Covenant [Sweden, Synth Pop Band]

I try to rise in pride, I want to radiate
Walk on water and ride the light
I try to break the chains, I want to penetrate
Cross the borders and drink the oceans

I need to burn my fuel, I want to detonate
Melt the sun and drain the sources
I need to waste my strength, I want to escalate
Turn the tide, conquer the stars

Give me velocity and gasoline
Electricity and adrenaline
I want to be superluminal

I have to go ahead, I want to elevate
Rise above, find the path, I have to look beyond
I want to perforate, reach behind, take it back
I must spread my wings, I want to scintillate
Blind myself, break away, I must be born again
I want to celebrate, stop the clock, never return

We make ritual noise
Wired to the world
Under our fingertips
We take special care
Listen to the words
Spoken in confidence
We make ritual noise
Shouting to be heard
Cooling our burning lips
We break down the gates
Open up our wounds
Bleeding for innocence

We make ritual noise
We weave the fabric of dreams
We build cities of sound
We feel the rhythm of time
We live dangerous lives
We have the power of will
We twist logic around
We feed the engines of change

We close our eyes and look in opposite direction
We ignore the threats and hope they'll go away
We refuse to pay attention to the dangers we create
In the name of our fathers we kill our children

We wait and think that we are biding our time
We keep silent, we believe in our strength
We trust in propaganda of the wonders of tomorrow
In the shadow of contempt we are victims in the end

We dance to the sound of sirens
We watch genocide to relax
We dance to the sound of sirens
We are the heroes of self-deception

We are nailed to the ground, frozen in our movements
We listen while the sirens sound, speaking of improvements
We have anger in our souls that waits to be released
In the chill of fear we're petrified and useless when it counts

I consume the wind that makes you cold
And drink the blood of the bleeding souls
To check your fear and hide the noise
Of howling wolves that steals your voice

I confuse your mind and feed your dreams
To read your thoughts and keep them safe
From harmful truth and the hopeful lies
Of the tempting demon that hurts your eyes

I will protect you from your visions
To save you from illusions
I will protect you from ideals
To save you from defeats

I consume the wind that makes you bold
And suck the blood of the living souls
To make you numb and hide the noise
Of the howling wolves that is your voice

I seduce your mind to fear your dreams
And read your thoughts to keep you blind
From harmful truth and the open skies
Of the outside world before your eyes

In transit you pass among the strangers of the world
Paying tribute to the thief who stole away your shadow
You look into the bedrock and listen to the bells
Calling liquid lust
Call for solid white

I see the stalker in your face
The secrets of your skin
I keep the wisdom that you need
The password that you want
I feel the stalker in your mind
The fire in your veins
No hope to be released

I'm a multitude of travel to the other side
Through the broken wall I saw your fellow man
To the west of the horizon there's a bitter world
And if you try to sense the smell of your face
For you found the keyhole
But you lost your backbone
No courage left to join the march of endless time
You saw the sleep of habit on those who walk in trance
To their catatonic aimless lives

So let them start the engine grinding mountain dust
And reproduce your ego too much is not enough
You dig holes through the earth to meet the king of worms
To steal away his wisdom and learn to decompose

You chant like fifty indians to charm the prince of eagles
To learn the art of seeing and the tounge of the winds
So don't you try to fool me for I watch your every move
We are kindred spirits like two voices in the wild

We wish so hard to be seen
And dream at night to be heard
And yet we have nothing to show
But false words and broken dreams

I'm the figurehead on the ship of fools
A beacon for the liars in the dark
I'm the first and the last
I claim this land
I'm the lost and the hungry
I need this land

The inescapable face of truth
Spins my head again
Disturbingly unable to stand back
I'm going down

The undeniable sense of wonder
Kicks my head in
Disturbingly unable to escape
I dive to drown

We want so hard to be true
And claim the right to be good
And yet we never seem to know
How to reach promised lands

We work so hard to be wise
And dream of light to be pure
We need brighter death to grow
The clean touch of virgin hands

I'm lost to the world soon to be forgotten
Living in the shadows searching for belief
But my anger is gone and the anvil is broken
The pieces on the ground melting in the silence

