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Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian lyrics



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01. The Sorceress

I search alone, dark the night
Deep the blackest forest
And down to Devil's Hopyard
On my way from Salem I lit a fire
The magical brimstone sparks
Ashes from the hazel wood
Dancing with the Banshee
Fire rose up to the sky

The dead of night parts the sky, the Salem Witch
Hunting eyes, Malifica spells
She flies the ocean shore of Kildare
Over tombs of the Harpy fields
Lonely girls ride the great beast
Virginal Goddess of Hunt Diana

Through the Bröcken Spectre rose a luring angel
Sister of Morgana forever dressed in black
We journey through the witch trials
Learned of lore and wives tales
Fathomed deepest oceans of her darkest mind

The dead of night parts the sky, the Salem Witch
Hunting eyes, Malifica spells
She flies the ocean shore of Kildare
Over tombs of the Harpy fields
Lonely girls ride the great beast
Virginal Goddess of Hunt Diana

Searching lands of Giants and Dragons
Sail the oceans of Serpents and Krakens
Under ages of dark, the Salem Witch

Burned beneath mindless tortures of men
Through the castles of Demons and Wizards
To your Fate Moerea the sisters
Two hundred fifty thousand
The Salem Witch

Down in the bog of the Witch Meadow run
Malifica revenge the plagues have begun
Burned alive for a crime never done

Children of the darkness dance on the coven of the lost
In a blazing pyre suspended in air she demands holocaust
Well she can exercise with the whites of her eyes
She'll devour your children

In a wink of an eye as she descends from the sky
To the cauldron of the damned
In her burning lips he earned the infamous kiss
She took me by the hand
In a wink of an eye she ascended the sky
She unveiled my talisman
I'm the Witch Finder General

Dark the night, deep the blackest forest
And down to Devil's Hopyard
On my way from Salem I lit a fire
The magical brimstone sparks
Ashes from the hazel wood
Dancing with the banshee
Rose up in the sky

The dead of night parts the sky, the Salem Witch
Hunting eyes, Malifica spells
She flies the ocean shore of Kildare
Over tombs of the Harpy fields
Lonely girls ride the great beast
Virginal Goddess of Hunt Diana

02. Valley Of The Dolls

Bedroom mirrors do tell who's the fairest of them all
Limelight silhouette, transparent walls
Dancing shadows cascade paper dolls
Wailing ghost guitars send in the clowns
Send in the clowns

Painted plastic faces stealing mommy's make up
Masque the false gods with mannequin smiles
Prima donnas play upon their pedestals of fame
Unborn girls, the false facade, illegitimate child
I won't play your game
Illegitimate child
Searching for a name

Blasphemous black Bible bias you betray bigotry
Slay the hydra pretty fair maidens spread their leprosy
Hungry children feed from hype of perpetual egos
I slay the hydra, burn the talisman, holocaust

Run with the pack, illegitimate child
The unborn wench at war
Tears in his eyes, she became a bride
Wedlock to a whore
Shatter the dream, the tangerine dream
Bow to kings, not the queens
Go back where you reign, to your domain
The Valley of the Dolls!

Bow to Kings of yesterday
They have given you wings to fly away
What have the phantom queens but deceived you
Armies of shadows climbing
Silvery mountains, lining molten and ask

Camouflage the battle scars with Oxy10 and Maybelline
Cloning the heros in hype magazine
Pirates of underground, lightning the speed of sound
You will prevail

And bedroom mirrors do tell who's the fairest of them all
Limelight silhouette, transparent walls
Dancing shadows cascade paper dolls
Wailing ghost guitars

Run with the pack, illegitimate child
The unborn wench at war
Tears in his eyes, she became a bride
Wedlock to a whore
Shatter the dream, the tangerine dream
Bow to Kings, not the Queens
Go back where you reign, to your domain
The Valley of the Dolls

03. Fata Morgana

Morrigan you come again
Morgan La Fay, raven on my sill of frost
Far away from the sea of the setting sun
Isle of fire and albatross
Taught so well, Magic Merlin the wizard
Maiden of beauty dressed in rainbow
Come to me
Come to me
Come to me

