WOLVES AT THE GATE LYRICS

1. Shadows

I was staring deep into the dark of a cave
With apparitions dancing slowly on my imminent grave
Six feet down and I'm falling asleep
You know the devil's in the details, so I'm

Staring deep into the darkness of a cave
Thinking I could only dream about the light and the sun
Just a shadow on my wall
Thinking I would only feel the dark of night

These ghosts grab my throat, saying this would be all
I'd ever know of life, know of hope - all I'd ever know of light
The night fell upon me like the swell of a wave
Until the daybreak sparked the words of light
To turn and face the sun now

As fire fills my eyes
And watch the shadows die

Staring deep into the darkness of a cave
Thinking I could only dream about the light and the sun
Just a shadow on my wall
Thinking I would only feel the dark of night

Face the sun and the shadows will all fall behind
Staring deep in the light I now find
All the doubts of the dark and the night
Have been swallowed in light

Staring deep into the darkness of a cave
Feel the warmth of light
No more shadows on my wall
You swallowed up the night
I cannot forget
The brilliant infinite
Turned my doubt into sight
And swallowed up the night
Swallowed up the night

So turn and face the sun now
So turn and face the sun now

2. Peace That Starts The War

Scratching and clawing
These voices fight for my life they're saying
This is who you are:
You're a fake, you're a sham, you aren't fooling no one
No one can condemn me for a debt or crime that has been paid off
Nothing divides or separates

Cut me open till it's all run dry
Kill the life of death that's in my eye
Open up my aching ribs and crush this stone until it truly lives
This is the peace that starts the war!

Screaming and growling
These voices fight for their life they're claiming
Help is retreating
You are lost, all alone, with a hope that's dead and conquered
Conquered is the name that's placed upon the hell that waited for me
Death is dead and loosened its grip

Cut me open till it's all run dry
Kill the life of death that's in my eye
Open up my aching ribs and crush this stone until it truly lives
This is the peace that starts the war!

My eyes are fixed on the final war
My eyes are fixed on the final war!

All I see is peace - war!
All I see is peace - war!
All I see is...

3. Kiss The Wave

I see the wind and water shifting at the change of the tide
I hear the call "Abandon ship!" as all the torrents collide
As we are sailing into darkness
Singing lullabies eyes closed I rest as I kiss the wave

The sea is shaking and it threatens to drown
You feel the violence as the waves pull you down
Don't you think it's time for giving up hope
Barely holding to the end of a rope?

Listen up, all is lost, left and gone! Abandon ship!
Listen up, all is lost, left and gone! Abandon ship!

I see the wind and water shifting at the change of the tide
I hear the call "Abandon ship!" as all the torrents collide
As we are sailing into darkness
Singing lullabies eyes closed I rest as I kiss the wave

Can't you feel the bones are fractured and worn?
The hull is battered and the sails are all torn
It's taking water as the oceans arise
The ship is sinking and it's gonna capsize

Listen up, all is lost, left and gone!

I see the wind and water shifting at the change of the tide
I hear the call "Abandon ship!" as all the torrents collide
As we are sailing into darkness
Singing lullabies eyes closed I rest as I kiss the wave

Catch me singing in the eye of the storm
I rest as I kiss the wave

As I slip below the tide
I fear the dark is closing on either side
But still every twist and turn is slowly leading the way
As I am holding on to hope of a love that won't fade away
Still I face the great divide
I feel that death is closing on either side
But still every twist and turn is slowly leading the way
As I am holding on to hope of a love that won't fade away
Still I face the great divide
I feel that death is closing on either side
But still every twist and turn is slowly leading the way
As I am holding on to hope of a love that won't fade away

The waters explode
Thrash and shake
Drag me down
Spit me out
Spit me out

I see the wind and water shifting at the change of the tide
I hear the call "Abandon ship!" as all the torrents collide
As we are sailing into darkness
Singing lullabies eyes closed I rest as I kiss the wave

