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Oceans Of Slumber - The Banished Heart lyrics



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01. The Decay Of Disregard

I feel something cruel within me
Calling out
It calls my heart to wander
Far from here

It troubles my dreams
The thoughts of leaving
It claws at me
Leave everything I've come to know and depend on

Buried hidden meanings at the edge of everything
Slowly there corroding every bit that's left of me
Buried hidden meanings at the edge of everything
Slowly there corroding every bit that's left of me

The weight is not mine, weight is not mine alone
Though you pretend to comprehend it
The fear is not mine, the fear is not my end
Though you attempt to keep me in it

Did you even try to find me?
Did you even care for one last chance at reconciliation?
Do you know how long these veins have ran?
Remnants of red that stains your hands

We are all but to our end again
This familiar place of discontent
Are you ready for the apocalypse?
When our hearts implode, from this corrosion

(x4) Buried hidden meanings at the edge of everything
Slowly there corroding every bit that's left of me
Buried hidden meanings at the edge of everything
Slowly there corroding every bit that's left of me

You must know
And you all but must know

The fear is not mine, the fear is not my end
Though you attempt to keep me in it
The weight is not mine, weight is not mine alone
Though you attempt to keep me in it

Did you even try to find me?
Did you even care for one last chance at reconciliation?
Do you know how long these veins have ran?
Remnant of red that stains your hands

02. Fleeting Vigilance

I'm lying awake
Trembling on the inside
Forsaken, forlorn...
Love will not come for me
It cannot find where I lay
Inside, I'm dying

Liar...
Liar, manipulator
Corroding from within
You watch as I die inside
Neglect is the greatest sin

Can you see at all
Past this lecherousness?
Do you feel the fall?
Here comes the reckoning
Are you chasing?
Or are you running from?
Your own feelings of what's been done

Here comes more, of the same
Of what's been lost and what remains

Where does this end... time only corrodes...
I am anger incarnate and I will drag us down in flames
Wait for it... words never told...
I am warped from all of this, with lingering hope and staggered breath

Fortresses built on the shores of two broken souls
Fortresses now found in flames of all that's left untold

Where does this end... time only corrodes...
I am warped from all of this, with lingering hope and staggered breath
Wait for it... words never told...
I am anger incarnate...

Fortresses built on the shores of two broken souls
I am warped from all of this, with lingering hope and staggered breath
Fortresses now found in flames of all that's left untold
I am anger incarnate and I will drag us down in flames

03. At Dawn

The tide rolls in
The moon pulls from within
Celestial tides, drown her
The tide rolls in

With rusty nails you bind my feet to the floor
I'd trade my sunlight for your mornings
With barbed wire you tie my wrist behind my back
I've lost myself to this

Right on the edge of no return
Right at the edge of your heart's lost and dark unknown
Waiting for, we don't know
Can what's been lost be returned, or must I let you go?

Ahhh

No one can prove I am alive
Leaning against the wall
Face down in compromise
No one can prove I am alive

No one can prove I am alive
Leaning against the mind
Face down in compromise
No one can prove I am alive

I've gone and given myself a dream
Always just out of reach
I'm walking into the wind
Steps not aligned, nor lives intertwined

(x4) Take down the wall
Take out the mind

I've created a rift
And lent my reason to the tide
Only these waters keep rising
And the stakes always keep climbing

And I'll keep trying

We linger on borrowed time
Always aware we are meant to die

Right on the edge of no return
Right at the edge of your heart's lost and dark unknown
Waiting for, we don't know
Can what's been lost be returned, or must I let you go?

I've lost myself to this
Knowing just how it ends
Gracious with lies we bent
The truth, lost within us

Dark clouds surround your head
The storm coming from ahead
The roar of the rising tide
A changing season of our lives

Along the horizon
Lightning dances
It's where you stand, it's where you'll fall
Walk on water, but drown, drowning within

04. The Banished Heart

This dark winding road
A long path ahead
A sound in the distance of light escaping
Through the haze a silhouette
A glimpse of reality
Only leading to nothing, where no light dwells
I feel hope leaving
I see love fading
What I wanted to be, what I couldn't become
If you could find me
Would you even know me?
An empty room, an empty heartbeat...

I have found you in the darkness
I have found you...

