Gallows Bird (feat. Nick Holmes of Paradise Lost)

1. MY REQUIEM

Light
Blistering, so bright
Re-align my core
Lenses open wide [bad word] into form
The imprint of a life

Too late you're calling out my name
To raise me up out of my grave
Alive in memory I'll stay
If you shun these waters where I lay

Night
 [bad word] down
Into the shade I stray
Losing all I've found
To my own dismay
My season [bad word] to an end

Too late you're calling out my name
To raise me up out of my grave
Alive in memory I'll stay
If you shun these waters where I lay

Leave me to rest
Too drained to rise
To try to detect
Any light at the end of the tunnel...

Too late...

2. EYE OF NIGHT

See all the colours fading
Out with the sun
Season of sombre darkness
Again, it has begun
Cursed by recurring cycles
Raised to be undone

Lost is this cause you're mourning
Its death stands at your door
Break under the pressure forming
Or embrace it to your core

Behind closed eyes, see the signs

No faith to hold on to
Let seasons evolve through the night
The all-waking eye
Is your rising sun
No [bad word] to hold you
Let peace enfold you, it's alright
To rely on light
From the eye of night

The future stands veiled in opaque lace
figure without form
That changes with every fear you face
And every dawn

No faith to hold on to
Let seasons evolve through the night
The all-waking eye
Is your rising sun
No [bad word] to hold you
Let peace enfold you, it's alright
To rely on light
From the eye of night...

3. CONDEMNED TO SILENCE

Reach through your mind, internal sky
Endless glide into the I
Soul encaged, trapped behind your eyes
Until it's saved, by sharing its light
and darkness…

Save my immortal Soul
From its own chains
From a fate worse than death
Condemned to silence
To turn away
Implode and fade

Days pass me by, carved out of time
I transpire before my own eyes
No decay can touch a fire
But I choke my flame, in fear of shining too bright
or too faintly…

Save my immortal Soul
From its own chains
From a fate worse than death
Condemned to silence
To turn away
Implode and fade

We don't [bad word] who we dream of
If we don't face our own demons
If we shun what conceals us
We go blind to that which frees us… if we shun

Reach through your mind, internal sky
Endless glide into the I

4. MILLION TEARS

million things
I want to say
but I shield my face
and turn away
swallowing my words,
silenced by shame.

million tears
I want to cry,
but I shield my face
and dry my eyes
swallowing my hurt
breaking inside

Please stay here with me.
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry.
See straight into me.
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes.

million things
wish you would say,
even if I fall
that you will stay
and none of my flaws
can turn you away.

Please stay here with me.
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry.
See straight into me.
Just look beyond the fear in my eyes.

Like a circle around me.
As the prison of this boundary
I need a storm to break it down.
shield you eyes from the fire light.
But please don't turn away from my side.
I am not that - which I fight.

Every tear I cry
burns away through my eyes
where I can see through my lies.

Every tear I cry
makes trails in the ice
where I am warm inside.

See straight into me.
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes.
Please stay here with me.
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry.

See straight into me.
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes.
Please stay here with me.
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry.

See straight into me.
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes.

5. HOUR OF THE NIGHTINGALE

weep, not for martyrs
raise your head
saline waters, won't raise the dead
grief will haunt those who forget
that night is not the end

embrace this as a nightingale in song
in the darkest hour of shadows she belongs
her voice reflects the colours of dawn

raise, not a fortress
to protect from what the waters might reflect
grief will wash those who caress
that night, as though its their's

embrace this as a nightingale in song
in the darkest hour of shadows she belongs
her voice reflects the colours of dawn

there's an ocean of despair
where the roads must end
all souls must pass there
for what is broken to mend
on an island I will wait
for you to rise again

embrace this as a nightingale in song
in the darkest hour of shadows she belongs
her voice reflects the colours of dawn
it's pierces like an arrow through storm
Daimonos

