At Break of Day

[ageofblossoms]

A Megatron/Soundwave playlist
Art by Anjian

The concept behind this: a call and response. The odd numbers on this playlist represent Megatron's viewpoint. The even numbers represent Soundwave's viewpoint. For some of the odd songs, it is them in unison.



italics denote where lyrics were translated into English

1. E Nomine - Schwarze Sonne

Hunter Cerberus
who lives in hell

You shine darker than the light
You are older than the night
You are invisible to me
without a face or skin to see
So terrible, and secretly
eternally, black sun

Penetrate and baste the mind
Show my soul another light
You seduce and desecrate
So damn cold and far away
And yet inside you heat me up
Forever comes the black sun

Hunter of blood
land of terror
body of iron
hellish quake
unconquered dread
mighty extinguisher
you're an angel

You appear in all my dreams
Touch my blank heart with your things
The tree of life strives in your ace
as you free me from the pain
To tell the truth, you frighten me
eternally, black sun

You exceed the speed of light
You’re everywhere at every time
Not the father, nor the mother
nor the kingdom come of heaven
But without you I’m nothing
endlessly, my black sun

Ever following
the smell of blood
Running wild out of hell
Ever following the smell of blood
It's Cerberus

Hunter Cerberus
who lives in hell with power
burning hunger
for the flesh of mortal humans

2. Bjork - Hyperballad

We live on a mountain, right at the top
This beautiful view from the top of the mountain
Every day, I walk out towards the edge
And throw little things off:
Like car parts, bottles, and cutlery
Or whatever I can find lying around
It's become a habit: our way to start the day

I go through all this before you wake up
So I can be happier to be safe again with you
I go through all this before you wake up
So I can be happier to be safe again with you

It's early morning: no one is awake
I'm back at my cliff, still throwing things off
I listen to the sounds they make on their way down
I follow with my eyes until they crash
I imagine what my body would sound like
Slamming against those rocks
And will it lands
Will my eyes be closed
Or open?

I go through all this before you wake up
So I can be happier to be safe again with you
I go through all this before you wake up
So I can be happier to be safe again with you
I go through all this before you wake up
So I can be happier to be safe again with you
Safe again with you
Safe again with you
Safe again with you…

3. Infected Mushroom - Artillery

The three dimensional professional projections of spectral light
Connected from selection, air-tight
The isolated, the decisive, victory stimulated
The non-simulated patterns of flight originated
Now I'm a carnivore on a tour of duty
My band of brothers and full metal jackets establish cruelty
Black magic conjurer attack through the monitor
Destruction of assumption, one thing I can promise ya'

It half-cracked with cold shards of glass
Ritualistic annihilators that murder your cast
The future of the past, that last that feel
The seventh seal broken in half, ceremony is real

Become obsolete, high-strung from a beat
A strong minded individual delivering defeat
Blood rivers in the street, keep flowing or retreat
Deep omens keep opponents speech limited repeat

(whispered)
You're opening the door to the corridor stretching to the left
There's hunger in those eyes to get this off my chest
I am just a man who wants revenge, and I confess
I am full of rage and sin
Hung inside this cage again
When evil reigns 'cuz people like to win
It may seem sweet, but we won't like the end
So we shine brightly from the light within

You're opening the doors to the corridors stretching to the left
Anger within my eyes, but the truth is on my chest
I am just a man who wants revenge and I confess
I am full of rage and sin, locked inside this cage again
Where evil reigns and people like to win
It may seem sweet, but we won't like the end
So we shine brightly from the light within

Locked inside this cage again

Turn the music up a bit...

Yo, yo...
Dark secrets, demons with a conscience
I'm the Lone Ranger looking for Pocahontas
Teenage zombies flying the beat,
I'm dying to learn what I'm trying to be
Go Bad News Bears and the Dukes of Hazzard
The youth of my group is the truth, so have it.
Keep myself cooped up, recoup quickly
Face still hurts but my kids stick with me
Death loved not far as we go,
Crazy face still not star of the show
I appreciate the chance to hurt, I'll kill you
Ice pick into your neck, I will do
anything
Talk to you like I might care
anything
Rippled by the nightmare, moonshine distillery
Back road to villainy
Military start at the part with artillery

With artillery
With ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta
Locked inside this cage again

4. Isabel Bayrakdarian- Chinar Es (Tall as the Poplar Tree)

You are like a poplar tree, don't bend your head,
Ah! My love.
Don't stay away from our door,
Ah! My love.

My love, for the love of God,
Ah! My love.
Don't forget me, even though you are far away.
Ah! My love.

5. VNV Nation - Precipice

The hope of my redemption
Is such that I believe I am free
To confess what bring me no salvation
I alone hold the power to forgive me

And of my acts, I'll admit have no pretensions:
I have no regrets for all the things that I have done
My faiths to me are as foundations
None has the right to judge my soul but me

There is no going back
No quarter now remains
No return for me, no sanctity
A single chance prevails
The land behind lain waste
No doubt, no amends to make
At break of day, until our light fails
March ever on

Great are the paths of our creation
That have been made for the brave to see
The fools that would condemn our existence
Are as lands to be vanquished and seized

There is no going back
No quarter now remains
No return for me, no sanctity
A single chance prevails
The land behind lain waste
No doubt, no amends to make
At break of day, until our light fails
March ever on

6. Bat for Lashes - Moon and Moon

Lover,
When you don't lay with me
I'm a huntress
For a husband lost at sea
If I had you here
Braid our hair together
I'd be boy and you'd be girl, beautiful...

