THE MAN-EATING TREE LYRICS

1. Breathe Emptiness

Worship decay
And pray the light to come
Only echoes answering
This is the dawn
Of the new night
Distorted view of love

Defenseless
I'm in front of the one
Who should shelter me
Words of comfort
Breathe emptiness
Degradation

No light
The only thing that's real for me
Denied
No love, no love

The second I cave in
And make a sound
The last remaining light dies
True affection now replaced
We're drained of our colours
Worship the hollow inside

In the absence of light
Broken by the hands that feed
In the abssence of light
Choked by the hands that feed

Awake in my
Dreamns, too scared to breathe
Darkness drawing near
Swallowing everything
Never felt such fear

2. Flatline

I'm dying to know
Will you let go
Consuming reason slowly
My voice has dried out
Cannot speak out
The words get stuck in my throat

Emotional flatline
Do not know the right words
I might as well...

Wave goodbye today, embrace it
Save a prayer
Vows of future have no meaning
Wave goodbye and let it die here
Apathetic liar
Vows of future have no meaning

For a brief moment
I saw a thin light
Worship it as it fades out
The sun I know is green
But it's not for me
So please stay out of my dreams

It's not just you
I was there too

3. The Heretic Pulse

Here stands another
Example of a failure in progress
And though the blood of my hands
Has been washed away
I am not clean

In the temple of the mourning star
The pulse will guide us through
The thickest vines
Underneath it all thy will be done
The weak heretic pulse incarnated

The wait is soon over
The calloused lump buried, will be exhumed
The pulse I once thought was gone
Now beats in perfect
Disharmony

Death cast shadows until I
Pledge allegiance to the dark

4. Vermin

How long until
The weak light will come

I can hear them crawling
If the sun would reappear
It could slowly, slowly make them disappear

Devour my flesh, devour

They come at night
And even though I am awake
Close my eyes
Pretend I'm dead
They come at night, consuming
Try to pass over
Close my eyes
Pretend I'm not there

I know them by name
But if I ever get tempted
To speak out and name them
I will not then make it through

Devour my flesh, devour

At night
Slowly eaten
These wounds
Kept wide open
'Til the night departs
Their venom
Inside this heart

5. The Divided

How come were this remote
When we should feel the opposite
Nailed to the heart I am
Counting the days in between

Buried deep
Somewhere beneath there is
A calloused heart
Buried deep
Somewhere beneath we belong
To be that close will tear
Us apart

We've come a long way here
Just to end up on our knees
Nailed to the heart I am
Afraid of the distance

Somewhere beneath there is
A calloused heart
Buried deep
Somewhere beneath we belong
To be that close will tear
Us apart

Not sure what I'd say
Inadequate me

Pieces of memories
Like rusted
Nails through the heart

To lay
Here and to inhale this
Divided

To lay here and to inhale this
Might just save the divided

6. Plaguewielder

What is left here today
Is not much so let's not celebrate
At least your conscience is clean
On this new day

The sound of plague growing
Is very familiar or so it seems
An empty imitation of love
Oh the new day in shades of grey, now...

You shouldn't leave
Simply cause I couldn't bleed
Now lick the debris to
See just how damaged are we

The burden will always remain
When hope was never really here to stay
And how damaged have this become
The state we're in is wearing thin, now...

The wounds we've made along the way...
Over and over again

What is left here to say
It's not much so let's not celebrate
At least your conscience is clean
The brand new day, we're all depraved, now...

7. Death Parade

I feel exhausted
And somehow
It's all because of woe
I am in love with
This repentance
It will pass soon I hope

The plans we made
Are completed
We used to have light on us

So when you come here
With the everlasting death parade
The day we're not far away from the shade
The death parade

I'm not prepared
So twist the knife
We're running on vitriol
Below the surface
I hold my breath
Or is it your hands on throat

8. The Vessel

As the shadows grow taller
Wading through emotions
There, she caresses

The act of despair, vile
In waiting
The resentment will follow
Like the nausea

Oh well now it is just a matter
Of when and how to share
Thy loving embrace

Mistaken, then accused
True reason could be found closer
Than one might think

There is nothing to be proud of
As I walk unhallowed ground
There is nothing to be proud of
As we are what we are

Doctrines of submission carved
In these eager hearts
There is the void to put us under
Now we walk unhallowed ground
As we die a bit more
Yes we die a bit more
There is the void to pull us under
Cause we are a bit more apart

There is nothing to be proud of
As I walk unhallowed ground
There is nothing to be proud of
As we are what we are
There is nothing to be proud of...
...As we are not sure what we've lost

This barren soil, reflecting
This barren soil
What used to be

9. Obsidian

Hanging by a thread
Feel the tension rise
The monoliths of lament
Impervious
To the point where
Whatever the reason
Explanations are heard
Yet mistaken

Worthless
Revel in disillusionment

I'd walk through fire just to feel you
The spit on my face is still warm
Sweet reminder
Disgusted by the frail words of promise
When every single attempt is a failure

Haunted by a threat
Of abandonment
To come to terms with it will
Make the difference
My days are filled with fear
Enamored with your passion / hate
Enamored with you

Worthless
Easily replaced
Revel in disillusionment

10. Dead On Earth

We are futile with our compassion
When the dead sing requiem
Lips crack with every grin
White Smiles pretend

We are dead on earth
The hunger will always remain
And this is not a new beginning

Weeping for the very last time
When the dead walk the earth
No words left unspoken
No prayers now

Well I'm not running away
We are dead on earth
We used to love one another
How will you decide

If this is evolution and we're
All gonna die like this
Then deliverance equals
Annihilation and his never was my world

We are dead on earth







THE MAN-EATING TREE LYRICS