6. THE PASSAGE

An eye in the night appears as Something awakens
Into the silent sphere of Nothing created

Mother of time she breathes
Summons the autumn leaves
Turning the wheel of history
Constant Change is her name

Into the void I breathe
life as it swallows me
sinking into the hollow Tree
of Eternity
as winter buries her seed

Time - another inevitable lie
Taken in the undertow of life
We gravitate to annihilate
The coals of our fire

Circles of Life and seasons
Imprints of our achievements
Carved in the aether and in
The eyes of the one
Who brings the night and the dawn

Time - another inevitable lie
Taken in the undertow of life
We gravitate to annihilate
The coals of our fire

Time - another inevitable price
Tides are my emotions
Water my tears and ice
Is time frozen
Stored in the memory of a sigh

Time - another inevitable price
Paid when the river of life
In our [bad word] dry
The waking moments
That pass before our eyes
Are all we take to our graves.

7. BROKEN MIRROR

piece of me in your eyes
Reminds me of what's forgotten
I need to get closer to the fire
And feel my own reflection

piece of me needs to die

seed of the fatal kind
No roots to grow and and thrive
Some things weren't meant to stay alive
Aborted while still in mind

You gave me a sword to pierce the lie
Serrated edge for the demon inside
moment I'm torn between two tides
But all I need I bear inside

Fear is a [bad word] fire
That burns what's dead and dry
Tears clean the wound that's left behind
When a shadow is forced to into light

You gave me a sword to pierce the lie
Serrated edge for the demon inside
moment I'm torn between two tides
But all I need I bear inside

Broken mirror beauty divides
Though it's an illusion
It can cut like a knife

Don't try to give me
What I think I desire
It's mine to find

You gave me a sword to pierce the lie
Serrated edge for the demon inside
moment I'm torn between two tides
But all I need I bear inside

8. BLACK OCEAN

Will we make it through this night?
Overshadowed
by our minds.

Do we
further entwine?
Through the

Ocean,
of deep and endless night.
Ocean,
calling from inside,
calling from inside.

No tomorrow,
no where to hide.
Ocean of sorrow,
just taken by the tide.

To be
Further aligned
to the

Ocean,
of deep and endless night.
Ocean,
calling from inside,
calling from inside.

Ocean,
of deep and endless night.
Ocean,
calling from inside,
calling from inside,
calling from inside.

9. SINKING SHIPS

To know her is to see
That nothing is as it seems
She'll show her [bad word] face when you're
Stripped of all belief
Sweet tyrant, laying out the course with what you need
To send you through the veils
Of Eternity

Crack me open or I'll go down
On this sinking ship, don't leave
Me to drown
Still the water bears the sound
Of my eternal plea
And all I found
And all I will...

She calls you with a mirage
Of what you want to see
You fall into her arms
As she shatters all your dreams
Sweet violence, aimed to crack the shell from which you bleed
And send you through the tree of Eternity.

Crack me open or I'll go down
On this sinking ship, don't leave
Me to drown
Still the water bears the sound
Of my eternal plea
And all I found
And all I will...

10. GALLOWS BIRD

red sun on the horizon
marks the hour of your call
Somber is the one whose eyes are still veiled
Watching your departure
as mine watch you arrive...

BIRD VERSE I.
Your hands are tied
Your mask applied
The mark of shame
you wear to all eyes

No glimpse of light
can touch your mind
So black inside
as you face your crime

Mmm...
Dreams are unable [bad word] 
Mmm...
with you on this journey that's just begun.

BIRD VERSE II.
Not a sigh
As your noose is tied
Is it pride,
or are you frozen inside?

Mmm...
Fear is unable [bad word] 
Mmm...
with you on this journey that's just begun.

How can I make peace with my path
when life [bad word] to this?
Chased by the shadow of my past
Eclipsed by what lies ahead

As the last ray of hope is lost,
fight and resistance 
Nothing remains to hold
me to this existence