Emerald Forest and the Blackbird Lyrics Album by Swallow the Sun
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1. Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
My child, I will bury you on the
highest hill beside the tallest tree.
Where winter will cover you
and build the biggest castle.
There I will bury you
from the arms of your mother.
Soon the angels will carry you
over the edge of the world,
and lead you through the deepest forest
away from sickness into the light.
Sleep my child!
Lay down your head
and leave this pain,
I’ll read you these
last pages of the tale.
To endless mourning
I’m cursed from here on.
You will be taken,
I was meant to stay.
The emerald forest was quiet,
and the deep green of the diamond
leaves was glimmering in the sky.
High tree tops on the gentle wind,
tall as the mountains in the east.
Echoes of the steps of giants were
fading like the beat of your weak heart.
Shades of night welcome you with a twisted
smile slowly with every tiny breath.
Hold my hand tight,
nothing will hurt you here.
You are almost home my little angel,
I will lead you through.
Night creatures, unicorns and white owls,
treasures hidden in the emerald glow,
green light on the white altar
and the black throne.
Choirs of ancients
blessing your passage
to the world below.
The path through the woods
was getting narrow,
the aisle of trees shaded the
last light of the moon.
But the light from the candles
on the bridge across the water
lit the way from emerald steps,
marking our trail deeper.
This is the frontier
as far as I can pass,
but the calling of the blackbird
will lead you on from here.
Every tear will turn to
an emerald in this forest
And this is where it ends!
The cry turns to laughter, my son.
You will be taken,
I was meant to stay, my loved one.
2. This Cut Is the Deepest
You are nothing but a shadow
of the beauty what you used to be.
Blank painting with silver frames,
you know when things turned all so wrong.
Afraid to tell the truth,
locked inside yourself.
I promise this won’t hurt you
at least as much as all these lies.
You are nothing but a shadow
of the beauty what you used to be.
Deceitful and shallow, yes,
you know when things turned so wrong.
Dim line between two broken hearts,
long road to perdition.
One will stand, one will fall.
See the stars, touch your scars,
face the dark eye to eye.
Touch the stars, feel the warmth.
My love, this cut is the deepest!
See the stars, touch your scars,
face the dark eye to eye.
Touch the stars, feel the warmth.
My love, this cut is the deepest!
Dim line between two broken hearts,
long road to perdition.
One will stand, one will fall.
You are nothing but a shadow
of the beauty what you used to be.
Deceitful and shallow, yes,
you know when things turned so wrong.
See the stars, touch your scars,
face the dark eye to eye.
Touch the stars, feel the warmth.
My love, this cut is the deepest!
See the stars, touch your scars,
face the dark eye to eye.
Touch the stars, feel the warmth.
My love, this cut is the deepest!
3. Hate, Lead the Way!
I yearn for your soul,
I yearn for your skin.
The blaze in my eyes shines
bright as the great northern skies.
I’ll catch you when the
night falls, morning calls.
Close your eyes, make a wish,
you know it’s never going to happen.
In this place we all die alone.
Hate, lead the way!
Close your eyes, make a wish,
you know it’s never going to happen.
In this place we all die alone.
Hate, lead the way!
I yearn for your love,
I yearn for your blood.
The blaze in my heart lies
deep as roots in this ground.
Take me into you,
take my hand or
I’ll kill again.
Close your eyes, make a wish,
you know it’s never going to happen.
In this place we all die alone.
Hate, lead the way!
Close your eyes, make a wish,
you know it’s never going to happen.
In this place we all die alone.
Hate, lead the way!
They want you and I’ll catch you
when the morning calls.
They want you and I’ll catch you
when the morning calls.
Close your eyes, make a wish,
you know it’s never going to happen.
In this place we all die alone.
Hate, lead the way!
Close your eyes, make a wish,
you know it’s never going to happen.
In this place we all die alone.
Sleep well, my dear!
4. Cathedral Walls
Where do we go from here when
these words have been unspoken?
