HIM : Dark Light

Gothic Metal / Finland
(2005 - Sire Records)
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Lyrics

1. VAMPIRE HEART

You can't escape the wrath of my heart
Beating to your funeral song
All faith is lust for hell regained
And love dust in the hands of shame

Let me bleed you this song of my heart deformed
And lead you along this path in the dark
Where I belong until I feel your warmth

Hold me like you held on to life
When all fears came alive and entombed me
Love me like you loved the sun
Scorching the blood in my vampire heart

I am the thorns in every rose
You've been sent by hope
I am the nightmare waking you up
From the dream of a dream of love

Let me weep you this poem as heaven's gates close
And paint you my soul scarred and alone
Waiting for your kiss to take me back home

Hold me like you held on to life
When all fears came alive and entombed me
Love me like you loved the sun
Scorching the blood in my vampire heart

Hold me like you held onto life
(Like you held onto life)
(When all fears came alive and entombed me)
My vampire heart
Love me like you loved the sun
(Love me like you loved the sun)
(Scorching the blood in my)
My vampire heart


2. RIP OUT THE WINGS OF A BUTTERFLY

Heaven ablaze in our eyes
We're standing still in time
The blood on our hands is the wine
We offer as sacrifice

Come on and show them your love
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For your soul, my love
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For your soul

This endless mercy mile
We're crawling side by side
With hell freezing over in our eyes
Gods kneel before our crime!

Come on and show them your love
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For your soul, my love
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For your soul

Rip out the wings of a butterfly
Don't let go
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For you soul

Come on and show them your love
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For your soul, my love
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For your soul

Rip out the wings of a butterfly
Don't let go
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For you soul

Rip out the wings of a butterfly
Don't let go, my love
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For your soul


3. UNDER THE ROSE

I dream of the winter in my heart turning to spring
While the ice gives way under my feet
And so I drown with the sun

I've been burning in water and drowning in flame
To prove you wrong and scare you away
I admit my defeat and want back home
In your heart under the rose

I open my eyes with a sigh of relief
As the warmth of summer's sunlight dances around me
And I see you with dead leaves in your hands

I've been burning in water and drowning in flame
To prove you wrong and scare you away
I admit my defeat and want back home
In your heart under the rose

I've been burning in water and drowning in flame
To prove you wrong and scare you away
I admit my defeat and want back home
In your heart under the rose
Your heart under the rose


4. KILLING LONELINESS

Memories sharp as daggers
Pierce into the flesh of today
The suicide of love took away all that matters
And buried the remains in an unmarked grave in your heart

With the venomous kiss you gave me, I'm killing loneliness
With the warmth of your arms, you saved me
Oh, I'm killing loneliness with you
The killing loneliness that turned my heart into a tomb
I'm killing loneliness

Nailed to the cross together
As solitude begs us to stay
Disappear with a lie forever
And denounce the power of death
Over our souls and secret brings us in to start a war

With the venomous kiss you gave me, I'm killing loneliness
With the warmth of your arms, you saved me
Oh, I'm killing loneliness with you
The killing loneliness that turned my heart into a tomb
I'm killing loneliness
I'm killing loneliness

I'm killing loneliness

With the venomous kiss you gave me
I'm killing loneliness (Killing loneliness)
With the warmth of your arms, you saved me
Oh, I'm killing loneliness with you
I'm killing loneliness that turned my heart into a tomb
I'm killing loneliness

I'm killing loneliness with you
I'm killing loneliness with you
Killing loneliness with you
Killing loneliness with you

Killing loneliness
Killing loneliness


5. DARK LIGHT

Shivers run through the spine
Of hope as she cries
The poison tears of a life denied
In the raven black night
Holding hands with

Dark light
Come shine in her lost heart tonight
And blind
All fears that haunt her with your smile
Dark light

In oblivious garden
The bodies of fire
Writhing towards the angel defiled
To learn how to die
In peace with her God

Dark light
Come shine in her lost heart tonight
And blind
All fears that haunt her with your smile
Dark light

Dark light
Come shine in her lost heart tonight
And blind
All fears that haunt her with your smile

