Katatonia City Burials 1. Heart Set to Divide In times of surrender I am shedding my scars I was sick but I was set for the stars The road was mine but I worried still In the sunset of age on the weight of my lips And closed was the door to my past perception And my disposition had then been chained I opened my mind to all the love forsaken You saw my white flag as our shadows merge Through tides of repentance my words lead to deed In their wake, see how I sway Eyes fix on the horizon, big as it seems I let the words lapse and return to a dream Then glide into the nights All my memories unbroken I let the raptor circle me To become their own prey I see the beast lay waste I see his wings keep unfolding His name strewn across the sky And reflected on the World This is my elegy for love that couldn't end A call for our blood Came to stay and excel Transmigration at a hope I couldn't cross I had no choice but to make peace Reach higher ground Every breath now without a sound Every breath now without a sound I see the beast lay waste I see his wings keep unfolding His name strewn across the sky And reflected on the World This is my elegy for love that couldn't end A call for our blood 2. Behind the Blood Rivers rush, behind the blood The cinder skies come alive with this drop of sunset How far can we go? Along the elusive flood I've been waiting all of my life to be with you Such a pale spark Such a long wait before you would let me know Before you would bless me with your thunder The ground shakes It carries the weight of the letting go I can feel you tear me asunder, whoa! My love, I can feel you push and give way to drowning I can feel you pierce my heart Hammers thrust within the cells You're a torch to the temple of depression Saturnalian curse, these are my heaving words I will do it all over again to be with you Motionless now Venin is in the blood You're a preacher Without a cross Give me some trouble Get me some trouble in I can't wait I can't wait again I can't wait again, no! Such a pale spark Such a long wait before you would let me know Before you would bless me with your thunder The ground shakes It carries the weight of the letting go I can feel you tear me asunder, whoa! My love, I can feel you push and give way to drowning I can feel you pierce my heart 3. Lacquer My voice channeling A circuit's end The house we lived in Stricken with blight Finding ways to kill the pain Let the river run wild Dreams shattering Aerial sound Scrape the lacquer Can't you see, it's all tarnished Tried the poise To radiate Tried my words To illustrate Finding ways to end the pain I let the river run wild Dreams shattering Fixing to die Scrape the lacquer Can't you see, it's all tarnished The levee breaking I can't live to fight once more The levee breaking I can't live to fight once more The road to the grave is straight as an arrow I'm just staying around to sing your song Baby The road to the grave is straight as an arrow I'm just staying around to sing your song Baby My voice travelling Soaring bird above your head The house we lived in Ridden with disease Scrape the lacquer Can't you see, it's all tarnished The levee breaking I can't live to fight once more The levee breaking I can't live to fight once more The road to the grave is straight as an arrow I'm just staying around to sing your song Baby The road to the grave is straight as an arrow I'm just staying around to sing your song Baby 4. Rein Erased my plan Had nothing better to do Hollow sky Dead to our collective eye No rebellion No hostility inside Just indifference A bit of quiet And a slow descending curve To keep you dreaming Yeah Of consolation You drink my words in the wake of your sorrow You walk beside me and it feels like a hundred years The plans you make for the perpetual tomorrow Will be colapsing still This time i'm losing the battle There are too many things to overcome I seek respite The comfort of apathy Burial time Submito to the non-divine Did you see The soot in my eyes The long night The spiralling lights I'm so tired The scars in my mind It didn't end well But you had me on fire 5. The Winter of Our Passing I navigate the dark I bow before the flame I have deserted Step off the map and let it go Then focus on the fade Stillness of the day Renewal was the death of my ambition To get higher I have to go so low Sold my worth Made time for it While I waited for something lasting Until you would come running my way To stay But does it matter now It's the winter of our passing Sold my trust And my love too Disregard the soul Heart is made of mist And still it's thinning Bad news for you is we are fucked And you don't know where we're heading next The feeling that did remain If we take some time to remember it The feeling of what was good Do you recall it at all To get higher I have to go so low Sold my worth Made time for it While I waited for something lasting Until you would come running my way To stay But does it matter now It's the winter of our passing Sold my trust And my love too 6. Vanishers Drifting like wood Our years In the rivers of the aftermath Delivered us from free will Our stories were thrown on the fire Burning like bibles They shattered our right to wonder Exposed us to constraint Hey We're dead now Affinity has been found below the ground Beyond the heart's vow The open road Amnesia bound Our carbon shells deserted We came so far for nothing Unsung Fixed on dead grass Who will remain And wake up to the sound of sorrow When your skies are clearing When your battles are fought When mercy returns To all of your thoughts Remember the carnage The vanishers trails Our souls of the sunset Drifting away 7. City Glaciers Waiting for warmth Endless the days Argent haze As remedy flows into concealed veins Where are we to run Our season won't come And everything you have said So far has been wrong Algidity It's late in evening here The wind dying down The lights are leaning No more sound Read my lips, love Fill your lungs with words Lest we forget to explore Bring back our revered dreams Our month of May Memories left my heart sore White giants sleep Along the roads Our dead end tracks In times as vile as these I want us back City glacier of sordid snow Darkness come in from the street and glides back out again My voice is shifting ever so slow The prints of my fingers sing upon your skin 8. Flicker So cruel your desire It pulled me under But the drapery of my eye won't fall I lie in wait for the night to find you Sephia teeth and claw Hope was changing lanes I had to turn Changed my pace Either way I grew so old This is how i disappear Separated from the dead twin No hound is on my trail now Journey to the heart of your deceit and defining my shed skin With no one waiting I am waiting for no one Departure from the terminus Arriving on the 4th Weightless in the arms of none Flick of the switch, my name lit up Flickering in white, then gone 9. Lachesis We're sundered Our cards were dealt and what did you receive In my rest In all my coming nights I will dream for you to see And my words Will be spilled upon the ground And sorrow must be freed Morning At long last sleeping No colours to wake me 10. Neon Epitaph How wild the wind came in On the day when i found out Passage of the one dead star Its black dust lingering Seeping through to my lungs I fall towards the skyline I drown my sorrows here In liquids clear Time for absolution How the dead birds sing They're right atop my roof Take my offering My promise can never be undone The weight of midnight Replaced by the shadow of a sun I hold you in my arms And it's farther than you've ever been Little one Adrift in sacred vertigo The name is wandering Our neon epitaph Time for absolution All the dead birds sing They're right atop my roof Shadow of my shadow Cling not to my grief I am long left behind now Your are free 11. Untrodden There comes a time for all of us To set our unfortunate sails Our chance to part with the unrest The open trail, the fever's crest Will you meet me there Underneath the pallid city lights In the rain of Summerland Over the ashes Our memories in open hands My words must levitate And reverberate through the void The nails are in, the pressure's there The music of loss in the air Thought i saw you in the street Standing still Watching me I would fall down on my knees I would love to surrender to nothingness But i'll stay another year To see if things might change Remain where you are My love will protect you always