Draconian Times

Enchantment

Like a fever, fever – Inside of me
Like a fever, fever – Inside of me

Stand fast, faithful one
See the moon and not the sun but I…
All I need is a simple reminder

Breakdown, frail affairs
Turn from the elusive stares but I…
All I need is a simple reminder

Guilt is feeding, feeding – Inside I’m cold
Guilt is feeding, feeding – Inside I’m cold

In depth grasp the chains
Struggle as the waters gain but I…
All I need is a simple reminder

Observe the formation
Fight until the battle’s won but I…
All I need is a simple reminder

There’s no rule to say you’ll cry alone
Just find the strength to help you carry the load
Reverse the frown and let the power surge
But when alone you cannot resist the urge

Can you feel it, feel it – Like the pain of dying
Can you feel it, feel it – Like the pain of dying

Hold on face to face
Damaged by the sad disgrace but I…
All I need is a simple reminder

Twisting the knife in vain
End the grief but who will gain but I…
All I need is a simple excuse…

Hallowed land

You’d love to be so far away
It’s not a long way to go, it’s gonna end in your pain
Greet open handed stranger
Create the turmoil, you’re not sane
I want the last one to go the embers will revive
So stay…

You want to live a lifetime each and every day

You’ve struggled before, I swear to do it again
You’ve told it before ’til I, until I’m weakened and sore

Seek hallowed land

You’d love to see right through my veins
The pale reflection tells all, predomination’s sustain
Crawl over land or mountain
In sight the ultimate escape
A sihlouette subsiding, enticed unable to relate

You want to live a lifetime each and every day

You’ve beckoned before, you’ll never do it again
You’ve prayed before, who are the prayers for?

Seek hallowed land

Begone the fools that lead me – I need not to know
Accept reclining spirit I need to endure
You try to live a lifetime each and every day
In this short time of promise you’re a memory…

The last time

It’s a struggle with a failure’s frown
And it crashes in front of me
I see the clouds divide
Will you stay or try to leave

The time you’re looking at the door
And you’re thinking to walk right through
I want to ignore
I only wish that it passes soon

Heart’s beating…

I raise a sunken smile
As I serve the ones who served
What can I achieve
As you steal the air I breathe

It’s a cruel misfortune
Forbidding us to see
When stories may collide
It’s a sad state of mind

Heart’s beating…
Heart’s beating for the last time

Heart’s beating for the last time
Heart’s beating, it is a state of mind
Heart’s beating for the last time
Heart’s beating, the peace you cannot find

Forever failure

Understand procedure, understand war
Understand rules, regulations
I don’t understand sorry

You must feel frustration
‘Cause your mind feels such temptation
And your ways appear a total lack of faith

You may feel elation
At your body’s recreation
And the joy you need, restricted by one thought

Are you forever – Loss of purpose in a passive life
Are you forever – Pale, regarded as a waste of time

High times are courageous
But in truth they suit no purpose
Induced, reduced, unable and afraid

Can you feel rejection
And a lack of motivation
And the joy you need, restricted and delayed

Are you forever – Loss of purpose in a passive life
Are you forever – Pale, regarded as a waste of time

I don’t really know what sorry means, I’ve been sorry all my life
I’m sorry I was born, that’s what my mother told me
I don’t really know what sorry means
I’ve been sorry all my life

I don’t really know what sorry means

Once solemn

Once solemn, the things I’m leaving alone
Once solemn, the looks that turn one to stone
And I’m learning the highs and the lows of the panic inside
And I’m learning the highs and the lows of the fake promises

Your powers electrify me
Your prowess repels apathy
Your image can turn your soul to stone

I can’t find another way
I can’t find the words to say…

Unchaining the thing that’s holding me down
And it’s frustrating, the pressure’s getting me down
And I’m trying to live with a bad decision every day
It’s a fever that’s eating away in search of a fast release

Your powers electrify me
Devour the one that’s guilty
Your image can turn a soul to stone

I can’t find another way
I can’t find the words to say…

Shadowkings

A spiral movement, the ultimate mystery
Will you show… will you show who you are?

