HALCYON WAY LYRICS

1. Rise To Revise

[Music & Lyrics: Jon]

March until your feet bleed
Chant until you can't speak
Scream until your ears ring
The people cry freedom

Scale the cliff up to the peak
Climb until your nails bleed
Take it out into the street
The people cry freedom

[Chorus]
This is the time
And this is the place
We march into the fire
In the darkest of times
On the world's largest stages
We stand, we rise to revise...

Ring the bell of liberty
Resist control that they need
Absolute supremacy
The people cry freedom

Turn around the other cheek
The bodies pile at their feet
Still we rise and never cease
The people cry freedom

[Chorus x2]

Again we face into the void
Embrace the fear ‒ grace the toil
Our blood is soaked into the soil
The people cry freedom

To build it up we tear it down
Bring the old men to the ground
And banish now this treachery
The people cry freedom, the people cry freedom

[Chorus x2]

2. Death Of A Dream

[Music: Jon & Zane; Lyrics: Jon]

Oh ‒ death of a dream

You, you feel, that I
Should give you what is mine
Take from my family
Take from when I die
These, these hands, so scarred
Work the soil 'til now I'm gone
Pay for protection
Taxed to death and again

Oh ‒ death of a dream

Boots, you hear, marching
Take you off in the night
Take your will and you rights
No one can claim it's right
Laws, they will no kneel
Abuse them as they feel
Power, they crave and they take
Ignorants, bound in chains

Oh ‒ death of a dream

[Chorus:]
Death of a dream ‒ when the light is gone inside
Death of a dream ‒ rights of kings denied
Death of a dream ‒ when a lie is not a lie
Death of a dream ‒ liberty has died

My mind's no longer my own
Persecuted for my thoughts
Motives hidden
They've got no interest in me
Dreams, they are grounding out
Like a flame that's been snuffed out
Desire's been crushed
Give me faith to believe

Oh ‒ death of a dream

[Chorus]

3. The Age Of Betrayal

[Music: Jon: Lyrics Jon & Steve]

When the dreams turn to dust
They turn to ashes in your mouth
See the wave approaching
Their intentions suck you down

[Pre-Chorus:]
In the blink of an eye
We fought for so long
It's a role reversal
It will bring us down ‒ but no out

[Chorus:]
This is the age of betrayal ‒ you want us down on our hands and knees
This is the age of betrayal ‒ a Judas kiss and silver in your fist
This is the age of betrayal ‒ gleaming in your eyes, the ability to lie
This is the age of betrayal

When the steel turns to rust
When the walls are tumbling down
Like the towers falling
You see them crumble down

[Pre-Chorus, Chorus]

[Bridge:]
Clouds on a pale grey sky
A tapestry woven with compromise
Delusions tied to a scheme
Lies they sell are not the dream
Spoon-fed answers, no questions
Choking down that bitter pill
Reaping the winds of destruction
You exercised, exercised your will

4. The System

[Music & Lyrics: Jon]

Leverage on leverage
The engines of wealth
Fuel for the fire
It consumes itself
System collapses
Bodies fall from the sky
Death's angel passes by
Leaves you asking why

[Chorus:]
A spike impales your soul
All your worth has been inborn
The fall from grace so hard and cold
The system ‒ you've lost control

Stepping off the cliffs
A striking leap of faith
Economies built on nothing less
Than belief and the will to create

System collapses
Bodies fall from the sky
Light of the world enters in
She reaches for the sky

[Chorus]

Building castles upon nothing
Building towers on the sand
Chasing phantoms through the hall
Waiting for the axes to fall

[Chorus x2]

The system ‒ you've lost control

5. Inversion

[Music & Lyrics: Jon]

If the roles were reversed
Could you take a walk in my shoes?
They're resting on eggshells
And I've got so much to lose
If I gave voice to those terms
When I conveyed my mind
Or I said what I was thinking
I'd be destroyed or ostracized

[Pre-Chorus:]
Fear of offense
Fear of ruin
Fear of violence
Fear of the end

[Chorus:]
Turn the tables on me
Turn the tables on you
Everyone's inside out
Change the rules of the game
Play the game, level the blame
Inversion of all you know
Inversion of all you know

An olive branch held our for appeasement
Taken along with our hand
A gun to the head of logic
Reason already shot out back
An elegant source of irony
The poetry of the newly damned
Dropping the lamp at the golden door
Undermining all for which we stand

[Pre-Chorus, Chorus x2]

6. Mouth Without A Head

[Music: Zane & Jon; Lyrics: Zane]

10 o'clock, let's watch the news tonight
See the world burning itself alive
See the people suffering, a third world mentality
Elect another warlord to come and set them free

[Chorus:]
You keep on talking but you're never making sense
Trying to convince me of your high intelligence
But I've heard that faith without works is dead
Just a voice without a face, or a mouth without a head

Too many fanatics looking for a Christ
To be the one who makes the sacrifice
But their own blood must be too high cost
So it's our soldiers lives are lost

[Chorus 2:]
You keep on talking but you're never making sense
Trying to convince me of your high intelligence
But I've heard that faith without works is dead
Just a voice without a face, or a mouth without a head
The words you spit scratch the itch of my ears
But it seems to be enough to stave off everybody's fears
But two weeks later you change what you said
Words without a voice from a mouth without a head

[Bridge:]
All we see ‒ scenes that confirm our darkened fears
All they do ‒ suffocate us through our TV screens
Burn my eyes with their lies and deceit
Take us down to where liars feed...

