Dark Tranquillity Album

Set against these hardest hours
Anger paled, for in this fear
The theft of privacy
We all see it break sometimes
See it tear us apart

That which left behind
Screams out loud this night
So much is asked in silence
Expect not and you'll find
A thousand miles from the nearest truth
Rotating, entangled
I continue not to heal

Another no-night
Waits its turn
So I call upon my freecard to postpone

If time was one with many faces
Which one would call to me?
Where all our paths in one now end
LyricsThat with the power to gather the mislead
Now will lead them all astray
(now will lead them all astray)
Now will lead them all astray
So push it even further
To unsuspecting dark
Build that second layer
For the hours to take fast

A rest from the giving
Like a heart between beats
Greater than the need for community
The need for the right solitude
Oh, come to know
That an outrage is inevitable
Though many try
Escape is unsuccessful
In the midst of a nerve-night
The victim of soulkill
True self is mere torture
Death rides these nerves

Another no-night
Waits its turn
So I call upon my freecard to postpone

Gentle storm | Thundering silence
Inferior force | Uncontrolled calm
Vital unlife | Logic/chaos/logic

The tone of which his birth ascend
The beat that of a heart descend
Repeating in the infinite
An insight made it clear
Order stormed the surface
Where chaos set the norm
Had there always been balance? Surely not
Therein lies the beauty

It was solid
Yet everchanging
It was different
Yet the same
So I starve myself for energy
It was solid
Yet everchanging
It was different
LyricsYet the same
So I starve myself for energy
I starve myself for energy

The song around his soul will bend
The notes that in this hole will melt
Crawl out of science
A dreamland if you dare
Disorder clawed the boundaries
We're ordered to stand clear
Was it always different? Never the same?
Therein lies the beauty

It was solid
Yet everchanging
It was different
Yet the same
So I starve myself for energy
It was solid
Yet everchanging
It was different
Yet the same
So I starve myself for energy
I starve myself for energy

As there were no witnesses
There was nothing to be told
As nothing could be grasped
The story could unfold
Superimposed on the elements of anger
Fear, anxiety
Hate, despair, remorse

So break from all the fear holds fast
Exposed, now turn to all you lack
Let echoes be the answer
Return from all the screams
Wordless now, the last attack
So silent it hurts to listen
Was it always solid, to never change?
Therein lies the beauty

It was solid
Yet everchanging
It was different
Yet the same
So I starve myself for energy
It was solid
Yet everchanging
It was different
Yet the same
So I starve myself for energy
I starve myself for energy

There were words of lust in these arms
Arms of the stranger
And there in silence though were words
Words of no milder
So in thinking of that madness
That ravaged the thoughts in the loneliest
(Of hours)

I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
Now
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
Now

The demand I get from excellence
The void I felt from answering
Not only an addition
It generated need
LyricsIn these endless nights of freezing
My weight on the other side
(The other side)

I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
Now
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Now

I resist without control
Feel the thorns of uncontrol

Claws that set in sleeps' December
Let loose on the verge
Talked to me as strangers once did
The tone was set for winter

Sweet uncontrol
Beyond proportions
Into the night
So strike me deeper

I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
Now
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Feel the thorns of alcohol
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Now

Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Feel the thorns

The death that craved no life now ended
In return, in return
Drifting uncontrolably
Within the night

Sweet uncontrol
Beyond proportions
Into the night
So strike me deeper

Outsmart the fever
And take us farther from
The killing life in capsules
A life that can't belong
If I wake up dead to the world
With the helm at my command
The reaching out of this
Oh, faced tomorrow
In the eleventh hour
Beckoned closer
Now as nightfall sends it's grace
Oh, cue to enter
The insatiable ideal
Slam it shut
But the portal pounding lingers
What it is; is time undone?
I cannot falter in the security of labour
Was I supposed to believe?

Where did I sign?
Did I miss
LyricsThe auction?
Where my life
Where did I sign?
Did I miss the auction?

Went the half mile
Wondered when the resolution would come
Life became too solid
Diluted by the essence of denial
Caught in fire's eye
Oh, the self and the filter that is I
My lip was venom
Words formed in my mouth
And hid beneath the tongue
Never to be
Never to be seen

Where did I sign?
Did I miss
The auction?
Where my life
Where did I sign?
Did I miss the auction?

Was I supposed to believe?

Where did I sign?
Did I miss
The auction?
Where my life
Where did I sign?
Did I miss the auction?
Where my life
Where did I sign?
Did I miss the auction?
Where my life
Where did I sign?
Did I miss the auction where my life went by the club?

Faintly arisen | Tenderly torn
Dreamlike decision | Unconsciously born

Firm in conviction
Yet tempt me they can
Deny me of trust
And a demon I hide

A drive to be less than the fortunate
A dream in the casket of Eden
Crave for that which you do not desire
Cling tightly to your deepest fear

I rose the greatest monuments
Again and again
I bear the greatest treasure
Of Time and a Word

Treason spilt upon the loneliest of graves
Desperation dealt the losing hand again
Wherein lie the purpose of the day?
LyricsIs there return in sadness?

