Ihsahn - The Pain Is Still Mine lyrics

The word is easy
Dripping sweet and cocky from the tongue
Vaguely describing the taste of blood

A distant cry arise
From the fathomless well that is my soul
I can not hear the words
So I throw my heart in like a coin
And wish that it would sink forever

A purpose, a sacrifice or merely temptation?
Is my solitude anything but a perversion
Of my vanity?

I never cared for this weak inclination
This paranoid tendency to flock
And in between all the noise, all the guilt
A silence would carry my spirit away
From diminishing obsessions
Away from fools and poisonous flies

The birth of a dreamer

Behold, an angel of vengeance
(A lion) A lion (A sword) A sword of fire
Alas, the burden of my heart
Is violence undone pain unfulfilled
(Silence) Silence

When I finally cut deep into
The flesh of guilt
The un naked body of shame
And the veins of repentance open wide
Sending rivers of blood into my mouth
The pain is still mine
The pain is still mine