The Dark Element - The Dark Element lyrics
Tracks 01. The Dark Element
02. My Sweet Mystery 03. Last Good Day 04. Here's To You 05. Someone You Used To Know 06. Dead To Me 07. Halo 08. I Cannot Raise The Dead 09. The Ghost And The Reaper 10. Heaven Of Your Heart 11. Only One Who Knows Me 01. The Dark Element Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
She lives in me
And she lives in you, it is true It's in our nature So let her burn An old ritual Our corruption perpetual Flesh is always weak So let her speak "Follow me, your dead heart queen One more time into the fray" Decadent, dissonant, eloquent The dark element, permanent In our hearts it always burns Primitive, chemical, beautiful The dark element, permanent She's inside of us all - Dark Element Don't starve at the feast The world is yours, give in to the beast Claim what you deserve Just let her serve A crucible so suitable Desire irrefutable Decadent, dissonant, eloquent The dark element, permanent In our hearts it always burns Primitive, chemical, beautiful The dark element, permanent She's inside of us all - Dark Element Just one life, just one try So play to win or not at all Embrace the dark, let it in your heart Take the world, it's all for you Decadent, dissonant, eloquent The dark element, permanent In our hearts it always burns Primitive, chemical, beautiful The dark element, permanent She's inside of us all - Dark Element 02. My Sweet Mystery Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
I remember your song
That no one else could ever know A melody just for me An echo of eternity Bring me back days of race Take me back where I belong To our garden of dreams Where you are lying next to me Here where the darkest of roses bloom I have always been waiting for you So let's dance like we once used to I would give it all, I would give all for you All I ever was, everything I am for you Come to me, be my ghost reverie I would give it all, I would give it all for one kiss For a moment of bliss, going down in history With my sweet mystery Give me a chance to become Someone you could want again Give a chance to become Someone you could love again I will do what it takes Through aeons in oblivion I will watch, I will wait For time I sonly trivial Here where the darkest of roses bloom I will always be waiting for you To love me like you once used to I would give it all, I would give all for you All I ever was, everything I am for you Come to me, be my ghost reverie I would give it all, I would give it all for one kiss For a moment of bliss, going down in history With my sweet mystery If the roads we walk have demons beneath I'll be your guard, your sword and your shield While feathers of angels rain from heavens I'm the avenger and the sentinel You're exceptional, I'm expendable I would give it all, I would give all for you All I ever was, everything I am for you Come to me, be my ghost reverie I would give it all, I would give it all for one kiss For a moment of bliss, going down in history With my sweet mystery 03. Last Good Day Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
Our days are all numbered
And years are but a few? What would you do if you knew Today's your last good day If you knew "the best is yet to come" Just is no longer true Say what you have to say Do what you have to do and do it now Find all the little things you lost Among the useless other things Live for yourself and love yourself Be always proud of who you are Leave no regrets, you live but once And this could be the last good day Do you ever think and wonder What you'll leave behind Will you leave in love and laugther Leave here with a smile Say what you have to say Do what you have to do and do it now Find all the little things you lost Among the useless other things Live for yourself and love yourself Be always proud of who you are Leave no regrets, you live but once And this could be the last good day Our days are all numbered And years are but a few? Say what you have to say Do what you have to do and do it now Find all the little things you lost Among the useless other things Live for yourself and love yourself Be always proud of who you are Leave no regrets, you live but once And this could be the last good day What would you do if you knew Today's your last good day If you knew "the best is yet to come" Just is no longer true 04. Here's To You Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
Hi, if you're reading this then I'm not fine
I guess I'm writing just to clear my mind And I would never want to be the spectre at your feast Last night while I was lying in the gutter wondering why And all the people were just passing me by You were the only thing that kept me holding on So here's to you For being right from the start So here's to you I hope you find in your heart The strength to forget who I was And in the end I hope you won't hate me I'll leave you with this, I will miss you everyday But I won't write you again I, I always thought that I was larger than life I always thought that I would never say die But I think you know fro me it never rains but pours And ow that all is gone I finally get the joke The irony of being the worst of all And I can tell it hurts to see the joke's on me So here's to you For being right from the start So here's to you I hope you find in your heart The strength to forget who I was And in the end I hope you won't hate me I'll leave you with this, I will miss you everyday But I won't write you again Long gone are now All the days of wine and roses "once upon a time" is a cliché I don't wanna use right now Not a prince for the princess Not a man for the maiden Not a story for the ages I am but the boring truth So here's to you For being right from the start So here's to you I hope you find in your heart So here's to you For being right from the start So here's to you I hope you find in your heart The strength to forget who I was And in the end I hope you won't hate me I'll leave you with this, I will miss you everyday But I won't write you again 05. Someone You Used To Know Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
