KATATONIA LYRICS

1. Heart Set to Divide

In times of surrender
I am shedding my scars
I was sick
But I was set for the stars
The robe wasn't mine
But I wore it still
In the sunset of age
On the weight of my limbs

Closed was the door to my past perception
And my disposition
Had then been changed
I opened my mind to all the love forsaken
You saw my white flag
You saw our shadows merge

Through tides of repentance
My words led to deed
In their wake
See how I sway
Eyes fixed on the horizon
Bleak as it seems
I let the words relapse
And return to a dream

Then glide into the night
All my memories unbroken
I let the raptors circle me
To become their only prey
I see the beast laying waste
I see his wings keep unfolding
His name strewn across the sky
And reflected on the world

This is my elegy for love
Their covenant
Gold for our blood

Came to stay in exile
Transmigration at a halt
I could not cross
I had no choice but to make peace
Reach higher ground
Every breath now without a sound
Every breath now without a sound

2. Behind the Blood

Rivers rush
Behind the blood
The cinder skies come alive
With this drop of sunset
How far can we go
Along the elusive flood
I've been waiting all of my life to be with you

Such as pale spark
Such a long wait
Before you would let me know
Before you would bless me with your thunder
The ground shakes
It carries the weight of the letting go
I can feel you tear me asunder
My love
I can feel you push and give way to drowning
I can feel you pierce my heart

Hammers thrust
Within the cells
You're a torch to the temple of depression
Saturnalian curse
These are my heaving words
I will do it all over again to be with you

Motionless now
Venin is in the blood
You're a preacher without a cross
Give me some trouble
Get me some trouble in
I can't wait
I can't wait again

3. Lacquer

My voice channeling
A circuit's end
The house we lived in
Stricken with blight
Finding ways to kill the pain
Let the river run wild
Dreams shattering
Aerial sound

Scrape the lacquer
Can't you see it's all tarnished

Tried the poise
To radiate
Tried my words
To illustrate
Finding ways to end the pain
I let the river run wild
Dreams shattering
Fixing to die

The levee breaking
I can't live to fight once more
The road to the grave is straight as an arrow
I'm just staying around to sing your song
Baby

My voice travelling
Soaring bird above your head
The house we lived in
Ridden with disease

4. Rein

Erased my plan
Had nothing better to do
Hollow sky
Dead to our collective eye
No rebellion
No hostility inside
Just indifference
A bit of quiet
And a slow descending curve
To keep you dreaming
Yeah
Of consolation

You drink my words in the wake of your sorrow
You walk beside me and it feels like a hundred years
The plans you make for the perpetual tomorrow
Will be collapsing still

This time I'm losing the battle
There are too many things to overcome

I seek respite
The comfort of apathy
Burial time
Submit to the non-divine

Did you see
The soot in my eyes
The long night
The spiralling lights
I'm so tired
The scars in my mind
It didn't end well
But you had me on fire

5. The Winter of Our Passing

I navigate the dark
I bow before the flame I have deserted
Step off the map and let it go
Then focus on the fade

Stillness of the day
Renewal was the death of my ambition

To get higher
I have to go so low

Sold my worth
Made time for it
While I waited for something lasting
Until you would come running my way
To stay
But what does it matter now
It's the winter of our passing
Sold my trust
And my love too

Disregard the soul
Heart is made of mist
And still it's thinning
Bad news for you is we are fucked
And you don't know where we're heading next

The feeling that did remain
If we take some time to remember it
The feeling of what was good
Do you recall it at all

6. Vanishers

Drifting like wood
Our years
In the rivers of the aftermath
They shattered our right to wonder
Delivered us from free will
Our stories were thrown on the fire
Burning like bibles
They shattered our right to wonder
Exposed us to constraint

Hey
We're dead now
Affinity has been found below the ground
Beyond the heart's vow
The open road
Amnesia bound

Our carbon shells deserted
We came so far for nothing
Unsung
Fixed on dead grass

Who will remain
And wake up to the sound of sorrow

When your skies are clearing
When your battles are fought
When mercy returns
To all of your thoughts
Remember the carnage
The vanishers trail
Our souls of the sunset
Drifting away