Calling moon and moon
Shoot that big, bad hand
It'll track me to your door
And I won't see you no more

When this wild world
Is a big bad hand
Pushing me on my back
Do you understand?
When I get home
Been in the jungle
Where's my bear to lick me clean?
Feed my soul milk and honey...

Calling moon and moon
Shoot that big, bad hand
It'll track me to your door
And I won't see you no more

7. Carf Orff - Fortune Plango Vulnera

I mourn the blows of Fortune with flowing eyes,
because her gifts she has treacherously taken back from me.
Opportunity is rightly described as having hair on her forehead,
but there usually follows the bald patch at the back.

On the throne of Fortune I had sat elated,
crowned with the gay flower of prosperity; however much I flourished,
happy and blessed, now I have fallen from the pinnacle, deprived of my glory.

The wheel of Fortune turns;
I sink, debased; another is raised up;
lifted too high, a king sits on the topólet him beware of ruin!
Under the axle we read, Queen Hecuba.

8. Qntal - La Froidor

Neither cold nor frost
Can chill my body
So much has his love inflamed me;
So I lament and weep and sigh,
For I have devoted my whole being
To serving him.
I should be better loved for it.

I do not know how to lead my life
Unless I obtain the counsel of another,
For he has me in his sway
Who love I was, and will always be.

So alas! wan can I do,
When Love rules and possesses me?
I cannot withdraw my heart,
Nor do I expect joy from another.

Too many torments and adversities
Do lovers endure

Love, through this great outrage
You are killing me, I do not know why.
You have incited me
To where I should not.

My song ends here,
Since for me joy has ended;
For in my body grows a root
I cannot uproot.

9. VNV Nation - Nova

I long to feel my heart burned open wide
till nothing else remains except the fires from which I came

Like parted souls, divided for an age,
awe and wonder I'd embrace, and the world anew again
But now, this picture from me fades
From still's cold hand there's no reprieve
So light the fire in me

Shine!
Shine your light on me
Illuminate me
Make me complete
Lay me down and wash this world from me
Open the skies and burn it all away
Because I've been waiting
All my life just waiting for you to shine
Shine your light on me

I dreamt the world with my eyes open
but time moved on and then
new world begin again
Oh my heart in this universe so vast
No moment was made to last
So light the fire in me

Shine!
Shine your light on me
Illuminate me
Make me complete
Please shine!
Shine your light on me
No hesitation
Make me complete
Lay me down and wash this world from me
Open the skies and burn it all away
Because I've been waiting
All my life just waiting for you to shine
Shine your light on me

Lay me down and wash this world from me
Open the skies and burn it all away
Because I've been waiting
All my life for you to shine
Shine your light on me

10. Bjork - Pagan Poetry

Pedalling through
The dark currents
I find
An accurate copy
A blueprint
Of the pleasure
In me

Swirling black lilies totally ripe
A secret code carved
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
A secret code carved

He offers
A handshake
Crooked
Five fingers
They form a pattern
Yet to be matched

On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me
It's pagan poetry
Pagan poetry

Morsecoding signals (signals)
They pulsate (wake me up) and wake me up
(Pulsate) from my hibernating

On the surface simplicity
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
But the darkest pit in me
It's pagan poetry
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
Pagan poetry

Swirling black lilies totally ripe

....

I love him, I love him
I love him, I love him
I love him, I love him
I love him, I love him
(She loves him, she loves him)
This time
(She loves him, she loves him)
I'm going to keep it to myself
(She loves him, she loves him)
(She loves him, she loves him)
This time
I'm going to keep me all to myself
(She loves him, she loves him)
And he makes me want to hand myself over
(She loves him, she loves him)
(She loves him, she loves him)
And he makes me want to hand myself over

11. Muse - Falling Away With You

I can't remember when it was good
moments of happiness elude
maybe I just misunderstood
all of the love we left behind
watching the flash backs intertwine
memories I will never find

so I'll love whatever you become
and forget the reckless things we've done
I think our lives have just begun
I think our lives have just begun

and I'll feel my world crumbling
I'll feel my life crumbling
I'll feel my soul crumbling away
and falling away
falling away with you

staying awake to chase a dream
tasting the air you're breathing in
I know I won't forget a thing
promise to hold you close and pray
watching the fantasies decay
nothing will ever stay the same

all of the love we threw away
all of the hopes we cherished fade
making the same mistakes again
making the same mistakes again

I can feel my world crumbling
I can feel my life crumbling
I can feel my soul crumbling away
and falling away
falling away with you

all of the love we've left behind
watching the flash backs intertwine
memories I will never find
memories I will never find

12. Vienna Teng - Gravity

hey love
is that the name you’re meant to have
for me to call
look love
they’ve given up believing
they’ve turned aside our stories
of the gentle fall

but don’t you believe them
don’t you drink their poison too
these are the scars that words have carved on me

hey love
that’s the name we’ve long held back
from the core of truth

so don’t turn away now
I am turning in revolution
these are the scars that silence carved on me

this is the same place
no not the same place
this is the same place, love
no not the same place we’ve been before

hey love
I am a constant satellite
of your blazing sun
my love
I obey your law of gravity
this is the fate you’ve carved on me