As You hold me in the eye of the storm
I rest as I kiss the wave

4. Lights & Fire

I'm hanging here just by a thread, slowly fading and I'm seeing red
Losing all of my grip on everything I once held on to
I just watch it unravel on my downward spiral
All I ever held close to me

Can you see the lights and fire fall?
Burning down till nothing's left at all
Sifting through the wreck and ashes
Listen and you'll hear the love that calls

I'm laying here with nothing left just the ashes of my silhouette
Is there anything here but all the thorns that block my way out?
I just watch it unravel on my downward spiral
All I ever held close to me

Can you see the lights and fire fall?
Burning down till nothing's left at all
Sifting through the wreck and ashes
Listen and you'll hear the love that calls

I just had to unravel to a downward spiral
Losing all of my grip on all I ever held close to me
I just had to unravel to a downward spiral
All the thorns would tenderly lead somewhere so much better for me

Than everything I once held on to
Everything I once held on to
Than everything I once held on to

Can you see the lights and fire fall?
Burning down till nothing's left at all
Sifting through the wreck and ashes
Listen and you'll hear the love that calls

Hear the love that's calling to me
Hear the love that's calling to me

5. Eulogies

Watch it burn
Flames return

I'm left with a eulogy
Three years just wither in the background
The last hour of Your misery pours out a final cry
Listen to my words, make the pain depart (Pain depart)
Watch it take ablaze in the weakest heart (Weakest heart)

Such a violent eulogy is tearing my heart out (Tearing my heart out)
With this doubt and mystery I'm falling apart now (Falling apart now)
A final eulogy

I carry doubts full of darkness that take away my breath
On roads that lead to the valley of shadows and of death
Eyes fade to grey and fall below
Here lays a withered soul

Such a violent eulogy is tearing my heart out (Tearing my heart out)
With this doubt and mystery I'm falling apart now (Falling apart now)
A final eulogy

A bloody tree and empty tomb
Sends roots below for life to bloom
Every single word You said, it made the fear depart
Every drop of blood You shed inside my weakened heart
Bringing life to all the dead, I felt it burning
My heart, it burns, it burns with love

Such a violent eulogy is tearing my heart out (Tearing my heart out)
With this doubt and mystery I'm falling apart now (Falling apart now)
Beautiful eulogy
A violent eulogy (Violent eulogy)
Claims my victory (Victory)
My heart, it burns, it burns with love
My heart, it burns a beautiful eulogy

6. Weight Of Glory

Hold fast hope
Hold fast hope

Brace for impact
These dark days, they will grip and chain you
Fight until the prison breaks
Face the onslaught of the plague
We will fight off the darkness even if it breaks our flesh
Flesh and blood will die as we rise above (Rise above)
Shadows turn to dust as we rise above (Rise above)

Rise, rise, rise above
We rise, rise, rise, rise above
Go

Hands that I see holding on to me
They are pierced from all the suffering on that cursed tree
All this suffering momentary
Harbingers for a weight of glory
All my darkest sins and my misery (Misery)
Thrown into the depth of the deepest sea (Deepest sea)

Rise, rise, rise above
We rise, rise, rise above

Hold fast while bracing for impact, it's momentary
Hold fast while facing the onslaught, it's momentary
The Author and Finisher has claimed victory
Defeated and destroyed the adversary

Still coming for me
Still coming so
Fight like we're living out our last days
All the blood and tears will just fade
To a memory that just slips and fades away

Fight like we're living out our last days
All the blood and tears will just fade
To a memory that just slips and fades away (Slips and fades away)
Fight like we're living out our last days
All the blood and tears will just fade
To a memory that just slips and fades away (Slips and fades away)

Rise, rise, rise above
We rise, rise, rise, rise above

7. Deadweight

(Don't stop bleeding out the pride in me
Don't stop bleeding out the pride in me)
Don't stop till my eyes will see it

These hands are calloused throwing stone after stone
The one in my chest was the only one I left alone
I bound the reach of Your mercy in my heart, in my heart
Putting a price upon the grace that's fully free

