Oceans Of Slumber - Oceans Of Slumber lyrics
Tracks 01. Soundtrack To My Last Day
02. Pray For Fire 03. A Return To The Earth Below 04. Imperfect Divinity 05. The Adorned Fathomless Creation 06. To The Sea 07. The Colors Of Grace 08. I Mourn These Yellow Leaves 09. September (Those Who Come Before) 10. Total Failure Apparatus 11. The Red Flower 12. Wolf Moon 01. Soundtrack To My Last Day
Sick and faded, he rested his weary head
Fighting a sleep he knew would never have an end Full of strife, every detail of his emptiness Had brought this wretched room further to life Nothing gained, he's chasing tomorrow On the pyres of his regrets Nothing gained, he's chasing tomorrow Nothing gained, nothing gained I'm so far away I'm so far from home I'm so far away I'm so far from home Delirious now, he rings out his weary hands No one to share the dismal air of death In his final moments, time ceases to matter Grey and withered the catacombs call Say your prayers Lend me your vespers, they sooth my ears Hallelujah Hallelujah These walls haunt me more than ghosts ever have! She says she wants me? Then come and take me, then! A coward's stance or I'd have ended this The Echoes of unfinished everything! My shadow grows long My mind has come undone Finish me, finish this Where are you death? Sick and faded, he rested his weary head Fighting the sleep he knew would never have an end Full of strife every detail of his emptiness Had brought his wretched room further to life ENOUGH! Psychopompos guide my soul LEVIDO RETICULARUS! Marks my skin, marks my soul Here I stand To claim what is mine Queen of the damned Darkness and time No mortal grasp No one turned away In death we are equal In death, we will stay Here I stand! The greatest hope The great equaliser The queen of the lost Delirious now, he wrings out his weary hands No one there to share the sweetest scent of death He tells me in the mirror with his dimming breath To hold him close and never let him go again We danced and danced in emptiness We cried and cried for hours on end But here he stands defenceless Against my ever-growing grasp Let me take you far away from here To a place where nothing else exists Here you'll be mine forever in emptiness Nothing to ever let go again 02. Pray For Fire
A light dimmed and faded from the sky
Malice it formed in the strife of what transpired Craters formed right where we fell Will we get back up? Waiting Waiting In the dark Dying and alone My roots are buried deep But here among the thorns The climb is much too steep The sky holds our purpose But Earthborn, we're bound But we'll persevere Because we belong a long way from here We refuse to fail We refuse to fail Refuse to lose to their hateful ways Their cross high above us But salvation has been long denied No room for a peaceful resolution Long gone is a hope for building any bonds When you left me in the darkness I had to make my own flames A warmth you couldn't diminish Or ever take away And it brought me to life Again Now I stand upon the piles of your ashes And I look upon the waves of coming flames We refuse to fail Refuse to lose to their hateful ways Their cross high above us But salvation has been long denied No room for a peaceful resolution Long gone is a hope for building any bonds When you left me alone in the darkness I had to make my own flames to survive Rising Burning Consuming Everything A war broke out amongst them And they blamed it on the dragon Not realising it was their on nature That would bring about their demise Now they pray for rain But I am the coming storm They pray for forgiveness But I pray for fire See, there are no wounds For you to gain salvation The sky is black And you are crowned with your mistakes Persecution was the weapon that you wielded You held us down in constant judgment and contempt But now as night falls The flames keep rising higher I have no pity for the pain of your heartbreak I rather we both go down destroyed together Than leave a world for you to turn into regret 03. A Return To The Earth Below
Broken glass and I am holding my breath
