Dream War // Lyrics

Intro // Tedious + Brief

Running fast 

Towards a sunlit sky

This light will last 

If we don’t lose the horizon

Though there are shadows dancing 

Just beneath the waves

I wanna jump in

I wanna jump in anyway

Tender World I.

What a tender world

What a tender world 

Wanna give my heart up

To you

What a tender world

What a tender world 

Wanna give my heart up

To you

What a wild way, what a frightening game

We play in dreams

We send our hearts out on the waves

In pure belief

Wolves (Ved Døra Mi)

Your wolves are at my door

I can feel them breathing

They’re tearing up the floor

Hungering for me

Ulvene dine kommer etter meg

Jeg kan høre deres jafs

Prøver å ta døren

Prøver å ta meg

Eyes shut, doors shut 

Oh, hold them, hold them back

Eyes shut, doors shut

Oh, hold them, hold them back

Eyes shut, doors shut

I could let them in

They could eat me whole

Ulvene dine skremmer meg

Eyes shut, doors shut 

Oh, hold them, hold them back

Eyes shut, doors shut

Oh, hold them, hold them back

Eyes shut, doors shut

I can’t hold this door forever but the moment I let go

I’ll have to run like hell and pray I’m faster than the wolves

I don’t have to sleep 

I don’t have to sleep 

Nevermore, no 

Never, never, no

And you don’t have to keep your promises, oh 

No, oh, no

Eyes shut, doors shut 

Eyes shut, doors shut

Eyes shut, doors shut

Hold them, hold them, hold them, hold them, hold them, hold them back

Eyes shut doors shut

Eyes shut, doors shut 

Oh, hold them, hold them back

Eyes shut, doors shut

Oh, hold them, hold them back

Eyes shut, doors shut

Dream War

If you came then you came with the cold outside

Couldn’t see you in the dark, couldn’t see you in my mind

If you came then you came with the cold outside

If I ran then I ran with the fire of fear

And the flames that you saw were lies made real

If you came then you came with the cold outside

Calling off the dream war cause I

Can’t keep the waves from breaking on this shore

Calling off the dream war cause I 

Already lost the dreams I was fighting for

If we dream then we dream of the dark inside

My heart is not a song, my head is not a light

If we dream then we dream of the dark inside

If we wake and we wake in the middle of the night 

Hearts racing, beds blazing, fingers cold as ice

If we dream then we dream of the dark inside

Calling off the dream war cause I

Can’t keep the waves from breaking on this shore

Calling off the dream war cause I 

Already lost the dreams I was fighting for

Tryna shake (tryna shake, tryna shake) Tryna shake the bad, bad, bad, bad

Tryna shake (tryna shake, tryna shake) 

Tryna shake the bad, bad dreams

If I’m scared then I’m scared of what I’ve yet to find

Like feelings of a killing and loving intertwined

If I’m scared then I’m scared of what I might design

If we fight (and we fight) then we’re fighting blind

You can’t combat an idea that has yet to be defined

If I’m scared then I’m scared of what I might design

Calling off the dream war cause I

Can’t keep the waves from breaking on this shore

Calling off the dream war cause I 

Already lost the dreams I was fighting for

(DON’T MAKE ME GO BACK THERE [don’t make me dream again])

I don’t want to close my eyes

I don’t want to dream again

I don’t want to fall asleep, no

I don’t want to dream again

Will I ever get to sleep without 

A killing in my head

I don’t want to close my eyes, no

I don’t want to dream again

Bridge Under Water

When morning cascades in a shimmering light

And I can’t for the life of me open my eyes

Cause I’m caught in a memory of you from a friendlier time

I swore we were on the same shore till the river grew wide

There’s a bridge under water

And a flood running over

And you said if I wouldn’t wake up then the water would rise

Well, weren’t you right? 

Weren’t you right

When the moon lends a trembling light to this room

I see in the shadows a shadow of you 

Let me go, let me down, let me move, let me out, let me breathe

What, do you want me to say

If I could I would change everything?

