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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 - Beautiful
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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 - Consider this: the true Meaning of Love
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Sopor Aeternus - I Am Done With Men
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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 - Baptisma
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Sopor Aeternus - Beautiful Thorn
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Sopor Aeternus - Hades "Pluton"
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Sopor Aeternus - Les Fleurs du Mal
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Sopor Aeternus - Little Velveteen Knight
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Sopor Aeternus - The Virgin Queen
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Sopor Aeternus - Von der Einfalt
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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 - Bang-Bang
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Sopor Aeternus - Beyond The Wall Of Sleep
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Sopor Aeternus - Cornflowers
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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 - Hello
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Sopor Aeternus - Helvetia Sexualis
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Sopor Aeternus - Holding Out For a Hero
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Sopor Aeternus - I Am So Glad It's Over
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Sopor Aeternus - I Fell For One (Who Loved Me Not)
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Sopor Aeternus - If You Could Only Read My Mind
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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 - Interlude - The Quiet Earth
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Sopor Aeternus - La Mort D'Arthur
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Sopor Aeternus - Let Me Say It Now
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Sopor Aeternus - Minnesang
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Sopor Aeternus - Omen Sinistrum
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Sopor Aeternus - Reprise
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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 - Starlight Seen Through Veils Of Tears
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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 Simple Joys of Maidenhood
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Sopor Aeternus - There Was A Country By The Sea
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Sopor Aeternus - Where The Ancient Laurel Grows
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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 - At The Stroke Of Midnight Gently
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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 - Imhotep
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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 - May I Kiss Your Wound?
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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 - Powder
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Sopor Aeternus - Psychoplastic Experience
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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 Inexperienced Spiral Traveller (A Fragment)
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Sopor Aeternus - The Lion's Promise
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Sopor Aeternus - The Skeletal Garden
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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 - To Walk Behind The Rows
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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 Sleeper
Sopor Aeternus
I stand beneath the mystic moon
(An opiate vapor, dewy, dim)
Exhales from out her golden rim
And, softly dripping, drop by drop
Upon the quiet mountain top
(Steals drowsily and musically)
Into the universal valley
The rosemary nods upon the grave
The lily lolls upon the wave
(Wrapping the fog about its breast)
The ruin molders into rest
Looking like Lethe, see! the lake
A conscious slumber seems to take
(And would not, for the world, awake)
And would not, for the world, awake
All Beauty sleeps!- and lo! where lies
His casement open to the skies
(My lover with his destinies)
O, lover bright! can it be right
O, lady bright! can it be right
This window open to the night?
(The wanton airs, from the tree-top)
Laughingly through the lattice drop
The bodiless airs, a wizard rout
Flit through thy chamber in and out
(And wave the curtain canopy)
So fitfully, so fearfully
Above the closed and fringed lid
'Neath which thy slumb'ring soul lies hid
That, o'er the floor and down the wall
Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall
Oh, lady dear, hast thou no fear?
Why and what art thou dreaming here?
Sure thou art come O'er far-off seas
A wonder to these garden trees
Strange is thy pallor! strange thy dress
Strange, above all, thy length of tress
And this all this...
And this all this solemn silentness
The lady sleeps! Oh, may her sleep
Which is enduring, so be deep
Heaven have her in its sacred keep
This chamber changed for one more holy
This bed for one more melancholy
I pray to Saturn that she may lie
For ever with unopened eye
While the pale sheeted ghosts go by
My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep
As it is lasting, so be deep
Soft may the worms about her creep
Far in the forest, dim and old
For her may some tall vault unfold
Some vault that oft has flung its black
And winged panels fluttering back
Triumphant, o'er the crested palls
Of her grand family funerals
Some sepulchre, remote, alone
Against whose portal she hath thrown
In childhood, many an idle stone
Some tomb from out whose sounding door
She ne'er shall force an echo more
Thrilling to think, poor child of sin
It was the dead who groaned within