1. |
Nice to Meet you
02:19
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ACT I : RISE AND FALL
Scene 1 : « Nice to meet you » (Coubray - Lefebvre)
« Let me introduce myself, my name is Mem’ocho. I used to be an Angel, then the Devil, and then again, a Human, but now, what am I ? No one could answer.
The story you’re about to hear is the true story of my life. A tale about delusions, love and hate, and of course…faith.
This is the Tale Of a Tortured Soul . »
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2. |
From the Ashes
08:34
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SCENE 2 : FROM THE ASHES (Coubray - Lefebvre)
MEM’OCHO:
“Fear in your eyes, you know that I want it, your dreams are my life.
Feel what I need, I won’t let you go far, ‘keep enslaving you now.
The need leads your life, don’t wait any longer and cry out your silence.
Madness, I won’t blame, it is the Queen of my life, quiet an’ strange...
Here I come, I’ve left my evil den lost in...
...a spiral world...
Blown away by humankind and anew from the ashes, amongst evil power...
I’ll never be a mortal man...
Surrender your mind to me, I won’t eternally hang around,
You’ll see I’m exctasy, relaxing, sexciting.
Sinners are my life, madness in their eyes.
Demanding all and now will lead you to your fall.
Here I come, I’ve left my evil den lost in...
...a spiral world...
Broken into pieces, then back into one piece, amongst deep darkness...
I’ll never be a mortal man...
Blown away by humankind and anew from the ashes, amongst evil power...
I’ll never be a mortal man...
Here I come, I’ve left my evil den lost in a spiral world.
Blown away by humankind, and anew from the ashes,
I’ll never be a mortal man...”
THE EARTH:
“Let us go, let us live. Let us go, let us leave.”
THE ANGELS:
“Don’t worry...
...God didn’t forget you.
Soon the rising truth...
...will appear,
Against the Evil...
...against the evil sign.
Wait for that moment...
...to come and...
And save each one of you.”
MEM’OCHO:
“Shut up, I am the Devil, and humans are my prize, I’ll break them like they’ve done to me.”
THE EARTH:
“Slaying, killing, how could we escape that hell we can’t control.”
THE ANGELS:
“The time has come...
...for you to be quiet.
Only a matter...
...of time.
Dry your tears...
...it’s almost a dream,
A daydream that will end now...
GOD:
“I talk, you belong to Me, I’m the One to decide what you shall be.
And now here is My judgement: you’re a tortured human soul.”
MEM’OCHO:
“Living in the depth of humanity with nothing but my cries...”
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3. |
Angel Salvation
05:00
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SCENE 3 : ANGEL’ SALVATION (Coubray - Lefebvre)
Our days.
“Mem’ocho has to cope with his new human nature, but the Angels, completely devoted to humans, cannot let him down even if he’s the Lord of Evil become human...”
MEM’OCHO :
“Everyday, every hour I’m falling deeper.
Existence, dilemma on what I could be.
I’ve chosen pain to lead my brain.”
THE ANGELS :
“Your last...
...salvation.”
MEM’OCHO :
“Disgrace is mine, protected mind won’t rescue my upset heart...
I’m searching for sunshine, my feelings aren’t part of me.
Hell entertains the dark side growing inside of me.”
THE ANGELS :
“Hold on...
...to life.”
MEM’OCHO :
“there’s nothing left for me there.”
THE ANGELS :
“Take...
...your time.”
MEM’OCHO :
“Come and take me then I’ll be safe.
I’ve chosen evil to lead my life, I’ve only got myself to blame.
Don’t let me out like a stupid guy, I want to reach the sky.”
“Now Mem’ocho has to face the world and experience the fate of his own work on earth.”
MEM’OCHO :
“Now that I’m alone, I have to face this world,
Alone for ever I have to face this world,
Can’t you hear my trial...”
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4. |
The Trial
08:44
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ACT II : AMONG ALL THINGS
SCENE 1 : THE TRIAL (Coubray - Lefebvre)
MEM’OCHO :
“Waiting for, longing for some kind of dream.
Always searching the right from the wrong or why we are living.
Am I created? Must I believe in what I’ve been given?
Are we designed? Should we remember the sense of life?
