Delain

The lifelong day there's a voice in my cry Growing like fire, brings scorn to my smile Time lengthens the night and shortens the day, The ghosts I host don't seem to go away I've got my reasons To burn the world Reasons all my own A stitch by which I'm...

Amenity God of Amenity? More like rules the world. But tonight she may fall, Demon of insanity. Will her strength last until The end of days, The end of days? I shed wine Staring evolution. The stupids ignorant, They must be choked by wine. You mu...

How does it feel when all you're counting on is scatterbrained Every wind that you have sailed upon - a hurricane Every summer you have seen was filled with April rain? It doesn't get easy, don't you know Fortune smiles on you You're not watching Dig th...

This city drinks and roars Each word so meaningless Each word, especially yours Echoes inside my head Well, can't you see? I won't let you get your way Let you get the best of me I just need to know Are you done with me? So are you done with...

How do you look into the mirror When you’re too tired to fake a smile Your misery won’t make you look thinner Reality is bitter It’s your hand and yours alone that has opened The door to let their voices in Into your head, under your skin Fix your face or you...

How do you look into the mirror When you're too tired to fake a smile Your misery won't make you look thinner Reality is bitter It's your hand and yours alone that has opened The door to let their voices in Into your head, under your skin Fix your face...

Look what we started Look what we started Over the ground beneath my feet Tell me how deep do I dig To find the soil untouched by humanity? Every stone or home or tree Every field that I see Death will be over in this fallacy We are the arbiters of d...

Easy now We don't need this Take a breath And believe it's Just a phase That we're going through I try to shout But my words go in and out Did you even hear me say That I still love you We are losing our way Can't you hear what I say L...

Breathe on me, breathe on me Breathe on me, breathe on me Breathe on me, breathe on me Breathe on me, breathe on me A stranger's face that I have never seen But on photographs But on tv screens Your songs of romace ringing in my ear You are all I s...

Do you remember? (Yes I do) You and me against the world Do you remember? (Yes I do, yes I do) It seems like forever We held on to each other like We held on to life Now why Would you send me out to sea On this battered ship alone? If this is what i...

Hey, are you in there? Don't you remember me, Your oldest friend Are you in there? Don't you remember How I've always been The one who cared When no one else did Hey, are you aching You used to turn to me When you were down Are you breaking? You...

Trying so hard to get by To be the next big thing alive But all the same Every color I see, a pale shade of grey Trying so hard and they say "You're just a signature away Just one handshake" Well here's to collars and suits And things that they...

I want to lay my head down Come close, come closer What's that uncomfortable sound Of your key in the door? I hear you walking out Walking out again Why didn't you stay a while To say goodbye, my friend? I want to lay my head down Come closer, come c...

I can feel it grow Starting like a little storm Itching in my toes But it's will to take over Ain't quite that small I can feel it grow I can hear it moan I can hear it's bitter cries In my veins it crawls Underneath my tongue it hides I'm in control An error...

Though once you ruled my mind I thought you'd always be there And I'll always hold on to your face But everything changes in time And the answers are not always fair And I hope you've gone to a better place Cordell Time will tell They say that you've...

Just 'cause it's part of a plan That doesn't make it right If I put my life in your hands It's still unmistakably mine Dark its wings across a pitch-black sky: Death will come for me, but not tonight Let the earth cover me! Angels will call for me! B...

Daylight lucidity Streams through me Let me dream Out of this world, out of this world I cannot sleep Sedate me Wide awake Animate this soul I'm still following the pain Daylight lucidity Beam on me Come to me Into my sleep, into my sleep I can...

Deep Frozen Misted windows Hide your empty eyes. Every moment, every whisper Separates you from me. I've been screaming, Won't you let me in? Let me see a trace Of the places hidden Under your skin. I foster illusions Of which I am afraid, Unknown emotions Wi...

I breathe your inspiration in I feel you're everything now I feel your hesitation No, don't let go It's the sign at the end of a lonely road It's the light at the end of a tunnel It's the foghorn that's calling the lost ships home (I breathe your inspiration...

