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2. |
Descent (Chrome Mix)
04:20
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Is it time here for praying?
Is it time here to die?
And I wake up and it's raining
And you're leaving here tonight
Is it winter in the morning?
Is it over or a lie?
And I'm shaking but I'm breathing
I just need to close my eyes
Oh you never were to blame
The broken glass is everywhere
It's crawling through your veins
The memory won't disappear
Again - tonight
Even Fallen Angels cry
Fallen Angels cry
Is it time here for dreaming?
Is it time here to die?
And there's nothing to believe in
But the One who gave me life
Oh you never were to blame
The broken glass is everywhere
It's crawling through your veins
The memory won't disappear
Again - tonight
Even Fallen Angels cry
Fallen Angels cry
I can hear you falling, feel you breaking
See you calling me
I can taste you bleeding, feel you shaking
Know you're needing me
Fallen Angels Cry
Oh you never were to blame...
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3. |
Indian Summer Rain (XV)
04:32
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Hear those voices calling
There's sorrow in the air
Falling leaves, like falling tears
Of meaningless despair
She picks up the flowers
And weaves them through her hair
Her dress is torn down to her thigh
Her world has disappeared
And she says go inside
I'm waiting for the rain
She keeps the pain alive
Waiting for the rain
Ice has closed the chamber
The candles have all died
A trail of incense to the place
She lies in deathly white
Shrouded by a halo
The pillow made of stone
She holds the lace against her chest
And welcomes in the cold
And she says go inside
I'm waiting for the rain
She keeps the pain alive
Waiting for the rain
When they find a new forever
Behind this mortal tomb
She'll take the sacrificial knife
Beneath the scarlet moon
When they find a new forever
She'll be someone new
Her skin will warm to summer light
Her eyes a deeper blue
And she says go inside
I'm waiting for the rain
She keeps the pain alive
Waiting for the rain
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4. |
Angelyn (2014)
04:48
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Angelyn
Rise above the bitter end
Angelyn
Your smile won't let the winter in
I needed you
More than I thought I ever did
Won't you just
Bring your sweet touch back again
'cos I lied, I lied
Angelyn
The morning sun won't shine again
Everything
Belongs to where we started it
I'm falling down
More than I could ever stand
Angelyn
Won't you bring your healing hand
'cos I lied, I lied
Kept your world inside
Can't take back the years
Can't swallow all the tears
Sweet Angel let me in
Quench the thirst I'm drowning in
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5. |
Fault
03:45
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Dress it down so it feels like fashion
The high life in a low-lit glow
Turning out for the same reaction
Light it all, light it up and go
Light it all, light it up and go
ah ah ah
Find a reason
for the last time and the thousand times before
Find a reason
to say goodbye
Find a reason
for the memories you buried in the dirt
Find a reason to say goodbye
Oh it doesn't feel like heaven anymore
Tear it up like a New Romantic
lip gloss, lip service show
The impulse so automatic
Break it down, light it up and go
Break it down, light it up and go
ah ah ah
Find a reason
for the last time and the thousand times before
Find a reason
to say goodbye
Find a reason
for the memories you buried in the dirt
Find a reason to say goodbye
Oh it doesn't feel like heaven
Oh the feelings are all broken
No it doesn't feel like heaven anymore
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6. |
Beneath Your Feet
05:08
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Bleeding out the light
From the corners of your soul
Truth is on your side
But it's buried far below
Colour's in your eyes
And it's raining back at home
Needle's in the fire and it's closer to the bone
And all along you had to be
Always just beyond my reach
You wore it well
So nervously complete
And all alone you had to go
The way that angels have to go
I'd trade this hell
For the ground beneath your feet
The ground beneath your feet
Fading like your sin
And you're down beneath the waves
The ritual begins
Your identity just fades
I could keep you warm Angel
I could keep you safe
Open up your eyes Angel
Get out of that grave
And all along you had to be
Always just beyond my reach
You wore it well
So nervously complete
And all alone you had to go
The way that angels have to go
I'd trade this hell
For the ground beneath your feet
The ground beneath your feet
What's wrong with forever
What's wrong with forever
The memory of life can leave you cold
The memory of life can leave you cold
It leaves me cold
And all along you had to be
Always just beyond my reach
You wore it well
So nervously complete
And all alone you had to go
The way that angels have to go
I'd trade this hell
For the ground beneath your feet
The ground beneath your feet
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7. |
Razors Burn (XV)
04:42
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Down on your fever with a Razor Burn
Can never tell you're a bleeder when you're innocent
And it's a new resolution for a miracle
You've got a poor constitution and you're letting go
Oh that's you
You're always needing proof
You're waiting for the dark
To watch me fall apart
And nothing gets you high
Oh you
You're waiting for the dark
You're down before the start
And everything's a sign
To you
Frozen believer with a Razor Burn
Oh just a casual deceiver and you'll never learn
That the one revolution is to know your name
And that the death of confusion is to see His face
Oh that's you
You're always needing proof
You're waiting for the dark
To watch me fall apart
And nothing gets you high
Oh you
You're waiting for the dark
You're down before the start
And everything's a sign
To you
And it's over
It's overdue again
Oh your dreams are all in vain
And you need more proof
You need more proof and pain
Down on your fever with a razor burn
Can never tell you're a bleeder when you're innocent
And it's a new resolution for a miracle
You've got a poor constitution and you're letting go
Oh you
You're waiting for the dark...
