Perfection Dies Songtext
von Gomorrah

Even beauty must die
That which subdues both gods and mortals
Leaves the scheming breast of
The Stygian Zeus untouched

As I wake, I hear these words in my mind
Their meaning is one that I cannot find
My head, it pounds with a tempered thought
Did my eyes betray that which I sought?

What was his gift? For I can′t ignore
The question posed now as before

Once and once only did love
Soften the lord of the shadows
Then on the very threshold
He sternly reposed his gift

What was his gift? For I can't ignore
The question posed now as before

I can′t begin to realize
That I'm the one to which they empathize


Aphrodite herself has no power
To assuage the hurt of her love for
His tender flesh ripped by the cruel boar
Nor can the godlike hero be saved
Deathless mouthed or at the Scaean Gates
When falling, he achieves his fate

She rides out to sea
With all the daughters of Nereus
And the mourning begins for her glorious son

All good things must come to pass
Too soon perfection dies
Trusting in vanity
Fading perfection dies

Look back, the mirror shows
Narcissus perfection dies
Grieving for what has lost
Slowly perfection dies

See where the gods are weeping
And the goddesses, all of them
Weeping that beauty passes
Perfection will always die

Good elements inter-melt
At loved ones

What is common goes to

Orchis unsung


And the mourning begins for her glorious son
All good things must come to pass
Too soon perfection dies
Trusting in vanity

Fading perfection dies
Look back, the mirror shows
Narcissus perfection dies
Grieving for what has lost
Slowly perfection dies

Perfection dies
Perfection dies
Perfection dies
Perfection dies