Hands are trembling I thought today would be like any other But the bell jars coming down A sudden sinking and my heart is falling Right down into the ground I feel the panic inside overtaking Any resolve I thought I'd found On the ledge we danced, now we are falling And the walls are closing in When the darkness gathers, we are crawling And the worms are coming in My thoughts are racing and my heart is shattered Like a bird caught in a cage Like the sky that fights the storm from overtaking The serene I thought I'd found It waits for me Oh, it never really left It takes hold of me And it drags me straight to Hell On the ledge we danced, now we are falling And the walls are closing in When the darkness gathers, we are crawling And the worms are coming in In only a moment the tides have all changed Erasing the work and toil of previous days I lean into the void That I always knew would come to reclaim my light I have spent my whole life running And I have tried, I have tried to flee from myself I could never, no, I could never weather the storm That was rising, rising, rising from within me It doesn't matter the time in between Darkness carved its mark in me Carved its mark in everything But I'm done, I'm done running I stand in the rain Here I stand Purge my fear, and make my claim 04. Imperfect Divinity
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05. The Adorned Fathomless Creation
Now, being free, you are licentious and ruthless the same
Instigating, you're no object now summoning A willful force, a new home to injustice Experience now an excuse for the slaughering A higher power, a righteous claim to rein A prideful glance, a judgmental gaze And it brings the weak to their knees A delicacy of suffering And nothing will ever take their pride away You crave control A willful force, a grave injustice Killed by who you feared the most, the fool in the mirror Where is the line drawn? Between what you seek and what you need? Is there meaning To the constant pain and suffering? What do you need? Your victims only revered in death Here we all play roles Some of us just never leading Are you happy? And will you ever get enough? Now, being free You are licentious and ruthless the same Instigating You're no object Now summoning A willful force A new home to injustice Experience now an excuse for the slaughtering A higher power, a righteous claim to rein A prideful glance, a judgmental gaze And it brings the weak to their knees A delicacy of suffering And nothing will ever take their pride away They're coming for you now (Coming for you now) Coming to collect what you've taken (What you've taken) Coming to take you home (To take you home) Coming to dig your grave (To dig your grave) They're coming for you now (Coming for you now) They want what they once were denied (What you denied) Coming to collect their woes (Collect their woes) From upon your tainted shrines (Your tainted shrines) They're coming for you now (Coming for you now) Coming to collect what you've taken (What you've taken) Coming to take you home Coming to dig your grave (To dig your grave) They're coming for you now Coming to collect what you've denied Coming to collect their woes From upon your tainted shrines Coming to take you home Now, being free, you are licentious and ruthless the same Instigating, you're no object now summoning A willful force, a new home to injustice Experience now an excuse for the slaughtering 06. To The Sea
A song in my heart
This tomb where I reside Floral smells of rot Gathered scattered flowers Tirelessly, I'm always awake Watching you in your dreamless sleep Waiting for my end The ground, it holds you in An ocean of slumber Forever you'll sleep But I'm there too, dreading The longing of those days gone by For the colors of grace I find them black and blue But they were once much brighter Now it's not the same, not the same Can you hear the bells calling for you? Cause' I had an earth once I had a moon too The sun And the sun bore fireflies just for you And the universe And the universe shook to its core And the colors of grace They shone down on me Now let me go Say no more, say no more (Say no more, say no more) Let me go... into the sea Let me go Say no more, say no more (Say no more, say no more) Let me go... into the sea Let me go... into the sea Say no more, say no more (Say no more, say no more) Let me go... just let me go 07. The Colors Of Grace
Today's a hurting day
No room for anything other than The sting of failure and regret The season aches to change But hasn't yet Patience turning to pain I go back to bed to try and regain Some sense of being OK So much I want, but can't obtain Holding on to everything you say Cause' your words they paint a picture of me A beautiful one of what I could be If I'd simply learn to shake away the blame You save me from myself You save me from myself I'm sinking and can barely breathe Cause' the fear takes hold so deep inside me These feelings overwhelming me If only your warmth lasted me all day You save me from myself You save me from myself Today's a hurting day No room for anything other than The sting of failure and regret The season aches to change But hasn't yet Cause' I'm holding on to everything you say Cause' your words they paint a picture of me A beautiful one of what I could be If I'd simply learn to shake away the blame You save me from myself You save me from myself Today's a hurting day No room for anything other than The sting of failure and regret The season aches to change But hasn't yet Patience turning to pain I go back to bed to try and regain Some sense of being OK So much I want, but can't obtain 08. I Mourn These Yellow Leaves
