My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding 1. Her Dominion 2. Thornwyck Hymn I will be the weight of my sins And I will be the one who caves in A choir of sorry girls With their hearts full of pearls A foul and torrid feast Sinks men down to their knees The twisted waters are where I will be The sisters calling from deep in the sea The twisted waters, they call out my name I will swim with them but they're not to blame The twisted waters are where I will be The sisters calling from deep in the sea The twisted waters, they call out my name I will swim with them but they're not to blame A final kindness, a final kiss As the golden arm of evening comes A final kindness and all is bliss I wither coldly and then I am gone I wither coldly and then I am gone 3. The 2nd of Three Bells Who will be my sun when the day breaks? Who will be my sun as the morning wakes? Even time wishes you were here Wait with me, the dawn will come Come all the bells and come the fear Where the holy words come from I can’t find any joy in here I wish I’d loved you for that long I had so little here to keep Drawn through these hordes to die Come the chimes that will peal so deep The third bell to horrify Into my vessel they can weep I lay back and I watch them cry The Angel of the cruellest watch The bearer of the final bell Here comes my wounded hand Take it now or watch me die Here comes my bleeding claw Take it now or watch me die Come aloud the final toll, seeding liars into the world With cold hands I raise you up to my lips as lovers die 4. Unthroned Creed Without a voice you are silent in the fight And I can’t help you any more Without a single light, you cannot make things right And I won’t help you any more Unless the song is sung, sung by everyone We will leave here forevermore Without a voice you are, blind to everyone And you name lives in nevermore With every turn of my hopeless disorder I should have questioned why, I failed to adore her With failure at my heel and a soul so much older With an arrow through its breast The bird called aloud ‘I will come for you’ These are not Gods words that spill from your pretty mouth There are young women here filled with beautiful blood In a world as cold as death, I lay within the flood With every turn of my hopeless disorder I should have questioned why I no longer could afford her With failure at my heel and a body so much older Without a voice you are silent in the fight And I can’t help you any more Without a single light, you cannot make things right And I won’t help you any more Unless the song is sung, sung by everyone We will leave here forevermore Without a voice you are, blind to everyone And you name lives in nevermore 5. The Apocalyptist Do not reach for me and look for surrender Do not read from that soiled book Do you have any life left in you? Do you see the shadows that I live with? Follow me into the setting sun From beneath the ocean for the world is done Hard as the earth, he did not weep for me So I took the gifts I could ill afford My acclamations pierced the sky For the blue-eyed angels that I would defy A charter sealed by a bloody crown And a head was carved way upon the mast And all sailors of the sea were left to drown His sole child now dead. His soul crawling away Sick into the night, folds away from the day He will ask for nothing but the treasure of life From the angel of darkness to a bright shining light Unbind him from all this agony And breaking apart, he now becomes free He lived inside a dream for 100 years Born inside the night and then reappears You know a secret call that will have him back A true weight on the world, with its feathers all black Against sheer hopelessness he kept on glowing Inside our minds without us even knowing I cannot hold on forever I can’t even lend you my wings These thorns that I deliver For the crown of all kings A charter sealed by a bloody crown And a head was carved way upon the mast And all sailors of the sea were left to drown Blast free of your tears. Hold the hand of your fears Grind your altar to dust. Know your weapons are just. I cannot hold on forever I can’t even lend you my wings These thorns that I deliver For the crown of all kings 6. A Starving Heart The old river creeps slowly to the sea to die The hay meadows reaped at the cold bladed scythe The God of fire is here with the fire from his eyes The lonely chapel burns sending angels to the skies The forced brides of our lord And the destruction of them all Is a very thin reward In this profanity, beyond the rim of sky In this insanity comes a last outcry The land lead the frightened river back to it’s mother sea And witnessed from above, this work of slavery Through its mouth, the world will drink the waters deep In this profanity, beyond the rim of sky In this insanity comes a last outcry 7. Crushed Embers A woman with a voice full of tears Absent from her place among us All the joy had gone from her All this aching must find an end An ox pulls away her ghost – I’ll be your echo again And in that very moment, I was your echo again And those that wept for you Forget their weeping soon As the blood drops slowly From the fingers of God Dark fears travel with me And it’s deeper than fear I waited such a long time and questioned my sanity You hunted at the wrong time and fell in pain to your knees A woman with a voice full of tears Absent from her place among us All the joy had gone from her All this aching must find an end I waited such a long time and questioned my sanity You hunted at the wrong time and fell in pain to your knees I faded from my bloodline and took leave of humanity