Soilwork - Sworn To A Great Divide (2007) by Soilwork (보컬) on maniadb.com

'Cause I won't
Take what I give
I've sworn I'm
Better within
Not the last time
It keeps coming back
Building knowledge
Gaining strength
A part of the Jekyll
A part of the Hyde

Fear itself is bigger
Than the seed
It bares resemblance
To the mouths that I feed

I'm sworn to a great divide
Sworn to a great divide

How will I turn
When it beckons to me?
Can I turn myself from home?
Well, it's time to decide
Is that really the key
All that matters
I can do this on my own

So now to
Complete this journey
Towards the back of my head
Inevitable, the disaster comes
As quickly as it came
Inevitable dangers
Inevitable crimes
Considered a victim
A wide open file

When the truth just hurts
You will confess, not deny
Incinerate, illuminate
Either way is just fine
Truth shall set you free and
I won't push it or let it be
Master the puppet or cut off
The strings self indulgence
What a beautiful thing

I'm sworn to a great divide
I'm sworn to a bottomless tide

How will I turn
When it beckons to me?
Can I turn myself from home?
Well, it's time to decide
Is that really the key
All that matters
I can do this on my own

(I can feel it's coming the way
Here it comes now, 1, 2, 3 GO!)

-Solo-

I'm sworn to a great divide
Sworn to a great divide

How will I turn
When it beckons to me?
Can I turn myself from home?
Well, it's time to decide
Is that really the key
All that matters
I can do this on my own

Please don't put it into words
'Cause I fear what you're thinking
It's gonna make it hurt
You better not try to make me
Believe in someone new

Faithless
On my way
Defenseless
From my heart
Won't you be
Heartless
Here with me
Breathless
From this night's misery
This night will
Start the exile
Run!

Now you tell me
What it was worth
Was it meant to be broken
The circle that wouldn't
Shed a single tear
And now you wanna redirect me
From the face of the earth
Not willing to share your time
Not near, not far
I'm just a spectator
Once loved
Just fear, just scars
A sheer introduction to
What I've lost
To what I've lost

Faithless
On my way
Defenseless
From my heart
Won't you be
Heartless
Here with me
Breathless
From this night's misery
This night will
Start the exile
Run!

To notice all the
Things I have to be

-Solo-

Faithless
On my way
Defenseless
From my heart
Won't you be
Heartless
Here with me
Breathless
From this night's misery
This night will
Start the exile
Run!

You have not seen
The last of me
I'm breeding thorns
I'll follow your
Footsteps down below
I will trust all my
Instincts and bring it home

Does it appeal to you now
As a part of the violation?
That wherever it takes you
You won't be able to choose

I will carry the message
It will swallow you whole

You ain't never
Gonna tell again
Caught as the founder
Of the emptiness
It must have
Made you stocked
Whenever my pride was
Taken, again and again

Again and again

Now put your envy in motion
One step at a time
I wanna see the closure
When your access is denied

I will bury the damage
I will drench the device

You ain't never
Gonna tell again
Caught as the founder
Of the emptiness
It must have
Made you stocked
Whenever my pride was
Taken, again and again

Now I want you to tell me
(Tell me again)
Do you see what I see?
'Cause it's so damn
Obvious to me

-Solo-

(Whenever a promise taken)
Won't you tell me
That it's raw?

You ain't never
Gonna tell again
Caught as the founder
Of the emptiness
It must have
Made you stocked
Whenever my pride was
Taken, again and again

You ain't never
Gonna tell again

So the idol you preached
Has turned to nothing
It was making your way
Through the dust
When searching
You never thought
It would give you up
Your beloved scapegoat
You never thought
It would interrupt
Your sweet escape

Those were the times when
You cranked it all up
You soared for the moment
Without wings to lift up...

I'm crossing that
Line with a state of mind
One more night missed out
As if I was blind to the fact
It won't wait...
Won't you carry me home?

Did you do it all for nothing
Or did it make you
Sure of something
No matter the subjection
Or the mystery of life
Was just put on hold

You will always treasure the things
That reject you and possess you
Breeding new life through
The eyes of the insane
And it all comes down to you

Those were the times when
You cranked it all up
You soared for the moment
Without wings to lift up
But tonight

I'm crossing that line
With a state of mind
One more night missed out
As if I was blind to the fact
It won't wait
Won't you carry me home?

