VENIN NOIR LYRICS

1. Better Days Never Come

[music: Santos/Coelho/Dias lyrics: Dias]

["None can determine how gifts are given. This song brings someone sighting his own destiny. When everything conspires against our goals, each day it feels more difficult to believe in them, until we are finally sure that those promised better days are nothing but wishful thinkings."]

[I - Lament]

Better days never come, they were not meant to be
If laments could be heard
Then mine would sound like this
Better days never come, they were not meant to be
They're manmade godlike gifts in a vein that can't bleed
I know these days won't come... I accept my fate

[II - Vessels of Hope]

There's an ache to return
That keeps fighting in the mess
Now I'm all ashes to burn in my own
Hopefully getting out of bless
Better days never come
They are manmade godlike gifts

Forget all emotions, so ephemeral certainties
Forget all emotions, magisteries carved in tears
All degrees of suffering are smaller than desire

Poor soul of these, living for what will never be
In this harvest we can only sow defeat
We're vessels of hope when the fiddle sights urging for more
Our joys are tasteless
They're gone colour-blind to renewed promises

So quit your decrepit mirth
Leer upon my flair to make haste
A feeling that chokes since birth
Virtual hazard encages the waste
Better days never come
They are manmade godlike gifts

You need me around (those needs I repel)
To prove fate wrong (repenting the miracle)
But what's in store? (We could never control)

In vain you hide the truth (get me wrong)
The unpredictable (grows me strong)
Flickering losses (speed up my heart)
Better days never come

2. The Wine

[Music: Campilho/Frade/Montechiari Lyrics: Dias]

["Sometimes it's hard to realize when good things finally happen to us. Life gets us so used to failing, that succeeding sounds too surreal to take. This song's about the acceptance of good and the awareness of our deservingness in ourselves, until it's part of our blood. And we must not be afraid of tasting it."]

Deny me not the throne I deserve
We'll never know what was in store for us
We're just dissidents both wounded in victory
We'll never know whether they were true
Tell me not these stories I Despise
I remain unseen, recognize my disguise
And taste the wine

Come taste the wine, crave for it
Until my blood is running in your veins
Take what's thine, live with it
Soon it will be running in your veins

Care for me as I give you all
I don't expect anything but my own fall
Stare at me as I give you all
I don't want anything in return but all
And taste the wine

Don't you drop the wine I bleed for you
I no longer wait for you believing
Don't you wonder why you can't fulfill
What once was the reason for you living
So taste the wine

3. Redemption Through Pain

[Music: Santos Lyrics: Dias]

["Every learning process demands some sacrifice, so we should see suffering as a part of our personal evolution. This song portrait another redemption conquered through pain. This song is to say that you have to know the depths to enjoy the surface properly. That we only really live when we know death. That even though we live to learn how to face pain, we never really free from it."]

[I - Morning has died]

I relied upon you
As the sun trusts night to the moon
Morning has died, it will have me dead too soon
Death comes always too soon
But it might bring some peace along
Never to the living ones

[II - Cringing in this heaven]

And somehow this redemption
Sounds like a doubtful player
And yet this pain that sprouts
Frees me from this war to declare
Redemption through pain
Stop trying to make me crawl
Blood being spilled
Where pictures of you sprawl
Some scars can never be removed

Senseless dreamer I've been
As any other fool would have
Vain destruction, I name your masterpiece after you
In my ruins, unable to feel a single hope
Fed up with blurring truths

I know, know that I was nothing
Consumed by your will
But I will, I'll turn you into nothing
Cause cringing in this heaven
Makes us feel so heathen and yet released

4. A Letter To A Narrow Allegiance

[Music: Santos Lyrics: Dias/Frade]

["It's hard when we can't decipher what's on somebody else's mind, and yet we're sure it's something about us. Happiness is too weak so it's got to be taken care of every day. This one describes a death of a love."]

Something about your manners
Surprises me every day, but no
Things are not the same in our lives
here lies a doleful soul

could it be a refusal?
Or just a way you just found to be mean
Such a narrow allegiance to such a weak happiness
Carry me in this chamber
Lie...you might find me so lost
But it's just me: a light that can't be seen
You might find me pathetic
Omniscient in my grave

Something about your scars
Makes me laugh and wonder why
Would you be open-minded enough
To fail in your trail

Doomed in the stanzas (that the poet has made)
Painted in the canvas (a forlorn self-portrait)
It made me like this...you failed before me

5. Soothe The Wrath Of God

[Music: Salles/Santos/Campilho/Dias Lyrics: Dias]

["Love is a remedy we need, a resurrection to our bodies and minds. This one's to show how powerful an embrace can be. When desperately need it and it comes, your soul is enlightened and even the wrath of God seems to be unable to make it go away."]

