[Verse 1:]
If you urge for transcendance
You will have to feel
All the pain getting there
As your fate will be sealed
If you wish for a solace
A journey's end
You will have to suffer before you can depend

[Pre-Chorus:]
Seldom you will find
Your mission inside
You falter
A wish to die
There are no goodbyes

[Chorus:]
Is it the same?
A place where the truth is contained
Where you're always left with the blame
Now you know how I've fought to erase
All the thoughts that never moved on
When we're all depending on the same revolution

[Verse 2:]
That we refer to as what we've become
If you long for collapse you'll have to take the fall
The murder is sweet until you've killed them all

[Bridge:]
So if you come from nothing
How and when could you have known?
You put a claim on existence
Just how far can reasons go?
Reason enough to go

The way we were
The way we are
It's not the time
To find that scar
Our feelings hurt
Our will deferred
It's not your life
It's not your turn

[Chorus]
				

At last, it's time to go
It'll collapse beyond us
The old and the sacred charm
Will take them then leave us

All night, I've been trying to reach you
All night, I've been trying to preach you

It's that devil in charge
They won't save me
I will be damned

[Pre-Chorus #1]
My mind and my heart will collide, now
She's gone, I know
The power, this feeling, this aching
Where she's gone, I don't know

[Chorus #1]
But the way you've shown lives forever
Little did we know the strength that you possessed
Your strength won't be forgotten

I thought you would last forever
Just give me a sign
Apocalypse await us
'Cause I'm still there, I'm still there

[Pre-Chorus #2]
My mind and my heart will collide, now
She's gone, I know
The power, this feeling, this aching
Where she's gone, I don't know

[Chorus #2]
But the way you've shown lives forever
Little did we know the strength that you possessed
The strength that you possessed

Your path
Your charm
Your soul
Denied

I won't enjoy a life defied
You left a scar
You left a scar

Spare me from pain, from fear I know
Please tell me the insight
I would do anything to see you burn
Forgive me, forgive me

[Pre-Chorus #3]
My mind and my heart will collide, now
She's gone, I know
The power, this feeling, this aching
Where she's gone, I don't know
[Chorus #3]
But the way you've shown lives forever
Little did we know the strength that you possessed
Your strength won't be forgotten

Your path
Your charm
Your soul
Denied

I won't enjoy a life defied
You left a scar
				

[Verse 1:]
It grows in subtle spurts
A flower diseased, unprotected
Ringing in the final spring

A vicious undertaker, heard nor seen
Unleashing a war that's lost
Before it begins

Eyeless are we, cursed to be
Swallowed by chaos
Hollow and defenseless

[Pre-Chorus:]
All that we've hoped for
Must come to an end
One must face the inevitable
Buried by aeons, the sleeper awakens again

[Chorus:]
There is nowhere left to ride
There is nothing left to destroy
There is nowhere left to hide
The end is now - Now and forever

[Verse 2:]
From the depths where all life sprang
Demise comes, undefeatable
From below the surface
Its formless menace strangles
In nothingness our world dissolves
This downfall is eternal

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]
				

[Verse 1:]
Where do you go when you've given it all
And your mind declares a collapse
You've turned every page in an infected book
And wasted every good advice

How long
Does it take for you to realize your limitations?
How strong
Will I come off if I tell you to kiss your shield goodbye?

