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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
I grant to you
no privilage of person no sense of self denial of choice its wants out so from all the little bits and pieces a simple case of lost and found a wicked new beginning i don't ever want to see it's the oldest trick in the book just like everything you always knew turned upon its very end there's nothing left to be half a mind to say all the things that bother me today you better check if it's me in that coffin of yours or just the one, the one you thought you knew I am one, Who am I? No character to be lost inside A mind is hard to please so wander aimlessly Hands clenched in fists of rage concealed in frustration there's a part of me that cannot deal with the character I am forced to be a thinly veiled plan to lay your world afoot lost in community blind in belonging is there really nothing more than this? the emptiness remains so put on your brave face and take the plunge again |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
Outsmart the fever.
And take us farther from. The killing life in capsules, A life that can't belong. If I wake up dead to world, With the helm at my command. The reaching out of this.. Oh, faced tomorrow. In the eleventh hour, beckoned closer. Now as nightfall sends its grace. Oh, cue to enter, the insatiable ideal. Slam it shut. But the portal pounding lingers. What it is. Is time undone? I cannot falter in the security of labor. Was I supposed to believe? Where did I sign? Oh did I miss, Oh, the Auction? Oh where my life.. Where did I sign? Did I miss... The Auction? Went the half mile, Wondered when the resolution would come. Life became to solid, Diluted by the essence of denial. Caught in fire's eye. Oh the self and the filter that is I. My lip was venom. Words formed in my mouth, And hid beneath the tongue. Never to be.. Never to be seen.. Where did I sign? Oh did I miss, Oh the Auction. Oh where my life.. Where did I sign? Did I miss, the Auction? Was I supposed to believe? Where did I sign? Oh did I miss, Oh, the Auction? Oh where my life, Where did I sign? Did I miss, the Auction? Oh where my life! Where did I sign? Oh did I miss, the Auction? Where my life.. Where did I sign.. Did I miss.. The Auction, where my life went under the club.. |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Finction (2007)
I tell you here
Of all that crimes and hours broken What never came, will never be the same I tell you this, I tell you what The mind it has been flooded All the exits sealed A poison set to enter The unforgiving me Probes and infiltrators Infiltrate me It's in these hours we forget ourselves (Ourselves) Within a fire that consumes itself (Itself)...Go No need for your defenses My angerwall will hold Take your steady pride In monotony and beat Invaders and corruptors Invade me It's in these hours we forget ourselves (Ourselves) And never again Within a fire that consumes itself (Itself) A super nova of flame on fire This broken spirit, blind at heart Bite down hard on frustration The siege that can't be broken This hollow flame of fear I tell you this, I tell you what So close without connection Locked inside the sphere I take the blame upon me And scream at what I see I'm blind at heart So blind at heart It's in these hour we forget ourselves (Ourselves) And never again Within a fire that consumes itself (Itself) |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
Went inside the caves of seven wolves
Felt of the forces that lend themselves to speed those final words to fracture the very structure can't stand this glacial pace the damage done It seems these days are getting shorter derails my train of thought What said in hand was done chased unforgiveness down these corridors locked down the basis for the willing form a trail far from strayed the damage done Set aside from eyes of others Our frail structures can't keep up with the pace Brought out for all to see the damage done face contradicting needs We bring our cages home for none to see in vain to lessen responsibility the damage done |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
Waiting for the day to end..