Does your ceiling
Differ much from mine?
Where we see each other
Here in this light?
Is that pillow more than a frame
That holds the chaos fast?
Now his hand a fist
Gain control

Silence fell and eyes now widened
Filling up, the strength collapsing
Capable of the ending
Froze in the tracks
Brought to a bitter halt

On the floor it seems
The steps are showing
Left a print
Just like it did in me
What has been and what will be
Never cared 'cause I was inbetween
As I said, with one foot in loneliness
You hide here in me

Upon our evening
When the sun fired blanks
There rode the sickness
Out of our sight
Carried torches
Burned out long before it's time
Among these ruins
Where our love is to be found

Ambition falters
When no better is to be known
Cling to the unfounded pride

Death to our belonging
And our ministry of two
Set the higher standard
And to a greater fall descend

Slaves to one another
And to others be it not
Soothing be temptation
LyricsForce the conscience to a halt

Cause a high vibration
A tender light to be part of you
The two-way escape

Death to our belonging
And our ministry of two
Set the higher standard
And to a greater fall descend

What late forgotten night
To emptiness has given
And now November morning
Will be taken asunder
The shovel stained with dirt in the hours of belonging
Dug into the undiscovered
Of a life, a pest, a plague

Falling back into the arms - no, never
Admitting to a life alone - no
There are sparks inside
Outside looking back - no
The lie never stopped

Cling to the wave, it cried
And onward to the night
Expecting not and nothing
In the presence of a lie
The deeper that it dug, the more now had to go
Surrender was a fact and the room was decorated
No, no, no - the lie never stopped
Lyrics
What late forgotten night
To emptiness has given

The strangers
Oh, may they come
In ignorance's disguise

So in the dark walking
To leave the last of times

Knee-deep in desperation
To fill the gap behind

Boldly tread the night forever
November thoughts are right - oh, never
Taken from the fall - no
Frightened by the key, but the trail behind the house
Felt compelling and new - the lie never stopped
Found at loss for words, now words aren't enough

Someone told
A vacancy was open
Someone laughed
The silence here was broken
Dug up to make room
The room which you furnished and graced
There is no vacancy
The least can fill the fountain
The most will flood the mold

Waiting for the day to end
As silence came too late
I turn my eyes inside
Close the lids, deny the world to enter

'Cause I'm turning the desires down
Again rose the monstrous of hours inbetween
I taint the thought
The trauma born inside

All the thoughts that you defined
Tread the light again
Take the pain away
It feels as though time has tears
Never seem to end

'Cause I'm turning the desires down
Again rose the monstrous of hours inbetween
I taint the thought
The trauma born inside
Inside
LyricsInside
Inside

As I hold you and I try to make sure
These treasures that I hide
These treasures that I hide
'Cause I'm turning the desires down
Again rose the monstrous of hours inbetween
I taint the thought
The trauma born inside
'Cause I'm turning the desires down
Again rose the monstrous of hours inbetween
I taint the thought
The trauma born inside

Where were the eyes that followed?
How could they've found?
These misery's merchants
Struck the message deep:
"We have come to stay"

Dogs fled there in the
Dark of his path
Feared him as once they all did

Like a ghost
In daylight
On an overcrowded street
He wishes
To be something he is not

Like a shadow
At midnight
That originate in air
He wishes
For release
Lyrics
Deep in the back it had caught him
The anchor they threw at his life
Oh, these misery's merchants
Dragged through life as a burden
Now
Now

(Rushed off to his cage of glass
To open a single window
A means of escape, out in the open
There are still holes in these walls
Puking information into the unwanting
Probing the last hope of defence
So he plugged up the holes
Shut the outside window
In doing that, madness paid a visit)

... and then suddenly in mid-thought
escape was a factor and as from inside
pushing out were words
through fingers came uncovering
revealing the truth of him
there in the dark ...

Skin began to crawl as they neared him
Is all pleasure release?
Oh, these misery's merchants
Saw the message clear:
"It is time to pay"

Dogs fled there in the
Dark of his path of the damned
Feared him as once they all did

Like a ghost
In daylight
On an overcrowded street

Neither here nor there
In our unity of twine
Solitary sanity
Traded in for life
Once we crawled into the artificial night
All was left, and I arrived on your time
On your time

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There in the collision
Wish answers could arrive
Was I kept up for this?
Did the physical emotion break the fall of sleep?
I'd never thought
Of things that you would say
Could never tell
If what you said were lies
Lies

LyricsIt's in here
Eating
It's down there drinking
Be with me
Not against me
Bear with it, love against me

I've never known
If there was enough time
Could never tell
If it was done just right

I've never known
I've never known
I've never known
If there was enough time
Could never tell
Could never tell
Could never tell
If it was done just right

An icicle thrust
To soothe the disorder
Between the eyes
Where the well is the deepest
The deepest well

I've never known
If there was enough time
Could never tell
If it was done just right

So unease carried words
That spoke of no matter
Was I held up for this?
Did the path of devotion stray from what you felt?
I've never seen
Things here in this light
Could never tell
If your touch was deeper than skin

I live on your time

Once I thought that what no time could heal
Was here in me, but time proved me wrong
Deeper still, toward an outward pride
No more lies - I'm here on your time

Rise, I say
Yes, rise above
'Cause evil is as evil does
What evil does to me

Down, you go
To lands below
'Cause evil is as evil does
What evil does to me

They who reign in sand
Take this brightest strike
In their so-called castles
Now with walls of glass

I can see, I can see, I can see
All your deeds, all your needs, on your knees
So I'll crack your feeble shell

Can you even see
The works of what you fear?
Lyrics'Cause evil is as evil does
What evil does to me

Further inside
'Til all you have is mine
Evil is as evil does
The evil's done to me

Dreams, he said
Dreams, he wore
Dreams, he wore
And dreams, he wore
Hope, he said
Hope, he wore
Love, he said
And evil he wore
I'll strip you down
I'll tear you down
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I'll bring you down
'Til nails come off
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Dreams [...............]
Dreams [...............] your force
Dreams [...............] your fear
And dreams [...............]

Blind to your eyes
Blind to your mind
'Cause evil is as evil does
What evil does to me

Taste and you'll see
The fruit you took is foul
Evil is what evil does
The evil's done to me
You who turn to others
With everything you lack
A face that bears no seeing
Then I'll turn my back

I can see, I can see, I can see
On your knees, all your deeds, all your needs
So I'll crack your fucking shell