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The Soul Creation (1991 demo)

from Neronia 30th Anniversary Remaster 2CD​-​set by Ulysses

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about

This was the first song written and arranged by the band after Australian singer Gerard Hynes joined the band in Frankfurt.
During his audition for the singer's position, they had played him a 12-minute improvisation and asked him if he could sing something on it. He thought that was a bit strange and instead asked them to give him a cassette with the piece and came back a week later with a finished text and melody ... and their first joint piece "The Soul Creation" was finished.

lyrics

THE SOUL CREATION

There she stands in a moment of calm between
now and when?
Anticipation of the loneliness that will surround
her then,
There is no redeeming light, no hand to help
her,
She only knows the comfort of what been;
herself, her tormentor.

She looks around for something to tear down
and breaks what bends
Theres nothing left but this emptiness, why
make amends
She claws and rips and bites and spits, time
without end
Why has this world washed its hands of me?
Why am I alone again?

This room, her world painted pitch in her
temper’s torment
Her dripping brush is thrown blood-black at
her world of concrete
Dark time, no-love, untouched its bone had
tares her
But her heart is numb, her lips struck dumb
nothing seems to scare her

She looks around for something to tear down
and breaks what bends
Theres nothing left in this emptiness, why make
amends
She claws and rips and bites and spits, time
without end
Why has this world washed its hands of me?
Why am I alone again?

What’s heaven hold
For my tormented soul
After this hell
Has squeezed the life from it
My God, I’ll fear and worship
Shivering I’ll kneel and bow
To my tormented lover
Brother, sister, father, mother

My God and only friend
Shivering I will depend on you
My tormented lover
Mother, father, sister brother
You are my hopelessness
But my companion in loneliness
Alone, alone you come to me
Alone, alone I’ll always be
Your soul creation
My soul’s creation
My God, my God
Why has thou forsaken me?

credits

from Neronia 30th Anniversary Remaster 2CD​-​set, released October 27, 2023
Music composed and arranged by Ulysses
Lyrics by Gerard Hynes

Thomas Diehl - keyboards
Gerard Hynes - vocals
Ender Kilic - bass
Mirko Rudnik - guitars
Jesper Stannow - drums

Recorded in Minemusic Studios in Ingelheim, Germany in 1991
Remastered at Gorllla Sounds, Frankfurt, Germany by Robert Zoom, June/Oktober 2023

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Ulysses Germany

Progressive rock music project by the founding members of German prog rockers Ulysses.
Their debut album Neronia, produced by Karl Groom (Threshold) and Clive Nolan (Arena), and the subsequent European tour with Pendragon propelled them immediately into the premier league of European prog rock bands.
Freshly reunited, they are ready to resurrect the great legacy they left behind.
Stay tuned! ... more

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