THE BEGINNING OF AN END

Broken hearts, shattered years
Swollen eyes and endless fears
The Beginning of an End

All the pleasure, all the pain
Embers of our dying flame
Hurt enslaves all love in vain

So we’ve plead this plea before
Withered petals hit the floor
Drowning in our sea of blame

Every shield and every sword
Cut us deep into the core
It is clear we’ve been betrayed

We are lust, we are scorn
A thousand words like a thousand thorns
Lacerate our burning hearts
(Oh, no)
All the pleasure, all the pain
Embers of our dying flame
Hurt enslaves all love in vain

So we’ve plead this plea before
Withered petals hit the floor
Drowning in our sea of blame

Every shield and every sword
Cut us deep into the core
It is clear we’ve been betrayed

All the pleasure, all the pain
Embers of our dying flame
Hurt enslaves all love in vain

So we’ve plead this plea before
Withered petals hit the floor
Drowning in our sea of blame

Every shield and every sword
Cut us deep into the core
It is clear we’ve been betrayed

All the pleasure, all the pain
Embers of our dying flame

MY FAVOURITE ENEMY

The way you roll your eyes
The verdict on your tongue
The pleasure in the tone
Of every word you spoke
Announce your scorn to be
Before we come to close
Now break us piece by piece

I’ll feed the endless need
My Favourite Enemy
A plea to set us free
My Favourite Enemy

Before you walk away
Please turn and steal my gaze
My heart is in your hands
So shatter all our hope
I crave to feel you strike
The storm before the calm
The everlasting night

I’ll feed the endless need
My Favourite Enemy
A plea to set us free
My Favourite Enemy

(solo)

And in the violent night
I know you follow
Within the darkest light,
Dependent sorrow
And in the violent night
I know you follow
This endless need
This endless need
Please set us free

I’ll feed the endless need
My Favourite Enemy
A plea to set us free
My Favourite Enemy

THE GREAT DIVIDE

We count on lies, our frail disguise
Believe we’re safe for now
So neatly dressed and dignified
Our virtue to vice, so far gone

We turn our guilty eyes
To hide our inner strife
We can’t feel it anymore
The pulse of days before

The pulse of days before…

No breaking point, no end in sight
The tension forever prolongs
The truth we create, wicked design
Our story of lies goes on

We turn our guilty eyes
To hide our inner strife
We can’t feel it anymore
The pulse of days before

Take me to the place where I
Once reached for the sky
Dreams veiled in silver lies
Where light filled our eyes
Now we beg for sun to shine
But grey is all we find
No trials for the crimes
Across the Great Divide

Across the Great Divide

We count our lies, our failed disguise
Enraged and disavowed
Profoundly lost and dreary-eyed
We seek only to be found

We turn our guilty eyes
To hide our inner strife
We can’t feel it anymore
The pulse of days before
So we fill our hearts with coal
To fuel this state one more
And wait to subside
Across the Great Divide

SOIL OF THE GRAVE

This cold is all around us
It follows every day
We hide out in the sun
As if we can escape
Meaningless it seems
This life and all the pain
But in every fleeting light
A reason to remain

You can’t take away the sorrow
But you can feel the hurt
Remember all the peace
That has built you this curse

Sometimes we lose the ones
We’ve grown to love the most
It always seems unfair
The cruelty of the loss
We rise and we shall fall
It’s etched in all our bones
But the time that we do stand
Defines our memoirs most

You can’t take away the sorrow
But you can feel the hurt
Remember all the peace
That has built you this curse
The pain seems everlasting
Just know that it will fade
And that memories abstain
The Soil of the Grave

(solo)

You can’t take away the sorrow
But you can feel the hurt
Remember all the peace
That has built you this curse
The pain seems everlasting
Just know that it will fade
And that memories abstain
The Soil of the Grave

The Soil of the Grave

THE RISE AND THE FALL

Come with me, sweet Louise
Cleanse these eyes of misery
I can see you’re for me
But time’s not on our side

Like flowers of the night
We bloom beyond the light
Our lives become entwined,
Entombed

The Rise and the fall
So timeless are we all?
Believe that love, my dear
Won’t make you suffer
Those eyes and the claws
Monsters, aren’t we all?
Believe, my dear,
You’ll suffer

Won’t you see what we could be
Through those eyes of brown and green
A version of eternity
Endless and finite

The beauty in the rust
Of ashes and the dust
Defy the equinox
Sans rue

The Rise and the fall
So timeless are we all?
Believe that love, my dear
Won’t make you suffer
Those eyes and the claws
Monsters, aren’t we all?
Believe, my dear,
You’ll suffer

You’ll suffer…

Her tentacles
Entwine my soul
Rise the light
I can’t let go

The Rise and the fall
So timeless are we all?
Believe in love my dear…

The Rise and the fall
So timeless are we all?
Believe that love, my dear
Won’t make you suffer
Those eyes and the claws
Monsters, aren’t we all?
Believe, my dear
You’ll suffer

