Paradise Lost - Draconian Times Album Lyrics

Stand fast, faithful one
See the moon and not the sun but I...
All I need is a simple reminder

Breakdown frail affairs
Turn from the elusive starts but I...
All I need is a simple reminder

Guilt is feeding, feeding, inside I'm cold

In depth grasp the chains
Struggle as the waters gain but I...
All I need is a simple reminder

Observe the formation fight until the battle's won
But I... All I need is a simple reminder

There's no rule to say you'll cry alone
Just find the strength to help you carry the load
Reverse the frown and let the power surge
But when alone you cannot resist the urge

Feel it, feel it, like the pain of dying
Feel it, feel it, like the pain of dying

Hold on face to face damaged by the
Sad disgrace but I...
All I need is a simple reminder

Twisting the knife in vain end the
Grief but who will gain but I...
All I need is a simple excuse

The time you're looking at the door
And you're thinking to walk right through
I want to ignore
I only wish that it passes soon

Hearts beating...

I raise a sunken smile
As I serve the ones who served
What can I achieve
As you steal the air I breathe

It's a cruel misfortune
Forbidding us to see
When stories may collide
It's a sad state of mind

Hearts beating...

Hearts beating for the last time
Hearts beating it is a state of mind
Hearts beating for the last time
The peace you cannot find

You must feel frustration
'Cause your mind feels such temptation
And your ways appear a total lack of faith

You may feel elation
At your body's recreation
And the joy you need, restricted by one thought

Are you forever - Loss of purpose in a passive life
Are you forever - Pale, regarded as a waste of time

High times are courageous
But in truth they suit no purpose
Induced, reduced, unable and afraid

Can you feel rejection
And a lack of motivation
And the joy you need, restricted and delayed

Are you forever - Loss of purpose in a passive life
Are you forever - Pale, regarded as a waste of time

I don't really know what sorry means, I've been sorry all my life
I'm sorry I was born, that's what my mother told me
I don't really know what sorry means
I've been sorry all my life

I don't really know what sorry means

Your powers electrify me
Your prowess repels apathy
Your image can turn a soul to stone

I can't find another way
I can't find the words to say

Unchaining the thing that's holding me down
And it's frustrating, the pressure's getting me down
And it's trying to live with a bad decision every day
It's a fever that's eating away in search of a fast release

I say
Your powers electrify me
Devour the one that's guilty
Your image can turn a soul to stone

I can't find another way
I can't find the words to say

Your powers electrify me
Devour the one who's guilty
Your prowess repels apathy
Your image can turn a soul to stone

It's the truth that untrue suspicion is
Spreading like a disease
Do you know if it is real?

Voices appear inside my brain
Their need, to set me free
Onward they lead before the dawn
Teach me what's right and wrong

Encourage the madness they welcome impurity
I don't know...I don't know...who I am!
Fallen blind to the cruel hysteria that's
Constantly challenging
Me, all alone...all alone... can't be real

Voices approve I can't relate
Their need to celebrate
Onward they lead before the dawn
Teach me what's right and wrong

Voices approve, the quest begins
Fuel for the shadowkings
Onward they lead before the dawn
Teach me what's right and wrong

For you and only you, you may attempt to proceed
The sharpest point is aimed at you
Where the pain strikes is clear...

Regret, refrain, I can no longer bear it

Rising ages increase elusive cures
A moral life sacrificed, greed's taken over
Ride to take and the craving's buried deeper
Reaching out grasping arms that are waiting for you

For you and only you, you may attempt to proceed
The sharpest point is aimed at you
Where the pain strikes is clear...

Regret, refrain, I can no longer bear it

Time may heal all troubles, is that what I've found?
Joy entices all, until death's lonely shroud
But I know it's forever...

Praying for a change

Our lives leading onwards, the essence is stronger

Memories of life drifting further away I must doubt that where
There's a will there's a way...
But I know, it's forever

Life is all the pain we endeavour

'Cause I see it coming, like a long lost friend
A temple of rubble, the low and blind betray
Inane, the pleasures that leave a sorry state
You're told of treasures, indulgence cannot wait

But wait for tomorrow and steal some sanity
Insane thoughts are borrowed, unable to repay them back
As I now fall...fall into deprivation
Fall...fallen there's still tomorrow
Love hides the things you'll never know

A lack of reason that makes a mortal man
Untold the treason, the past where it began

'Cause I see horror, horror to think about
Insane thoughts are borrowed, unable to repay them back
As I see the blood, blood on the hands of reason
Blood, bloody the hands that lead me
Love for the ones you cannot know

When I see your frown, hurt will put me down
If I could see a light shining
Is this borrowed time maybe a final time
That I can see a light shining

Will you make it slow, pure evil makes it slow
I know you're brandishing the sign
Dare I take a chance? In this circumstance
Or will I leave without a hope
When you seal me fate sorrow turns to hate
If I can see a light shining
Is this borrowed time maybe a final time
That I can see a light shining

What one man makes is there for one to take
A single handed fall from grace
Hearts beating just, beating till the last
A draining feeling's all that I know

When I see your frown, it becomes my frown
If I could see a light shining
Is this borrowed time maybe a final time?
That I can see a light shining

Words mean so many things

The feeling can't avoid you

Stoking the fires of absence
Loss and anguish long departed
Adjust to changes re-arranging, burns in many ways

Pain burns in many ways

The feeling can't avoid you