Nothing can touch such
A mind in distress
Won't you find another
Bright solution
Crossing that river
Get away with what's left
Eternally stuck in the
Realm of confusion

-Solo-

But tonight
I'm crossing that line
With a state of mind
One more night missed out

As if I was blind to the fact
It won't wait
Won't you carry me home?

I'm crossing that line
With a state of mind
One more night missed out
As if I was blind to the fact
It won't wait

Won't you carry me home
Carry me...

I woke up that morning
Feeling slightly stressed
Getting in an urge to just
Bail out completely pissed

What did I know?
That night we made our way
Through the darkness
And the shame

Don't let yourself run away
Cause we have another
Game to play
That night you
Would make us say
'Fuck all the details
Get on with the show'

It doesn't matter if
The mind's at stake
Cause we had another
Round to make
There was no way
We could fail
Fuck all the details
Get on with the show

The Pittsburgh syndrome!

An hour of destruction
Intoxicated bliss
Moments of sobriety
Would cease to exist
A sudden turn
Would make that city
Burn with souls on fire
Relentless desire

Don't let yourself run away
Cause we have another
Game to play
That night you
Would make us say
'Fuck all the details
Get on with the show'

It doesn't matter if
The mind's at stake
Cause we had another
Round to make
There was no way
We could fail
Fuck all the details
Get on with the show

The Pittsburgh syndrome!

-Solo-

Don't let yourself run away
Cause we have another
Game to play
That night you
Would make us say
'Fuck all the details
Get on with the show'

It doesn't matter if
The mind's at stake
Cause we had another
Round to make
There was no way
We could fail
Fuck all the details
Get on with the show

Hide away from the restless
They're making trails
As they've failed once again
Behind that colony of
Well shaped nightmares
Is where the vermin depends

High and low
They'll bring
The tooth and nail
Fast or slow
Will you give me just
One damn second
To bail out of reach?
Before I'll do as you please
'Cause

Me eyes call for definition
They will capture the
Vile as they seek
Down low
Lurks the opposition
I just hope you
Won't categorize me

The truth is ugly
Raw and malignant
The message is
As cold as despair
'Cause you're no
Better than anyone
I've ever known
If only love could be real

High and low
They'll bring
The tooth and nail
Fast or slow
Will you give me just
One damn second
To bail out of reach?
Before I'll do as you please

Me eyes call for definition
They will capture the
Vile as they seek
Down low
Lurks the opposition
I just hope you
Won't categorize me

High and low
They'll bring
The tooth and nail
Fast or slow
Will you give me just
One damn second
To bail out of reach?
Before I'll do as you please

'Cause I might be wrong
Am I the only one
Who sees that
The damage is done
And it won't be long
Before I lose my faith
And make a run
Become like you

-Solo-

Me eyes call for definition
They will capture the
Vile as they seek
Down low
Lurks the opposition
I just hope you
Won't categorize me

High and low
They'll bring
The tooth and nail
Fast or slow
Will you give me just
One damn second
To bail out of reach?
Before I'll do as you please

High and low
They'll bring
The tooth and nail
Fast or slow
Will you give me just
One damn second
To bail out of reach?
Before I'll do as you please

Light, time is on my side
Well you better believe it's true
Cause you can't make me run

They call it life
Covered 'till it makes you blind
Do you wanna make the trip outside
Then you better start running

I won't let it distract me...

Out...
I can't believe it's true
You better just shut it...
Out...
They won't let me pull it through
Shut it... out
Can I push my luck on you
Don't shut me out...
Again...
'Cause you better shut it out...

Define...
The shelter as the time goes by
It will change 'till you can't decide
Now you're left without nothing...

I won't let you distract me...

Out...
I can't believe it's true
You better just shut it...
Out...
They won't let me pull it through
Shut it... out
Can I push my luck on you
Don't shut me out...
Again...
Cause you better shut it...

I feel it too, I feel it
I feel it too, no I can't see anything true...

I won't let it distract me...
I won't let you distract me...

Out...
I can't believe it's true
You better just shut it...
Out...
They won't let me pull it through
Shut it... out
Can I push my luck on you
Don't shut me out...
I can't believe it's true
They won't let me pull it through
Don't shut me out...
Out...
Don't shut me out...
Again...
Cause you better shut it...