You’ll suffer…

WHERE DEAD HEARTS RESIDE

Don’t you see that we’re the same
A broken heart and one to blame?
Keep holding on to feel the pain
Just to feel alive

(But) The life is lost, it’s dead and gone
The beat I feel is our closing song
And I just can’t wait, my darling
To sing it again

She reveals it in her eyes
The fear consumes tonight
This flame won’t cleanse the lies
Where Dead Hearts Reside

I can be your everything
A lasting love, and endless dream
But we choose to fight
We choose to lie
We choose to die

The life is lost, it’s dead and gone
The beat I feel is our closing song
And I just can’t wait, my darling
To sing it again

She reveals it in her eyes
The fear consumes tonight
This flame won’t cleanse the lies
Where Dead Hearts Reside
We will see the other side
Beyond the crimson light
The ruins and somber skies
Where Dead Hearts Reside

Where Dead Hearts Reside

Where Dead Hearts Reside

She reveals it in her eyes
The fear consumes tonight
This flame won’t cleanse the lies
Where Dead Hearts Reside
We will see the other side
Beyond the crimson light
The ruins and somber skies
Where Dead Hearts Reside

Where Dead Hearts Reside

Where Dead Hearts Reside

LOVE'S INFERNO

When the moon has reached the sky
And the dusk consumes our hearts
Flickered flames begin to rise
Love’s Inferno soon will start
And I feel so alive
In the moments when we hide
And I feel so divine
In the gaze of her eyes

All I need is in your arms
‘Till the breaking of the dawn
And we’ll face the rising sun
With souls on fire

And I feel you’re the one for me, baby
I conceal you’re the darkness in my dreams

Gentle words with violent force
The draft behind the flames
A veil to seal the curse
Where nothing more remains

All I need is in your arms
‘Till the breaking of the dawn
And we’ll face the rising sun
With souls on fire

And I feel you’re the one for me, baby
I conceal you’re the darkness in my dreams
And I feel you’re the one for me, baby
I conceal you’re the darkness in my dreams

(solo)

There’s an ode in her eyes
My heart reveals the words
I feel them burn inside
Love’s Inferno begins its rise

Feel it rise

DAWN OF RUST

Can you see what is left?
Nothing here but emptiness
And I feel bound again
Every night, at close of day
We shut our eyes to feel awake
We don’t feel alive anymore

I can’t take this anymore
I know I’m not alone
Falling in the Dawn of Rust
We can’t be here anymore
Losing in this war
Falling in the Dawn of Rust

Can you feel anything
Besides the ice and bitter rain?
As we die, alive, again
Coldest days, warmest nights
Embrace the dark and shut your eyes
We don’t need the light anymore

I can’t take this anymore
I know I’m not alone
Falling in the Dawn of Rust
We can’t be here anymore
Losing in this war
Falling in the Dawn of Rust

Can you feel the frozen heart?
Can you see how hope departs?
They hold your hand
Kiss your lips
Forge the law
And Kill the Bliss

I can’t take this anymore
I know I’m not alone
Falling in the Dawn of Rust
We can’t be here anymore
Losing in this war
Falling in the Dawn of Rust
We’re falling in the Dawn

Losing in this war

Falling in the Dawn of Rust

DARKNESS COLLIDES

These words that I’ve found
Are savage and profound
They’ll sink deep just like the knife

This valley of rue
A stark gift from you
I pace through the darkest nights

Oh, I see dead leaves take flight
Oh, I fear temptation’s cold bite

Darkness Collides
Bled tears in her eyes
Sweet words from a tarnished tongue

My heart in her hands
Her hips held in mine
Who makes the mistake this time?

The trust that we had
Now dust in our past
This curse that I bear
Just hardly seems fair
Try as I might to evade this plight
I can not escape all the time

Oh, I see dead leaves take flight
Oh, I hear the violence in silence

Darkness Collides
Bled tears in her eyes
Sweet words from a tarnished tongue

My heart in her hands
Her hips held in mine
Who makes the mistake this time?

Darkness Collides
Bled tears in her eyes
Sweet words from a tarnished tongue

My heart in her hands
Her hips held in mine
Who makes the mistake this time?

A VOLUNTARY DISEASE

Take your place in line
And fill your head with lies
Drink the sacred wine
But oh, please don’t think twice

Supremacy in words of fallacy and hate
Open the books to find the meaning separates

Creed or insanity?
A Voluntary Disease

Creed…

Bow your head, my child
And don’t you dare talk back
Your life is slavery
Now, haven’t you kept track?

Divinity, the veil of ignorant denial
Hold dear your sacrament of blessed betrayal

Creed or insanity?
A Voluntary Disease

Creed or naiveté?
Elated and deceived

Believe in He or I’ll make you bleed
Believe like me or I’ll make you…

Creed or insanity?
A Voluntary Disease

Creed or naiveté?
Elated and deceived

Creed…

Believe in He or I’ll make you bleed
Believe like me or I’ll make you…
Bleed

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