Mercy, Severity

Album: The End Of All Things To Come (2002)
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  • We've come here, from so far away
    I can save you
    If you leave it all behind
    This suffering's, been far too long
    Would you take a trip with me
    On the back of a star
    I feel like earth's gravity is just here to pull us down

    Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
    Carry them away
    Darkness negative receptive
    Pour firmament between our waters
    Separate the space
    Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
    Skulls strap me down
    And send the ship away
    Progress with the process, mine the souls
    From their casts
    Pour form and reshape

    This dark womb
    Wraps and covets me
    Redefining understanding, if you open
    Up the heart
    Nurturing, this phenomenon
    We can carry you on our wings, our wings
    Through the dark
    Lightning flashes of insight
    Into the mirth of a dark sky
    Pain of division is nothing
    Joy of dissolution is everything

    Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
    Carry them away
    Darkness negative receptive
    Pour firmament between our waters
    Separate the space
    Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
    Skulls strap me down
    And send the ship away
    Progress with the process, mine the souls
    From their casts
    Pour form and reshape

    Portal sits deep within the eye
    The eye of yin's severity
    Rewards understanding
    Portal sits deep within the eye
    The eye of yin's severity
    Rewards understanding

    Blackness consumes body comforts core of nothing

    Mother I can remember, a vault of security
    Can you take me away
    Would you take me away
    Won't you take me away
    Away

    Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
    Carry them away
    Darkness negative receptive
    Pour firmament between our waters
    Separate the space
    Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
    Skulls strap me down
    And send the ship away
    Progress with the process, mine the souls
    From their casts
    Pour form and reshape Writer/s: CHAD L. GRAY, GREG TRIBBETT, MATTHEW MCDONOUGH, RYAN MARTINIE
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Andrew from Colton, CaThe song to me soungs like its about aliens trying to rescue us before we all kill eachother "weve come here, from so far away I can save you, if you leave it all behind"
    Either aliens or angels, thats why he talks about the creation of Earth "Pour firmament between the waters, seperate the space" is also in the Bible somewhere.....
  • Devon from Spokane, WaI love how heavy it is and then its all soft and then it gets back to the heavy part and it just transistions so good.
  • Kayley from LondonI love the lyrics to this and I equally love the way the song starts heavy, then you get the quiet guitar bit before the song really kicks in. It kinda lulls you into a false sense of security.
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