REIGN OF THE ARCHITECT LYRICS

1. Set

[Instrumental]

2. Different Heart

[The Architect:]
This is futile, hapless effort to reach another’s heart
Knot I can’t untie, puzzle I can’t solve

[Choir:]
Watching from afar, Distant as the stars
[The Architect:]
As all sentiments but the longing dissolve

[Storyteller :]
This was just a bitter sweet endeavor
[Storyteller & The Architect:]
A girl chased by a boy, a boy chasing a dream
Acerbic taste of youth is swinging into whole
As my teenage hopes and wishes drown into a stream

[The Girl & The Architect:]
“We never really had that sort of true connection”
How come I never had a say, never had a say in games we played?
“It didn’t have to come to this, it wasn’t my intention”

[The Architect:]
One vague smile from her and I saw the world begin to fade

[Storyteller:]
Darkness fell; he’s finally opened its eyes
Rejection, despair, woe and compromise
Gazing on a pale horizon with vision unclear
The last hint of light is fading away
Casting shade that rolls over the sundial’s face

[The Architect:]
We’re lost in our lives like rats in a maze
Our feelings are smothered by indifferent haze
Our world’s so hectic, chaotic, unjust
We might find a shelter though the shelter won’ last

[The Architect & Choir:]
Those are the feelings that hold us together
A thought that crosses us as they’re conducting the theme
Acidic taste of loneliness is blistering our tongues
The things that make us human make us scream

[The Architect:]
“We never really had that sort of true connection”
I feel like I succumb, I shuffle back and I restart
“It didn’t have to come to this, it wasn’t my intention”
She smiled indifferently but with a different heart

3. Hymn To Loneliness

[The Architect:]
I wish I could start over, I wish I could ignore
The voice that led me astray
The aching in my heart, my soul is empty and torn apart
Yet all I care is this, will she love me someday?

[The Teacher:]
Don’t you let her distant words get through your shell
[The Architect:]
It’s all too little and much too late
[The Teacher:]
Come forth tribulation, don’t you dwell
Let me soften this wretched fate

Don’t let these words get through your shell
Shed this boy’s skin, become a man
Come forth emerging passion; give in to its charms
Welcome these embracing, yearning arms

This desire’s incomplete
And fell onto this world
[The Teacher & The Architect:]
A song left unsung, at the top of my lungs
[The Teacher:]
With no answers
I will never admit

[The Teacher & The Architect:]
These venomous throes of rejection
But I feel, if I must, as this lust turns to dust
Torn asunder

[Choir:]
We weave a web of silky spins
Old Samson’s hair grows gray and thin
No guiding hand, our journey ends
Before it begins
The wolves that prey our lovers’ bed
The howls disguised as serenades
Our sharpened teeth, that yearn to taste
It all turns to sand

[Storyteller:]
Nomads had often sung
Of heroes’ tragic passion
And despite the modern age
They will sing once more
Still in our dreams, faces
Are kissing us sweet and precious
An ever missing goddamn cupid Yet
Lets us die alone…

4. False

[The Girl:]
A monster in a boy’s skin
How dare you come to me?
You won’t fool me twice
I’ll put an end to all your lies!

[The Architect:]
What are you speaking of?
I’ve done nothing wrong,
It was me, who was rejected,
Ran down, dried out and manipulated

I will pay the price,
Someone else’s lies,
Wished I could belong here then
Now all I see is you
I tried to be much more then I could ever
Be with me don’t flee from me
My love do you believe?

[Storyteller:]
Surrendering the mind,
Believing heathen gods
A mirror to our ugly kind

[The Girl:]
You leave me no choice, deeds won’t go undone
[The Architect:]
What are you talking about?
I told you before; I won’t say it again,
I won’t try to explain, I don’t need to regain
Your trust anymore!
[The Girl:]
I can’t get back the things you stole
You took advantage of me when I was out of control (you, out of control)

[The Teacher:]
All is fair in love and war
[Storyteller:]
And war the world will get,
She’s no Helen there was no Troy,
But soon her Troy will burn
[The Teacher & The Storyteller:]
I thought I could achieve my goals,
But then I got obsessed,
I’m (so) sick of chasing dreams,
I’ll hunt them down instead

[The Architect:]
I led no one astray, the accusations are blank
Like the light dissipating, I’ll be fading to black
No one to believe me, I could never do harm
Crossed by the one that I love
It’s surreal!
[Storyteller:]
A lesson never meant to be learnt
As hard as the truth, in the lying of man
It’s so real
[The Architect:]
Believe in a false, let dishonesty stain
I run away from you, as far as I can