The silence came too late. I turn my eyes inside, Close the lids, deny the world to enter. 'Cause I'm turning the desires down. Again rose the monstrous of hours in between. Taint the thought, the trauma born inside. All the thoughts that you defined. Tread the light again. Take the pain away. It feels as though time as tears, Never seem to end. 'Cause I'm turning the desires down. Again rose the monstrous of hours in between. Taint the thought, the trauma born inside. As I hold you, and I try to make sure. These treasures that I hide. These treasures that I hide.. 'Cause I'm turning the desires down, Again rose the monstrous of hours in between. Taint the thought, the trauma born inside. |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
Where were the eyes that followed
How could they've found? These misery's merchants Struck the message deep "We have come to stay" Dogs fled there in the dark of his path Feared him as once they all did Like a ghost in daylight On an overcrowded street He wishes To be something he is not Like a shadow at midnight That originate in air He wishes to release Deep in the back it had caught him The anchor they threw at his life Oh these misery's merchants Dragged through life as a burden Rushed off to his cage of glass To open the single window A means of escape, out in the open There are still holes in these walls Puking information into the unwanting Probing the last hope of defense So he plugged up the holes Shut the outside window In doing that, madness payed a visit ...and then suddenly in mid-thought Escape was a factor and as from inside Pushing out were words Through fingers came uncovering Revealing the truth of him there in the dark... Skin began to crawl as they neared him Is all pleasure release? Oh these misery's merchants Saw the message clear "It is time to pay" Like A Ghost In Daylight On an overcrowded street |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
It comes from all we're giving
In seemingly endless supply As signals cross defiantly Into this volatile mix we charge And the stubborn mind repeats The errors to challenge our grounds Either soar above or the detour takes you right Back down To where no one wants to see Misgivings in this starry nightlight Fill in the blanks That one will fall To the haunts and horrors To the haunts and horrors There is nothing left A mere shadow When adrenaline runs dry There is nothing there An empty prop When adrenaline runs dry It gets you deep Down low now As they told you of the blazing heights The stage from which the world is viewed Is the mirror to shatter the image The crypt he kept for hiding Retreat from another attack Painlessly forgiving A refuge in deceptive black It works within the system And they won't understand A lesser known deceiver Will fool you even more Now, now, now Now taunt the wasted It's all about nothing What to squeeze within the span of attention Brought to ground Let the chaos pass That one will fail By the screams and terrors By the screams and terrors There is nothing left A mere shadow When adrenaline runs dry There is nothing there An empty prop When adrenaline runs dry |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Finction (2007)
What I'd never abandon
We channel darkness well The evidence in pools of blood I cannot penetrate, I cannot penetrate Will you come for my forgiveness (There's nothing left to give) No response to your repentance (Just empty me) Wasted from the living days I've been cut by endless shame The blazing satisfiers Who constantly give up Where we got our love repentance Bastards of life To bring meaning to it all Meaning to it all Will you come for my forgiveness (There's nothing left to give) No response to your repentance (Just empty me) Take now from this body A coward's heart Like a soul beyond repair Empty me Between the purity and reason Self deprecation Who has the misery, you Why do we inspect ever closer What human searches for the core for this Cure for chaos Will you come for my forgiveness (There's nothing left to give) No response to your repentance (Just empty me) Lots of memories, lost and forsaken I'm in the center, I've set the scene I listen to the world stressing out To stop pity and kill the place |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Finction (2007)
I think I just forgot
To pick up the shells From a recent discharge And you took the blame Explanations falter To ears fallen deaf Wherever I go I get lost A reference to something That both of us knew A nothing that favours the few In the darkness electric we see Of the silence that's spoken tonight I think I have lost my language Whatever I've said I deny I think I have lost my way Whatever was missing is gone I let my focus shift Your face is a map I fail to discover Drowned in the sound, so lost in the order It's an understated word, the un-breaking knowledge Interlocked and holding, a stalemate to break I take hold of the flame that unites In the silence that speaks to me now I think I have lost my language Whatever I've said I deny I think I have lost my way Whatever was missing is gone I let my focus shift I struggle to find the words that negate my meaning I fail to comprehend what message is given I decline the sleight of hand that leads to rejection An attempt to find closure with no sense of pride Drown the fury and swallow the fire Drown the fury Swallow the fire I think I have lost my language Whatever I've said I deny I think I have lost my way Whatever was missing is gone I let my focus shift |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
