Katatonia
City Burials
1. Heart Set to Divide
In times of surrender I am shedding my scars
I was sick but I was set for the stars
The road was mine but I worried still
In the sunset of age on the weight of my lips
And closed was the door to my past perception
And my disposition had then been chained
I opened my mind to all the love forsaken
You saw my white flag as our shadows merge
Through tides of repentance my words lead to deed
In their wake, see how I sway
Eyes fix on the horizon, big as it seems
I let the words lapse and return to a dream
Then glide into the nights
All my memories unbroken
I let the raptor circle me
To become their own prey
I see the beast lay waste
I see his wings keep unfolding
His name strewn across the sky
And reflected on the World
This is my elegy for love that couldn't end
A call for our blood
Came to stay and excel
Transmigration at a hope
I couldn't cross
I had no choice but to make peace
Reach higher ground
Every breath now without a sound
Every breath now without a sound
I see the beast lay waste
I see his wings keep unfolding
His name strewn across the sky
And reflected on the World
This is my elegy for love that couldn't end
A call for our blood
2. Behind the Blood
Rivers rush, behind the blood
The cinder skies come alive with this drop of sunset
How far can we go? Along the elusive flood
I've been waiting all of my life to be with you
Such a pale spark
Such a long wait before you would let me know
Before you would bless me with your thunder
The ground shakes
It carries the weight of the letting go
I can feel you tear me asunder, whoa!
My love, I can feel you push and give way to drowning
I can feel you pierce my heart
Hammers thrust within the cells
You're a torch to the temple of depression
Saturnalian curse, these are my heaving words
I will do it all over again to be with you
Motionless now
Venin is in the blood
You're a preacher
Without a cross
Give me some trouble
Get me some trouble in
I can't wait
I can't wait again
I can't wait again, no!
Such a pale spark
Such a long wait before you would let me know
Before you would bless me with your thunder
The ground shakes
It carries the weight of the letting go
I can feel you tear me asunder, whoa!
My love, I can feel you push and give way to drowning
I can feel you pierce my heart
3. Lacquer
My voice channeling
A circuit's end
The house we lived in
Stricken with blight
Finding ways to kill the pain
Let the river run wild
Dreams shattering
Aerial sound
Scrape the lacquer
Can't you see, it's all tarnished
Tried the poise
To radiate
Tried my words
To illustrate
Finding ways to end the pain
I let the river run wild
Dreams shattering
Fixing to die
Scrape the lacquer
Can't you see, it's all tarnished
The levee breaking
I can't live to fight once more
The levee breaking
I can't live to fight once more
The road to the grave is straight as an arrow
I'm just staying around to sing your song
Baby
The road to the grave is straight as an arrow
I'm just staying around to sing your song
Baby
My voice travelling
Soaring bird above your head
The house we lived in
Ridden with disease
Scrape the lacquer
Can't you see, it's all tarnished
The levee breaking
I can't live to fight once more
The levee breaking
I can't live to fight once more
The road to the grave is straight as an arrow
I'm just staying around to sing your song
Baby
The road to the grave is straight as an arrow
I'm just staying around to sing your song
Baby
4. Rein
Erased my plan
Had nothing better to do
Hollow sky
Dead to our collective eye
No rebellion
No hostility inside
Just indifference
A bit of quiet
And a slow descending curve
To keep you dreaming
Yeah
Of consolation
You drink my words in the wake of your sorrow
You walk beside me and it feels like a hundred years
The plans you make for the perpetual tomorrow
Will be colapsing still
This time i'm losing the battle
There are too many things to overcome
I seek respite
The comfort of apathy
Burial time
Submito to the non-divine
Did you see
The soot in my eyes
The long night
The spiralling lights
I'm so tired
The scars in my mind
It didn't end well
But you had me on fire
5. The Winter of Our Passing
I navigate the dark
I bow before the flame I have deserted
Step off the map and let it go
Then focus on the fade
Stillness of the day