[Chorus 2]

7. Desecration Day

[Music: Jon, Zane; Lyrics: Jon]

The cold white light of sorrow
The burning black ice of night
It's darkest before the dawning
On our desecration day
Forging our tools to weapons
Bring to bear on everyone
Horsemen ride across the land
On the desecration day

[Chorus 1:]
You can see the towers falling
Watch them crumble to the dust
You can feel the nations burning
On our desecration day

The devil's on the horizon
A fiery gale at his feet
"Build your towers unto me"
All your tears, your pleading denied

The threat of war was foreseen
The fist of heaven cracks the sky
Broken souls lie in defeat
Nothing lives when the horsemen rides

[Chorus 2:]
You can see the towers falling
Watch them crumble to the dust
You can feel the nations burning
On our desecration day
You can watch the bridges burning
See them blackened into ash
You can feel your fear returning
On our desecration day

[Chorus 1, Chorus 2]

8. Icon Of Resolution

[Music: Jon & Kris; Lyrics Jon & Steve]

[The Icon:]
I stand at the golden door
A watchman against the threat of war
I'll enslave those who would betray
And shelter weary souls who's willingly remain

[The Icon:]
They came across the seven seas
The weary find their rest in me
On my scale of judgment I will weigh
I judge you by your actions
Feel the wrath of warmth of my embrace

[Chorus x4:]
My torched held high
My banner raised
If it weren't for me
You would be my slave
I call your name
I will set you free
Your poor and oppressed
I am Liberty

[The Exile:]
Queen of freedom let me into your land
Queen of freedom hold me up when I can't
Queen of freedom let me into this place
Queen of freedom hold me in your embrace
Queen of freedom with arms open wide
Queen of freedom hold up your light
Queen of freedom standing on the shore
Queen of freedom at the golden door

[The Icon:]
I will let you in

9. Inside Looking Out (The Icon & The Ghost)

[Music: Jon & Zane; Lyrics: Jon]

[The [Ghost:]]
What would our fathers have thought?
What would they say right now?
Our house is burning down
Burning down
This is not what we bled for
This is not why our sons have died
Our house is coming down
And we are still inside

[The [Ghost:]]
I'm in the air you breath
I haunt the halls of history
You can sense me all around
I'm the one who denied the crown
I'm the one who shed a tear
When our sons and daughters died right here
On blood-soaked lands, with dirty hands
We grieve yet raise the flag

[The Ghost (Chorus):]
I watch over you
I see the evil that you choose
We fought and died for truth
That you twist and the abuse
I am watching over you
I shed a tear for what you do
From inside looking out
I am the ghost inside your house

[The [Ghost:]]
When threatened from the east
To defend my soil I'll give up peace
Half a million of my children dead
On sands of foreign lands
Now sterile to this day
So with all who dare betray
When men stand tall ‒ with steely eyes
Liberty will guide the way

[Chorus]

[Bridge:]
[The Icon:] Do you hear them?
[Ghost:] I can hear them marching
[The Icon:] Do you see them?
[Ghost:] I can see them massing
[The Icon:] Listen to them
[Ghost:] Hear the soldiers marching
[The Icon:] Hear them coming
[The Icon & The Ghost:] They're coming, they're calling

[The Icon, The Ghost & The Exile:]
What would our fathers have thought?
What would they say right now?
Our house is burning down
Burning down
This is not what we bled for
This is not why our sons have died
Our house is coming down
And we are still inside

[Chorus x2]

[The Icon & The Ghost:]
What would our fathers have thought?
What would they say right now?
Our house is burning down
Burning down
This is not what we bled for
This is not why our sons have died
Our house is coming down
And we are still inside

10. Building The Towers

[Music: Jon; Lyrics: Jon & Steve]

Slave to your pride ‒ not much to your shame
Your evidence of treason for years has been insane
Once you set your hands to it, you could not be denied
No longer will our will stay down deep inside

[Pre-Chorus:]
No longer can it be
The lip service, the pandering
Tell me what I want to hear
It goes out the other ear

[Chorus:]
Brick by brick and stone by stone
Man will try to reach the throne
What once was now is nevermore
The hand of God hast shut the door
Building bricks of straw and clay
Snow-blind fools will rule the day
You climb in pride but fall in shame
The fist of God will smite thy name, smite thy name

Dark as the midnight hour, our future looks so bleak
Write these words upon your heart, forever they shall keep
What a man sows with his hands, so shall he also reap
Revolution speaks to you: the mind, the soul, the feat

[Pre-Chorus, Chorus]

We laid down our arms and raised flag
Of purest white and armistice
Into the abyss we will be dragged
We never thought it'd come to this

[Chorus]







HALCYON WAY LYRICS