Scorched Earth (2025) Harakiri for the Sky 🇦🇹 Austria

Don’t give up my dear
We built this road together
My heart starts breaking
But together we will fall
Don’t give up my dear
As lonely nights keep holding you tight
Forget we’ve ever parted
Forget we’ll never come back home

And so I thought nothing could keep us apart
And if something did, I didn’t think it’d be you
And then I came back to the place we first met
I could hear my heart breaking
And I hope yours will too one day

Don’t give up my dear
Our dreams of endless summers
You try to disappear
But just want to be found
Don’t give up my dear
As my heart still beats your name
Loving you was like going to war
I never came back home the same

Perhaps it was too little, too late
We were already too broken, too hurt
But I want to thank you for a thousand kisses
That I can still feel on my face
I thought I had forgotten all about you
But here I am, calling your name again
You still live inside of me
And I’m cursed to carry you, wherever I go

Maybe someday we’ll be two people
Meeting again for the very first time
Time has taught us we’ve always been strangers
But in another life I’m sure I’d make you stay
…at least another night…
…another day…

I tried so hard to save you
I tried so hard to save me
Save us from the maelstrom of time
Save us from the great cold nothing

Then all the love has been forgotten
In times of furor and fear
May you find peace now
As well as me
These nights were ours, but I failed you
Our “almost” will always haunt my dreams

I don't know what I'm supposed to do
Always haunted by the ghost of you
Take me back to the night we have met
'Cause without you I'm just a sad song

I'm waiting for someone and can't remember who
But there's a hole in my heart shaped just like you
You've drawn memories in my mind that I can never replace
You've painted colors in my heart which I can never erase

So I became my own ghost still haunting these walls
Always chased by the memoriеs I loved the most
I would have takеn your love to the grave
But maybe we were just meant to meet and not to be

My only regret in life is I never told you how I feel
And I wish we were back home, I'd still be holding your hand
'Cause like sunlight, like sunset we first appear then disappear
So important to someone, but we were just passing through
You'll always be my favourite ghost

I hoard memories that haunt me
I collect scars that spear my dreams
And little do you know, how I break while I sleep
Little do you know, how much I want to disappear

It's this day of the year again
So many years have already passed
It's so strange how the world has changed
Even though we never did, we never will...

I don't know what I'm supposed to do
Always haunted by the ghost of you
Take me back to the night we have met
'Cause without you, I'm just a sad song
Without you, I'm just a sad song

There's no one that can teach me to forget
I thought I'd die in your arms one night
Please one more kiss, one last hug
Under the stars, before we turn off the light

Maybe we found forever
At the wrong time
Couldn't put us back together
And never will
I wasn't yet finished loving you
Maybe I never will
But in the space of my chest
My heart still beats your name

I loved to walk barefoot on the shores
Just to feel the coarse sand between my toes
To hear the waves crushing and roar
And to hear the ocean calling my name
Calling me home

Raise your glass to the ones we loved
For whom we cried at night
For those who left this place too early
In my dreams, I hold you tight
Raise your glass to the ones we loved
For whom we cried at night
I'll see you on the other side
Where shadows reach for light

For what wе’ve lost like-a you and me
It's always oursеlves we'll find in the sea
To the pain of pure hearts
Bleak skies and the sea
To the mountains and tides
As they fall, so do we

No man steps in the same river twice
For it’s a different river, a different man
But through him flows the river of time
And the time shared becomes a memory or a scar

I love to feel the bare stones between my hands
To gasp and fill my lungs with cold air
To sense the wind, not breaking young hearts, but branches
To hear the mountains now and then calling my name
Finally calling me home

And now as I stand here in the clouds
It starts hurting a little less
Since I know I'm not alone anymore
Since I know I'm gonna sleep through this storm

Drink with me to the days gone by
Drink with me to the days gone by
Drink with me to the days gone by
And the life that used to be
Drink with me to the days gone by
To the life we used to live

Father ocean, oh, Mother sea
Come, Lady Death, and wear your crown
'Cause the sea's words were always more honest
Speaking to those willing to drown

For what we've lost like-a you and me
It's always ourselves we'll find in the sea
To the pain of pure hearts
Bleak skies and the sea
To the mountains and tides
As they fall, so do we