I still choke upon the words I'd spoken
I can feel the way they cut me open

Don't stop bleeding out the pride in me
Oh how I desperately need it
Fix my eyes on love that's fully free
Don't stop till my eyes will see it

This heart is heavy sinking further below
There isn't a way out unless You take my hand
Still sinking further below
Unless You shed this deadweight
Deadweight
Putting a price upon the grace that's fully free

I still choke upon the words I'd spoken
I can feel the way they cut me open

Don't stop bleeding out the pride in me
Oh how I desperately need it
Fix my eyes on love that's fully free
Don't stop till my eyes will see it

(Sinking further, further below)
Dead
(Sinking further, further below)
Weight

This heart is heavy sinking further below
There isn't a way out unless You crush this stone

Still sinking further below
Unless You shed this deadweight
Deadweight
Putting a price upon the grace that's fully free

Don't stop bleeding out the pride in me
Oh how I desperately need it
Fix my eyes on love that's fully free
Don't stop till my eyes will see it

Don't stop! Until my eyes will see it
Don't stop! Until I live and breathe it
Don't stop! Until my eyes will see it
Don't stop! Don't stop!

8. No Tomorrow

I'm counting down my sins, each one a grain of sand
That's filling up a desert as they're falling from my hand
I watch them slip away, like every passing breath
That drags me to the chasm and faces me with death

Am I left with silent sorrow?
No tomorrow? Lost, unknown?
And will You hear me screaming out now
All alone? All alone, alone

This overwhelming weight that covers up my eyes
Is telling me that mercy is a lie that's in disguise
Just like a million stones are strung around my neck
As I drown in the abyss I'm falling till I
Feel the wings of mercy lift me up and carry me

We are left with silent sorrow
No tomorrow. Lost, unknown
Until You hear me screaming out now
For Your love, for Your love, Your love

We are left with silent sorrow
No tomorrow. Lost, unknown
Until You hear me screaming out now
For Your love, for Your love, Your love

You're counting down my sins, each one a grain of sand
That's filling up a desert as you hold them in your hand
You carry it away and bear it all alone
Every sin You've taken as Your own

9. Stop The Bleeding

(All we do is fight, fight, fight!
And there's nothing to stop all the bleeding, all the bleeding
Will we ever strike the heart of the cancer that cuts off our breathing?)
Stop the bleeding!

I felt your hands as they threated to save
But when the pressure comes all you do is enslave
I see the pressure coming down, I feel the tension rolling on
Open the wounds that you came to cure

Open my wounds and steal the love out of my heart

All we do is fight, fight, fight!
And there's nothing to stop all the bleeding
Will we ever strike the heart of the cancer that cuts off our breathing?
Stop the bleeding!

I felt your teeth as it's breaking my skin
And as your jaws sink in, I feel my life wearing thin
I see the pressure coming down, I feel the tension rolling on
Open my wounds as you steal the light from my eyes!

Now as you're soaking in our blood, tell me, where is your cure?

All we do is fight, fight, fight!
And there's nothing to stop all the bleeding
Will we ever strike the heart of the cancer that cuts off our breathing?
We're bowing to crowns made of gold, blind to the one made of thorns
Still we've got to hold the line when there's nothing to stop all the bleeding
Stop the bleeding!

We've felt your calloused hands, they're threating to save
But when the pressure comes
You enslave!

Now as you're soaking in our blood, pouring your salt on our open wounds
Tell me, where is your cure?

Can we even fight this fight when there's nothing to stop all the bleeding?
Following a crown of gold, we will never come close to the healing

All we do is fight, fight, fight!
And there's nothing to stop all the bleeding
Will we ever strike the heart of the cancer that cuts off our breathing?
We're bowing to crowns made of gold, blind to the one made of thorns
Still we've got to hold the line when there's nothing to stop all the bleeding
Stop the bleeding!
You're not my cure!

