EVERGREY LYRICS

1. Forever Outsider

Life crossed the water
While I became the night

We ride in silence
Through the night
We are wildfire
We are the night

What it all comes down to
Was that I never felt like one of you
Light changed and so did my soul
I went from broken to whole
Still knowing that I'd always be
Forever outsider

Always felt like an orphan of shadows
Baptized at night
Always felt like a stranger to mankind
I lied across all borders to justify life
A born denier because life is a lie

What it all comes down to
Was I never felt like one of you
Light changed and so did my soul
I went from broken to whole
Still knowing that I'd always be
Forever outsider

We crossed the main road
Through the fire
Always defied
Because life is a lie

What it all comes down to...

2. Where August Mourn

Winter came
From cold to frozen
Disguised in white
The Arctic Ocean
Along came night
Confined and closing
Too long to touch
And opposed to opening

It came from nothingness
I never got a chance to flee
Never saw it coming
And just needed it to leave me be
I was safe in freedom
From safe to all alone
Like life had planned to desert me
Since day one

If I'm just aching this can't go on
I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need life to touch me

I came too far for my long lost heart
It got too dark
It went too far
Price for truth
Were sacrifices I needed to do
A heartfelt leave
It offered peace

If I'm just aching this can't go on
I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need life to touch me
There must be reasons I'm on my own
I really need life to find me
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need life to touch me

It came from nothingness
I never got a chance to flee
Never saw it coming
And just needed it to leave me be
Need freedom, won't be this alone
Like life had planned to desert me
Since day one

If I'm just aching this can't go on
I went from chasing dreams to all alone
A change of season where August Mourn
I really need life to touch me

If I'm just aching...

3. Stories

I am caught in a riddle
I feel stuck in here
I am lost in the middle
Between the lines
I need escaping
Maybe just for a little
Because I'm right in the middle
Of these new winds and new waves
This storm gives and this storm takes
So if I last through the night
And I'm here tomorrow
I might survive, I might survive

One after one we run blind through the dark
Just to write ourselves new stories
Where we're happy when we cry
To show to all we're too proud to fall
Can't we write ourselves new stories?
Where we lie, where we lie, where we lie

I have fought every battle
My fields of blood on the inside
Unarmed but I fly through the night
And now I have to take sides
I need escaping maybe just for a little
Because I am right in the middle
Of these newborn ways
Where the life's won't change
And the many lives that the storm takes

One after one we run blind through the dark
Just to write ourselves new stories
Where we're happy when we cry
To show to all we're too proud to fall
Can't we write ourselves new stories
Where we lie, where we lie, we lie?

These new waves keep me fighting this battle
Where I'm trying not to drown
You know what I've been through
And I never thought you'd watch us drown
In our quicksand
In this quicksand

One after one we run
We're running blind through darkness
We are our own saviors, deceivers
We rise, we fall to be the greatest of all
Because the writing of new stories
Has begun, has begun, has begun

4. A Dandelion Cipher

Sometimes I wonder
If I'm in this world on my own
If I will ever know
Your secret to wonders
Because I'm
I'm out here, I'm out in the cold
Outside all the doors you once closed
Feels like I've been here before

Why should I keep on striving
If you will never let me in?
Why should I keep on trying when
I'll just end up back where I started
No gold at the end of the rainbow
And no stars to guide my way
And now I walk here alone
Because we're waiting in circles

I grew where nothing could grow
I grew in concrete, in ashes, through cold
A Dandelion Cipher
I locked all the doors I could close
Let illusions keep out the cold
I stayed here forever

Why should I keep on striving
If you will never let me in?
Why should I keep on trying when
I'll just end up back where I started
No gold at the end of the rainbow
No stars to guide my way
And now I walk here alone
Because we're walking in circles

Why should I keep on striving...

