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DARK TRANQUILLITY LYRICS
"Live Damage" (2003 DVD)
1. Intro
2. The Wonders at Your Feet
3. The Treason Wall
4. Hedon
5. White Noise / Black Silence
6. Haven
7. Punish My Heaven
8. Monochromatic Stains
9. UnDo Control
10. Indifferent Suns
11. Format C: for Cortex
12. Insanity's Crescendo
13. Hours Passed in Exile
14. The Sun Fired Blanks
15. Damage Done
16. Lethe
17. Not Built to Last
18. ThereIn
19. Zodijackyl Light
20. Final Resistance
21. Outro - Ex Nihilo
1. Intro
2. The Wonders at Your Feet
deeper shades of red descending
smear our names, the stains unending
turn forgiveness,
break the lens distorted
crush the infidel and turn about
famine in our hearts, bring up the silence louder
eradicate the lungs and take us higher
these are the wonders at your feet
weighed upon a wider scale
afraid to see what takes us down
sing destruction, sing of unfullfillment
search abandoned, let the blood be fevered
ridden of the self provided things get easier
ignite our minds and let´s burn brighter
these are the wonders at your feet
3. The Treason Wall
Let me tell you about the loss of all
the failing of all that we hold dear
Wrapped up nicely in ourselves
Chaos resolves
that which order defiles
Worthless lives
are ordered blind
I don't believe
Taste and you will see
that all belongs to me
I don't believe
I won't believe
I raise my hand against it all
for those who don't recognize the call
Will the sense to overcome these nestled walls
Going to break it down
Let me nail you to the treason wall
stab the night and the day from your sight
And set the thought to flame
Feeble devout
nothing resides
Break it to pieces
that obstinate mind
I raise my fist to hold the line
Against those who set themselves on high
Going to break it down
4. Hedon
Enter Suicidal Angels;
How hungry have we become;
Like animals naked in shame
Fed with the hooves of apocalypse
that galloped down, disordered
worlds behind
From word to a word I was led to
a word
that spanned over cultures in rage
Crimson masses, steeped in decadence
holding our tongues to the thirsty
sun
So, is the future still open?
Then enter, hornet, from our hive-dark
hearts
to draw down the end from within
We need not the horns
that emanate from our warty, haunted
bodies
Nihilist, Hedon
the priceless art of their lives
Sorrow is a wing laid atop their
heads.
Skin deep, we carve our immeasurable
sorrow
in the fold of your shivering arms
Hedon,
Your children wild
and filled with death
Jupiter in our unforgiving eyes;
a pandemonium of bodies and gold
Eager, as a part of your face
and the sickness attached to your
skin (stone)
as the wine-rush,
chargin from androgynous wombs
to open free the lid of pain
Hedon,
rinsed in post-human shadows
a monument scorned by the teeth
of time
Stale-faced keeper of secrets,
leaded with implosive fire
the whore that carried the apostle
to the mating point on the graves
of giants
We look at you, afraid
to see what we really are.
5. White Noise / Black Silence
Time in argument will end
Flames of preparation
Fingers felt the whipping
Hand that feeds the flame
Escalate the drought
Itching to join the fray
Wishing darkness was sound
shutting desires out
Wishing darkness was sound
but as moths to the flame...
...we go
You the ignorant
take sides in these three dimensions
Nullify importance
confined within the page
Scan for raoture again
look for an instant save
Mere moments pass and still it seems
detached from insight, thought and word
Ever since it lost its edge
lost in the noise forever be
in the blur of information
the nail that never sticks
Venting a foul stench
purging the fevered self
behind a traitor's name
Face the consequence
taken back in the eyes of fairness
A nobody forever
hidden and locked away
Working the boards again
Giving the wrath away
6. Haven
now as the lights go down
deeper now it seems than long before
there are no noises here
just a silence gone bad
something I will never hide
this urging need to
invite the darkside in
into my haven
if there were words for this
would i sing or would i scream?
i'd give my blood to stay
my blood just to stay right here
something can never share
this urging need to
invite the darkside in
into my haven
7. Punish My Heaven
We are the outstretched fingers
That seize and hold the wind...