It's ok if you don't wanna talk right now
I know you have a lot of thing to do I can wait if you don't have the time right now It's alright, I've got nowhere else to be Tell me who you want me to be For it seems the real me Is not enough to make you happy Tell me so I can become someone else For you I could be a lifeboat Could be a scapegoat Be what you need I know that for you I could be a no one Could be just someone You used to know It's ok if you don't wanna meet tonight I've got my wine and I can live in hope The hour's growing late and I don't wanna fight Foul and bitter words have never helped no one Still I wonder what it is that you see Is she such a beauty Whom against I just can't compete Tell me so I can become just like her For you I can be a mother I can be a lover Be what you need I know that for you I could be a no one Could be just someone You used to know Since you left I haven't even washed the sheets Or the scent of your perfume from my skin It's ok, I know you don't like promises Still I play the game impossible tow in For you I can be an angel I can be a virgin Can be a whore So tell me for you Am I just a no one Am I just someone You used to know 06. Dead To Me Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
I used to love you once long ago
I opened my door and gave you a home You were my cairn and you were my creed My everything or at least so I thought Something died on the day that you left me Melodies, memories and my dreams Something left, something came, something darker Someone let the cold inside You ate my bread and drank form my well I dressed you in silk, sold all I could sell So I could keep your heart satisfied But every time you just asked me for more Deeper down to the hole where you made me To the vortex of pain that will stain me I won't drown, I won't lie, I won't die here I will fight, I will rise again I won't write you and ode nor confession Not a song but a war declaration Story told from the dawn of creation Symphony with a grim orchestration You were the harlot of my heart Like a fool I played my part But now you're hanging on your cross And I am banging in the nails You're no one Mean nothing You're worthless Dead to me Years they have passed and I'm over you I've licked all my wounds and forged me anew I wish I could say I wish you the best, it isn't true I won't forgive, won't forget I won't write you and ode nor confession Not a song but a war declaration Story told from the dawn of creation Symphony with a grim orchestration You were the harlot of my heart Like a fool I played my part But now you're hanging on your cross And I am banging in the nails You're no one Mean nothing You're worthless Dead to me 07. Halo Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
You think you're the jewel of creation
You think that this world is for you The sun it should shine 'cause you say so The stream it should bend to your will Your hopes are the hopes of the foolish Your dreams are the dreams of the past The history teaches you nothing And that you have, it won't last Where is your halo Where is your dignity Tell me how low can you go No one can scrape off The rust from your crown Where is your halo now? Your children will hate you forever Your graces they faded so fast You've fallen so far form what was your throne Despised now wherever you go I can't see your halo Where is your dignity Tell me how low can you go Halo has faded and vanity shows Where is your crown, where is your Halo where is your dignity Tell me how low can you go Halo has faded and vanity showy Where is your crown, where is your Halo where is your dignity Tell me how low can you go Halo has faded and vanity showy Where is your crown, where is your 08. I Cannot Raise The Dead Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
I've been wasting away
Like the Christ on the cross And I can take no more Was I too dumb to give up Or too proud to give in Don't even care no more But I'm not here to raise the dead Hang myself in every word that you said I'm not here to share your bed There are things to forgive There are things to forget There are thing I regret And all the things that I did All the things that I said Are better left for dead And I'm not here to raise the dead Hang myself in every word that was said If you want I'll take the blame 'cause dreams get guried everyday Now there is rose on our grave and the colours have faded So why should we try to hold on We're like dust in the wind, we are memory jaded So say what you will, say what you will for I cannot raise the dead, no I cannot raise the dead I cannot raise the dead, no I cannot raise the dead In a time before us We were both someone else And we can be again We both let wrong one in To keep the right one out And now we're both without So let's not try to raise the dead Hang ourselves in all the words