Set against these hardest hours
Anger paled, for in this fear the theft of privacy We all see it break sometimes see it tear us apart that which left behind screams out loud this night So much is asked in silence Except not and you'll find Thousand miles from the nearest truth Rotating, Entangled - I continue not to heal Another No-Night waits its turn So I call upon My freecard To postpone If time was one with many faces Which one would call to me? Where all our paths in one now end That with the power to gather the mislead now will lead them all astray So push it ever further To unsuspecting dark Build that second layer For the hours to take fast A rest from the giving Like a heart between beats Greater than the need for community The need for the right solitude Come to know that outrage is inevitable Though many try, an escape is unsuccessful In the midst of a nerve-night The victim of soulkill True self is mere toture Death rides these nerves Another No-Night waits its turn So I call upon My freecard To postpone |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Finction (2007)
Like lust, my shelter failed me
No power to subside My instincts never broken This downfall so close at hand Well the thing that scares me most Is the fear I see in others And the thing that frightens me to the core Is when I see that fear in you Like shields against the action No enemy to subdue We barricade forever The weak minds inside us all Well the thing that scares me the most Is the fear I see in others And the thing that really frightens me to the core Is when I see that fear in you To break the rules and barriers When you're scared enough Before the end is here Are you scared enough Are you scared enough Are you scared enough Well the thing that scares me the most Is the fear I see in others That look to send shivers down my spine Will haunt me to the end of living days and nights And the thing that matters to me most When I sense this fear in you |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Finction (2007)
Inside the particle storm
Where clouds of napalm shimmer With the promise of one final dawn Inside the particle bliss Where rages collide into nothingness And the erasions, one final kiss I crawl in the garden of eden Clogging the bloodstream of birth Tearing a hole in the fabric of life The horizon enriched with scars Inside the particle place A shimmer of disillusion Proclaiming the end of days We leave now Nothing will follow, nothing at all The cleansing flames of entropy to devour us all Our lungs are filled with sorry Our children drowning like dogs Waken to the weight of cold dark matter Without promise, meaning, or name Inside the particle storm The poison gene of humanity confined This is the moment when bloodshed sank into the sky The heavy price of chaos Descend in merciless demise |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
The unsaid tone of weak despair
Fail to resonate Frayed end of our binding threads Will disintegrate By the laws our physics stage Failure to communicate None too sentient Hear no, see no worthless magic Against all function Ongoing choices the trials will end Filter the nonsense and laugh at what's left Indecision/nonvision what matters taken away Look at the shell that is you Empty, fragile, weak Soon the battle is over Lost to apathy So overcome with pointless tears To test pain receptors Nothing matters ever here Put up a nonreaction These eyes will never see Covered up from reality Look at the shell that is you Empty, fragile, weak Soon the battle is over Lost to apathy The unknown world that you deny No priority Cannot fail if you never start How predictable I want to know where For madness to start Always the sceptic never be part Introvertive/indescriptive It matters not, not Look at the shell that is you Empty, fragile, weak Look at the shell that is you Empty, fragile, weak Soon the battle is over Lost to apathy The shell that is you Empty, fragile, weak Now the battle is over Lost to apathy |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
You are all that matters
In my private demonology Those who fear** us now The sons of wishes The bastard child of dream Enemies of hope Let it be gone It's all pretend Mind matters, matters not Never again In perfect clarity See the day in childlike vision Where does it lead from here On without that guidance Disaster Role model without a part Our search is wider Cast off those wide-eyed hopes and dreams Mind matters, matters not No need to see you there The path we made is clear Just stay ahead of me This is not for me to see Mind matters, matters not This time a prayer onto nothing Project again Direct oppose to action All across the board Shortcoming close to call Let it be gone It's all pretend Mind matters, matters not |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Finction (2007)
All is not been broken
On streets I cannot walk Freedom is an illusion I build my fences high If there was something out there I've learned not to expect There's a hundred million reasons Not to care Don't bring it Don't bring it Don't bring your misery down on me Don't bring it Don't bring it Don't bring your misery down on me The misery's crown As always in these matters You broke the deal of deals And wasted what was given To revel in your mess I gave up all for nothing I tried my best And failed There's a thousand million reasons Never to share again This is how it all begins This is how it all begins Don't bring it Don't bring it Don't bring your misery down on me Don't bring it Don't bring it Don't bring your misery down on me The misery's crown This is how it all begins Come now Come now Come now Don't bring it Don't bring it Don't bring your misery down on me Don't bring it Don't bring it Don't bring your misery down on me The misery's crown |