The decision is mine
Will I remain the same
The cost of getting forced
Into something that
Used to be a game
The fragments of joy
The fragments of faith
I can still recall
When I feel that
I'm present, I just know
If there's anything
I should regret
I would've been told
Counting hours
Counting days
Will you listen
Will you play
Is there anyone
Who can get it done?
Taking me back to the place
That I once belonged
What if tomorrow
Was gently taken
Away from me
Away from me

Awaking the memories
Was I meant to get old
Repressing the agonies
Start breaking the mold

And the faith
Comes back to life
Still waiting for
A constant thing to react
But I will save myself
Some of the time
Keep aiming for
A constant thing to react

As the sleeper awakes

Mesmerized by the memories
That walk by my side
Shelter comes easy
As soon as sadness sets in
By an impulse the search will begin

Searching, collecting
All the things
I possess a detecting
The insight I've
Earned in distress
Learning, finally I know
How to breathe
Turning, turning away
From the greed
So unpleasant
It strikes whenever I call
So relentless
As I fall
A grand awakening
Will kill it all
Nevertheless
I'll be my own precious god
I can't resist
The things I've missed
And I'll make sure that it
Will last the time
I will insist
What if tomorrow
Was taken away from me
Away from me
Away from me

Awaking the memories
Was I meant to get old
Repressing the agonies
Start breaking the mold
(Start breaking the mold)

And the faith
Comes back to life
Still waiting for
A constant thing to react
But I will save myself
Some of the time
Keep aiming for
A constant thing to react

As the sleeper awakes

Pay no attention
For what it's worth
'Cause whatever I say
Turns into dirt
Here comes the sane
Here comes the remains
(The remains)
Ball and chain
Here comes the remains
(The remains)
Here comes the sane
Here comes the remains
(The remains)
Ball and chain
It's all the same

Since when did my
Life have a meaning?
Since when did I
Have a choice?

To make my way through
This ravaged landscape
As a disposable toy

The sun will embark
With a trembling notion
Claiming I once had it all

Time, giving it time
We are still miles apart
Insatiable
It's just fine
Aware of what's mine
Can't make it more obvious
The snare broken by lust

Since when did my
Life have a meaning?
Since when did I
Have a choice?

To make my way through
This ravaged landscape
As disposable toy

You've had your countless hours
I've had my moments of grace
But every time it devours
It'll catch that ugly face

The sun will embark
With a trembling notion
Claiming I once had it all

I reach for defiance
I reach for despair
There is nothing
That can keep me
From making the
Ultimate sacrifice
All I want, all I would
Ever dare to accomplish
Is in the hands
Of the deceiver

-Solo-

Time, giving it time
We are still miles apart
Insatiable
It's just fine
Aware of what's mine
Can't make it more obvious
The snare broken by lust

Giving it time
We are still miles apart
Insatiable
It's just fine

Leaning against what's next to me
Have no fear, won't see
Will it eat me up or bring me down
I'll gradually make up my mind
My mind

Revolution within myself
I'm puzzled, still overwhelmed
By the stories that you would tell
They always send me something
Revolution within myself
Within myself

Let me give my best
I won't depend
This time I will make
Another plan to find
What's left and nothing less
Still I won't tread
I'll find my own way
To make it all worthwhile

Call, call on me darkness
Wait, wait on me now
Won't you say
Say that I'm sorry
'Cause I won't wait

I've found another form
It's breeding life
It must have been there
The whole time when I was dead
'Cause I was pledged to emptiness
And now I've let myself
To see all the things
I just didn't expect

Still I remember
Still I repent
I'd walk through the never
Despite my descent

Reborn, acknowledging the part
of me that once was lost
I have repressed, too many years
My utopia was within my grasp

Doomed in absentia
Left to be sentenced
Still rising to cherish
All the things I have left

-Solo-

Call, call on me darkness
Wait, wait on me now
Won't you say
Say that I'm sorry
'Cause I won't wait

Here lies the quest
Right upon you
It's time to make a stand
Now, whether you like it or not
You better deal with it once again
This time it's essential
This time it's for real
In life there's just questions
Successively wasting your time
A gradual restraint of the mind

I let my feelings show
Don't know where I'm at
It doesn't give you
The right to use me
I know I'm better than that

My emptiness fills the holes
Of your predictable questions
So give me no lectures
Don't you sell me your kind

20 more miles in the rain
20 more getting drained
I can't redeem myself
But I still can figure it out
20 miles in the rain
20 more getting sane
I shouldn't reveal myself
But I still could figure it out

