My Dying Bride
A Mortal Binding
1. Her Dominion
2. Thornwyck Hymn
I will be the weight of my sins
And I will be the one who caves in
A choir of sorry girls
With their hearts full of pearls
A foul and torrid feast
Sinks men down to their knees
The twisted waters are where I will be
The sisters calling from deep in the sea
The twisted waters, they call out my name
I will swim with them but they're not to blame
The twisted waters are where I will be
The sisters calling from deep in the sea
The twisted waters, they call out my name
I will swim with them but they're not to blame
A final kindness, a final kiss
As the golden arm of evening comes
A final kindness and all is bliss
I wither coldly and then I am gone
I wither coldly and then I am gone
3. The 2nd of Three Bells
Who will be my sun when the day breaks?
Who will be my sun as the morning wakes?
Even time wishes you were here
Wait with me, the dawn will come
Come all the bells and come the fear
Where the holy words come from
I can’t find any joy in here
I wish I’d loved you for that long
I had so little here to keep
Drawn through these hordes to die
Come the chimes that will peal so deep
The third bell to horrify
Into my vessel they can weep
I lay back and I watch them cry
The Angel of the cruellest watch
The bearer of the final bell
Here comes my wounded hand
Take it now or watch me die
Here comes my bleeding claw
Take it now or watch me die
Come aloud the final toll, seeding liars into the world
With cold hands I raise you up to my lips as lovers die
4. Unthroned Creed
Without a voice you are silent in the fight
And I can’t help you any more
Without a single light, you cannot make things right
And I won’t help you any more
Unless the song is sung, sung by everyone
We will leave here forevermore
Without a voice you are, blind to everyone
And you name lives in nevermore
With every turn of my hopeless disorder
I should have questioned why, I failed to adore her
With failure at my heel and a soul so much older
With an arrow through its breast
The bird called aloud ‘I will come for you’
These are not Gods words that spill from your pretty mouth
There are young women here filled with beautiful blood
In a world as cold as death, I lay within the flood
With every turn of my hopeless disorder
I should have questioned why I no longer could afford her
With failure at my heel and a body so much older
Without a voice you are silent in the fight
And I can’t help you any more
Without a single light, you cannot make things right
And I won’t help you any more
Unless the song is sung, sung by everyone
We will leave here forevermore
Without a voice you are, blind to everyone
And you name lives in nevermore
5. The Apocalyptist
Do not reach for me and look for surrender
Do not read from that soiled book
Do you have any life left in you?
Do you see the shadows that I live with?
Follow me into the setting sun
From beneath the ocean for the world is done
Hard as the earth, he did not weep for me
So I took the gifts I could ill afford
My acclamations pierced the sky
For the blue-eyed angels that I would defy
A charter sealed by a bloody crown
And a head was carved way upon the mast
And all sailors of the sea were left to drown
His sole child now dead. His soul crawling away
Sick into the night, folds away from the day
He will ask for nothing but the treasure of life
From the angel of darkness to a bright shining light
Unbind him from all this agony
And breaking apart, he now becomes free
He lived inside a dream for 100 years
Born inside the night and then reappears
You know a secret call that will have him back
A true weight on the world, with its feathers all black
Against sheer hopelessness he kept on glowing
Inside our minds without us even knowing
I cannot hold on forever
I can’t even lend you my wings
These thorns that I deliver
For the crown of all kings
A charter sealed by a bloody crown
And a head was carved way upon the mast
And all sailors of the sea were left to drown
Blast free of your tears. Hold the hand of your fears
Grind your altar to dust. Know your weapons are just.
I cannot hold on forever
I can’t even lend you my wings
These thorns that I deliver
For the crown of all kings
6. A Starving Heart
The old river creeps slowly to the sea to die
The hay meadows reaped at the cold bladed scythe
The God of fire is here with the fire from his eyes
The lonely chapel burns sending angels to the skies
The forced brides of our lord
And the destruction of them all
Is a very thin reward
In this profanity, beyond the rim of sky
In this insanity comes a last outcry
The land lead the frightened river back to it’s mother sea
And witnessed from above, this work of slavery
Through its mouth, the world will drink the waters deep
In this profanity, beyond the rim of sky
In this insanity comes a last outcry
7. Crushed Embers
A woman with a voice full of tears
Absent from her place among us
All the joy had gone from her
All this aching must find an end
An ox pulls away her ghost – I’ll be your echo again
And in that very moment, I was your echo again
And those that wept for you
Forget their weeping soon
As the blood drops slowly
From the fingers of God
Dark fears travel with me
And it’s deeper than fear
I waited such a long time and questioned my sanity
You hunted at the wrong time and fell in pain to your knees
A woman with a voice full of tears
Absent from her place among us
All the joy had gone from her
All this aching must find an end
I waited such a long time and questioned my sanity
You hunted at the wrong time and fell in pain to your knees
I faded from my bloodline and took leave of humanity
Lyrics in plain text format
