Dead End Kings

   Dead End Kings

Album : Dead End Kings 

Artist : Katatonia

Release Date : 2012

Label :  Peaceville Records

Track List :

1. The Parting

2. The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here

3. Hypnone

4. The Racing Heart

5. Buildings

6. Leech

7. Ambitions

8. Undo You

9. Lethean

10. First Prayer

11. Dead Letters

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The Parting

In the weak lights

I saw you becoming the lie

Taking it all for granted like freedom

It’s something you’ll never have

Forget what’s said and hear me sing to you

How I’ve set out to kill my soul

The nightward ways, the labor it brings

The verdict that I came for

Migration’s song

Patterns of death overwhelms

Fixation rise

I came along the way

And came to a conclusion

The indifferent sky is made of lead and so beautiful

Submission, come you will!

In the weak light

I saw you becoming the lie

Taking it all for granted like freedom

It’s something you’ll never have

The parting

End origin!

Fade into earth...

Times ablaze

Under the flags we chose

Denied my step

And froze my heart

Yet I stare

With nothing left to do

The verdict that I came for

Migration’s song

Patterns of death overwhelms

Fixation rise

I came along the way

And came to a conclusion

The indifferent sky is made of lead and so beautiful

Submission, come you will!

Take your well-deserved step into darkness

I’ll become your eyes

You have no other

We have to walk along this wire

Trust the one that never trusted you

Trust the one that never trusted you

In the weak light

I saw you becoming the lie

Taking it all for granted like freedom

It’s something you’ll never have

The parting

End origin!

Fade into earth

The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here

This breaking vow

rests so near my tongue,

anchor on the cloud.

Shade upon the sun,

you took my word for it.

The vanishing of doubt

will unfold my empty space.

Your time froze over!

I must lead the way

for this conclusion,

I let you inherit these

words I sing to you.

See how death

will bestow seclusion,

the one you are looking

for is hidden from view.

In my absence now

when time will pass,

in nothingness abide.

See the evening rise

and take my word for it,

focuses beyond your vision

will unfold my empty space.

Your time froze over!

I must lead the way

for this conclusion,

I let you inherit these

words I sing to you.

See how death

will bestow seclusion,

The one you are looking

for is hidden from view.

Do you remember when

it didn’t used to be so dark

and everything was possible still?

Hypnone

You will never rest

until the stars burn out

My day is done, I love the

sound of no one coming by.

Tomb beneath the trees,

the name unsung,

the darkness in the cracks.

I am not what you have waited for!

Trust, nothing is enough,

this hunting ground.

I need the freedom

to control my own.

I need the sound of rain

wearing dependence down.

The line must be kept so thin

To live near life, not within.

No need to take the test

before the dark must shine,

reflect my eyes and strip

this creation of mine.

Tomorrow is so long,

the Dead End King is here.

Black wings upon his back!

I am not what you have waited for!

Trust, nothing is enough,

this hunting ground.

I need the freedom

to control my own.

I need the sound of rain

wearing dependence down.

The line must be kept so thin

To live near life, not within.

The Racing Heart

White sun, spring of wealth

Come for a good time

It’s not what I have

Vibrate

Life on the line

My racing heart

Your vacant mind

If I sow a wind now

I will reap a storm

You saw me sliding away from the sun

And tomorrow who will come

And put their hand over mine?

Mine with the burning shape of a gun

Washed out

Soul of money

I couldn’t keep the fire

It’s not what I do

Vibrate

Life on the line

My racing heart

It’s all I find

Inside the sickness – rest!

Inside the sickness – rest!

If I sow a wind now

I will reap a storm

You saw me sliding away from the sun

And tomorrow who will come

And put their hand over mine?

Mine with the burning shape of a gun

If I sow a wind now (wind now)

I will reap a storm (will reap a storm)

You saw me sliding away from the sun (away from the sun)

And tomorrow who will come (who will come)

And put their hand over mine? (put their hand over mine?)

Mine with the burning (burning) shape of a gun

Buildings

Think of the days when I... had too much of the things we found

Resistance died down... fell on frozen soil

Bleed a little for a different day...

Going deeper to come away...

On the concrete sky... I saw the buildings rise

But keep our lights in shadow still

In the wind’s eye our reflection dies

Glass shrines of muted will

Dead is the time that I... see from here on out

This burial ground

One more down and buildings recoil

On the concrete sky... I saw the buildings rise

But keep our lights in shadow still

In the wind’s eye our reflection dies

Glass shrines of muted will

On the concrete sky... I saw the buildings rise

But keep our lights in shadow still

Leech

So solitary you have been

Your time starts to fade

Distorted sky

And you find me

Revolve inside

My blood is yours too

That’s what you say

It couldn’t be further from the truth

I find the soul in medication

All my loving has turned and washed away

You took my mind’s eye

You bring it wherever you go

How could you take away the burning I had?