Renewal was the death of my ambition
To get higher
I have to go so low
Sold my worth
Made time for it
While I waited for something lasting
Until you would come running my way
To stay
But does it matter now
It's the winter of our passing
Sold my trust
And my love too
Disregard the soul
Heart is made of mist
And still it's thinning
Bad news for you is we are fucked
And you don't know where we're heading next
The feeling that did remain
If we take some time to remember it
The feeling of what was good
Do you recall it at all
To get higher
I have to go so low
Sold my worth
Made time for it
While I waited for something lasting
Until you would come running my way
To stay
But does it matter now
It's the winter of our passing
Sold my trust
And my love too
6. Vanishers
Drifting like wood
Our years
In the rivers of the aftermath
Delivered us from free will
Our stories were thrown on the fire
Burning like bibles
They shattered our right to wonder
Exposed us to constraint
Hey
We're dead now
Affinity has been found below the ground
Beyond the heart's vow
The open road
Amnesia bound
Our carbon shells deserted
We came so far for nothing
Unsung
Fixed on dead grass
Who will remain
And wake up to the sound of sorrow
When your skies are clearing
When your battles are fought
When mercy returns
To all of your thoughts
Remember the carnage
The vanishers trails
Our souls of the sunset
Drifting away
7. City Glaciers
Waiting for warmth
Endless the days
Argent haze
As remedy flows into
concealed veins
Where are we to run
Our season won't come
And everything you have said
So far has been wrong
Algidity
It's late in evening here
The wind dying down
The lights are leaning
No more sound
Read my lips, love
Fill your lungs with words
Lest we forget to explore
Bring back our revered dreams
Our month of May
Memories left my heart sore
White giants sleep
Along the roads
Our dead end tracks
In times as vile as these
I want us back
City glacier of sordid snow
Darkness come in from the street
and glides back out again
My voice is shifting ever so slow
The prints of my fingers sing upon your skin
8. Flicker
So cruel your desire
It pulled me under
But the drapery of my eye won't fall
I lie in wait for the night to find you
Sephia teeth and claw
Hope was changing lanes
I had to turn
Changed my pace
Either way
I grew so old
This is how i disappear
Separated from the dead twin
No hound is on my trail now
Journey to the heart of your deceit
and defining my shed skin
With no one waiting
I am waiting for no one
Departure from the terminus
Arriving on the 4th
Weightless in the arms of none
Flick of the switch, my name lit up
Flickering in white, then gone
9. Lachesis
We're sundered
Our cards were dealt and what did you receive
In my rest
In all my coming nights
I will dream for you to see
And my words
Will be spilled upon the ground
And sorrow must be freed
Morning
At long last sleeping
No colours to wake me
10. Neon Epitaph
How wild the wind came in
On the day when i found out
Passage of the one dead star
Its black dust lingering
Seeping through to my lungs
I fall towards the skyline
I drown my sorrows here
In liquids clear
Time for absolution
How the dead birds sing
They're right atop my roof
Take my offering
My promise can never be undone
The weight of midnight
Replaced by the shadow of a sun
I hold you in my arms
And it's farther than you've ever been
Little one
Adrift in sacred vertigo
The name is wandering
Our neon epitaph
Time for absolution
All the dead birds sing
They're right atop my roof
Shadow of my shadow
Cling not to my grief
I am long left behind now
Your are free
11. Untrodden
There comes a time for all of us
To set our unfortunate sails
Our chance to part with the unrest
The open trail, the fever's crest
Will you meet me there
Underneath the pallid city lights
In the rain of Summerland
Over the ashes
Our memories in open hands
My words must levitate
And reverberate through the void
The nails are in, the pressure's there
The music of loss in the air
Thought i saw you in the street
Standing still
Watching me
I would fall down on my knees
I would love to surrender to nothingness
But i'll stay another year
To see if things might change
Remain where you are
My love will protect you always
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