PHOENIX REIGN LYRICS

1. The Gates Of Bosphorus

[Instrumental]

2. Transcendent

I'm consumed and overwhelmed
This madness is devastating me
I'm all alone
Inside this hell of torment and despair
Abused by the elements I have no control of
(Let me go, let me go)

I'm about to go down this time,
But I can't, I'm much too strong
Too much a warrior

[Chorus:]
I will never be defeated by your injustice
By a hand of doom or an act of God
I will rise up, I will transcend
In this tomb that I now dwell
Deaf and blind to the world around me
In my bitter cage
You have built with lies to keep me
From the truth, but I won't be denied any longer
You are the poison, I am the cure
A remedy to this calamity
Your death my design

[Chorus:]
I will never be defeated by your injustice
By a hand of doom or an act of God
I will rise up, I will transcend
What was once my haven
Has become an abyss
Full of dark stagnation
Memories of former bliss
With this innocence so fleeting
Like a fantasy
Who is safe anymore?

[Chorus:]
I will never be defeated by your injustice
By a hand of doom or an act of God
I will rise up, I will transcend

3. Masquerade Angel

This dread that I feel now
On this crimson twilight
Means the end is near
I feel it coming on…
The crowd is calling to me
"Come and join us!"
But he's ready to deceive
While dressed to pretend
Forever bound to him
He's possessed my senses
And I can't break out of
His spell.
His music draws me in
Someone save me
Before I've lost my
Mind to this game
This is only the start
Scene one draws, you play the part in it all
The dance of destiny, you can't break free
The masquerade calls for you

[Chorus:]
Masquerade Angel
You're a devil in disguise

On the run from this
Unholy madness
We've passed that point
Of no return

The crowd was calling to me
"Come and join us"
But I can't, he's
Calling for my blood
This is only the start
Scene one draws, you play the part in it all
The dance of destiny, you can't break free
The masquerade calls for you

[Chorus:]
Masquerade Angel
You're a devil in disguise

Did you ever believe in something
Only to have it taken away?
If you follow his delusions
It'll happen all over again

[Chorus:]
Masquerade Angel
You're a devil in disguise

4. Forgotten

Forgotten times
Forgotten words
I breathe your name
To live again
With you, possessed
I'm in your depths
And I'm in chains
To your memory

Tell me why do my dreams resound
With your words and deeds I've tried to drown
Wondering, struggling, fighting
To reclaim my life

[Chorus:]
When I've reached the end
Looking back upon it all
I'll know that I was so alone
Forgetting all about you

Forgotten days
Unending nights
I've played this game
Longer than the rain
I dream your eyes
And I bleed your lies
Forever in chains
To you memory

All your spells that well up in me
They bring me into darkness, now
My mind it aches sore
Not innocent, something more

[Chorus:]
When I've reached the end
Looking back upon it all
I'll know that I was so alone
Forgetting all about you

5. Another Night Alone

I hear the calling of the wine dark sea,
as lightning rips the sky
reflections in the waves speak of you and me
for the heavens cannot lie.

I feel the pressure weighing in on me
blotting out my light.
That's the price, my nightly fee
that I wrestle every night.

There's no sea too deep to drown my misery
like a hammer the sky falls.
It's a cold night, I don't wanna leave,
But, that's how my fate rolls.

I hear the howling of the wretched outcasts
That toil in the dunes
All those that cast away their lots
As love demised their fortunes.

Darkness stares me down, another night alone
prisoner for life, free alone to roam.

Alone I drift asleep, drown in misery
reflecting on my life, dream of you and me.

[Chorus:]
I can't stand - Another night alone
I can't stand - Another night alone
I can't stand - Another night alone…

I hear the calling of the Sirens begging me
to jump in their abyss.
Their hypnotic song to set my heart free,
if I give in to their kiss.

I hunger for your sweet and loving voice
And that is the truth
I've made a careless foolish choice
My pain is my proof.

There's no sea too deep to drown my misery
like a hammer the sky falls.
I see no light, just shades of gray
as melancholy calls.

I hear the calling of the wine dark sea,
as thunder blazes high
reflections in the waves speak of you and me
of a love not meant to die.

Where do I go if we aren't right
When I can't even face the morning light?

How can you not glance in my heart
Put up a better fight so we'd never part?

[Chorus:]
I can't stand - Another night alone
I can't stand - Another night alone
I can't stand - Another night alone…

6. Open Your Eyes

When I look into your eyes
The power bleeds in me
Forces pull me closer
To lead another way

Open your eyes
Tears are gone
Open your heart
Shed no more

[Chorus:]
I got this power inside
It makes me see
I try to fight
To make it through this time
Show me the magic that you hold
Pull me closer, I need to feel again

Opposition holds me back
They try and bring me down
To win I'll use the strength
I feel when seeing you

Open your eyes
Tears are gone
Open your heart
Shed no more

[Chorus:]
I got this power inside
It makes me see
I try to fight
To make it through this time
Show me the magic that you hold
Pull me closer, I need to feel again

When your grip is lost one me
The power drains, you see
Spells pull me further
To fall into the fray

Open your eyes
Draw me in
Open your heart
I need you now

[Chorus:]
I got this power inside
It makes me see
I try to fight
To make it through this time
Show me the magic that you hold
Pull me closer, I need to feel again
To feel again

7. Run Now

Something to remember
On this bitter winter's night
An escape from your fate
The beginning of the fight

Your razor was your comfort
In your life in the cell
Another way out
You knew all to well

Your days in endless sorrow
Your nights filled with pain
Memories of loved ones
Slowly drove you insane

Redemption was elusive
A dream and a temptation
Until you took the chance
And bid for salvation

[Chorus:]
Run now
Into the night into the light
Of freedom and a chance
To live again.