Dark light
Come shine in her lost heart tonight
And blind
All fears that haunt her with your smile
Dark light


6. BEHIND THE CRIMSON DOOR

Covered the carcass of time with flowers
To send the scent of blame to the grave
Set the darkest thoughts on fire
And watched the ashes climb to Heaven's gates we hide

Behind the crimson door while the summer is killed by the fall alive
Behind the crimson door while the winter sings:
"Your love will be the death of me"
"Your love will be the death of me"

Death served wine for lovers
Brought from the world where devils reign and intoxicated angels
With sorrow they witnessed in the eyes of their slaves

Behind the crimson door while the summer is killed by the fall alive
Behind the crimson door while the winter sings:
"Your love will be the death of me"
"Your love will be the death of me"

We hide behind the crimson door
We hide behind the crimson door
We hide behind the crimson door
We hide behind the crimson door


7. THE FACE OF GOD

I'm drained but aching for more
And the devil inside is reading
The words of the saddest poem
To be engraved on the stone on my grave

I'd kill to share your pain (and carry the shame)
And sell my soul for you just to say:

"I dream what you're dreaming
And feel what you're feeling
Love's the shadow on our wall
With the face of God"

Nothing will be enough
For the ones who keep on stumbling
In the garden of withering trust
Without the courage to leave

I'd take my life for your kiss (grant me my wish)
And lose it all to take you across the abyss

I dream what you're dreaming
And feel what you're feeling
Love's the shadow on our wall
With the face of God
You dream what I'm dreaming
And see what I'm seeing
Love's our shadow on the wall
With the face of God

Labyrinth in the shape of a heart
Loves' secret architecture
I find myself to be lost in the
Arms of your fate

I'd kill to share your pain (please let me stay)
And sell my soul for you just to say
Loves name in vain again and again...

I dream what you're dreaming
And feel what you're feeling
Love's our shadow on the wall
With the face of God
You dream what I'm dreaming
And see what I'm seeing
Love's our shadow on the wall
With the face of God
Love's our shadow on the wall
With the face of (face of)
The face of (face of)
God

(Face of) God


8. DRUNK ON SHADOWS

Hiding underneath
The veil of broken dreams we find her weeping
On her once white wings
She will be carrying the weight of our deeds

And she bleeds for love forever gone

Drunk on shadows and lost in a lie
Killing ourselves, a kiss at a time
Devils dance while angels smile
Drunk on shadows and lost in a lie

Finding souls to feed
The nightside of Eden
We see her struggling
For her love's last breath and walk off

Drunk on shadows and lost in a lie
Killing ourselves, a kiss at a time
Devils dance while angels smile
Drunk on shadows and lost in a lie

She's blinded by the fear
Of life and death and everything in between
We smile when she cries a river of tears
A mirror where we see nothing but
A reflection of heaven too far away

Drunk on shadows and lost in a lie
Killing ourselves, a kiss at a time
Devils dance while angels smile
Drunk on shadows and lost in a lie

So alive
(Drunk on shadows)
So alive
(Drunk on shadows)
So alive
(Drunk on shadows)
(Drunk on shadows)
So alive
(Drunk on shadows)
Drunk on shadows


9. PLAY DEAD

A moth into a butterfly
And a lie into the sweetest truth
I'm so afraid of life
I try to call your name
But I'm silenced by the fear of dying
In your heart once again

I see the seasons changing
And in the heart of this autumn I fall
With the leaves from the trees

I play dead
To hide my heart
Until the world, gone dark, fades away

I cry like God cries the rain
And I'm just one step away
From the end of today

I see the reasons changing
And in the warmth of the past I crawl
Scorched by the shame

I play dead
To hide my heart
Until the world, gone dark, fades away
I stay dead
Until you veil my scars
And say goodbye to fate
Before it's too late
Before it's too late

I play dead
To hide my heart
Until the world, gone dark, fades away
I stay dead
Until you veil my scars
And say goodbye to fate
I play dead
To hide my heart
Until the world, gone dark, fades away
Before it's too late


10. IN THE NIGHTSIDE OF EDEN

Divided, we stand in the light of a frozen sun
Cursing the gods we have become
We steal the fire from a sacred heart
And bleed the wine unholy
We fall in love with the serpent's song
And fear nothing

