Katatonia - Dead End Kings lyrics
Tracks 01. The Parting
02. The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here 03. Hypnone 04. The Racing Heart 05. Buildings 06. Leech 07. Ambitions 08. Undo You 09. Lethean 10. First Prayer 11. Dead Letters 12. Second 13. The Act of Darkening 01. The Parting Music & lyrics by Jonas Renkse
In the weak light
I saw you becoming the lie Taking it all for granted Like freedom It's something you'll never have Forget what's said And hear me sing to you How I've set out to kill my soul The nightward ways The labour it brings The verdict that I came for Migration's song Patterns of death overwhelms Fixation rise I came along the way And came to a conclusion The indifferent sky Is made of lead and so beautiful Submission Come you will The parting End origin Fade into earth Times ablaze Under the flags we chose Denied my step and froze my heart Yet I stare With nothing left to do The verdict that I came for Migration's song Take your well deserved step Into darkness I'll become your eyes You have no other We have to walk along the wire Trust the one that never trusted you 02. The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here Music & lyrics by Jonas Renkse
This breaking vow
Rest so near my tongue Anchor on the cloud Shade upon the sun You took my word for it The vanishing of doubt Will unfold my empty space Your time froze over I must lead the way to this conclusion I let you inherit these words I sing to you See how death will bestow seclusion The one you are looking for is hidden from view In my absence now Irrelevant time will pass In nothingness abide See the evening rise And take my word for it Focus is beyond your vision Do you remember when It didn't use to be so dark And everything was possible Still 03. Hypnone Music & lyrics by Jonas Renkse
You will never rest
Until the stars burn out My day is done I love the sound of no one coming by Tomb beneath the trees The name unsung The darkness in the cracks I am not what you have waited for Trust Nothing is enough This hunting ground I need the freedom to control my own I need the sound of rain Wearing dependence down The line must be kept so thin To live near life Not within No need to take the rest Before the dark must shine Reflect my eyes And strip this creation of mine Tomorrow is so long The dead end king is here Black wings upon his back 04. The Racing Heart Music & lyrics by Jonas Renkse
White sun
Spring of wealth Come for a good time It's not what I have Vibrate Life on the line My racing heart Your vacant mind If I sow a wind now I will reap a storm You saw me sliding away from the sun And tomorrow Who will come And put their hand over mine Mine with the burning shape of a gun Washed out Soul of money Couldn't keep the fire It's not what I do Vibrate Life on the line My racing heart It's all I find Inside the sickness Rest 05. Buildings Music by Anders Nyström Lyrics by Jonas Renkse
Think
Of the days when I had too much Of the things we found Resistance died down Fell on frozen soil Bleed a little for a different day Going deeper to come away On the concrete sky I saw the buildings rise But keep our lights in shadow still In the wind's eye Where our reflection dies Glass shrines of muted will Dead Is the time that I see from here on out This burial ground One more down And buildings recoil 06. Leech Music & lyrics by Jonas Renkse
So solitary
You have been Your time starts to fade Distorted sky And you find me Revolve inside My blood is yours too That's what you say It couldn't be further from the truth I find The soul in medication All my loving has turned and washed away You took my mind's eye You bring it wherever you go How could you take away The burning I had My rage Static The closing line Whatever you say It's my heart you leech You crushed the edge of symmetry Insignificant You are still But my words in your mouth Lingering Spilling over I see You don't want liberation You keep belonging to what's not even here 07. Ambitions Music & lyrics by Jonas Renkse
Hear my thin voice
Hear my words fall down See my ambitions fade out Had so much better times At night Walking on the tracks Change my perspective Idle hands With wounds and cracks Still Ineffective But past the veil The memories of things Still so in love with you So dense this strife Kick the life I feel this weight upon my heart Indecision Sow the seed Aspiration is never within reach At night there is no other view Sing a song for the ones who never made it In the ward Under yellow lights Under linden trees I am Transparent And led to believe That things would change if I go away The lowering sky under which we go Constant noise Behind the overcoming I had no choice but to rearrange The scar is open I am not allowed to understand I take it as you're not coming back 08. Undo You Music & lyrics by Anders Nyström
With life's four-way stop
The tinges in your shadow drop Fate pulls you down for the count With broken promises to amount Time seal our ways To the heart of our hiding place When all our lifelines have been crossed Some scars can never heal from what we lost To fail the test and depart the strong Is to light the way where you have gone For only our funerals to come A requiem in death, a song And it seems to be That consistency is not what lingers ahead But a virtue of the dead One of these days Hours pass yet the night stays When your spirit won't turn anew The world shuts down with no goodbye to undo you Breathing lifeless We are not afraid to die Breathe in life's less You're afraid not to live 09. Lethean Music by Per Eriksson, Jonas Renkse Lyrics by Jonas Renkse
How long
Is the pattern going to speak for you How far can your voice reach Your song below the night From my view I can see you Shudder where you are standing In the vision Cyan blue Now October This time you won't be needing me To run along the freeway To weigh one's heart against the oncoming dark You left me with the pills We had plans but you couldn't make it Through the trees What took you so long The high grass What took you so long Translate the fire The venom's rush inside your heart How long can winter Colour your every word And the skyline Past the houses and the cities Hyperopia Carmine red Now This river This time I will 10. First Prayer Music by Jonas Renkse, Anders Nyström Lyrics by Jonas Renkse
In the prayer
Can't seem to find the right words But we stretch our dead arms For salvation The foundation And the chemical need Discordance put a veil Over my creed So sweet my fever now Embraced by its tainted wings Cup my hands and taste the spite Immune to the truths you told In the wake Reverence in my every move The wretched stars aligned For dead wisdom The apparition Rise with my every breath Grasping for the one Who lie beneath You leave now Leave my void of prayers Take these words to go with you Take the splinters See them fall Idle stare Who will come forth from the dry wind And find my blood And clothes and rust Cleaned the past Like water through stone Earth did cast a shade Over my sleep 11. Dead Letters Music by Anders Nyström Lyrics by Jonas Renkse
Vexation
Internal void My dreams are getting darker and darker And darker Dim my lights Time is frail You shut my mind But oh well Trapped and choked Erased my trail Split the chest My heart couldn't feel more pale Only once could I see clear Vexation Internal void My dreams are getting darker and darker And darker This life before me Its blood runs so still The call of the bird The song that makes the hours go The change inactive Dead letters Form these words Dim my lights One by one The sordid pale Broken run Confined in escape On burnt grass Below the crest Lier in wait for the ending Songs that make the hours go 12. Second Music by Jonas Renkse, Anders Nyström Lyrics by Jonas Renkse
Sun has lost
Mountains fell What took away our anchor Snow in the old sky Escape is a long dead end We need to rise higher Temples burn Fires underneath What controls our anger Moon coming in Sun has lost Did you know Mountains fell Letting one second go on To go over a lifetime We were such good friends Will you find me where I am now 13. The Act of Darkening Music & lyrics by Anders Nyström
So dark
Once an amusement park Troubled whispers sound On a mute merry-go-round So cold Once a playground of gold Caved in long ago And then poisoned with the snow Oceans of time Broken patterns align Hearts washed upon the isle It carries your name Like radiance in the rain The wailing sirens alarm Old memories hang on and gravitate by weights of sorrow Through cracks and wounds our pain reflected in a thousand mirrors It is time for deeds to take the shape of vows and codes of promise The time to let our minds speak silently in the act of darkening Out of reach and gone from view Now light is one step behind you On the other side of the soul The void resolves one final role Collapse into absence |