I keep my head above the surface
Trying to breath looking for land
I keep an eye at the distant horizon
Waiting for help clutching the sky

My fear is my cross heavy on the shoulders
Learning to be patient burning to be free
So my spirit is strong but my body is broken
My father in the fire dying for survival

Every instant second a suspension of forever
A frail continuous sequence spanning over lives
Blindfolded by stars we roam in our realm
Striving to the very last dwindling at the most

Relentless marching in the waste we produce for living
Tending to forget we are not the lasting kind
Every day we die we are slowly decomposing
The steps we take upon the earth will be worn and lost

As the moment elapsed
We walked in slow motion
Denying the tide
We'll find our devotion

Possessed by our possessions we deny the present
In the gallery of achievements we look upon the past
And as the moment passed away recalling the restraint
Counting and weighing the amount of our breaths

But strong in the knowledge of our lack of purpose
By learning the fear and gaining our composure
Content at the surface descension to come
Peace in our loneliness although all will be lost

As the moment elapsed
We walked in slow motion
Awaiting the tide
We'll lose our devotion

I feel too many affectious obstacles
Water must be allowed to seek it's own level
I don't seek to strive on others' expense
And the expense is mine as they judge my ways

I'm waiting for the rain to fall for days
I'm longing for the flood to sweep this all away

To grind the mountains to the level of the valleys
To cut the trees to the level of the grass
To asphalt the land in the name of equality
Let us grow in mutual respect and care

I will transgress the laws and change the orders
To live within an environment of my choice
So don't force your will or taste to rule over mine
Don't stand in the shadow of my hammer

Drones behold the life that was given
Be aware of the choices within your grasp
Oppose the temptress who leaves you dry
Redeem what was lost unleash your will

Hail the ones who take nothing for granted
Praise the moments of the giving day
Worship the sensation that passes by forever
Conquer yourself for the kingdom of fury

I want to stand in the eye of the storm
I want to get struck by lightning
I want our house to be set on fire
For us to walk without shelter

I seek no rest I seek no shelter
Where weak dwell in the shadow of decay
I want to walk forever with the storm
Until I become the prey anyway

Life consuming peace celebrate
Each day of the blind god who
Feels everything spotless filter
Of background noise glide from dream
To dream on a quest for riddles
Surrounding faith and bravery in its
Empty centre a thousand things never
Seen by any eye unconscious tracks
And pictures and landscapes and fragments
Of languages as random and wonder
Have the same source broke open
Before and after sounds and thoughts
No need to see the shape of life it forms

No haven will embrace you
No harbour keeps you safe
Your comrades will desert you

No tower reaches heaven
No fortress stands to last
Your desires makes you weak

No science will be mastered
No truth is absolute
Your children won't lament you

No wisdom can be trusted
No glory lasts forever
Your wishes won't be granted

Like torches in the aeon flow
Even suns flicker and die
Forgotten as the ages grow
Eternity is not for you

I'm in control in this domain
I feel at home inside the maze
It keeps me safe it keeps me clean
I step aside into the shade

I'm here to watch to read the signs
I walk alone I go unseen
From place to place in fading light
I move ahead along the tracks

Pre-millennium tension
Your premonition
Your guillotine

There's something wrong you feel it too
I read your mind an open book
I sense your fears it's in your bones
A grinding stone a crushing load

You dream at night in shallow sleep
The demons' breath is in the air
It will not pass these are the days
So pay attention you are not alone

I watch minutes grow to hours and how seasons builds the ages
Every winter dies in sunlight only to be born again
And the rainfall feeds the forests while the lightning strikes the trees
Turning giants into dust fertile ashes on the ground

I see them going down to the water
Where they embrace the silent waves
Slowly they're swallowed by the water
And their breath ascending to the sky
I see them now floating in the water
Carried away, carried away

I see wasteland turn into gardens watching oceans giving birth
To fragile little creatures born to grow and multiply
And the children of the children of the firstborn claims the land
Building fences for protection from their brothers greedy grasp

I watch kingdom rise and crumble and the nations come and go
Only new names for the same things once the limits has been reached
Now i see them lose their intrest in trhe deeds that have been done
And the wisdom that's been found, as they return whence they came.

