Draconian
Sovran
1. Heavy Lies The Crown
Clouds of defiance
Over mankind they gently weep
To this verge I collapse
While god stays sound asleep
Losing the balance
I’m losing the hold of it all
Make these trembling ghosts
Not chase me anymore!
Stars shine brighter
Yet heavy lies the crown
Distant still clutching
In the blackness of it all
And the candle burns out
As I touch your heart -
For treading the footsteps
Of many sorrows passed
And I yearn for the sun to set,
For the curtain to fall
This is all I am...
All I have
Fallen from luster
To nothingness and scorn
And fall dark veil…
Softly through the morn
A haunted, starless sky,
Fragile and oh so deep
The dying softly wakes
And smiles in painless peace
Fallen from luster;
To nothingness and scorn,
So fall dark veil;
Softly through the morn
And the drumless beat,
It dissolves into the mire -
But you are sleeping,
And a vacuum to my fire
And I yearn for the sun to set,
For the curtain to fall
This is all I am...
All I have
Fallen from luster
From nothingness and scorn
And fall dark veil
Softly through the morn
A haunted, starless sky,
Fragile and oh so deep
The dying softly wakes
And smiles in painless peace
2. The Wretched Tide
We’re leaving today
After dust-ridden shutters close
And heartbeats they rush
Then to cease in your embrace
These scars through-out the night
Left no more fighting in us
No tears to fill the void
In a place even devils fled
The wretched tongues
Wording their pain onto me
Until even tide enters
There's no place out of here
"For grace to lift me up every molecule
Whispered to make peace with this unreality
I felt I was slipping downwards
Into darkness
...and in darkness I stayed
Until sadness closed its eyes"
Ships passing in the silvery night,
Carrying this vicious, benevolent heart
And in sadness we part...
In the dark of you, in the dark of me
"Release these hearts from the turmoil!"
Tired and cold,
A tale since eons of old...
So elusive this intemperance of escape
So much has fallen and is falling still.
Into the hands of the ever maddening crowd
So we’re leaving today
As dust-ridden shutters close
To site that glimmer of hope
And breathe, if only for awhile
These stars that turned the tide
Left no more fighting in us
No hope to find the dawn
In a place even specters dwell
Ships passing in the silvery night,
Carrying this vicious, benevolent heart
And in sadness we part...
In the dark of you, in the dark of me
"Release these hearts from the turmoil!
Only love before they drown..."
Tired and cold,
A tale since eons of old...
So elusive this intemperance of escape
So much has fallen and is falling still.
Into the hands of the ever maddening crowd
3. Pale Tortured Blue
On my naked back
A dance of the nocturnal sun
The tall grass crawls around me;
In adoration bowing can I find you in your dark?
Can you find me in your heart?
There’s a fallen statue in the wilderness
It has found its way to your dreams
Haunting the waking hours
In nights’ color with eyes like rain
The shades beseech you
My love increases you
And summer freezes you into me...
The cold fire suits you!
A pale tortured blue blistering through
A lifeless lover was the high mountain
Where we tried to reach the stars,
The moon, the ways beyond
It was the purest love of all...
I will raise a statue in the wilderness
It will find its way to your dreams
This will haunt you forever
In nights’ color with eyes like rain
Yet I collect the stars you wept,
Keeping them as my own
To be lost in your eyes
For all the sadness that we kept
And I fail to realize it’s you...
The cold suits you!
A pale tortured blue blistering through
When there’s peace within myself
And everything else
A pale tortured blue blistering through
4. Stellar Tombs
A place where daylight aches
It’s all unreal to you
A sunset calls me here
I swear to love it’s true
So alien this vaulted screen
And patterns form into contours
The dark around me as dense as matter...
A stellar quake fills the astral space
How dare you not to see?
My tears are gifts to you
A heart you must set free,
How dare you not believe?