Don't let me go through
This with nothing
Nothing to salvage
A possible fall
Though I still have
My conscience to guide me
It concerns me enough to believe

I let my feelings show
Don't know where I'm at
It doesn't give you
The right to use me
I know I'm better than that

My emptiness fills the holes
Of your predictable questions
So give me no lectures
Don't you sell me your kind

20 more miles in the rain
20 more getting drained
I can't redeem myself
But I still can figure it out
20 miles in the rain
20 more getting sane
I shouldn't reveal myself
But I still could figure it out

-Solo-

20 more miles in the rain
20 more getting drained
I can't redeem myself
But I still can figure it out
20 miles in the rain
20 more getting sane
I shouldn't reveal myself
But I still could figure it out

Take the angels away
The only ones who knew
Already know my name

Time we know for a war
To be the only one who ever knew the way

Don't be a martyr it will be alright

I can see you run out
But still you make the most of making the most

I don't want no body to haunt me
Every time I see your face in the night
I know
It's all the voice in my head

Time time it's only time
I feel the colorful things that I did
I know its all the voice in my head

Take the anger away
So many come so many seem to go that way

It's on now
Digging a hole in the soul
To see the confines of the mental overload

You melted it all down

I don't want no body to haunt me
Every time I see your face in the night
I know
It's all the voice in my head

But still you make the most of making the most
I can see you've run out
But still you make the most of making the most

I'm the result of an ageless redemption
A body with a heartless convention
A face with a smile that's been shut down for years
Facing the facts of my generation...cause
I'm a sinner, a winner, my blood is getting thinner
T might as well get another life cause I've been there
I know what's been said and I know what's been done
Don't you tell me I'm the only one, cause i...

I will be there looking for something
Coming straight out of nothing
Just killing time
Facing those wall so black, so vile
I really am waiting for nothing
Coming straight out of something
Just killing time
Facing those wall so black, so vile

Now put your trust in a solid machine
Filled with words that have necer been seen
A plague to insatialbe souls left to die
Charged with mankind's raw energy
I rumble, I strumble
My memory starts to crumble
I can't refuse what's haunting my dreams
Have I stumbled?
On my way to a created perfection
I penetrate the gates of rejection

I will be there looking for something
Coming straight out of nothing
Just killing time
Facing those wall so black, so vile
I really am waiting for nothing
Coming straight out of something
Just killing time
Facing those wall so black, so vile

There's no determination,
echoes of a failed gallery
There's yet extermination,
inside us all screaming

I really am waiting for nothing
Coming straight out of something
Just killing time
Facing those wall so black, so vile
I will be there looking for something
Coming straight out of nothing
Just killing time
Facing those wall so black, so vile

Now I'm one with the flies
rising up as the creature cries
sucking up, breathing stops...
-For the very last time!
Can you see it, can you reach it,
as it climbs the top of you spine
such a healer, can't belive it
I'm left so far behind
Born to please, to release
wide open and unredefined
crashing down in a velvet hall,
side by side
narcotic-injected, erotic-respected
-It suits your kind, cause you're one with the flies
can you feel it, can you cease it
as it crawls to the top of your spine
such a healer, self redeemer
-I keep thinking that seems like it's not fair...

(reach out) and choke with me reach out
cause it's killing me...
Down! Bring down this sheer submission
Down! You know you have to bring it...
Down! Deranged from a mind pollution
Down! Pitch black but unrefined

Such a healer, i can't believe it
-I keep thinking that seems like it's not fair...
(reach out)and choke with me reach out
cause it's killing me...
Down! Bring down this sheer submission
Down! You know you have to bring it...
Down! Deranged from a mind pollution
Down! Pitch black but unrefined

Deceiver, believer -Don't need you tonight
You've spilled enough blood, you've wasted my life...

-You know you have to bring it...
Down! Bring down this sheer submission
Down! Deranged from a mind pollution
Down! And screw that common sense...
Down! Fight back those limitations
Down! And screw that common sense!

Searching for power,who is to blame ? You weak little
bastard - bound to symbols of pain,Hiding in shadows,a
pungent smell,You haven't decide your own fate cause
your story of life is too bitter to tell Your dying eyes with a
cowards reflection,Heading for the true direction, forward
to die !