The strangeness of awakening
In an oh so silent world
Breathlessly waiting
For the first proud beams of light
As the hours grow longer
And the shadows never fall
My sky has forsaken me
My desperation grows
Bring me the light
In the darkness that never ends
The dawn will never come
Punish my heaven
We have arrived
At the outermost crossroads
The charge of cosmos
At our atmospheric skies
Will cause our fall
If I had wings, would I be forgiving?
If I had horns
Would there be flames to shy my smile?
Hymns of loss are heard
From the masses in the streets
Praising the last of days
I punish
Bring me the night
In the fires that never end
The dawn will never come
Punish my heaven
The charge of cosmos
Charging at us from unearthly distance
I challenge the universe
It's the choice between heaven and hell
My soul bears all the weight of mountains
As mankind weaves its silent end
Can there be no forgiveness?
I curse the heaven above me
As the light sinks through
My outstretched fingers
Fading in my open arms
Make each tear in my bare hands
A lifetime in hell
On this last day of light
When our autumn leaves fell
And as heaven itself commands me
Out of its lair
My face lined with darkness I'll go!
8. Monochromatic Stains
There is this face in the still water
I can't remember ever wearing
Like fingerprints on your heart
Reading out the last lines of code
To the untrained eye a secret
I bled away the last of you
Sought trust in shapes of combined results
that trickles from a less than solid case
Fought off attacks of resurfaced lust
Burn the gracing grounds
What will give in first
the body or the lash
Monochromatic stains
Who will cave in first
the leader or the fake
Monochromatic stains
This pile of ashes of a soul
informant pokes abound
These sickly little fingers
Get away from me
Tread not the path of least restraint
each piece of evidence a lie, a lie
The body, the face all items in place
I don't remember a thing
A sacrifice made to the loss of mind
Folly a man's demise
Track now the stains that allow my fall
sickening, the sight of it all
Never shall I claim my innocence
I just was not there
9. UnDo Control
There were words of lust
in these arms of the stranger
And there in silence though were words of no milder
So in thinking of that madness
that ravage the thoughts
in the loneliest of hours
I resist without control
The demand I get from excellence
the void I felt from answering
Not only an addition
It generated need
In these endless nights of freezing
my weight on the other side
I resist without control
Feel the thorns of UnControl
Claws that set in sleep´ December
Let loose on the verge
Talked to me as strangers once did
The tone was set for winter
Sweet UnControl
Beyond proportion
Into the night
So strike me deeper
I resist without control
Feel the thorns of UnControl
the death that craved no life
now ended
in return
Drifting uncontrolably
Within the night
Sweet UnControl
Beyond proportion
Into the night
So strike me deeper
10. Indifferent Suns
and although it can be argued
whether time will ever come to end
there is an overcoming sense of failing
if you never can see the end
in the giving of our hope eternal
we stumble blindly and forget the way
is there ever time for answers
when the world comes tumbling down
all along we keep staring at the sun
closing our minds
saying we´re the ones
all along we keep staring at the sun
blind to see it when the day will come
and even if in days of wonders
a glance that may stray from the fold
cast aside in the spirit of ignorance
a mere nuisance when it´s time to pay
come undone now the strive and the passion
giving under to the forces that be
can you even think of questions
when the world comes tumbling down
we shut our eyes and turn away
all along we keep staring at the sun
closing our minds
saying we´re the ones
all along we keep staring at the sun
blind to see it when the day will come
11. Format C: for Cortex
Mental Blindfolds on
Early on the fascination intense
How to discern just where right belongs
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to see
There is no need for you to start revolutions
I don't want you to talk to the minions
Just show me a brand new face
an open mind against a dying race
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to hear/feel
Cannot fail in this the era of losers
burnt the shell of those that once held the torches
Cannot give you the senses anew
nor will you know innocence again
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to know
in time all your questions will be answered
not what you hoped for, not what you dreamed
all preconceptions crumble
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to learn
Won't hold up to the standards you keep
never came from the formative years
Just show me a brand new mind
Keep in what you left behind
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to be
12. Insanity's Crescendo
Gently hold our heads
gently hold our heads on high
Aimless time in fear new hide
overthrow the plan
confusion lies in all my words
mad is the soul
We barricade ourselves in holes
of temperament
this is the dawning of a new age
A heart that beats the wrong way
insanity's crescendo
Windcolour - second sight
a touch of silence and the violence
of dark
Illusion span - the aroma of time
shadowlife and the scent of nothingness
Infinite fall of instinct
order of one spells deceit
Infinite lack of trust
order of one obsolete
Oh escaping time is all we lost
ahead?
