The River Of Lost

by SHADOWDANCES

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1.
Dark Bridges 03:54
Dark Bridges When the darkness turns away We smile and greet a new day Days are passing fast and nights They make us hide The day is bright and our souls, they shine Cause they are fragile like a glass If you need a friend - pass by Don’t expect and don’t count on us Cause we’re shadows, we’re the jokes Like crying clowns We’re the ghosts of evil past Barely floating up and down No one seems to care Why the bridges are so dark and empty Even sun can’t shine enough It can’t shine enough To light this death’s pedestal
2.
All We’ll Ever Know I know it’s a trap but somehow I feel a need to leave I’m calling out for wisdom in the ancient belief Who can tell where to find the strength I need And how to learn how not to know why we live All those times when I was so alone in the dark I tried to understand what choice do we really have Are we alone in the maze of eternity’s ways Or is it true that everything always ends And every time I seek the truth - it turns away Every time I turn to you - you just can’t wait And every time I ask the river who’s to blame Every time the river, it just runs away And every time we think we know what waits for us Every time we find that only future does And every time, even when we shine so bright Every time the part of us, it slowly dies Is it all we’ll ever know? Is it all we’ll ever know?
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Awaking Inside The lakes of sadness And the mountains of unkindness With the clouds of tears drifting high A cold heart never dares to cry It’s raining It’s raining outside I’m awaking I’m awaking inside Awaking inside There’s no place to hide anymore Can’t you hear us crying lonely in the night Can you take away these empty dreams and hold us tight Come along into this dirty swamp We all are calling home Reach out and pull my heart away It’s in your hands, my life's in your hands I don’t need no salt to taste the loneliness and grief I don’t need your jokes ‘cause the least I want now is to laugh Awaking inside I'm awaking inside There’s no place to hide anymore Awaking inside... I don’t need water To kill the thirst away No need for me to stay here Don’t need a road I want to go where no one else has been And I don’t wish to return I don’t wish to return No I don’t wish to return
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Dawn 01:58
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Snowdance (Warm Inside) A time to like and not to be afraid All your troubles seem far away In this warm room waiting for her (You have) a time to wait and a place to stay She’s not far away - you can feel that She’s coming to you, just be patient Lonely trees behind the window in a dark afternoon So black and naked in winter’s cold Should I pretend being so damned happy in this room? Or feel like one of those leaves they have lost ‘Cause I am lost That cold inaccessible beauty Screaming now to be sheltered Tamed and consoled in these chains of warmth Passing out the cosy comfort To the places she lays her hands Warm tears of joy and thanks Sound all around they touch the ground Sweet touchy music rings Through all the wintertime Tears falling and running all over through me I’m melting and slipping in this harmony Oh please won’t you stay with me (Remember walking in warm sand) Pure white and peaceful snowflakes That circle rounds in this So cold and deadly dance Behind the magic glass (Give silently a feeling of safety, warmth and rest) They dance to the death so warm Tonight the stars will fall And we’ll be together Tonight and forever We’ll fall with the snow
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Blue Flame Fire Song (Suicide World) At the edge of spitting contempt at myself Losing all mountains to conquer once again Losing all forever now I’ll stay aground Killing thoughts oh so divine Gotta find another way to make it through Gonna find a place to stay away from you Gotta end these days of blues and look into the death Gonna hide from you again In suicide world, deep inside In the cut veins of my soul I’ll be flying with the winds so unreal Touch the pain and misery, much too real Drink the wisdom and drown myself in this poison cup Laugh at all mistakes I’ve done In suicide world, deep inside In the ripped veins of my soul Paralyzed, soaked in grey lies Let me live in my cage Madness lies just a touch away Make the sorrow go away The sorrow never goes away In suicide world, deep inside In the torn veins of my soul Gotta find some rest In the long forgotten joy Heal the wounds of the past To feel safe in this void This void and sorrow They never go away
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The Last Dance (Into Death) Tonight I’m making a bed For my Love, for the dead You smile to me for the last time As you did for the first time I feel the rivers in my eyes I see the desert burning your insides I’m holding you for the last time As I did for the first time Don’t take her away from me Don’t part our ways like this The last look of my loved one It makes my heart burn Your eyes are closed, the face so pale And hands as cold as hail All the joys we once shared They make my future so unfair I feel so weak The loneliness will be my only friend And in Your eyes deep night lights on I’ve never seen the stars so bright It’s you and me we’re in this bed Together us - we fight the death (Yet one of us will loose Again and forever One of us will fall No more together If only we could choose Please don’t leave But one of us will fall) Don’t take her away from me Don’t part our ways like this We meet the dawn and one of us is dead The one I loved and knew so well The last dance we twist - white clothes and us No matter how - we’ll make it last Our last dance into death
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Like Never Before Wave to me my dearest friend There’s an axe over your head Just one more step, reach out with your hand But you can’t realize You can’t understand Thick clouds, they are all over you They want you but I’ll fight for you Tonight we’ll be safe... Tonight we’ll be safe 'Cause we’re not afraid of dark anymore And we’re strong in our doubts Like never before Tonight we’ll be safe in our beds But millions won’t have the strength to rest Wave to me my dearest friend There’s an axe over my head Demons crawl with oh so sweet alternatives Killing us inside, so primitive and naive 'Cause we’re not afraid of dark anymore And we’re strong in our doubts Like never before We’re strong in our passions and doubts Like never before, like never before
10.
Farewell 04:06
Farewell Time That had no flow When you were there with me Is gone, you’re gone I’m left alone Still if you wish You can find me Anywhere You want me to be

about

Highly emotional melodic dark metal, well composed and well performed by Shadowdances, with mastermind Juodas (singing drummer of Conscious Rot, Dead Beauty, etc.) behind - the long awaited full-lenght debut from one of the oldest and the best Baltic bands!

CD "The River of Lost" was released in 2003, following the previous mini-album "The Burning Shadows".

Album presents 10 darkening tales in a form of artful gothic doom metal, created with a same sense of musical freedom, known from cult artists like Anathema, Type O’Negative, The Cult, etc. Filled with fragile melancholia, dark drama, burning dreams, even oriental elements, this album will surely hit Your astral body...

Lost is the river. Don’t go with the flow.

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released October 1, 2003

All music and lyrics by Juodas, except “The River of Lost” by Lady Amial and Juodas, the music of “Shadow of a Dust” by Raima and Juodas.

All songs' arrangements by Juodas.
All keyboard parts created by Lady Amial, except “Like Never Before” by Juodas, “Blue Flame Fire Song”, “Awaking Inside” by Lady Amial and Juodas.
All bass parts created by Tadas.
All atmospheric guitar parts created by Juodas, except in “Awaking Inside”, by Raima and Juodas.

Recorded at Tamsta Rec., Vilnius, Lituania, January 18 - 21, 2001
Engineered by Giedrius Klimka.
Mixed by Giedrius Klimka and SHADOWDANCES at Tamsta Rec. Mastered by G. Klimka and SHADOWDANCES at Tamsta Rec.
Re-mastered by Juodas in 2002.

Cover concept and design by Lady Amial and Juodas.
The cover pictures taken at summerflood of 1998 by the Myakka River, Sarasota County, FL., USA, by Lady Amial and Juodas.
Layout by Ugnius Liogė.

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