Paradise Down

South

Heart on the Rock

My back was to the wallMy head was in the skyI hunted for your heart,You save me from the stormTook me to the eyeStar of molten iceSo low, so highSo high, so lowIt seems that we must breakBetween destiny and fateThe heart upon the rockThe rose upon the crossIt seems that we must breakBetween destiny and fateThe rose becomes the crossThe heart becomes a rockWe walked the windswept fieldsClimbed castles to the skyClawed down to the cave,I took you to the peaksFilled you up with starsWe broke upon the waves,So low, so highSo high, so low

Debt on Credit

Your house is like a churchThe altar of the mirrorCathedral to your vanity,Your mind is like a wheelA million turns a billionLogical insanity Alert! Alert!A red alert!It hurts, it hurts!A red alert!You think you are flyingSailing on a golden rayIt’s just debt on creditPraying for another day,You raise your banners highAnd call for all to riseThe trumpets of fraternity,Just like the Bible signsThe final battle cryTime trumps eternity,Alert! Alert!A red alert!It hurts, it hurts!A red alert!

Paradise down South

I found a shadow in my heart, the desecration of mysoulI thought I’d find some paradise down southBut then I slipped into the blackest hole,It was a vision and a dream, it was a vision of deceitI thought I saw but I was blindThe victim of a reverieBut it was always the same for meIt was always the same for meMisery, Misery MeThe angels dance around me singingMisery me, O Misery sweetThe things you love will make you weepO Misery, Misery MeI paint the light of the sky,I turned to shade, I turned to stoneI took the dark and lonely roadI thought I’d find some paradise out WestBut then I sailed into the storm,It was a vision and a dream, it was a vision of deceitI thought I saw but I was blindThe victim of a memory,O if you look in your heart, if you look in your heartWhat do you find?O if you look in the heart, if you look in my heartWhat do you find, most of the time?

Darkness Over Eden

I must confess to youI secretly love AmericaDespite the uglinessAnd everything about you we despise,To Paris and to RomeLondon, BerlinMy heart belongsBut history has shown all empires must decline,They joined the dance of fate and chanceThey joined the dance of fate and chanceDarkness over EdenWe think we’re in control but the light is coming downIn darkness over EdenThe sun will give you life but the moon will tear yourheartWith emotion, deep emotionWith emotion bathed in blueAll the movie starsIn all their shining carsSerrate my smileCos in the midst of this, I know what you hideMarilyn, Marlene, Betty and LolitaSeducing eyesAnd Leni Riefenstahl Still you seize my mindYou joined the dance of fate and chance

Garden of the Rain

Trials of my mind take meTo the edge of life Could break meBut from this pathThere’s no returnThe die is cast,Crimes of the heart Disgrace meInto the darkest part to turn meIn sadness all seems more realThese wings bear downI saw you standing in the garden of the rainI saw you gleaming in the aura of my painI thought that life would never really be the sameTo find that love would burn but never really shineagain,Cold wind of night embrace meI feel the edge of the knife c-cuttingBut in your kiss That bloom of bliss Wilts me insideCalling me downArising I see the stars above sinkingThis sorrow bears all life awayTurning prayers to fire

Silent Symphony

If all you have is what will bring you downAnd all the paths of life burn to the ground,In the silent empty spaces of your mindSo hollow in the humming of the night,It’s all a mysteryTwinning fate and destinyIt’s all a veil of dreamsSpiraling in entropy,It’s all a mysteryA tapestry of sympathyIt’s all fatalityA carnival of tragedyDon’t go spinning through the worldMy loveAnd don’t go twisting all my wordsAnd seek the things that make you feel live It’s a blazing sky and a silent symphony,I crown myself in the last remains of prideAnd I sing to you of omens from on highBeneath the crashing birthing sea of timeDo we rise upon the waves before we drown?