When it's found, can judgement
make amends?
From force-fed impressions
let us mortify the mind
each soul to violate
each instinct to be rendered false
Torn asunder be the conventional
forms and frames
now for the blood of heaven
Unlearn and the cleansing comes
Felt a tremor in the pillars of
the senses
Cursed victim of a distance near
The first dream - the clearest
vision
Aimlessly steer towards our night
we belong to thee
Oh dearest bliss, unnerving silence
entangled within
Dimly begotten in clarity found
virginlike tears for impurity bound
Beseech be who darken the stars
and the sky
to greet now this vision an emerald
dawn
Empty the sun - carve out the wind
Insanity's crescendo
tear out the blinded eye
Lament of thunder - take comfort
in fear
lightning veins in crude exterior
Voice the oppression - voice the
hypocrisy
lay down the law that made instinct
fall
Escape now and revert
this cleansing rebirth
torn asunder be
Affect me not: darkened vision
insanity's crescendo
Grimly tread the footsteps torn
rebellious stand the seeker tall
The thorn of insanity's hand
take this darkened vision from
my sight
Nailed to the image of idnorance
Each soul to violate
for the blood of heaven
13. Hours Passed in Exile
What if:
a) some things are destined to failure
b) some things are never meant to be
c) someone never sees
d) someone never opens
e) somehow we are different
Though I never claimed to be right
give to me the benefit of doubt
I brought you fires
that you put out
I brought you fires
for I cannot be without
I came with sadness
but this my shattered heart can't bear
What of the times in exile
what of the hours passed
what if touches seem too trivial
You can never tell me I'm wrong
a song I've heard so long
So what if healing takes forever
so what if time is meant for others
so what is left is but a shatter
and what is broken can't be whole
14. The Sun Fired Blanks
Upon our evening when the sun fired blanks
there rode the sickness out of our sight
Carried torches burned out long before it´s time
among these ruins where our love is to be found
Ambition falters when no better is to be known
cling to the unfounded pride
Death to our belonging
and our ministry of two
Set the higher standard
and to a greater fall descend
Slaves to one another
and to others be it not
Soothing be temptation
force the conscience to a halt
Caused a high vibration,
a tender light to be part of you
the two-way escape
Death to our belonging
and our ministry of two
Set the higher standard
and to a greater fall descend
15. Damage Done
Went inside the caves of seven wolves
Felt of the forces that lend themselves to speed
those final words to fracture the very structure
can't stand this glacial pace
the damage done
It seems these days are getting shorter
derails my train of thought
What said in hand was done
chased unforgiveness down these corridors
locked down the basis for the willing form
a trail far from strayed
the damage done
Set aside from eyes of others
Our frail structures can't keep up with the pace
Brought out for all to see
the damage done
face contradicting needs
We bring our cages home
for none to see
in vain to lessen
responsibility
the damage done
16. Lethe
Lethe
Give me the drink of the fluid
That disintegrates
And lend me the sweet balm and blessing
Of forgetfulness, empty and strong
Hold me near, unravel the stars
As I speed through the heavens
Speed through the night
For you are my blade and my rope
Your are my
Lethe
In currents of cobalt
You storm through my heart
To sever, to puncture
The memories that burn
Let sweep through the arteries
In sharp stabs of pain
Your talonlike fingers to kill me again
Steal me, invade me and charge me again
For I burn and I shudder
Burn with each movement of
So, cleansed through a floodlight
I appear; reforged and renewed
Caressed by the sweet balm and blessing
Of forgetfulness, empty and strong
Lethe,
Hold me near, my one friend and guide
As I drown through your fingers
Drown through your love
For you are the life I hate
You are my
Lethe
Drag me down, in passionate sighs
With the ocean above me
And flames in my eyes
And grant me a life I can live
Without…
17. Not Built to Last
what came as no surprise