We carry this burden through
the gentle summer rain.
The convoy is still,
still and weeping.
Yet I don’t feel anything
but these walls around.
And the candles on cathedral walls
chase the weak light under the saints eyes,
over you and your shattered words
for the ones you lost.
In your mourning you’re alone, so alone.
This silence speaks a million words,
words of comfort so shallow.
How I wish even for one tear
but for my heart it’s too late.
Where do I go when
the sorrow turns to hate,
where do I go from here?
The guardian angels quiet and near
slowly turning away, for hell is surely here.
Every step towards the hole in the ground I rot,
carrying your white coffin, my heart wide shut.
I will follow you,
earth to earth.
I will follow you,
ashes to ashes.
I will follow you,
dust to dust.
I will follow you!
How I wish even for one tear
but for my heart it’s too late,
when sorrow turns to hate.
And the candles on cathedral walls
chase the weak light under the saints eyes,
over you and your shattered words
for the ones you lost.
In your mourning you’re alone, so alone.
5. Hearts Wide Shut
Talk to me with words of sorrow,
the only words I learned to know.
Be still my bleeding heart while I
hold my breath and wait for it to pass.
But it never will, never has!
Your loving light will only wake them,
make them appear from their hiding.
Would you make them disappear?
But no one can, not even you.
I crossed the oceans of tears
and sacrificed all these hearts
on the altar of you.
But these same ghosts
will haunt me until
my last days.
One by one risen from their graves,
telling me I’m not worth being forgiven
for all the hearts wide shut.
The white veil falls upon your face,
covering the scars and tears.
And as you walk down the aisle,
the marble steps end and you fall.
I won’t be there to save you,
I’ll let you fall just
like the others before.
I crossed the oceans of tears
and sacrificed all these hearts
on the altar of you.
The altar of you!
But these same ghosts
will haunt me until
my last days.
One by one risen from their graves,
telling me I’m not worth being forgiven
for all the hearts wide shut.
6. Silent Towers
We turn away
and erase the pain.
Let it lie in the deepest
shades of guilt and blame.
Cover it under these
chords so shallow,
hide it between
lines so narrow.
But the words are just
too strong to speak,
they will only destroy us.
Like two towers we stand,
stand strong but hurt.
Until we crash down
with only one word.
Where is the end of these emerald woods,
the first light of the new morning?
Have we walked too far in this gloom
to sense the pure heart of doom?
We left our souls in the cutting room,
and play the roles of silent killers.
Here we stand at the edge of truth,
and still let the cold paint our skin.
Blinded we step
straight back into Hell.
But the words are just
too strong to speak,
they will only destroy us.
Like two towers we stand,
stand strong but hurt.
Until we crash down
with only one word.
7. Labyrinth of London (Horror Pt. IV)
Fire walk with me through
these old streets of London.
Make me stronger to get one
step closer to you again.
Horror spreads through these alleys
like a plague through the harlots.
By the blood of all these dirty cunts
my delicate art is being written in blood!
For I am the sire, the noble one.
Deep I cut their sinful bodies to
get her back piece by piece.
The night she left me from this
world to the shades of everlasting.
I will bring you back my love,
even just for a one life long second.
She was the one, now cold and gone,
ten silver bells mourning her death.
Echoes on the walls in this Labyrinth of London.
Charlotte Street,
3 a.m., washed by blood.
She’s not worth dying for
but to die in shame.
Heart of a scarlet whore,
black like her native shore.
One I cut out on Lavender Lane,
I will replace her chest and we will dance.
She was the one, now cold and gone,
ten silver bells mourning her death.
Echoes on the walls in this Labyrinth of London.
She was the one, now cold and gone,
ten silver bells marking your death.
You will be lost in this Labyrinth of London.
In this Labyrinth of London…
“I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
near where the charter’d Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every man,
in every infants cry of fear,
in every voice, in every ban,
the mind-forg’d manacles I hear.
