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Sopor Aeternus - In Der Palästra
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Sopor Aeternus - Dead Souls
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Sopor Aeternus - A Strange Thing To Say
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Sopor Aeternus - La Prima Vez
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Sopor Aeternus - Les Fleurs du Mal
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Sopor Aeternus - Children Of The Corn
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Sopor Aeternus - In An Hour Darkly
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Sopor Aeternus - One Day My Prince Will Come
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Sopor Aeternus - The Hours Of Sadness
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Sopor Aeternus - Alone (The Innocence of Devils) 1
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Sopor Aeternus - Angel Of The Golden Fountain
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Sopor Aeternus - Beautiful
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Sopor Aeternus - Consider this: the true Meaning of Love
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Sopor Aeternus - I Am Done With Men
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Sopor Aeternus - Baptisma
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Sopor Aeternus - Beautiful Thorn
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Sopor Aeternus - Cornflowers
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Sopor Aeternus - Hades "Pluton"
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Sopor Aeternus - Hello
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Sopor Aeternus - Holding Out For a Hero
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Sopor Aeternus - I Fell For One (Who Loved Me Not)
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Sopor Aeternus - La Mort D'Arthur
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Sopor Aeternus - Starlight Seen Through Veils Of Tears
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Sopor Aeternus - The Virgin Queen
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Sopor Aeternus - There Was A Country By The Sea
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Sopor Aeternus - Von der Einfalt
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Sopor Aeternus - Where The Ancient Laurel Grows
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Sopor Aeternus - A Dream Within a Dream
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Sopor Aeternus - A Little Bar Of Soap
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Sopor Aeternus - At The Stroke Of Midnight Gently
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Sopor Aeternus - Bang-Bang
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Sopor Aeternus - Beyond The Wall Of Sleep
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Sopor Aeternus - Cornucopia D'amour
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Sopor Aeternus - Deathhouse
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Sopor Aeternus - Die Bruderschaft Des Schmerzes
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Sopor Aeternus - Everything Is An Illusion
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Sopor Aeternus - Feralia Genitalia (Arrival Of The Jugglers)
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Sopor Aeternus - Freitod-Phantasien
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Sopor Aeternus - Helvetia Sexualis
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Sopor Aeternus - I Am So Glad It's Over
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Sopor Aeternus - If You Could Only Read My Mind
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Sopor Aeternus - Imhotep
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Sopor Aeternus - Interlude - The Quiet Earth
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Sopor Aeternus - Let Me Say It Now
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Sopor Aeternus - May I Kiss Your Wound?
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Sopor Aeternus - Minnesang
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Sopor Aeternus - Omen Sinistrum
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Sopor Aeternus - Powder
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Sopor Aeternus - Saltatio Crudelitatis (Der Tanz Der Grausamkeit)
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Sopor Aeternus - Saturn Rising
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Sopor Aeternus - Shadowsphere
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Sopor Aeternus - Sieh', Mein Geliebter, Hier Hab' Ich Gift
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Sopor Aeternus - Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est
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Sopor Aeternus - Soror Sui Excidium
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Sopor Aeternus - Stake Of My Soul
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Sopor Aeternus - The Conqueror Worm
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Sopor Aeternus - The Curse Of The Mummy
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Sopor Aeternus - The Feast Of Blood
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Sopor Aeternus - The Goat
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Sopor Aeternus - The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller (A Fragment)
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Sopor Aeternus - The Simple Joys of Maidenhood
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Sopor Aeternus - The Skeletal Garden
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Sopor Aeternus - To Walk Behind The Rows
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Sopor Aeternus - Little Dead Boy
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Sopor Aeternus - 20.000 Leagues Under The Sea (Or The History Of Steampunk)
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Sopor Aeternus - A National Acrobat (By Black Sabbath)
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Sopor Aeternus - Abschied
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Sopor Aeternus - Across The Bridge
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Sopor Aeternus - All good Things are Eleven
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Sopor Aeternus - Alone Ii
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Sopor Aeternus - Always within the hour
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Sopor Aeternus - An Die Sterne
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Sopor Aeternus - An Die Sterne Tradução
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Sopor Aeternus - and Bringer Of Sadness
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Sopor Aeternus - Anima I & II
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Sopor Aeternus - Architecture II