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from Metal Militia : A Tribute To Metallica [omnibus] (1994)
You just stood there screaming,
fearing no one was listening to you They say the empty can rattles the most The sound of your voice must soothe you Hearing only what you want to hear, and knowing only what you've heard You you're smothered in tragedy You're out to save the world Misery You insist that the weight of the world, Should be on your shoulders Misery There's much more to life than what you see My friend of Misery You still stood there screaming No one caring about these words you tell My friend before your voice is gone One man's fun is another's hell These times are sent to try men's souls, But something's wrong with all you see You you'll take it on all yourself Remember, Misery loves company Misery You insist that the weight of the world, Should be on your shoulders Misery There's much more to life than what you see My friend of Misery You just stood there screaming My friend of Misery |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
It's all this reeking ego craves
The sun to never set Why do threads of anger never linger? Why does the ember turn to stone? To where the longing goes In with the sins of old A face of nothing, to never see As blind as free Everything I want Is in at the end of this Everything I need Will be at the end of me My negation How will you know my name And sense the danger coming? My negation How can you see my face? What's to become of me? The art of reduction Stripped down through What seems defendable Scaled to bare revisions To stop making sense Levelling pillars of towering fear Rational instincts and insight to spare End of falseness, end of grace Everything I fear Is in this failing Nothing of what I am Is in this end My negation How will you know my name And sense the danger coming? My negation How can you see my face? What's to become of me? How will you know my name? |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
What late forgotten night
To emptiness has given And now November morning Will be taken asunder The shovel stained with dirt in the hours of belonging Dug into the undiscovered Of a life, a pest, a plague Falling back into the arms - no, never Admitting to a life alone - no There are sparks inside Outside looking back - no The lie never stopped ... Cling to the wave, it cried And onward to the night Expecting not and nothing In the presence of a lie The deeper that it dug, the more now had to go Surrender was a fact and the room was decorated No, no, no - the lie never stopped What late forgotten night To emptiness has given ... The strangers Oh, may they come In ignorance's disguise So in the dark walking To leave the last of times Knee-deep in desperation To fill the gap behind ... Boldly tread the night forever November thoughts are right - oh, never Taken from the fall - no Frightened by the key, but the trail behind the house Felt compelling and new - the lie never stopped Found at loss for words, now words aren't enough Someone told A vacancy was open Someone laughed The silence here was broken Dug up to make room The room which you furnished and graced There is no vacancy The least can fill the fountain The most will flood the mold |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Finction (2007)
For things to begin, scorch a flame
Your fire merged with sin Gone's the distant liar Never and never again. Keep it down from all these raven Which post-descends creation What is done is dead What is done is dead To be content Beyond abomination Are you satisfied Are you done with this The ultimate rebellion The sacrifice is endless The ultimate rebellion Leave nothing to no one Was it a true life, behind the crumbling walls We'll dream an infant illusion Watching without movement Desire without heart It is over and done It is over and done Decree for judgments on this I cannot without eyes I saw the prophets rising up That no one sees The ultimate rebellion The sacrifice is endless The ultimate rebellion Leave nothing to no one Waken to the screams Of our virus soul Demands and accusations Was I free These are the outer centers Our bitter detonation They will find us still in action Glitters of resolve Take the burden off me Lead me to my grave The ultimate rebellion The sacrifice is endless The ultimate rebellion Leave nothing to no one |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
neither here nor there
in our unity of twine solitary sanity traded in for life once we crawled into the artificial night all was left, and i arrived on your time on your time ...and so young and brave i was there on your time... .. -there in the collision wish answers could arrive was i kept up for this? did the physical emotion break the fall of sleep? i'd never thought of things that you would say i could never tell if what you said were lies lies .. it's in here eating it's down there drinking be with me not against me bear with it love against me i've never known if there was enough time i could never tell if it was done just right- i've never known i've never known i've never known if there was enough time could never tell could never tell could never tell if it was done just right an icicle thrust to soothe the disorder between the eyes where the well is the deepest the deepest well -i've never known if there was enough time i could never tell if it was done just right ... so unease carried words that spoke of no matter was i held here for this? did the path of devotion stray from what you felt? i've never seen things here in this light i could never tell if your touch was deeper than skin- .. i live on your time once i thought that what no time could heal was here in me, but time proved me wrong deeper still, toward an outward pride no more lies, i'm here on your time |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
