ARCANE LYRICS

1. Promise [Part 2]

'Hope is all I have'
He called out over his shoulder
To no one at all
Lost in the wind went the word
Never heard by the one
Over and on
He sang to the silence at night
An answer would never come
(He hoped for... longed)
Till caught on the wind came the word
A whisper, the wilful;
'Come home'
Over and gone
She waited
He would travel far to find her
Finally she breathed her answer...
Over and gone
A promise kept is all that's left
Nothing changes
Over and on,
Over and gone, she...
Over and on,
Over and gone...
He sang his own funeral pyre
Eyes lost in the last breath of fire
Caught in spiderweb family ties
Lost in dreams of a child with her eyes
Over and gone
She waited
He would travel far to find her
Finally she breathed her answer...
Come to me, my softest memory
My sweetest mistake
Eyes open... please wait...
Don't fade...
Wait for me.
A promise kept is all that's left
So by the window she waits
Singing

2. Unturning

I will dig two graves for us
Just want to see this enemy gone
There is no time
I just want to see this enemy gone
The war that leaves us all behind
I can see it in your eyes
The seed inside us multiplies
Caught you again, I know your face
You played the snake, you promised me
King in your world made out of glass
We'll wait to see just how long the liar lasts.
Call me the cancer wrapped in skin
The mask you bear is wearing thin
I can see you in the light
Questioning mine
But these unturning eyes
Are leaving us all blind
THe anchor between us drags us down
And in those depths, we will both surely drown.
Reach for my hand, I offer peace, please brother
Take it, we will find release
"Keep it!" he said, "I wish the ground beneath your feet would give way,
There'll be no peace! I am the hand that bears the knife's weight!"
I will dig two graves for us
Just want to see this enemy gone
There is no time
Just want to see this enemy gone
So bring me the end, bring me that fire
Breathe in smoke and spit out ash
The snake won't admit it
But it's certain now that this too
As all things, shall pass
I can see you in the light
Brother of mine
With these unturning eyes
We left the whole world blind
It begins now
You hear that voice from the crowd...
Finally, fear in your heart, that old stone
This is how it starts
We've waited for it
We've been begging for it
And it won't be long
Until we're raising our voices in song
We are the voice of the crowd
We are fire aloud
We are the ones who stood first
The hill and the stone
The deep and the thirst
We are the voice of the crowd
We are fire aloud
We are the silence at the end of sound
Listen closer, perhaps you can hear us now...
We believe that the man who brings his heart is home...
If the fight isn't over, then let this be known;
We'll go down by the sound of the songs that we've sung
And I welcome the drowning
Fill these empty lungs
And I know that there's nothing that waits for me there
But the peace in the silence
I've earned it I swear
In the face of unturning eyes
I have no fear
There is no god, and I am standing right here
Open arms to my brother
I say: "Welcome home"
Find the peace in each other
We've waited so long
Neither question nor answer will come from above
Bury hate with the coward
The answer is love.

3. Instinct

I had an instinct to run
I had an instinct to fly
We had it all figured out, you and I,
Traced endless roads in your skin
We walked the water we owned
I had an instinct to run
But I was flesh and bone... for once.
Down by the water she fell
We promised blood to the bone
Dive headfirst into the well
Where I was welcomed home
With open arms
I had an instinct to run
I had an instinct to fly
We had it all figured out, you and I
We ran out in colour...
We ran down like water

4. Womb (In Memoriam)

Take your rest now
You passed softly by
"Mother, I am
Returned to mine
Given I am of soil
Turn the earth
Life will pass, we are soil
Turn to earth"

5. Selfsame

You just keep fighting the war we sent you on though it may not be true you wage
It on and just like waking up you fight your war
You just keep walking that road, over and gone, burden's a dreaming that you
Won't give up on and we are waking up, to fight your war
Give me the voice to be heard and I will fill my lungs before long
I'll cry the end of the world haven't you heard?
Your selfsame, gone, you just keep singing the same tired old song
Your war with none left to blame
Echoes life long a time for waking up a time for war
Give me the voice to be heard, and I will fill my lungs before long
I'll cry the end of the world haven't you heard?
Your selfsame, gone
The peace we find
That selfsame lie
Will end for none
Till it is done
Another name
Drowns just the same
We stood and swore
To end this war
I fought my war, and with my words
I find no peace in waiting
Give me the voice to be heard
The weight, the water wear their consequences.

6. Holding Atropos

Maybe I haven't been all that honest
Maybe I wasted my time
A sudden kindness
At the last
I find myself hanging on here
This is the end I had planned
Bring me love
Bring me this quiet breathing
Hand by hand
Counting the end of my rope
I still have rope
This is where my fight ends
I deserve no more than I've made for myself
Black stones in the well
This has been the only love I've ever known
Whispering a goodbye.

