Reformation 01

VNV Nation Reformation 01 Lyrics
1.Joy

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

Joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy
Joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy

Have I no control? Is my soul not mine?
Am I not just man, destiny defined?
Never to be ruled nor held to heel
Not heaven or hell, just the land between

Am I not man? Does my heart not bleed?
No Lord, no God, no hate, no pity, no pain, just me
Comprehend and countermand

Synchronous guidance, I choose my way
Never to be ruled nor held to heel
Not heaven or hell, just the land between
And am I not man?

So why do I love when I still feel pain?
When does it end? When is my work done?
Why am I lone and why do I feel
That I carry a sword through a battle field?

So why do I love when I still feel pain?
When does it end? When is my work done?
Why do I fight and why do I feel
That I carry a sword, that I carry a sword?

Like the path to heaven or the road to hell
Our choice is our own consequences bind
We are the kings of wisdom, the fools as well
We are the gods to many, we are humble men

We who build great works just to break them down
We who make our rules so we never fail

So why do I love when I still feel pain?
When does it end? When is my work done?
Why am I lone and why do I feel
That I carry a sword through a battle field?

So why do I love when I still feel pain?
When does it end? When is my work done?
Why do I fight and why do I feel
That I carry a sword, that a carry a sword through a
battlefield?


2.Chrome

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

A million faces, each a million lies
For each and all a chrome disguise
Prompts for action force reaction
Embody promise in a sheen so pure

Hurt, the measure of blind ambition
The testament to your singular disease
Against all wisdom you heed no warning
Your desires giving you away

If I could change your mind
I wouldn't save you from the path you wander
In desperation dreams
Any soul can set you free

And I still hear you scream
In every breath, in every single motion
Burning innocence
The fire to set you free

Your actions turn conquest to dust
In portents of fate you foolishly place trust
Sense fear in your broken breathing
Resort to shadows till your body expires

All creation has the promise of heaven
And still you travel the road to hell
I'm saying nothing for the good of myself
But I'm still talking and you're not listening

If I could change your mind
I wouldn't save you from the path you wander
In desperation dreams
Any soul can set you free

And I still hear you scream
In every breath, in every single motion
Burning innocence
The fire to set you free

As night descends upon the city
The streets are cold, the lights go by
And in the stories of the people
A million faces, a million lies

They'll never say they feel what you feel
That they can see the world you see
And in their faces, their expressions
A million faces, a million lies


3.Testament

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

Procrastinating, pretending to worry
Solving problems by pushing them aside
Wasting time like we've all the time in the world
Deliberation instead of solution, another term for blatant lies
Biding time like we've all the time in the world

And I'm not the only one who thinks we're trying to say
To the heavens and all who hear us, behold all we have made
We bring destruction, we bring war without an end
And then we live in hope that tomorrow never comes
That it never comes

We conquer paradise just to burn it to the ground
And we build a future to honor pasts we've left behind
We bring destruction, we bring war without an end
And then we hope that tomorrow never comes
That it never comes

The problems get worse before they get better
We find excuses to divert our eyes
Let tomorrow deal with what we could have done
And if you think we're the future that we build tomorrow
When was the last day without a war
We speak of greatness that we have never been

And I'm not the only one who thinks we're trying to say
To the heavens and all who hear us, behold all we have made
We bring destruction, we bring war without an end
And then we live in hope that tomorrow never comes
That it never comes

We conquer paradise just to burn it to the ground
And we build a future to honor pasts we've left behind
We bring destruction, we bring war without an end
And then we hope that tomorrow never comes
That it never comes

It's just you and me now, it's just you and me now
It's just you and me against the world
It's just you and me now, it's just you and me now
It's just you and me against the world

It's just you and me now, it's just you and me now
It's just you and me against the world
It's just you and me now, it's just you, it's just you
It's just you and me against the world

We conquer paradise just to burn it to the ground
And we build a future to honor pasts we've left behind
We bring destruction, we bring war without an end
And then we hope that tomorrow never comes
That it never comes


4.Nemesis

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

Everybody wants to live in a lie
But why should we delude ourselves
It's not as if we can't see that something's wrong
Where's the duty to what's right
Intentions end with empty words
And chaos replaces order