What's in these pills, that won't let me sleep?
This catharsis I asked clarified my doubts
Delirious apathy...without this remedy, I'm dead
Such embrace would soothe the wrath of God
No disgrace could ever bring a happiness so odd

What's in this feeling that won't let me curdle?
This alibi I can't use wouldn't help me shout
A call to oblivion: to live without this remedy
Such embrace would soothe the wrath of God
No disgrace...

Live...a dead body can live
A dead mind may think
You don't seem to hear the wrath of God

Such embrace would soothe the wrath of God
No disgrace could ever bring a happiness so odd
Without this remedy, I'm dead, you soothe the wrath of God

6. Waiting On Your Fall

[Music: Campilho Lyrics: Dias]

["This one is another bitter letter to a finally forgotten one. It talks about good memories falling apart, when you look at old pictures and cannot feel the happiness you had when you took them. Everything begins to die when we no longer regard these moments as eternal, even though we have always known nothing is. When we can imagine something dead, this thing is already dying."]

Almost catching the spirit again
Recovering my deeds done in vain
All the tears that I have shed
When my ways were all misled
Have shown me the other face of fate
Have taught me the real meaning of hate
Colliding truth and dreams - reality is worse than it seems

Searching, never finding the touch of God on my face
The moment I died is written on the wall:
a picture of me waiting on your fall

Almost reaching the silence again
It keeps surrounding me until I surrender
Thoughts bringing kindness and anger
Both life and death embrace me together
Shall I decide the side I'm in forever?
Always at war with my conscience
breathing the losses of existence

Building reasons to believe the lie
Words smell like past - shall I speak my last
forging limits to my private sky
could not be that fast - afterlife's one more test

7. No Meaning

[Music: Santos/Dias Lyrics: Dias/Frade]

["People who are used to living their lives searching for a meaning in everything tend to suffer more. Some deeds we just have to do without asking, some fears are just overcame by lying, some promises just have no meaning. So, the way out that's left to us is defying mourning by pretending it's not there."]

Life's a deed I deny, a mission I regret
A mourning I defy...and there's no meaning.
Life's a promise I repent, I'm no deceiver
A letter never sent - now I'm searching for a meaning
I'm not the weaker, but just the leftouts of my rage

So flatly committed to life
Perseverance wants to fail me
An engine that slays my soul
For suffering is my creed
I call it a fear of failing
Nearly facing this task, what you call will
For all the lies we tell were never meant to be...
There's no meaning

When a word is worthless, it seems so wasted
And the hardship of living is a fine sweet funny play
We stood pretending nothing would be in our way

Answers we can't hear
Unreachable, emphasize this mystery
And the enemy that we don't fear
Endeavors my victory

8. The Lunar Soil 1 - A View To Yesterday

[Music: Santos]

["This intro just brings a brief view to what we've done with our lives so far. It's not enough doing our best, melancholy comes along with the past."]

9. The Lunar Soil 2 - Perfect And Cold

[Music: Santos Lyrics: Dias]

["As it always happens, from an unexpected place comes another promise of happiness, and you feel able to hope again. These are some of the priceless moments we should keep in our minds as long as we live. It talks about the fear of failing again. But the sense of having achieved a higher ground makes us overcome this fear, and try to pick up the pieces and build another future with a clean spirit, on another moon. Because every word is right, when said to the right listener."]

You're so perfect and cold as the lunar soil
You're the distance unfold from the lunar soil

You showed me to the lunar soil
When the night was still
And the past silenced our reason
You kept every word I ever wrote
Because they could be yours
As it now seems impossible to get rid of misery

In pieces on the lunar soil
I just found another moon
In pices on the lunar soil
I've been to a wrong sky

You showed me to the lunar soil
When the night was over
You just made shadows live again
Keeping every word I ever said
Because they should be yours
As it now seems reliable this way out of agony

Let me fear, comprehend my fear
We know what's like to be in pieces on the lunar soil







VENIN NOIR LYRICS