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01. A Silent Arc

Music by Evergrey
Lyrics by Tom Englund
A bursting hull
This ship torn asunder
Remote hearts now too distant
To survive another year in slumber

Gusts of wind fill my sails
I cast off into the twilight red
New winds offer strength
But I might rest on the ocean bed

Our heaven's dead
A silent arc
A reverie adrift for years
Our heaven is dead

In solitude I hesitate
The dark still blue, threatening
The empyrean silence speaks
Telling me it's far too late

Our heaven's dead
A silent arc
A reverie adrift for years
Our heaven is dead
In search for new horizons
Sunrise for new horizons

Salvation came with newfound bearing
It rescued us from the careless sleep
And all these years of silent drifting
Comes to an end in a dawning spring
Liberation from a perpetual burden
I see us disappearing I can feel us dissolving
By the grace of a pardon the eclipse yields for the break of day

Gusts of wind fill my sails
As I cast off into the twilight red
New winds offer strength
And I might rest on the ocean bed

Our heaven's dead
A silent arc
A reverie adrift for years
Our heaven is dead
In search for new horizons
A dawn for new horizons

02. Weightless

Music by Evergrey
Lyrics by Tom Englund
I rarely had enough time to think
My mind was never quit enough
And when deceit arose it pulled me in
And I never came back

I can't help to think that we got lost because of me
Can't help to feel that I brought on this travesty
Been lost so long that lost is the only thing I've ever known
Can't help to feel that I'm alone

I'm weightless in the water
Surrounded by the deep
I stare my past in its eyes to say
It's over, it's over my friend
I made a promise to myself that I
Would never falter never fade so I
Could stare my past in its eyes over and over

There was a whisper a time was now fulfilled
So when the bell chimed all stars aligned
I sat in wonder, eyes on the horizon
And I never looked back

I can't help to think that we got lost because of me
Can't help to feel that I brought on this travesty
Been lost so long that lost is the only thing I'll ever know
Can't help to feel like I'm alone

I'm weightless in the water
Surrounded by the deep
I stare my past in its eyes to say
It's over, it's over my friend
I made a promise to myself that I
Would never falter never fade so I
Could stare my past in its eyes over and over

03. All I Have

Music by Evergrey
Lyrics by Tom Englund
A mind has traveled
A heart has changes its course
A sudden shift and a focus worn

I want to give you my silence
I want to five my solitude too
To share what's unspeakable
Is all I own and can give to you

It's all I have
It's all I have
All I have
All I own that I can give to you

A mind has traveled
A heart has changes its course
What is left when all else pales?

It's all I have
All I have
It's all I have
All I own that I can give to you
All I have, all I have
It's all I have
All I own that I can give to you
All I own I can give to you

04. A Secret Atlantis

Music by Evergrey
Lyrics by Tom Englund
I stare the skies of abandoned hearts
Dare I break the wave will I be safe?
Our secret Atlantis
We were the only one who knew
what we were hiding
You from me and me from you

Show me where I go when my life's run dry
Hold me until my wounds stop bleeding

And I wanted to let you know
That I'm leaving to let this go
And the sky is painting my sorrow
The sky is painting my sorrow

Recreate the created and a certain fate
Through the waters I got to learn how to swim again
I never thought that I'd embrace new horizons
Once boarded with a purpose
Never thought I'd wake up in defiance
But I knew how I felt when the sky changed
When the treason was too hard to follow
I felt left, tainted and hollow

Show me where I go when my life's run dry
Hold me until my wounds stop bleeding

And I wanted to let you know
That I'm leaving to let this go
And the sky is painting my sorrow
The sky is painting my sorrow

And I wanted to let you know
That I'm leaving to let this go
And the sky is painting my sorrow
The sky is painting my sorrow

05. The Tidal

Music by Evergrey
[instrumental]

06. End Of Silence

Music by Evergrey
Lyrics by Tom Englund
Adrift, the sleep made us liars
It kept us close and
Convinced us we'd be fine when
The summer never came back and
Winter took time to pass
A newfound dawn, a newborn wind
And winter left before the welcomed spring