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8. |
Upon The Water (XV)
04:26
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I'm falling - keep on falling
As you rise above - you and I
Believing - keep on dreaming
For today
I hear you - I can feel you
Following the storm in to the night
I try to - try to keep you
Warm and safe inside
See the walls are coming down, down, down
As the nation rises ready for the fight
And the fires burning down, down, down
As we walk upon the water to the light
I'm falling - keep on falling
As the winter covers all the scars
We need to - need to stop and pray
For healing - pray for healing
Hold on to your faith and don't let go
This world is getting in the way
It's getting in the way
See the walls are coming down, down, down
As the nation rises ready for the fight
And the fires burning down, down, down
As we walk upon the water to the light
Our hope for tomorrow calls tomorrow home
Oh we stand alone
One more prayer for the broken
One more prayer for the found
See the walls are coming down, down, down
As the nation rises ready for the fight
And the fires burning down, down, down
As we walk upon the water to the light
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9. |
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It doesn't have to be like this
Down on the floor with your heart
It never felt so meaningless
It's over but the hurting won't stop
It doesn't have to be like this
As time leaves and time wounds the dark
You suffocate the emptiness
It's over
There's nothing like the rain here
To wash away the scars
There's nothing like the rain here
Feel it fall
It doesn't have to be like this
Broken by who you are not
Sorrow leaves you with her kiss
And echoes the words to a song
It doesn't have to be like this
Down on the floor with your past
The suffocating emptiness
Is over
There's nothing like the rain here
To wash away the scars
There's nothing like the rain here
Feel it fall
And like some other tragedy
You drift away in spite of me
And like the words I've never known
I'm shown
There's nothing like the rain here
To wash away the scars
There's nothing like the rain here
Feel it fall
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10. |
Mirror Tricks (XV)
04:05
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Feeling like these photo-scenes
Your world is black and in-between
the paradox you call your life
you stop to cry
I picked up where they left off
and held you 'til you were alive
And now the room is mirror-tricks and dappled light
And if you walk away I won't understand
If you walk away I won't understand
You were like a work of art
that had its canvas torn apart
and found itself an icon
in its disarray
I was just an afterthought
who practised everything he taught
But innocence can sometimes
be an enemy
If you walk away I won't understand
Oh if you walk away I won't understand
Every phase is something new
with your eyes away from mine
Oh this isn't living proof
This is only borrowed time
Feeling like these photo-scenes
Your world is black and in-between
the paradox you call your life
you stop to cry
If you walk away I won't understand
If you walk away I won't understand
I'm here waiting for you
I am here waiting for you
I picked up where they left off
and held you 'til you were alive
But now the room is mirror-tricks and dappled light
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11. |
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I turned my head to stop the light
You held a candle and a silver knife
The words were black the words were cold
I'd never given thought to your fool's gold
In my world
Constricted
by the hands of definition - here
I've taken
and beaten all the ways
they've complicated me
In my world I need rebirth
I turned my voice to another cause
They've sent morality to fight on distant shores
I've held the truth I've held despair
deep in my lungs dyed as black as my hair
In my world
Constricted
by the hands of definition - here
I've taken
and beaten all the ways
they've complicated me
In my world I need rebirth
I need to be
someone with some worth
I need to be
someone with some worth
I've turned this water into blood
I've spent so many years lost in this flood
In my world
Constricted
by the hands of definition - here
I've taken
and beaten all the ways
they've complicated me
In my world
Constricted
by the hands of definition - here
I've taken
and beaten
all the ways they've complicated
all the ways they've reinvented
all the ways they've devastated
all the ways they've desecrated me
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12. |
Eve (Wish Version XV)
04:32
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You put your dress away
with your feelings
I know the tears will be mine again
You take moment
to stop my breathing
And I know the tears will be mine
As I believe
I believe in you
It's been some time now
and I'm still broken
My head is empty, my eyes are swollen
And just behind me
the void is growing
And inside me I feel unwoven
And I believe
I believe in you
I'm on the surface
where wind is blowing
Eyes are shut to the weight of knowing
That everything I am
is forbidden
Through the hallways of doubt I'm driven
As I believe
I believe in you
Take a moment
crawl deeper under
Take this moment
And wish it away
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13. |
The Dark Romantics (XV)
04:45
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We are the Dark Romantics
The Dark Romantics in our candle's glow
We are the Dark Romantics
and our dreams are where the poets go.
