Empires

VNV Nation Empires Lyrics
1.Saviour

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

As the stars appear
I know I'll find you staring at the sky
Pointlessly reaching for some light
You hope to guide your sorry way

Your body bleeding
Your body burned
Your body scarred
Around the cinder of your heart

A God of love
A God of care
A God of hope
A God of words

A God as lost as you and blind
To fill your hollow soul again
You seek a God to stand above you
Wrapping healing arms around you

You'll find another God of pain
A God of suffering and tears
Give yourself unto your God
Sacrifice yourself again

Burn your thoughts erase your will
To Gods of suffering and tears
Tie hallowed bonds around your hands
Kneel before this seat of shame

To Gods as lost
Gods as blind
Gods of suffering and pain


2.Rubicon

Lyricist:Harris Ronan

Praying for myself, these thoughts I try to hide
I have faith in me and hope this will survive
But it's tearing me apart, I can't hear the words by which I
guide
So I must ask again, 'Who will carry me?'

I cannot deny that nothing can defend
From the helplessness that's cutting deep inside
And I cannot prevent the thought that nothing's real
Seems I've waited years for this day to end

The strength I need to feel, the pride inside of me
Are not there behind the face staring back at me
The anger and the pain of knowing where I am
I have come so far and I cannot return

Nothing I can do that I have not done
No words I can say, no truth left that I can see
So must I let this end and everything fall apart
Before I live my life as I have always done

Tell me what to do so I do nothing wrong
Something I can hope for, something real that I can see
So nothing falls apart, so that it does not end
I cannot return, I can't start again

Nothing to deny, nothing to defend
From the helplessness cutting me so deep inside
And I can't prevent the thought that nothing's real
It seems I've waited years for this day to end

Praying for myself, these thoughts I try to hide
I have faith in me and hope this will survive
But it's tearing me apart, I can't hear the words by which I
guide
So I must ask again who will carry me

Nothing I can do that I have not done
No words I can say, no truth left that I can see
So must I let this end and everything fall apart
Before I live my life as I have always done

Tell me what to do so I do nothing wrong
Something I can hope for, something real that I can see
So nothing falls apart, so this does not end
I cannot return, I can't start again

Nothing I can do that I have not done
No words I can say, no truth left that I can see
So must I let this end and everything fall apart
Before I live my life as I have always done

Tell me what to do so I do nothing wrong
Something I can hope for, something real that I can see
So nothing falls apart, so this does not end
I cannot return, I can't start again


3.Legion

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

Enveloped in a sentiment
A sound that rushes over me
Engage an impulse to pretend
I have a faith as pure

Not forgetting what it means to dream
Indulging everything
Entertaining thoughts that I've the strength
Of those I yearn to be

Cheers and tribute greet the saviors
Reckless thoughts survive
Anachronistic and impulsive

And what will happen?
Will I dream?
I am too scared to close my eyes
For a second please hold me

None can change in me
These things that I believe
But I don't know what happens now
I am too scared to close my eyes


4.Fragments

See the faces. Etched in stone.
The frozen faces of multitudes.
The songs of youth that sing forever.
Immortal thoughts of a myriad of souls
That echo forth and on forever and on forever.
All great things to come.
Onward now and on forever and onward now.
All great things to come.

We few, we lucky few.
Once more to the breach dear friends once more.
The hall of ages to welcome them.
The cheers of many.
The cries of parting souls.
Bravest thoughts of futures past.
The golden years.
All great things to come.
That echo forth and on forever
And onward now and on forever
And onward now and on forever.
All great things to come.


5.Distant

The paths that I once tread
have all but gone.
Only embers now smoulder
where bridges once burned.
I feel alive and yet I fear
what may happen now.
I know I can't return.

And I hear me say again
'oh let me not return'.
Damn the illusion of redemption
and the hopes that held me here.
I will oppose all that would befall me.
With this rage inside of me
I will defy what I would become.

The solitude and anger
that do battle inside me
will always guide me to the answers
that I know I may not see.
They are the bonds that hold me tighter.
They are the chains that weigh on me.
One day I know they will be gone.

Can I start again and erase this pain
by casting doubts into the waters,
asking judgement of the sea.
Though fortune may guide to the fools
I have no wish to be free
until I am gone.