[Chorus]
Bastard Chain, with souls so lame the bastards chain Bastard
Chain, with souls so lame A Bastards chain

So you say your mind belongs to them ? - turned upside
down again and again and again Feel ashame ,feel ashame,
Yourself to blame,yourself to blame - Only yourself...Only
yourself you can blame! only yourself you can blame ! [x3]

[Chorus]

Helpless you will devour,everything that comes before your
eyes Citizens of restless power,never let your scorn rule
your fate...Your fate!! ...always dragging you down,to the
ground,A disgrace,a disgrace,your "masterpiece",your
"masterrace" - only yourself, only yourself you can
blame
Only yourself you can blame
Only yourself you can blame
Only yourself you can blame

[Chorus]

Hey!Won't you tell me your name and justify your way of
thinking Walking the stairs of the manipulated ones - only
yourself,...only yourself you can blame!! Only yourself you
can blame ! [x3]

Call it liberation or frustration,
As it hits like a bomb
Tearing you apart as you're first in line,
Entering the zone
Watch how it runs, a nerve wrecking resistance
Watch how it burns, a venomous script's getting formed
You've traveled a long way to get here
And now it's waking you up..
Waking you up
Walk straight for a final solution
Walk straight, don't you be so cold
Walk straight with a clear resolution
I'll state my case and never turn
Watch how it runs, watch how it burns
And it's all a deception
Break it and learn, there's no return
For a presence like mine..
You've traveled a long way to get here...
It's getting all so clear now, all the
Things I know
An elapse of conscious progress will last forevermore
My courageous insanity follows
An infinite time
I'll be attaching the world
On my shoulders
Without a look inside
Inside
Walk straight for a final solution
Walk straight, don't you be so cold
Walk straight with a clear resolution
I'll state my case and never turn
Walk straight for a final solution
Walk straight, don't you be so cold
Walk straight with a clear resolution

Just pick one and make it all come through
infiltrated and fucked up for years
and now it just suddenly turn to you
in a second, in no time
rise up, get up, stay up, fed up
with the brand new sensation
I'll bring back what's mine
No, sense for sanity
No, sense for clarity
No, sense for dignity
just ask once and it's coming straight to you
-overrated and blinded by fear
insperation turns to dust as you've had your share
rise up, get up, stay up, fed up
with all the illumination
I'll take back what's mine
No, sense for sanity
No, sense for clarity
No, sense for dignity

And I say (now gimme your best shot)
wait a lifetime to pull it off
and I say (is that all that you've got?)
wake up in no time in blow it off...

No use for frustration, if you can't get through
and you think your pride will do
to get to your spot
rise up, get up, stay up, fed up
with the brand new sensation
No, sense for sanity
No, sense for clarity
No, sense for dignity
No, sense for empathy
No, sense for sanity
Will stop you now...

(repeat chorus)
Now gimme your best shot (repeat)
(repeat first verse)

> Inside you, I feel you from inside, satisfaction built on sin
Condamn everything who says what is wrong
Drown in my eyes, no need to deny I scream!
Feel my devil inside you, gaining!
Reaching diabolic speed!
I reach, I feel you're lost
Millions of flames in your eyes
I command the gods of time
Make this dream never end
Imagination?
Evil salvation?
Red light city makes you burn Oceans of immortal speed
I'm the hand sweeping over midnights land
...So sell your soul and be mine!
I decide if you will rise
Total control! I'm in your veins
I reach, I grip your mind
Never surrender

As we speak...
-the stable table turns
As we speak...
-I should have known we're burned
And I guess I'll never never learn which of those faces
who makes it all turn
As we speak...
-I'm going deeper down
As we speak...
-With a terrible sound
a feeble holy bastard son
has it only just begun?

[Chorus]

I turn away.....fading out alone
Was a lifetime worth it all?
...fading out...fading out alone
Ass we speak we turn to stone

As we speak...
A young man looses his mind
As we speak...
He kills what's next in line...
A broken down mother ask herself why
-Is this the end of her precious time?
As we speak...
-a conscience leaves without a trace
a silent departure to a silent place
what do we know about the anger that starts to grow

Don't despair, time will heal your torment
Don't you dare, spend your days in hell
So beware, faith will bring you treason
While you stare... Oh!

[1st Lead Frenning, 2nd Lead Wichers]

I turn away....fading out alone
Was a lifetime worth it all?
...fading out...fading out alone
As we speak we turn to stone [Repeat]
As a lifetime turns to stone...