[00:00.00]The Promise of Agony - Dark Angel
[02:09.86]You tell me what will become of us?
[02:12.48]Are the lines so drawn and the stage so set
[02:14.79]That as we age what reamins is burdened sufferance
[02:16.60]My mortality looms in its visage is doom
[02:18.10]And it's speaking to me alone
[02:19.66]The years will unfold but what is the use
[02:21.47]In solitude I'm left to atone
[02:23.47]The sins of my past are returning to gnaw at my core
[02:26.96]The scars I have left and those that have been left on me
[02:30.71]My purpose in life is it unfair to assume I have one
[02:34.45]I'm not fooling myself what now awaits is a nightmarish end
[02:38.26]What I'm saying do you understand
[02:39.38]Do you know what it's like to feel inadequate
[02:41.88]And the future ahead has no place for you
[02:43.81]As if you ever thought it did
[02:45.50]Alone in my shell if I come out I'll die
[02:47.68]I don't want to escape though I should
[02:49.43]No just leave me alone I don't want your help
[02:51.30]Yeah, if you could ease my pain you would... (right!)
[02:53.05]No you don't even know me
[02:54.67]And your words of comfort fall upon deaf and frightened ears
[02:57.04]I lament my bitter fate lachrymation upon examining my fears
[03:00.10]I've built a fortress around my soul impregnable the door
[03:02.78]I refuse to admit you to my netherworld
[03:04.28]You're correct I've absolved my self control
[03:05.96]This spiraled course depression has me on
[03:08.02]AGONY
[03:09.83]I'M A STUDY IN DESPAIR DOMINEERED BY THE PROMISE OF AGONY
[03:12.20]AND THE HAPPINESS IS BOUND AND THE HOPELESSNESS IS FOUND
[03:15.51]I'M IN AGONY
[03:16.76]CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND DESPONDENCY COMMANDS MY AGONY
[03:20.75]And I'm waiting to die alone
[03:37.41]As I'm drowning in a sea of abused visions and shattered dreams
[03:40.53]A chilling descent into a phobic hell
[03:42.46]Insanity's blade performs it's correctional surgery
[03:43.90]Impending doom in this blackened room I can give this all away
[03:48.39]It's all so easy to capitulate Nothing is making me stay
[03:52.07]Retreating within and hiding behind my wall
[03:55.75]Dealing without there's no escape from this moribund state
[03:59.80]Awaiting deep sleep we don't care if I don't wake
[04:02.92]In darkness' hands though terrified I feel safe
[04:06.86]I don't fit into the scheme of things
[04:08.85]These years as an outcast are quickly wearing thin
[04:10.60]My carefree days are a thing of the past
[04:12.41]And I welcome the fact that I'm coming to an end
[04:14.72]Melancholy my bride I devote unto thee
[04:16.59]My breath my mind and my soul
[04:18.03]As silence washes over me, I've never been so tired, so cold...
[04:21.40]Confusion seizes unto me
[04:23.20]Manacled and beaten chained up by it's frozen vice
[04:25.14]This is killing me but my mind is set and I'm too weak to fight
[04:28.76]Have you any idea what it's like to want to die
[04:30.95]Then you will know from where I speak
[04:32.50]This winter in my soul
[04:33.81]This winter in my soul
[04:36.49]AGONY
[04:38.12]I'M A STUDY IN DESPAIR DOMINEERED BY THE PROMISE OF AGONY
[04:40.43]AND THE HAPPINESS IS BOUND AND THE HOPELESSNESS IS FOUND
[04:44.24]I'M IN AGONY
[04:44.98]CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND DESPONDENCY COMMANDS MY AGONY
[04:48.91]And I want to be left alone
[04:51.50]
[05:19.71]Yet again I have no answers
[05:21.83]The confusion of my fate takes it's toll
[05:23.58]Symbolically speaking what's another life
[05:25.01]That lists "ending itself" as its one and only goal?
[05:27.01]I've examined my options and I see nothing in my sight
[05:29.38]Is there an avenue I've yet to explore
[05:31.44]As of now I'm decided I have nothing to live for
[05:33.56]Defeated alone yet you laugh at the state I'm in
[05:38.36]I can't help what I am but you think this is all in my head
[05:43.61]I'm not asking for help but I want you to understand
[05:45.79]That I'm going away you guess if I'm coming back
[05:48.72]You wish I had a will to live
[05:50.41]This condition I'm in didn't happen overnight
[05:52.16]I've hated myself for an eternity
[05:53.96]Now I finally feel that I'm doing something right
[05:55.77]As darkness descends I behold the Candlemass
[05:58.02]I seek intimacy with death
[05:59.27]Again you're correct these feelings will pass
[06:01.39]When my memory is all you have left
[06:03.26]My life has metamorphosed
[06:04.07]Into a marriage of the twisted and macabre
[06:06.63]I'm sitting here now feeling the effects of my words
[06:08.76]Trying to see a reason why I should go on
[06:10.50]I have to wonder do I still believe in God
[06:12.56]'Cause God no longer believes in me
[06:14.25]I lay myself down for my final peace
[06:15.80]I welcome Death my spirit is free
[06:17.80]AGONY
[06:19.42]I'M A STUDY IN DESPAIR DOMINEERED BY THE PROMISE OF AGONY
[06:22.98]AND THE HAPPINESS IS BOUND AND THE HOPELESSNESS IS FOUND
[06:24.85]I'M IN AGONY
[06:26.85]CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND DESPONDENCY COMMANDS MY AGONY
[06:30.10]And I'm pleading to die alone
[06:57.00]AGONY
[07:00.00]I'M A STUDY IN DESPAIR DOMINEERED BY THE PROMISE OF AGONY
[07:05.00]AND THE HAPPINESS IS BOUND AND THE HOPELESSNESS IS FOUND
[07:08.00]I'M IN AGONY
[07:11.00]CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND DESPONDENCY COMMANDS MY AGONY
[07:16.00]And I'm pleading to die alone
[07:19.00]AGONY
[07:22.00]I'M A STUDY IN DESPAIR DOMINEERED BY THE PROMISE OF AGONY
[07:27.00]AND THE HAPPINESS IS BOUND AND THE HOPELESSNESS IS FOUND
[07:30.00]I'M IN AGONY
[07:34.00]CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND DESPONDENCY COMMANDS MY AGONY
[07:39.00]And I'm pleading to die alone