Those who shout the loudest impose their will
Upholding laws that serve the few
Declaring peace while the sirens sing
In the name of progress, the name of madness
Drum beats faster, crowd shouts louder
And chaos replaces order

I want justice for the voice that can't be heard
Vindication for every suffering and hurt
Let retribution hold dominion over earth
Because Judgment Day's not coming
Judgment Day's not coming soon enough

Because Judgment Day's not coming
Judgment Day's not coming
Judgment Day's not coming
Judgment Day's not coming soon enough

I want justice for the voice that can't be heard
Vindication for every suffering and hurt
Let retribution hold dominion over earth
Because Judgment Day's not coming
Judgment Day's not coming

I want justice for the voice that can't be heard
Vindication for every suffering and hurt
Let retribution hold dominion over earth
Because Judgment Day's not coming
Judgment Day's not coming soon enough

Soon enough


5.Endless Skies

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

How many years since you found yourself
Staring at an endless sky?
Unaware of yourself who you are and where you're going
Only living, only breathing losing all sense of time

The most fragile of things captivates and embraces you
Surrender and be witness to this rarest of moments
You live within the sense of the order of things
What is truth, what is important, what defines you?

No need to fear, no need to worry
About years that passed, about time you lost
Live seconds as a lifetime, time it does not matter
You live within the sense of the stillness of time

The most fragile of things captivates and embraces you
Surrender and be witness to this rarest of moments
Where you live within the sense of the order of things
What is truth, what is important, what defines you?

No need to fear, no need to worry
About years that passed, about time you lost
Live seconds as a lifetime, time it does not matter
How many years, how many years, how many years
Since you found yourself, since you found yourself, since you
found yourself
Staring at an endless sky?


6.Farthest Star

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

The will to greatness clouds the mind
Consumes the senses, veils the signs
We each are meant to recognize

Redeeming graces cast aside
Enduring notions, new found promise
That the end will never come

We live in times when all seems lost
But time will come when we'll look back
Upon ourselves and on our failings

Embrace the void even closer still
Erase your doubts as you surrender everything

We possess the power
If this should start to fall apart
To mend divides, to change the world
To reach the farthest star

If we should stay silent
If fear should win our hearts
Our light will have long diminished
Before it reaches the farthest star

Wide awake in a world that sleeps
Enduring thoughts, enduring scenes
The knowledge of what is yet to come

From a time when all seems lost
From a dead man to a world
Without restraint unafraid and free

We possess the power
If this should start to fall apart
To mend divides, to change the world
To reach the farthest star

If we should stay silent
If fear should win our hearts
Our light will have long diminished
Before it reaches the farthest star

If we fall and break
All the tears in the world
Cannot make us whole again

We possess the power
If this should start to fall apart
To mend divides, to change the world
To reach the farthest star

If we should stay silent
If fear should win our hearts
Our light will have long diminished
Before it reaches the farthest star


7.Procession

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

I sat above them all
And watched for days
I felt as though my own kind were
All that mattered and kept me sane

I gathered them to me
Watched their hunted pass away
As if direction had finally come
A resurrection for all our selves

I have never felt so proud as I do now
It's like the sun is placed behind me
Feelings that matter never end

One day we'll see our names
In stone where fires burn
The great who silent stood among you
Never praised nor never known

Our thoughts defined the passing days
Sensed the spirit, seized the age
After all these years to dream again
Like smiling children with faces raised

Cheering their path
Tomorrow's glory days

And we who were so scorned
Will always wish to make their end
Our words to still their voice
Our hands to break their worthless necks

One day we'll see our names
In stone where fires burn
The great who silent stood among you
Never praised nor never known

Our thoughts defined the passing days
Sensed the spirit, seized the age
After all these years to dream again
Like smiling children with faces raised

Cheering their path
Tomorrow's glory days

And we who were so scorned
Will always wish to make their end
Our words to still their voice
Our hands to break their worthless necks


8.Entropy

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

In the face of grave defeat I heard cries for mercy
No barrier of self control, no innocent composure
Abusing love and like a child inflicting pain upon itself
When the calling finally comes well there be no one waiting
Well there be no one waiting
Well there be no one waiting
Well there be no one waiting
Well there be no one waiting

In blind despair taken in by any glimpse of freedom
Sell your soul to buy some time, infect all your longings
The thought that god has taken sides on the path to breaking
down
Disconnected but not alone, scream to the tune of the background
noise
Background noise
Scream to the tune of the background noise

Endless thoughts of what is wrong arrive at no conclusion
On the floor still nursing wounds no sense of self to speak of
The though that god has taken sides on the path to breaking down
Disconnected but not alone, scream to the tune of the background
noise
Background noise

When does 'enough' become enough?
When does 'no' have meaning?
When does 'enough' become enough?
When does 'no' have meaning?