Oh
Go
The photograph child
holds her head in shame
While the Crystal Wilde
fears a statue with no name
The velvet touch
of the warmest mystery
Is where our kind
welcomes serenity
We are the Dark Romantics
The Dark Romantics in our candle's glow
We are the Dark Romantics
and our dreams are where the poets go.
Oh
Oh
Your eyes are shut
to the world that we hold dear
You mock the way we paint ourselves
You mock our Theatre tears
We bow in love
I know the Angels smile
Drinking on emotion
Lighting altar fires
We are the Dark Romantics
The Dark Romantics in our candle's glow
We are the Dark Romantics
and our dreams are where the poets go.
Oh we will be
Passionate, delicate
Oh we can see
all that God has given
It's surreal
Surreal
(surreal)
The photograph child
holds her head in shame
While the Crystal Wilde
fears a statue with no name
Oh we are the Dark Romantics
The Dark Romantics in our candle's glow
We are the Dark Romantics
and our dreams are where the poets go.
Oh, we will be
Passionate, delicate
Oh, we can see
all that God has given
It's surreal
Oh, surreal
(surreal)
We are the Dark Romantics
The Dark Romantics in our candle's glow
We are the Dark Romantics
and our dreams are where the poets go.
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14. |
Rain (XV)
04:14
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I need to know all the truths behind the lies
I need to show the guilt that is inside me
Try to grow, a little sun and rain to die
Try to grow, apart from this escaping
Actions for the words
Linear touche
Actions killed the first
Border on insane
So let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain now
Little child with war in her eyes
Little false summation
Little war taken for a slide
Time for lost salvation
I've had to go and leave the doubtful tears behind
Because the glow, well I could see it fading
Actions for the words
Linear touche
Actions killed the first
Border on insane
So let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain now
Little child with war in her eyes
Little false summation
Little war taken for a slide
Time for lost salvation
Oh clouds are overhead
Oh sentimental shade
Oh why am I scared
So let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain now
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15. |
Maree (XV)
04:13
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I told myself to wait
But the greyness around me
took a liking to me
I stood there against your gate
But the coldness was growing
so I began walking
I began walking away
Inside I knew
what I was leaving
But hey Maree
We belong together
Hey Maree
We belong together girl
Breathing the sour taste
Of indecision
of incompletion
Can't believe it's going to waste
The candle-lit passion
That honest sensation
But hey Maree
We belong together
Hey Maree
We belong together girl
I could not believe
the deception in me
as I left you in rags of grey
I could not believe
that I chose this bereavement
When with you is all I can be
(I said)
Hey Maree
We belong together
Hey Maree
We belong together girl
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16. |
Before I Leap (XV)
04:26
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If I could only for a moment
If I could look before I leap
To test it out before diving
To test to see how deep
When I'm alone, dressed up in crayon
Pulling burdens from the weak
For just to look in her direction
To bear the cause or bear deceit
Oh but the night time is where it breeds
Feed on the night time, feelings bereaved
Oh but the night time is what I need
Thought I'd improve my concentration
A little more breathing space
But I'm suffocated by the ventilation
That circles 'round this hollow place
Oh but the night time is where it breeds
Feed on the night time, feelings bereaved
Oh but the night time is what I need
It doesn't matter where the hurt is
It's only worse when it's dark
I see her face and then the burning
Tomorrows breathe into a spark
If I could learn from past disaster
That left my mind a riddled fuse
When eyes were turned to the hereafter
And life had seemed so far removed
Oh but the night time...
