Birds Elope With The Sun
The Agonist Lyrics

A velvet quietus furtively draped over ears
A soothing and peaceful silence draped surreptitiously over the ears

Quartz underfoot and crystalline opal tears
The ground is hard quartz beneath the feet and the tears are clear and beautiful opals

Welcoming webs of gasping despair
Despairing feelings that are strangely welcoming and all-encompassing

Nival anaphora textures the air
The air is thick with repeating patterns of snowy white textures

Anamnesis waltzes through
A nostalgic and soulful remembrance waltzes through

Windows shut tight, and the fires are fueled
The windows are closed tightly and the fires are stoked up

Reminding naiveté of its magnitude's inferiority
Showing how small and insignificant naiveté truly is

Skyward stretching arms become thin and weak
Arms stretched up towards the sky that become weak and frail

Bony fingers comb the clouds
Fingers that are skeletal in nature combing through the clouds

Then curl into fists, admitting defeat
Clenching into fists, acknowledging defeat and giving up

Blood concedes to gravity’s pull,
Blood giving in to the pull of gravity

Leaving hollow skeletons all erect
Leaving nothing but empty and upright skeletons behind

Perforating the skyline – an impenetrable cage
Creating openings in the skyline, but still feeling trapped like in an inescapable cage

Like skin drawn tight, and canvas cracked with age
Skin pulled tight and a canvas that has aged and cracked over time

Escapist flights and lengthy nights
Flights that are meant to escape reality and long, sleepless nights

as some succumb to slumber awakes...
As some finally fall asleep, others awaken and can't sleep

Faces count minutes 'till noon
Faces anxiously counting down the minutes until noon

Solar ghosts come kiss the moon goodnight
The sun says goodbye to the moon like ghostly figures kissing

Grey memories for now
Memories that feel like they are in shades of grey, at least for now

A thousand families down will fall
A large number of families will fall down together

Nival tears bury them all
Tears as white as snow will bury them all

Like absconding tides, birds elope with the sun
Birds leave quickly like the tide goes out, eloping with the sun

A barren desert soaked in bleach
A lifeless and empty desert soaked in bleaching chemicals

A sickly pallor and opal touch
A color that is almost sickening pallor and a touch that is clear like opals

Hallucinating, shattered glass
Seeing things that aren't there, like shattered glass all around

Falls as if the atmosphere cracked
Falling as though the very atmosphere has shattered and broken apart

And we are invaded by emptiness blank
Overwhelmed by a void and emptiness that feels blank

The brain keeps the body company
The mind is the only company the body truly has

The continent is a newborn trying to breathe
The continent is young and struggling to survive, like a newborn trying to breathe

Accepting his fate, and falling asleep,
Accepting what will happen and giving in to sleep

The child is woman, resting in peace
The child has grown and become a woman, finally resting in peace

The sky is an eggshell waiting to hatch
The sky feels fragile and delicate, like an eggshell about to hatch

The ground is the air, the wind, the trees,
The ground is connected to everything around us: the air, the wind, and the trees

The Earth, the water, the fire...
Everything that makes up our world: the Earth, water, and fire

Sculptors working the clay, carving angels
Artists are working hard to create something beautiful and divine

and gargoyles and columns
Along with angels, creating less beautiful but still significant gargoyles and columns

As pixies dance to appease the leaves
Pixies, or magical creatures, dance to help the leaves

Faces that once turned to catch the light
Faces that used to look up towards the light, now turned down towards darkness

Frown and turn desperately down towards darkness
Frowning and desperately turning towards the darkness

Float to the stiff, grey earth
Floating down to the hard and lifeless earth that is grey in color