HAKEN LYRICS

1. Taurus

We'll be a million faces
A generation lost
A path of self destruction
The Taurus runs amok

Trading greener pastures
For silver-tinted suns
This threat bestowed upon us
Will only strengthen us

Don't look back
A new life's waiting
All not saved will be lost

You'll see a million faces
Fleeing the motherland in droves
Who knows if we will make it?
To that place we'll someday call home

The straw won't break the camel's back
When our backs are up against the wall
Under the cover of your darkness
And so our plight endeavors on

Don't look back
A new life's waiting
All not saved will be lost
If it's a nowhere road
We'll find salvation
Somewhere in Avalon

On the journey with no distance
To a place that we never left
And the suffering is how we overcome

And we question everything we know
In searching for Avalon
Our ambition is how we learn to fail

Don't look back
A new life's waiting (Cleansing the slate or running from your past)
All not saved is lost (All not saved is lost)
Don't slow down on this nowhere road (New life awaits when you reach Avalon)
Where we all belong

2. Nightingale

No perception of passing time
The words struggle to escape her mind
New perspectives to redefine
Birdsong awakens her from the storm

Shuffle the sequence of old paradigms
The rhyme and metre still misaligned
Another page lay burning in the fire
The ink and the feather hold their secrets well

Nightingale
I dream in daylight

One fateful night
Unspoken binds unravelled
I'm ever of the chosen
My signal fire still burning
I feel like I'm guided by my inner totem

Poetic justice arriving after all
When characters and places start to form
A sullen emperor endures his requiem
Can he live with this lament?

A mechanical animal
A dangerous game
That clockwork song it sings
Will send you to your grave

Now heed the nightingale's cautionary tale
Away, away, for I will fly to thee

One fateful night
Unspoken binds unravelled
I'm ever of the chosen
My signal fire still burning
I feel like I'm guided by my inner totem

One fateful night
Unspoken binds unravelled
I'm ever of the chosen
My signal fire still burning
I feel like I'm guided by the totem inside

Dig in with your claws
I push my talons into your skin
Heal me with your song
You are forgiven for all your sins

Dig in with your claws
Sleep now in blissful anaesthesia
Heal me with your song
Still no perception of passing

Nightingale
I dream in daylight
Nightingale mine
See me take flight

One fateful night
Unspoken binds unravel me
My signal fire still burning
I feel like I'm guided by the totem

One fateful night
Unspoken binds unravel me
My signal fire still burning
I feel like I'm guided by the totem

3. The Alphabet Of Me

It's time to wake up and die or regenerate
You're never gonna retire your power games
Power games, no
Slip from the scene of the crime like a rattlesnake
From all this deafening silence I walk away
Walk away, walk away, oh

In the red and the grey
I'm the sage on a ship of fools
There's a tear in the rain, momentary pain
I will feel till the end of the road
To be born falling into line or fall like dominoes?
We fall like dominoes

In the blink of a spark
When the links to our past ignite
Burning half as long as the fire in my soul
That is blazing twice as bright
Paper dreams wouldn't change anything
I would hurt the ones I love
To protect the ones I loathe

It's time to wake up and die or regenerate
If you're part of me, quit me now
We're never gonna reform if we replicate
Replicate, replicate, no
I'm reaching my breaking point

Object of my affection
Am I still drunk on the memory of us?
How instant our connection
Perfected then lost

A room without a view
A version of the truth
Is all I am to you
I'd flee if I wanted to
Retire from being used

Even if I could bleed
All you would see
Is the alphabet of me
What more can one do
When years define you?

It's time to wake up and die or regenerate
If you're part of me, quit me now
We're never gonna reform if we replicate
Replicate, replicate, no
I'm reaching my breaking point
I feel it's time to move on
But we're all in a state of retrograde
Ride the anarchy, live your truth

Object of my affection
Am I still drunk on the memory of us?
How instant our connection
Perfected then lost

4. Sempiternal Beings

In stasis, it bends but won't break us
Aurelia, majestic as a lion's roar embodies her
Terranean, threaten and shield us
Endanger, recoil and rewind the tapes
She's born again

Always returning
How is this possible?
It's never over
I'll meet you in another life!