It’s the truth that untrue suspicion
Is spreading like a disease
Do you know, do you know, if it’s real?

Voices appear inside my brain
Their need, to set me free
Onward they lead before the dawn
Teach me what’s right and wrong

Encourage the madness they welcome impurity
I don’t know… I don’t know who I am
Fallen blind to the cruel hysteria
That’s constantly challenging me
All alone… All alone can’t be real

Voices approve I can’t relate
Their need to celebrate
Onward they lead before the dawn
Teach me what’s right and wrong

Voice appear the quest begins
Fuel for the Shadowkings
Onward they lead before the dawn
Teach me what’s right from wrong

Elusive cure

Take a pact, hide the fuel that’s gathered here
Pale in view, a fool resigns and taken over
Skin your pride, it’s stripped and taken from you
Buried deep are the souls that are waiting

For you and only you, you may attempt to proceed
The sharpest point is aimed at you
Where the pain strikes is clear

Regret, refrain, I can no longer bear it…

Rising ages increase elusive cures
A moral life sacrificed greed’s taken over
Ride to take and the craving’s buried deeper
Reaching out grasping arms that are waiting

For you and only you, you may attempt to proceed
The sharpest point is aimed at you
Where the pain strikes is clear

Regret, refrain, I can no longer bear it…

Yearn for change

Approaching a silence
A blur of subsidence

Time may heal all troubles, is that what I’ve found?
Joy entices all, until death’s lonely shroud
But I know it’s forever

Praying for a change

Our lives leading onwards
The essence is stronger

Memories of life drifting further away
I must doubt that where there’s a will there’s a way
But I know it’s forever

Praying for a change

Life is all the pain we endeavour

Shades of God

The fire is gone, a time to search and then replace
I’ll never know just how the blind can lead the way

They search for faith, it shows the way – It leads the way
The distant smile, banished denial – No more denial

Are you the one who tries to send me to the grave?
I cannot know what deals the truth what deals the pain

Weak search for faith
A path to take, you tread in vain
The distant smile, banished denial – No more denial

Hands of reason

I speak of people, whose game is disguise
The myth of flavour appears with no sign

‘Cause I see it coming, just like a long lost friend
A temple of rubble, the low and blind betray

Inane the pleasures that leave a sorry state
You’re told of treasures, indulgence cannot wait

But wait for tomorrow, and steal some sanity
Insane thoughts are borrowed, unable to repay them back

As I now fall – Fall into deprivation
Fall – Fallen, there’s still tomorrow
Love hides the things you’ll never know

A lack of reason that makes a mortal man
Untold the treason, the past where it began

‘Cause I see the horror – Horror to think about
Insane thoughts are borrowed, unable to repay them back

As I see the blood – Blood on the hands of reason
Blood – Bloody the hands that lead me
Love for the ones you cannot know

I see your face

Coming back today, the pounding thoughts relay
It’s a time that’s for myself
I’m laying low, strife is gaining slow
A kind of anguish I don’t need

When I see your frown, hurt will put me down
If I could see a light shining
Is this borrowed time, maybe a final time
That I can see a light shining

Will you make it slow, pure evil makes it slow
I know you’re brandishing the sign
Dare I take a chance in this circumstance?
Or will I leave without a hope

When you seal my fate, sorrow turns to hate
If I could see a light shining
Is this borrowed time, maybe a final time
That I could see a light shining

What one man makes is there for one to take
A single handed fall from grace
Heart’s beating fast, beating till the last
A draining feeling’s all that I know

When I see your frown, it becomes my frown
If I could see a light shining
Is this borrowed time, maybe a final time
That I could see a light shining

See a light shining…

Jaded

Opaque the dissident establishment
That we all suffer
Refill the porous shell with words that mean so many things