7. Keeping Stone: Sound On Fire

A sea of one thousand
Chained to the stone
One thousand years waiting
Bury the seed we've sown
Keep your thunder
Roll your bones
The water in your lungs
Is all you've ever owned
...And all you know.
Keeping stone
(Affliction and desire)
Keeping stone
(Silence brings the liar)
Face it, your lies end alone
Wait, my brother
Patience, this fire will soon become light
Keeping stone
(Affliction and desire)
Keeping stone
(Silence brings the liar)
Keeping stone
But I will stand and raise a voice like sound on fire
Water awake
We will sing your end with every breath we take
Keeping stone
Face it, your lies end alone
Wait, my brother
Patience, this fire will soon become light
We will make it right

8. Learned

Weight of the world
Coming down's always harder...
You're fighting yourself
Nothing left but time to make you a liar
There's always time
Enough to conquer my will
Wait on the world
I am down soft beside you
I've never been closer than now to life
And love
We are as nothing as it gets
And that is all you need
And I am just a memory
Far from fragile
As I live and breathe
And we were sleeping children
Without voices
Neither sound nor sight
And I can't face tomorrow
Let the music be my blood tonight
We are still learning
Again and again
Soil...
Bleeding the fight from me
This contemplated toil
Dig through the soil
To find that we have none
Treading so soft and lightly down
Wearing the scars to remind me now
Wait for it
I swear I will die for it...
You're safe now
Home
Soil
Bleeding the fight from me
This contemplated toil
Dig through the soil
To find that we have none
Home is right here.

9. Hunter, Heart & Home

Tiny man sings his own lullaby
Into blue eyes
Born in this room
No windows or doors
He whispers:
"Home is right here, my love...
Between my back and yours!
Home is right here, my love...
(Between my back and yours)
Skin to skin
She rises gently
Resting safe where fire meets water
Rising hands chase shivers
She sang to the hunter
"Heart and home is all I hoped for,"
Hold
Oldest man knows the world's not the same
He gave more than most to conquer his change
Here in this breath, sweet joining of souls
The broken is mended, the unfinished whole
Home is right here, my love...
(Between my back and yours)
Skin to skin
She rises gently
Resting safe where fire meets water
Rising hands chase shivers
She sang to the hunter
"Heart and home is all I hoped for,"
Hold
Soil
Bleeding the fight from me
This contemplated toil
Dig through the soil
Hunter
Oldest man knows the world's not the same
He gave more than most to conquer his change
Home is right here.

10. Little Burden

Light folds you to me
I hold you in new sheets
I see her in you
I follow you into sleep
And I must
And I will
I'm still here
Just you and me, little one
I'm still here
Never let go
Calm, there's more time than you know
Slow, don't grow just yet...
Stay like this
Stay right here
Stay with me
And I must
And I will
I'm still here
Just you and me little one
I'm still here
I'll never let go I swear
Still here
And I must
And I will
I am better, now
Can you, little burdens, show me how?
I swear by her eyes that you won't be alone
And I will
I will build a home
I will, with these hands, will build a home
And I must
And I will.

11. Impatience And Slow Poison

Into my arms
Bathed in sunlight
Focus meets calm to pass the oldest time
It can't be wrong
To fade like this, unknown
Over and on
Over and gone, she was...
What I would give to stay here, I'm longing
To throw my charge to the fire, embrace nothing
We drink it in
To find ourselves at home
we sang
Over and on
Over and gone, she was...

12. Known

Don't forget what you've learned
These long lessons
The bridges you burned made the world turn
And times when, blood to the bone
Hand in hand
Live your life chained to the stone
You'll be home then
We'll have time then
I know you'd like to believe what you're told
With your eyes closed
But knowing gets old
Don't forget that you will always be my little girl
My sweetheart
My sweetheart still, when I'm gone
We'll have time then
Don't forget who we are
Like deep ocean will mirror the stars...
She loved you
And I miss her too.

13. Nightingale's Weave

Never wanted any more than
All you provided me
Fighting gravity
Dust in the shape of you
Stares into shadow
But I can still see you stand
Building a home
Tell me you know these hands
Not hers, but mine
Father, I know you...
You're holding onto this moment
I see you, you're trying to stay
BUt this is it, just quietly go
Please.
There is no more to say
Hard enough to know you're gone
I'd wished for one more day, but
If this is it, then let it be now
Let it go, please
Drift away
Never wanted any more than
You provided me
Fighting gravity
Dust in the shape of you
Stares into shadow
But I can still see you stand
Building a home
Tell me you know these hands
Not hers, but mine
Father, I know you can
Hold onto this triumph
Father...
Lay your head down
Your work is done
And I'm alright
Please, father
Lay your head down
Deep ocean mirroring the stars
You gave me my heart

14. Eyes For The Change

Everyone's been waiting for my starryeyed advance
But I'm on the final page
The text has nothing left
The keys keep whispering my death
And my eyes are screaming out my age
We've been looking out on the infinite recursion
Just been wasting time
Something makes me smile
I tell it to the walls
And I know what I have made mine
I can look over my shoulder
Just to check
Just to be sure
But love is old
You can be more
You can sit with your eyes open
Damned to crack the camel's back
But I am strong today.

15. Keeping Stone: Water Awake

Wait for night
If you can't wait for me
Wait for night, oh night
If you can't wait for me
What was lost
What was left here
What is old
What is over
What I need
What I kept here...
No...
"She'll go far"
Were your words
Know that she'll go far
Hold me here
As I drift toward the end
And all coming so fast
We've saved the best for last
(Just breathe, it's only water)
What was lost
What was left here
What is old
What is over
What I need
What I kept here...
Know that she'll go far
When the water comes
I hope that you'll be ready
To just drink in deep until you drown
When the water comes
You'll swallow down your words
The things we know now
She'll go far
Just breathe it's only water
What was lost
What was left here
What is old
What is over
What I need
What I kept here...
No... she'll go far

16. Promise [Part 1]

He would travel far to find her
Finally she breathed her answer
She'd been waiting by the window
Finally he held her close...
And did not let go
She had kept it safe and secret
Standing silent by the window
Finally she breathed her last
For what she had to give was final
He held her
He had made a simple promise
Whispered in their final first kiss
Cradled in his arms, she lay still
Never made it home...
But she will.







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