PIONEERS

Elasar:
I BREATHE / WE BUILD
I LEAD AND FOLLOW
EVERY TRAIL THE LEADS TO YOU
SOMEPLACE FAIR AND SOMEPLACE TRUE

I BREATHE / WE BUILD
I walk alone

I LEAD AND FOLLOW
With wraith and nightmare

EVERY PATH WE PAVE WITH STONE
Every step another fight

WE WILL MAKE IT ON OUR OWN
Someplace cold in darkest night

Ilzur:
I walk alone
With wraith and nightmare
Every path with deeper loss
Madness wanders into us

(REFRAIN):
Tell me I’m the sire of a shadow
Tell me I’m the liar lost to shallow shores
Tell me I’m the sire of a marrow
Poisoned by the blood of yesteryears wars

TELL ME I’M THE SIRE OF THE DAWN!
TELL ME I’M THE FIRE THAT LIGHTS ONE’S DAYS!
TELL ME I’M THE SIRE UPOIN
A NEW BEGUN ANEW AGAIN!

Elasar:
STAND UP MY FRIENDS FOLLOW ME TO FOREVER
WHEREVER MY FRIENDS, FOLLOW ME THROUGH THE DARK!
STAND UP MY FRIENDS FOLLOW ME TO FOREVER
WHEREVER MY FRIENDS, FOLLOW ME TO THE HARK!
I HEAR ANGELS IN SUFFERING!
I HEAR GODS FALL! A RECKONING!
TO LIES THAT THEY TOLD LONG AGO!

Ilzur:
Lie low my friends, this will not be forever,
Wherever my friends, tread light in the mist
Lie low my friends, this will not be forever,
Wherever my friends, keep hope in a wish!
I feel horrors! They’re beckoning!
I feel terror ‘neath darkening
Off the road and into the unknown!

(REFRAIN)

FIGHT BY MY SIDE, TAKE A CHANCE ON THE GLORY!
WHEREVER WE RIDE, GOOD SPIRITS ON THE ROAD!
FIGHT BY MY SIDE, TAKE A CHANCE ON THE GLORY!
WHEREVER WE RIDE, GOOD DEEDS WILL UNFOLD
I SEE ANGELS INSIDE OF US!
I SEE WINGS SPREAD TO CARRY US
OUT OF EXILE AND INTO EXALT!

Submit don’t succumb, we are the unholy
Wherever we stalk, cursed and alone
Submit don’t succumb, we are the unholy
Wherever we stalk, ungodly we roam!
I watch angels beyond our reach
I watch silver and sanguine beseech
All but the lost, I am, that we are
Angels are a step too far!

(REFRAIN):

I could not feel what you do
You could not see what I see
My eyes are black, my soul is too
Late last night you dreamt of me
I cannot say what I tell you
Lines I write beneath the word
My heart is black, but tethers me true
Late last night you wept for me

TALES NOT TOLD TO OUR CHILDREN
I COULD TELL THEM ALL TO FEAR
LIVING KETTLES CALLING CAULDRONS BLACK,
AS OTHERS FAR FROM HERE
I CAN NOT REDEEM THE DAMNED
I CAN NOT BREAK CHAINS OF STEEL
BUT I CAN BE MORE THAN I AM
I BELIEVE ANGELS ARE REAL

I could not feel what you do
I COULD NOT SAY WHAT I TELL YOU

I slip in skins of fur and fang
I SLIP IN SILKS ON MIRRORED WING

I hunt and hunger angels like you
I MARCH AND HUNGER FAME AND FORTUNE

Mortuary bells will clang!
REVELATORY BELLS WILL RING!

I hear angels in requiem!

HARBINGERS OF DREAMS CONDEMNED!

Angels in lullaby!

HARBINGERS OF FADING LIGHT!

A mass for the first and the last of the land!
A MASS FOR THE FIRST AND THE LAST OF THE LAND!