10. White Flag

Feel the pain of falling embers
Fade and burn as I surrender
Raise the white flag for my life

Disarm the hate and heal the wounds of pain that's self-inflicted
This mutiny has left behind

I feel it burning on inside my bones (Inside my bones)
All the wars that left me here to die, die
(Left to die)

Feel the pain of falling embers
Fade and burn as I surrender
Raise the white flag for my life
Feel the rain that washes over
All the guilt that I had shouldered
Raise the white flag for my life

Oh, sing the song of victory that heals the broken rebels
That kills the lie that's left behind

I feel it burning on inside my bones (Inside my bones)
All the wars that left me here to die, die
Left to die (Left to die)
Left to die (That left to die)

Feel the pain of falling embers
Fade and burn as I surrender
Raise the white flag for my life
Feel the rain that washes over
All the guilt that I had shouldered
Raise the white flag for my life
Raise the white flag for my life
Raise the white flag for my life

Raise the white flag, sing it
Sing victory
Raise the white flag, sing it
Sing victory

11. Out Of Sight

Piercing eyes into a dark unknown
See what's hidden there
(And I'm) terrified by beauty there enthroned
Emptied and laid bare (Oh save me)

No! I'm fallen and alone
I'm fallen and I'm fallen and alone

Take it away
Because I cannot bear to see it again
My heart can't handle all the guilt in my life
Oh will you put it out of sight
Put it out of mind
Out of sight

All my life is set before my eyes
Every thought and deed
(And I'm) paralyzed by everything revealed
Desperately I plead "Oh save me"

Though, I'm fallen and alone
I'm fallen and I'm fallen and alone
Oh save me

Take it away
Because I cannot bear to see it again
My heart can't handle all the guilt in my life
Oh will you put it out of sight
Put it out of mind
Out of sight
Out of sight

Oh just take it, take it from me!

Take it away
Because I cannot bear to see it again
My heart can't handle all the guilt in my life
Oh will you put it out of sight
Put it out of mind
Out of sight

Taken away
Because I couldn't bear the weight of my sin
You took the shame and all the guilt in my life
Oh You have put it out of sight
Put it out of mind
Out of sight

12. Embracing Accusation

The father of lies
Is coming to steal
Kill, and destroy
All my hopes of being good enough
I hear him saying
"Cursed are the ones who can't abide"

He is right
Hallelujah, he's right

The devil is preaching
The song of the redeemed
That I am cursed and gone astray
I cannot gain salvation
Embracing accusation

Could the father of lies
The father of lies
Be telling the truth
Of God to me tonight?
If the penalty of sin is death
Then death is mine
I hear him saying
"Cursed are the ones who can't abide"

He is right
Hallelujah, he's right

The devil is preaching
The song of the redeemed
That I am cursed and gone astray
I cannot gain salvation

Oh the devil's singing over me an age old song
That I am cursed and gone astray
Singing the first verse so conveniently over me
He's forgotten the refrain, Jesus saves

You redeemed me from the curse of the law
You redeemed me from the curse of the law

13. Silent Anthem

I'm not singing this song like it's fading in the background
I'm not singing this song like it's going to be the last time

The first note of the melody has rung out
Too much of the divine
The curse is the end of the verse with a thunderous voice
But you draw the line
Just silence the beauty
And fill the world with pain
Just violence and chaos
Where all is lost and vain

My heart still echoes the words
You burned inside that are endless
The anthem of heaven
But if you silence this song
The rocks will cry out
The anthem of heaven

The chord rings but you want to hear a new song
A chorus to the dirt
Discordant anthems of melodic cancer rise to fall
Before eternity
You filled us with screams of, screams of symphonic pain
You love the broken voice
We're screaming, we're screaming
Screams of symphonic pain

My heart still echoes the words
You burned inside that are endless
The anthem of heaven
But if you silence this song
The rocks will cry out
The anthem of heaven

I'm not singing this song like it's fading in the background
I'm not singing this song like it's going to be the last time

When this poor broken frame lies silent in the grave
I'll rise to hear of the song of sinners saved

My heart still echoes the words
You burned inside that are endless
The anthem of heaven
But if you silence this song
The rocks will cry out
The anthem of heaven

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain





WOLVES AT THE GATE LYRICS