At The Gates - The Paradox [Single]

Lyrics to The Paradox [Single] by At The Gates

[Verse 1] Prodigious dreams, entangled and black Coiled in the corners of life Hallucinations, engraved in our bones Futile, monotonous lives [Pre-Chorus 1] The poison circle, eyes within eyes How black our madness to be Spectral salvation, unfurling itself Through labyrinthian nights [Verse 2] To carry these dead notes As we stare into the abyss Our ruin, twisted and black Into the starving void [Pre-Chorus 2] Dehumanization of our art and culture Parent of horrors to be Mankind is nothing but self-conscious flesh The triumph of our own deceit [Chorus 1] The structures thеy now crumble The fevеred liturgy Black with the scars of madness We hide within our crypts [Verse 3] Through mad winds of terror Dreams are disturbed In pulse after heaven-wide pulse Older than darkness, colours unknown Within the pit of death [Pre-Chorus 3] Heroic dreams now trampled By figures in rust-coloured robes A region, illuminated Into the nuclear dawn [Chorus 1] The structures they now crumble The fevered liturgy Black with the scars of madness We hide within our crypts [Chorus 2] And as all hope turns to black Into the dreamless night As all hope turns to black Of pessimism and paradox [Bridge] No hope – all black No hope – all black [Chorus 2] And as all hope turns to black Into the dreamless night As all hope turns to black Of pessimism and paradox [Outro] Of pessimism and paradox Of pessimism and paradox