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17. |
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Well raise your hands, it's all ours for the taking
With disbelief they see the march go by
Go by
A history of wrongs and blistered implications
Less of what we need and more, more frustration
Taken to the altar and left to deteriorate
Taken just for granted, they laugh and devastate
You won't be the first or last to take a stand
Idols will remain, in glass, your highered hand
Well raise your hands, it's all ours for the taking
With disbelief they see the march go by
Haunted by the echo of the loading
Bodies in the throat of the beast
Hounded by the forces rejecting, rejecting peace
Try as you might
I don't believe
You have the strength
You are nothing more than the empty men
Nothing more, we'll see your end
Raise your hands, it's all ours for the taking
With disbelief they see the march go by
(Taken to the altar, taken for granted)
Haunted by the whimper of the children
Bodies in the throat of the beast
Try as you might, I don't believe
I don't believe
You have the strength
You are spoken for
The empty men
Nothing more
We'll see your end
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18. |
Vampyre Girl (2014)
04:12
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Well here comes my Vampyre Girl
She's a Halloween Dish dressed in fur
She's a pale skin androgynous delight
Black hair, black nails, black humour,
All the boys stare like she's going to eat 'em
But she wants 'til the audience is right
Tonight
She'll cover you like milk
Scarlet lace and bloody silk
My favourite melodrama in the world
Vampyre Girl
After the Witching Hour
She's a sure-fire Lestat devotee
Bloody lips and sinfully blue eyes
She's got the whole Anne Rice collection
But she don't mind the mirror's reflection
She won't leave the house 'til her look is right
Tonight
She'll cover you like milk
Scarlet lace and bloody silk
My favourite melodrama in the world
Vampyre Girl
Vampyre Girl
Oh she's the one
Who's always planned the night
With such a perfect bite
Oh she's such a perfect perfect Vampyre Girl
Oh girl
She'll cover you like milk
Scarlet lace and bloody silk
My favourite melodrama in the world
Vampyre Girl
Vampyre Girl
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19. |
Standing (Axial Version)
04:11
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Sitting by myself again
Battered and alone
Wondering to myself again
whether I have grown
Stand and be counted
Stand to be seen
Stand and be counted
I look into your eyes again
and memories unfold
I wonder about the time we spend
The place we call a home
Stand and be counted
Stand to be seen
Stand and be counted
You force my mind to turn away
to your dreams of black and gold
A pain so sharp it bleeds the night
I give you my hand to hold
Stand and be counted
Stand to be seen
Stand and be counted
It's not long to go
to find your way home
It's not long to go
to find your way home
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20. |
Martyr (2014)
04:56
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nd where martyrs stand the idols fall
but in my solitude I surrender
Where Judas lies the curtain is torn
I am the weaker here, the pretender
And the Blood will make angels of us all
Oh beyond comprehension
that He would choose one who seldom takes the call
straight to heart, defy convention
And our heroes are tangible and able
to keep our focus from the One
who bled and died in a halo of pain
labeled a fake, a heretic, while He is the true Son
And the Blood will make angels of us all
Oh beyond comprehension
that He would choose one who seldom takes the call
straight to heart, defy convention
Perfect Martyr for me
Perfect Martyr for you
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21. |
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Look away
Oh my precious one
The weight of hurt was fed
to those you feared
Turn away
Oh my only one
Trapped inside my head
you seem to be
Is life worth living
without your body against mine
Is my air worth breathing
without your tiny hand in mine
Is my life worth fighting for
without your arms around mine
Oh is the Amethyst
or is this the weight of bliss
And the taste
of your tender skin
leaves my senses scattered
on the tiles
And the fear
of compassion's interim
Hold me as the dark
claws at my side
Is life worth living
without your body against mine
Is my air worth breathing
without your tiny hand in mine
Is my life worth fighting for
without your arms around mine
Oh is the Amethyst
or is this the weight of bliss
like your kiss
your kiss
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The Awakening
"Music to make angels and vampires alike weep for wanting."- Fangoria. The Awakening is a Gothic Rock band fronted by vocalist & multi-instrumentalist Ashton Nyte. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa and based in the USA since 2008 with 9 full length albums and a career-spanning retrospective in their catalogue, the band have just released their latest album "Chasm" in November 2018. ... more
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