that were said long ago If you want I'll take the blame For dreams get buried everyday Now there is rose on our grave and the colours have faded So why should we try to hold on We're like dust in the wind, we are memory jaded So say what you will, say what you will for I cannot raise the dead, no I cannot raise the dead I cannot raise the dead, no I cannot raise the dead Now there is rose on our grave and the colours have faded So why should we try to hold on We're like dust in the wind, we are memory jaded So say what you will, say what you will for There is rose on our grave and the colours have faded So why should we try to hold on We're like dust in the wind, we are memory jaded So say what you will, say what you will for I cannot raise the dead, no I cannot raise the dead I cannot raise the dead, no I cannot raise the dead 09. The Ghost And The Reaper Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
Here the stars no longer shine
And bitter is the wine That flows between my lips In our garden that withered so fast Two roses, red and white The princess and the knight We'll always be here We will be waiting for Now and forevermore We are the Eden's curse For better and for worse For you left for your ghost And I am the reaper of souls The pyres burning bright Flames reaching for the sky Now you are gone but I'll write the eulogy for you Cold is the stream Colder my blood and Cold is the night Colder your heart Lifeless in my arms Fallen for my charms Dark tale of a dark love Poetry of poison The ghost and the reaper Grim verse from a grim soul History of heartless The dream and the dreamer Sour words form a sour heart Hollow and so hopeless The scream and the screamer Dead oaths from our dead lips fallen So lifeless, so silent Now let's take our final bow And let the curtain fall The stage will fade to black A life that will never come back A dark emporium Of even darker dreams Where nothing's what it seems But the shadows they call you Cold is the stream Colder my blood and Cold is the night Colder your heart Lifeless in my arms Fallen for my charms Dark tale of a dark love Poetry of poison The ghost and the reaper Grim verse from a grim soul History of heartless The dream and the dreamer Sour words form a sour heart Hollow and so hopeless The scream and the screamer Dead oaths from our dead lips fallen So lifeless, so silent Would you please pour holy water on me For all that I want is to join with the sea I wanna go where the ocean caresses the virgin shore For once more Dark tale of a dark love Poetry of poison The ghost and the reaper Grim verse from a grim soul History of heartless The dream and the dreamer Sour words form a sour heart Hollow and so hopeless The scream and the screamer Dead oaths from our dead lips fallen So lifeless, so silent 10. Heaven Of Your Heart Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
If we met today what would you have to say
If anything at all Would you come to me Come asking where you know me from And if I'd ask for you to come with me When the music fades away Would you smile at me while saying "Yes, but not today" It's funny how two strangers in time Got lost in a moment One perfect single night in our lives The stars did align In the heaven of your heart Even silence was a friend of mine On the meadows of our love we would run And we would never fade away But the fault was in our stars And some things are not meant to last And only pictures on our walls in our halls Remind me of the years we shared somewhere And I'm still there? If we met today would I be wise And do things differently Or would I waste away The best days I will ever see For each and every moment we shared Don't think I'm not grateful Amazing for how long you stood by All my imperfections In the heaven of your heart Even silence was a friend of mine On the meadows of our love we would run And we would never fade away But the fault was in our stars And some things are not meant to last And only pictures on our walls in our halls Remind me of the years we shared somewhere And I'm still there? 11. Only One Who Knows Me Music & lyrics by Jani Liimatainen
If hell is empty and all demons are truly here
If sky is falling and the rivers have all run dry I will not falter, I will never stray and I won't be afraid When all is said and done and all of my songs been sung When I'm no longer beautiful nor reckless or young When stage has emptied and the crowds have gone for good I'm coming home Like tired old wave I will be crashing right on your shore Just like I did before Like rising tide I will arrive and there I will lie By your side forever You are the only one The only one who knows me You are the only one Always the only one You are the only one The only one who knows me You are the only one Always the only one The fame will fade and all the word will forget about me But it's alright, I got more than I could ever ask We had our fun, a shining moment in the sun The devil and i I have my faults, I have been sinning, been sinned against Places to be, people to meet, I guess that was my defence Ten thousand sunsets I have seen and maybe more Now I'm coming home Like tired old wave I will be crashing right on your shore Just like I did before Like rising tide I will arrive and there I will lie By your side forever You are the only one The only one who knows me You are the only one Always the only one You are the only one The only one who knows me You are the only one Always the only one |