Cain's Offering - Gather The Faithful lyrics
Tracks 01. My Queen Of Winter
02. More Than Friends 03. Oceans Of Regret 04. Gather The Faithful 05. Into The Blue 06. Dawn Of Solace 07. Thorn In My Side 08. Morpheus In A Masquerade 09. Stolen Waters 11. Elegantly Broken 01. My Queen Of Winter Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
When the darkness has grown strong,
And the nights they feel so long. Like the sun has slept too long just waiting winter's waning. Blow out the candle and unleash the night, Open the door let the cold inside. My heart you have captured, don't shatter my rapture Don't leave all my dreams to decay. All of my life I've been waiting for someone, To share all my kingdom with me. The silence unbroken, words left unspoken, Sign across my heart your name My Queen of Winter, this is where you reign. You are the daughter of the warm summer breeze, I am the firstborn of winter, the chill in your spine And the howl in the night, I am the frost in your heart. Get up, Get up, Get up, Get up, You're never gonna give up. How could you feel love if you cannot hate. How could you feel joy without pain. All of my life I've been waiting for someone, To share all my kingdom with me. The silence unbroken, words left unspoken, Sign across my heart your name. My Queen of Winter this is where you reign. Sleep can be eternal underneath the veil of stars, The caress of the first snow feels so soothing on our scars. Stay forever here beside me, Slumber peacefully. Through the years my heart will belong to you, And you belong to me. All of my life I've been waiting for someone, To share all my kingdom with me. The silence unbroken, words left unspoken, Sign across my heart your name. My Queen of Winter, this is where you reign. 02. More Than Friends Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
We're more than friends, we are like lovers
Two souls in one, Forever entwined I feel with your skin you live off my heartbeat Warm me within while tending my wounds Miles still divide, the distance between us Keeps growing still And hope is a lie And every night we share the same dream That's where we hide, You and I You have always been much more than friend to me And I could never hope to find another one Now the time is right, Just tell me what to sacrifice For you tonight Wake me with a sound of your heartbeat through silence If I'm an Offering good enough for you Or let me slumber deeper and deeper Forever I'm waiting for you Would you hate me if I crossed that line From wanting to why, Alone I'm tonight Tell me if I'm alive or just breathing For I cast no shadow when I'm alone You have always been much more than a friend to me You were always much so more than a friend should be Wake me with a sound of your heartbeat through silence If I'm an Offering good enough for you Or let me slumber deeper and deeper Forever I'm waiting for you Just call my name and I'll be there Forever I'm waiting for you You have always been much more than a friend to me You were always so much more than a friend should be Wake me with a sound of your heartbeat through silence If I'm an Offering good enough for you Or let me slumber deeper and deeper Forever I'm waiting for you Wake me with a sound of your heartbeat through silence If I'm an Offering good enough for you Or let me slumber deeper and deeper Forever I'm waiting for you 03. Oceans Of Regret Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
A twisted sense of irony in the way your constant
Lack of sympathy has turned me so hopeless, so heartless Gethsemane open for me tonight, I'll pray for the last time. For you and for me and our ordinary lives, ordinary lies. My pain, redefined like an unwelcome guest arrives just to remind me. I'm there for you if you'd still want me to, for after all I'm yours to keep. Just come to me, I'm waiting with my wounds wide open. Pour your salt into these wounds and watch me crawl. Tell me to take it like a man, show me my place, Hurt me just because you can. Though now it hurts like hell it is better to feel just something else Than live in that uncertainty, so tell me now, how was he and tell me was he worth it An ounce of peace is all I want, A solemn haven for the torn and tired one, downcast wayward son. Can't crawl out of my hole, So I'll make it my home, While wise enough to dig no more. Trying to wash off the pain stain, don't fill my heart with your disdain. Why can't you see, a leap without faith is what you ask of me. You pour your salt into my wounds and watch me crawl. Tell me to take it like a man, show me my place, Hurt me just because you can. Take me in then tell me you hate me, Breathe with me, make love to me Until I bleed. How does it feel to know that you can break me? And I guess I'd forgive if I would not look weak And I knew that you'd give yourself to me Though the wound is too deep I would give everything If I could just be the object of your desire Silently you stood there before me Violently unveiling your sin and your deceit You said to me "Love is only beautiful when it bleeds" Pour your salt into these wounds and watch me crawl Tell me to take it like a man, show me my place Hurt me just because you can 04. Gather The Faithful Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
