Orestea : Shadows of Yesterday

Gothic Metal / United-Kingdom
(2009 - Self-Produced)
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1. SHADOWS OF YESTERDAY

I take the time to come and lead myself right to your door
And now I've found you I just don't know what I came here for
Whats a lie? whats the truth? Whats becoming of you?
And where'd you leave all those things that I adored - That I adored

The words you've spoken somethings broken
Nothings the same - I've never seen you this way
Laughing at me, kills me to see
Help me by staying, Help me to say.

You look like
You once did
But you feel like a stranger to me
Time will come
And time will go
But you're just a shadow of yesterday

I crossed the line to try and dignify your brand new world
And now I'm here I dont know how I'm gonna let you go
What has changed, between us? finding it hard to trust
you when you're letting everyone around take all of you - all of you

You'll never make it lie and fake it
Nothings the same - I never thought I'd see you this way
You're laughing at me kills me to see
Help me by staying, Help me to say

You look like
You once did
But you feel like a stranger to me
Time will come
And time will go
But you're just a shadow of yesterday

The words you're speaking now they're weak
Reminds me of a time when we were
Suffocated all so jaded, tell me I'm the only one
To see you crying felt like dying
Now it feels like you're trying to push me away
To push me away.

You look like
You once did
But you feel like a stranger to me
And time will tell
God only knows
Why you're just a shadow of yesterday


2. DRIVE

Show me something beautiful to believe in
A prospect greater than my own
Take away the promise of your guidance give me a hand to hold.

Break the promises, and make me worthy of the thing I want the most

Give me something critical to live by
A prophet greater than your word
Cut your losses set me free my desire will teach me.

Teach me how to run
And teach me how to fall
Teach me how to not waste a moment at all
I like the way she looks - paradise just for a while

Take the only thing worth giving in for
Dont judge me blacken my name
A hundred reasons why I am not the one to blame
sometimes we have to do this - and you drove me to it, you drove me to it.

Teach me how to run
And teach me how to fall
Teach me how to not waste a moment at all
I like the way she looks - paradise just for a while

Is it sick of me to watch her bleeding?
Torture her without a meaning?
Pity me as Im the one abused by you.
And your memory
Haunts me as I sleep
Set me free oh set me free
you drove me to it

Teach me how to run
And teach me how to fall
Teach me how to not waste a moment at all
I like the way she looks - paradise just for a while

You drove me to it


3. WATCH IT FADE

Picked apart like broken glass
Focus on the smallest shard
Til theres nothing to leave behind.

You're worn away and torn apart
Pieces of your heart
You never really thought they'd find.

Turn around look what they're taking from you
Its not too late to
Put your mind upon a pedastal and watch it fade away.

Closest to yourself
You never knew anything else
At peace with your hands gripped around your throat

Turn around look what they're taking from you
Its not too late to
Put your mind upon a pedastal and watch it fade away.

A promise to yourself, you've broken everybody else
You say you care, you know you dont.
You say you'll do it you know you really wont.

So turn around look what they're taking from you
Its not too late to
Put your mind upon a pedastal and watch it fade away.


4. THE DESERTED

Forget the smile to hide the pain
Please sir, help me find a way.
To regain, the strength to say
That everything is not ok.
Please can you stay? Always.

(Admit defeat was not for me admit defeat was never mine)

Forget the lies, I hide behind
I'd give my life my soul my dreams.
Just to go down - gracefully.
Is this too much to say?
I guess its not the same.

We are deserted we are not deserving
Of this fate
Conquer me, release me from this shallow grave.
Only I could fall this way.

Forgive the absent truth
The one thats never there
A way to leave, a way to fight, a way to live
But not a way to die
Is this too much to ask for?
I guess its not the same.

We are deserted we are not deserving
Of this fate
Conquer me, release me from this shallow grave.
Only I could fall this way.

We are deserted we are not deserving
Of this fate
Conquer me, release me from this shallow grave.
Only I could fall..

We are deserted we are not deserving


5. TO SURVIVE

I sacrificed my pride to bring you everything and deify you
Now that the ties I've wrapped around myself will break
Another life I cant foresake.

Seperation never failed
Dedication to a sound
Determination to decide my own fate

I - I have crossed the faded line
You Hide - What was lost not to be found
The Lie - that you live most everyday
Oh Why? - to survive.

Fly, til the time I've set aside for compramise, to sit beside you.
Try, to abide by binds for regulations sake
The only habit left to make

Seperation never failed
The times when you were not around
Made me determined to decide my own fate

I - I have crossed the faded line
You Hide - What was lost not to be found
The Lie - that you live most everyday
Oh Why? - to survive.

I - lie to survive

I - I have crossed the faded line
You Hide - What was lost not to be found
The Lie - that you live most everyday
Oh Why? - to survive.

I - lie to survive, to survive.


6. AWAY

Throw me, into the fire cant control this desire
to cut the ties that bind me each and every day.

But then you're so far

Away (How can I hear you you're so far away)
Away (How can I see you you're so far away_
Oh how can I reach you you're so far away
Away.

Break me, down til I'm gone make me feel like I'm wrong
to want to hold on to every word you're saying.

Because you're so far

Away (How can I feel you you're so far away)
Away (How can I know you you're so far away_
Oh how can I reach you you're so far away
Away.

Away (How can I save you you're so far away)
Away (How can I love you you're so far away_
Oh how can I reach you you're so far away
Away.

You're
So Far
So Far Away

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