Love and hate go together.
Are feelings part of what we are?
Think of what you’re doing here.
Are we the essence of the earth?
Hopeless time you have to live.
I close my eyes and I forget.
Don’t be haunted by your money... ...Let your soul run amock
Don’t be your job... ...Let your soul run amock”
THE ANGELS :
“Waiting for...
...some kind of dream?”
MEM’OCHO :
“Forget the color of your shirt... ...Let your soul run amock
Don’t be what they’re telling you to be... ...Let your soul run amock
THE ANGELS :
“Always searching...
...right from wrong?”
MEM’OCHO :
“How can you stare right at the wall, and stay there?
I will return right from the start, and come.
Love and hate for one another.
Yet feelings regard everyone.
Think of what you’re doing here.
Are we the essence of the earth?
Hopeless time you have to live.
I close my eyes and I forget.
So go your way, and don’t return, you’ve only got yourself to learn.
Through the sorrow and the chaos, I want to reach for the stars.
I’m searching for meaning, a new kind of life.
And what I’ve learnt is what the others have given me.
And nowhere to flow.
Am I a slave of time, am I a prisoner from life.
No love can give me all that I need.
Think of what you’re doing here.
Are we the essence of the earth?
Hopeless time you have to live.
I close my eyes and I forget.
So go your way, and don’t return, you’ve only got yourself to learn.
Through the sorrow and the chaos, I want to reach for the stars.”
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5. |
Passion & Loneliness
13:09
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SCENE 2 : PASSION AND LONELINESS (Coubray - Lefebvre)
“Meeting several kind of people, Mem’ocho is seduce by a girl but he’s disappointed too. Humans are so far to perfection, always searching right from wrong, they can’t pleased what they have. Looking further is the essence of this world.”
MEM’OCHO :
“Now you come to me to know the truth,
How can you say there’s no abuse.
You’ve left me in my dream.
Now you want to know why I’m such a fool.
I won’t take too much of your time if you can let me speak.
What do you think I don’t care what you are or what you do.
It won’t kill me to see you through.
Now that you’ve gone you’ve left in my dream,
I’m stuck there on my own watching you leaving.
Don’t you know I’m not that strong,
You’ve been so cruel, for you’ve left me there,
The essence of my soul evaporated.”
THE ANGELS :
“Life is short so don’t waste your time.
You’ll have another life to be down.”
MEM’OCHO : THE ANGELS :
“How could I survive, “Ho don’t you act,
She’s vanished with my heart. Like there’s nothing now?
So pity to be so lonely, Take your time, don’t be shy,
I do think I’ll always be down...” There’s no time to be down...”
THE EARTH :
“Ho don’t you act,
Like there’s nothing now?
Think of what you’ll be from here,
There’s no reason to be down.”
MEM’OCHO :
“It won’t kill me to see you through.
Now that you’ve gone you’ve left in my dream,
I’m stuck there on my own watching you leaving.
Can’t you see I’m vulnerable,
You couldn’t care less, still I can’t face,
Do you think you could change me?”
“Now I feel as if I could kick the world, there’s nothing to stop me in my race.
You can try to put me into trouble, I will slip away ‘cause I don’t care.
All my life, I’ve been a slave of time and of all the things everyone care for.
Now I feel as if I could be in love with every girl I will see.
But when the light of the day becomes far too bright,
I’ll return to my life with my soul company.
All my life, I’ve tried to catch a dream, and all I’ve found is hate and pain...
All I’ve seen is loneliness...
All I’ve seen is loneliness...
All I’ve seen is loneliness...”
“Now that you’re gone you’ve left in my dream,
I’m still there on my own watching you leaving.
So you realise that I am resourceful but it’s all too late,
As I can now stand for myself.
“Alone again, Mem’ocho keeps wonder how to adapt himself through this “hell on earth” and he choses to spread the faith around him, but it seems that religion, faith and devotion are not kind of familiar things here.”
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6. |
Lost
06:12
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SCENE 3: Lost (Coubray - Lefebvre)
MEM’OCHO:
“The mirror of truth is broken,
We’ve lost the faith, but we just carry on.
Trying to save face, we’ve lost our will but we just fade away.
And what must we hope for our own sake.
