XAON LYRICS

1. The Lethean

[Instrumental]

2. The Hunt

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Rob Carson]

Bring her about
Tempesting beast ye who hath me unbound
And yields the signs of torments never before found
And whispers these parables I had thrown to the ground
Bring me its head
And silence these voices that echo insufferably through my brain
And may you never plague my thoughts again
Oh mighty serpent of the sky
Thar she blows
In all her majesty she breathes in her celestial flatteries
I shall grab my harpoon to pierce its heart
And finally put an end to the hunt
And finally put an end to this requiem
Lay to rest this psychotic mayhem
Breathe in and breathe out these venomous lies
All I can see is the love in your eyes
Cast away this fallacy
Just a distant memory
Put an end to this requiem
Lay to rest this demented mayhem
I captain the ship of a skeleton crew
With an anchor made of bones
In search of imperious misery
On an ocean made of stones
Deathly winds fueling my demise
A chant of destruction
This vessel is filled with irreverent cries
And scornful emotions
And suddenly bangs the chime of obsession
A riddled nightmare lost in transference
For what possible purpose would it harrow me
This elusive entity from Ahabian terrors or so I believed
In this wanton chase
I’m fighting an uncatchable foe
Leaving reason behind
And spouting a frothed defiance to the skies
Breathe in and breathe out these venomous lies
All I can see is the pain in your eyes
Cast away this fallacy
Just a distant memory
Put an end to this requiem
Lay to rest this demented mayhem

3. A Golden Silence

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Rob Carson]

I once dreamt of a stone made of ashes and bone
Singing haunting themes of wordless songs
This stone I silenced for so long
Brought me this wasteland I call home
I envy the finesse of this palaverous void
Choking on this lethargic anathematic awe
If only I could thrive in this apotheosis
This tongue paralysis preaching the abyss
Ô gilded fantasies afar
Beyond these raucous waves
My soul tied to this dying star
Heir to these barren days
And perhaps one day dream of extraordinary labours
I speak of such myths I cannot fathom
Only to give reason to elusive rhizomes
Who am I to question this ordering chaos
How can I feel entitled in this frenzied madhouse
Ô gilded fantasies afar
Beyond these raucous waves
My soul tied to this dying star
Heir to these barren days
I hear a clink, a faint tingle, an aurous ode to oblivion
One last tribute the gold long forgotten
And in a vapid huzzah to this morbid fallacy
I raise my glass to greet this vacuous insanity
Broken and confined in these fractured insanities
No one can hear the fall in this sea of dead trees
They say these violent delights have violent ends
Show me what triumph there is in this failed apotheosis
Show me
Show me
Show me!
Ô gilded fantasies afar
Beyond these raucous waves
My soul tied to this dying star
Heir to these barren days
'Tis a golden silence
A fine moment to muse on
The cacophonous derelict
I've based my life on
Auriferous fantasies
Let me be consumed by these silent reveries
Auriferous fantasies
Let me be consumed by these silent reveries

4. If I Had Wings

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Rob Carson]

It all starts with a flame that cannot burn
Strangled by dust from deserts you've never heard
Where shouting winds scream your name
Where shattered wings drown in the sand
This desert ocean I contemplate
An arid shrine of sand and bone
Will swallow me whole to its depth
For these wings are made of stone
If I had wings to dream a sky and learn to fall
I'd hold onto the sun and burn it all
If I had wings to dream an ocean side and free my soul
I'd leave it all behind to feel once more
If I had wings to carry me to stranger isles
And decipher these wretched signs
Foul winds chanting in unison
These Icarian melodies
Perhaps my wings are made of wax
And I'll be plunged back into the seas
Why am I trapped in this painting that never dries
How can I hear these waves all singing my demise
The smell of rain burnt into sand
Claimed by the sun
While my quill turns to dust
In this canvas I roam only to realise
That the wanderer is forever lost
Ô serpent of life bane of my mind
Ye who hath drowned all this dolorous grime
That has poisoned my soul
Now it's time to let go
If I had wings to dream a sky and learn to fall
I'd hold onto the sun and burn it all
If I had wings to dream an ocean side and free my soul
I'd leave it all behind to feel once more
If I had wings
If I had wings

5. And Yet I Smile

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Rob Carson]

