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KATATONIA LYRICS
"The Black Sessions" (2005 Best of/Compilation)
1. Teargas
2. Right Into the Bliss
3. Criminals
4. Help Me Disappear
5. Nerve
6. The Future Of Speech
7. Ghost of the Sun
8. I Am Nothing
9. Deadhouse
10. Passing Bird
11. Sleeper
12. Sulfur
13. No Devotion
14. Chrome
15. A Premonition
1. Teargas
Why have you put so many things into my eyes
(that I can't see clear)
Who's paid you for telling me what I'm worth
(and run in fear)
It has been for me a strain to see already
(what have you done)
The rising noise
The sharpened smells
The deadened sight
What is it in my eyes
A piece of broken glass
Is this the time I should be on my knees for you
Is this your way of telling
Another has been found
Now I know it's teargas in my eyes
What is it in my eyes
A piece of broken glass
Is this the time I should be on my knees for you
Is this your way of telling
Another has been found
Now I know it's teargas in my eyes
What is it in my eyes
A piece of broken glass
Is this the time I should be on my knees for you
Is this your way of telling
Another has been found
Now I know it's teargas in my eyes...
2. Right Into the Bliss
by a black road
giving a brief smile
something's on the way
forgotten for a while
and you try to speak this
without a voice down by a black road
we try to forget and try to make it through
someday we'll go
further from this right into the bliss
some night we'll try
to leave this place for another
they keep pushing me
so far from every chance
makes it so much harder
for me to carry on
so I try to speak this
without a thought down by a black road
we try to forget and try to make it through
3. Criminals
The way the light hits the road
The way I am unable to protect you
O I'm running away
I will never forgive myself
For running away from you
He came back to your house
I didn't take it as a promise
Always thought it was a lie
He went too far the fucker
It's not like I owe him money
This is different
So gather your strength and break free
Or you will surely die
Gather your strength don't follow me
'Cause I will surely die
The way my eyes cannot move
The way I hope to be protected
And for one moment I thought
That I was lost among the lights of houses
My dreams of violence
See them coming true
4. Help Me Disappear
to completely dissolve,
what method is used
I cannot sleep,
my hands are bruised
there's a hole in the wall,
torn up anew
one dead eye,
the colour of you
to vanish for life
and promise to stay
away from the knowing,
bird in a cage
I'd give so much
for the courage to go
if I ask for your help,
then you will know
so help me disappear
or to believe in a change
no way out of here
that I can see
or the nightmares that burn
into my head at night
make them disappear
so I can breathe
looked out the window twice,
just to be sure
that noone was standing
outside the door
but it's just as calm
as it was before
they're all gone now,
not there anymore
isolated myself
for the sake of freedom
I clenched my fist
for the sake of kindness
I read a book full of strange
words
loneliness is a disease
5. Nerve
High white ways
Shattered by rain
Pale dead walls
Nerves pushed in pain
Red light faced
Mirrors of the dead
People in the archways
Eyes full of lead
Always closing down myself
Lower sights and never see
Worlds of noise and worlds of light
Expecting not to be
Not close enough for you
To hear a breath or steal a sigh
But just close enough for me
To take a step and pass you by
6. The Future Of Speech
my prospects have become less promising
I find it hard to believe in anything
seems I lost my world and so I lost my faith
and I can't go back to where I've been
a brand new day
it can't get worse
hear myself say
it can't get worse
I have no lies or truth in what I say
there is no meaning
the words are numb and I am so afraid
there is no meaning
this is another chance or so I'm told
by these who can push themselves at any cost
they bless me with their fingers crossed
my youth is stolen, transformed and sold
7. Ghost of the Sun
The thin darkness here
Not srong enough to make you appear
I once changed my style
When they said hello I said goodbye
I once played a role
I was out there marketing my soul
The city of glass that I live in
The coldness from my brothers skin
I trusted you you lied
It's all I hear a fucking lie
I don't give a shit it's over now
It's all I know you broke the vow
Truth is I have seen it come
Seen the ghost of the sun
Can't have it undone
In time we all call out for relief
See two lovers meet
Pass you on the street
8. I Am Nothing
tonight I'm nothing
it doesn't matter where I've been
delay of reaction is
the unseen movie of this life
I remember one of my friends
telling me to go ahead
water on every side
there's a dead spot in my eye
if I listen close at night
there's something coming my way
like someone called my name
but I didn't care to look that way
I just fixed my eyes into the crowd
it would have been strange to turn around
if you would tell me that I was someone
then for a second I would think
just like I would try to consider
how it would feel to know
I have to get on with this
it's a decision for tonight
out to look for chances
it is murder of my mind
once I was someone new
I was chosen for a while
then with time I am changing
at least that is what they say
what is worth with being here
I pray so often for a change
9. Deadhouse
Somehow better without this
Headlights fuck the city
Somewhere I'm broken
No sensations nevermore
What do you say when you speak
I sense no time
Discouraged television sleep
Not awake until it's dark
Somehow I never leave
This deadhouse
Somehow I don't mind being gone
And if you think you've seen me
I have to prove you
That you're wrong
10. Passing Bird
she's got black hair
and she has got a black dress
she's pretending
that her life is a mess
but I cannot rest
with so many worries
I can't lie down
and say I am done
I live 'cause I need more light
I hope I can change today
she would never think of changing
too much fucking emo, it's false (I know)
she stops me in the street
and asks me to follow
I would if I could
if I wouldn't mind breaking her.
11. Sleeper
O my your fever's high
I lay my hands upon you
O my haven't you heard
The truth is untrue
Now I'm breathing
I could not breath until you did
I'm one second after you
Just a second after you
Someone inside your room
Who is it there behind you
What does he want from you
Sleeper what did you see
I close the window to the street
Paren't died and left their child
Unattented for a while
Sleeper's song will you listen to me sing
The bird is here I can see the edge of his wing
If you die now how can I then live on
Don't give up you must live on
12. Sulfur
I'm drawing back time
to feel things once again
as when I had found them
I saw you grow older
saw myself grow older too
but not as much as you
if I only knew
I had sulfur in my heart
but not enough strenght to give it a spark
I didn't know when to start
when we were bright or when we were dark
I had a wind in my chest
blew as hard as it ever could
I could have written books for you
if I only knew
I held my head down I know
and you walked around in circles
I'm sure you already knew
if I only knew it too
so much I want to ask you
you have no time to let me do so
there is no light in my pathway
you must tell me where to go
13. No Devotion
I've turned down all devotion
I'm so far from being here
can't bring forth more power
than I have already done
tonight I'm trying
and I see all dread in me
but then I lose again
all hope of being someone
this lack of devotion
will put me to an end
so if you want to save me
and stop me when I run
just tell me that I'll have now
a day less to live when I'm done
14. Chrome
the walls are painted
different every second
my eyes are of chrome
it is television
can't let go of my leg
it's itching and bleeding
layer by layer
I'm peeling away
burn down my house
and make something happen
stab me in the heart
and make something stop
'cause I am so distracted
I am slightly shocked
by how things can keep going
like a dead man's clock
a mirror is hanging
kinda loose on my wall
I'm passing it sideways
I'm saying hello
my brother is halfways
through a book I've left him
called me today
to see what I'd say
15. A Premonition
Stand aside now no one will survice can't tell you how I know
In some time I will change my name and lay low
In the light you can see me walk down by the way
The one who did this to us well he got away
Keep it quiet here I will not tolerate your noise
This is where I listen for the forgiving voice
It haunts my dreams
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