30th anniversary re-recording of Paradise Lost’s fourth studio album “Icon”.
1. | Embers fire | 4:53 | Lyrics |
2. | Remembrance | 3:28 | Lyrics |
3. | Forging sympathy | 4:41 | Lyrics |
4. | Joys of the emptiness | 3:29 | Lyrics |
5. | Dying freedom | 3:43 | Lyrics |
6. | Widow | 3:07 | Lyrics |
7. | Colossal rains | 4:31 | Lyrics |
8. | Weeping words | 3:51 | Lyrics |
9. | Poison | 3:04 | Lyrics |
10. | True belief | 4:32 | Lyrics |
11. | Shallow seasons | 4:54 | Lyrics |
12. | Christendom | 4:33 | Lyrics |
13. | Deus misereatur | 1:53 | Instrumental |
Embers fire
A fallen time that’s bygone
A crude elite that’s from a distant zone
You’ll turn a blind eye on what’s brave
You don’t know if it’s the truth you told
Anger looks on the quiet dreaming
Seals the sense incandescent ones
Hold back desire for danger
A bet you’ll lose you’ll have no way to turn
I see the man who lives and breathes corruption
Into a circle that you call your own
Don’t run away, from the pain, a claim that you deal with
A power game, from within, impossible for you to see this
Laid down the laws of deceit
The ones who cherish are the ones who’ll go
Into the ashes of a tortured world
Only in mind’s eye can you see a light
Harmony breaks, dark awakes, in old eyes – The trouble feel it
Here to stay, mark the way, improvise the judgement hearing
Anger looks on the quiet dreaming
Seals the sense incandescent ones
All remains of the glowing embers
Is a bleak cold irrelevance
Remembrance
I am the one, to which you’ll go
You are the one, from which I’ll run…
Fading to grey, the wanton pray
You’ll find shelter, I’ll find none
I’ll leave your pointless life undone
Breaking your days, my anguish stays
Fate, fate of my laughter, the loss of your sight
Hate, hating the vicious lies, I will revel insane
I see your face, I’ve seen your face
I turn and run, you’ll have no place
Time, time is the father, in my corrupt mind
Pain, echoes in a silent sky…
Remember life now?
Do you remember life now?
Forging sympathy
A mass of breathing souls
For times are desolate
Passing judgement on my sentence
As I perceive my dying day
Give me a promise
The word I will never hear
Sympathies forging, stalling in me
I’m closing all the doors
While my frown remains
Until I reach my golden haven
I’ll let the sadness pass my way
Preaching the words of angels, to a darker side of man
My halo’s fading with all the sin I deal
Have I been banished, a forgery
Sear, the tender feeling as my solar glow dies
And I’m waiting for my sweet Hell
You’ll wait for your Hell, I wish you Hell
In time the hate corrodes
Our brains are desolate
And this prison which we serve in
Will be a witness to our pains
Preaching the words of angels, to a darker side of man
Joys of the emptiness
Breathing here, and the air is clear
Changes of which I could forsee
Violence caressing, impending distress
As my body lay sleeping, eternally bleeding, and…
Shallow despair, broken years cannot repair
Summoned here, and all must see the hypocrisy
Peel back the face, the sorry mind, a vacant space
Born deprived, the moods expired in reality
A fantasy based on harmony
A victim released accordingly
Scatter the ashes, remains of life’s passages
Mocking and meaningless, joys of the empty, and…
Mighty and proud, reaching up to touch the shroud
Tangled here, and far beyond from atrocity
Frozen and cold, bleak the memories of old
Times capsize the born desires for technology
Dying freedom
As a withered hand grips tight through fear
The cold caressing rains
The reaping arms of silence, evolve for us to see
Overruled by a lack of patience, it’s untold
That’s the secret that has made us
Constructive powers flow desire
The last intense degree
Scratching at the surface, for all of us to…
Gather round, the secrets that you know
And the speech that makes blood flow
Blame desire, you’ll blame revenge
Standing at the solemn shores
Where blessed fools are born
Happiness is wasted, wasted blood and tears
Re-abuse infiltration, it’s untold
Raping life from other nations
The ritual explosive fires
Rewarding enemies
Shells of empty faces here, crying to be free
Gather round, the secrets that you know
And the speech that makes blood flow
Blame desire, you’ll blame revenge
Dying free, the spirits gather round
While the soul lays underground
Will the voices call again?