5. Such A Celebration

[Storyteller:]
It’s her prom night.
A night of love from the first sight
Of royal dresses and a carriage ride
A kiss to seal her lips of rouge

As she enters
She steals the stares of the dancers
A sudden fear turns against her
As if they’d hurt her if they could

She’s heading fast towards a faster answer
Drunk queen of the night
No charming prince to make it better, elsewhere
Just one more sip of wine

[The Teacher & The Storyteller:]
He was longing for the shores of your porch
Romeo gently took what’s yours and refused to let go

[Choir:]
It was such a celebration
Night was yours and you were his
He threaded your strings of devastation
Used you like a puppeteer

[Storyteller:]
Her teacher’s whim
A dreamer’s scheme
Lies spread their wings and veil

It’s her prom night
A night of love from the first sight
A night of naive dreams and endless lies
Who really kissed her lips of rouge?

6. Leaking Wounds

[The Architect:]
I can’t remember how long
I kept running without purpose
I can’t remember when
It started to rain again

It all seems blurry now
All my troubles, all my efforts
Smudged anger, clearness stained
And nothing is left to obtain

(I close my mind)
It’s like to redefine forlorn
(Heart’s beating strong)
It raises all hatred and all scorn
(I bare this cross)
To be so left behind
(Became surreal)
How could these lies truncate life’s flow
(I close my mind)
I won’t become the things I hate
(Heart’s beating strong)
I won’t let my soul to deflorate
(I bare this cross)
To be confined
(Became surreal)
To the closure of the life I used to know

Feels like I ran for days
Soaked with rain, with tears and sweat
I just can’t comprehend
What’s been done to me

So this is how it truly feels
How they soften this rigid fate
How reality became surreal
And changed everything I used to be

(I close my mind)
It’s like to redefine forlorn
(Heart’s beating strong)
It raises all hatred and all scorn
(I bare this cross)
To be so left behind
(Became surreal)
How could these lies truncate life’s flow
(I close my mind)
I won’t become the things I hate
(Heart’s beating strong)
I won’t let my soul to deflorate
(I bare this cross)
To be confined
(Became surreal)
To the closure of the life I used to know

Heart’s beating strong. Like a dozen hammers
I try to close my mind to vices and vile thoughts
If fate made me a monster, a monster I shall be
Am I to bare this cross alone or to untie the life I knot?

Now I understand
I was merely a pawn
Woven in a web of lies
And all the spiders have withdrawn

Just for a moment
I wish I could bestow
My wrath upon this world, a closure
To the life you used to know

(I close my mind)
It’s like to redefine forlorn
(Heart’s beating strong)
It raises all hatred and all scorn
(I bare this cross)
To be so left behind
(Became surreal)
How could these lies truncate life’s flow
(I close my mind)
I won’t become the things I hate
(Heart’s beating strong)
I won’t let my soul to deflorate
(I bare this cross)
To be confined
(Became surreal)
To the closure of the life I used to know

And underneath a crying sky
When all emotions slowly die
And in this modern exile
I leave my hate a bigger room to grow
(I don’t understand!)
What is this flickering white light?
What are those voices full with spite?
And as I avert my eyes
I bid farewell to the life I used to know

7. Distant Similarities

[The Architect:]
The morning dew is almost here
To quench my thirst for a new dawn
I drink alone the night’s last tears
But then I see a setting sun
Who are you strangers looking down my soul?

[Antecedents:]
We are your forefathers, exiles from beyond
We came to complete what must be done
We traveled far and crossed a thousand suns
We are the ones who gave mankind its crown

[The Architect:]
What does this mean?
It can’t be happening to me, it’s not real
[Antecedents:]
Reality, one’s pitiful observation
The truth for what you see before you is not bestowed in ancient lore

[Storyteller:]
He will quickly go back a million years in time
All the cosmic knowledge will be embedded into his mind
As history seems clear, mankind’s vast decline
Love and hate and all human feelings, now a song without a rhyme
Fragile is the human heart, impulsive when resigned
So they plant the seeds of hate with his wrath to intertwine

[The Architect:]
So you want me to pass judgment upon the human race,
To execute, chase and pursuit, in military pace?

