THE WISE MAN'S FEAR LYRICS

1. Megalith

[Instrumental]

2. Secret of the Stone

The air is alive!
I've waited far too long, been sleeping way too long and now I
Take back my life!
I live to roam the Earth, and I will find my worth

The secret of the stone is grave, it lays waste to the hearts of men
I warn you, do not seek it, turn away while you still can

So I go into the great unknown
I'll let it lead where it will, I'll never be standing still
I go into the great unknown
This road before me will shape my story

If you go there will be none to walk beside you
Who can share your burden or reach our guide to you

I'll march on all the same

I will show my face
I will prove my name
I will find my place
I will open up the gates

There is a great fortress in the air
The answer that you seek is hidden there

So I go into the great unknown
I'll let it lead where it will, I'll never be standing still
I go into the great unknown
This road before me will shape my story

3. In Reach (Out of Touch)

Take a moment's time
Look to the edge of everything that you have found
It goes forever, and I could never

Take this wondrous sight
See beauty dawning on the edge of the horizon

And I could never

I see far away a fragile flame hung in the sky
A pale cold flower in the night sky, it leads me on, it pulls me in and now I'm chasing
After the moon and chilling light the land is shaping

I see far away a fragile flame hung in the sky
A pale cold flower in the night, planted among the stars and watered in the twilight

But I chase it away (In reach, out of touch)
I move and it moves from me
A cold flame that will not stay
I have to catch it before the day

Run around, run around 'til you find it, I hope that this love isn't clouded by blindness
And keep it down, keep it down in your heart now, but never let it fade
Don't let it fade, let it fade, let it fade away
Keep pressing on, this love is strong but may not stay
It's bittersweet a rose, a thorn, a choice I must make

Take in all this space
Your kingdom reaches as far as your eye can see

It goes forever, and I could never
Take my thoughts in stride
A heart can be so free and filled that it is lonely

And I could never

Time's not on my side
Can't feel your warmth
Where do you hide?

Where did you flee? I cannot find you
You spoke my name, you flew away, and left me confused
Please show your face to me again before the sunrise

Time's not on my side
Can't feel your warmth
Where do you hide?

The last rays of your light are fading
The path I'm following along is separating

4. With My Lesser Self

I don't want to feel so broken anymore and I don't want to feel alone anymore
I don't want to be here, no, I don't want to be here at all
You were my heart

5. Prayer of the Prey

I will not compete this way
I refuse to run your race

She feeds off all of the anguish and wrath
Of those who could not escape from her grasp
All these obstructions are tangled round you

I will not compete this way
I refuse to run your race
Turn and run, escape while you can
You're just a part of her master plan

You've heard the stories and still decided not to heed
She promised you she'd be everything that you need
She was an angel or at least that's what you believed
But when you turned your back you knew that you were deceived

I won't back down, I will hold my ground
You were the weight on top of my chest
Now that you're gone I've got nothing left

You've heard the stories and still decided not to heed (you heard the stories)
She was an angel or at least that's what you believed (you heard the stories)

Light fires thanks to your goodbyes
Let's start but start without you
I thought you might have been better than this
But that ship has sailed and you will not be missed

6. Chaotica

Black bleeding from the skies above
Seeping into the parched Earth
Savage ink of this world's blood

My name is formed, marred across the land
"Chaotica" scrawled on the withered hand

Feel the power of consuming fear
Dread clutched your hearts as I draw near

A blackened tongue utters my name
My hunger seeks more lives to claim

My strength rides in upon the wind
An ancient evil was condemned
Now wandering freely once again
Lurking no longer I descend

Where I walk even the Earth is wise enough to tremble

Forms of light curse my life
I'll burn the world, swallow it alive

Feasting on all those in my way
Ripping out the heart of the day
Black bleeding from the morning skies
Poured on all the Earth
Hiding from my eyes

7. The Sea At Storm

I cannot remember the last time that I could see the shore
The black clouds above have wrapped the sky into their deadly fold
This tempest all around pulls me down into the ocean's core
Tell me what it is I've done that brought about this rain and cold

The things I left behind
Go on and let your rage unwind

Here I am, now's your time
I haven't been that hard to find

You think you're so wise and strong
I have been here all along
Feel my fury, spare your wrath
Just another fool in my path

You think that you're all

My fears have taken form
They've blotted out all the light
Cast away by the waves
Guiding lights went astray

No
Live, learn, at least you live
Forgive, forget, or at least you forget

The sea at storm has pulled me in
This is a fight I may not win
The sea at storm is testing me
Is this my end or destiny?

