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Awakening
03:11
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Like a bird with feathers of lead, I set off for one more trip around the sun
Just to crash in the tides, overcome by pride.
I hope you notice that it’s all for you.
Fists up, behold our kingdom come.
Headstrong, watch me come undone.
From the lines I rise and second to none.
And that’s the way the noise begun.
After seven years, this is what we became.
We are you awakening.
Keep your head up high, your eyes to the sky
Let the course of your heart be the reason why
I want to do this in the first place (it’s all for you).
Fed up, won’t yield to anyone
Dead wrong, won’t stop until we’re done
From the lines I rise and second to none.
And that’s the way the noise begun.
After seven years, this is what we became.
We are you awakening.
Keep your head up high, your eyes to the sky
Let the course of your heart be the reason why
You’re one of us.
I don’t know the answer but know where we stand.
Do you even know who the fuck I am?
Dug a hole to watch you fill our mouths with sand.
Maybe then you will fucking understand.
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Bloodbath
03:56
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Nail it shut, nail it shut, nail his bloody coffin shut.
Nail it shut, nail it shut, for every single time it’s a motherfucking bloodbath.
Nail it shut, nail it shut, nail his bloody coffin shut.
Nail it shut, nail it shut, nail his bloody coffin shut.
Before he bites through the ties that bind you tot his life.
Nail it shut, nail it shut, nail his bloody coffin shut.
Grab the base, pull the stem, cut the roots so we can begin.
This bleeding out is so much better when I sink my teeth in.
I’ve got my secrets, I watch you as you sleep.
I see you laugh, I see you cry, I see your deepest fears.
There comes the night (time to shine)
A choir of wolves sings so benign as I climb down to strike my wrath.
For every single time it’s a motherfucking bloodbath.
They should’ve buried me face down so I kiss the earth, but they fucked up.
Now let them tremble.
Drive a stake through his heart!
Soon, soon the time will come.
I will feast upon your blood just to stay young and I will make sure my acts will never bes een
Because I, I’m not the villain in you, I am the hero in me.
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Dreamer
04:18
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I have written songs about you before but I think the words did not stick.
I mean, the problem’s not you but it’s the mentality that makes me fucking sick.
You toss me in the void and crack up my ribs to claim something you think you own.
Well, now you’ve had your fun but just remember: this is the last stone you’ve thrown.
Step down, I stand before a vacant throne.
Back down.
You steal my heart as you break it, confess your love and forsake it.
Now continue the practice and kiss me like you fake it.
I’m on my own.
Sure you maintain the bridges, even more so than me
But you clean ‘em with gasoline so you can burn them down the first chance you see.
You know I approach things with a heart of gold
But history depletes itself and I will break that mold.
Where’s the king that was promised?
He’s not there!
Backed down.
I once thought that we could make, accepted love but didn’t take.
Now lie to my face, just like the snake did.
And now the world it tilts because the weight is shifting shoulders.
They say that time heals all wounds, but still I’m growing older.
Constricted, back in 2007.
If only my thoughts could be tranferred to a whole’nother level
For just a second, a minute, a day.
I tried tossing salt, but that even could not defrost me.
You say that I am a dreamer and you are so down to earth while I run and escape in imagined worlds.
But what’s the problem as long as I cope?
Well if you’re so down to earth, why don’t I lend you a hand and bury you twelve feet deep instead?
I’m a dreamer.
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Focus
03:35
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Saved from sorrow, I have found rest in the eyes of the serpent.
Oh what a joy to be saved from sorrow, I have found rest in the eyes of the serpent.
It slithers, it’s crawling under the skin
Rips off the flesh, dismisses the bones so we can start again.
Maybe it’s too soon, maybe it’s too late. Maybe we should wait ‘til nighttime to wipe clean the slate.
I feel its eyes on my back.
The serpent, it follows.
And still my heart is hollow, while all I see is black.
I watched nature become you.
This is not what I wanted.
I watched the skin turn to dirt.
This is not what I wanted.
But do I feel regret?
Would I do the same a second time over?
A hole for a head put a stop to the heart that drove her.
Will I be safe from sorrow in the end?
Will they ever be able to understand
That I did this all for you?
Will I be safe from sorrow?
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Nothing Short of a Hero
04:02
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You were nothing short of a hero.
Let’s go.
You were the one, a true inspiration for how to live life, for how to face misfortune.
Face it with a smile, even when fate did not smile back at you.
Not remembering a time when the day started and life was wishing you did not see the sunset.
But still you managed. I know you always did.
The world should’ve bent your way, not the other way around.
Even in the end, no one could decide but you when the time came to close your eyes.
You were the one, a true inspiration.
A religious man, but not too blind to see the truth,
‘cause even though you had seen so much in your life you were not too blind to see that your time had come
But still you managed. I know you always did.
The world should’ve bent your way, not the other way around.
Even in the end, no one could decide but you when the time came to close your eyes.
You were nothing short of a hero.
And now it’s time to remember as my soul still bears the mark of yours.
I’m still here and I hope you can see you’re right here with me.
And now you can see the crowd goes nuts for you on this beat.
When I stood by your bed, it wasn’t because I had to.
And when I stand there by your grave everytime I repress the tears falling from my face.
That one last night when hold your hand by your bed, I still remember what you said.
I just want you to know that I still miss you.
You were nothing short of a hero.