5. The Beholder

[feat. James Labrie]

Sun sets the light's in slow decay
A search that never stops but change
And all I ever had has now been washed away
And even though I know my tide is coming
I feel a need to stay right here

Sun sets the light's in slow decay
I drown and now I drift away
I'm at the river bottom
Let the river flow
Because I

Never
Never felt I found my way
I feel like the...
Like the inside's my enemy
Never
Never felt I found my way out
Never felt I found the way out

Run all you can to prevent
That your Heaven's falling
And I can't save your soul
Your drowning and you drift away
I feel my faithlessness has overthrown me
Let river life run through your darkest days
I'm at the river bottom
So let the river flow

Never
I never felt I found my way
I feel like the...
Like the inside's my enemy
Never
Never felt I found my way out

Listen child you'll grow older
You will see and become a beholder

'Cause I have tried my hardest
And can't believe I don't know
Because I know all the hurting
I/You'll always faced this alone

There is a path to be found and
You've got to reach there on your own
So many worlds to discover
So many more than you'll know
You'll finally leave this hurting
To never more feel alone (I feel alone)
And stand on top of all burdens
A brand new world to know
And soon you're so much wiser
And then you're free to become
A beholder

Never...

6. In the Absence of Sun

Sun where's the sun?
Why is it hiding for some?
Sun where's the sun?
The absence of light seems like abstinence
My sense of safety's undone
Got lost in winds too young
Tore to sea unnoticed
But forever present in my essence
Forever

Sense of salt forever
Deeply carved into my essence
Forever present
There was a subtle call
But it might have been too silent
The need to feel desired
It turned to inside blame
And when the calls were left unanswered
My virtue fell in shame
And I became a shadow
And waited for the sun
A non-believer

Drifting further and further
I was soon out of sight
Leaving me to a fate
Where I was shaped by the shadows
In the absence of sun
Never leaving the haze
And if you never walked among shadows
Or never were held in the arms of solitude
Then you never felt how cold it is
In the absence of sun
In the absence of sun
In the absence of sun

Sun where's the sun?
Why is it hiding from some?
Sun where's the sun?
The lack of light is my abstinence
And my sense of safety's undone
Got lost in winds when I was young
Tore to sea unnoticed
But forever present in my essence
Forever

Drifting further and further...

7. Eternal Nocturnal

Hand in hand with the hopeless
I see you drowning in the harbor of the soulless
Your mind is like wild horses
Stampede it rages, you're distorted

And we were watching from afar
And we were hiding in our own dark
Hoping we would be brave enough for you

I'll be your winds when you need a storm
Your sense of hope when you fall
I'll be your shelter when you need a home
I'll be your reasons to all
And when you're feeling down and low
I'll be your eyes in the dark
And I'll be there when your time will come

Eternal nocturnal

What were your reasons for fading?
What were your reasons for straying?
Knew your thoughts were just like wild horses
Explodes and rages, you're distorted

I'll be your winds when you need a storm
Your sense of hope when you fall
I'll be your shelter when you need a home
I'll be your reasons to all
And when you're feeling down and low
I'll be your eyes in the dark
And I'll be there when your time will come

Eternal nocturnal

And if you find yourself on the outside
You never need to feel that you're all alone
Because I'll be there in your times of twilight
Forever nocturnal
I'll be yours eyes in the dark

I'll be your winds when you need a storm
Your sense of hope when you fall
I'll be your shelter when you need a home
I'll be your reasons to all
And when you're feeling down and low
I'll be your eyes in the dark
And I'll be there when your time will come

Eternal nocturnal

8. Escape of the Phoenix

On a day when the world was not awake
I crossed the river and the waters of oblivion
This day all heaven's fell
I want to fly not resurrect
Escape and land in the celestial
Nightfall on my immortal soul
I'm leaving for a new day
As my ashes fall in the meridian

The wings of wonder
A new life arising
Sacrificial arson
From fire to carbon
The ashes crowning
A call to weakness
Escape of the phoenix

On this day the world was not awake
And I stood and had to watch
While the heaven's wept its rivers
Tried to fly not resurrect
Threw myself on the stake to burn
And all the lives where I lived and learned
Nothing's sacred in halos
I'll give this crown to the one who follows

The wings of wonder
A new life arising
Sacrificial arson
From fire to carbon
The ashes crowning
A call to weakness
Escape of the phoenix

From ashes to nothing
Could heaven welcome a traitor?
We are the sacred ashes of her honor
I'm reaching, I'm stretching
To not fall from grace into oblivion
The calling for freedom
Escape of the phoenix

The wings of wonder...