Run now
Into the light into the night
Of freedom and a chance
To live again.

Forsaken and forgotten
As you slipped into the dark
A figure once begotten
Of a hardened, broken heart

"When the morning comes" you cried,
"I'll be a brand new man"
"Not the one who succumbs
"To someone else's plan."

[Chorus:]
Run now
Into the light into the night
Of freedom and a chance
To live again.

Run now
Into the light into the night
Of freedom and a chance
To live again.

8. Wherever You Are

There is no reason
We should stand alone
Counting falling stars
Under the moonlit sky

As dark night whispers
For your warm embrace
This frail heart sings and speaks to me
And I see your smiling face

So many memories
Share you and I
Our first kiss dances
Through my mind

And though my heart
Alone will die
Your entrancing eyes,
They still light my sky

[Chorus:]
I looked away, my heart said no
I fell astray, to an angel's love
No goodbyes, wherever you are
Your emerald eyes are from Heaven above
Your emerald eyes are from Heaven above

There is no reason
For our love's denial
No compromise sooths
My heart's lament

In this tragic world
Only you make sense
I need you now
Don't leave me in suspense.

[Chorus:]
I looked away, my heart said no
I fell astray, to an angel's love
No goodbyes, wherever you are
Your emerald eyes are from Heaven above
Your emerald eyes are from Heaven above

9. Destination Unknown

It's insatiable
Going into overdrive
It's a revolution
Of the spirit

I'm fully able
I finally feel alive
It's a liberation
Can you feel it?

I found my open road
Destination unknown
Out on my open road
One I'll take until I die

[Chorus:]
Follow…
Follow…
Come with me
Taking every day
Doing it my way
Come with me

Without a thought
I grab the reigns
I'll change my course
And thrash it up

In the end I know
It's me against the world
It's my time now
This feeling burns inside

I found my open road
Destination unknown
Out on my open road
One I'll take until I die

[Chorus:]
Follow…
Follow…
Come with me
Taking every day
Doing it my way
Come with me

I found my open road
Destination unknown
Out on my open road
One I'll take until I die

[Chorus:]
Follow…
Follow…
Come with me
Seizing every day
Throwing care away
Rise with me

Destination unknown,
Uncharted road never shown
The only way to set me free

10. Moving On

You live your life in cemented walls
If you keep yourself closed off you're gonna fall
It feels like this day could be your last
But a change is coming soon and it's coming fast

[Chorus:]
You gotta keep breathing
This breath isn't your last yet
You gotta keep breathing
Play this as your biggest bet
You gotta keep breathing
These challenges you've always met
You gotta keep breathing
That's all you gotta do, you're set

This never ending nightmare
Is over now.

Always seems, just beyond your reach
Standing fast at a wall you're trying to breach
you're scared, despaired but there's hope
As long as you're alive, there's still hope (there's still hope)

[Chorus:]
You gotta keep breathing
This breath isn't your last yet
You gotta keep breathing
Play this as your biggest bet
You gotta keep breathing
These challenges you've always met
You gotta keep breathing
That's all you gotta do, you're set

This never ending nightmare
Is over now.

It's time for moving on
You've gotta let it go
No need for holdin' on.

It's over now
It's all over now

11. Constantinople 1453 (On The Eve Of The Fall)

[Instrumental intro]

[Acoustic]
Thrice, I walked this path of destitute alone
My heart sinks like a heavy anvil
I arrived too late, nearly redefined
To lure the muses through the unbridled stone.

As I sit here to ponder what is right
I wonder what sorrows 'morrow will bring
When I close my eyes tonight
Will I feel this bitter night's sting?

[Heavy]
It's Midnight in this land of Darkness
As the serpents slither out of their holes
And somewhere amongst the rotting corpses
My fallen brothers' battle cry calls.

The Warrior's Oath I once knew
In Hades realm I will recite it
But now in Constantinople
I alone lead the righteous few.

I bid thee farewell now, forever
To fight the Ottoman hordes
Aside the Orthodox faithful
My bond on this realm do I sever.

As the mothers mourn their beloved sons
Come tomorrow will Hagia Sophia still stand?
Will I hear the prayers of the nuns?
Will there be a city left to defend?

I hear the raindrops drain the night
I see the stars clash with might
The trees whisper with fright
As misery clouds my sight

[Chorus:]
City of God, City of Light
Constantinople
Brave New Rome, show your might
Constantinople
To defend we fight!

Like a raging wildfire these questions plague me
As (the) enemies canons blast the walls
Raping the women, slaying the elderly
Before my eyes Constantinople falls.

Church bells echo throughout the land
On this black Tuesday, 1453
As emperor Palaeologos makes his stand
All of Christendom we fight to free.

With glory's reins do I ride
Across this empty Hippodrome
Through the great Blachaernaen Gates
With steed and steel held high.

I won't look back taunted by fear
While in my dark veins blood still flows
As the Turkish hordes draw near
If we'll survive the night, only the Lord knows…

As the sun settles in the East
The legions of Death feast
As the Dead to Hades enlist
The Hellenes battle on the Turk beast.

[Chorus:]
City of God, City of Light
Constantinople
Brave New Rome, show your might
Constantinople
To defend we fight!

As the sun settles in the East
The legions of Death feast
As the Dead to Hades enlist
The Hellenes battle on the Turk beast.

[Chorus:]
City of God, City of Light
Constantinople
Defending Europe and her honor
Constantinople
Like the Phoenix will rise again!

[Instrumental outro]







PHOENIX REIGN LYRICS