As autumn sets fire to days
We can no longer hold on
We are burning in water
Steadily drowning in flames
While in my dreams we’re still roaming
Through these fields together
In my dreams it’s still young love
Yearning for forever

Like the last days of a suicide kid
Borrowing happiness from tomorrow
Still and always craving for summer
But for a summer so many years ago

Those who got outcast from their hometown
Will burn it down to roughly feel its warmth
Like a fire-theft in times of peace
Now break my heart and take your piece

…oh what a flammable heart I’ve been given…

Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey
And fuck, that’s just fine, cause it was never meant for them
Cause the eyes, useless when the mind is blind
And by the time we learn to live, it may already be too late

Maybe you think that I got thorns on my tongue
Cause of the words that I said or the way I spoke
But my heart was just growing roses
My heart was always searching for a place in the sun

Cause some days I’m the “Starry Night”
Then other days I’m the suicide letter
And I keep on craving for summer
But for a summer many years ago
And so I became who I always hated
And my life, worth one more tragedy
And so I destroyed everything
And turned my back on the world

…blame it on my wild heart…

It’s a walk among tombstones
Everyone I loved left or died
Death still conducts, still sings our songs
And this poem of life ended with a scream

What if you were but a gift
To my estranged and miserable heart
Would you guide me back to times of grace?
Where I felt sheltered, where I still felt alive?!

You were the most important chapter
In the book of my life
You were the summit
I was almost there
But now my heart is broken
And yours seem broken too
Don't promise me forever
If you never meant to

You gave up on me
Way easier I gave up on myself
You forgot me so quickly
I'm pretty sure you never cared
But the past is like an anchor
The past's the greatest fall-apart
A hole filled with gunpowder in my chest
Where once, once was a heart

And you will search for me
In the arms of another stranger
You will search for me
Not eventually, that's a fucking promise

So when did we lose sight?
Fuck, we used to be so close
And now you became
The main source of my pain
And I don't know how to live on
Or make it go away
And I don't know how to live on
Or make it go away

I wanna be the pain in your paintings
I wanna be the tempest in your words
I wanna be young love, too vague to insist
I wanna be your poem of solitude and grief

You were the most important chapter
In the book of my life
You were the summit
I was almost there

You gave up on me
Way easier I gave up on myself
You forgot me so quickly
I'm pretty sure you never cared
But the past is like an anchor
The greatest fall- apart
A hole filled with gunpowder in my chest
Where once was a heart

Just once I'd like to be the poem
And not again its fucking poet
I was just another promise you couldn't keep
Burn everything that bears my name

Cause nothing will ever be louder
Than the silence between two people
That once pretended to love each other
And were ready to see the world burn

Maybe I'm going to kill myself by pretending I'm ok?!
But die a little every fucking single day?!
Love betrays and kills and I found out the hardest way
Cause a thousand years in the water couldn't wash your name away

My pain I mainly chose myself
I'm so heartsick I could die
Love and death are just beautiful lies
I never knew how to say goodbye

I like melodies that just tell me sad things
Songs of loss, yet resisting its cold
But as soon as you grow up your heart dies
So never grow up, never grow old

I like melodies that just tell me sad things
Songs of loss, yet resisting its cold
But as soon as you grow up your heart dies
So never grow up, never grow old

I'm a piece of all the places I've been
I'm so homesick I could die
Love and death are just beautiful lies
I still think we deserved a better goodbye
A better goodbye

Now after all these empty days and sleepless nights
I still drown in silence, still drown in the void
But death created time and time created death
Death is the crown of all, let her reign our hearts tonight

What a loss to spend so much time
With someone just to find out she's a stranger
In the end it seems we both lost something
You lost me, while I lost trust and time

And now after all this agony, agony and heartbreak
I still drown in anguish, still perish from grief
It's pretty easy to see the beginning of things
But way harder to see their end

Cause I remember with painful clarity
When we began for me
But can't lay my finger
On the moment of our end

I'm sorry the void once more engulfed me
But somehow I guess, I myself became the void
I'm leaving soon...
Sorry I can't save myself...

(Myself, myself, myself, I can't save myself)
(Myself, myself, I can't save myself)
(Myself, myself, I can't save myself)
(Myself, myself, myself)

Rows of houses all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out
This machine will, will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under
Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all go under
And fade out again
And fade out again
Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see its beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again
And fade out again
Immerse your soul in love
Immerse your soul in love