The sea at storm has pulled me in
You'll never harm a soul again
The sea at storm is testing me
This is for all the suffering

Tidal anger pulls me under
Tidal anger

8. Wrath of a Gentle Man

You've got an axe to grind and tight-closed eyes
Your contradictions come as no surprise
That you made yourself blind to your own lies
I think I'll sever my ties

A penny is far too much for your thoughts
Your putrid mind corrupts and rots
There's more to you than meets the ear
Just nothing that I want to hear

Try seeing things through another's eyes
You don't have to lobotomize
To open someone else's eyes
You have become what you despise

I won't waste another moment on your dogma

Obstinance manifested. Blind-eyed, closed-minded disaffection
Spare me your so-called "wisdom"
Save some judgement for God

You've had plenty of practice preaching, why don't you practice what you preach?

You've got an axe to grind and tight closed eyes
Your contradictions come as no surprise
That you make yourself blind to your own lies
I think I'll sever my ties

Your idolatry breeds hypocrisy
Your eyes are blinded by the pride you see
That the elegy that you wrote for me
Should have ended up so differently

You're a mockery of humanity
The incarnation of dystrophy
You're a harbinger of catastrophe
A plague, pure ruin, you are disease

9. The Moonless Night

He roams the Earth by night
He prays to catch a sight
Of the thing that escapes his mind

It haunts and haunts, escapes and eludes
It's gone when he opens up his eyes
It's not living when you're dead inside

I've been through hell, I've tasted heaven, I've walked the road that joins the two
Now I've lost myself somewhere inside of me and I'm not sure what to do
This past year has been the hardest time of my life and I would kill for a rock or a hard place
But now the clock has turned, I guess the lesson learned is that the heart of stone shatters into the most pieces

It's been difficult and getting worse since the start. I burned down every bridge between my mind and my heart.

The flame that lit my way
The moon led me astray
The things my heart once had
That led me down this path
A wilted fragment of my focus
A hidden thorn amongst the roses

10. Vitality

I'm so tired of sleeping
And sick-to-death of this illness
And each day I can feel as the stronghold of my mind slips out of focus away from these dreams
Heart beaten down, torn at the seams

This can't be the end of everything that I've done
All the darkness in this world could never block out the sun
There's no evil that surrounds us that can outweigh the good
Bound by the light lifted up from the ground where we stood

Vitality is gone from me
My apathy is a eulogy that reads, "Here lies a tragedy, a hollowed shell of what was me"

You're a skeleton of your former self and I can see that you lack a spine

I fear there is no cure for this
Lethargy-wrapped narcotic bliss
No shock that can awaken me
No force to break this apathy

Wake me up, I'm far too dead to die
I can't remember how long it's been since I last saw sunlight
Wake me up, I'm far too dead to die
I can't remember how long it's been since I saw any light

Restore to me vitality

11. Castle in the Clouds

Years spent roaming through countless nights
This road before me, the end in sight

It falls around
The fortress walls they crack like brittle bone
Hear the sound magnificent and full of horror
Go live your life outside of the shadows
Be a voice, not an echo
I stand on battered feet
From the ground beneath
I can't help but think it's the end

My path ends here
Stained glass falling everywhere
I see it passing through the air
And past the broken shroud I found:
An end to my life on the ground

Look around at desolation
See the fall of the creation
A fear was born of insurrection
End of my life or a new start?

Far beyond the moonlight's reach
I have traveled looking for the fortress in the air
That I was brought to seek

Led by the stone, away from the sea
Finally I have found meaning to my quest
That has always been inside of me

But the fortress walls will crack like brittle bone
They reveal the secret of the stone

Live for life without the fear of death
Glory fades and the grave takes the rest

I see the walls of the great castle, so strong against the attacks
Crumble before their own dead weight, and spread a web of cracks

There's more to life than death
And seeing is only believing for the blind
But death and I are the best of friends
We've been close so many times

Through forests and plains I have wasted away
Over mountains and glaciers my skin turned to gray
I gave up my home to travel alone
Into the world leaving all I had known

Listen to me

In every trial from far away
I have been with you each step of the way







THE WISE MAN'S FEAR LYRICS