9. You from You

I fought since my youth
I scraped the pain away
I've come to a conclusion
That there are no words to say
Even though I've done all I could
There are so many things I can't do
One is to save you from you

I offer me and all that's true
My peace within might guide you through
Your darkest times and your loneliest days
But I can't save you
I can't save you from you

Because you didn't climb at all
And I didn't want to fall
But I never needed more than your heart
That was all
You never gave it up and I didn't want to fight
In a war on the inside

So I offered me and I saw it through
My peace within I gave it all to you
And in your darkest times
Through your glorious days
I gave it all to you
But I can't save you from you

Because you didn't climb at all
And I didn't want to fall
But I never needed more than your heart
That was all
You never gave it up and I didn't want to fight
In a war on the inside

I'm leaving you, I'm leaving you
From the dead lights
Through the dark nights and the insights
I cannot save you from you

Because you didn't climb at all
And I didn't want to fall
But I never needed more than your heart
That was all
I had to give you up, I didn't last the fight
Because I knew I couldn't save
You from you

10. Leaden Saints

Got the world on my shoulders
Feel its weight to the bone
Got the world on these shoulders
My within is bare to the soul

We are dead, senses fade
Never blamed it on the layout
To be leaden saints
We have strayed to chaos
Never knew there was a dark way in
To be heaven sent

Take this weight from my shoulders
I can't hold it much longer
I you could see what I see
Then maybe you could understand
Just a simple beholder
I just wish you were older
If you'd feel what I feel
Maybe you would lend a helping hand
But I'm on my own
And I climb alone

We are dead, senses fade
Never blamed it on the layout
To be leaden saints
We have strayed to chaos
Never knew there was a dark way in
To be heaven sent

Got the world on my shoulders
Feel its weight to the bones
How do I do this alone

We are dead, senses fade
Never blamed it on the layout
To be leaden saints
We have strayed to chaos
Never knew there was a dark way in
To be heaven sent

11. Run

I believed that the world was not on my side
And if I couldn't feel it was all just lies
Had to have all that was true and all that I knew
Right before my eyes and I never thought
I could be someone new

But I felt done
I felt life could never change
And it was dark
So much darker than today
So I, so I

Run, run, I run

I always felt I was the loneliest soldier
And I always felt that I battled alone
If I could just flee and close my eyes on it all
Then tomorrow would come and it would be gone
So that's why I

Run, run, I run

I wish someone had told me
There is no way to outrun the pain
I wish someone had showed me
That there are some other ways
But maybe I should have known this
Maybe I'm the one to blame
Maybe I was too convinced

But I was done
I felt life could never change
No. Dark
So much darker than today
So I, so I

Run run, I run

That's why I run
When I look back I can't believe
How I thought that I
Could shut the door on some things
That I could never hide
But I only kept running and that's why I run
Can't believe I've been running for this long
And I thought I could run forever more
These are the reasons why I run

12. The Darkness in You

[Artbook Bonus Track]

Of all my wounds there's one I hold
Close to heart never cold
Malice thoughts grows inside
A mind design, a darker kind

I would never waver
I would never fail you ever
Never you

How do I reach the inside of you?
How do I solve the darkness in you?

This is the way to the unknown
A dark design, the design is mine
Can we really hide a secret
Can we really hide at all?
Do we chase within you
Or chase the darkness from you?

I would never waver
I would never fail you ever
Never you

How do I reach the inside of you?
How do I solve the darkness in you?
I'll never waver I'll be through your
Dark times, your cold nights
'Cause I could never fail you
I'll try to chase the darkness from you
Chase the darkness from you

How do I reach the inside of you...

13. The Darkness in You

[Artbook Bonus Track, Instrumental]








EVERGREY LYRICS