Again, the burden of losing rests upon my shoulders And its weight seems unbearable "Your tomb is where your heart is," I should have told her But within me hid a secret so terrible
To cry is to know that you're alive But my river of tears has run dry I never wanted to fool you, no But a cold heart is a dead heart And it feels like I've been buried alive by love
If I should die before I wake Pray no one my soul to take And if I wake before I die Rescue me with your smile
The kiss of vanity blessed me with a spiritual murder Fed the gods of war, insatiable "Your home is where the dark is," I should have told her Embraced the fire, indestructible
To die is to know that you're alive And my river of blood won't run dry I never wanted to lose you, no But a cold heart is a dead heart And it feels like I've been buried alive by love
If I should die before I wake Pray no one my soul to take And if I wake before I die Rescue me with your smile
Oh, they say to cry is to know that you're alive But my river of tears has run dry I never wanted to fool you, no But a cold heart is a dead heart And a deserted soul is gone A cold heart is a dead heart And it feels like I've been buried alive by love
Love's the Funeral Of Hearts and an ode for cruelty, When angels cry blood on flowers of evil in bloom, The Funeral Of Hearts and a plea for mercy, when love is a gun separating me from you.
She was the sun shining upon the tomb of your hopes and dreams so frail, He was the moon painting you with its glow so vulnerable and pale.
Love's the Funeral Of Hearts and an ode for cruelty, When angels cry blood on flowers of evil in bloom, The Funeral Of Hearts and a plea for mercy, when love is a gun separating me from you.
She was the wind carrying in all the troubles and fears you've for years tried to forget, He was the fire restless and wild and you were like a moth to that flame.
The heretic seal beyond divine Pray to God who's deaf and blind The last rites for souls on fire Three little words and a question why.
Love's the Funeral Of Hearts and an ode for cruelty, When angels cry blood on flowers of evil in bloom, The Funeral Of Hearts and a plea for mercy, when love is a gun separating me from you.
The Funeral Of Hearts and an ode for cruelty, When angels cry blood on flowers of evil in bloom
Oh, I see your scars I know where they're from So sensually carved and bleeding Until you're dead and gone I've seen it all before Beauty and splendor torn It's when heaven turns to black And hell to white Right to wrong and wrong to right
Now
Feel it turning your heart into stone Feel it piercing your courageous soul Beyond now?redemption No one's going to catch you when you fall
Oh, I see you crawl You can barely walk With arms wide open You keep on begging for more I've been there before Knocking on the same door It's when hate turns to love And love to hate Faith to doubt and doubt to faith
Now
Feel it turning your heart into stone Feel it piercing your courageous soul Beyond now?redemption No one's going to catch you when you fall
There's a flame that leads your souls astray No one's safe from its tender touch of pain And every day, it's looking for new slaves To celebrate the beauty of the grave
We are like the living dead Sacrificing all we have For a frozen heart and soul on fire We are like the living dead Craving for deliverance With a frozen heart and soul on fire
And again, we're falling for disgrace And hate will shelter us from the rain Well we are enslaved by the sacred heart of shame And gently raped by the light of day
We are like the...
Addicted to our divine despair The venom of the cross we bear The guilt will follow us to death We are like the....