When does 'enough' become enough?
When does 'no' have meaning?
When does 'enough' become enough?
When does 'no' have meaning?

Backgrounds noise


9.Illusion

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

I know it's hard to tell how mixed up you feel
Hoping what you need is behind every door
Each time you get hurt, I don't want you to change
Because everyone has hopes, you're human after all

The feeling sometimes wishing you were someone else
Feeling as though you never belong
This feeling is not sadness, this feeling is not joy
I truly understand, please don't cry now

Please don't go, I want you to stay
I'm begging you, please, please don't leave here
I don't want you to hate for all the hurt that you feel
The world is just illusion trying to change you

Being like you are, well, this is something else
Who would comprehend? But some that do lay claim
Divine purpose blesses them, that's not what I believe
And it doesn't matter anyway

A part of your soul ties you to the next world
Or maybe to the last but I'm still not sure
But what I do know is to us the world is different
As we are to the world, I guess you would know that

Please don't go, I want you to stay
I'm begging you, please, please don't leave here
I don't want you to hate for all the hurt that you feel
The world is just illusion trying to change you

Please don't go, I want you to stay
I'm begging you, please, oh please don't leave here
I don't want you to change for all the hurt that you feel
This world is just illusion always trying to change you

Please don't go, I want you to stay
I'm begging you, please, please don't leave here
I don't want you to hate for all the hurt that you feel
This world is just illusion, trying to change you

Please don't go, I want you to stay
I'm begging you, please, oh please don't leave here
I don't want you to change for all the hurt that you feel
This world is just illusion always trying to change you


10.Arena

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

Before me plays the endless film
Relentless splinters I recall
Each living thing breathes life, only sentiment remains
To liquid born from patterns formed
Sand descends with blind intent
Where the river takes me will in time be revealed

Thy cannot turn my feelings down
Beyond my means to turn my thoughts around
Expressed in every word I'll ever speak
Brighter than all the stars combined
More than the waters, earth, and sky
All that I wish and all that I dream

Above the waves with my hands raised
Dare the wind lay claim to me
Knowing somehow none could take me
Watching the sun come up in vain
The only reason I can find why I remained
The need to leave the point I came to again and again

It didn't matter how hard I tried
It took so long to claim that I knew how
Or what it meant to let go of this to ever say goodbye
Call it destiny, call it fate
Chose my direction, running forward
Each life to learn anew, whatever, whatever may come

Thy cannot turn my feelings down
Beyond my means to turn my thoughts around
Expressed in every word I'll ever speak
Brighter than all the stars combined
More than the waters, earth, and sky
All that I wish and all that I dream

No creed on earth can replace or provide
In my darkest hour, the comfort I'd feel
Leading me to see, I can be more than I expect of me
My beginning and my end
First and last air that I breathe
More than the sum of everything that I will ever be
My beginning and my end
First and last air that I breathe
More than the sum of everything that I will ever be


11.Honour 2003

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

Passive field, January two thousand and twelve
A nation that stands alone
Cold voices, faces pale
Gathered unto their judgment day

Such pride remains unbroken
Such words remain unspoken
Just mothers to stand in vain and cry
Tears and medals in the rain

Shall I recall when justice did prevail?
No reason to be found why reason did fail
The all clear resounding
The way was clear to rebuild this land

Shall I call on you to guide me well
To see our hopes and dreams fulfilled
On this day of our ascension?

The all clear resounding
The way was clear to rebuild this land
Shall I call on you to guide me well
To see our hopes and dreams fulfilled
On this day of our ascension
On this day we praise the fallen

Stand your ground, this is what we are fighting for
For our spirit and laws and ways
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
For heaven or hell we shall not wait

Shall I think of honor as lies
Or lament it's aged slow demise?
Shall I stand as a total stranger
On this day in this stone chamber?