I breathe in these tattered woes
The autumn scent of a thousand scattered souls Painted memories I trace the line etched in scars Faded memories and jaded hearts I mourn their time here and harvest arrives The gathered bundles in coming winds Their time here is through Into the flames to be consumed The colours change, the light becomes the dark Sun washed now fades to a yellow hue Much like time has come for them With handfuls of earth I gather the leaves Despite the fertile soil below These leaves have no means for life They can only be how they were designed A blanket to the dampened ground A safe place for the insects and bones They can only be how they were designed A veil to the earth below A veil to the earth below A veil to the earth below A veil to the earth below I breathe these tattered woes The autumn scent of a thousand scattered souls Painted memories I trace the line etched in scars Faded memories and jaded hearts The fires are lit, night is now drawing in We've settled down to try and warm ourselves Everything is dying now, only to be reborn But now we must wait, the seasons can't be rushed They flutter down like angels who've lost their wings Does that mean that the hell is the ground on which we are standing? The colours change, the light becomes the dark Sun washed now fades to a yellow hue Much like time has become for them With handfuls of earth I gather the leaves 09. September (Those Who Come Before)
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10. Total Failure Apparatus
I know this road is dark
I know this road is treacherous And I know this road is long But it's the only road I know I can stare at myself forever And wonder where it all went wrong Shadows cast along the road ahead Fighting the prism of what is left Because... I know this road is dark I know this road is treacherous And I know this road is long But it's the only road I know So now where do I go? Where do we go? And where did it all go wrong? It was never the time Broken mechanism that guides me To troubled waters This machine that only wishes to fail I am not alone I've come to sever all amends Along this lonely road I go The night fades to the glory of the morning But I'm no better than I was before The light fights the dark from seeping further in I know this road is dark But it's the only road I know Darkness (Darkness) Engulfs (Engulfs) All of (All of) What's left (What's Left) The night fades to the glory of the morning But I'm no better than I was before The light fights the dark from seeping further in But it's not enough, it's not enough 11. The Red Flower
A barren womb, reluctant barriers of the future
This empty tomb filled with poisoned seeds Once giving life, trouble dwells here now Careless tending, the fruit of lies and whims These flowers wilting, full of things they didn't need Petals seek the sun as ashes fall Shedding our nature, a pale and shadowed love Thorn in the garden, a hastened act of lust Free falling you're most beautiful The red flower, it's beauty blossoming The chains of creation laid to waste Upheld on an altar, a nest, a shrine Oh, with Saturn's rejection Are we truly defined? No offspring will cast a shadow on her bloom No masculinity will ever steal her womb Long-standing, bending, aching stems Unwanted seedlings, the soil takes your sin Takes your sin The red flower, it's beauty blossoming The chains of creation laid to waste Upheld on an altar, a nest, a shrine Oh, with Saturn's rejection Are we truly defined? Oh, oh, with Saturn Are we truly defined? Oh, with Saturn's rejection Are we truly defined? Are we truly defined? 12. Wolf Moon Music & lyrics by Peter Steele
The 28th day
She'll be bleeding again And in lupine ways We'll alleviate the pain Unholy water Sanguine addiction No silver bullets A last blood benediction It is her moon time When there's iron in the air A rusted essence Woman may I know you there? Hey wolf moon Come cast your spell on me Hey wolf moon Come cast your spell on me Don't spill a drop dear Let me kiss the curse away Yourself in my mouth Will you leave me with your taste? Beware The woods at night Beware The lunar light So in this gray haze We'll be meating again And on that great day I will tease you all the same |