Insufficient facts
Make up for a frail foundation Breeding the obscene For the opinion Customized Is the insight null and substance void upon these wheels Our world will roll Let it be decided Let it be decided who will take the blame Another soul to drain What is it that we see? What is it that we see? One thought bringing it down Original sinners One thought bringing it down Switch it off Has it come to this? Enjoying things by proxy Live through others Die just like the rest We all end up screaming A little louder To cover up Another piece of silence Just scream a little louder Punch another hole through media Turn it off One thought bringing it down Original sinners One thought bringing it down Switch it off Brace for impact To once a greater vision Our lives now stand to fall Tyranny of fear A stranglehold on us Stronger day by day It's time to turn it off One thought bringing it down Original sinners One thought bringing it down Switch it off Switch it off |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
Make enemies of truth and reason
In that a rage is born Start out a promise and a venture Where direction was never the goal How does it feel To run out of nothing Where do you go When you run out? Never you mind The grand perspective Other forces kept at bay As you narrow the field of vision To retain a sense of control Your focus will remain unfixed In the haze of a world unhinged Create a sense of purpose Around which you base your faith The doubt that haunts your skin An itch that will linger on Forever How does it feel To run out of nothing Where do you go When you run out? You wave off Critique as an offender Never question Where your motives lie As a part of the greatest fable The beast all had forgotten Instincts in a dead end rampage Destruction as a saving grace You run out of nothing How does it feel To run out of nothing Where do you go When you run out? How does it feel To run out of nothing Where do you go? Where do you go? |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
Riddled by the trappings
Of words that makes the edges blur Here on the outskirts Of sincerity and pride Stretched as far as words can reach By the lure of higher meaning There's something out there Lost behind the power lines It's all the same to me It's all the same to me Lost all faith in promises And deadlines closing in Tired of deciphering the wayward Stands of truth I don't care 'Cause I can't feel I don't know Anymore Sure we've had a good run With vowels, nouns and letters But within its very nature The ability to distort There's nothing in the words I hear That makes me want to take a stand It has gone on for far too long I chose to disengage It's all the same to me It's all the same to me The ends of our conditioning To swallow, take and like it Rather keep me in the dark Than look me in the eye I don't care 'Cause I can't feel I don't know Anymore It's all these same things pulling us down To senses gone I cheer It's all these same things making us blind There's nothing here for me Hear it coming Heading for you now I can't even stand the tone of arrogance And denial on display Here you are listless Left for deaf Thinking about what standards we set In times of weary tongues And ears that hear no end to it Unwilling or unable The difference left for times Judgement It's all the same to me It's all the same to me It passes on from wicked mouths As victim takes on another role New bold oppressor Our teacher's product Now stands tall I don't care 'Cause I can't feel I don't know Anymore It's all these same things pulling us down To senses gone I cheer It's all these same things making us blind There's nothing here for me Hear it coming Heading for you now Hear |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Finction (2007)
This is a ghost town
We lie on the edges of failure's fled Lead on by shining faces, levelling extremes What used to be, our humility is gone Walk around, with skull and bones We're living just to die I see more moments indict of decision The windows are our lights It is the only place I know, where death is most alive It is where truth is turned to lie, where death is most alive Set flame to the ensnares, we'll pierce their wooden shield Branded by what claims you You wear the mark of death In death and loss and agony, a character defined Stripped of all the tragedy What life is left to fight Go now, until there's nothing left Go now, the dying has begun It is the only place I know, where death is most alive It is where truth is turned to lie, where death is most alive So I flee from all that is me To hide behind this pale, dead face Whatever happened to desire, want and need Whatever happened to integrity Imagination is a cause in all of this Whatever happened was left behind This is a ghost town Our bodies scattered in the streets Go now, to never return I've seen more pitiful humiliation That you could never hide It is the only place I know, where death is most alive It is where truth is turned to lie, where death is most alive |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
