:OF THE WAND AND THE MOON: LYRICS

1. Sunspot

There's a sunspot in my eye
There's a guild of thieves that weighs me down
There's a darkness within our reach
And roots that reach beneath
And in this darkness shall we crawl?
Overwhelmed by the void

Conjuring darkness black like coal
Let the fire hatch out let the pain unfold
Our life passes like idle chatter
Life ebbs out like children stutter

There's a sunspot in my soul
A millstone round my heart and a Judas kiss
There's a darkness coming in
A golden troth for your emptiness
And we stray through infinite nothing
Haunted by our deadweight dreams

Conjuring darkness black like coal
Let the fever hatch out let the moth unfold
Our love passes like idle chatter
Life ebbs out like children stutter

Where there's a will there's a way
But there's no will and the path led astray

2. Absence

Absence makes the heart grow colder
Tear you apart pulls you under
And love makes the heart grow fonder
Lift you up
Only to rip you asunder
Look at me
Look at me
We're falling

Your face is veiled to me
A seal of smoke covers thee
How can you breathe
In times like these?
Your covert ops how you tease
Look at me
You're all lit up
Like a Christmas tree

Solitude makes the heart grow stronger
Purifies
Makes you ponder
If this is it
Or just some random anomaly
Look at me
Look at me
You're burning

Your heart is veiled to me
Do you exist? Is this reality?
Your reflection sways before my eyes
How I wish you would lay down your disguise
Look at me
Look at me
I'm calling

3. A Pyre Of Black Sunflowers

I saw a pyre of black sunflowers
Trapped in a swarm of moths
And swallows crying heimve
Hovering on the storm
Soaring above the golden corn
So gracefully
And then a sadness gripped me
All shall pass
Our love corrupts
Turn to ghost, to dust

I saw a pyre of dreams
And my heart’s decay in full bloom
I left my love behind
And my darkness was her groom
And from darkness we come
To darkness we grow
In darkness we call
In darkness through and through
Our love corrupts
Turn to ghost, to dust

4. Tear It Apart

There’s something out of place
Out of time, out of grace
Something breached, something broke
Are you cold now? You’re cold now

Break it apart, tear it apart
There’s something wrong with your heart
Tear it apart, break it apart
There’s a tumor within your heart
This pitied love, this petty life
This emptiness we leave behind
This pitied life, this petty love
This silence from above

Shall we become or endure
Exactly what I’m unsure
The void smiles back
And the joy gags on sour grapes

Break it apart, tear it apart
There’s something wrong with our hearts
Tear it apart, break it apart
There’s a tumor within our hearts
This pitied love, this petty life
This emptiness we leave behind
This pitied life, this petty love
Cursed from above

5. We Are Dust

Behold the stars
They all burn
They’ll all burn out
And we are dust
Dust
In timeless space
And love is a flame
Devouring moths
And we are dust
Yes we’re dust
In time and space

Take a look at the sun
It will fall
Will you run?
Oh don’t you know?
We’re lost
In endless pain

6. A Tomb Of Seasoned Dye

Your emptiness overwhelms me
Thrusts and overtakes me
This shrine of black tears
Within a vault of black prayers
The universe caves in, I’m on fire
Let the end begin, take courage!

And when nothing remains
No love nor pain
In this illusion
This tomb of seasoned dye
The universe caves in, I’m on fire
Let the end begin, take courage!

From the slow decay of life
To the galloping empty days
I would have flung myself in the fire
But I hesitate
And the antimatter within my heart
From this nothing leaves, nothing enters
The useless lingering and severed love
This lit de parade
A carrion flower dressed in the sun
A blinding image bathed in providence
And should you stray from the path
You shall know them by their fruits

I should have flung myself in the fire, I really should
I should have flung myself in the fire, I really should

7. Is It Out Of Our Hands?

A life at end?
The great all around the bend
Or a dark descent?
On a bed of emptiness
Engulfed by hovering borrowed time
Thick with flies

Our hearts turn away as our love decays
Will you keep your nightmares at bay?
The harder you struggle the tighter the noose
Is it out of our hands or the paths we choose?
Is it out of our hands or the death we choose?

The rain lake and stars
Your splendor and emptiness
Swans in the dark
My horrid loneliness
And aeons without you
Aeons without you

The harder you struggle the tighter the noose
Is it out of our hands or the paths we choose?
Is it out of our hands or the death we choose?

8. Watch The Skyline Catch Fire

Words ring hollow
Clouds draw in
Discouraged
Spring rides on
Embrace the solitude
The fruit of life
Sorrow deep
Impenetrable

Watch the skyline catch fire
Strangers come and go
There’s death on your lips
I never knew
Our tears are water
Under the bridge
A distant memory
Before I go to sleep

Watch the skyline catch fire
Swallows come and go
I was never really here
But these streets know my name
Behold
I’m nothing

9. The Lone Descent

This constant hum
Ringing out from empty halls
Can you hear me through the rubble, my love?
The bleakest shroud
A coffin well laid
Anointed by our weakness, my love
Embalmed with vacant tears, my love

I brace myself as my heart implodes
Reach out for the sunlight never to unfold
We move through the silence and dive into darkness
Succumb to the emptiness of this lone descent

These absent days
Forged in empty gaze
Shadowed by myself, my love?
A herald from above, my love?
Another bridge has burned
Another lesson learned
Nothing holds sway, my love
If I could I surely would, my love

I brace myself as my heart implodes
Reach out for the sunlight never to unfold
We move through the silence and dive into darkness
Succumb to the emptiness of this lone descent

Oh my little boy, what have you become?
A shadow of yourself, a moth caught in the sun?
We move through the silence and dive into darkness
Succumb to the emptiness of our lone descent

10. Immer Vorwärts

So it ends as it began
With a sigh goodbye
Down in the mire
Underneath love's ugly pyre

And I miss you and I miss you
Always in my heart
But we push forward plunge onward
Always towards the end

A love, a caress
Unreturned
You stick your hand in the fire
And I know how the story goes

But I miss you and I miss you
Always in my heart
But we push forward plunge onward
Always further apart

Did you forget me
Or remember with unease
I fall in submission
To this life's disease
And these years have passed
This love now gone
I fall on my knees I kneel in awe
How cold this heart has become

And I miss you and I miss you
Always in my heart
But we push forward plunge onward
Always towards the end

11. A Song For Deaf Ears In Empty Cathedrals

The veils trails and trials
In hearts rites and dreams
And count your blessings
The night has no end

Let go, give in, succumb
Hail that emptiness
The things that you let in
Are things that might leave you dead

Don’t speak, words are futile
And time will erase the rest
The night distilled with tears
Unfruitful loveless empty

Let go, give in, succumb
Share my emptiness
The things that you let in
Are things that might leave you dead

The burned out incense of a buried love
Empty halo
Rising above
You are the one, of that I’m sure
But shall the fear become the cure
The fear of letting go
That has buried me in this field of snow

12. A Pyre Of Black Sunflowers (Acoustic Version)

I saw a pyre of black sunflowers
Trapped in a swarm of moths
And swallows crying heimve
Hovering on the storm
Soaring above the golden corn
So gracefully
And then a sadness gripped me
All shall pass
Our love corrupts
Turn to ghost, to dust

I saw a pyre of dreams
And my heart’s decay in full bloom
I left my love behind
And my darkness was her groom
And from darkness we come
To darkness we grow
In darkness we call
In darkness through and through
Our love corrupts
Turn to ghost, to dust





:OF THE WAND AND THE MOON: LYRICS