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Altair
01:47
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I’m so fucking tired of waiting for the day when my whole life will be taken from me
So I’m screaming: “Cease fire!”
And if my cries go unheard, I guess I wasn’t the first.
I swear I’m not giving up, no longer giving a fuck.
If I will be sleeping for all eternity just scatter my ashes in my bed, because I’m sure it will be made by now.
Don’t care for an unmarked grave, having my goddamn body eaten away.
Nobody wants to be a rose, how can this be the end I chose?
And if this is how it will come to pass, I guess I won’t be the last.
I swear I’m not giving up, no longer giving a fuck.
I want to be remembered by her for all eternity so scatter my ashes on her tongue so she won’t forget the taste of me.
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Riddance
03:43
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I wrote these lines on a Saturday night
Thinking if I should have more wine or end my life.
I have wasted so much time wondering why (god why)
Do I have to be the one to hear the doctor say: “You won’t reach thirty”, when I’m just 29
While the world expects me to say I’m doing fine.
Well I wasn’t doing fine, that’s why I
Started looking and thinking and planning
And everyone will say that they did not see it coming.
Well, to you all I want to say is sorry.
I’m sorry.
Why does it have to be this way?
Why isn’t there a normal life left for me?
I have never been the praying kind, but in my case you can’t blame a guy for trying right?
So I’m down on my knees.
God, help me.
Well, this is what it has come to.
Apologies for finding me like this.
Well, not really actually, because lately I have been one big mess
So I finally was cowardly enough and did
What those voices in my head
For a long time have said.
So if all went right I should now be dead.
Furthermore, I won’t apologise for shit
‘Cause you’re part of what drove me tot his.
So goodbye and good riddance.
Good riddance.
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Now I Believe (Loathe)
02:58
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This has always about you and me but is this devil makes three, hell that’s fine by me.
No don’t be scared, it will be all right because I doubt all this will hardly ruin your night.
I’m running in 9 concentric circles while I try talking sense into myself.
But I bored myself out.
And I’m not a big enough narcissist to take a long hard look at myself, because the reflection is someone I refuse tob e.
This has always about you and me but is this devil makes three, hell that’s fine by me.
I have forced myself to believe.
Now I believe in loathe at first sight, repulsed by the face in the mirror.
But just relax and don’t you worry.
In the end, I have thought this through even though it doesn’t seem that way.
See, I’ve taken enought pills so I won’t feel the knif and the rope around my neck will break my fall.
Wonder who will be the one laughing after this.
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9. |
Let You Go
05:02
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I watched the clouds roll in short after 12 and knew that this could be the beginning of our end.
So I went up the deck, not one for dwelling below, and waited for the impending end of all I know.
Everlasting gaze, eyes cross the sea.
Who would have thought that this was always how it was meant to be.
This is the chance, but will I take it?
Am I up to the task, or will I fake it?
The device has been rigged, there is no sight of shore.
So I set off to rise once more.
Even thought I try, I can’t let you go
No matter how hard I try, I can’t let you go
Embrace the waves and drown in shadows with no sight of shore
I’ll suck the warmth from your veins while you have no sight of shore
Olé.
Bow down to me, embrace your cold end.
Is it finally sinking in that this is all so fucking sickening?
They upped the dose so the cure became the disease.
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10. |
Drowning The Brave
05:03
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How did I get into this mess, I don’t even know who I am anymore.
What the fuck is this? And what are you doing here?
I swear, oh I swear that if you offer me a helping hand I will pull you in with me
Because I am sure that I can survive in this sea of desperation.
Struggling with waters and forces beyond my league.
Waves pulling me under, shore too far to see.
But being here is a choice I made for me.
I don’t need your f*cking help.
I yelled at her through the storm and the waves: “You need to let go”.
Her screams turned to whispers through the violence of the waves.
I yelled at her through the storm and the waves: “You need to let go”.
Her whispers became fragments through the wind.
What was I supposed to do? Losing my own life or hers’?
The wind was cutting, the waves were tearing.
I had to let go.
You need to let go.
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11. |
Pharos
04:34
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Just stop and turn away
Stop and run away from me
I stand here, gazing at the beauty and I don’t know if I’m the first or the last.
Time is seeping away, it’s her duty and soon you’ll see that the future mimicks the past.
My eyes shine bright and seperate safe from danger, but my sight has been blurred
So I’m afraid my directions are false and will only lead astray.
Follow the signs, the guiding light.
Go through the motions and you just might slip and fall, hit the wall.
Close the blinds and then repeat it all.
Now after all this time I thought that you would understand, but after all the rises and falls you refuse to hold my hand.
But never forget: I am the lighthouse.
Heed the call.
Behold the beaming path but there is no light at the end – for you.
Turn the tides and burn with pride, there is solemn beauty in decline.
Now witness the sky meeting the waves and take a step back to think about how have I ever fallen head over heels?
The brightness in your eyes turned dusk in just a second when you slipped and fell, hit the wall.
Closed the blinds and then repeated it all.
I am the lighthouse.
Heed the call.
Behold the beaming path but there is no light at the end – for you.
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State of Awakening Belgium
On The Lighthouse, State of Awakening takes a more aggressive stance, yet adresses some deeply personal topics and still remains catchy. The result is an album that will hit you in the face like shrapnel of a COVID-19 grenade that went off in a small room. ... more
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