7. City Glaciers

Waiting for warmth
Endless the days
Argent haze
As the remedy flows into
Concealed veins

Where are we to run
Our season won't come
And everything you have said so far has been wrong

Algidity
It's late in the evening here
The wind dying down
The lights are leaning
No more sound

Read my lips, love
Fill your lungs with words
Lest we forget to explore
Bring back our revered dreams
Our month of May
Memories left my heart sore

White giants sleep
Along the roads
Our dead end tracks
In times as vile as these
I want us back

City glacier of sordid snow
Darkness comes in from the street and glides back out again
My voice is shifting ever so slow
The prints of my fingers sing upon your skin

8. Flicker

So cruel your desire
It pulled me under
But the drapery of my eye won't fall
I lie in wait for the night to find you
Sepia teeth and claw

Hope was changing lanes
I had to turn
Changed my pace
Either way
I grew so old

This is how I disappear
Separated from the dead twin
No hound is on my trail now
Journey to the heart of your deceit
And defining my shed skin
With no one waiting
I am waiting for no one

Departure from the terminus
Arriving on the 4th
Weightless in the arms of none
Flick of the switch, my name lit up
Flickering in white, then gone

9. Lachesis

We're sundered
Our cards were dealt and what did you receive
In my rest
In all my coming nights
I will dream for you to see
And my words
Will be spilled upon the ground
And sorrow must be freed

Morning
At long last sleeping
No colours to wake me

10. Neon Epitaph

How wild the wind came in
On the day when I found out
Passage of the one dead star
Its black dust lingering
Seeping through to my lungs
I fall towards the skyline
I drown my sorrows here
In liquids clear
Time for absolution
How the dead birds sing
They're right atop my roof

Take my offering
My promise can never be undone
The weight of midnight
Replaced by the shadow of a sun
I hold you in my arms
And it's farther than you've ever been
Little one

Adrift in sacred vertigo
The name is wandering
Our neon epitaph
Time for absolution
All the dead birds sing
They're right atop my roof

Shadow of my shadow
Cling not to my grief
I am long left behind now
You are free

11. Untrodden

There comes a time for all of us
To set our unfortunate sails
Our chance to part with the unrest
The open trail, the fever's crest

Will you meet me there
Underneath the pallid city lights
In the rain of Summerland
Over the ashes
Our memories in open hands

My words must levitate
And reverberate through the void
The nails are in, the pressure's there
The music of loss is in the air

Thought I saw you in the street
Standing still
Watching me
I would fall down on my knees
I would love to surrender to nothingness
But I'll stay another year
To see if things might change
Remain where you are
My love will protect you always

12. Closing Of The Sky

[Bonus Track]

I keep the dogs at bay
With conscience free from sin
My eyes beyond the great cold absence
It's where my farthest love lies and waits

I feel the oceans coil
Feel the chemicals burn
I rest in the long arms of torpor
It's for the closing sky
That I yearn

Thoughts like vapor
Views of nothingness appear
Echo the labor
Await the unforgiving years

Can I have a change in my perspective now
(Blue moves out of my range)
A shift in this asperity
(Love drifts away)
A change of colors through my eyes
(I had to let you go)
The token of a strategy

Into the ultra void
In the sleeper's white nest
I dream in a damaged sequence
Of where my oldest love lies at rest

I feel the oceans coil
Feel the chemicals burn
I rest in the long arms of torpor
It's for the closing sky
That I yearn

Thoughts like vapor
Views of nothingness appear
Echo the labor
Await the unforgiving years

Do I ever change
Blue moves out of my range
And love drifts away
I had to let you go
Dissolving our analogy

Can I have a change in my perspective now
(Blue moves out of my range)
A shift in this asperity
(Love drifts away)
A change of colors through my eyes
(I had to let you go)
The token of a strategy

13. Fighters

One man down
Five more left to go
Five more left to go

Look I told you so
We never stop
If we said that
We'll back it up
For sure
You know

We're fighters
We're fighters
We're fighters
We're fighters
We're fighters

If you fear the heat
You best be leaving
You gotta stand back
If you don't love the beating
For me and my crew
Don't play for keeps
We blow up
And clear the streets







KATATONIA LYRICS