[Verse 1]

Asleep

Run silent the streams

Fountains I reveled in not long before

Vanished the whisper of leaves

But shadows of solitude endure

[Verse 2]

As limber as birds

Seasons enlaced in their final dance

Glimmer the bridges I've burnt

With ashes for me to embrace

[Refrain]

For me to embrace

To hold on to

Till twilight falls

[Verse 3]

And I

I wander alone

Chained to my ravenous mortal soul

The halls of the endless unknown

Open up to swallow me whole

[Pre-Chorus]

Astray they unfold

Paths leading into the deepest dark

I'll go till there's no more to go

Bound to the cold in my heart

[Chorus]

It's creeping inside of my bones

Untold desolation

What's there to hold dear anymore

And tell me, what's worth

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]

How cruel is the fate of mankind

Deceitful, the nostrum of time

How luring this aching of mine

Mine to abide till I die

[Guitar Solo]

[Spoken Words]

(It's creeping inside of my bones

Untold desolation

What's there to hold dear anymore

And tell me, what's worth)

[Pre-Chorus]

How cruel is the fate of mankind

How luring – this aching of mine

[Chorus]

It's creeping inside of my bones

Untold desolation

What's there to hold dear anymore

And tell me, what's worth

Bleeding for