Katatonia : The Longest Year

Gothic Doom / Sweden
(2010 - Peaceville Records)
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1. THE LONGEST YEAR

In the nights of old I've always wished
In the longest year that had me down
And I would freeze if you ever asked me
That was my own way

Confront the guilt and try to overcome
Do not go away
I'm not there yet

Confront the guilt and try to overcome
Do not go away
I'm not there yet

I can see fire
But I fall behind
When I give up my thoughts redefine (will defy)
How cold is the flame
Of our compromising future
How cold is the sun

City lights are fading still
Becoming the sky so white
But I'm in the dark of this our new day
This is my own way

Find
This way will hold me down
How cold is the sun

I can see fire
But I fall behind
When I give up my thoughts redefine (will defy)
How cold is the flame
Of our compromising future
How cold is the sun


2. SOLD HEART

When my heart stops
Will my wings unfold ?
Did you know that I had no one but you?
When my eyes close
Will your blood turn older?
Did you know that I had no one but you?

In the snow veil
Where the ring of promise felt
In the cool, white air
One stood abiding
When the road turns
Will my ghost find freedom?
Did you know that I had nothing?
So I...

Sold my love
Forgot the vow
It feels like nothing comes to mind
I pull the weight
And sing
That there's a new cloud over my grave
Now I know
That it'd kill me when I could not have you
Sold my heart


3. DAY AND THEN THE SHADE (FRANK DAEFULT REMIX)

I will rise
To dreams of freedom
And avow
To return the treason that came under your reign
The day and then the shade
I have slept
Inside the season that froze within my grasp

All my fears come into view
There must be an end soon
When every waking hour
Is part of the lie

I will rise
Over glass cathedrals
And let go
With my eyes resting upon the nearing dark
The day and then the shade
I have slept
Within the reason that kept me so remote

Make a brand new vow
In the heat of the evening
The darkness swarms
I was nothing, ever
But red like the sun
Dying down over the freeway
Is the brand new sky
Over the mountain ridge


4. IDLE BLOOD (LINJE 14)

You there the bringer of my despair
You are stagnation of hope and wealth
Oh you personify loss and greed of mine
And you hide until my fear reappear

The love for life once bright
I'm burning fuse the only flame I have
From spiral down the sky
The seed is growing my misery

These wounds have killed time
We struggle to climb
Idle blood
Black state of mind
All my dreams left behind

You claim to be my long-absent friend
You are the curse in
You come with the dark night of the soul
But I'm turning my back on you
You know I do

The love for life once bright
I'm burning fuse the only flame I have
From spiral down this curve
The seed is growing my misery

These wounds have killed time
We struggle to climb
Eye of the blind
Black state of mind
All my dreams left behind

Eye of the blind
Oh the black state of mind
All my dreams left behind

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