‘Cause it seems we’re lost.
And how to behave, facing troubles of existence.
So many diseases must undergo our world.
So now I feel, there is nothing left to care for,
I wonder what we should do to grow, our dreams are made of hope.
And many things unspocken to us all,
I won’t deny my God ‘cause I’m lost, in a world made of troubles.
Icons are burned, altars are stained with blood, pity us all.
No longer hands to help me when I’m down, passing by ’n by.
All we’ve left on earth is hell, now and for generations.
Wash the darkness away, turn on the light, we’re longing for it.
So now I feel, there is nothing left to care for,
I wonder what we should do to grow, our dreams are made of hope.
And many things unspocken to us all,
I won’t deny my God ‘cause I’m lost, in a world made of troubles.
So now I feel, there is nothing left to care for,
I wonder what we should do to grow, our dreams are made of hope.
And many things unspocken to us all,
I won’t deny my God ‘cause I’m lost, in a world made of troubles.
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7. |
Night
10:00
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ACT III : BACK TO DEATH
SCENE 1 : NIGHT (Coubray - Lefebvre)
MEM’OCHO :
“Every day I’m waiting for the ride, world of darkness loads from a dream.
Imagination, Abyss of passion, every day I’m taken to other land...
I just want to free my soul, my mind.
Breathing in peace, I feel so blind and lost as my body falls...
Asleep.
Voices call me, why am I here, alive, shadows from some undead souls.
Rain is pouring from the ground, I cannot move along,
Paralized by a Divine Hand.
I just want to heal my painful heart.
Breathing in peace, I am so blind and my body falls asleep...
All that I feel is tranquillity, but someone’s coming to harm me.
All alone in my dream, sounds from reality come to fear me again.
And I just want to leave, my life’s so much easier, all things look better.
GOD :
Blood soils your skin, this is reality.
Fog in your eyes will make you fail.
Staying here on earth is your nightmare.
Take some advantage before you died.
MEM’OCHO :
All that I feel is tranquillity, but someone’s coming to harm me.
All alone in my dream, sounds from reality come to fear me again.
All that I feel is tranquillity, but someone’s coming to harm me.
All alone in my dream, sounds from reality come to fear me again.
And I just want to leave, my life’s so much easier, all things look better.
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8. |
Redemption
15:36
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SCENE 2 : REDEMPTION (Coubray - Lefebvre)
MEM’OCHO :
“When will there be a place for me there?
When will my mind let me live in peace?”
THE ANGELS :
“Oh how come you’re so quiet, and how come you can’t live?
The mirror throws your dreams to hell.
I’ll take you by the hand, and take you far from pain.”
MEM’OCHO :
“If there was a place for feelings above,
God would erase all your bad dreams and more.”
GOD :
“Don’t hesitate to let yourself fall in the deep,
You’re broken and stolen, forever.
I’ll lead you to your fall, there is no turning back.”
MEM’OCHO : THE ANGELS:
“I live like a victim, shared in two... “Hazy circumstance...
I can’t go on... You can’t go on.
Live another life... Leave your soiled soul.
Closer to the end... Deeper beyond your rage.”
Stronger than any man.”
MEM’OCHO :
“Quiet and peace make me see reality, conscious, aware of the real world.
My heart is bruised, wounded deep inside of me,
Timeless life, I’ll never be the same.
Inside of me, it’s wanting, it’s sicking me.
I tired to resist in vain.
Help...’soul’s not mine...
Anymore...”
THE EARTH :
“Broken and torn apart, misery of a life, despair and regrets surround his life.
Tragedy in this act, not far from god he liked, death is not the end but a new life.
From death to freedom, waiting for some kind of redemption.
From death to freedom, waiting for some kind of redemption.”
MEM’OCHO :
“The problems stay behind, the heaven’s shining like a star,
It’s close to me, no turning back.
From death to freedom, I’m waiting for my redemption.”
THE ANGELS:
“Close your eyes, relax your mind.”
MEM’OCHO :
“I lived like a victim, shared in two.
Now I will go on,
I will go on,
I will go on,
I will go on.”
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9. |
I'm Back
07:35
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SCENE 3 : “I’M BACK” (Coubray - Lefebvre)
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