You try to hide
The fact hidden from yourself Your own favourite entertainer Is none other than The one we call you And you need the others To fortify your disgust For the worst of us, to the rest of us Entertain the thought that We are still alive Entertain the notion Of impending doom Entertain our worst suspicions And our fears Just pull us in And take us down I hear a mighty cheer Your faith could not be any stronger In your head the stage is set A product of what we're being fed Oblivious by design Not susceptible to any mind Entertain the thought that We are still alive Entertain the notion Of impending doom Entertain our worst suspicions And our fears Just pull us in And take us down I can take What's being given I can down Whatever comes I will do What you deem necessary My fear compels me My fear compels me No more fictitious needs I will not be made a mockery No more chaos seed I am not what you're supposed to see Without a sense of danger Everything is lost In the name of entertainment We are doomed Entertain the thought that We are still alive Entertain the notion Of impending doom Entertain our worst suspicions And our fears Just pull us in And take us down |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Finction (2007)
Dreamt up a new word today
With my ignorance I give it meaning Who was I to know To say it is to know it To hear it is to believe, is to believe I dreamt the world would end I lost the lug To doubt, to discredit The other words I heard before From your silence, you're pretending I saw you show your faith And what you've always known So lay your trust in me, I think appal It's not to justify your lesser faith It's all your faith has shown What all you love and know Why do you matter, correct significant I can yet justify your lesser faith To know it is to fear it To fear it is to say no, is to say no To the blazing hearts of those, I know I failed To break, to cast it down You take your leave Through the stuff that must be broken in two It's all your faith has shown What all you love and know Why do you matter, correct significant I can yet justify your lesser faith |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Finction (2007)
Seen through these dreamless eyes Blind buildings startle the sky Silhouettes as the dividing world Guarding the eternal secret Where is the flame towards you And who do you answer to My lies are always wishes Lies that make me See beyond the rationale We accept the fate that nothing is meant to be We are the least connected Stay tuned to the last original We're like layers to reality Things only you can see At all peace and normality Inside the core of his sanity I've left my dreams for so much In days of endless grey If I could merge the mundane and the magic We voice the new and known I've left my dreams for so much To nothingness and back again If I could merge the mundane and the magic Where is the dark I came to find We learn these days that Time will find you Memories were never meant to get closer The silent sighs, the useless company Whisper darkness and deaf again In the face of ignorance and fear I cast it right back Some things were never there to begin with All this envied it should deny We're like layers to reality Things only you can see At all peace and normality Inside the core of his sanity I've left my dreams for so much In days of endless grey If I could merge the mundane and the magic We voice the new and known I've left my dreams for so much To nothingness and back again If I could merge the mundane and the magic Where is the dark I came to find |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
A human force stronger than logic
Beyond the focus and the grander ideas One microcosmos in this wretched piece of hell Distant memories of what empathy we felt No revolution in what they must overthrow In on a secret we all know The need that is our enemy I don't even want to see you Doing all the same things as me Don't ever let this be you Knowing what it is that drives me It's all in the future Said with one foot in the grave All in the plan of what we never could achieve No satisfaction We excuse ourselves from progress by post-altering our motives Stories set to match whatever beat that drives the impulse Whatever tune that carries through What's in a soul that rattles empty In this one reality, too few Our reach is never wider than the depth of what we grasp A vicious curse on all that we partake in/side the conflict Where no one is the wiser A space invaded A face evaded My space invaded Selfish dosn't begin to cover the sense In this utopia of one to escape the argument To put another filter on |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
upon our evening when the sun fired blanks
there rode the sickness out of our sight carried torches burned out long before it's time among these ruins where our love to be found ambition falters when no better is to be known cling to the unfounded pride death to our belonging and our ministy of two set the higher standard and to a greater fall descend slaves to one another and to others be it not soothing be temptation force the conscience to a halt caused a high vibration a tender light to be part of you the two-way escape |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
Let me tell you about the loss of all
