RISHLOO LYRICS

1. Romance Of A Dead Kingdom

Sleep now
Fragile
Cradle my hope
Dream 'til morning
Rising again
To uphold my claims to power
Promises bind
This place to me
Peace I have found
In a vision pure and simple
Here in this world
I am the king
Dreams trouble my conscience
With thoughts of those betrayed
Prophecies certain
Bring me to conflict often
But comfort has always triumphed
Against a change

Walking again
Among these familiar faces
Hearing the same
Praises they speak
All here is well
But somehow so unnerving
In the eyes of a child
The world looks bleak
Fears grow ever bolder
Threatening disgrace
All that will be
Grows clearer with every moment
Whispers turn now to shouting for my escape

Awake

Brashly you stifled warnings
See now the fruits of failure
Ignorant liar
Did you truly think
You could stay here awhile
And avoid your fate
Crawling, grasping, searching, reaching for a path
Through all this chaos choking on the ashes
Of a life that suddenly has passed
And as the screams subside
I slowly raise my head
To watch the final ruin
And see my kingdom's end

2. The Passage

[Instrumental]

3. Blitz

I turned from the world but the world turns me
They show you the way but I can't even breathe
So I grit my gnashing teeth against a fence I cannot see
And I wish to fucking hell there was no between
Secondly and first of all, just because and why
I list the constant questions, I kept them all inside
But you won't give your thoughts to me so I won't give you mine
And you won't waste your words on me so I won't waste your time

You betray everything when you refuse to see
The truth of your trial is lost so listlessly
You watch us go by as we laugh and we cry
You look down and realize you're not who you think
Could there be anything?

Embracing the pendulum so I do not fall behind
And I'm weaker than the next in line
So I'll do my best to represent the evidence of all that I've spoken

With a withered, twisted finger you're turnin' back the time
With a withered, twisted finger you push 'em all in line
And you smash to fuckin' bits your world when everything's alright
And you smash to fuckin' bits my world when everything is fine

You betray everything when you refuse to see
The truth of your trial is lost so listlessly
You watch us go by as we laugh and we cry
You look down and realize you're not who you think
Could there be anything?

Embracing the pendulum so I do not fall behind
And I'm weaker than the next in line
So I'll do my best to represent the evidence of all that I've spoken

Watch the world go by you
Each time
Feel this one day, forget the next
Live life through lies
Empty inside
Wondering why
Just give it up you're not for real
Don't know a thing about how I feel
You're just a lie because you try
To believe
What you won't see and nothing's true
If you give up and if you lose
And run away when things get gray
I won't be left when you confess
When you admit you're full of shit
I can't comply and take your side
I understand that's all you have
But it's just not enough
There'll never be anything
To justify your wasted life
You've fallen so far behind
And we're weak as our one best try
So I'll let it fall and die away and whatever's
left is forgotten
Forgotten

4. Harliquin

Try, seeker, try
To find this path of mine
I weave a simple line
Take care to watch my flight
Place your fingers here to guide me
Guide me under
One must lead the other
See, the way I bring
Can change easily
The end knows those who come
But each can run away with us
Place your fingers here to guide me
Guide me under
One must lead the other
Walk here softly through this door or never
Follow me into my sanctum
There are no words, so watch as I
Strip away layers, I strive to find paces
I reel from each image, a product of loss
Bearing away my wholeness, fooled by my own hands
Offer a useless notion to satisfy demands
Paint me again so deeply
Illusions from within
Make me a tragic canvas
For the dye inside my skin
Sorry you never asked me
Sorry you never tried
Grief you hold so shallow will pass away in time
Shards of my identity
Scattered here upon the ground
Fragments of a tragedy
Dig in coarse to bring me down
Kneeling in my agony
Reaching in to pick them out
Holding on so desperately
'Til they cut inside and drown
In this prison of my misery
In the vessel of my doubt
In the court of endless suffering
In the hall where I am bound
To these servants of a history
As they circle all around
They stand in their delight
I lay my hands upon these wounds and cry in empty ridicule
Broken words and Hollow truths
I've crept inside a sorrowful embrace
Cruel embrace
Await my claim
So stay away
Stay away
Away [repeated]