[Instrumental]
05. Into The Blue Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
Once long ago I was young and naive
I dared to hope and I dared to dream Once long ago lights were brighter for me This world was mine to keep I travelled so far, defying the dark Just to see where this road leads My foolish heart, unbroken, unscarred, was whole And then there was you Once long ago I felt lost without you And life had left me high and dry Once long ago didn't know what to do Alone inside my mind So far away from where I'm today No one could reach my heart Until day my darkness fade away And into the blue Out of the darkness and into the blue Still broken and scarred, but I'm over you For every scar and every tear that falls Means I'm healing Where are you now, are you thinking of me When you look into mirror what do you see The burden you bear and the secret you keep Reminding you endlessly I've been broken for a while But I'm not missing you Out of the darkness and into the blue Still broken and scarred, but I'm over you For every scar and every tear that falls Means I'm healing 06. Dawn Of Solace Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
Call me when the smoke from the bridges burning
Gets in your eyes and you need someone To take the blame Once more, like you've done before So when you need a scapegoat Just place the blame on me I never asked to be anyone's hero I never asked to carry the torch I'm here for you to crucify Waiting for your lies to stain me once more So let me take that cross from you I'll bear it like I always do Out of the night and into the light Where I swear my allegiance I'll stand by your side and I will ease your sorrow and grief Your burden I bear, your pain I will share To you I will surrender But in the end I know I'll have the last laugh I'll smile at the dawn of solace And laugh on the reckoning day Once more the fools will return to parade you And love you until they'll hate you For what you've become And you'll call me But I am overburdened And I can take no more I am more tired than ever before And all that I want is to settle the score Deep in the night I'll hide from the light Where I swore my allegiance Won't stand by your side And I won't ease your sorrow or pain No burden to bear, I've suffered my share Now darkness feels so tender And in the end I know I'll have the last laugh I'll smile at the dawn of solace And laugh on the reckoning day And dream, if only for a moment For we are of a dying kind You used to break me, rape me, hate me 'Til there was nothing left Worth saving My heart is cold and growing colder Now be a man, just wake me when it's over Deep in the night I'll hide from the light Where I swore my allegiance Won't stand by your side And I won't ease your sorrow or pain No burden to bear, I've suffered my share Now darkness feels so tender And in the end I know I'll have the last laugh I'll smile at the dawn of solace And laugh on the reckoning day And dream, if only for a moment For we are of a dying kind 07. Thorn In My Side Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
I did not hear the warning, I did not see the signs
You're the master of illusion, you're the devil in disguise Temptress in lace and leather, you made me lose control One sinful night and I just lost my heart and lost my soul I was the one to hold you, but not the only one I hear you say you're sorry hut some things cannot be undone I tried so hard to forgive, tried so hard to forget I tried to understand but it s too late to make amends Don't come here asking for forgiveness for the things you've done Don't point your finger at me because you're the fallen one Thorn in my side, forever haunting me You're my fantasy for the night, please stay here close to me I'll play the clown, you strike me down again Still searching for my pieces, still so out of control One piece is always missing and I don't know how to fill that hole Still I don't know the answer, or what the question is Don't know how we got here but I don't want it to end like this Thorn in my side, forever haunting me You're my fantasy for the night, please stay here close to me I'll play the clown you strike me down again Still I want to touch you, still I long to hold you Still I need to feel you right here by my side And still I cannot have you, still you are too wild and free. And still I cannot accept that you are not meant for me Thorn in my side, forever haunting me You're my fantasy for the night, please stay here close to me Still I want to touch you, still I long to hold you Still I need to feel you right here by my side 08. Morpheus In A Masquerade Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
One more night, one more before I shall wither and die