I need your inspiration in I feel you're everything now I feel your hesitation No, don't let go If you're fine at the end of a lonely road it's the light at the end of a tunnel It's the fall goddess calling all assets, whoa (I need your inspiration in) It's y...

I can't forget the faces I can't forget the sounds I can't forget, can't get the fever down I guess imagination It makes it come around Whenever lightning strikes and thunder sounds We shared nothing But storm, but wind One rain-swept moment s...

You have let them Arch your back and Swallowed the toxicity Hold your own, don't wait and see You've let them make You feel bad about Every little thing you've done Judge of all things Maker of none Just kill them with kindness 'Cause you will alw...

Forest Trees of green, all I can see On my way through the forest. I kneel down on my knees, I stare into the face of a little man Showing me his fear, The humans are coming near. Take me home deep into the forest, Show me your life Or the ruins that are left...

Misted windows Hide your empty eyes Every moment, every whisper Separates you from me I've been screaming Won't you let me in? Let me see a trace Of the places hidden Under your skin Chorus: Answer me, Till that day that you do I'll be one step be...

Here I am in all my majesty And there is nothing you won't get to see Come along and I'll give you my world In one hundred forty characters Don't you try to analyse We are just raised to reach the stars Can't you see it's generation me? I don't need...

I don't know what to feel, oh, I don't know what to say Oh, I don't know what to do, what makes me treat you this way Oh I get numb in my bones, oh, I get numb in my heart Why don't you leave me alone before I tear you apart? I'm no Jesus Christ, I'm the...

Understand, you'll never be What they expect; It's out of reach You're not the kind To reach that high It's nothing like you had in mind Another act Another show you play Realize, it will not make your problems go away You cannot act your way out of your dail...

Blood-red and sweet Mouthful of wine I savour it And taste the freedom On your lips And heaven knows I tried To steer away Delicious danger Made me stay Now I'm closer Closer to the edge Closer to experience all of life and all of death Oh I'm f...

I once had an understanding That everything would go my way But now we’ve come too far along for me To hold on to my own beliefs I’m not in it for the fun of it but for the pain I’m not at all interested in your temporary fame I just want to see you star...

Hit me with your best shot Give me all that you've got Hit me til I'm down and out And black and blue Now for the love of God Hit me with your best shot It was the last thing on my mind Well could it be, could it be At the wrong place, the right time...

Shake the heavens Cross the waters blackened All before I lose the thought of you Many suns and moons ago One heavy-hearted night I trusted my heart to the waves And flung her out of sight Heavy love sank down the sea And to the ocean floor Still you...

I've been trying to deny it Oh what to do When I'm such a fool for you I want you So bad I want you I want to hold you, babe You look away, what did I say? I want you For better or for worse I will make you mine Each warm heart gets cold in time...

Remember when you walked out into the rain The railroad and the sky were calling your name Can you hear them whisper: "Come and get lost with us" You've been chasing shadows in your hometown You searched for answers that refused ever to be found So you c...

My achievements seem so humble While you're making wine from water While my hands work the cold soil All you touch turns into gold And I don't want to be like you I don't want to be like you Seems like you outrun me every time I don't want to be you W...

It seems we have lost Lay down your arrows They won't cause flaming hearts It seems we have lost We keep on running in different directions Never again The way you're turning all my wrongs to right Never again This one you can't deny Never again I w...

We are sinking this ship now By midnight hour How long can you hold your breath? To the sirens who sing to The broken hearts We are humming the same tune Goodbye my lullaby Under water reflected Flahes of life Floating up from your lungs, your lips...

We are sinking this ship now This midnight hour How long can you hold your breath? To the sirens who sing to the broken hearts We are humming the same tune Goodbye my lullaby Goodbye my lullaby Goodbye my lullaby Under water reflected Flashes of life Floatin...

May the Gods be with us today. Should we sacrifice more smaller? Free word of prayers Certain is our victory. Manikens, the lie they're watching, Retaliate their right through owning Magic strike; behold the people, Eviled and skilled. For now the eye...

