ROLO TOMASSI LYRICS

1. Towards Dawn

[Instrumental]

2. Aftermath

In practice past, I'm closing off
Untethered by visions
Unfamiliar
All lines of sight
Obstructed by light

For what lies beneath
And remains on the surface

Don't blame all that's lost
We revive ourselves

I'll break it off
Severing all ties
I won't look back
Fragments must realign
Dimming the sparks
That burned so bright

We'll never know how this could be
To build it up and break it off
There's more to keep and less to leave behind
There's more to lose and more to try and find

Don't blame all that's lost
We revive ourselves

Unafraid of the aftermath
The bones of what's below will never grow

Unafraid of the aftermath
The bones of what's below will never grow

Unafraid of the aftermath
The bones of what's below will never grow

Unafraid...

3. Rituals

This creation of doubt won't hold back

Lulled by safety
Lured into these acts
Caught and suffocated but refusing to expand from that
Passionate
Seared into the past
Unavoidable, laid bare to caution

There is no forgiveness here

You'll find it's not all what it seems
So pinch to feel the pain
Clawing for a sweet escape
Until I feel again

You'll find it's not all what it seems
So pinch to feel the pain
Blessed to feel the sweet escape
Until I fall again

One waste to cause wreckage
Nothing can restore
But will I ever overcome
All that has gone before?

You'll find it's not all what it seems
So pinch to feel the pain
Clawing for a sweet escape
Until I feel again

You'll find it's not all what it seems
So pinch to feel the pain
Blessed to feel the sweet escape
Until I'm born again

4. The Hollow Hour

If you knew what can cut through
The terrible and pure
What can be saved?
Preserved in hearts, keep it close

We believe we have control
But time is terminal

The ache of our agony
Cutting through, let it sting

For nothing more may lie here
Cherish this weight
It's all that remains
If we're to go on
Let it stay

It's so tragic
Let it sink in

It's so tragic
Let it sink in

It's so tragic
Let it sink in

I don't know how this is supposed to be
Conquered and confined in
Clutching to memory

I don't know how this is supposed to be
Conquered and confined in
Clutching to memory

It's played out in silence
It's haunting
Can you feel it?
Reminders are mirrored
Reflecting
Can you feel it?

It's played out in silence
It's haunting
Can you feel it?
Reminders are mirrored
Reflecting
Can you feel it?

What comes to pass, when we dissolve?
Ultimate darkness, playing out silently
In hollow hours, bring it to light
Life has meaning here

5. Balancing The Dark

Strike, illustrate
Cease, every moment grey
I concur
Retracting these splinters
Take, navigate
Disarm, in cycles
Crawl on
I concur
Retracting these splinters
Etched always
Lasting, reacting
In movements so permanent
I concur
Retracting these splinters
Etched always
Lasting, undying
A score unmarked
There is no way to compose the unchartered and unknown
The concept of a world without, the severity of it all
To comprehend the fragility
Lost in the harshness of endless
Cursed by what will embody
Lost in the harshness of endless
The cruelty of that which is cherished

6. Alma Mater

A finite line that's hard to see
And it always moves away from me

I don't want to wait for everything
Waste away instead of vanishing
Time will die and love will bury it
Time will die and love will bury it

Aimless strives to try and reach this
Will not stir me from this sickness

Stay wondering
With this reckoning
Watch it go by, just to give in

The rush of waves
I'm flooded in the running
Drifting with this one constant

The wish to change is washed away
The outer bounds are out of reach
Is it true it's...
Everlasting?

Stay wondering
There's no place for peak

Everything I thought could be
Shouldn't be within my reach

It comes in waves
I long for it and I feel empty
I watch it go by and I feel nothing
Floating in hope
Persisting to glow
Give flight to this fever or don't

At fate's command
What could we become
When desire is all undone?

At fate's command
What could we become
When desire is all undone?

7. A Flood Of Light

And I fall
Into your open arms
Soundly embraced here
When I fail
Fall into your open arms
Soundly embraced here
When I'm lost

Plot threads for a patchwork quilt
I've been searching for...
Presence in a wandering heart
Kept like secrets
Forces bind us with no exception
In my absence I have not...
Forgotten
The shadows we create

And I fall
Into your open arms
Soundly embraced here
When I fail
Fall into your open arms
Soundly embraced here
When I'm lost

Fall into those arms again
Fall into those arms again
And there you are always
And there you are always

After all this time when I'm my most lost
An anchor, eternally grounding me to navigate
A darkness until a light so blinding burns through the fog
It's never in doubt

After all this time when the rain comes down
An anchor, eternally grounding me to navigate
What's left behind, what lies ahead
It can take the worst to find out

But there you are always
But there you are always
But there you are always
But there you are always

8. Whispers Among Us

Hoping to delay every exchange
Altering state or staying the same
Transform and reshape
In the midst of all this
Not yet finished
So much will to fight it

A misprediction
These differences don't sit well
Somewhere between what is next
And what has been

Ease of recollecting
Never to project it
Harboured and held to
We stretch to fit
Are taught to drift
The succession of the inevitable
When it tears, when it ruptures
Prepare

It's fleeting and transient
And all that is definite
It becomes clear to us
Only in retrospect

Idly engage, in rooms left to wait
Lapses forgotten, here to remain
Tempted by fate
Outshine the grey, get carried away
Aimlessly searching, forever stray
Unfolding as it should

Idly engage, in rooms left to wait
Lapses forgotten, here to remain
Tempted by fate
Outshine the grey, get carried away
Aimlessly searching, forever stray
Unfolding as it should

9. Contretemps

A hidden depth to burden endlessly
Golden memories and sainthood
And the following fall through
For a certain certainty
Of what the end of this will be

There's a weight that rests here
And underneath innocence
Rising up, raised to confront
Imperfections shining through
Where I wanted to hold you

It's defective, let us leave it
In perished walls and ceilings
Uncompromising
Torn and crushed

So cold but pure
So long
Granted I'm plagued
Left untreated and empty

Demanding breath and being
Carved always and binding
These ordered occasions
A flowing entity
Is drifting back to me

Locked in a farewell with what I've caused
With what I forced

These similarities, ever-present in their might

Weathered with dismay
The irreversible and eternal
Overthrown
These sins do not pardon your own

Woven into veins
No binding can fray
It's pressed into these bones

No bonds here will break
Links along a chain
It's pressed into these bones

10. Risen

That piercing longing
Coarse within
When all that's yearned comes to...
Rising up before I knew

Reaching towards dawn
Consoled and consumed
Whisper transpire
Into gentle reminders

It's not something I sought to seek
And then it knocked the breath from me
To forgive without endeavour
Untainted and tender

The love we dreamed of
The love we dreamed of
The love we dreamed of
The love we dreamed of







ROLO TOMASSI LYRICS