Burn, let the chaos run awaking a red sun
Let loose this fiery grin when all is said and done
Darkness descends
Pandemonium reigns
Applaud my dearest, for once more I sing this symphony of smoke
Let the moon shine on these pearly whites
Welcome the madness of the blight
I am the curse, I am the cure
A Manichaean paradox
A chilling spasm made to suffer
A blissful abnormality
A demented monstrosity
Plagued by euphoria
And yet I smile to greet this comforting void
I sold my soul for these eluding eyes
I'll do it again a thousandfold
And never again truly feel alive
And I welcome these streams galloping through these scarlet breaches
Slowly drowning the mad shackled demiurge
Forever trapped in this breathless dream
Cycling through this miserable scourge
A Machiavellian cage, a burning providence
As useless cries of a vacuous melody
Echo frantically through space and time
Thunder stroke from a heart shaped cloud
But were you even around
To see the bolt ravish the ground
How many screams will the storm have strangled
I believed in second chances
Looking back at every sin
Wondering why this grin, why this façade
Why this pathetic charade
Oh wretched smile
Take this calamitous design from the deep confines of your mind
And applaud one more time this tragedy
And smile
Let it ring through the endless void
Why won't you just smile
Let us live blissfully in awe
Dans ce déluge, cet océan de glace
Et la ruine d'une falaise qui pleure à la lumière d'un astre
Qui a jamais scintille une lumière anathème
Dans le sourire d'un miroir qui s'efface
Au delà d'un tourment, d'un Grand Oeuvre avorté
Par les flammes d'une rancoeur trop oubliée
Et ce sourire dans sa noirceur illuminée
Candidement viendra pour vous émerveiller
Anger, these strains of laughs seem louder
These pains I'm meant to suffer
And you're the reason why
And yet I smile
Harder, this feeling's lost all glimmer
This light has gone now darker
And you're the reason why
But yet I smile

6. In Pyrrhic Seas

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Rob Carson]

Beyond the great beyond
There lies an urn of tales forlorn
Of mountains scorched and waters worn
Of sunken beasts and ambitions torn
In Pyrrhic seas
Anthologies
Of shattered dreams
Paint the canvas of thousand swansongs
A fabricated Petrichor aligned to dull the inevitable
A makeshift rhyme to keep the stars aligned
And leave behind the conception of time
This season benign lost in a past confined
Bury me underneath
Drown me below
Carry me slowly
Beyond the great unknown
Come clarity
Efflorescent lunacy
Remorseful moon that shines
On your rued memory
Across the arid lands of nigh
Through bloodstained grounds and fields of penitence
Where sorrows fill immense lands better left behind
And bitter shrines best forgotten under frozen tides
Withered calligraphy blows the tempest of the shrine
Of irreverent memories better left behind
Acrimonious ignominies of Letheanic times
Wishing that rivers of stronger tides will bring forth moons of stronger drives
In Pyrrhic seas
Anthologies
Of shattered dreams
Paint the canvas of thousand suns
In Pyrrhic seas
Anthologies
Of shattered dreams
Reach the oblivion left by the undertow
And drown me below
Carry me slowly
Beyond the great unseen
Come clarity
Envious lethargy
Insidious malarkey

7. Wanton

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Rob Carson]

Licentious, breathless omnibus
Cruel and pridefully obvious
Distastefully promiscuous
But however glorious
And a certain penchant for the malevolent illustrious
Fathomless joy in this journey remorseless
In a sea of wanton wills and sheer rejoice
The spring of ghastly thrills amorce
The undead forces vicariously guiding the dying quills
Of letters buried signed to the
Wanton
Beautiful and calm
Bitterly longed and eternally
Wanton
Blissfully forgone
Ready to rot into the end of the world
I see a carousel of stained headless portraits
Faded shrines of paradoxical epithets
Whose eyes have now joined mine
And haunt the mirrors of the mansion that has locked my mind
Ô dismal Wanton
Beautiful and calm
Bitterly longed and eternally
Wanton
Blissfully forgone
Ready to rot into the end of the world
A cruel rhizome plants the seeds of dismal bliss
Sprouting bubonic flowers in gardens forgotten
And bring forth lies from which we all abided
Exterminate the hemlock
To whom we're all devoted
Bring out the pyres
Rejoice with the wicked