Stand your ground, this is what we are fighting for
For our spirit and laws and ways
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
For heaven or hell we shall not wait

Shall I think of honor as lies
Or lament it's aged slow demise?
Shall I stand as a total stranger
On this day in this stone chamber?

Stand your ground, this is what we are fighting for
For our spirit and laws and ways
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
For heaven or hell we shall not wait

Shall I think of honor as lies
Or lament it's aged slow demise?
Shall I stand as a total stranger
On this day in this stone chamber?


12.Perpetual

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

Find it in you, raise your eyes
Look beyond the place you stand
Towards the furthest reaches
And to the smallest of things

The sound you are hearing
Is the symphony of what we are
Revelation will not come
With heart and mind closed and divided

No need of sun to light the way
Across the ages, we have reigned as we endured
Through the storm fronts we will ever surely pass
To stand as never ending light

Throw away the mantle
Awake from your uncertain hesitation
No way to describe or equate the feeling
No end to what is at your command

A million thoughts run through you
Concentric circles, ever greater
But you have always known
This is not all there is
To your questions there'll be answers

No need of sun to light the way
Across the ages, we have reigned as we endured
Through the storm fronts we will ever surely pass
To stand as never ending light

Let there be, let there always be
Never ending light
Let there be, let there always be
Never ending light

Let there be, let there always be
Never ending light
Let there be, let there always be
Never ending light


13.Interceptor

(instrumental)


14.Carry You

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

Conceal your deepest worries, confine your thoughts inside
The walls you built of damaged pride
The light in your eyes failing like you're adrift
Like night pretending to be day, these storms subside

Though the past, the unwanted memories are holding onto you
All the power in the universe conspires to carry you
Truths you find through your adversities will defend you
As your powers and all your energies conspire to carry you
The adversary to your soul, the blackest thoughts
That try to poison you, these storms subside

Lay down your greatest burden
Relinquish that which has control of you and let yourself
through
Though it seems, the past and future look the same
Suffice to say, you're still here


15.Still Waters

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

Here among the streets
Static noise of moving lines
Isolated locked in time

Along the crowded streets
Faces unknown pass me by
Filtered signals in the noise
Reveal what paper masks disguise

Some have all and some have nothing
Some find themselves losing everything
Some are lost and never found

Some will lead and some will follow
Some only answer to themselves
Some need truth, some need lies

Some will create, some destroy
Some will be healed, some will be torn apart
Though few will ever know why

Some will be loved and some will love
Some will hold on to what some let go
The heart that makes them feel alive
Events by which they are defined

Some accept and some deny
Some would believe but still doubt everything
Some will live and some will die
Fighting over reasons why

Every voice cried out sounds
The noise that doesn't cease
Signals resonate in time
Over again the waters rise and then subside
Sending waves around the world
Still waters open skies

Every voice cried out sounds
The noise that doesn't cease
Signals resonate in time
Over again the waters rise and then subside
Sending waves around the world
Still waters open skies

Sending waves around the world
Still waters open skies

Every voice cried out sounds
Sending waves around the world
Still waters open skies


16.Suffer

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

Hours from sunrise, here in the heart of darkness
Where even demons fear to tread
Restraints that hold you down and render you helpless
Behind the wall that I was climbing

You with the broken wings, you the sinner
You, the patron saint of self-inflicted pity

In search of the pieces you lost when you fell apart
Suffer the children who like you knew know better
Mistakes and abuses, scars wounds and bruises
Close your eyes, close your eyes

If you should fall, if the world turns away
If it all becomes too much, if you can't take the pain
Here you have strength, here you are safe from harm
Here you have healing, all the things you never had

You don't have to live in pain, you want the things that hurt
you more
You don't have to suffer for the things you never had
Here you have strength, here you are safe from harm
Here you have healing, all the things you never had


17.Precipice

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

The hope of my redemption
Is such that I believe that I am free
To confess would bring me no salvation
I alone hold the power to forgive me

And of my acts, I will admit I've no pretensions
I have no regrets for all the things that I have done
My faiths to me are as foundations
None has the right to judge my soul but me