“Became I freeze in the warmth, in the glow of Helios -
Sweat in the heart of summers drained
And radiant life to falter and beautiful tears to dry:
I’m gracefully bowing... In horror”
Waterless like the ocean –
Drizzling like the deserts;
Come emerge and wallow!
Pretend like nothing at all
Along the whirlwinds in your head
A place where daylight aches
It’s all unreal to you
A world we must set free
I swear to love it’s true
Petrified spirit, dilated stare...
I’m piercing through these icy shackles
Somehow cast around this nebula,
Unwilling to enter my birth
“Would you take my hand and follow through the ether?
Would you sweat and dance in winters1 bloom?
For radiant life to falter and beautiful tears to dry: ‘
I m gracefully bowing... In sorrow”
Waterless like the ocean –
Drizzling like the deserts;
Come emerge and wallow!
Pretend like nothing at all
Along the whirlwinds in your head
…along the whirlwinds in your head
(Frailty and strength marry and dissolve
And the sky fills up with poetry and song…
Into the soothing black we go)
5. No Lonelier Star
Floating imperceptible cinders...
Back and forth a stare over the cosmic veil,
As a star is dying nuclear winters’ coming;
Oh, entangled earth, distant eyes ablaze
Interweave forever into your hunger
As gravity collapses and light torn asunder
Sowing the seeds,
Then burning the fields
We are burning the fields,
Then sowing the seeds
Nothing lives or dies here,
Just calumnies of matter onto the dark
It slips through our fingers,
Unperceiving the emptiness
We are burning the stellar fields
I rise through debris and the dust
Who is this sun?
A always spoke to the stars
A rise through debris and the dust
Who was this sun?
A always spoke to the stars
“Release me from myself,
Fading back into the womb,
That stellar, ethereal tomb
Just waiting for my moment to matter
And consciousness slept inside the stars
And we must remember that we forget
There’s an immunity boundless ahead of it all”
Further, always further from here
These memories are continuing
Ever onward before the dawn
Seeing as time we can’t escape
I’m drifting and fading and choking in here
These nightmares are continuing
Aching glimpses always in hiding
I’m begging, begging you for hope
I stumble through the rugged door;
The crater of my being
Watching this heart graciously beating,
Until it beats no more
Interweave forever into your hunger
As gravity collapses and light torn asunder
We are burning the stellar fields…
I rise through debris and the dust
Who is this god?
6. Dusk Mariner
No light finds me
Perish like the setting sun
No truth defies me
Unburdened use the fallen one
I’d give you my love
But it’s freezing cold
My lips ever sealed
And the things I have done
Are slowly growing old,
Yet dying to be healed
No heart guides me
Frozen in the depths below
No fear leaves me
I’m haunted by a distant soul
She gives me her voice
She gives me her soul
Yet demons in my view
As fear breaks down
I weep to understand
I was already you
Living in a circle of decay
Where morn remains the night
Under these starless skies
Love’s out of sight
Breathe carelessly,
Be all you feared as a child
See, it’s only me
And not the heavens
Coming down on you
No light finds me
She gave me her voice
It warms my soul
This angel in my view
As fear breaks down
I weep to understand
I was already you
We were walking in circles of decay
Where morn remains the night
Under these starlit skies
Love marks our flight
Farewell!
7. Dishearten
All the tears that you cry won’t awaken me
When the devils lay dormant inside
The blood in my veins has forsaken me
They die!
Disheartened and cold
And scars upon my soul
I lost you in the silence
¬Bleeding through the walls
A sorrow came that ceased to leave
And took you from my arms
The dawn, a promise of beauty
But in dusk our rose will die
I’m forgetting how to face
The sadness of your eyes
Further I linger with nothing to give
Faster I’m choking on the poison I breathe
Spare me your judgment, and spare me your woes!