5. Seven Rings Left

Shadow of a soul you
Come to me and wait for my approval
To kneel here Sacred is the ground I tread
Leave no footprints
perfect in your eyes, you fool
Lay the lesser down
This blood so dark and red
Won't eat away the chains
That hold you where I wish
Where I wish
Watch my every move so calculated
Hunted by the prey but sly, indifferent
Swallow all your pride the poison's
Better that way
When this scent arises new
Lover of a lie
Immersed inside yourself
Dream your fractured mind away inside this cell
Oppression, anger, fear and pain
Restrain the fire to hold the flame
To burn, to sear, to penetrate
Allowed a voice to scream my name
Grasp in your greed for the riches
Give up the hopes for your pride
Drink down the wine like a glutton
Follow the lust in my eyes
For I am the master so envied
Free to be wasteful and sloth
Fear now the wrath of my power
Counting the sins to stay lost
And weak and alone and ashamed
Afraid, so afraid
Of mistakes and failures to be
Perfect, passive and unquestioning
You're awake now, but far too weak
So wait
Worry, hide in shadow
Do not speak, do not dissent, and lay down
Take it, celebrate this pain
Tear away the covers
Useless vestiges of comfort
Pointless tokens of a difference
To hide from me
Throw away the balance
Senseless running without conscience
Endless circle or a spiral
We'll always bleed
The same
So lay down
Lay down slave
Lay down, down
Lay down
Slave
Lay down, down
Lay down
Slave
Lay down, down
Lay down
Slave
Lay down

6. The Water Is Fine

Give to me
My angel, my lover, my friend
Dissolving my mind again
Dissolving my world again
Take my dreams, my wishes, my hopes and my wants
And make them all real just once
Tonight

Fall away
Walking on water
To see if the surface still breaks

Further down
Uncertainty goes with its curse
Of questions of virtue and worth
Inside

Fall away
Walking on water
To see if the surface still breaks

And I hold on now to
Give in to this taste of
One chance to be broken

Falling here and I send for
My soul to be saved
Hold this light before my time
When I stand 'til I break
Watch this fallin' from the end!

Drink of the water, just swallow it down
To taste, absorb, below, below, below
And fear for the drowning
Drink of the water, just swallow it down
To taste, absorb, below, below, below
To fear for the drowning
And nothing can touch me now
And no one can bring me out

This ethereal comfort starts to wear itself thin
Dazed and back where I started
Feel this fear creeping in

As the nightmare grows clearer
I see nothing is right
and I see
See

Sideways
All I believed is lost and shattered and
Sideways now
This fragile cloak so torn and tattered is
Sideways
Forcing me to notice this world so
Sideways now
Failing, falling, breaking, turning so
Sideways
Just pull me in and shove me under
Sideways
Just hold me down and end what's left of me

I fall from the light
At peace here
The water is fine

7. Lovely Room

I try and remember a night before this
The mirror reflects, but it lies to me
I breathe in the breeze open-eyed to feel this
And slip into arms dipped in wine

To sleep
In a house of gods, in an empty room
There will be no scars and I will be there
Soon
I will be there soon

I glance at a clock lost in time, it's bleeding
Past echoes of rain I cry out for peace
I slip past the door painted red to save me
And offer my own, lose control

And release
In a house of gods, in an empty room
There will be no scars and I will be there
In a house of gods, in an empty room
There will be no scars and I will be there

They may believe that there can only be one end
But I will not wait until the blood is on my hands
Serenity is just a choice of breath away
Condemn each other, but forever I will stay
In a house of gods, in an empty room
There will be no scars and I will be there

In the house of God, in a lovely room
There will be no scars and I will be there
Soon
I will be there soon

