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Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void lyrics



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01. Shadow In Our Blood

We are delusional, down goes mortality
Still we fight off and create as the only creatures
In a life kept secret
Ways that stand the point left beyond

No! There is a void between our hands
That drowns us out of light,
An arrow lazed in liquid darkness

For every sun Gods heart

No! It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
No! It waits for you and me
A shadow in our blood

We are delusional from fiction of reality,
To prayers of prosperity,
Our loneliness, that we resist your pale attraction
Give into the dream with your benevolent

Oh will this world within a world live on (fun)?
Another page torn from the book of secrets
Where was I when the
Voices made no sound
And remembers the hours

No! It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
No! I cant waits for you and me
A shadow in our blood

Here in the barren land still
Far from the shores of real
Beings born beyond borders
What we even thought that once
You were invincible

No! It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
No! It waits for you and me
A shadow in our blood

02. Dream Oblivion

He takes a stand
And looks the serpent in the eye
This close
I have the upper hand
This ends on my terms
I challenge nonexistence
Every single day

The end of my end of freedom
End of everything

A most violent event
Praise individuality
It turns on your shadow
And ever-stained light
That pulls ungrateful eyes (maybe lies)
Attached to the black song
In dream oblivion

We gaze upwards
And stare into a lie
This is the last time
I am now done with this
I'm carried by nothing
Every single day

The end of my end of freedom
End of everything
The end of everything

Now in reality unend
The fall of all morality
Attached to the black song
In ever-stained light
That pulls on desperate eyes (maybe lies)
Attached to the black song
In dream oblivion

The end of faith and of men (maybe me)
End of everything
A most violent event
In dream oblivion

03. The Fatalist

Eventually they'll come
Your name has been called
Out for eons
To claim the blood
Salvage what remains

For once we've seen the fragile nature
Of things behind its window
Where nothing lives
And nothing ends

And seen what drives the hopelessness
In between their yellow closing walls

The day has come
You are the fatalist
The day has come
You are the fatalist
You walk on soil, that dreams of blood

How can we fight fatigue?
In pre-historic sorrow?
When all is preordained
The cycle never ends

What once had been an endless realm
Of possibility and dream
Now laid to waste and ruin
Laid to waste again
You wash your hands in blood

You squander time
We borrow from eternity
Is it another lame excuse?

The day has come
You are the fatalist
The day has come
You are the fatalist
You walk on soil, that dreams of blood

You are the fatalist

If nothing changes
Then nothing ends

Your thoughts are broken
Your reasoning is flawed
The defense is just an act
All lies are all you've got

You are the fatalist
You are the fatalist

How easy we can see
Defeat behind your argument
The fatalistic smile

The day has come
You are the fatalist
The day has come
You are the fatalist
You walk on soil, that dreams of blood

The day has come
The day has come
You walk the ground that screams for murder

04. In My Absence

Eyes that meet to say farewell
And linger through the sleepless nights
A trail of days that end in tears
But I can never be there

The rush of hours that never seem to end
What life has dealt you can not comprehend
I am the absentee

I know you're out there searching tonight
I'm right here
Another day and I cannot see through your eyes,
I'm right here

How could I have known what preceded your own thoughts
Wish that I could listen to what only speaks inside
Every raging dissonance
Each jarring note
But I could never be there

How can you think that I would understand
When words just go around what the heart truly wants
I am the absentee

I know you're out there searching tonight
I'm right here
Another day and I cannot see through your eyes,
I'm right here

I want to tell you,
Of the exploding light
How everything is visible
Moments before the dark

I am never, never there

I know you're out there searching tonight
Another day and I'm not there

Thrust with nails of conflict
Anxiety and pin
Through spells of anger, confusion and defeat
I wish you'd see me here in front of you,
But I am not here

I know your out there searching tonight
I'm right here
Another day and I cannot see though your eyes

I know your out there,
But I'm right here
Another day and I cannot see though your eyes,
Lead me right

05. The Grandest Accusation

What if you are an island of sorrow
Then I'll be the raging sea
What if you are the reaching trees
Then I'll be the storm that with fire rages

The new loneliness
Your name on the door
Just like a diagnose
For a venomous disease

Man is the cemetery for unlived life
All for nought
The grand accusation

Your face is your name
Word and shield
Sharp as a curse

Man is the cemetery for unlived life
All for nought
The grand accusation

You chose rejection
Over thoughts of insight
You take action
From focus on intent
And race for impact
Not waiting for the fall

What cries here, cries inside
Man is the cemetery for unlived life
The grand accusation
What if you were a country of grief
With me the invading force

What if you were to measure the hollow
That captivates and devours you

The new loneliness
Your name on the door
Just like a diagnose
For a venomous disease

Man is the cemetery for unlived life
All for nought

06. At the Point Of Ignition

Do not hide your sorrow,
Or banish it from sight
Take it out to burn,
Turn the pain against it

In a day, that holds no other
What are we? The fuel or the flame?
In a life, that hides behind you
What are you? The fuel or the flame?