Words mean so many things

The feeling can’t avoid you…

Stoking the fires of absence
Loss and anguish long departed
Adjust to changes re-arranging, burns in many ways

Pain burns in many ways

The feeling can’t avoid you…

Walk away (The Sisters of Mercy cover)

And in the Summer when the clouds show through
I might go the same way too if
You and I could talk together
Well what I supposed to do with
You and I would walk together
Then with always close around and
Now you gaze towards the doorway
When the weather comes falling down

And when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay
Would you choose to walk
Would you choose to stay
Would you walk, walk, walk, walk, walk away

And when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay
Would you choose to walk
Would you choose to stay
Would you walk, walk, walk, walk, walk away

Though when the day is nearly through
I might see the same way too
If you would name the things that bring you down on me so I could see it’s
Not quite true if you don’t really know
Or understand the circumstance
Behind then I might clear your mind
And you won’t have to go so

And when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay
Would you choose to walk
Would you choose to stay
Would you walk, walk, walk, walk, walk away

Laid to waste

Resent a sense of feeding, demanding bleeding
Unhinged a savage seeks a quest
Hollow heart’s rapid beating
The pulse is high it’s never ceasing
This cannot be a false pretense

As people arise I feel it

Stone cold, a passive disease, no chance of healing
You’ll wonder if this is the end
The void submit to pass through
Fear the eyes staring at you
A time of unrivalled despair

As people arrive I feel their stare

You lived a life in chains
Your master could not save
You’ll lose the grasp of gain
No method to your rage

You die a death each day
For some it seems to stay that way

Channels to feed your hate
Lying there for you to take
A place where fools attend
No prayers for you my friend

Master of misrule

Wipe away the pouring rain
It’s too late to feel it again

What it takes to be born
What it takes when the last has fallen
What I see is depravity within us all

What it takes to be born
What it takes when the last has fallen
What is this, the despondency within us all

Maybe I’m already dead
Or maybe I’m still alive
Draining spirit, the soul and my body of pride

I can see through it all
It’s too late when the end is calling
Can’t relate to the stranger inside of you

Stranger inside of you

What it takes to be born
What it takes when the last has fallen
What I see is depravity within us all

There’s no sense in the truth
There’s no will when the world is falling
Hostility is aiming to demoralise

Another desire

Leaving as the wind blows, I recall
I needed control…

Pain leaves harsh remains throughout the day
Pain leaves harsh remains throughout the day

Leaving as our lives close, I recall
I needed control…

Learning from the sorrow, I confess
I need some control…

Pain leaves harsh remains throughout the day
Pain leaves harsh remains throughout the day

Laughter lifts the spirit for a while
Life may seem of interest for a while

Learning from the sorrow…

Fear

Quest for power to the born again
And pray for silence of the hurt again
Eradication of the tortured man
Configuration of the lonely bleeding

The Gods are praying for our souls again
The willing conquest of our souls again
The wicked rule the one who dares to cross
Accept the pain and simply count the losses

Feed my fear

Through the madness with a surge of strength
Turn a blind eye and say the rest
A close of fear destroys a weak defence
You can’t survive the pain of constant grieving

Feed my fear

Obsession clings to all that holds no hope
The fluid making life will cease to flow
Eradication of the lonely man
Configuration of the tortured bleeding

Feed my fear

Last desire

Run away
For time will heal your troubles
Death could never work for your
Thriving space
Spaces forming circles
Tranquil sleep will embrace you

Only desire
Only desire

Breathing haste
Haste your only tempter
Joy will only reduce you
Bribe your way
Grasping life’s foundations
It can only be a punishment

Where the will will follow
Seek the truth to swallow
And the wind is howling for you
Undivided fire
Seek the last desire
And the rain is pouring for you

Guiding ways
Follow on my brother
Let the darkness engulf you
And the hate
Hate of the others before me
And the love that you borrow
What it means
Sorrow divided by fragments of others
Leading to another day

Don’t fade away
Don’t fade away
Don’t you fade away