You can hate me for All the things I do You should let my heart go Whatever you decide to do You can make me bleed You can make me cry You can make me fall You can make me live or die And I wonder how And you wonder why
For years our world has been falling apart But we're tied up by words The surface is smooth and cold But underneath the blood always boils
It's getting harder Getting worse now Everytime We're growing colder Digging deeper In our minds
You laughed, but your smile never reached your eyes You cried, but your eyes never shed a tear And I wonder how You laughed, and you untied your hair There are things to do Things we never could tell
Name me Use me Blame me Every time you hurt Your favours are not what I deserve
2. Sanguine Sky
My blood is tainted; azure blue A setting sun bleeding Into an ocean of tears, for you
It's an exodus from the dark The night is breathing; the night is exhaling Falling, falling – up a staircase Towards the moon, the stars, and a Venus-kissed Mars
Blood runs south as the days grow darker and this fight is eating at me I see the dead awaken My fate forsaken; I'm free
I am talking on a hidden line She says she's feeding; she says she's dead She says – there is a downward spiral From the moon, the stars, the ever-warring Mars
3. Open Ground
Digging in the ground Digging in the mud Sweat streams down my face My spit tastes like blood
Hide me with locks from your hair I cannot breathe
Bleeding … Dying … Digging … Falling apart The torch went out The room went dark
Running in the fog Crawling through the mud Tears fall down my face My spit tastes like blood
Cover me with locks from your hair
Through my mind My driven mind We both knew Love is blind Insanity is always near
Deep in my bag full of fear I cannot see The pain that trigged your screams I cannot see
From the corner of my eye I feel them closing in I know they caught the scent of me And then they went for me…
I chose for you to stay with me
4. The Ravens
Only ashes and bones remain My hair is wet, my eyes are sore The past has been fed to the flames I cannot breathe anymore
I try to stand on my feet, but I fall I try to walk, but I crawl Life – as we knew it, is over And you are gone Forever gone …
I will not bend to a cross I will not kneel at your feet
Greed and anger Made us younger Couldn't save us when the tower fell All my strength and all my hunger All is lost And none will live to tell
I rest in the ruins of days gone by Of young affection and velvet sky A slave to greed … I do not feel regret anymore I sense the presence of birds Encircling me … And I am gone
Til jord skal vi bli
Dark is the night Dead is the moon I will not kneel
I'd rather die Facing my doom I will not kneel
5. Destination Departure
Caressing the anger Nothing will ever be the same again At your most beautiful
This is my destination Left behind in desolation At your most beautiful
Leave me You talk like you know But you don't and it shows She should have outlived me I've listened before but I can't anymore So just leave me I tried so hard to find something that I could believe in But there's nothing there so there's nothing to fear
Who's gonna be here if you want me to leave?
Caressing the anger This is my destination At your most beautiful
Leave me You talk like you know But you don't and it shows She should have outlived me I've listened before but I can't anymore So just leave me I tried so hard to find something that I could believe in But there's nothing there and there's no one who cares
Who's gonna be here if you want me to leave? Who's gonna end it when you cannot make it stop? Can you hang on for today?
6. Down
My violent mood swings peak And my hands are as heavy as rocks I have no time and no space I am falling behind Just take me home
My patience has all run out And I feel like yelling; - it is too much I have abandoned all charm and all grace I have fallen behind There is no god
The night is cursed Loud and blurred Still it rains It rains like hell
Rain on empty shells
My violent mood swings peak And my hands are as heavy as rocks I have no time and no space I have fallen behind There is no god
Screaming voices Ring in my ears I don't want to know their names
7. Fate
I've been trying to participate in masquerades The throne's been empty for too long Paradise for those who play along and the fortunate ones
I've been listening to the voice at night And he is right I am the chosen one And my shepherd, he has paid my ride I will go with a smile
I've been begging for the public eye Now watch me fly Can you see what I've become So expose me - I shall be released When the flesh paints the street
I was walking through the valley of the living dead Did not count the tears I shed Always chasing those elusive dreams A drop of blood in the stream
8. Lotus
When the morning weeps Endless sky is near And the road you choose By my hand is lead
In the morning light All is clean and young And the spider webs Shine like silver threads
But you must not fear the dark I will watch over your sleep Until the morning comes All woods have to fail I will watch over your sleep
Lead me Please guide me Unchain me Untie me
I see your shadow Your shape on the wall But I cannot hear your voice when it calls
Can you tell dreams from reality? Can you tell sense from insanity?
Sometimes it all melts down And mix into half-lies
9. Sacrilege
Millions crusading against mocking heresy Madmen race to enforce the book that answers all our needs Tongues tuned with razorblades teach us divine misdeeds Our clerics will kill to make us stay down on our knees
Another war is over And the pain is almost gone Each wound has been healing We're so eager to move on Tongues tuned with razorblades Still teach divine misdeeds Our clerics will kill to make us stay down on our knees
10. In the Wake
Never knew quite when it stopped Nor when it began Just a chain of happenings Years floating Days passing by
Falling in and out of madness Walking on the edge Pretending Faking strength Hiding behind smiles
Never knew quite when it died Nor when it was torn
Just a chain of bad ideas Years floating Days passing by You may think time stands still, it does not It disappears In the wake
Whatever sense it makes We never learn from our mistakes Whatever comfort it might bring Nothingness embraces everything
11. Deadlands
I failed to impress you, and you Feel free to abuse me All has been in vain We're through So please stop pretending Years I spent were wasted on you
Words have been spoken My chains have been broken This street has an end, I have failed Never will again
My life was invaded by you This image of straws that break against the wind We're through But the world keeps spinning Endlessly I have no answers for you
Weight off my shoulders Unleashed No more hiding … Leaving deadlands Release me
