, which was then taken over and
complemented with the leading melodies by returnee Paul Cuska. here we go again, the four horsemen reunited. I’ll tell you more about this one, the tracks
and their history, the lyrics etc. after the break. hang on. 
2. The ones involved... ...in this record - on behalf of the band - were: Matthias Günzler - vocals
Jürgen Schips - synths, keys + programming
Carsten Girke - bass + programming + guitars on “Mnemesis”
...and having returned just in time:
Paul Cuska - guitars + all lead guitars ...our lovely guests were: Moni N. - backing vocals on “Decadence”
Michael Glück - guitars on “The River 1+2”, “Open Chest” ...words and music by Darc Entries
except * words by Hussey, music by Adams, Brown, Hussey 
3. Tracklisting
1. A Hollow Dream - 4:36
2. The River In Me .part 1 - 2:12
3. The River Deeper Within .part 2 - 4:50
4. Grosny - 3:56
5. Mnemesis - 3:52
6. Open Chest - 6:33
7. *Never Again - 5:39
8. Decadence - 3:41
9. Growing Colder - 6:o3
1o. Lost Again (prelude) - 3:53
11. Lost Again - 6:o4
12. A Hollow Dream (dreamed over) - 6:46 
4. Lyrics
...as they might occur somewhere... they are partially complete and even over-complete with lines from the original scripts. others only occur in their final (booklet) version.A Hollow Dream
The River In Me .part1
The River Deeper Within .part2
Grosny
Mnemesis
Open Chest
Decadence
Growing Colder
Lost Again A HOLLOW DREAMisn’t it strange
that we keep staring at the screen
keep listening to the world
listening to a world
of a million words and isn’t it sad
how we try to kill our minds
deafening our sense and sensibility
as we keep talking to the world
typing to a world of a myriad words
we lose ourselves in visions projections and false friends
we keep losing our selves within
these dreams of myriad possibilities
a million words, pictures, and frames
-- windows to a hollow dream
we try to push them open
and fail in doing so
until I was no more
felt no more - dreamt no more - breathed no more - moved no more
spoke no more - saw no more - heard no more - cried no more
cared no more - strove no more - touched no more - until I was no more talked to me about life
and lived away my days
till in the end I’d kill myself
in doing nothing any more
until I was no more
…
and completely lost
my voice - my sight - my mind
and completely lost
my self
I was dead but had not died
until I died and had not lived
I was running through my days…
and so I laugh
and I will live
and so I love
and I will kiss I will embrace the cold the warmth and the heat
and I will kiss those lips and eyes and their cheeks
until I die
I am alive
and I will live
as I will die
and that’s for sure
the final cure
from every sensual disease / every emotional affair /
from everything I ever thought / and every tear I ever cried
I’ll certainly die
...and I will laugh THE RIVER IN ME .part1 / THE RIVER DEEPER WITHIN .part2
waiting in the room
the white man comes to me
I’m waiting for your family
and I stopped with my dream
and all is falling down
the needle cleaning me
and all is going round
trying to remember
all these days before
unable to love is unable to fall
unable to fall is unable to love
mistakes / mystics in the nights before
fall out of this dream
and I’m starting watching round
to all these bars in the underground
the lady went to bed early tonight
and the white man tells me don’t stop the fight
I cannot understand why all this happened now
trying to end all this but I don’t know how
and I walk to the river and the river is in me
and I..I..I..I wanna see
that someone walks with me – this way
and I cannot see
that I’m looking for the mountains
but the mountains are in me
and I’m falling down the trees
stirring into the sea
all this is in me
and the mountains – and the river – and the trees
don’t laugh at me
believe in me
and I walk the streets
falling on the mountains
and the cars in the city
flying up to the sky
the white man cries and I don’t know why
and all the dreams . . . sold out . . . around
still looking for a star in the underground
for all of this
unable to love
unable to fall
a needle full of blood coming out of my mouth
and my mind in the sky
is coming down south
and my memory . . . all is a game tonight
and the white man freezes and I end this fight
still trying to remember all these days before
I fell out of this dream
and I cannot understand why all this happened now
trying to end all this but I don’t know how
and I walk to the river and the river is in me
and I – I want to see . . .