I hear you breathe so far from me I feel your touch so close and real And I know My church is not of silver and gold, Its glory lies beyond judgement of souls The commandments are of consolation and warmth
You know our sacred dream won't fail The sanctuary tender and so frail The sacrament of love The sacrament of warmth is true The sacrament is you
I hear you weep so far from here I taste your tears like you're next to me And I know My weak prayers are not enough to heal The ancient wounds so deep and so dear The revelation is our hatred and fear
You know our sacred dream won't fail The sanctuary tender and so frail The sacrament of love The sacrament of warmth is true The sacrament is you
The sacrament is you The sacrament is you The sacrament is you The sacrament is you
You know our sacred dream won't fail The sanctuary tender and so frail The sacrament of love The sacrament of warmth is true The sacrament is you
(The sacrament is you) You know our sacred dream won't fail (The sacrament is you) The sanctuary tender and so frail (The sacrament is you) The sacrament of love The sacrament of warmth is true The sacrament is you
No one can hurt you now In this haven safe and sound No one can save you now From this grace you are drowning in Just hold your breath on your way down
This fortress of tears I've built from my fears for you This fortress won't fall I've built it strong for you
No one can free you now From the chains around your heart Don't be afraid now Just dive in this emptiness And hold your breath on your way down
This fortress of tears I've built from my fears for you This fortress won't fall I've built it strong for you
No one can hurt you now In this haven safe and sound Just hold your breath on your way down
Heartache is knocking on her door Shadows dance outside her window Tears keep falling on the floor As the world around her crumbles
If you want to save her Then first, you have to save yourself If you want to free her from the hurt Don't do it with your pain If you want to see her smile again Don't show her you're afraid Because your circle of fear is the same
Love can be as cold as grave A one-way ticket to endless sorrow An empire of gentle hate Today without tomorrow
If you want to save her Then first, you have to save yourself If you want to free her from the hurt Don't do it with your pain If you wanna see her smile again Don't show her you're afraid Because your circle of fear is the same
It's the circle of regret The circle of hate The circle of death The circle of fear is the same Your circle of fear is the same
If you want to save her Then first, you have to save yourself If you want to free her from the hurt Don't do it with your pain If you want to see her smile again Don't show her you're afraid Because your circle of fear is the same
Softly the light shines in through Gates of grace on me and you Deceiving our restless hearts A flickering flame so serene Devours the night so we could see The fear we hold on to so strong
But I know where I belong Away from your gods That heal all wounds and light This endless dark Endless dark This endless dark
Lonely the light shines on you Through the gates of fire entombed Feeding on your love Weak is the blaze that kept me away From cruelty and tenderness embraced Saving my soul no more
And I know where I belong Away from your gods That heal all wounds and light This endless dark Endless dark This endless dark
I know where I belong Away from you gods That heal all wounds and light This endless dark
That shine on you and tame your burning heart That buried my truth right into your arms That worship the tomb of our forlorn love That heal all wounds and light, this endless dark
There is no turning back from this unending path of mine Serpentine and back it stands before my eyes To hell and back, it will lead me once more It's all I have as I stumble in and out of grace
I walk through the gardens of dying light And cross all the rivers deep and dark as the night Searching for a reason why time passes by
With every step I take, the less I know myself Every vow I break on my way towards your heart Countless times, I've prayed for forgiveness But Gods just laugh at my face And this path remains Leading me into solitude's arms
I see through the darkness my way back home The journey seems endless, but I'll carry on The shadows will rise and they will fall And our night drowns in gold
Amidst all the tears, there's a smile That all angels greet with an envious song One look into stranger's eyes And I know where I belong
I walk through the gardens of dying light And cross all the rivers deep and dark as the night Searching for a reason why time would've passed us by
I see through the darkness my way back home The journey seems endless, but I'll carry on The shadows will rise and they will fall And our night drowns in dawn
It's poetry carved in flesh This beautiful hell of ours To the deadliest sin we confess (Tears of joy fill our eyes) We are safe where disfigured saints Cry out their prophecies of doom
My heart's a graveyard, baby And to evil we make love On our passion's killing floor In my arms, you won't sleep safely And of lust we are reborn On our passion's killing floor
