[Intro] [Low Gregorian chant] Dies aeternitatis Dies finis Finis Dies aeternitatis Finis animae [Verse 1] Ink on the royal decrees Blood in the cracks of the floor I measure out centuries While roses rot at the door Szandor dreams of endless rule Tira hums her cruel lullaby I taught their daughter secret runes So she could name the sky [Pre-Chorus] I have held a hundred crowns Watched them rust in my hands Gold remembers every ghost More than any man [Chorus] I am the throne of a thousand endings Every reign just a ring in the tree I’ve worn every name that the dark kept pending But the only word I crave is “release” I stitched my soul to the wheel forever Now I kneel at the edge of the sea If I must choose one place to surrender Let this cursed court be the tomb for me [Verse 2] Candles crawl down the walls Wax like serpents at prayer Bertha reads by spitting coals As I unbind the air I’ve drowned in desert Burned in ice Woke in gutters Woke in war Every lifetime learned this price Leaves me wanting more [Pre-Chorus] Not more years But more silence Not more power Less breath I have bent the bones of heaven Just to bargain with death [Chorus] I am the throne of a thousand endings Every reign just a ring in the tree I’ve worn every name that the dark kept pending But the only word I crave is “release” I stitched my soul to the wheel forever Now I kneel at the edge of the sea If I must choose one place to surrender Let this cursed court be the tomb for me [Bridge] Kyrie Kyrie Funde tenebras mei Lux cadit Cor manet Mors Ubi es? I walked through empires like rain Dripping eras from my coat (ah) Buried lovers Burned my names Carved each lifetime in my throat But in these halls of cracked stone In this family of knives I almost hear a word like “home” In the choir of their lies (oh) [Final Chorus] I am the throne of a thousand endings Every reign just a ring in the tree I’ve worn every name that the dark kept pending But the only word I crave is “release” Yet when Szandor calls in the storm When Tira laughs at the pyre When Bertha draws a world in chalk I feel my ruin catch fire If I must fade Then let me linger In this curse I helped create Place my heart on Ostrheinsburg’s finger As its final Faithful weight Dies aeternitatis Let it be I found one place I could haunt in peace If I must belong for all eternity Chain me here And then let me cease [Outro] Dies aeternitatis Finis Finis Dies aeternitatis Pax animae