Medusa, a haunting allure
Elusive ectoplasmic residue
She'll dance for you
Inducing hydro-cosmic dreams in you
Of eternal blue

Spineless
Stinger
Servant
Healer

And I'm seven less heartbeats away
But no one's keeping time
The lengths I would go through to meet with you
In another life
And the ocean between us is where
We find inner peace
When will we cease to convince ourselves
We're sempiternal beings?

Stoned by her gaze
The queen of despair
Oh, chimeless bell of snakes
Delight the liquid air
She emanates the squall and serene
Consuming no more
Than she wants or she needs

And I'm seven less heartbeats away
But no one's keeping time
The lengths I would go through to meet with you
In another life
And the ocean between us is where
We find inner peace
When will we cease to convince ourselves
We're sempiternal beings?

(Glowing with abandon)
(Ambassador of balance)

Oh, is it then or now?
It's a long way down
Neither day nor night
Is this death or life?

And I'm seven less heartbeats away
But no one's keeping time
The lengths I would go through to meet with you
In another life
And the ocean between us is where
We find inner peace
When will we cease to convince ourselves
We're sempiternal beings?
(Seven less heartbeats away)
And I'm seven less heartbeats away
But no one's keeping time
(The lengths I would go through to stay)
The lengths I would go through to meet with you
In another life
(An ocean between us avails)
And the ocean between us is where
We find inner peace
(We keep convincing ourselves)
When will we cease to convince ourselves
We're sempiternal beings?

5. Beneath The White Rainbow

Dazed by the crimson haze
We recall cinder cascades
Hearts beating faster now
For we know what future awaits

Days passing without any semblance of a name
Eagle-eyed as they scour the page
Away though the spirit hides the tongue will surely tell of what comes to be
Words of weight offered without a remedy

Only with you can I find the way out
Leaving all but the spirits behind
Till that day comes we could always take shelter
Among all the ferns and the pines
Violently sundered, the tide washes under us
Cleansing our fears as they close in
There you'll be waiting on wine-dark horizons
Beneath the white rainbow

Lick the wounds; cauterise
Mend these unearthly binds
Interdimensional
Spirit, body and mind
Love, what be thy name if not sorrow?

Much like a needle through the heart
One day the madness will end
The hunters slinking through the bracken
Ready to tear this reverie apart

My grief at leaving you is boundless
But I must never return
So in the forest you will find me there
I'll leave a trail that leads you home

Now burn the bridges end to end
Fall to the river below
For I was nothing but an impostor
Wide-eyed and chasing white rainbows

The years of sacrifice erode
The warp and weft of my soul
Our wretched hovel is devoured
By yellow meadows flooding with rose

Only with you can I find the way out
Leaving all but the spirits behind
Till that day comes we could always take shelter
Among all the ferns and the pines
Violently sundered, the tide washes under us
Cleansing our fears as they close in
There you'll be waiting on wine-dark horizons
Beneath the white rainbow

6. Island In The Clouds

Embryonic
All I wanted was to disappear
It's ironic
'Cause there's a chance that I could make it here
Inferior response
To the experience of consciousness we're gifted
A symbiotic
Secular spirituality

Fear in our hearts, the lost are rarely found
We're never far from the island in the clouds

It's symbolic
I never thought that life could find a way
Now it dawns on me
No creature here was built to be contained
I've seen the way you propagate
A need for empty paraphernalia
So fall upon me
Too blind to see the error of your ways
In this smog of blame

Fear in our hearts
The lost are rarely found
But we're never far
From the island in the clouds

As we stare into the sun
They reveal themselves to us
In the abstinence of creed
We submit to reason

Dogs of war we let slip
Kindness I could kill you with
The passion of a Judas kiss
Blinding lights, we blinked and missed

Our heads above the parapet
Larger than our lives appeared
With one foot in Elysium
Sensing the adventure's kicking in

Seraphim servants cry
Havoc from the jaws of time
A mouth of madness opens wide
Bark as sharp as she can bite

An ocean of a thousand knives
Ripples through our future lives
Our best intentions soon backfire
You picked your bones
But never made this right

Fear in your soul
A coil tightly bound
But we'll never fall
From the island in the clouds

As we stare into the sun
They reveal themselves to us
In the abstinence of creed
We submit to reason

7. Lovebite

I knew that loving you
Could never be simple, simple
The widow licks her wounds
She's the devil with the details, details
As I sink into you
Oh, the first cut ain't the deepest, deepest

You and I cannibalise
My heart's still beating on the outside
We consummate, decapitate
I taste the venom of your love bite

The danger of the thrill
A fatal attraction
Fractured
Another view to a kill
Caught in the torment of her rapture
Captured

As if you couldn't be more reckless
I see you've eaten somebody else
Won't let my jealousy affect us
Is too much not enough for you?