[Antecedents:]
We are your forefathers, exiles from beyond
We came to complete what must be done
We traveled far and crossed a thousand suns
We are the ones who gave mankind its crown

[Storyteller:]
The Morning dew is almost here
It’s the beginning of a new dawn
Few are the swords, gone are the seers
No one can stop their chosen one

“As we return home, back to where we’ve left
Nothing changed but mankind’s coming fate”

8. One Single Sour Grape

[Father:]
We heard no sighs, no signs of distress
Even as a child he was always caressed

Why should you blame yourself?
I had paid all of my debts,
With my own tired hands
I was there building a nest

This child fed on your sores
(All is gone)
Still you love him so
(On and on)
Onward he will go
(Our son is gone)
Leaving you alone
This ungrateful son of yours

Dim the lights in the window
Gone are the days we were home
At least we’re together
For all that I care he could never return

This child fed on your sores
(All is gone)
Still you love him so
(On and on)
Onward he will go
(Our son is gone)
Leaving you alone
This ungrateful son of yours

9. As The Old Turns To Sorrow

[Storyteller:]
Forsaken for a month, like a ship lost at sea
Climbed up from the tranches of his worst fears
Dragged unnoticed undetected sheltered from the sun
No light can reach the surface, the past can’t be undone

[The Architect:]
Of all that have set,
I’ve made you three
For all that will rise
Please forgive me

[Storyteller:]
Looking into a shattered mirror
His destiny resolved
Erupts out of his interiors
The master-plan unfolds
Haunted by 3 different voices
He shed them into life
3 Splints of former self
The rising tide

[Razor:]
Welcome to a world of hate, we’ll make sure you feel at home
[Rapture:]
Forget your past mistakes, let go of all you’ve known
[Ruin:]
Just point the right direction and nothing will remain
[The Architect:]
Who are you three figures? Who am I to reign?

[Razor:]
We are the first three splinters, mere servants to you, lord.
[Ruin:]
We make sure your wishes are granted, and your enemies destroyed
[Rapture:]
We’re here to give advice, to consult and comfort
[The Architect:]
Who am I to set the world ablaze? Is this what I want?

[Storyteller:]
The three misbegotten characters pulled him out of his state
In the dark of night they slithered and shed light unto this fate
One to endure in darkness, to ensure the rain will last
As the old turns to sorrow, tomorrow will turn into dust

Looking into a shattered mirror
His destiny resolved
Erupts out of his interiors
The master-plan unfolds
Haunted by 3 different voices
He shed them into life
3 Splints of former self
The rising tide

10. I, The Architect

[Instrumental]

I am a man
with the smiles of hyenas,
Delightful and shy
dazzling axes.
Tearing the tears of a jackal.

No serpent will slip through the grass
no herd will be fed on safe meadows
for serpents are nothing but arms
and meadows are throats and tongues, and the stars are my eyes-

and there is no greater evil than I,

the architect.

11. Secrets In The Hallway

[Storyteller:]
It has been a month since that night
And no one knows his whereabouts
Her tender heart now twisted irrecoverably
To keep their secret shut

[The Girl:]
I keep hearing the echoes of my frailty
Never knowing what comes next
It haunts me over and over in my dreams
Ostensibly, my dying crest

[The Girl, The teacher & Choir:]
There are no other explanations
Prevarication led to death
As we try to find some comfort
We only find ourselves

[Storyteller:]
Those secrets are never easy to keep
And doubt encloses her to an end
Little did she know about
A little boy’s revenge

[The Girl:]
Can I?
[The teacher:]
Can you?
[The girl & The teacher:]
Keep a secret to yourself?

[The girl:]
I must be going insane
I can’t recall the things he’s done
I don’t deny the things I’m being told,
But am I really just a pawn?

12. Crown Of Shattered Dreams

[Ruin:]
Pour the fuel for the war machines; Grease your weapons raw
An army of cloned splinters, a vast destructive claw
To cleave down all the impotence that man has sought to fake
This day, my proxy-brothers, an old man’s world we take
[Razor:]
These foundations are fragile, cannot be put to threat
Don’t you dare, my brother, foil the plans we’ve set

[Storyteller:]
And while the world kept turning, the architect arose
Conductor of the brutal symphony that he composed
The dawn upon a new age of a feral hateful scheme
A throne that’s built from future graves and a crown of shattered dreams

[Razor:]
Break communications, set the traps we need
First we take the shoreline cities then, my lord, we puncture in
I want to see their leaders begging as they bleed
I want to tear their human hearts and flay their blotted skin
[Rapture:]
Don’t forget my brother, you ambitious little fiend
This conflict’s resolution states that we will win

[Storyteller:]
And while the world kept turning, the architect arose
Conductor of the brutal symphony that he composed
The dawn upon a new age of a feral hateful scheme
A throne that’s built from future graves and a crown of shattered dreams

[The Architect:]
Degenerating into the decadence of what I mustn’t be
While the consequences of my decisions are deformed by these impious three
The uncertainty that broke my inflamed bones
Has now outgrown the boundaries of my private throne

[Rapture:]
Why you seem so lost, lord? We’ve just begun
We’ll thrive and cast a shadow over every rising sun
Our divisions all stand ready to savor victory
Let the green flame now engulf everything you see