At the first kiss the seeds Of hatred are sown Back into darkness we flee (To tear our hearts out) We are safe where all faiths fail Alive inside of our tomb
My heart's a graveyard, baby And to evil we make love On our passion's killing floor In my arms, you won't sleep safely And of lust we are reborn On our passion's killing floor
(Pulses unchecked Everyone already is dead All we know has been crucifered)
My heart's a graveyard, baby And to evil we make love On our passion's killing floor In my arms, you won't sleep safely And of lust we are reborn On our passion's killing floor
(My heart's a graveyard, baby) Oh, my heart's a graveyard, baby On our passion's killing floor (In my arms, you won't sleep safely) And to evil we make love On our passion's killing floor
Leave all behind now to watch her crawl Through our dark gardens of insanity She'll be the light to guide you back home Just give her a kiss worth dying for?and open your arms
Watch me fall for you My Venus doom Hide my heart where all dreams are entombed My Venus doom
Grieve all your hearts out as she'll writhe Enthralled in tragic, ecstatic agony And in her flames, we will die some more Just show me a life worth living for?light up the dark
Watch me fall for you My Venus doom Hide my heart where all dreams are entombed My Venus doom (All dreams are of you?my Venus doom)
Serpentine loves thighs wrap around me in search for death Drenched in blood, the adored and beloved will give in to
Love in cold blood; breathe me in sweet suffering Love in cold blood
Love's feline eyes in darkness shine on her web Demonized with divine insight, we draw our last breath
Love in cold blood; breathe me in sweet suffering Love in cold blood; put me out of my misery Love in cold blood; breathe me in sweet suffering Love in cold blood
Darling, take me home to the castle made of skulls and bones Sing me a song to remind me where I belong In your arms, my love in cold blood
It's poetry carved in flesh This beautiful hell of ours To the deadliest sin we confess (Tears of joy fill our eyes) We are safe where disfigured saints Cry out their prophecies of doom
My heart's a graveyard, baby And to evil we make love On our passion's killing floor In my arms, you won't sleep safely And of lust we are reborn On our passion's killing floor
At the first kiss the seeds Of hatred are sown Back into darkness we flee (To tear our hearts out) We are safe where all faiths fail Alive inside of our tomb
My heart's a graveyard, baby And to evil we make love On our passion's killing floor In my arms, you won't sleep safely And of lust we are reborn On our passion's killing floor
(Pulses unchecked Everyone already is dead All we know has been crucifered)
My heart's a graveyard, baby And to evil we make love On our passion's killing floor In my arms, you won't sleep safely And of lust we are reborn On our passion's killing floor
(My heart's a graveyard, baby) Oh, my heart's a graveyard, baby On our passion's killing floor (In my arms, you won't sleep safely) And to evil we make love On our passion's killing floor
I hid the keys to unlock love's heart To hold you in my sweetest pain and suffering Everything's unfair in our lust and war Redemption beyond right and wrong
In our hearts, love keeps sweet-talking to despair And goes on sleepwalking past hope All is lost in this war All we can do is to wail and weep to the saddest song Sleepwalking past hope....
I unlit the light to embrace the dark To be near but not to turn into you my darling Forever we're lost in our souls' storm Reflections of each other's faults
In our hearts, love keeps sweet-talking to despair And goes on sleepwalking past hope All is lost in this war All we can do is to wail and weep to the saddest song Sleepwalking past hope....
I gave up long ago Painting love with crimson flow Ran out of blood and hope So I paint you no more
My hell begins from the 10th and descends to the circle Six hundred threescore and six And from there, I crawl beneath Lucifer's claws Just for one last kiss...
In our hearts, love keeps sweet-talking to despair And goes on sleepwalking past hope All is lost in this war All we can do is to wail and weep to the saddest song Sleepwalking past hope
Despair has a face and all these wounds remain unhealed Blessed to kill and enslaved are all hearts around love's will Thrilled to start all over again
Crawl down Dead Lovers' Lane The maze of memories stained And suck the blood right out of my heart
Fear has a name written on unhallowed ground with dead leaves Those words never fail to feed the hunger that dreams Our needs beyond God's grasp
Scream out love's name in vain Embrace the pain again And lose yourself alone in the dark Dead Lovers' Lane
Scream out love's name in vain Embrace the pain again And lose yourself alone in the dark And suck the blood right out of my heart
Dead Lovers' Lane Right out of my heart Dead Lovers' Lane
사랑과 죽음, 질척한 액체를 수반한 절망적이고 비극적인 사랑을 따스하게, 경쾌하게, 때론 흐느적대며 노래해온 HIM의 음악은 매니아적인 것도 아니고 실험적인 것이라고도 할 수 없지만, 가만히 들여다보면 간단치 않은 것들이 도사리고 있음을 발견하게 될 것이다. 연인간의 비극적 사랑과 신과 인간의 사랑과 배신, 그에 수반하는 비극과 죽음을 테마로 모던하면서도 음울한 음악으로 핀란드와 독일에선 대중적인 지지를 얻고 있는 HIM에게는, 그림자 가득한 고쓰(Goth) 마인드와 변형된 메틀 사운드, 거기에 팝적인 보컬라인, 모던/얼터너티브의 리듬들, 뒤에서 흐르는 고딕/뉴웨이브적인 키보드 라인이 뒤섞여 있었다. 그를 통해 그려지는 질척한 퇴폐미는 놀랍도록 대중적이었고, 동시에 놀랍도록 흔하지 않았다. 식지 않은 피와 ...