8. Wayward Sun

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Rob Carson]

Plagued flowers beseech the astral burnings
In an unending revolution
Where nothing lives not even crows
And worms search for absolution
Forests charred to obsidian
And seas turned dry
Memories faded in oblivion
And songs lost in time
Wayward sun may you one day rest
Extinguish the fire
Carry my dreams to the West
While the East lays dire
Craters of sulphur and misery
Replace the gardens slowly
Releasing the poison that blooms
A myriad of nameless tombs
Wayward sun may you one day rest
Extinguish the fire
Carry my dreams to the West
While the East lays dire
Tell me why I keep staring at a blank page
Who's eyes resemble mine
All the words I write keep fading away
Before the ink can dry
A Falling skyline laden with crimson rays
Crushed by dimming embers
Soon I'll be drowned by these ashy waves
And drunk from Lethean waters
This wasteland you roam is your true home
I guess some things will never change
And finally your work here will be done
Pyred by the beams of a wayward sun
Wayward sun may you one day rest
Extinguish the fire
Carry my dreams to the West
While the East lays dire

9. A Kiss of Winter

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Rob Carson]

When the fall is calling to the moment we arrive
Seasons withering through days of future passed
Breathe in the last breath of sun that drapes over your eyes
Take my hand and leave behind the summers that are gone at last
And feel the kiss of winter bliss
And greet the nymphs of the abyss
Hollow is the ice shimmering down this plaintive sky
Holding the tears of noctilucent clouds passing by
Cold runs the mourning river blessed by serenity
Wondrous harmony this barren beauty home it shall be
For I am divided for love's sake
For the chance of union
And breathe again a new world
As nebulas collapse and singularities combine
I'll be ferried into the great unknown
And in the void become one
A polar tempest arises
A frostbitten phoenix joins the Aether realm
And leaves behind a burning Eden, forlorn
I am one
Drink from the well of shadowed lives
I am none
Burn the letters of lost goodbyes
I am one
Break the seal of fetid lies
I am none
And greet the bliss of winter
The cosmic leeway has been shred to thorns
Astres collide
Mountains of sulphur poisoning the skies
The end is nigh
I am one
I am none
I am one
I am none
Oh Lethean waters wash away the universe
And reunite all the sinners of this world
Rejoice as I am one and we are none
Before Solipsis overruns
And I won't remember you, neither will you
We will drift again amid these lonely stars
Until we finally meet again
A kiss of winters gone into a
Sunless dawn
For when the ice melts back into
An ocean
And this strange brew that clouds my mind
Finally reveals all these past lives
Come and gone away from you
Oh winter how can you be bliss
You carry hemlock on your kiss
Such a cruel design
Did it really matter after all?
I am one
Drink from the well of shadowed lives
I am none
Did it matter after all?

10. Telos

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Rob Carson]

Space is an ocean where silence meets deceit
Cold and withered where I feel complete
A yearning dread forever sleeps
Whispers calleth upon the deep
And memories of past lives grow cold
My mind a tapestry in ail
This canvas echoing a wail
These reveries are starting to feel old
They feel old
Wintry smile of a dying moon
Painted denial
Feasting on a King’s tomb
Leaving bones for the jackals
A barren land on which to weep
And misty beaches where to mourn
I roam this rift that dives so deep
And dream my way below forlorn
Row and row and row until the end
And greet the darkness rising allow your mind to transcend
Row and row and row until the end
Through nebulas, through dying stars, watch me fade again
Space is a notion, a mirror to the soul
A blurry reflection without a goal
I feel the darkness yet again
I feel growing the beast within
An affliction slowly pulling me below
The angst is keeping me alive
What is dead may never die
But will walk the earth in eternal lorn
Walking the shores I once saw clear
I dream again the path I roamed
And breathe the same shrill atmosphere
Through seasoned winds and withered stones
And when I look up the frontier
I see a dying star alone
Celestial glare, a light so clear
That is never coming home
Row and row and row until the end
And greet the darkness rising allow your mind to transcend
Row and row and row into the end
Embrace the rivers roaring flowing towards a better end
Row and row and row into the end
And dream away the notion that you’ll ever be the same
Row and row and row until the end
Through nebulas, through dying stars, watch me fade again







XAON LYRICS