Draconian - Turning Season Within (2008) Lyrics

Band: Draconian
Album: Turning Season Within
Release Date: 29 February 2008

Genre: Doom/Gothic Metal

Label: Napalm Records
Artwork by: Dennis Sibeijn
Producer: Draconian

- Line Up CD: from left -
* Daniel Arvidsson: Rhythm Guitar
* Fredrik Johansson: Bass Guitar
* Anders Jacobsson: Growl Vocals
* Lisa Johansson: Clean Vocals
* Jerry Torstensson: Drums
* Johan Ericson: Lead Gitar

(Sweden: Säffle)

 

01. Seasons Apart - Lyrics:

Take my hand; follow me through tranquility
Stay with me, you will see ardor where shadows grow
Feel my heart, relieve your hope of this fading love
Winter came far too soon, but still the flowers bloom

And winter came too soon, and will the flowers die
Bow down their heads under the cold, cold sky?
In a world growing blind
Who can expect me to see the pain that I caused?

It's the end for me and you
Somehow we always knew
'Cause the guilt we had to hide
Was right here at our side

Heal my heart before it breaks
Shade these austere lights
Heal that wound that came to me
Take me away from here

Blindfold my eyes with thy grace
The hope runs dry, and the words of comfort;
I heard how they cracked
We are breathing the shame I am the one to blame

It's the end for me and you
Somehow we always knew
'Cause the guilt we had to hide
Was right here at our side.

02. When I Wake - Lyrics:

When I wake, something inside me breaks
Holding back the time until I sleep again
Woe to me, I'm forever lost to thee
Woe to thee, you're forever lost to me

Let me sleep forever; fade into the clouds
Sublime emotion blowing in the wind

Human thoughts, like darkness to a flame
Depart not as thy shadow came
Your grave to be; Fear, a dark reality...
Your sympathy; Lost or never meant to be

My fright and the beating of my heart...
Close my eyes in silence and take me in your arms

What have you done?
Reveal your heart
Your suffocating silence
Tears me apart

So break this seal
Where the quiet remains
Where lovers mourn
Broken and torn

Only a wakeful silence of mourning shades...
Embodied forever into the stream...

When you sleep, I sow what you reap...
But as you cry something inside me dies

When I wake, something inside me breaks...
In your eyes, I watch how something dies

What have you done?
Reveal your heart
Your suffocating silence
Tears me apart

So break this seal
Where the quiet remains
Where lovers mourn
Broken and torn.

03. Earthbound - Lyrics:

The sorrow of my soul, earthbound and cold
The tide will never turn
I've been dead for years, drowned in all my tears
Have you forsaken me?

Frequent days of loss, crawling to the cross
The silence screams so loud
Conquered by the sun, my fate is done
I'm pulling down the shroud

Blazing through my eyes, your tender disguise
So far our of reach
A life of dismay turns into grey
Will you abandon me?

Here in the light it's pitch black night
A fever on the rise
Dying from within, reborn into sin
I'm tearing up the sky

Feel the world inside
The ghost of me calling you
Feel the world inside
The ghost of me haunting you

This sentient cage
Cutting through time with a blunt smile
Would you help me slit my wrists?
See me cry, help me... Die!

So frail the veil of life-so beautiful the face of death
Suddenly reveries bloom into night's heavy drenching

And life leaves you cold, weary and old...
It's hard just to breathe
You know me so well, I'm going through hell
Won't you please, follow me?

Feel the world inside
The ghost of me calling you
Feel the world inside
The ghost of me haunting you

You cracked the ice, and I wept
You covered the sun, and I slept
You whispered the truth, and I smiled
You kissed my soul, and I died.

04. Not Breathing - Lyrics:

You look so calm, are you sleeping?
I'm closing the door to our illusion
Where I lost myself in windswept dreams...
Two worlds so far apart

I remember when I gave her my Eden
From this dry land ardour now sleeps forsaken
All the fear inside of me that I don't want her to see
Will overwhelm this life and feed my hopeless strife

And she came to me; Insomnia...
Pounding in my chest...
Oh... Lay my soul to rest!

Her heart like lacuna and lacerated wings
Burning inside the echo of our dead union
I'd like to rest inside the core of your very soul
'Cause your eyes are deeper, much deeper than any well!

But she stayed with me; Insomnia
She paralyzed my heart
And tore it apart

I know I'm alive, but not breathing...
Can you see me?
And you know how I tried
Please believe me!
Can you hear me?