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Sopor Aeternus - As Flores do Mal
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Sopor Aeternus - Autodestructive State
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Sopor Aeternus - Backbone Practise
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Sopor Aeternus - Birth - Fiendish Figuration
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Sopor Aeternus - Bis Zum Hahnenschrei
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Sopor Aeternus - Bitter-sweet
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Sopor Aeternus - Black Magic Spell
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Sopor Aeternus - Burial Ground
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Sopor Aeternus - Cage Within A Cage
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Sopor Aeternus - Carnival of Souls
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Sopor Aeternus - Cold
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Sopor Aeternus - Collision
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Sopor Aeternus - Consolatrix Has Left The Building
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Sopor Aeternus - Dark Delight
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Sopor Aeternus - Day Of The Dead
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Sopor Aeternus - Der See Des Vergessens
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Sopor Aeternus - Die Knochenblume
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Sopor Aeternus - Die Stimme Im Sturm
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Sopor Aeternus - Dio N'arap
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Sopor Aeternus - Do You Know About The Water Of Life
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Sopor Aeternus - Do You Know My Name?
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Sopor Aeternus - Do You Know My Name? / What Has Happened While We Slept?
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Sopor Aeternus - Drama Der Geschlechtslosigkeit
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Sopor Aeternus - Dreamland
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Sopor Aeternus - Ein Freundlich’ Wort Einst Unverhofft
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Sopor Aeternus - Ein Freundliches Wort Hat Meine Seele Berührt
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Sopor Aeternus - Eldorado
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Sopor Aeternus - Epitaph
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Sopor Aeternus - Existence
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Sopor Aeternus - Feed The Birds
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Sopor Aeternus - Fire Kissed The Echo Twins
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Sopor Aeternus - Flesh Crucifix
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Sopor Aeternus - Flowers for the God .
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Sopor Aeternus - Gebet: an die Glücklichen Eroberer
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Sopor Aeternus - Goodbye
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Sopor Aeternus - Hearse-shaped Basins Of Darkest Matter
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Sopor Aeternus - Holy Water Moonlight
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Sopor Aeternus - I Don't Believe In Ghosts
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Sopor Aeternus - Ich Wollte Hinaus In Den Garten
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Sopor Aeternus - Idleness & Consequence
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Sopor Aeternus - If I Could Go Back In Time
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Sopor Aeternus - If Loneliness Was All
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Sopor Aeternus - Im Garten Des Nichts (A Secret Light In The Garden Of My Void)
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Sopor Aeternus - Infant
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Sopor Aeternus - Inschrift/Epitaph
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Sopor Aeternus - It Is Safe To Sleep Alone
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Sopor Aeternus - It's Just That My Sadness
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Sopor Aeternus - Lament / Totenklage
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Sopor Aeternus - Leeches & Deception
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Sopor Aeternus - Lied Der Todesfee
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Sopor Aeternus - Light In The Attic
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Sopor Aeternus - Little Velveteen Knight
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Sopor Aeternus - Memalon
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Sopor Aeternus - Memories Are Haunted Places
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Sopor Aeternus - Miniature
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Sopor Aeternus - Minotaur
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Sopor Aeternus - Modela Est
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Sopor Aeternus - Mourning
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Sopor Aeternus - Nightbreed
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Sopor Aeternus - No-one Is There
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Sopor Aeternus - Not Dead But Dying
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Sopor Aeternus - Oh, Chimney Sweep
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Sopor Aeternus - On Satur(n)days We Used To Sleep
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Sopor Aeternus - Only The Dead In The Mist
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Sopor Aeternus - Penance & Pain
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Sopor Aeternus - Poison
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Sopor Aeternus - Polishing Silver
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Sopor Aeternus - Psychoplastic Experience
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Sopor Aeternus - Reprise
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Sopor Aeternus - Résumé
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Sopor Aeternus - Saturn Devouring His Children
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Sopor Aeternus - Saturn-Impressionen (Jusa, Jusa)
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Sopor Aeternus - Schattengesang
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Sopor Aeternus - Schwarzer Spiegel
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Sopor Aeternus - Shadowsphere II
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Sopor Aeternus - Shave, If You Love Me
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Sopor Aeternus - Sister of Selfdestruction.