My rage, static!

The closing line, whatever you say

It’s my heart you leech

You crushed the edge of symmetry

Insignificant

You are still

My words in your mouth

Lingering, spilling over

Revolve inside

My blood is yours too

That’s what you say

It couldn’t be further from the truth

I see – you don’t want liberation

You keep belonging to what’s not even here

You took my mind’s eye

You bring it wherever you go

How could you take away the burning I had?

My rage, static!

The closing line, whatever you say

It’s my heart you leech

You crushed the edge of symmetry

Ambitions

Hear my thin voice

Hear my words fall down

See my ambitions fade out

Had so much better times

At night, walking on the tracks

Change my perspective

Idle hands with wounds and cracks

Stale, ineffective

But past the veil the memories of things

Still so in love with you

So dense this strife, kicked the life

I feel this weight upon my heart

Indecision, sow the seed

Aspiration is never within reach

At night there is no other view

Sing a song for the ones who never made it

In the ward, under yellow lights

Under linden trees I am

Transparent and led to believe

That things would change if I go away

The lowering sky under which we go

So dense this strife, kicked the life

I feel this weight upon my heart

Hear my thin voice

Hear my words fall down

See my ambitions fade out

Had so much better times

Constant noise behind the overcoming

I had no choice but to rearrange

The scar is open

I am not allowed to understand

I take it as you’re not coming back

Indecision, sow the seed

Aspiration is never within reach

At night there is no other view

Sing a song for the ones who never made it

See my ambitions fade out

Had so much better times

Undo You

At life’s four-way stop

The tinge in your shadow drops

Fate pulls you down for the count

With broken promises to amount

Time seal our ways

To the heart of our hiding place

When all our lifelines have been crossed

Some scars can never heal from what we lost

To fail the test and depart the strong

Is to light the way where you have gone

For only our funerals to come

A requiem, in death a song

And it seems to be that consistency

Is not what lingers ahead

But a virtue of the dead

One of these days hours pass yet the night stays

When your spirit won’t turn anew

The world shuts down with no goodbye to undo you

Breathing, lifeless, we are not afraid to die

Breathe in life’s less – you’re afraid not to live

Breathing, lifeless, we are not afraid to die

Breathe in life’s less – you’re afraid not to live

To fail the test and depart the strong

Is to light the way where you have gone

For only our funerals to come

A requiem, in death a song

Lethean

How long is the pattern

going to speak for you?

How far can your voice reach,

your song below the night?

From my view I can see you

shudder where you are standing

in the vision, cyan blue.

Now October,

this time you won’t

be needing me...

To run along the freeway, to weigh

one’s heart against the oncoming dark.

You left me with the pills, we had plans but

you couldn’t make it through the trees.

What took you so long,

the high grass?

What took you so long?

Translate the fire, the venom’s

rush inside your heart.

How long can winter color

your every word?

And the skyline passes

the houses and the cities.

Hyperopia, carmine red!

Now this river,

this time I will...

To run along the freeway, to weigh

one’s heart against the oncoming dark.

You left me with the pills, we had plans but

you couldn’t make it through the trees.

What took you so long,

the high grass?

What took you so long?

First Prayer

In the prayer, can’t seem to find the right words

We stretch our dead arms for salvation

The foundation and the chemical need

Discordance put a veil over my creed

So sweet my fever now

Embraced by its tainted wings

Cup my hands and taste the spite

Immune to the truths you told

In the wake

Reverence in my every move

The wretched stars aligned for dead wisdom

The apparition rise with my every breath

Grasping for the one who lie beneath

You leave now, leave my void of prayers

Take these words to go with you

Take the splinters, see them fall

Idle stare, who will come forth from the dry wind

Find my blood and clothes and rust

Cleaned the past like water through stone

Earth did cast a shade over my sleep

So sweet my fever now

Embraced by its tainted wings

Cup my hands and taste the spite

Immune to the truths you told

You leave now, leave my void of prayers

Take these words to go with you

Take the splinters, see them fall

You leave now, leave my void of prayers

Take these words to go with you

Take the splinters, see them fall

Dead Letters

Vexation

Internal void

My dreams are getting darker and darker

Dim my lights

Time is frail

You shut my mind, oh well

Trapped and choked

Erased my trail

Split the chest

My heart couldn’t feel more pale

Only once could I see clear

Vexation

Internal void

My dreams are getting darker and darker and darker

This life before me

Its blood runs so still

The call of the bird

The song that makes the hours... go!

The change – inactive

Dead letters from these words

Dim my lights, one by one

The sordid pale

Broken run

Confined in escape on burnt grass

Below the crest lie in wait for the ending

Only once could I see clear

My dreams are getting darker and darker and darker

This life before me

Its blood runs so still

The call of the bird

The song that makes the hours go...