GROSNY
tanzen in ... -- kämpfen um ... MNEMESISloose ends
like lost memories
brace then break me
time and again
empty
empty-handed and -headed
that's how we met
have I ever felt anything...
these thoughts will always come back for you
you will always come back to me
have you ever felt anything
why do you always come back to me
OPEN CHESTthe chest finally opened
yearning for the outside
longing for an insight
that would show a way beyond
the chest filled with intestines
to drown inside itself
kept in by its own walls
to keep itself alive
a cabinet of vomit
a cage on its own
a life on the spiral
that will always lead you home
'home is where your heart is'
with your heart breeding stale new hopes
luring you to run out
run out of yourself
and as you breathe the odour of expulsion
clinging to your exile
respire and adore the new-found corpse of life
you know you´re swimming, floating, rushing for the whirl again
to drag you down again
to face your guts again
to face your heart
from deeper down your mind - just the same - just the same
to force your heart to face your face, your faults, your fraud
to feel the constant frail contstraint
to drown in decongested dreams again
closed the chest behind me
yearning for the silence
of a speechless heart stopped throbbing
longing for the sight
crushed out of the jest
kiss the breeze, new dawn
flowing freely
with no walls in sight
the world outside
the void inside
my core
my course
my chest
my curse DECADENCEand the pressure still comes over me
and I cannot see a light
I’m running through the tunnel
and the journey ends on the twelfth floor
all the years I gave my faith in the wrong hands
now they laugh behind me
and the door threatens to shut
and the door threatens to shut
is it enough
and I hope that you help me
to get out of the vicious circle
but you left me at the day when
the rainbow falling in this crater
the volcano in me is extinct
I’m frightened
I’m too tired to fight, too tired to fight
but they’ll laugh when I die – only a joke
and the tears are dried up
too tired to cry
oh where are the humans where are the humans
too tired to cry -- too tired to cry
all is frozen
all is frozen
all is frozen
is it enough
… GROWING COLDER
I’m sitting on the beach – staring into the sea...
although it´s dark I see things clearer...
our eyes meet, you´re far away
you don´t know me at all
you don’t know what I feel
nothing´s changed back home
I´m lying on a table – getting drunk
I don´t want to wake up, no I don´t want to
and I am where I´ve never wanted to be again
I am where I´ve never wanted to return to...
... never wanted to see this place again
crying cannot be forgotten
tears won´t be forgiven
my face is wet...
I think about you – I`m looking for you and will never find you
bound to fail?!?! bound to fall?
why and wherefore??
I see children waving to me -- laughing...
while you´re holding him,
just bad luck – or what should I do....
-- what shall I do!!!!
and here I am again, where I´ve never wanted to be again
back at the place where I never wanted to return to...
...never wanted to feel this way again
the snow´s lying down on the grass... getting black
wasn´t it May a second ago...?
I should get up, but I do not want to
unable to think, unable to function
I´ve got it badly - I'd like to hold you
to caress you, yet that´s too much already
-- I feel like a little child
- where I never wanted to be again
back at the point I´ve never wanted to see again
... never wanted to return to this pain
it´s growing cold, I´m freezing... laughing people all around me...
I should go home, shouldn´t I? It´s late... too late, too early
a perfect dream, I know...
I miss you...
I´m laughing about myself, but I´ve not grown up, yet
and I'm back at that place I never wanted to return to
back where I never wanted to stand again
I realize that I deceive myself
I won´t have a chance
and I´m laughing
I mean I can´t cry, can I?
not forgotten, anyway...
never wanted to be again
to come back again
laughing
I miss you
I want you
I want to
get away
go away LOST AGAINwhen I'm falling
through the mirror
when I'm searching
still no one's there
I can't move
no one's speaking
the streets are shining
clearly in the moonlight
in these streets we're still fighting
hold me --
and I'm driving to this memory again
my case is empty and I follow them
I hold this book and I'm always asking you
what's the time? - still got nothing to do
my friends wave to me - all is loud
falling down and someone shouts
see the dead men in the rain
I know I know I' m lost again
is it possible to dream no more?
something's lying behind the door
all I believed in was destroyed in one night
my head exploded after the fight
Jesus dies tonight... 5.
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