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Sopor Aeternus - Sleep
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Sopor Aeternus - Some Men Are Like Chocolate
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Sopor Aeternus - Something Wicked This Way Comes...
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Sopor Aeternus - Somnambulist's Secret Bardo-life
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Sopor Aeternus - Spellbound
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Sopor Aeternus - Sternblumennacht
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Sopor Aeternus - Synchronicity
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Sopor Aeternus - Tabor C'alan O'itana
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Sopor Aeternus - Tabor C'alan O'itana.
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Sopor Aeternus - Tales From The Inverted Womb
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Sopor Aeternus - Tanz Der Grausamkeit
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Sopor Aeternus - The Boy Has Built a Catacomb
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Sopor Aeternus - The Broken & Shattered Moon
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Sopor Aeternus - The City In The Sea
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Sopor Aeternus - The Devil's Instrument
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Sopor Aeternus - The Devils' s Instrument.
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Sopor Aeternus - The Dog Burial
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Sopor Aeternus - The Dreadful Mirror
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Sopor Aeternus - The Encoded Cloister
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Sopor Aeternus - The Haunted Palace
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Sopor Aeternus - The Lion's Promise
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Sopor Aeternus - The Sleeper
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Sopor Aeternus - The Urine Song
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Sopor Aeternus - The Void
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Sopor Aeternus - The Widow's Dream
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Sopor Aeternus - This Profane Finality
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Sopor Aeternus - Through Your Eyes
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Sopor Aeternus - Time Stands Still... (...But Stops For No-one)
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Sopor Aeternus - To A Loyal Friend
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Sopor Aeternus - Todeswunsch
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Sopor Aeternus - Totenlicht
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Sopor Aeternus - Transfiguration
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Sopor Aeternus - Über Den Fluss
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Sopor Aeternus - Untitled I
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Sopor Aeternus - Untitled II
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Sopor Aeternus - Va(r)nitas, Vanitas... (...omnia Vanitas)
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Sopor Aeternus - We Have A Dog To Exercise
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Sopor Aeternus - When You Love A Man
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Sopor Aeternus - Where The End Begins
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Sopor Aeternus - You Cannot Make Him Love You
The City In The Sea
Sopor Aeternus
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim west,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
There shrines and palaces and towers
(Time-eaten towers that tremble not!)
Resemble nothing that is ours.
Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
No rays from the holy heaven come down
On the long night-time of that town;
But light from out the lurid sea
Streams up the turrets silently-
Gleams up the pinnacles far and free-
Up domes- up spires- up kingly halls-
Up fanes- up babylon-like walls-
Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers
Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers-
Up many and many a marvellous shrine
Whose wreathed friezes intertwine
The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.
There open fanes and gaping graves
Yawn level with the luminous waves;
But not the riches there that lie
In each idol's diamond eye-
Not the gaily-jewelled dead
Tempt the waters from their bed;
For no ripples curl, alas!
Along that wilderness of glass-
No swellings tell that winds may be
Upon some far-off happier sea-
No heavings hint that winds have been
On seas less hideously serene.
But lo, a stir is in the air!
The wave- there is a movement there!
As if the towers had thrust aside,
In slightly sinking, the dull tide-
As if their tops had feebly given
A void within the filmy heaven.
The waves have now a redder glow-
The hours are breathing faint and low-
And when, amid no earthly moans,
Down, down that town shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,
Shall do it reverence.