I, I curse the morning star And I, I curse the moonlit sky I traced the stars and mapped them all and to my misery Each single light up in the sky all pointed back to me I can't escape my destiny I can't escape Like a deer, still as stone, on the road...

The sun was golden flamed The air was sweet like honey The grass was soft we made A pledge to keep on running The clouds all shied away The air was warm and damp Oh on this golden day You ripped my heart away It was the dawn of May A lonely blackbird...

Incomplete, cast in the concrete Walk the city streets, granite sky My machine built the factories Feed the worker bees Get in line Round and round and round The wheels come down Dreaming of the steam The pounding sounds Round and round and round Th...

Your face, my face You breathe and I breathe You fail, I fake I pray, I pray... You lose and I lose You bruise, I bruise I hunt, you stay My prey, my prey My masquerade (my masquerade) My masquerade (my masquerade) If you are not afraid (you’re not...

It feels so dangerous I don't know where you are You can't control my every move Although you try so hard Accept it, leave it Your wisdom doesn't make me wise Accept it, leave it Your tears don't make me cry Drifting apart Lay me to waste I know you...

Judgement is easy You pick a side and a comfortable lie Heavy the burden When every victim is self-defined Try to understand it's harder to apologize When all committed crimes They're just in our minds It's not enough How hard I try It's not enough...

Nothing left to make you feel high Nothing left to turn you on Laughing in your childish disguise You rule the night Follow me back home 'Cause the night is young And I'm tired of being alone Follow me back home Give me just one more To send shivers...

Will you wait? I'm on the other side The other side Will you wait? I'm on the other side It's too late to tell you what I'm about But god, I'm proud A giant in the sky A light flooded horizon a silent peaceful cry And the sun that is rising Warms me up Warms...

Don't want to close my eyes again Cause every time I do you're there With that smug look on your face Don't want to fall asleep again Cause every time I dream I love and lose you Over and over again It takes a second just to fall in love It takes a se...

Time's moving onwards Pushing and pulling me Offering no release Where do we go now Why can't we pause and stay I'm hanging on the Pendulum below the clock Please swing slower, make it stop Can we end the endings? Can we make believe this will last...

Predestined Lives No one is getting near And every time I say, They say that I'm not a mirror, But you must play this game. Within your deepest thoughts I sense affection for real. No matter how hard I try, You don't know how I feel. Lead me to sun before it...

Once upon the dawn Day will break It begins on time Flowing while it's glowing It arrives on time Subjected to origin Is to know that nothing Becomes of the contemptible Waiting for the dawn Hope to find I'll cling to my pride Clearest form Closest to pure p...

ooooh, ooooh, ooooh scandal - now you've left me all the world's gonna know hey scandal, they're gonna turn our lives into a freak show they'll see the heart-ache they'll see our love break they'll hear me pleading we'll say: 'for God's sakes' over and over an...

Like a flower, grows on intentionally towards the sun I grow towards the one that hurts me most And like a razor follows upon command Follows a guiding hand that's made to push the blade And I know that if I were to save the day I know it's not my victor...

Standing in the shadow of our lies To hide our imperfections Doing anything we can to hide Eyes wide open but still blind To see what really matters And insecurity won't go See me in shadow Standing by the ruins of your soul That cries for some more m...

Things that I thought I had put far behind Find the mind, connect to sever I felt deeply how my feelings combined That it's like, they'll never sever In a way I started today To weave garlands for the grave It will break me till my knees bend It will l...

Encaged in a memory Encaged in a prison of guilt Surrounded by reproach And everybody knows Chorus: She flies over town in white shades But you're left behind With a thousand troubled minds You cannot speak; you're blinded by your grief She flies ove...

My skin still burns At all the places you've touched So aware You leave no place for hiding Not last night Not this time I close my eyes, so the world can't see me And draw the silhouette of a dancer in my head I can't look through your eyes But my m...