In the nightside of Eden
We're born again dead
"Forever, we are
Forever, we've been
Forever, we'll be crucified to a dream"
In the nightside of Eden

Deranged, we're tearing away the petals of desire
Learning the mathematics of evil by heart
We deceive ourselves to start a war
Within the realm of senses
And descend to the circle number four
Where we are nothing

In the nightside of Eden
We're born again dead
"Forever, we are
Forever, we've been
Forever, we'll be crucified to a dream"
In the nightside of Eden

In the nightside of Eden
We're born again dead
"Forever, we are
Forever, we've been
Forever, we'll be crucified to a dream"

In the nightside of Eden
We're born-again dead
"Forever, we are
Forever, we've been
Forever, we'll be crucified to a dream"
In the nightside of Eden

"Forever, we are
Forever, we've been
Forever, we'll be crucified to a dream"


11. VENUS (IN OUR BLOOD)

Her heaven's a lie to those who threw away the key
Her god is alive and in the heart of beliefs

And you can't dam the river of her dreams
Or understand the divine words she speaks

Venus denies your seven towers above dark waters
You can't quench her thirst with the fear hiding away from the day
Venus denies you in your dark waters
The moon kissed the sun and now we hold her in our blood

Her savior was never on a cross pierced with nails
Thirty pieces of silver never retraced her mistake
She'll always be free from the arms of your sins
That made you weak as your world started crumbling

Venus denies your seven towers above dark waters
You can't quench her thirst with the fear hiding away from the day
Venus denies you in your dark waters
The moon kissed the sun and now we hold her in our blood

(She's in our blood)

Venus denies your seven towers above dark waters
You can't quench her thirst with the fear hiding away from the day
Venus denies you in your dark waters
The moon kissed the sun and now we hold her in our blood

In our blood
In our blood
(Her heaven's a lie to those who
Threw away the key)
In our blood
(Her god is alive and well
In the heart of beliefs)
In our blood


12. THE CAGE

For years I've seen you fighting
Against your heart
Living like you're dying
So far from the sun

Waiting for a guardian angel
To lead you through the dangers
That lie ahead on your way
Towards tomorrow's arms

Tears have turned from sweet to sour
And hours to days
You're hiding yourself away
From our cruel world's embrace
And as your days turn to weeks
You'll cry yourself to sleep
In the cage

We all have our fears but yours are
The scariest of them all
Lift your head and let us taste
The horror you adore

And it all starts to makes sense
All the blood wisely shed
Just wait until the truth comes
Knocking on your door

Tears have turned from sweet to sour
And hours to days
You're hiding yourself away
From our cruel world's embrace
And as your days turn to weeks
You'll cry yourself to sleep
In the cage you're locked in

Tears have turned from sweet to sour
And hours to days
You're hiding yourself away
From our cruel world's embrace
And as your days turn to weeks
You'll cry yourself to sleep
In the cage
And as your days turn to weeks
You'll cry yourself to sleep
In the cage you've locked yourself in


13. POISON HEART

No one ever thought this one would survive
Helpless child, gonna walk a drumbeat behind
Lock you in a dream, never let you go
Never let you laugh or smile, not you

Well, I just want to walk right out of this world
'Cause everybody has a poison heart
And I just want to walk right out of this world
'Cause everybody has a poison heart

Making friends with a homeless, torn-up man
He just kind of smiles, it really shakes me up
There's danger on every corner, but I am okay
Walking down the street, trying to forget yesterday

Well, I just want to walk right out of this world
'Cause everybody has a poison heart
And I just want to walk right out of this world
'Cause everybody has a poison heart

(A poison heart) A poison heart
(A poison heart) A poison heart
(A poison heart) A poison heart

You know that life really takes its toll
And a poet's gut reaction is to search his very soul
So much damn confusion before my eyes
But nothing seems to faze me, and this one still survives

Well, I just want to walk right out of this world
'Cause everybody has a poison heart (A poison heart)
And I just want to walk right out of this world
'Cause everybody has a poison heart, oh

I just want to walk right out of this world
'Cause everybody has... a poison heart


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