And...and here you are
To set a brand new path...
To show me all that love means

I was lost, lost at the edge of all reason
And I...I didn't know my way
I'd given up hope

But...but, here you are to set a brand new path
To show me all that love means

(x2) When I hold you, I need you
I said forever, and I mean forever

I was lost, lost at the edge of all reason
And I...I didn't know my way
I'd given up hope

But...but here you are to show me a new way
I didn't know love until your name

But here you are to set a brand new path
To show me all that love means

(x2) When I hold you, I need you
I said forever, and I mean forever

I was waiting impatiently
But finally this moment has come
To see you, to feel you, this magic from far beyond

Can you see it?
Can you feel it?
Finally you are in my arms
Oh real love
Most real love
I've died to be yours
What was lost
Your heart has found
Most beautiful one

Can you see it?
Can you feel it?
Finally in my arms
Can you see it?
Can you feel it?
Finally you are in my arms
Oh real love
Most real love
I've died to be yours

(x2) Can you see it?
Can you feel it?
Finally in my arms
Oh real love
Most real love
I've died to be yours

05. The Watcher

[Instrumental]

06. Etiolation

The colors fading from within
I feel the veins retract beneath my skin
Feel it down to my bones
The way darkness creeps when you're alone

Can you see my flames awaken?
Can you give me no relief?
Can you turn away this weakness?
Will you walk away from me?

What's owed has brought me to my knees
The feelings I get when I try to breathe

The good parts don't remain
We waltz into the end
I know this place

You take from me for gain
You take my love in vain
And here we are the same as before

Could you believe
The other side of bliss is misery?
Could you believe
The other side of bliss is misery?

Wait for the fall
Wait for the end
Wait for the fall
Wait for the end

Wait for the fall
Wait for the end
The end of us all
Wait for the fall

Ahhhh... ahhhh

Deceiver, faithless
Holding onto nothingness

Weighted down by our faults
Left to die alone in our thoughts

The good parts don't remain
We waltz into the end

I know this place

You take from me for gain
You take my love in vain

And we are the same as before...

07. A Path To Broken Stars

On her knees she's ready to let go...
Poised for a prayer at the altar of regret
Forged in a light directed by lusting

Emotions and vibes, you don't understand
It's not hard to see the end
Of your choices chasing whims

Can you let go, can you see the signs?
What you've become, just to be desired...
She'll cross her heart with lies to her own detriment
Then falsely lay with claims of her own betterment

You've gone far away from what you have known
Far a way...
Our hearts have cast away their roots to the source
Far a way...

Treacherous creatures of waiting
You are lost
You are lost
Lost from within

Faltered beings of indifference
You are lost
You are lost
Lost to your whims

(x2) You've gone far away from what you have known
Far a way...
Our hearts have cast away their roots to the source
Far a way...
You've gone far away from what you have known
Far a way...
Our hearts have cast away their roots to the source
Far a way...
You've gone far away from what you have known
Far a way...

08. Howl Of The Rougarou

Where do we go from here?
The end of the road might be the way home
Sparkling like dew under a bright blue moon
Midnight sorcery made between broken hearts
Can you hear the darkness calling out your name?

Mindless spirit things
Lend to thee what we cannot see

Deliver us from evil thoughts
As we walk amongst the shadows

The simplest offerings
That must appease, appease and please

Dark muddy sludge at edge of the river bed
Magnolia's bloom and their fragrance pulls you in
Gris-gris of a good heart that's gone mad
What you think you remember you may soon forget

The darkness is calling you away
Will you answer it?
It takes what it wants
It takes all of it

There's no need to resist anymore
Its power is stronger than any man's will ever was
You are fucked, what do you care anymore?
In your chest is what matters
And your heart's already given in

09. Her In The Distance

[Instrumental]

10. No Color, No Light

Limbs out stretched and reaching for the sun
But only a glimmer remains
Tethered to this place of neglect
Roots reaching no sustenance

Come away with me
I'll show you where
The waters run forever

Aged by fire
Warped by winds
Forced to strive to live against
This insidious way
This perilous fight
This treacherous place of your demise

Along the cracks decay begun
Warped and weathered shades of holding on
Your rings of age will grow no more
Outnumbered from the nevermore

Aged by fire
Warped by winds
Forced to strive to live against
This insidious way
This perilous fight
This treacherous place of your demise

Where I come from, are branches made of gold
A sign of the remnant, sun, sun, sun

The waters run, your roots will never thirst
A stream of forever, ever more

(x2) Don't wait, don't wait, don't wait?
I am calling, heed my calling

I have conquered it, your days will have no end
A sign of the remnant, sun, sun, sun

Oh evergreen, reining tower of the sky
Your roots reach forever, ever more

(x4) Don't wait, don't wait, don't wait?
I am calling, heed my calling

Limbs out stretched and reaching for the sun
But only a glimmer remains

Come away with me
I'll show you where
The waters run forever

11. Wayfaring Stranger

I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger
Traveling through this world below
There is no sickness, no toil, nor danger
In that bright land to which I go
I'm going there to see my Father
And all my loved ones who've gone on
I'm just going over Jordan
I'm just going over home
I know dark clouds will gather 'round me
I know my way is hard and steep
But beauteous fields arise before me
Where God's redeemed, their vigils keep
I'm going there to see my Mother
She said she'd meet me when I come
So, I'm just going over Jordan
I'm just going over home
I'm just going over Jordan
I'm just going over home