Time is nothing, presence is all
You're here for something, make the call
There is a truth that only you can retrieve
Stop draining yourself
And be the one to ignite

Play the victim one more time
You've unlocked yourself
But won't see the line
Shutting yourself down every time
Bury yourself till the end of time

[Pre-Chorus:]
These words are mine
(There's nobody else who can...)
They will consume you dry
To the core

[Chorus:]
Last time hereinafter
Last time, I will go alone, I will
Spare the pain, a life disaster
Never live through a distant soul
My nerves, your everyday tool
I won't serve cause I broke no rules
Last time hereinafter
Last time, I will go alone

[Verse 2:]
All I hear is just a silent scream
Of true desperation
Let me break it to you
You won't make it through

Do you see where it's going?
All you left behind
The universe is turning
Every minute last forever
A conspiracy with time
Though I feel I've been learning to strive

[Solo: Coudret]
[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

I will never deceive myself
				

[Verse 1:]
Bloodstained velvet, mercury traced
I saw the shadow of death on your face
Your gaze wandered off into the stars
I realized how fragile we are

There was a time when the world was ours
But when you're blessed, you're not counting the hours
I should've known that the end was near
But I was busy ignoring my fears

[Chorus:]
In search for
Something brighter than the sun
All the things I've earned will be no more
I'm passive aggressive, prepared to attack
I've seen the world but run a constant lack
These absent eyes will be disguised
As soon as we'll be strong enough to decide

Black like silver, baptized by rain
You were a stranger 'til I shared your pain
This love won't been touched by the light
Still it came alive when innocence died

You sensed my yearning, I felt your desire
You made me a saint and I made you a liar
I gave you my weakness
You gave me your strength
The guilt of my longing is all that remains

[Chorus]

Bloodstained velvet, mercury traced
Black like silver, baptized by rain

[Chorus]
				

[Verse 1:]
Did you come to witness my downfall
Did you come to see my demise
Did you come to witness my downfall
Did you come to see my demise

Back to where the mothership landed
Back to where the panic arose
Back to all that I once transcended
Back to where the innocence bounds

[Pre-Chorus:]
And that door is always open
And that path will always
Drag me down beneath the waves
Watch me slip away

[Chorus:]
All I need is a new heart beating
And I'm ready to die again
All I need is to hear your breathing
And I'm ready to follow you down
All the way right to the very end
As I die again
End... as I die again

[Verse 2:]
I have tried resisting the current
Dug my feet deep down in the dirt
I have tried to live with the silence
But it cuts much deeper than words
I have tried to find a way to
Make your name unspoken
I have tried to reach the surface
Just before the tide

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus:]
All I need is a new heart beating
And I'm ready to die again
All I need is to hear your breathing
And I'm ready to follow you down
All the way right to the very...

(Solo)

[Chorus:]
All I need is a new heart beating
And I'm ready to die again
All I need is to hear your breathing
And I'm ready to follow you down
All I need is a new heart beating
And I'm ready to die again
All I need is to hear your breathing
And I'm ready to follow you down
All the way right to the very...
				

[Verse 1:]
A fragile existence
Is saving my day
Transcend into dark

A spin of the wheel
Headlong to feel
As my body still heals

[Pre-Chorus:]
A sin for a sin
Truth lies deep within
A veil is lifted from my eyes

[Chorus:]
When sound collides
A kiss will erase your filthy lies
When sound collides
A barrier of a million eyes
Of a million eyes

Unreal Reflections
It's painting my night
Reclaiming the day
A cup to the king
Filled up to the brim
As the freezing cold sets in

[Pre-Chorus] x2

[Chorus]

[Pre-Chorus]

From my eyes!

[Solo 1: Andersson]
[Solo 2: Coudret]
[Solo 3: Andersson]

[Chorus]
				

[Verse 1]
Like a flash from the distance, I learned to prevail
Over all those dark moments, I set the sails
I learned to believe It, I learned to deny
Which was nothing but running away from the tide

This life has been shattered next to something better
This life has made up with its soul
Next time I will deal with the storm that gathered
All the thoughts that came up on their own

[Chorus]
Can someone give me an answer
About the choices I've made?
Cause I can't think anymore
These thoughts are buried forever
Deep down in emotional graves
Forever lost in vain
Forever lost in vain

[Verse 2]
Turning points are glowing with their absence since there's
No hope of finding my way
What may lurk in the shadows while I'm in here waiting?
Something better than I've already seen?

