Lighthouses for the Dead (The Isle of Cinder II) Lyrics


I looked into the world

An island of cinders, uncoiled

O'er tender waters, unspoiled

Below my feet, land so gray

By my own hands I was its prey

Hunted by a world tired of hope

An island snake

Gave into despair

Waters engulf her

Mighty hands ready to take

Temple down

forsaken now

I taint its shores with blood

A choir of lamentations misunderstood

I murder what is left of you

Burring bones o'er waters to renew

I prevail over the serpent

Black and deep

Rock shatters as I sleep

Under the ancient current

Alone and scattered in dread

Sons and daughters of loss

Our hearts are lighthouses for the dead

Try and come across

The vile tempests that entwine

All the words we have shared

I look into the distance

She swallows me

Dark waters engulf me

Down by the tides of gravity

To bury at long last

what I thought was given free

I taint its shores with blood

A choir of lamentations misunderstood

I murder what is left of you

Burring bones o'er waters to renew

My temple is down

forsaken now on an island of ghosts

These macabre and unholy hosts

Tear my Tower down

As the fool wears his crown

I taint its shores with blood

A choir of lamentations misunderstood

I murder what is left of you

Burring bones o'er waters to renew