Happy tears fade fast Sad tears tend to last You’ve got your blood-stained heart In your nicotine-stained hands And your twenty nine years Did not help you pass Oh, the roadkill, cheap thrill Obstacle filled path White lies, black dress Brightest of...

Close your eyes For the night is falling Fear no dark For it's warm and safe And looks familiar As it comes approaching Come with me And I will take you Chorus: A world beyond your sleep Beyond what's real An in safety hidden sphere Away from our...

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away You leave in the morning With everything you own In a little black case Alone on a platform The wind and the rain On a sad and lonely face Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away Run away,...

Dreamscape in a blanket silver-gray Homesick for a memory washed away All light in our hollow eyes is stardust, stardust Once you learn there is no return to lies Heaven cried as we left the earth to die Homesick for a memory In silent sleep Eternally...

I'm waiting for another day I'm waiting for the clock to reach the six and twelve I'm waiting for a holiday I'm waiting for myself I'm waiting for another day I'm waiting for the clock to reach the six and twelve I'm waiting for a holiday I'm waiting for mysel...

Silence in the living room Hours feel like days Silence when I speak to you Your thoughts seem miles away My euphoria, oh yes, you're worth the price Because when my mind gets clouded I forget about our fights Stay forever, it's never again Our words...

Such a shame to believe in escape A life on every face But that's a change (but that's a change) Until I'm finally left with an eight Tell me to relax Well, I just stare Maybe I don't know If I should change A feeling that we share It's a shame Su...

This frost performed its art And it's, it's stained my tainted heart You just leave me to my solitude It's where I feel at home Since that cold night When my love cried Would you fall, give it all Would you give it up for me? Suckerpunch the demons fr...

Tell me, Mechanist, is it true? Does none of it bother you? Once upon a time Upon a time behind us The mechanist inclined Clockworks of time define us Who you are, who you are Merely springs that tick The time of things away The cry from the beast is just th...

The song that angels sing The spell that calls, The Gathering The magic that might bring, Eternal life, The Gathering I see a world in anger I see a world in pain Each day a different story But still the message is the same Hard news I set beside me...

We all live in unforgiving precarious ways If it bleeds, it leads is all we seem to hear today Thorns remain while flowers fade Monster Such a noble novelty Monster Such a proper prodigy Monster It is all enrolled in you and me Oooohhh Either waste...

Your voice is thunder Pounding on my soul My voice is rain We're going under Nothing will remain We'll be the hurricane And I can't calm you down Though I try and try in vain And you can't keep me down But I'll try to share your pain And we'll never...

I looked at the stripes The monarch flies I halt my cries If my friend If you can change Perhaps then so can I 

To another commotion To another disruption To another explosion I raise my glass To another investment Into the future of wasteland Well, here’s to pulling the waistband I know at least I thought, at least I fight At least I know at least I tried I k...

This story is mine To tell Or keep untold A diamond shimmering on my tongue We crumble and sway And live In intervals This headspace by my own design This silence is mine You've overstayed You're welcome in my mind This silence This silence is min...

I was here When the first morning dawned upon you I'll be there I was here When you first ever drew a breath in I'll be there For the last living thing And I will turn the lights out Turn the lights out Turn the lights out And lock this wicked world behind me...

Whatever the prophecy... Whatever prosperity... Heaven denied us its kingdom Tell me where we've gone wrong Oh, fortitude, I'd be like you But I only speak when spoken to Heaven forgive the mess I'm in Temperance, why do I cast Your prudence to the wi...

I'm walking with Sophie tonight She lives in the air that I breathe I can't get it out of my mind How you were left to bleed Was it how you dressed Or how you act? I can't believe How they could act so violently Without regret Well, we will not forge...

Carve your name in my heart Love will tear us apart Unavoidable the break Carve your name in my heart Love will tear us apart We both realised from the start All our expectations the same So why do I take the blame? You yourself were king of the game...

Any infection (Imperfection) Any affliction (Imperfection) Each imperfection (Don't you settle) Spread the addiction (Take some action) Any disorder (Imperfection) Bi or tri polar (Imperfection) For your protection (Don't you settle) Just an injection (Take s...