There’s a bridge under water

And a flood running over

And you said if I wouldn’t wake up then the water would rise

Well, weren’t you right? 

Weren’t you right

Oh, I’m picking up stones here

The ones that I’ve thrown here

I’m picking up stones

And oh, I’m laying them down here

Leveling ground here

I’m laying them down

There’s a bridge under water

And a flood running over

And you said if I wouldn’t wake up then the water would rise

Well, weren’t you right? 

Weren’t you right

Water’s Rise

Where you go in the night

Would you go in daylight?

Have you seen on your way

Affections your choices have made?

And the heart is caught in the crossfire

Of dreams, but dreams are just desire

Heart is wax against flame, bronze in fire, paint in rain

Mind is rock against time, soil in the water’s rise

Body is china with a rhino let loose in the store

Heart is wax against flame, bronze in fire, paint in rain

Have you come to your mind? 

Have senses been blurred, body left blind?

Can you feel when you kill

One future erased by one human will?

You’ll find what you break won’t rebind

And time won’t erase your crime

Heart is wax against flame, bronze in fire, paint in rain

Mind is rock against time, soil in the water’s rise

Body is china with a rhino let loose in the store

Heart is wax against flame, bronze in fire, paint in rain

Oh, I’m losing composure

Oh, my strength is overcome by you

Oh, I’m losing composure

My strength is overcome by you

Heart is wax in flame, in fire, in rain

Mind is rock against time, soil in the water’s rise

Heart is wax in flame, in fire, in rain

Mind is rock, in time, in the water’s rise

My strength is, my strength is overcome by you

Heart is wax in flame, in fire, in rain

Walls

If I had held my head above the rising tide

I wouldn’t have to hold this breath so far inside

If I could find a love that wouldn’t ravage mine

Maybe then I wouldn’t be afraid to step outside

I’m dancing with the dark

Alone between these walls

If I could see you here and know that you were real

And not be scared to close my eyes and find you’d disappeared

I’m talking to the dark

Safe between these walls

I saw the tide as it came

Rising steady and slow

Like heaven and earth were saying baby you should let go

I thought the rhythm would change

And send us out of the storm

I might have made it out safe if I was alone

I’m safer in the dark

Talking to these walls

Alone here in the dark

A waltz between the walls

Where Is She Now?

Uh oh, there’s blood on my hands

I dreamed I killed a man

Oh memory, wash away

My knife, see not the wound, see not the wound you make

Uh oh, there’s blood at my feet

I’m neither lovely nor a queen

Guilt has spread like a wildfire

And it burns, it burns, it burns so cruelly

Out, out, damned spot! Out! Away!

Wash, wash, my lady, wash, I say

I’ve seen in sleep

What, will these hands never be clean?

Uh oh, there’s blood in my touch

I’ve laid my hands on much too much

That’s turned to blood-cold stone

To murky hell, to hell my soul will go

Out, out, damned spot! Out! Away!

Wash, wash, my lady, wash, I say

I’ve seen in sleep

What, will these hands never be clean?

And now I’d give

All that I have to make my body clean

So how is it

That the blood remains on me?

Uh oh, there’s blood in my eyes

These eyes of guilt are open wide

To bed, to bed, but no, not I

I’ll never sleep again lest I kill another man

As long as I breathe

This blood remains on me

Out, out, damned spot! Out! Away!

Wash, wash, my lady, wash, I say

I’ve seen in sleep

What, will these hands never be clean

Sound + Fury

Tomorrow and tomorrow creep in from day to day

We are walking shadows; we are players on a stage

One night to make us kings ourselves, to orchestrate a war

To fret and strut our hour, and then be heard no more

Crowned in glory, we shouted till we raised a holy ruckus 

Sound and fury, they signify, they’re signifying nothing

All I see is red, red rain

Flooding into every yesterday 

Tomorrow’s light is clouded by the fray 

Of red, red rain

Tomorrow and tomorrow keep a coming day to day

Extending to the edges of what time has yet to say

All our yesterdays we thought were lit, but we were fools

The light was Hades’ furnace, and we the fire’s fuel

Crowned in glory, we shouted till we raised a holy ruckus 

Sound and fury, they signify, they’re signifying nothing

All I see is red, red rain

Flooding into every yesterday 

Tomorrow’s light is clouded by the fray 

Of red, red rain

Tomorrow and tomorrow gets more frightening all the time

We cry, “Out, brief candle! There’s no good for you to light”