There is no going back, no quarter now remains
No return for me, no sanctity, a single chance prevails
For lands behind lay waste, no doubt, no amends to make
At break of day, until our light fails, march ever on

Greater are the paths of our creation
That have been made for the brave to see
The fools who would condemn our existence
Are as once to be vanquished and ceased

There is no going back, no quarter now remains
No return for me, no sanctity, a single chance prevails
For lands behind lay waste, no doubt, no amends to make
At break of day, until our light fails, march ever on

There is no going back, no quarter now remains
No return for me, no sanctity, a single chance prevails
For lands behind lay waste, no doubt, no amends to make
At break of day, until our light fails, march ever on

There is no going back, no quarter now remains
No return for me, no sanctity, a single chance prevails
For lands behind lay waste, no doubt, no amends to make
At break of day, until our light fails, march ever on


18.As It Fades


19.Main Theme

(Instrumental)


20.Mayhem

(Instrumental)


21.The Lair

(Instrumental)


22.Endless Skys

Lyricist:Ronan Harris

How many years since you found yourself
Staring at an endless sky?
Unaware of yourself, who you are and where you're going
Only living, only breathing, losing all sense of time

The most fragile of things captivates and embraces you
Surrender and be witness to this rarest of moments
You live within the sense of the order of things
What is truth? What is important? What defines you?

No need to fear, no need to worry
About years that passed, about time you lost
Live seconds as a lifetime, time it does not matter
You live within the sense of the stillness of time

The most fragile of things captivates and embraces you
Surrender and be witness to this rarest of moments
Where you live within the sense of the order of things
What is truth? What is important? What defines you?

No need to fear, no need to worry
About years that passed or time you lost
Live a second as a lifetime, time doesn't matter

How many years, how many years
How many years since you found yourself
Since you found yourself
Since you found yourself staring at an endless sky?


23.Chrome (Modcom Mix)

A million faces, each a million lies
For each and all a chrome disguise
Prompts for action force reaction
Embody promise in a sheen so pure
Hurt, the measure of blind ambition
The testament to your singular disease
Against all wisdom you heed no warning
Your desires giving you away

If I could change your mind
I wouldn't save you from the path you wander
In desperation dreams any soul can set you free
And I still hear you scream
In every breath, in every single motion
Burning innocence the fire to set you free

Your actions turn conquest to dust
In portents of fate you foolishly place trust
Sense fear in your broken breathing
Resort to shadows till your body expires
All creation has the promise of heaven
And still you travel the road to hell
I'm saying nothing for the good of myself
But I'm still talking and you're not listening

If I could change your mind
I wouldn't save you from the path you wander
In desperation dreams any soul can set you free
And I still hear you scream
In every breath, in every single motion
Burning innocence the fire to set you free

As night descends upon the city
The streets are cold, the lights go by
And in the stories of the people
A million faces, a million lies
They'll never say they feel what you feel
That they can see the world you see
And in their faces, their expressions
A million faces, a million lies


24.Chrome (SITD Mix)


25.Chrome (Apoptygma Berzerk Remix)


26.Nemesis (S.A.M. Remix)

Everybody wants to live in a lie
But why should we delude ourselves?
It's not as if we can't see something's wrong
Where's the duty to what's right?
Intentions end with empty words
and chaos replaces order

Those who shout loudest impose their will
Upholding laws that serve a few
Declaring peace while the sirens sing
In the name of progress,
In the name of madness
Drum beats faster
Crowd shouts louder
and chaos replaces order

I want justice for a voice that can't be heard
Vindication for every suffering and hurt
Let retribution hold dominion over earth
Because judgement day's not coming Judgement day's not coming
soon enough

Because judgement day's not coming
Because judgement day's not coming
Because judgement day's not coming
Because judgement day's not coming
Soon enough

I want justice for a voice that can't be heard
Vindication for every suffering and hurt
Let retribution hold dominion over earth
Because judgement day's not coming Judgement day's not coming

I want justice for a voice that can't be heard
Vindication for every suffering and hurt
Let retribution hold dominion over earth
Because judgement day's not coming Judgement day's not coming
Soon enough

Soon enough


27.As It Fades (2nd Movement)

(Instrumental)