[Chorus]
Can someone give me an answer
About the choices I've made?
Cause I can't think anymore
These thoughts are buried forever
Deep down in emotional graves
Forever lost in vain

Can someone give me an answer
About the choices I've made?
Cause I can't think anymore
These thoughts are buried forever
Deep down in emotional graves
Forever lost in vain

[Bridge]
So do I truly deserve something better?
(Way better than this)
This weight on my shoulders still matters
(Matters to me)
After all these years through the never
I can feel how it all comes together

[Solo: Andersson]

[Pre-Chorus]
Can someone give me an answer
About the choices I've made?
Choices I've made
[Chorus]
Can someone give me an answer
About the choices I've made?
Cause I can't think anymore
These thoughts are buried forever
Deep down in emotional graves
Forever lost in vain

Can someone give me an answer
About the choices I've made?
Cause I can't think anymore
These thoughts are buried forever
Deep down in emotional graves
Forever lost in vain
Forever lost in vain
				

[Verse 1]
I can feel how it's calling me
I can feel how it hurts
Like the words to a silent sleep
As the beating gets worse

I face the fact once I roll the dice
Pretend to feel when my luck is burnt
Sick of fighting and confronting the lies
Won't the wind finally turn?

[Pre-Chorus]
(All being)
Selfish lies
(Won't change)
The warning sign
(Can I)
Make my way
(If I)
Turn away

I've learned to trust the fall
I've learned to see through all
When the pair is out of time
I'll be there at the end of the line

[Chorus]
Sweet demise
Always out of time
Sweet demise
Through the threshold

Fear denied
Always out of time
Sent to die
Born to defy

[Bridge]
I don't care who's wrong or right
'Cause I had my share
It doesn't matter if it's out of sight
When no one else gives a damn

Sick of fighting and confronting the lies
Won't the wind finally turn?

[Pre-Chorus]
(All being)
Selfish lies
(Won't change)
The warning sign
(Can I)
Make my way
(If I)
Turn away
I've learned to trust the fall
I've learned to see through all
When the pair is out of time
I'll be there at the end of the line

[Chorus]
Sweet demise
Always out of time
Sweet demise
Through the threshold

Fear denied
Always out of time
Sent to die
Born to defy
				

Let's die tonight you know I'm right
I've got the feeling strong enough
To break 10,000 souls apart
I'm injecting my life into your veins
No experience to strong this pain
Pain in life cuts like a knife
Open the book of empty pages
What do you see?

I'm the master of pain
Waiting in vain
My pride is slain
Watch me die during a sadistic lullabye

A gathering of long lost souls
Are carrying my memories written in the name of pain
I love to hear their veins screaming for more
Vengeance is the law exploding music
You can't catch time, it doesn't exist
Life's a sculpture that can't resist

I'm the master of pain
Waiting in vain
My pride is slain
Watch me die during a sadistic lullabye

Engaged with destiny my life is yours
But you don't know me
We bleed together
Like an ever flowing stream
With souls so black oh so empty

Sadistic lullabye
				

[Verse 1:]
Don't put any pressure on me
I might just implode
Cause help I can't get no release
And stand on my own

All this time I
Wear myself out
Won't absorb anything
Still digging much deeper than I ever have

My nerves make me the wreck that i am
The (?) is i don't know when
A touch of (?) so far away
I'm stuck in a circle of pain

[Chorus:]
Give me a break
Let me resist
I can't retrieve what i missed
Deeply entangled
Can't see a thing
Don't let me give in
Don't let me give in

[Verse 2:]
Now will you ever strike the nerve again
I was hoping it would scare you off
If I can't earn respect
By creating the fear
Turned into hatred
I might as well give in
I might as well pay
Still I won't be the one to say that I was wrong
My actions were performed in the need of affection
The desperation

[Chorus]

So don't you let me give in

[Verse 3:]
Swallowed by fear and destruction
Unable to put it into words
Loved by disaster
Hereinafter
I'll make my own trails
And refuse to repay

Say what?