Vagrant Heart

Pure and stillA starry crucibleBlooming like a field nowBurning like a sun,Magical, irresistibleRaise you up and cut you downEverything you areLight your soul and light your mindAll those visions turn you blindIn your heart you are still breathing now,Turn your temples into holesAll that wisdom leaves you coldVagrant hearts are all we leave behind,Rising downMeridian of timeThe past dies with the future nowA river of denialBut here we areLike children in the darkWake the day and praise the nightLegacy of star-dust

Story of Lament

Rising on a lowGoing down on a highReaping a harvest of stone,All we’ve thought and readAnd all we’ve heard and saidAll coming down from the skyAll coming down from the skyBut tell me will you follow meThrough the spacesWhere the end shall be?O tell me will you follow meAre we sailingAre we sinking deep?Tell me Will you follow me?Gone forever, gone forever nowTell me A story of lament,The king became a foolAnd a hero courting doomAnd the seer weaving visions for the blindA temple turned to flamesAnd a sanctuary turned graveWe’ve seen this all beforeIt will come again

Black Hole of Light

Know your heart, know it deepSo the sages say to meReceive the light into your mind,Darkness waits, take the baitPull the monster from the waveDesire is a temple made of painMade of graceThe lies that we tell, the truths that we hideThe dreams we pervert, the wrongs that we rightThe lies that we tell, the truths that we hideThe dreams we pervert, the fault that underliesBlack hole of lightPlease don’t say love will last forever Please don’t pray for what will never beThis world was made in sorrowThese tears were made in bloodAnd if see the light tomorrowWill we just burn it out?Burn it out again,Wound your heart, wound it deepSo the sages say to me Take up the cross like you were ChristWay to hell, way to bliss, wade into the wildernessWhere all the demons are sublimeInfernal and divine

Wreath Made Hollow

I set upon this courseBorne of hope and lossSeeing and deceivingBetween the lies I forgedIn the temple of the windOn the altar of the stormWhere all gods are blown apartEternal and destroyedCursed by dreams and live by shadowsCross of life may lead the wayGolden wreath of time made hollowStone of life may bleed againThe twilight in my mindOpen up the skyThe twilight in your eyesSet the world on fire,I look upon our natureA world of tooth and clawRefined design of cruelty Deception at its core,No beauty without truthNo glory without griefThe scepter is the lightning staffThe velvet hand of steel

Dark Romance

Don’t catch me if I fallGravity’s a more honest wayTo grow into the soulAnd bind the ruinsLike a golden scytheCut into the nether skyDrown in flesh and fireThe martyr of desireThis is dark romance and I am stillCaptured by the love that rages blindThis is dark romance and I am stillTrying to raise a temple out of lies,Inflict you with my prideShed my tears around youCrushed into the nightGraven bitter ireBroken back to lifeRomeo in solitude Exiled from the lightA way to raise the dying

Lone Wolf Cry

Look upon this world of secretsLook upon this work of demonsTell me what you won’t believe, Crescents rising, crosses fallingMartyrs dying, Heroes mourning Is it the war that makes the peace?Hunter riding in the night And the moon is rising highIn every triumph there is grief,Hunter rising in the nightAnd the moon is riding highBeauty now must bleedLike the lightning in the skyFalling softly and so fleetingIn the morning you will see it dieLike the thunder in our heartsTolling bells from broken steeplesIn the morning hear the lone wolf cryCould it be how could it be, my love?Look upon this world of shadowsStrung upon this earthly momentLike a crooked crucifix, Legacy of truth and terrorHistory made by amnesiaFrom that wound we’re never free

Paradise Down SouthRecorded 2011-2012 at Big Sound Studios, Adelaide, Australia.

Produced by Ostara and David Lokan.

All music/lyrics by Richard Leviathan except Havamal, lyrics, traditional, music, Kyron Lazaruse-bow on Dark Romance courtesy of Douglas P.

Blessings to: JEA, Maximilian, Sebastian, Austin McLean, Marco Deplano, Aldo Chimenti, Ben Kapps, Max & Antonella,Morten Lybecker, Rachel Haywire, Erin Powell

We seek our way to grace, even if that be a grace without God

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