How Have The Mighty Fallen Lyrics

How Have The Mighty Fallen lyrics

Denizens of sylvan places
Hidden from the eyes of man,
Courtesans with
sylph-like graces
Dancing to the pipes of Pan -
That echoed through the
ether
Notes that soured the wings of halcyon,
Songs to give our life the
meaning
That we lack now they have gone.

Watch the pattern ever
changing
In the tapestry of fate,
Weft and weave and
interlacing
Silken strands that fabricate -
A cloak to fit both king and
beggar,
Those who rule and those that toil
Are equalled in the fact
that

All pay homage to this mortal coil.

Icy fingers grasping
madly
Get a grip upon my throat -
And slowly squeeze the life out of
me
On my dying words I choke,
Afrantic prayer in desperation
Cannot
hope to make me whole,
A moments lapse of concentration
And the spirits
flee my soul.

Drugs and potions surge within me -
Slowly paralize and
kill me,
Terrified I stumble blindly
Into the unknown.

Outside
looking in - observing
Feelings that I find unnerving
Dying with my eyes
wide open

Helpless and alone.

The endless void that lies beyond
-
With gaping jaws it beckons me,
I cast my worldly flesh aside
and
Plunge into eternity.

Once light hearted I departed -
On my
quest hope courted me,
Now a new love is my true love
And her name is
misery.
Eyes as dark as midnight-ravens
Gems that filled my mind with
awe,
Enthral my heart -
Distract me from her milk-white hands
Stained
red with gore.

The fetters that bound me are broken,
By words that
were best left unspoken,

For now I am shackled to sadness
By chains
that are tempered with madness.

I plummet like a shooting-star
That
shines so bright yet falls so far,
Shafts of moonlight guide me
To the
world that waits below.
I seem in need of nothing elseBut rope enough to
hang myself-
Laughing through the gates of Hell I go.

MY SOULS
LAMENT
Contained within a living shroud
My life-force fades and
dies,
This weary heart grows heavy
As the coins upon my eyes.
The
latch has now been lifted

On an ever open door,
And peering through I
see things
As I never have before.

The hammer and the anvil meet
-
In synchronicity they chime,
#a sound so simple and complete
It
needs no melody or rhyme.
Reforging all that I once was -
They make me
into something new,
No longer trapped within this world
But, transient
and passing through -
The 'valley of the shadow'
Far beyond the
'summerland',
Like the wild-boar is my valour
Now my life is in these
hands -
That keep the seething couldron steaming,

Stoke the fires of
destiny,
Gently take me and re-shape me
All-wise smith of
sorcery

The fetters that bound me are broken,
By words that were best
left unspoken,
For now I am shackled to sadness
By chains that are
tempered with madness.

From the 'cup of happiness'
The wine of hoped
I've sipped,
Betrayed I taste the bitterness
Of pain upon my
lips.
Though I try to drown my sorrows
They will surely drown me
first,
For swallowing my prideWon't quench this thirst.

MY SOULS
LAMENT:
In this darkness light has faded -
Hope becomes
despair,
Loneliness for a companion -
With me everywhere.
I wander in
confusion
While the tears that I have cried,
Gleam like broken
trinkets
You have worn then cast aside.

"Now hand-in-hand with
ignorance
The power mad run blindly,
But retibution hunts you down
And
rest assured he'll find thee.
No curtain could conceal you
For the ghosts
of all you slander-
Await you at your journeys end

And, to them you
must answer.
The poisons born upon your tongue
Will never serve to slight
me,
For I have delt with many fools and
Suffer your kind lightly.
Just
as you sow so shall you reap -
And I my friend have plenty,
So sit ye
down and eat your words
Now that your plate is empty."

The
endless void that lies beyond
With gaping jaws it beckons me,
I cast my
worldly flesh aside andPlunge into eternity.

Once light hearted I
departed -
On my quest hope courted me,

Now a new love is my true
love
And her name is misery.
Eyes as dark as midnight-ravens
Gems that
filled my mind with awe,
Enthral my heart -
Distract me from her
milk-white hands
Stained red with gore.

The fetters that bound me are
broken,
By words that were best left unspoken,
For now I am shackled to
sadness
By chains that are tempered with madness.

The endless void
that lies beyond -
With gaping jaws it beckons me,
I cast my worldly
flesh aside and
Plunge into eternity.

Once light hearted I departed
-
On my quest hope courted me,
Now a new love is my true love
And her
name is misery.
Eyes as dark as midnight-ravens
Gems that filled my mind
with awe,
Enthral my heart -
Distract me from her milk-white
hands
Stained red with gore.

The fetters that bound me are
broken,
By words that were best left unspoken,
For now I am shackled to
sadness
By chains that are tempered with madness.

I plummet like a
shooting-star
That shines so bright yet falls so far,

Shafts of
moonlight guide me
To the world that waits below.
I seem in need of
nothing elseBut rope enough to hang myself-
Laughing through the gates of
Hell I go.

MY SOULS LAMENT
Contained within a living shroud
My
life-force fades and dies,
This weary heart grows heavy
As the coins upon
my eyes.
The latch has now been lifted
On an ever open door,
And
peering through I see things
As I never have before.

"Why do the
mighty view the world
Through syncophantic eyes -

Then claim to us
they know what's best
From pedastals of pride?
Don't take the views of
othersAnd dismiss them out of hand -
For when your pillars crumble
Tell
me who will take command?"