How the Chimney-sweepers cry,
every blackning church appalls,
and the hapless Soldiers sigh
runs in blood down Palace walls.
But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
how the youthful Harlots curse,
blasts the newborn infants tear,
and blights with plagues
the Marriage hearse.”
-“London” by William Blake
4 a.m. Palmer Street.
In a circle of flames we
will dance once again.
Fire walk with me through
these old streets of London.
Make me stronger to get one
step closer to you again.
Horror spreads through these alleys
like a plague through the harlots.
By the blood of all these dirty cunts
my delicate art is being written in blood!
She was the one, now cold and gone,
ten silver bells mourning her death.
Echoes on the walls in this Labyrinth of London.
She was the one, now cold and gone,
ten silver bells marking your death.
You will be lost in this Labyrinth of London.
8. Of Death and Corruption
Felt my back bleeding, heard the song of a siren,
the forerunner of death and corruption.
I’ve already hit the ground, nothing you said was true.
Were all the vows meant to be broken?
Some wounds will never heal,
some day even queens will die.
Some day even nations turn their backs
after the chants of devilish mouths.
Lie deep in your lies, keep telling you love me,
the chant of death and corruption.
I still hear the words that let me down,
something deep inside you died that night.
Some wounds will never heal,
some day even queens will die.
Some day even nations turn their backs
after the chants of devilish mouths.
That night showed your true colours,
pure blackness and filth.
Once loved, once admired,
dead to the world from now on.
Some wounds will never heal,
some day even queens will die.
Some day even nations turn their backs
after the chants of devilish mouths.
9. April 14th
April 14th,
and the sabbath is near.
The ground is trembling,
weakened by the longest winter.
These are the last steps
of the frost giants
as they leave.
An April moon is rising
as the trees turn to rust.
Killing season comes in shades of gray.
An April moon is rising
as the spring turns to dust.
We lie down to a howling sound
as the world is slowly coming down.
Bless me, ghosts of winter,
for you have made me stronger
to face this day and evernights.
Further North our paths will go!
South is burning,
east is vast, west is dying fast.
But as I leave my heart holds no fear,
I know there’s nothing from here.
An April moon is rising
as the trees turn to rust.
Killing season comes in shades of gray.
An April moon is rising
as the spring turns to dust.
We lie down to a howling sound…
On the altar of endless snow,
on a deep glacier’s glow we prepare our graves.
Here under the north star I will sleep away
to the deep hum of your icy womb.
April 14th,
and death is here.
The tide has finally turned.
The ground is trembling,
weakened by the longest winter.
These are the last steps of the
frost giants as they leave.
But my heart holds no fear
for I know there’s nothing from here.
10. Night Will Forgive Us
Did we make it through the night,
or was it just a dream of woe?
When did mother’s arms turn to dust?
The fortress so unbroken but still your
heart was strong to lead us all through.
The gentle morning mist still veiling the graves,
breathe it in and watch the sunrise.
Time will wait for us in this early hour
like the ghosts still lingering on the flowers.
Time won’t heal,
it just buries the pain
and slowly changes form.
But a bleeding heart is an
open one, alive yet so undone.
We carry these wounds until
the night forgives us.
Loneliness so hard to bear
when these rooms breathe emptiness.
Still your voice is all around me here,
singing me to the blue dream
through the quiet summer rain.
Time won’t heal,
it just buries the pain
and slowly changes form.
But a bleeding heart is an
open one, alive yet so undone.
We carry these wounds until
the night forgives us.
Did we make it through the night,
or was it just a dream of woe?
When did mother’s arms turn to dust?
The fortress so unbroken but still your
heart was strong to lead us all through.
The gentle morning mist still veiling the graves,
breathe it in and watch the sunrise.
Time will wait for us in this early hour!
Time won’t heal,
it just buries the pain
and slowly changes form.
But a bleeding heart is an
open one, alive yet so undone.
We carry these wounds until
the night forgives us,
and lets us say a last goodbye.
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