[Chorus]

Don't let me give in
So don't you let me give in
				

Take the angels away
The only ones who knew
Already know my name

Time we know for a war
To be the only one who ever knew the way

Don't be a martyr it will be alright

I can see you run out
But still you make the most of making the most

I don't want no body to haunt me
Every time I see your face in the night
I know
It's all the voice in my head

Time time it's only time
I feel the colorful things that I did
I know its all the voice in my head

Take the anger away
So many come so many seem to go that way

It's on now
Digging a hole in the soul
To see the confines of the mental overload

You melted it all down

I don't want no body to haunt me
Every time I see your face in the night
I know
It's all the voice in my head

But still you make the most of making the most
I can see you've run out
But still you make the most of making the most
				

I felt the urge of knowing
Despite the fear of who I am
Where the truth stands tall
And where nothing is a sin
Is there anything more
That tells me where to begin
With nothing to guide me

Except a poisoned well
I let the demons rest
And believe myself
Redeem myself!

Life's not a bigger than this
I'm sorry but you have to leave
You have been deceived
Now just wake up your belief
Don't worry, you won't stand a chance
As a broken man...

Just like you...

I wanna know
If time will capture
The scars I've worn
Just let me hold the future
For once
Out of my daily life
I can't reject what's obviously wrong
Cause I'm blind, selfishly blind
Selfishly blind

Life's not a bigger than this
I'm sorry but you have to leave
You have been deceived
Now just wake up your belief
Don't worry, you won't stand a chance
As a broken man..

Just like you...

Get it right...get it right...

Life's not bigger than this
I'm sorry but you have to leave
You have been deceived
Now just wake up your belief
Don't worry, you won't stand a chance
As a broken man...

Life's not bigger than this
I'm sorry but you have to leave
You have been deceived
Now just wake up your belief
Don't worry, you won't stand a chance
As a broken man...

Get it right!
				

[Verse 1]
I'm gaining trust for a lifetime
Wherever thorns may grow
Bleeding wounds turn into prosperity
With a disintegrated revolt

Better not fail with a guideline
Better not die with any seconds denied
Shelter runs by for the final time
Just take a step outside

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Just stab the reason and make it bleed
(Stab it and watch it bleed)
It's becoming one with the guilt that you feel

[Chorus]
Better take a look inside
Will you ever realize?
The greatest effort ever known. (Ever known)
Before you let the pain decide
Run back and you'll only find
Resurrection through it all

[Verse 2]
Better start to deal with your tension
Rather not fade as you've gone through it all
Shelter becomes blank without redemption
You're destined to make the call

[Pre-Chorus 2]
You think it's time to just give it away
(Giving it back as you've failed)
Reconsider the vibe as you forget and forsake

[Chorus]
Better take a look inside
Will you ever realize?
The greatest effort ever known. (Ever known)
Before you let the pain decide
Run back and you'll only find
Resurrection through it all

[Bridge]
I've got my mind made up
Shock, denial, anger, acceptance
I'll watch those demons drop
For my presence, for my sake

[Chorus]
Better take a look inside
Will you ever realize?
The greatest effort ever known. (Ever known)
Before you let the pain decide
Run back and you'll only find
Resurrection through it all
				

Slowly slicing foward, into the flesh
Incentive ways to enter the night
Reality turns it back on you
A chance to get through
Burning, brighter than the sun
Searching, to summon the suspicion
It's getting harder to see
Searching, for the killing ignition
To fulfill what you need

So, is it time to let it go?
All the pain that you have owned?
Unleash the crimson rebellion
You'll never see, what I can see

So, is it time to let it go
All the pain that you have owned?
Revoke the burning ambition
As you dispise reality

The enemy's sleeping slient, in your head
He's not there to get you through
Of all the bastards that ever intended to make you lose
This is the one you can't fool