KATATONIA LYRICS

1. Austerity

I thought things would take off
But they cooled down
Your voice on the phone
I hear traffic behind

Violent rain
Outside looking out
Looking up
Fragments of sky
Looking to leave
Transmit and deceive
Kill off the fortune tellers

You say that woe is always on your mind
You drag me back in for a breath of comfort
No longer telling wrong from right
The ghostlike horizon of your eye

I hear things aren't well
Since you sold me out
I remember you clear
Your rituals of doubt
With city lights from 1988
Sprinkled like dust
On your window pane

You say that woe is always on your mind
You drag me back in for a breath of comfort
No longer telling wrong from right
The ghostlike horizon of your eye

Maelstrom
I'm drifting away
I'm staying under
You fall back to aged ideals
Controlled by thunder
Ruled by dishonour
Come feel
I am not real

Woe is always on your mind
You drag me back in for a breath of comfort
No longer telling wrong from right
The ghostlike horizon of your eye

2. Colossal Shade

We are gathered here tonight
His apostles in the moonlight
He's coming in
A foul saint coming marching in

Engineer of the colossal shade
This is us
Losing grip of the daylight
Letting go of the daylight

He is the voice of our demise
Spitting fire like a mountain
This is us

Let's drain the source
And trade it for the greater high
Just say the word
I'll give up my final piece of freedom
Collapse my mind
I'm ready for the crowning blow
Come what may
I'm ready to enjoy the treason

Satellite star
My future watching me
Transmitting scars
My future watching me

We are gathered here tonight
His apostles in the moonlight
He's coming in
A foul saint coming marching in

Engineer of the colossal shade
This is us
Losing grip of the daylight
Letting go of the daylight

Let's drain the source
And trade it for the greater high
Just say the word
I'll give up my final piece of freedom
Collapse my mind
I'm ready for the crowning blow
Come what may
I'm ready to enjoy the treason

3. Opaline

See my scars
They come from the other half
The drowning god
My words are bouncing off the ground
I see them all around

But your back was turned
My heart had to learn
These years
What a theft
Forty-six now
How many left?

Recall the red sun burning
Over the avenues and into our view
Radiance that signified
Magnified
Divergent hue

I see the last day turning
Straight into emptiness
How did it get so late?
Your little voice in shadow now
Sowing seeds to segregate

Opaline
Saw the trail of the fleeting twin
Through last year's grass
With the curtain closing in a bit
I will go where I see fit

Love me not
For I was never one to pass the test, no
All for the best
You're heading east
If you go now
I go west

I see the last day turning
Straight into emptiness
How did it get so late?
Your little voice in shadow now
Sowing seeds to segregate

Gliding
Weightless
Through the vapour
Off the map and into loss
No more wisdom here to gather
No more boundaries to cross

I see the last day turning
Straight into emptiness
How did it get so late?
Your little voice in shadow now
Sowing seeds to segregate

I had a futile dream
It rose from loving you
But the debt has broken my back
There's no need to retaliate
As your train has left our track

4. Birds

I can't wait out
The longest journey
Must lose the grip
At the fingertip
I won't return
From the circumscription
Walking past the compass now
To forget my dream

Shut down my mind
Is the heart brave enough yet
Uncover the skies
And show me the birds
The birds
They rise
Premonitions of the other side

Time well spent
In the chapel of Eschaton
Smog of days through nights the same
Oh the spell is kicking in
I commend the dereliction
Last look at the cityscape
Before the change

Shut down my mind
Is the heart brave enough yet
Uncover the skies
And show me the birds
The birds
They rise
Premonitions of the other side

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Shut down my mind
Is the heart brave enough yet
Uncover the skies
And show me the birds
The birds
They rise
Premonitions of the other side

5. Drab Moon

Pale beats the heart of this bystander
Shutting down, fog on lens
A drab moon
To match my lowering standards
Suspended in deceptive light
Blind and reckless towards my own condition
Memorized the endless city

Woe to you my suspicion
Always there to say goodbye but come again

Low I go
Compromised
But never enough it seems
Low I go, go, go
Spiraling down
Have never enough to pay
I don't have the means to stay
Resilient

To see Saturn ascending
To trade my cold sharp nights
Oh, my beloved
To find you this evening
Oh, the prettiest eyes locked with mine

I have waited, waited, waited
Couldn't find another reason to live on
But you shake my blood like a raging sea
So I'm bound for the joy of sorrow
If you go there with me

Low I go
Compromised
But never enough it seems
Low I go, go, go
Spiraling down
Have never enough to pay
I don't have the means to stay
Resilient

Oh, just one more thing
I hope it doesn't go unnoticed that my body wants to sing
Oh, just one more thing
I hope it doesn't go unnoticed that my body needs to sing
With you

I have waited, waited, waited
Couldn't find another reason to live on
But you shake my blood like a raging sea
So I'm bound for the joy of sorrow
If you go there with me

6. Author

Feel the future
Sift through your days
In your palace of wretched steel
See my absence as something good

Oh, grant your eyes a little rest
Turn your face towards your fortune
See my absence as something good

Author of scars
I see your hands upon my epitaph
Then you shift into a looking glass
A sky void of stars

Touch the concrete
Placed on my chest
And chain the songbirds to your argent dome
Confirm my fate as disposable

Oh, grant your eyes a little rest
Turn your face towards your fortune
And keep your promises negotiable

Author of scars
I see your hands upon my epitaph
Then you shift into a looking glass
A sky void of stars

