Thank you for watching our third music video of our new album "VachschlaV".
About Vachschlav
VachschlaV (artificial word from Wachtraum [German = lucid dream])
“VachschlaV tells the story about a lost soul, trapped inside a never-ending dream. Our character faces devastation, after he realizes that he knows nothing about life anymore. In order to escape this nightmare he is willing to take every chance to end his suffering.
By entering a new consciousness, a psychedelic world, he is forced to rethink and reevaluate everything that he knows about life and consciousness. Thrilled by this experience and full of euphoria he enters upon this newly discovered world. He also begins to feel a connection to an omnipotent force, that seems to watch over him, and which will later on in the story challenge him but is at this point not yet to be understood.
Drifting through time and space for a time that felt like many lifetimes, he hits rock bottom. His mind and body are suddenly overwhelmed by feelings of loneliness and fear. Unable to bear the weight of these emotions he comes up with a plan: trying to escape this unfolding realm of nightmares. Finally, unable to escape, he realizes that his mind is not bound to his body or any other dimension of existence anymore.
What will he have to sacrifice to return?”
Comment of I Watched Myself Sleep: Our newest album is a rabbit hole; it is full of references to our old albums, famous writers like Goethe, contemporary metal music and even everyones very personal experiences in the world of dreams. On this album, music, lyric, visual art, and live action in music videos are connected to each other and references can be found throughout, although they might be hidden sometimes.
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Lyrics:
Ungewollt Und ungebeten
Ungestürzt und ungesehen
Ungefügig, Unverlangen
Ungetrübt im Schlaf gefangen
Quis sum?
Körper und Geist ewig zusammengepfercht
Quis sum?
die Last der Erinnerung begraben im Freitod
Evadere uel mori
entkommen oder sterben
Ungefühlt und ungeboren
ging mein Geist im Schlaf verloren
Tief im schwarzen See
füll ich die Lungen bis zum Tod
Ungeliebt und ungehemmt
bin ich in meiner Seele fremd
Auch im Fegefeuer
will mein Körper nicht vergehen
Ewig fremd im Vachschlav
Mein Geist zerbricht
im feurigen Glanz seiner Scherben
gequälte Seele mein
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