to a jaded mind no less
insight comes to soothing grace
left to waiting days
..another chord unstrummed
our secret's safe and sound
solid now unless it breaks in two
faithfully unbound
none of this was ever built to last
in the paleness of a less than life
from a corner watching old paint dry
never once a break
into the self again
an endeavour that will flat our fail
what maturity comes to end
never one to face
..another beat undone
our secret's safe and sound
solid now unless it breaks in two
faithfully unbound
none of this was ever built to last
once again
another instant saved today
left a print that leads nowhere
never built to last
what makes it work
a part of life that makes the weak hearts grow
take it in if you´re willing to say
willing to do
prepared to lay it down
just know this
it was never built to last
18. ThereIn
Gentle storm | Thundering silence
Inferior force | Uncontrolled calm
Vital unlife | Logic/Chaos/Logic
The tone of which his birth ascend
The beat that of a heart descend
repeating in the infinite
An insight made it clear
Order stormed the surface
Where chaos set the norm
Had there always been balance?
...surely not;
Therein lies the beauty
It was solid
Yet Everchanging
It was different
Yet the same
So I starve myself for Energy
The song around his soul will bend
The note that in this hole will melt
Crawl out of science
A dreamland if you dear
Disorder clawed the boundaries
We´re ordered to stand clear
Was it always different
...Never the same?
Therein lies the beauty
It was solid...
As there was no witnesses
There was nothing to be told
As nothing could be grasped
The story could unfold
Superimposed on the elements of anger
| fear | anxiety | hate | despair | remorse
So break from all that fear hold fast
Exposed, now turn to all you lack
Let echoes be the answer
Return from the screams
Wordless now the last attack
So silent it hurts to listen
Was it always solid
...to never change?
Therein lies the beauty
It was solid...
19. Zodijackyl Light
Crown the impulse that deliberately
fall
defeat in spiritless action
Isolation - burn the greenwood
order of the vertical path
Descendent
crawl in the remnants of one thousand
lies
Restaging
torching a world that was left
behind
Zodijackyl light
Cross the sharpest void
deride the embers of his faith
the bringer that on million horses
ride
Waiting for the call within the
spark of sin
ever reminiscent of the coming
of storm
Can you see the cosmic face in
which disorder lies
Burning of opression
Burning the inventor
Burning is the killing hand
Be that of the darkest sin
to frustrate hope and love
I shall not be blinded
I shall not be forced
Resistance
feasting on debris from celestial
wars
Burning in the sky
beyond the realm of time
Sequence of the nucleus
the glowing dust in flight
Zodijackal light
And they ride, they ride
the drama takes the lead
And they ride, they ride
the beast of heaven their guide
Racing through the vastness
constellation disarray
that darkness could not have existed
that bares no witness to the light
I shall not be blinded
I shall not be forced
Sweet endless
Perpetually pronge through interior
vaults
So seamless
Joints of time cannot shackle the
beast
Zodiackal light.
20. Final Resistance
Disaffected, left to internal struggle
let ring with the cries of disaccord
They told of outposts firm as trees
Whispers laid no basis for
the plunge to the chasm depths
Seen none, nor felt the safety
Perimeter alarm
I see the bearings of disaster
What can you tell me of the inside
Is it as bright as all can see?
To make a chemical stand
a final front to the days ahead
In attempt to tame their mineral estrangement
Smothered by the numeral that
haunts each waking day
Request for countertmeasures
to state claim of this my cavern
None to take and none be given
as the window breaks to black
A process left to solitude
is the action left undone
Answers left to echo
in the silent halls of none
Cast down the hopes and aspirations
Shut the windows tight
Everybody said No
Reset your fears and good intentions
Barred up for life
Everybody said No
This is the final resistance
21. Outro - Ex Nihilo
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