Damon girl the daughter of Saul
Queen of the Underworld... She'll have us all
Damian who's seductress of lust
The peasants and Kings
Your heart she will turn into dust
Damian she's the mortal of man
Lives in my dreams in darkness
Reaches out her hand
Come to me
Come to me

Fata Morgana...She will take you
You're a hungry scarred harlot
Hunting another heart
Morrigan fallen angel
Kneeled upon the widows altar
Temptress of my dreams...
She's the widow of my dreams

Far beyond the realm of dream, your wildest dream
Ascend to the plane, an imaginary game we play
Past the golden pillars of the lore to Lemuria

Morrigan upon her throne
She's a mirrored mirage of my desire
Passion slave, her life I gave, jump into her fire

Fata Morgana...She will take you
You're a hungry scarred harlot
Hunting another heart
Morrigan, fallen angel
Kneeled upon the widows altar
Temptress of my dreams...
She's the widow in my dreams
Luring me to ecstacy
Damian my fantasy

04. Guardian

These walls are stained, engraved with pain
You will find them under shadows casting shame
Some it's all they've ever known
Angels of the fortunate sons come and go
You may not

Entities pass in the night
Guardians and the Reaper fight
The will to live shall win
Mares of hope ride through their dreams
Blinding light awakens sleeping dawn
It seems It was all a dream
An endless dream

I will wish upon a star
I believe in you
And if my will has strayed afar I rememebered you
Will you remember me?
I'm the one you sentenced
Pennance unabsolved
Answer me
Save my will
Have you forgotten me?

Pace the hallway blindman
For a million miles of stars his mind has seen
Think you may, he lives in darkness
We're the dark, he's seen the light of dream

Karen, she's been asleep forever
I know she hears me
She has so much to say
The machine that sparks through her egg shell mind
The tear streams from her face
Into my hand, to my heart

I will wish upon a star
I believe in you and if my will has strayed afar I rememebered you
Will you remember me?
I'm the one you sentenced
Pennance unabsolved
Answer me, Save my will

I'm a fire without a flame
Helpless child without a name
With broken wings
Catch me, I'm falling
I'm a question with no answer
Who are you that takes my life away from me?
Unveil the boundaries of the black

I had a dream I was you
Strong as the fire in my veins
And when I called out your name I would remain to witness the pain
I am beyond silent black
I will be back as your Guardian

Angels in white you have sacrificed
You witnessed and buried the pain
You walk hand and hand with the fear stricken child
Strengthen the weak and the lame
Have you seen beyond the unborn?
Pillar of pennance and lore
Perpetual journey into the realm
The Sovereign Servitor

I will wish upon a star
I believe in you
And if my will has strayed afar I rememebered you
Will you remember me?
I'm the one you sentenced
Pennance unabsolved
Answer me, Save my will
Have you forgotten me?

05. Prelude To Ruin

Look to sunrise man, tell me what you see
The eagle has flown underground
Abandoned you, abandoned me
Fifty-two falling stars are burning up the sky
Blazing torch falls to the ocean bottom
Where black predictions lie

Have you faith in scripture, visions of kings?
Reaper of reality, your destiny the sisters sing
Vultures scavenge the subsconsious of our minds
Their ally is time for us to fall and yield our might

We should be held so high and not looked down upon
We are the root of our country
The roots so firm and tranquil
When will the spirits be welcomed?
Listen the music is heard again
When there are lofty high roof tops
Carved walls and yielding crops
When the palace is wild for lusting.
When the forest if wild for hunting.
Existance of anyone thing
Has never been but the prelude to ruin

Wars and temper tantrums are the make-shifts of ignorance
Regrets illuminate
Depths beyond sin is fathomed
Wandering through the Devil's field
Sowing his seed
Guardian angels guide us through the night,
We compel the light through the Master's city

The Moerea control Eternal Destiny
The sisters all of three
Clotho she spun much pain on the web to live
Her thread so sensitive.
Lachesis she measured out the years
Atropos cuts the thread with her shears