[Storyteller:]
And while the world kept turning, the architect arose
Conductor of the brutal symphony that he composed
The dawn upon a new age of a feral hateful scheme
A throne that’s built from future graves and a crown of shattered dreams

And while I’m still breathing, the architect arose
The conductor of the brutal symphony that he composed
[The Architect:]
(I’m still breathing; I’m the conductor, shattered dreams)
The dawn upon a new age of somberness and rigor
[Storyteller:]
(He is still breathing; he’s the conductor; he is the architect)

[The Architect:]
The dawn upon a new age of somberness and rigor
A throne that’s build from wasted youth and my vacant, shattered dreams
I’m still breathing.

13. The Green Flame

14. We Must Retaliate

[The President:]
Again I hear those drums of war
Reciting a million tragedies.
The sky began to fall,
Our luck had changed its course
Into the shape of threnody.
And as we flogged a dying horse
They will flog humanity.
The judge has no remorse…

[The Architect:]
Paint the doorpost with your own blood
Your wrists are many, but I’m afraid that I can’t get enough.
Compared to you I had no name
But I will overcome your fame
You had your empire, but this time
It’s your guts, my glory.

[The President:]
Generals,
Where is our god?
I need his guidance.

[Ministers and generals choir:]
He’d forsaken his herd
You need to form a (You need to form a better plan)
For defense
For revenge
Now you have
One last chance
You must save
Us all!

[The President:]
Twilight
We’ll strike at dusk,
Like a thousand sunsets!
Our final breath!!

[Ministers and generals choir:]
We’ll turn our backs on fate
We won’t be subjugated – No!
[The President:]
Retaliation will be hard
[Generals & The President:]
Even if it means, we will exist no more!
As one we will storm into the storm!
[The President:]
So long, our loving home!
Fighting with all that we’ve got!
[Generals & The President:]
We’ll shed every blood
[The President:]
This is our dying day, our bloody dawn!

[The Architect:]
Man had worshipped the gun
Sniffed its powder, kissed the feet of war
Now it’s time for the cannons
To return a favor!

[The President:]
Get ready loyal men!
This is the point of no return!
To the end! To the death! To our own page in this miserable book!
Retaliation will be harsh!!!

[Ministers and generals choir:]
We must retaliate!

15. Hopeless War

[Storyteller:]
That night we were searching a shoulder to cry on
Leaning heads on the shoulder of war
Silently letting our children go
(They go, they go, they go)
Watching the sparrows fly into the narrow ravine in the sky
Once we wished upon a star
Now we’re shooting stars at daylight

Up on a hill- a soldier’s dying word
“What is that in the fog?!”
His whisper then becomes a scream
The piper got himself some new machinery

[Soldiers:]
Bravo team to Alpha leader, target is on sight
Asking for permission to pursue the fight
Permission granted, Bravo team, green light, Get to go
Abort! Mission compromised! These bastards somehow know!

[The Architect:]
Armies will not stop me
I have won
When they’ll take one down
A thousand more will come
The stabs that once tore my back
Scarred into sheaths for daggers
I’ll avenge this blood of Cesar
You sheep in Brutus’ leather

[Storyteller:]
Look high above the clouds, beyond the human reach
Madly crafted aircrafts, diving into the breach
Speeding winged destroyers, black metallic wraiths
Bombing the horizon, diminishing our lives
Cities rattle loosely, as fragile as a glass
Shattering beneath the green flame’s power-lust

[Choir:]
It all seems so hopeless,
We cannot possibly overcome those foes
The enemy’s unstoppable
Mankind’s future remains unknown

[Soldiers:]
Fall back, regroup at delta HQ1
We must reconvene with headquarters, the damage’s done
We need to understand what we’re facing, we need another plan
I fear, my friends, that this war has just begun
Is that Headquarters? Did they answer our call?
The line is dead commander, the bombs began to fall
I fear we’re on the brink here; we need some backup, fast!
No military in history faced an enemy so vast

[The Architect:]
Sing me a song and I’ll tell you a story
A tale of a place I once knew
Where my future was young where I’ve sunk down my worries
A place where a Daffodil grew
And we wished to the stars
When we saw them get closer
And they took away breaths
And I’ll never return
Sing me a song so I could remember
How it is to be among friends again

[Choir:]
It all seems so hopeless,
We cannot possibly overcome those foes
The enemy’s unstoppable
Mankind’s future remains unknown
[Storyteller:]
This was just a bitter sweet endeavor…
This was just a bitter sweet endeavor…
Sing me a song…







REIGN OF THE ARCHITECT LYRICS