Widow
You’re breaking a chain
Lying until you can erase the past
Born with a look of deceit
Praying that all the bitter guilt’s defeated
Born…
Stand on your own, killed from behind
Fools are blind, unwilling to accept, decline
You’ll turn a blind eye
Bought by a sickening man
The weakened gather just as fast as they can
‘Whore’ is what the people roar
From fear of rejection you’ll come back for more
Strong, don’t see that love has ceased
In the end, only death can release
Stand on your own, killed from behind
Fools are blind, you’re on a lonely road
Colossal rains
Into a depth of haze
The colossal rains flow like the breeze
In this sheltered scenery
The arms outstretched for me
Lying in mourning
No end to the solace
Each pale colours sound uplifting
As dark waters flowing free
Through the archways of silent dreams
Brought back from centuries, Creation has seen
The colossal rains draining the mortal spirit
Can this be real What the frozen rains reveal?
The shallow silver breathes
Into a depth of haze, I’ll see you dead
The colossal rains flowing like the breeze
A sheltered scenery as the arms outstretched for me
You’ll never walk again
You’ll never walk again
Into a sorry sea of pale sound uplifting here
Dark waters flow free through archways of silent dreams
You’ll never walk again
You’ll never walk again
Brought back from centuries, creation seen
The colossal rains, the mortal spirits drained
Can this be real, what the frozen rains reveal?
You’ll never walk again
You’ll never walk again
Hear cries, way out of reach and
Shallow the silver breathes through
Sun wakes the sleeping heat and
Drowns in a mass disease
You’ll never walk again
You’ll never walk again
Weeping words
Fear this more (the more) than the hands of man’s (disgrace)
It crushes forth (resenting) conquest it’s plan
Don’t look back, will I ever see your face again?
The domination (is in all) imagination (space)
Caress endlessly (until we) inflame the soul…
Failing to return what’s borrowed, devoting rights to me
I see a Summer of Winters merging gracefully
Don’t look back, will we ever see your face again?
Don’t look back, will I hear the weeping words again?
Poison
Come taste a century of hatred
Free from the sanity of them
Is there something, that you see in all of them
Non-believer, a time will come, but when?
All you worship in life destroyed by human hands
Spare the trouble you feel, save a breath for your next
Spit on the laws that I made for you
Betray the treasures within hearts
Is there something in death that you think reflects your life?
Come taste the loss that I feel, challenge paradise
All you worship in life destroyed by human hands
Save the trouble you feel, a treasure with no price
It’s disturbing, the joy I feel, but I feel it more
True belief
Wretched will, host of pleasure surreal
Closed the room where the last is buried
Rise or fall at your master’s request
You’re unable to accept redemption
I don’t know about a true belief here
With the lost it’s the same as always
All I want is the same
All I want is a true belief
You can’t wait to become a memory
With the weak it’s the same as always
Stand confused lack of comprehension
Re-aroused by a thought of madness
And I know that the truth is always right
But it’s time to search for lies
You’re the one I try to save
But the blood spills from your veins
All I want is the same
All I want is a true belief
Call counting time ’til the end
Death’s wicked smile never fails
The curse is cast and you’ve lost the past forever more
A candle burns here no more
I don’t know about a century of life
When the love of generations die
I can see no good in taking your own life
When any moment death calls
All I want is the same
To be part of the game
All I want is a true belief
Shallow seasons
The sullen man before me turns a head and demonstrates
The power of a weak mind can’t conceal or captivate
It’s lost in a bleak scope of fragmented ways
Eternal non-events occur throughout its poor days
You’re lost forever, unable to see yourself
The thoughts arising, there’s no disguising
Where you’ve been…
Reveal to me, your mind’s identity
You’ll pay, pay for the feelings that you feed me
Don’t hold on to what you call a life
Anger compels a force of weakness or fear
I’ll promise no forgiveness for the rest of my years
A negative release, subliminal urge
Unwise declining, grey thoughts reviving all the way
Your fallen prey, a loser pays
You’ll pay, pay for the feelings that you feed me
Don’t hold on to what you call a life
Christendom
Innocence, beneath this sorry veil I see you have
Plentitude, the sweetness of a new born child
It’s lost deserted reverence
For my life and the stars creation
For my life it’s the same rejection
Lost in life, I’ll blame it all on you
Loss of hope, failing situation
Readapt, death is life’s temptation
Dying slow, I’ll blame it all on you
Resurrect, the harsh tones of our self contempt recall
Fail to breathe, in sight no normal state of mind
In time the hour will fail to chime
They betray, uphold the law, accuse the future
Deus misereatur
Instrumental