Through years of resistance
Where I rarely felt whole
Long distance calls from my soul were never answered
When the darkest horizon
Once gave way for the sun
It gave me the courage to end the silence

A mirrors reflections in broken glass
Made two pieces fit at last
The wind was rare its victims blind
We couldn't stop, could not rewind

We became victims of the quietness
Led astray by intent
Our wishes similar but not the same
And with sunrise the reason came

Through years of resistance
Where I rarely felt whole
Long distance calls from my soul were never answered
When the darkest horizon
Once gave way for the sun
It gave me the courage to end the silence

At the Atlantic edge awaits the end of silence

07. Currents

Music by Evergrey
Lyrics by Tom Englund
I watched the water rise
But turned my head and closed my eyes
Hoped the threat would go away
So it all would stay the same
Wished the tidal waves would die
So that I could defend whys
That rescued me from drowning in our lies

Come
Com save me from these waters
These waves too fall for me
They'll bury me in silence
The currents forcing me to sea

I did not leave you behind
The unconcern was just too much for me
I tried to swim these waters blind
And then tere was only me and the sea
Me and the sea

Come
Com save me from these waters
These waves too fall for me
They'll bury me in silence
The currents forcing me to sea
Come
Come save me from these waters
I'll soon be out of reach

08. Departure

Music by Evergrey
Lyrics by Tom Englund
The tide made it easier
And time made us reasonable
The currents no longer deceivers

We were the reasons for us losing ground
We were the reasons for why the lights went out
We were the reasons for the years we had
And we were the reasons to why it end at last

The struggling, the reaching
The searching for feeling
That weren't there no longer
From splendor to nothing
The rising, the falling
The giving, the taking
To fathom it's over
It's over
It's over

I left without knowing
And withered without it showring
Discontent made us seekers
Silence has never been this silent
And the winter never widened

We were the reasons for us losing ground
We were the reasons for why the lights went out
We were the reasons for the years we had
And we were the reasons to why it end at last

My heartbeats echoes lonely
And the emptiness the same
It's not about the breaking
But the rising with an aim
The rising with an aim

Too many reasons to no stand my ground
Too many reasons to not carry on this blind
Too many seasons where we held on tight
And too many reasons to not leave this night

The struggling the stretching
The inventing of feeling
We're feeling no longer
We're feeling no longer
The tension the sensing
The knowing you are lacking
To the chasing of pieces
The hunting so tiring
The missing the longing
The essemce that was needed
To knowing it's over
To knowing it's over

09. The Beacon

Music by Evergrey
Lyrics by Tom Englund
The starlit sky offered bearing
My escort through the night
When heavens darkened it dimmed my way
And deprived of my guiding light

I must find my beacon
To let what's dead come back to life
My capsized vessel weakens
The eternal red turns to night

Conformed to comfort
Our sanctuary it was worth the unease
It offered shelter and at bay in silence
The spreading disease

I must find my beacon
To let what's dead come back to life
My capsized vessel weakens
The eternal red turns to night
I must find the beacon
Before dearth of light becomes my blood
And I must leave the forsaken
From the shadows of dusk into the light

The grace of the moonlit sky my sanctum
And the high seas only sometimes pacified
Soon reduced into a final resting
Still I'm soaring
Still I'm soaring

I must find my beacon
To let what's dead come back to life
My capsized vessel weakens
The eternal red turns to night
I must find the beacon
Before dearth of light becomes my blood
And I must leave the forsaken
From the shadows of dusk into the light

10. This Ocean

Music by Evergrey
Lyrics by Tom Englund
I woke up to a change of winds
Bleak gusts from the north set in
Weeks to shore and storms pending
My cardinal points are all lost on me

In the rivers of the dark I have rifled
In the depths of disgrace I have hurt
I refuse to view this as failure
A part of me that I cannot desert

I've cried this ocean
And the tears that I wept
Shadows the apparent horizon
I've cried this ocean

I woke up to a change of will
Cold hearts silent, still
I lied in wait for the change of the course
Across the ocean in search of the source
Shadows of fate by my side as I rumble
Landfall in sight makes me crumble

I've cried this ocean
And the tears that I wept
Shadows the apparent horizon
I've cried this ocean
I've cried this ocean