This burden upon me is ruthless and cold
Disheartened and cold
And thorns upon my soul
I found you in the nothingness;
Haunted by the past
Too late I heard the howling
That broke your heart at last
The moon, a promise of solace
But the sun; a promise of scorn
I’ll cry for you no longer
You don’t need me anymore
We’re too tired to sleep,
And these bodies confound
As coldness awaits us
The deeper I stumble
Into your arms
The harder we suffer
As the empire falls
“-Strange eyes are gazing
-Your hissing, smouldering tongue…
-Your reflection is broken…
-Yet the mirror is mine!”
I found you in the silence
Bleeding through the walls
A sorrow came that ceased to leave
And took you from my arms
8. Rivers Between Us
Where is the world I saw in your eyes?
It lived through the night, then whispered goodbye.
The cuts in your skin and the red in my eyes.
This winter inside is crushing me now.
"I am alone, I am scorn, I can't remember to forget you,
I just weather the storm".
The love that I had, it drowned with the tide,
stirring the waters where heartslay bare.
The cuts in your skin and the red in your eyes.
Enfolding this shame into despair.
Let me take the noose from our necks and carry us home.
Still so alive, even after you die, transcending with time.
We're just two cripples who fail to belong.
Yes, we are two cripples, but we need to hold on.
From this flesh my spirit longs to break away.
Did you ever feel this cosmic circumstance was never enough?
Wake me slowly if ever at all.
Wake me slowly or watch me fall.
The life that I had is gone with the tide (Watch me fall)
Another deception, I whisper goodbye.
The cuts in my flesh, the red in your eyes (Watch me fall).
These demons inside, they die with me now.
9. The Marriage Of Attaris
“You cannot hide from a grace already perceived
That’s a fierce grace indeed!
And you cannot hide a tree that is growing;
Valiantly stretching for the stars
Angles weep as they count your scars”
These rivers of blood-
Fields scorched to ash
Lament of life; a love song
We all share our sorrows
In light suspended…
Smiling at the ever dying sun.
Flakes of snow are melting
On the top of your eyes;
Shedding heaven’s tears
The tracks we left
Almost buried now…
This is a beautiful place!
Here Cassiel wedded winter
So man could grieve
So man could see
These trees are dark and old
In solitude unified…
Licking the ground, tasting the rough
Cold wind, so man could breath
“There’s no masquerade in your silence,
Just pages filled of winter
The seed of ascendance are hiding…
Let’s drench the hours!”
These wastelands of dusk
Oceans bled and barren
Lament of life; a love-song
The only death awoken;
A fear of transcendence,
Keeps us from the rapture of one
And the blood of the sphere
It emptied their mouths…
Drowning the world
Hammer me down as pillars!
Veiled from creation unchanging,
Patching the holes and the cracks
Tightening the rope around your necks
And we see mankind aimlessly breeding,
Desperately bleeding
Erasing you, erasing me from here
-So tired, so tired…
I need to feel the freezing blue
Leave me here!
Let the coming of spring
Carry me back to earth.
Leave me here!
10. With Love And Defiance
[Bonus Track]Awake in slumbering world
As structures outside cave in
So harbor us, sweet sorrow
This lonely, exquisite hollow
Oh, mother on conscious dark sails…
In your theatre of sirens, hears us!
They see weeping the newborn horizon
We are here split into two,
With love and defiance
From the distance they came,
Covered in ash
There’s no hope in this lifeless void
Which aired of parasite tongues
Oh, mother on conscious dark sails…
In your theatre of sirens, hears us!
They see weeping the newborn horizon
We are here split into two,
With love and defiance
As a speck in the cosmic ocean you sail
Trapped in ill-shaped tales with your grin
And your gods of death
They see weeping the newborn horizon
We are here split into two,
With love and defiance
We see them weeping newborn horizon
They are here in spirit and flesh
With love and defiance
Johan Ericson — Guitars
Anders Jacobsson — Vocals
Jerry Torstensson — Drums
Daniel Arvidsson — Guitars
Fredrik Johansson — Bass
Heike Langhans — Vocals
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