In the proud momentum,
thrust the hand from the start
Our fragile fate falls apart

I hear you in my echo, I refuse to leave it behind
I see you in my shadow, waiting inside

What if we don't question the meaning of it all
The answer in our system
Bound to kill the spark

The moments so illusive
One dream never ends
Scars the dying moment that burns another dream

In a day, that holds no other
What are we? The fuel or the flame?
In the life, that hides behind you
What are you?

The shine of trembling stars,
Out in the distant
Curse this lack of site,
Into darkness without end

In a day, that holds no other
What are we? The fuel or the flame?
In a life, that hides behind you
What are you? The fuel or the flame?

In a day, that holds no other
What are we?
In a life, that hides behind you
What are you? What are you?

07. Her Silent Language

Why do I see her, the never ending nights?
Why do I see her, wearing nothing but the dark?

Have you come in to warn me?
A warn I cannot see
You want to tell me something
But you do not have the words

I know where you live
I can see it through your darkness
And when you sleep I hear a heart that beats you

Have you come in to warn me?
A warn I cannot see
You want to tell me something
But you do not have the words

I fought/fall into the distance
A life that does not connect
Time played well its parts
On the strings that blind us

Encounters in silence
Words elude the freeing night
Wish I could fed them
But its to hard to tell

Her head hangs low
In the silence of a room
Her head hangs low
She takes a bite out of her heart

Have you come in to warn me?
With words I cannot see
You want to tell me something
But you do not have the words

08. Arkhangelsk

Willed by winters so called frost
Fix the in anxieties from grip
The frost that burned the honorees
Underneath the heavy clouds
The lifted sword, the broken shield
The end that drew the final word
From the frozen mouth of Arkhangelsk

Let them go, let them burnt the world to cinders
Let the rats run down
Falling through the tungsten skies
The burning clouds of Arkhangelsk

To the eye of judgement now
What will stand when time of the end (time of the end)

Center stone, into fire
On to nothing and nothing to lose
They gather, groaning to the souls
Of the grinding winds of Arkhangelsk

In the world what movement in
The fabric, everything dies
The storm that sweeps the world away
From the frozen plains of Arkhangelsk

You hear it from the morning star,
What others brought
And the land, forgot

Soaring through the Nether mills
Through blazing stars, the time suns
The grinder now that carries us
Through the bloody end of Arkhangelsk

09. I Am The Void

Drink this water again
That runs my withered memory
When your name is lost
But never forget yourself

This future, this dream
That carries you faith further on
These waters know you
It calls you by your one true name

Have you ever noticed the spaces in between
When life is a recession
We are going to kneel again

I am the call, I speak inside of you
I am the void that haunts you
I am the howl that calls you out
I am the void, I am the void

Rest your weary heads
Until the underworld
Has left its silent whispers
Again in your waking dreams

In time without pause
Of what this long son has come to beat
of the fallen
its going to rain in your blood

The machinery of chaos
Out comes the light in you
Chained to the grinding wheel
The forces unseen

I am the call, I speak inside of you
I am the void that haunts you
I am the howl that calls you out
I am the void, I am the void
I am the void

You have always been between another set of walls
Outside of which,
The world is watching down on you

In side a silent speaks
Kept close to the end
This alibi never reaching out, never give in

I am the call, I speak inside of you
I am the void that haunts you
I am the howl that calls you out
I am the void, I am the void

10. Surface The Infinite

It starts below
The pile and the burning in the
Darkness in the recipe
And fire in the soul
To paralyze and strangle hold

Disable the design
The reminisce of reality
And a better time
Is torn apart

We carry our fear inside,
That space that hold the darkness
We stretch our skin around,
To cover the abyss

The unspoken reality
A future we foresee
Blood that seeks redemption
In endless nights of sin
Spades without spears
That pierce the blinding sun

We hide from the elements of grief
That nothing remains

We carry our fear inside,
That space that hold the darkness
We stretch our skin around,
To cover the abyss

Its in today, what sets the system
Its in our nature to the bare the e to the end

What if this feeling contains the truth?
What if our dreams give way to the dawn of old?
What if lost desire cant be found?