It's shaking
My trembling howl
It's breaking
Overtaking

Author of scars
I see your hands upon my epitaph
Then you shift into a looking glass
A sky void of stars

Creator of flaws
I know you will be the last to laugh
Then you shift into a looking glass
A sky void of stars

7. Impermanence

I step outside to be defeated
Oh, I'm suspended by a parting thread
A fool awash with wine
Migrated far to be convicted
You sucked me in and you bled me dry
It's a song we need to cry

Even if we try
We can't live forever
I gave you my shards of sky
But we can barely see the reflection
We'll just live to see the essence die

I'm calculating our criterion
And listen hard for the note of serenity
But I didn't mind the heat
I remember well the contradictions
How you turned your face towards the city lights
And the shadow fell behind

Even if we try
We can't live forever
I gave you my shards of sky
But we can barely see the reflection
We'll just live to see the essence die

Even if we try (Try)
We can't live forever
I gave you my shards of sky
But we can barely see the reflection
Even if we try (Even if we try)
We can't live forever
I gave you my shards of sky
But we can barely see the reflection
We'll just live to see the essence die

8. Sclera

Meet up at dusk
Out on the tracks
Quietly stare with poisoned eyes

There's nothing quite like time to tell how it is
We all tremble neath the unforgiver
Terrified
But with no reason to show it yet
If we come to higher ground in the future
I will assure you that nothing was your fault
So take my chance to lose another battle
But feel nothing at all

Meet up at dusk
Out on the tracks
Quietly stare with poisoned eyes
And it's my turn
It's taking off again
It's time to find out what's on the back of my skin
Check your instinct baby
I could have been yours

We are standing safe outside of knowledge
Where nothing ever can or will be taught
So take your right and throw it on the fire
Will change nothing at all

And it's my turn
It's taking off again
It's time to find out what's on the back of my skin
Check your instinct baby
I could have been yours

You think it's summer
But it's not
It's deceiving your eyes and paralyzing mine
You change the course
You're overlooking your defence
Our tattered flag
It's reaching for your hands

But you shut your mind to it
You fixed spikes around my heart

Meet up at dusk
Out on the tracks
Quietly stare with poisoned eyes
And it's my turn
It's taking off again
It's time to find out what's on the back of my skin
Check your instinct baby
I could have been yours

9. Atrium

Heart is running low
Vanquished and confined
As we walk through the corridor
Measuring the dark
Until the meter says we can't take no more

You feel good about it
You say
You need to feel good about it
Still ridden with spite
Language is defied
As we walk through the corridor

We sing to the night
Abolishing the promise
Our constellation is so far from reach
I'm fading from your sky
The shutdown is complete
You turned away despite my loving

Time is burning slow
You beckon on the way
As you walk through the exit door
While estimating the losses rising
The venom in the glass says I need more
Yeah

You still feel good about it
You say
You need to feel good about it
Still ridden with spite
Language is defied
As we walk through the corridor

We sing to the night
Abolishing the promise
Our constellation is so far from reach
(I touched your ember with a little bit of my wing)
I'm fading from your sky
The shutdown is complete
You turned away despite my loving

In a room, Marriott, New York
Checking in to be held by you
Then checking out
Direction is shuffled back to nil
Caught in your maze still

We sing to the night
Abolishing the promise
Our constellation is so far from reach
(I touched your ember with a little bit of my wing)
I'm fading from your sky
The shutdown is complete
You turned away despite my loving

10. No Beacon To Illuminate Our Fall

That star used to shine
But it fell below the line
Dropped under my eyes
Thrown to the old shade
And shall never live again

In the parlour of dusk, inception of suspense
Channeling words to trouble the quiet
Surrender into the dark spread of a wing
It's visible now how our past freedom turns to dust

Approaching our departure
No solace in our call
Scattered across the skyline
No beacon to illuminate our fall

No dreaming back to everlasting light
No dreaming back to everlasting light

I arm my dead mind
With the final reason
Will sell it to the lowest bidder
My final reason

I arm my dead mind
With the final reason
Will sell it to the lowest bidder
My final reason

I arm my dead mind
With the final reason
Will sell it to the lowest bidder
My final reason

It won't matter if you get back beneath my hand
No black magic ever enough to command

Approaching our departure
No solace in our call
Scattered across the skyline
No beacon to illuminate our fall

Sedated
Turning myself in
Complicated
The more you hurt
The more I love you
Vacated
The sickness tears my skin
Terminated
The more you hurt
The more I love you

Spent
Can't undo
Nausea divine
Drifting off from life
And won't
Make it back

11. Absconder

Check my pulse
Listen close to the evening grow
What's the perspective like?
I'm trying to control it

Staying wired
All set up
To be purged again
Oh, I'm the absconder, searching for respite

I thought I had it all figured out
Spilled my cold heart onto the asphalt
Made sure my reasons for sorrow would remain
Did let the lack of serotonin define my name
When I all ever wanted was to make you smile again

Soaring words
To invoke the starless energy
But I'm long since gone
I'm wasted, baby

Constant need to depart
And slip through the cracks of the divine closure
Constant need to depart
And slip through the cracks of the divine closure
I'm reaching for oblivion

Constant need to depart
And slip through the cracks of the divine closure
Constant need to depart (I'm reaching for oblivion)
And slip through the cracks of the divine closure (Let me rest my heart in the quiet of the dark)

I thought I had it all figured out
Spilled my cold heart onto the asphalt
Made sure my reasons for sorrow would remain
Did let the lack of serotonin define my name
When I all ever wanted was to make you smile again





KATATONIA LYRICS