The failing of all that we hold dear Wrapped up nicely in ourselves Chaos resolves that which order defiles Worthless lifes are ordered... are ordered blind I don't believe I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I don't believe I raise my hand against it all For those who don't recognize the call Will the sense to overcome these nestled walls Going before it break down I don't believe I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I won't believe Let me nail you to the treason wall Stab the night and the day from your sight and set the thought to flame Feeble devout Nothing resides Break it to pieces that obstinate mind I raise my fist to hold the line Against those who set themselves on high Going to break it down I don't believe I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I won't believe |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
Gentle storm, thundering silence
Inferior force, uncontrolled calm Vital unlife, logic, chaos, logic The tone of which his birth ascend The beat that of a heart descend Repeating in the infinite An insight made it clear Order stormed the surface Where chaos set the norm Had there always been balance? ...Surely not Therein lies the beauty It was solid Yet everchanging It was different Yet the same So I starve myself for energy The song around his soul will bend The notes that in this hole will melt Crawl out of science A dreamland if you dare Disorder clawed the boundaries We're ordered to stand clear Was it always different ...Never the same? Therein lies the beauty It was solid Yet everchanging It was different Yet the same So I starve myself for Energy As there was no witnesses There was nothing to be told As nothing could be grasped The story could unfold Superimposed on the elements of anger Fear, anxiety | hate | despair | remorse So break from all that fear hold fast Exposed, now turn to all you lack Let echoes be the answers Return from all the screams Wordless now the last attack So silent it hurts to listen Was it always solid To never change? Therein lies the beauty It was solid... |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
Let no one be themselves
Turn of the century lies Not within the others Turn on the wretchful eye The blindness ends tonight Shelter for the shattered In unison we strive Dare to disassociate And cut the blinds that tie Abstractualize further To the ends of fact and foe Will it out of meaning As silence speaks the truth I want to hear you scream I want to see you stand Atop the Pantheon of fiction and your failure Grasping for a hiding place Among indifferent stones A brief reflection It sets the soul apart No selection It tears our world apart These walls are protecting us Burn them to the ground This haven of refuge Burn it to the ground So smudge the lens a little Muffle the voice Phase out of sound a while And let it go Citizens of choice In a twilight world of your design Left to our devices We stumble on I want to hear you scream I want to hear you scream Burn it to the ground No firewall will save you Burn it to the ground Take me to the keep And bare the darkest void Thousandfold the agony Of silenced screams alone Tune right out of static Exorcise the dark How else can we move on I want to hear you scream I want to see you die |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
Faintly arisen | Tenderly torn
Dream like decision, unconsciously born Firm in conviction yet tempt me they can deny me of trust and the demon i hide A drive to be less then the fortunate a dream in the casket of Eden Crave that which you do not desire cling tightly to your deepest fear I rose greatest monument again and again I bear greatest treasure of time and word Treason split on the loneliest of graves Desperation dealt the losing hand again Wherein lie the purpose of the day? Is there return in sadness? Does your ceiling differ much from mine where we see each other Here in this light Is that pillow more then a frame that holds the chaos fast? Now his hand a fist gain control Silence fell and eyes now widened filling up, the strange collapsing capable of the ending, froze in the tracks brought to a bitter halt On the floor it seems the steps are showing left a print just like it did in me What has been and will be never care cause i was in between As i said one with one foot in loneliness You hide here in me |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
there were words of lust in these arms
arms of the stranger and there in silence though were words words of no milder so in thinking of that madness that ravaged the thoughts in the loneliest of (hours) i resist without control i resist without control i resist without control now i resist without control i resist without control i resist without control now the demand i get from excellence the void i felt from answering not only an addiction it generated need in these endless nights of freezing my weight on the other side, the other (side) i resist without control i resist without control i resist without control now feel the thorns of uncontrol feel the thorns of uncontrol feel the thorns of uncontrol now .. i resist without control feel the thorns of uncontrol claws that set in sleeps' december let loose on the verge talked to me as strangers once did the tone was set for winter sweet uncontrol beyond proportions into the night so strike me deeper ... i resist without control i resist without control i resist without control now feel the thorns of uncontrol feel the thorns of alcohol feel the thorns of uncontrol now feel the thorns of uncontrol feel the thorns the death that craved no life now ended in return, in return drifting uncontrolably within the night sweet uncontrol beyond proportions into the night so strike me deeper |
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