CULT OF LUNA LYRICS

1. A Greater Call

We leave
We are not conquerors
Upward
We are not conquerors
Toward new dreams
We are not conquerors
A new hope
We float with the tide
An odyssey

We are not conquerors
Underneath
We are not conquerors
The world left behind
We are not conquerors
As we
We float with the tide
As we escape gravity

Closing my eyes
And I
Embrace darkness
The stars will not
Guide us
But their light will
Show us the way

We are not conquerors
The stars will not guide us, close your eyes embrace the darkness
We float with the tide
The stars will not guide us, close your eyes embrace the darkness
We are not conquerors
The stars will not guide us, close your eyes embrace the darkness
We float with the tide
The stars will not guide us, close your eyes embrace the darkness

No room for fear
A greater call
A sacrifice
For the benefit of all

With the sun at our backs
We heed and
We bleed

This is
We are not conquerors
The first step
We are not conquerors
The reach the infinite
We are not conquerors
What lies ahead
We float with the tide
Is unknown

We are not conquerors
It's a quest
We are not conquerors
For survival
We are not conquerors
Past all
We float with the tide
Known frontiers

2. Chevron

Reason has left with someone else.
Listen close then shift it to the shelf.
It smells like rain is coming soon.
A muffled sound of thunder startles you, too.

Batten down.
The wandering winter snow that falls
Like lonely little diamonds heading home
To find instead of something nothing.
Not a single soul.
And swaybacks make their way around the room.

When all your dreams are falling through,
She'll say, "I told you so."

Light, bright.
Shut down night.
The beast has come to gloat.
Smug and listless, is what this is, lie down 'til it's done.
Your hackles are raised, its stories held back late,
And speaks to all the wrong that's come and gone, said and done.

It's so lovely the way your skin has raised to seed and back again.

Swaybacks make their way around the room,
While you talk too high the list goes on and on and on
With no click three times to send you spinning home
And swaybacks make their way around the room.

The beast has come to gloat.
I told you so, it said
The beast has come to gloat.
I told you so, it said

Light, bright.
Shut down night.
The beast has come to gloat.
Smug and listless, is what this is, lie down 'til it's done.
Your hackles are raised, its stories held back late,
And speaks to all the wrong that's come and gone, said and done.

The beast has come to gloat.
I told you so, it said
The beast has come to gloat.
I told you so, it said

And now you see not blue, but red
A toothless shift to dark again
"I told you so," she said.

A perfect thing, that change of guard
A turnaround that speaks in scars
"I told you so," it said, she said, it said

A perfect thing, that change of guard
A turnaround that speaks in scars
"I told you so," it said, she said, it said

3. The Wreck of S.S. Needle

The members of his squad grow thick
A testament to "get rich quick"
No sign of mismatched features
Secondary organs from within

So on command they open
Winding clockwork sirens as they come
Scramble the rock face through the glare of morning sun – to run

Your time is costlier than fine
The wreck of S.S. Needle
Simpletons that want all in and
And render horror feeble

Splinters always hide under the skin
From glitter of the pin
To brave a friend in battle comes
The thimble with his sign:
"You've got to spit to see the shine
Let me see you run this gamut blind"

Your voice, it shakes, you smile so dryly
Let us see and touch you lightly
The moon is so unseemly bright
Cut your hair off, watch all night
Like splinters always hide under the skin

Like battles of the thimble and the pin
Put me down where I can see you run

Like battles of the thimble and the pin
Put me down where I can see you run

Your time is costlier than fine
The wreck of S.S. Needle
Simpletons that want all in and
And render horror feeble

Knees go down and up in time
To sleep in foreign seas well
Silence while we cross this spine
Ring out the warning bell

You've got to spit to see the shine
Let me tell you – run and try to hide

Put me down where I can see you run
Put me down where I can see you run
Put me down where I can see you run
You run, you run, you run
Put me down where I can see you run

Put me down where I can see you run
You run, you run, you run
Put me down where I can see you run

Put me down where I can see you run
You run, you run, you run
Put me down where I can see you run

Put me down where I can see you run
You run, you run, you run
Put me down where I can see you run

Put me down where I can see you run
You run, you run, you run
Put me down where I can see you run

Put me down where I can see you run
You run, you run, you run
Put me down where I can see you run

Put me down where I can see you run
You run, you run, you run
Put me down where I can see you run

Put me down where I can see you run
Put me down where I can see you run
Put me down where I can see you run
You run, you run, you run
Put me down where I can see you run

4. Approaching Transition

Natt varje natt
Skiftar färg
Öppnar sig
Flyter bort
Bort från allt
Ekar tomt överallt
Natt varje natt
Längre bort
Längre ut
Öppet hav
Utan ljud
Tiden går
Tidens Slut

Lights, lights go out
Sky grows dark
Endless nights
Looking up
Reaching out
Passing through
Moving on
Close getting close
Hard to breath
Getting cold
I can’t speak
Out of time
Close my eyes
One last beat.
I run. Momentum gained.
Slowly the dawn is raised.
Light transforms into a solid red.
Red as the blood. Red as the lie.
I crack the surface and continue on.
Waves form in every direction, to find their home.

5. Cygnus

Can you see what's following you
It has a mind of its own
Steps so quiet you can't hear it
A parasite without a home

It's got a smile but you don't trust it
Concrete reasons unknown
Put it behind you in the space of your day
A parasite without a home

Can you see what's following you
It has a mind of its own
Steps so quiet you can't hear it
A parasite without a home

Leave her to sing her withered songs
In tunnels painted like the dawn
Bring me the echo 'til it's gone

Nothing escapes this hold
Desperate against the cold
Its flesh made out of stardust
Iron oxide into rust

To write a letter to the night
This songless, sightless, silent giant
This feeble plea
A speck of dust
A drop of sea
It's locked in you and me
Rip it out and feel its heat
Forget the way things seem to be
Meaningless to the one and only

Leave her to sing her withered songs
In tunnels painted like the dawn
Bring me the echo 'til it's gone

Nothing escapes this hold
Desperate against the cold
Its flesh made out of stardust
Iron oxide into rust

It's got a smile but you don't trust it
Concrete reasons unknown
Put it behind you in the space of your day
A parasite without a home

And she'll be standing strong
Her hair is lost in storm
Open your mouth, let air rush in
To get a sense of her form

And she'll be standing strong
Her hair is lost in storm
Open your mouth, let air rush in
To get a sense of her form

She'll be standing while you suffer
Her hair is lost in the storm
Open your mouth, let air rush in
To get a sense of her form

But if the audience is imminent
And if your parasites come home
Remember the old adage
Deep roots are not reached by frost

Leave her to her withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her
Leave her to her withered song
Withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Write your
Sightless, songless, silent giant
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Write your
Sightless, songless, silent giant
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Write your
Sightless, songless, silent giant
Silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Write your
Sightless, songless, silent giant
Silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Leave her to her withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Write your letter to the night
Sightless, songless, silent giant
Sightless, songless, silent giant

Leave her to her withered song
Leave her to her withered song
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Tunnels painted like the dawn
Write your letter to the night
Write your letter to the night
Sightless, songless, silent giant
Sightless, songless, silent giant

6. Beyond the Redshift

[Vinyl Bonus Track, Instrumental]








CULT OF LUNA LYRICS