Time Time Time an imaginary line
Mine not yours nor yours mine
They lead the blind back to Mother's womb
Tomb of the unborn child
Coming events cast their shadows before wintery wind the eye of the storm witness the past the future
Holds more prelude to ruin

We should be held so high and not looked down upon
We are the root of our country
The roots so firm and tranquil
When will the spirits be welcomed?
Listen the music is heard again.
When there are lofty high roof tops
Carved walls and yielding crops
When the palace is wild for lusting
When the forest if wild for hunting
Existance of anyone thing
Has never been but the prelude to ruin

06. Giant's Lore (Heart Of Winter)

In a time long past tomorrow
Sleeping in the castle of the black
In the Leland hills are the monster tracks of a giant
The darn of Autumn playing in the garden of the rising sun
The children they run in the yard of the Giant
If he awakens he will crush them in the earth
Fear the children inherited at birth

Thunder clouds close the skys
He opened up his eyes, he's awakened
Hears the children in his paradise
You must leave this land forever more or live behind the iron doors of the darkest dungeon
So they left with the passing storm
The Gods were awakened
They will crush him in the earth
He is forsaken until he shares his worth

Kings, Queens, Pirates, Giants
Castle walls and dungeon doors
Earthbound to your treasures
Sunken heart to the ocean floor
I will remember knocking on the cold side of your door

Spring came soon to the outside world
But the North wind whirled through the castle halls
Children played in the outside sun
Frost giants stood there in the garden walls
Seaons passed, he's locked in Winter and he's filled with remorse, his frost bitten heart

Through a crack in the garden wall came a child with the gift of Spring
The Frost Giants went away
The dawn of Autumn came into the Garden of the Rising Sun
And we were done in the eyes of the Giant

His heart was awakened
He was forgiven then
Always remembered as a giant among men

Kings, Queens, Pirates, Giants
Castle walls and dungeon doors
Earthbound to your treasures
Sunken heart to the ocean floor
I will remember knocking on the cold side of your door

08. Exodus

Morning desert sun, horizon
Rise above the sands of time
Mystic journey to Arcana
I travel starry spheres in trine
Sands of the dunes, dust of the bones
Swallow the trace of creatures left behind
Gods of the fire fall from the sky
Reaped all the fruit and plagued Earth dry

Distant vision tempting waters fall to my knees I'm going to drink it dry
Blazing desert sun reflection on the water
He caught my eye
Up in a tree laughing at me
Vulture of fear, why don't you go away?
You're mine one day
Spit out the sand
Be on your way

Exodus ascend the plane
Exile this medium of bondage
Far beyond the myriads of crypts and pyramids
Beyond the harpy vultures guarding their tombs
Arcana awaits
Exodus ascend the plane
Exile this medium of bondage
Far beyond the the prophecy of tyrant guardians
Traject the esoteric sisters they are mythical
Arcana awaits you

Oh Guardian, predestination calls
Silent wind I felt what you said
Soon I'm exhumed for consummation
He charmed my soul with his Book of the Dead
He read, it said, "Bear no children"
They will inhere the dormant fear in man
Sovereign the force more than emotion
It controls your destiny at hand

False guardian I will compel
False as the fear of Heaven and Hell
I should have known its all a mirage just as well
The power of good will not be shown by conquering fear
Let it be known its a constant resist until your transformation

Morning desert sun, horizon
Rise above the sands of time
Mystic journey to Arcana
I travel starry spheres in trine
Sands of the dunes, dust of the bones
Swallow the trace of creatures left behind
Gods of the fire fall from the sky
Reaped all the fruit and plagued earth dry

Exodus ascend the plane
Exile this medium of bondage
Far beyond the myriads of crypts and pyramids
Beyond the harpy vultures guarding their tombs
Arcana awaits
Exodus ascend the plane
Exile this medium of bondage
Far beyond the the prophecy of tyrant guardians
Traject the esoteric sisters they are mythical
Arcana awaits you