No shelter, no barriers between
Whats already inside
Retreats when the surface folds

We wear our lives
On waters and dust
Like daemons of the lost
Still wrapped in our own confusion,
The call of the abyss

We carry our fear inside,
That space that hold the darkness
We stretch our skin around,
To cover the abyss

11. Iridium

Let the horizon lead
On through the ether of the night
Dragged across the burning heavens
Flying homeward like a burdened soul

Shattered into a million brighter stars
we fragile, naked, rare
Scattered across forever
Out from creations core
An end beyond compare
Iridium

Now is the time to leave
We lie awake, we stand afire
At the edge of the world
Above, mirror of light
Below, the mantle of the stars
And strangely they fall

Shattered into a million brighter stars
we fragile, naked, rare
Scattered across forever
Out from creations core
An end beyond compare
Iridium

Shattered into a million brighter stars
we fragile, naked, rare
Scattered across forever
Out from creations core
An end beyond compare
An end beyond compare
Iridium

12. Zero Distance

What is your life about today?
A bit of emptiness, a close resemblance
To what you thought was right

So wrong, you don't belong
The face you hold is false

Drawn to the darkest emotions
Sworn to the vortex of grief

Disguised as empathy
It's not supposed to be
I know you're faking it
So take a look around

Zero distance
From where do you see yourself?
Zero distance
How far are you willing to go?

A broken perspective
That you imposed on the innocent
Your fallen set of standards

Go beyond what is decisively human
Take from others what you do not have
What you cannot own
Wear the mask, be the mask
You hide behind
We're not supposed to see
I know you're faking it
So take a look around

Zero distance
From where do you see yourself?
Zero distance
How far are you willing to go?

Zero distance
Can you see what I see?
Zero distance
How far are you already gone?

To the end of what you fear
Take a firm hold of that outmost misery

I want to see you
Show disgust for sympathy, honour and bravery
I know you're faking it
So take a look around

Zero distance
From where do you see yourself?
Zero distance
How far are you willing to go?

13. Out Of Gravity

Each and every night
My heart shoulders the armour
And charges into the dark
To slay what took you from me
But there in the eye of the prey
I see my reflection
The armour now shatters to pieces
Until I hear the call again

Alone I set out to find you
Below the timeline
Alone and far from the stars
I walk out of gravity

As lightning scorns the night
And conspires with the sunken seas
Out there are hunters of the invisible
Tracking mere dust for days
On cracked soil now they walk
On ground that has lost it's hold

Alone I set out to find you
Below the timeline
Alone and far from the stars
I walk the nether paths

In voidlike silence
Through veins of man
A new disease breaks our ground
By venomous sorrow's hand

It caught me by surprise
The sudden weight of my own blood
Gravitate towards the end
A pull that offers no option

So steep my longing
I give in to vertigo
Whipping of cold black tongues
Poisons my wounds

Alone I set out to find you
Below the timeline
Alone and far from the stars
I walk out of gravity

14. Star Of Nothingness

Instrumental

15. To Where Fires Cannot Feed

We throw ourselves
Like rocks against the heavens
To call to us attention
And set our sights for higher ground

Weaved within the nervous system
Of our planet and the vows we keep
The dormant fragments
Of selfdestructive code

Into the emptiness
Where fires cannot feed
No way to hold
The burden of love alive

We nod at each other
From across the opened plain grave
And go to memories
To visit our own lives

You carry my life
Inside you
My only witness

We hide in the bodies of greater beings
Together as one through endless trials

Into the emptiness
Where fires cannot feed
No way to hold
The burden of love alive

16. The Bow And The Arrow

The print you left
Bear just witness
To the forceful push
With which you thrust yourself
Out of this world
Your own very being
Launched away from this temporary hold

You are never gone
The letters of your name
A scar that never heals

So be the bow and the arrow
Be the rope and the angered scream
As time now eats away
At the unmarked graves
And indifferent winds take speed
Over lands of uncertainty
To hold what can't be held
Against the coming dark

In the minds of the hollow
Hollowed out
Your words rang once so true

You are never gone
The letters of your name
A scar that never heals
You are never gone
For you are ours now
We hold you in our hearts

There are still tremors
The occasional sparks
A voice unheard
From the empty void

We can still feel it
Your body turned loose in the darkness
Grief is the razor
Within these walls of skin
To the end of forever
To the end

You are never gone
The letters of your name
A scar that never heals

So be the bow and the arrow
Be the rope and the angered scream
You are never gone
As indifferent winds take speed
Over lands of uncertainty
You are never gone