How many others came before me?
You know the pleasure's always in the hunt
So make it quick and kill me softly
Is this your idea of true love?

You and I cannibalise
My heart's still beating on the outside
(The devil's at your throat)
We consummate, decapitate
I taste the venom of your lovebite
(I'll tear apart your world)

It's over
You're a fool to think that you've been victimised
(Eat me at the altar)
Devoured
Have my actions spoken louder than words?

You and I cannibalise
My heart's still beating on the outside
(I'll eat your flesh from head to toe)
We consummate, decapitate
I taste the venom of your love bite
(I'll leave your rotting corpsehere to decompose)

8. Elephants Never Forget

Take a little look behind the curtain
If you dare
If you are certain
Gaze upon a perversion
Cross my palm
A penny will buy you a soul

Pain, the only thing it feels
Bury your shame
We are all friends here
Ladies and not so gentlemen
A specimen so disturbing
Behold our beast of burden!

I remember
I remember another way
I remember
I remember a better day
I remember
I remember another way
I remember
Long before humanity

Must've disappointed it's father
Does it have an elephant mother?
Should we take it over to the gallows?
Why's it hiding in the shadows?

He, hidden by a veil of misery
Woven by a thousand threads of ire
Forced to live a life of
Secrecy in abnormality

If I should fail in pleasing you
Could I create myself anew?
Would I be measured by my soul?
Could I be treasured in your home?
Take me

I remember
I remember another way
I remember
I remember a better day
I remember
I remember another way
I remember
Long before humanity

I feel something inside of me
The noble beast of dignity
I see the symbol in my hand
Leviathan of Doggerland

Tell me who I am
Pull me from the sand
Help me understand
Take my hand

Maketh me lie down beside the water's edge
Leadeth me through paths of righteousness
Thou art with me, thy rod and staff comfort me
In the presence of my enemies

Heavy I drag my footsteps
Jackals prowl a fog-draped, cold Whitechapel
Mammoth ghosts tusk my demons
Ancient soldiers stand in apparition

Behind the curtain in the corner of the room
Pathetic specimen you cower in the gloom

I, hidden by a veil of dignity
Woven by a thousand threads of ire
I choose to live a life of
Secrecy in my ascendancy

If I should fail in pleasing you
Could I create myself anew?
Would I be measured by my soul?
Could I be treasured in your home?
Take me

I remember
I remember another way
I remember
I remember a better day
I remember
I remember another way
I remember
Long before humanity

I remember
I remember another way
I remember
I remember a better day
I remember
I remember another way
I remember
I never will forget you

9. Eyes Of Ebony

Ash clouds in the distance littered the sky
Light faded in the world as I said "goodbye"
The caw of the raven pierced the air
Weep now or nevermore

I peered into the eyes of ebony
In a doleful state of reverie
Frozen in the umbra of the past
As melancholy washed over me

Stolen from the light
Unintended
Fighting for your life
Liberated now

You stood tall amid the roar
Raging against the black light
(Black light)
The hermit's timeless melody
Will shine on forevermore
(Shine on)

Stolen from the light
A primordial giant
At the gates of Valhalla
Freed from limbo
You were fighting for your life
In the heat of the flame
As the dying embers burnt to ash

The white rhino sang his last lullaby
At the great gig in the sky
The white rhino sang his last serenade
As his light began to fade

The shadowed raven above
It called you beyond the veil

Stolen from the light
A primordial giant
At the gates of Valhalla
Freed from limbo
You were fighting for your life
In the heat of the flame
As the dying embers burnt to ash

At the end of your rope
In the umbra time stands still
A deathly silence cracks the air
The eyes of ebony stare no more

An existential twilight
A sliver of an eternity
The time has come now to let go
Be rid of your mortal coil

The ash clouds have blown away
As the sun rises on a new day
You gave me the power to believe
As we climbed to the mountaintop

You left your footprints in the sand
Immortalised, you'll never walk alone
You gave me the power to dream
As we strode to the mountaintop





HAKEN LYRICS