The Last Hour of Ancient Sunlight-Draconian

[00:00.00] [00:13.94]"The Last Hour of Ancient Sunlight" [00:20.75]Album: A Rose for the Apocalypse [00:27.57] [00:28.60]Black is the sunlight shimmering below; [00:35.37]it flows through life and the guilt we share [00:42.18]Our sorrow, it cuts through the undergrowth, [00:48.98]as we abandon this ravenous Earth alone [00:55.13] [00:56.74]The zeitgeist dimmed the surface and seized the soul [01:01.90]Our Mother wept behind the fence, [01:10.26]and we drained her blood, then forgetting her face, [01:17.14]and hide from everyone… [01:19.94] [01:20.41]to breathe, to conquer, [01:27.20]to linger, to utilize the ignorant herd [01:33.43] [01:34.04]In rapture from nature we divorce, [01:40.96]like orphans by desire, [01:44.74]from this closing light [01:49.37] [01:51.49]The bewildered sleep - [01:54.81]the shadowy voyager is lurking; [01:58.32]he’s in the flesh of landscapes vaporous [02:04.90]The vacant, untiring Sovran of old… [02:12.19]He’s the machinery; igniting the paralyzed soil [02:18.16] [02:42.74]We took the blood of the earth [02:59.94]and fell in love with death [03:09.79]with life itself as an excuse [03:15.55] [03:56.19]Black is the sunlight shimmering below; [04:02.76]it flows through life and the guilt we share [04:08.64] [04:10.09]We’re hiding in chorus as starry eyes close, [04:15.58]and seasons part in farewell; [04:23.83]‘cause we drained her blood, then forgetting her face [04:30.77]to hide from everyone [04:33.59] [04:37.72]The bewildered sleep - [04:41.02]the shadowy voyager is lurking; [04:44.73]he’s in the flesh of landscapes vaporous [04:51.35]The vacant, untiring Sovran of old… [04:58.48]He’s the machinery; igniting the paralyzed soil [05:04.52]