I filtered the wind to sense the colours of the air
Projecting the graphs describing past and future
The shapes of the living and calamity they bear
Clairvoyance became a word far too weak

Cynicism, awareness interlaced into grace
A beauty from which my valedictory springs
Forgive what seems sinister and crude to face
Forgive my conviction to save these skies

The wind of the north seems pleasant and lush
Compared to the chill in my eyes at the time
The wind of the north obey none but me
Calm as the sun while deleting you all

A withering process was programmed and set
Annihilation unfortunately inhibited itself
In the name of humanity the dissonance spread
The heavenly became so ripped and blurred

Dimensional rift that defines our existence
Fragile and weak while mankind lasts
To trigger the device that corrects and resets
Focusing on routes, neglecting the past

I'm waiting for the plane to crash and burn
I like the smell of burning kerosene
I'm feeding on the thrill of primal fear
I want my share of fluid endorphine

It seems they just sit and wait for sleep
I really need to see if there is something more
In danger I perceive my world so clear
I force myself to stretch the envelope

There's a party going on
We'll all be here dancing underground

There's a riot going on
We'll all be here dancing underground

I'm freezing to the bone on the arctic storms
Naked in the cold I'm feeling so alive
I'm searching for the last uncharted land
I hope to find someone else like me

Don't listen to the fools that hold you back
For you will achieve what they can only dream
Now escape the grip of good old common sense
And trust yourself for reaching further on

I am the rhythm and the noise
The voices in your blood

The rhythm and the noise
The rhythm and the noise
The rhythm and the noise
I am the voices in your blood

I am the logic and the lust
The poison in your breath

Logic and the lust
Logic and the lust
Logic and the lust
I am the poison in your breath

I am the rhythm and the noise
The voices in your blood
The logic and the lust
The poison in your breath

I am the rhythm and the noise
The voices in your blood
The logic and the lust
The poison in your breath

(Break)

I am the shepherd and the wolf
The fire in your chest

The shepherd and the wolf
The shepherd and the wolf
The shepherd and the wolf
I am the fire in your chest

I am the water and the stone
The hammer in your hands

The water and the stone
The water and the stone
The water and the stone
I am the hammer in your hands

I am the shepherd and the wolf
The fire in your chest
The water and the stone
The hammer in your hands

I am the shepherd and the wolf
The fire in your chest
The water and the stone
The hammer in your hands

I find myself inside a church deserted by the priests
As shadows shift from grey to red, I notice there's no floor
Transparent air suspends my weight as if I had no mass
Suddenly the moon comes out from the clouded skies

Wet and cold from shifting daydreams, wakeful in the sleep
Windowpane observing some commotion down below
Waiting for the noise to come to blur the weary mind
Watching as a pastime and I'm the fallen star

Go film - we can all be gods
Go film - we will all be heroes
Go film - we are all immortal
Go film - we will all be safe
Go film - we are all illusions
Go film - and we can never touch

I will shine again with burning light when I return
In and out from foreign shores, I've gone astray in time
Born to search for something I have never ever seen
On an endless quest to hostile ground and unknown lands

Then the scene go back to where it started and I fall
As shadows shift from red to grey, I notice there's no floor
And gravity awakes me as it throws me to the ground
A million tiny grains of dust obscures me from your eyes

We are born alone and lonely we remain
When we learn to speak we speak to hear a voice
As the years go by we learn a thousand words
Then we try to talk to curse the silent sky

Like diamonds in the ground
We are waiting to be found
In silence we are bound
By the wailing wall of sound

Want to break the shell and cut the puppet strings
With our primal screams that echoes back inside
Want to pierce the noise and make our voices heard
To the distant shapes that wonders who we are

We must put aside the weapons of our minds
Cross the no man's land come with empty hands
Overcome the fear to drop the last defence
Speak forbidden words reach out beyond ourselves

The world is growing loud
It's time for us to fade
To grey
I wish they'll let us stay

The lights are going out
We knew we had to go
One day
I wish they'll take us in

The skies are falling down
Too late for us to change
Our minds
I wish they'll keep us safe

The times are changing fast
We knew we wouldn't last
This long
I hope they'll keep the pace

The world is growing loud
It's time for us to fade
Away
I wish they'll let us stay