Crowned in glory, we shouted till we raised a holy ruckus 

Sound and fury, they signify, they’re signifying nothing

Crowned in glory, we shouted till we raised a violent ruckus 

Sound and fury, they signify, they’re signifying nothing

All I see is red, red rain

Flooding into every yesterday 

Tomorrow’s light is clouded by the fray 

Of red, red rain

Wheel of Love

Honestly tell me is it better to love?

Is it better to break than to be just one?

Honestly tell me is it better to lose

Everything I own and everything I am

And give it to you?

This wheel of love is turning slowly

You love and you lose or you live your life lonely

This wheel of love is dangerous machinery

If you get caught in it you won’t come out the way that you used to be

No, you’ll look at yourself and be frightened to find

That somebody else took a piece of your mind

You were crushed by the wheel

And re-shaped by the gear

Changed by love

Honestly tell me is it better to believe

That good exists on some far out shore

And set your course for the open sea?

Honestly tell me is it better to dream and

Be dashed again against the cliffs 

And cast under the waves again?

This wheel of love is turning slowly

So you love and you lose or you live your life lonely

And what goes up, oh you know it’ll all come crashing

down so you’re 

Coming down with it or you’re miles away with your feet on the ground

And you know that you’re safe all alone by yourself

Because you’re not feeling pain caused by anyone else

You’re not crushed by the wheel

You’re not caught in the gears

You’re not hurt by love

I won’t take this burden from you

Only ride with you along the way

You can sail this sinking vessel

If you set your sights above the waves

This wheel of love is turning slowly

So you love and you lose or you live your life lonely

And what you give, oh you know it might not come back to you, so you

Give it up freely baby, or you guard it so tight that no one can get through

In the dark of your eyes, in the shadow of your wall

You don’t hear the cries of the people as they fall

From the top of the wheel and are crushed by the gears

Alive in love

Dreaming and trying, believing and buying

Hurt by love

Broken and frightened, loving and dying

Remade by love

Fire

I can’t count on this world

I can’t count on this world

Or people I like

I’ve tried

I can’t love in this world

I can’t love in this world

Without a fight

That’ll wear me down

I’ll run again, I’ll run again, replace the fire

I’ll run again, I’ll run again, replace the fire

I can’t dream in this world

I can’t dream in this world

Without those nights

Where I lose the flame

I’ll run again, I’ll run again, replace the fire

I’ll run again, I’ll run again, replace the fire

I can’t love in this world

I can’t love in this world

Without a fight

So I’ll fight

I’ll fight

I’ll lay down in my burning bed

Though darkened thoughts run through my head

I’ll focus on the light instead and

Close my eyes and dream again

I’ll run again, I’ll run again, replace the fire

I’ll run again, I’ll run again, replace the fire

I can’t count on this world

Tender World II.

What a tender world

What a tender world

Wanna give my heart up

To you

What a wild way, what a frightening game

We play in dreams

We send our hearts out on the waves

In pure belief

And putting my hope in and putting my trust in

Well I had to know that it would be broken

Putting my heart back into loving

Is like jumping in to the deep of the ocean

Outro // Dream Again

Running fast toward a sunlit sky

This light will last if we don’t lose the horizon

Though there are shadows dancing just beneath the waves

I’ve gotta jump in

I’ve gotta jump in anyway

I’ll dream again

I’ll dream again

I’ll dream again

I’ll run again, I’ll run again, replace the fire

I’ll run again, I’ll run again, replace the fire

I’ll run again, I’ll run again, replace the fire

I’ll run again, I’ll run again

Mm, mm, mm-mm

Mm, mm, mm-mm