Grant me just one more life, one more, I need it to make this thing right The more that I gave the less I received, it's all for them and none for me I am unworthy to be sacrificed, I'm such a tragic comic Doing the dance and singing the songs I'm Morpheus in a masquerade The orchard of sins I have held deep within I will burn down for you One more night for me to turn into what I've portrayed Call me by my true name one more time, one more before it's too late It's not their ovations that I so adore, it's your shrine I kneel before You were my beginning and you'll be my end, my lover and my friend There in the dark you have always been wailing Waiting for me to return back home Hold on to me when the ballroom has emptied Last cadence faded Dark is the road that now lies before me Twisting the path to that empty house where Evil lurks in every darkened room just waiting for you Liars and the martyrs, I've got dreams to auction Devil can you hear me, I've got souls to sell Sinner or a Saint - for me it's all the same I have grown so tired of this masquerade My ray of hope, where are you now when I need you the most You are the Child of love, and you are all I've been longing for Let your morning fail upon me, let the nighttime fade away Bestow on me forgiveness and let me live for another day On this ground I've made my bed, and in it I will lay Born at evenfall, now old and gray I'm Morpheus please dance with me, as always you can take the lead and Guide me through the waltz of life, sailing through the seas of night I'm Morpheus please caress me, hold my heart too weak to beat For I'm not sure I want to see what you're going to show to me tonight A silhouette of a broken man standing by the shoreline He turns around and I can see it's me Standing where the ocean touched the sand This little boy has grown to be a man, let me be the best I can Take me where the clouds caress the horizon Where all I'll hear is whisper of the wind A mothers womb, a soothing song once more And the star I used to wish upon, so long ago One moment, unbroken, my heart will be wide open For someone, for no one, cast to the wind my ashes Here I stand, naked and ashamed, I've been stripped down to the bone The emperors new clothes that no one here can see, yet no one cares to say But it's good enough for me, abandoned and forsaken by my Imaginary friends They all leave me alone so I can I doubt my existence For in the end I don't even know who I am I've shifted shape so many times I've forgotten which one's mine So sick and tired of being sick and tired My quest for immortality has made me so much more human that I ever wished to be My love, save me 09. Stolen Waters Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
My Lady of Pain, I always come without a warning
And tear your little heart apart Every mistake and every tear that's ever fallen Each and every one wears my name Don't place your hopes on me for I'm going to let you down I am better left alone, please leave my loneliness unbroken The charm of stolen waters A virgin heart on the palm of my hand My only true redeemer The only thing I still can feel Keep your distance, don't come too close or I will hurt you Even though I don't want to (just run...) So hard to make a stand when all I'd ever ask for Still leaves this hunger unsatisfied Still I miss the morning dew, still I crave for the warming sun Temptation too powerful, it breaks my will and leaves me chained The charm of stolen waters A virgin heart on the palm of my hand One fragile passing moment Just one more dream that did not last Her angel wings now broken I've become the face of misery Door to her heart too open In silence I just watch her bleed Innocent stare, young heart so unaware Falling for every tie, you will be mine tonight Naked and tied, stripped of all pride Betrayal of hearts in frail moonlight Hold me closer, pray that this night's never over Fear me, so near me. I am so close yet so far away Don't place your hopes on me for I'm going to let you down I am better left alone, please leave my loneliness unbroken The charm of stolen waters A virgin heart on the palm of my hand One fragile passing moment Just one more dream that did not last Her angel wings now broken I've become the face of misery Door to her heart too open In silence I just watched her bleed 11. Elegantly Broken Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
Silence is broken
Empty words arc licking the layers of sin from our skin We realize happy endings are not for everyone, they're not for us Break of dawn let us lay down our arms In the end of the day we can savour our loss But I never stopped trying and I never said I wasn't up for A little bit of pain A little bit of longing Little bit of love to come our way A little bit of fear A little bit of hate Little hope for the hopeless A little bit of rain A little bit of thunder Little broken smile at the end of our day A little stormy cloud A little bit of wind To breathe life into lifeless You were always so much stronger than me And now your pain has made you beautiful But inside your armour is your heart still open, for here I stand Still trapped in my solitary shell Reaching out to you with my aching thoughts Hear me now, please don't tell me that you are too proud for A little bit of pain A little bit of longing Little bit of love to come our way A little bit of fear A little bit of hate Little hope for the hopeless A little bit of rain A little bit of thunder Little broken smile at the end of our day A little stormy cloud A little bit of wind To breathe life into lifeless Just give yourself to me Together we will be So elegantly broken |