My eyes, my soul... the scars inside afflicted
On my own, by the world outside
Where love lies starving on the ground

I know I'm alive, but not breathing...
Can you touch me?
And you know how I tried
Please believe me!
Will you love me?

05. The Failure Epiphany - Lyrics:

I see your picture and all I feel is sorrow...
No hate no love... No barren signs from above

Can I be you for a while?
Let me see
Can you be me for a moment?
Let it be... Resolution

Only regret seals the night where I uncover myself...
For those bygone days amid scenes of dread

Resolve my love into sheer mercy...
God knows how many mornings I woke in torment
Staring into the daytime void, lost in fault and wonder...
Walking the fields where poisoned flowers swell

Embittered into revulsion

Confused I face how stern and devious is reality
You conquered me with your delusion
Then I vanished into blank pages already written

Endurance and devotion kills each other
And a demon enters our room
And something dies...
Something dies inside of me
Drowns in the vale of tears around me

With a beacon of hope we could levitate like dancing on air...
And there in that moment we'll at last find solace
Abundance shining greater than any dream

The morning breaks so cold... so cold
My face it looks so old... so old...
I rend my nails on the wall I've built around me
Only in the shade can I be free...
Only in the shade I can be... Me.

06. Morphine Cloud - Lyrics:

One single night, one single day
Before it all just sweeps away...
With the paradise I do not know
Through the joy I never had
I'm all alone on my isolated throne

Why have you forsaken me?

The days outnumbered themselves into the grey
And life cries, a dream dies out into the blackness
Stretches for an empty cup; a chalice to collect the tears
That I keep to myself

I gaze upon the mystery, this lovelorn identity...
Frozen beyond the echoes of laughter

This morphine cloud hanging over me
Like a snow-white curtain
This beautiful haze overruns me
So I erase myself from you; The cure for my sanity...
And here I am, unwilling to forgive myself

So lost in this remedy, your spirit is haunting me
Consumed by indifference
I scream in your silence where shadows conceals me...
I'm cursed to search for you

Oh feeble, ungrateful my heart
Paralyzed you drown with me
Intoxicate this bitter reality
Under the screens of apathy

Oh feeble, ungrateful my heart
Paralyzed you drown with me
Intoxicate this bitter reality
Under the screens of apathy

The dream died before it was born
Innocence is lost... And so am I
But still I pretend to be strong
Still I wonder where I belong

You whisper to me gently in my sleep
To leave this world behind
And I gaze upon the mystery, this lovelorn identity...
Frozen beyond the echoes of laughter.

07. Bloodflower - Lyrics:

I've made a good living by dying;
Endless wait, grey solace ruling my mind
Constrained by time and drained by the cold
Still I found myself shivering under the rising sun

You are the star, you are the moon
You are the soil where shadows bloom
Casting a light which brings me peace
Where the caverns of death will freeze

The flower never grew
But I love you just the same
Even though like a bird you flew
I will love you just the same

I am the blood; A fire in your soul...
And I will grow in landscapes so cold

Oh, how I feel you in every single detail
As you lurk inside my troubled dreams
There is no hope as long we walk this Earth
But you should know my universe screams
It screams for you

I cry for you!

The flower never grew
But I love you just the same
Even though like a bird you flew
I will love you just the same.

08. The Empty Stare - Lyrics:

My mind wandered off in the distance
Where I am far from all that cages me
All I could think of was death
Her name disguised in silence
Angelwings and ravenclaws...

The shredding of my soul
Steeped in a lavender smile

In thy eyes
The womb of thy despair
Embrace my life
Within thy empty stare

The overcast sky consoling me
The fortitude within my grasp
I think to myself I'm the sad clown
Smiling reluctantly, but crying behind the iron curtain

These tears don't fall so easily

In thy eyes
The womb of thy despair
Embrace my life
Within thy empty stare

Damn the illusion which fell upon me!
The bitter wine of reality poured all over my face...
And I despise what I've become
Just a terrified man, secluded and trapped in time

In thy eyes
The womb of thy despair
Embrace my life
Within thy empty stare
Together let us roam
Through endless dreams of night
The moon as our limit
And our souls as guiding light

But how can I refuse my empathy to be resolute?
'Cause it feels like... I'm dying
I have nothing to gain where there is nothing to lose.

09. September Ashes - Lyrics:

September begun with a goodbye to my heart
The pictures you put in my head brought tears behind my icy hands

Come closer; Breathe my name and nothing more
We are mere whispering of a heartfelt elegy

So when I scream for you, do not answer me
When I beg you to hold me, just walk away...