Shadow Curtains

from MCCCL by CARTESIAN

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Booklet containing the lyrics and concept pre-meditations behind each song, essential in following the story behind 'MCCCL'.

Intercession by Alexander: "In preperation for writing this concept album I read 'Digerdöden, pestvågor och ödeläggelse: ett perspektiv på senmedeltidens Sverige' (Janken Myrdal, 2003). Most historical references to the belief and symbolism of the first wave of Stoor Dödhin (black death of Sweden) come from studying this single source. The lyrics and backstory segments often leak into and rely on one another to build the full storyline, sampling the way the main characters dreams leak into his experience of the mortifyingly dark place and time that is Stoor Dödhin. Although there are several layers of subject to the concept behind 'MCCCL', it is most of all a celebration of victory in battles with mental illness, although all can never be won. In the same respect this work goes out to anyone who refuses to stop fighting those battles for themselves and/or loved one's."

Booklet illustrations by Rutger van Aken of Rainy Day Illustrations
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lyrics

Drop the blinds
Pulling strings across the sky
As we play on a stage enshrouded

We ask our master
He never answers
Masks upon faces of unbroken crux

Smoke screens
Shadow curtains

Maester of playwright
What happens when the Lord unmasks?
Puppetmaster
What happens when the strings detach?
Hypnotist
What happens when His fingers snap?
Sun creator
What happens when the lights go out?

Sungaze
His shadow
Becomes
Holy ghost

"När jag stirrar i solen kastas skuggan i ryggen
Och jag förlorar en god vän
Den slutgiltiga förintelsen min enda chans att någonsin glömma den
Eller ett liv i mörkret och bli ett med den

Motsägelsen när solen går ner och skuggan växer
Och när döden blir enda chansen
Att någonsin få veta syftet i livslånga dyrkan av livet
En sanning jag finner när skuggan lyfter från kroppen”