8. Fenris

[Instrumental]

9. Narcissist Code

Crown all the thieves and you worship the liars
And bow down before every whore in a tie
Lost to the end though the sun also rises
And those who would dare bring the turn of the tide

Arrogant serenity
Falter on the scale when I weigh you

This doubt may breed desires
For truth
For truth

Glare just long enough to convey your displeasure
As drops, one by one, start to fall in the pool
Blurring the sight of a misplaced alliance
Where deaf lead the blind, and the blind lead the fools

Ignorant security
Falter on the scale when I weigh you

This doubt may breed desires
To look deeper than the surface
And to dare to understand
All the mysteries residing beneath

These reflections of a purpose, false impressions of a past
That exist only to serve the elite

Fuck all these complacent sheep
Chasing after every prize
Begging at the masters' feet
Happy to ostracize
Fuck all those who will not see
Further than the mirror's lies
Fuck you and your vanity
It's too late, we're out of time
To stand idly by and wait
So why don't you take this chance
And find a place to
Feast on the wealth of your self-indulgence
While the meek and the worthy change
This world again
Gnawing away at your precious elegance
I hope that you like the taste
For there you shall stay
Lost

10. Illumination

Violent spinning darkness
Disaster unrestrained
Whispers of the ravaged, lost behind the rain
He lands among the fallen
Pushes out an empty hand
Shuts his eyes and turns away
Screaming out against the end

Tonight I cannot rest because I ache
Tomorrow brings the agony of day
To sleep perchance to dream of all that's lost
And all the things we'll never get to say
In the echoes of anger
Brought from silence too late
In this moment of disaster
There's a clarity
To hate

Now his days are empty, lonely lost and grey
She spends too many hours just trying not to break
Down before the others
Who will never know their pain
Or the endless years of nightmares
That never go away

Tonight I cannot rest because I ache
Tomorrow brings the agony of day
To sleep perchance to dream of all that's lost
And all the things we'll never get to say
In the echoes of anger
Brought from silence too late
In this moment of disaster
There's a clarity
To hate

Why? Won't someone tell me why?
Won't someone tell me why?

Why?

I hate to remember, but I can't forget
I hate to remember, I just can't forget
I hate to remember this is all I have left
I hate to remember 'cause I'm tired of this shit and I ache

11. Terras

I listened to your words, I sat at your feet
Then I watched you drown millions in suicide
Philosophies
Then I stand in the balance with gold in my hands
And weep like a beggar
In silence again

I want to know why
You just sat there, watched millions of your
people die
Without lifting a finger

Here we are at peace, if only for a time
To sleep perchance to scream
In silence for our crimes

12. Fames

Listen all you tired, you cold, you bitter masters
Starving the weak
The stories you have told cannot stifle the voices of need
So wager your tales against our dreams

Strangle, stall, monopolize, steal and separate
Keep us all at odds and keep us all in hiding
Drifting from the relevant we can learn again
Orders enliven and take us down lightly
Fold these wings I know they've failed you
One more leap to fall beyond my knees
Leaving sordid idols in our wake
Lay them down side-by-side in visceral exchange
These, oh, these wraiths
And love them now forever as eyes consume the flawed
Holding on to, holding on
And stay awake

Here we are at peace if only for a time
To sleep entranced to scream
In silence for our crimes
Here we are at peace if only for a time
To sleep entranced to scream
In silence for our crimes

Bury your heads and lock up your cage
Lie so quiet and still
But know you can't hide from positive change
When questions burn inside the unfulfilled
So how long do you think we'll wait and see our dreams denied
When each and every one of us has felt this
Tempest rise?
Rise

Here we are at peace if only for a time
To sleep entranced to scream
In silence for our crimes
Here we are at peace if only for a time
To sleep entranced to scream
In silence for our crimes

Here we are
If only for this time
To sleep entranced to scream
In silence for our crimes





RISHLOO LYRICS