AVANDRA LYRICS

1. Beyond the Threshold: Part 1 - Helios Awakens

With time you lost yourselves
Within your reveries
So blind to see
That time heals no wounds
Extend your hand
In this sphere you stand
And you'll understand where
Your journey began
The task of creation
Free from revelation
The fire I'll gift you
Once I awaken
Awakened I descend
Into the realm of men
Carrying the ashes of the past
I now guide the way
As the Eagle soars above the silhouettes down on the ground
With eyes so pure no blade of grass is unfound
Where the slithering snake makes its way with knowledge so profound
Its trail now us surrounds

2. Beyond the Threshold: Part 2 - Helios Descends

From this mountain top
I watched the rebirth of this lonely land
The fires held burning brightly in restituted hands
That know the meaning of this life evolved
Fragile like sand
On this sphere where they once stood
And took their final stand
Shifting shapes in the darkness closing in

Seducing words a net of what has been
An unwanted past, a vanquishing of sin
And we begin to heal the wounds caused by the passage of time
That waged war against reality, wanting it confined
With the mornings light
The darkness in our mind starts to subside
Exhausted from this journey you and I
Beyond the Threshold, we can see the lonely path to take
Winding down a road unknown

3. A Decision Must Be Made

You hear the train is fast approaching
And a decision must be made
The state of fear is vast encroached in you
Will you be left out in the rain?
You feel each train as they pass you by
Inside their eyes set towards the blue stroked skies
Hearing the chatter of every passerby
Their cluttered thoughts pregnant with silent cries
Within these trials and tribulations
You're made to think you've lost your way
Within these moments of starvation
Desperate you think you'll never see the light of day...again
You feel each train as they pass you by
Inside their eyes set towards the blue stroked skies
Hearing the chatter of every passerby
Their cluttered thoughts pregnant with silent cries
You feel each train as they pass you by
Inside your eyes set towards the blue stroked skies
Hearing the chatter of every passerby
Inside your thoughts pregnant with silent sighs
You're on your way

4. The Narrowing of Meaning

Shifting paradigms
Trying to figure out
The meaning through the lies
An endless maze that lies
Beyond all reason
With no exit towards the light
Shifting through the motionless
Oceans without waves to carry me through
To you
A guide to lead me through these barren lands
Far from an empty mind
That plays at sowing seeds of void meanings and signs
Swimming through the motionless
Oceans without waves to carry me through
To you
A guide to silence words that wrought the day
That try and convince me that I've strayed
From your broken path of clay
With no substance to be made
All sense of purpose slowly fades
From view
A fear to start anew
Not knowing what to eschew
Not deterred
By this programming
By your tyranny
And now I've chosen to remain
Free from within your orders to abstain
My self

From my wondering mind
From my doubting sighs
Awakened
The unknown within
A specter that has been
Sifting through the motionless
Oceans without waves to carry it through
To you
A guide to silence words that wrought the day
That try and convince me that
I've strayed
From your broken path of clay
With no substance to be made
All sense of purpose slowly fades
From your sense of worth
Rebuild my horizons
Renew its lost mirth
Seek a dimension past the glass
A hammer that destroys these walls of empty words and cries
That repurposes our fragile surface lives
A study deep into the history of what we are
The words that comprehend our reality
Understanding nature doesn't bow to our desires
Or to our designs, our memories
A state within a state that exists only in our minds
That concepts intertwine the you and me
Horizons span for
A million miles ahead
An open sea of dread
But know that
All this creation we have bled
Are verbs at our behest
Leading all
To you
A guide to silence words that wrought the day
That try and convince me that I've strayed
From your broken path of clay
With no substance to be made
All sense of purpose slowly fades

Now see
My overcoming
Of your restricting needs
For weak is
Who on other feeds
A dependence on their knees
No longer feeling motionless
In this endless sea that washes
Through me
Feeling free
Its waves have begun
To carry on
Becoming one with every I
A unity of the self
With tears I leave this holding cell
A redemption from this hell
And going into loneliness
I perish into my creation
A much-needed isolation

5. Even//You

Hanging on love's back
Never to let go
Never losing track
Of a never-ending goal

Watching your world's end
A wall so great its rise
A will to never bend
A bridge torn in two sides

An orphaned heart remains
After the fogs of war have dissipated
A man stands betrayed
And from their lives he must then refrain

Upon a valley's plain
A vengeance is now sworn
And below torrents of pain
A man has been reborn

When the time comes
To say goodbye
We sing this deathly lullaby

All of our sins
Shall be reprieved
All of our truths to be set free

Watching the falling rain
Outside heaven's gate form
A silhouette shamefully stained
With a heart that can't be blamed for
An arrow without an aim
That takes flight and strikes the flame of love

6. Adder's Bite

Time crawls
By unseen before our eyes
Inside we draw
Out the sins of empty lives
Of everything we fail to see
Of everything we fail to be
It's fools who draw
Water from a poisoned well

Who lack the blood
To burn throughout their empty shells
Of everything they fail to see
Of everything they fail to be
And at a moment's chance
They synchronize their void-like glance
Into the deepness of this well they're still to understand
And as the rabble drinks
We look for life independently
The pathos of our distance guides our steps so patiently

All these rivers that run deep
Are streams that pull us to our knees
In poisoned waters we can't see
An exit flowing to the sea
Now!
Speak your truth be free!
Like the Adder's poisonous spree
Stop writhing awkwardly
Hiding in the trees
(Do not) listen to the words
A language so absurd
That lingers from the tongues
Of unenlightened curs
All these rivers that run deep
Are streams that pull us to our knees
In poisoned waters we can't see
An exit flowing to the sea
Do they see the signs
That constantly make their marks
In between our eyes
All these silent cries
That never know the reasons why
They compromise
Now their moment's left astray

And their spirits castaway
The constant movement in their mind
Towards the knowledge that betrays
(That)
We're language falsified
A decadence inside
A nihilistic lie
A monumental blight
(With eyes) and yet so blind
No values redefined
A passivity of life
Forever satisfied
Their virtue's in silence
Fear: all coward's guidance
The drive that makes them slaves
The reason they're astray
(With snake) eyes we see the mold
Reality unfolds
In truths so manifold
Perceptions hereto untold
(In per)-spectivism's light
New views from on high
We take on our new roles
To trans-valuate our lives
No more moment's left astray
Nor their spirits castaway
The constant movements in their minds
With new knowledge that designs
They now see the signs
That constantly make their marks
In between our eyes
All these silent cries
That finally know the reasons why
They compromised
Break free from this trial
That convinces you to swallow
All potential found inside

Don't let it run its course within your veins
And extirpate it with this new-found knowledge
Change...
All these rivers that run deep
Beneath the well whose waters we can finally calmly drink
Are streams that carried off those false imaginations
The twilight of all idols and false supplication

7. Derelict Minds

Silence the thoughts that run wild through your head
Leave all your worries behind
And all those moments that you must transcend
Reach out, make peace with your mind

Always feel for
The calm at your core

Restless the nights thinking "What is to be"
Paying no heed to the truth that
The veil of the future shall leave it unseen
So open your mind, calm your sea

Breathe in
Breathe out
Release all doubt

Still your heart and...
Stop imagining your weakness, halt all sorrow and all meekness
Don't let life actualize into something you'll despise
And instead analyze, the passion that prevents your rise
Projecting fears and hopes too far, ahead and seeing only scars
Possibly left down the road, by uncertainty, the unknown
Events yet to phenomenize, experiences you presurmise
The state of sadness of your mind, you must cast out of your life

If you are to know of your individuality
After the storm passes
Wait for the stillness of tranquility

Time comes to a crashing halt
That roots our all your faults
Space becomes the river of your life
Wash out all your strife tonight...

We're formed by the unity of multiplicity
Search deep for your becoming
Entanglements that we can't see

8. Q.E.

AVANDRA LYRICS