A Place Where The Sun Is Silent (2011)

• The Dark Wood Of Error
• A Forbidden Dance
• Hand In Hand With The Damned
• Beyond The Sacred Glass
• The Temptress
• Circle VII: Sins Of The Lion
• Vestige
• Lullaby Of The Crucified
• Before Him All Shall Scatter
• Labyrinth
• The Fiend
• Welcome To The Vanity Faire
• The Wanderer
• A Gilded Masquerade
• The Best Laid Plans Of Mice And Marionettes
• And Now For The Final Illusion 

The Dark Wood Of Error lyrics - Alesana

[Spoken:]

Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats.

Our story is about to begin.

Salvation cries, but all I can see

Is darkness following me

And I might be crazy just for looking at you

I must be crazy if I think that it's true

The things I've done to be with you

They echo in my every move

And I might be crazy just for looking at you

I must be crazy if I think that it's true

[Spoken:]

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,

Ché la diritta via era smarrita

Esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte

Che nel pensier rinova la paura!

Io non so ben ridir com’ i’ v’intrai,

Tant’ era pien di sonno a quel punto

Che la verace via abbandonai.

Guardai in alto e vidi le sue spalle

Vestite già de’ raggi del pianeta

Che mena dritto altrui per ogne calle.

Così l’animo mio, ch’ancor fuggiva,

Si volse a retro a rimirar lo passo

Che non lasciò già mai persona viva.

[Overlapping with Italian:]

Can you hear them cry?

Can you hear them cry?

Can you hear them cry?

Can you hear them?

Can you hear them?

Can you hear them?

Can you hear them cry?

Can you hear them cry?

Cry?

A Forbidden Dance lyrics - Alesana

Stay to the path!

Trust only your faith!

To falter is to hasten your doom!

I dare not say.

My hope is slipping away.

Such gleaming fangs mock the gilded gates!

The way of the truth!

Tell me what to do.

Sweet spirit.

Welcome to what I call hell!

(Yeah)

Your wildest dreams have come true!

Help me!

Infatuation has strangled me again.

There's no resisting the tangled web of your secret fantasy.

A strange sensation is falling over me.

I may be blind but I can see

Your kiss will ruin me.

I tear myself!

I tear myself from the beaten path!

Never to look back!

And still I glance.

The lure of a forbidden dance.

I'm hypnotized by the sordid nymph who races from me!

Suddenly my eyes see clearly.

Welcome to what I call hell.

(Yeah)

Your wildest dreams have come true!

Help me!

Infatuation has strangled me again.

There's no resisting the tangled web of your secret fantasy.

A strange sensation is falling over me.

I may be blind but I can see

Your kiss will ruin me.

I fall down on my knees.

In anticipation of the dawning.

Curiosity is laughing.

I decide that if I'm to die here I will not go calmly.

(Down without a fight.)

Help me!

Infatuation has strangled me again.

There's no resisting the tangled web of your secret fantasy.

A strange sensation is falling over me.

I may be blind but I can see

Your kiss will ruin me!

Your wildest dreams have come true.

Hand In Hand With The Damned lyrics - Alesana

I don't trust myself

I'm trapped drowning in despair, (I'm poisonous)

I slammed the door and locked it shut and now disaster plagues my thoughts.

Let's drink to the dead, (I'm poisonous)

Cheers to what's ahead!

Sweet temptress!

I can see it in your eyes,

You're moving on without me!

(So it ends tonight)

I guess this is goodbye!

Selfishly you say you're better off without me.

(And it ends tonight)

Well baby save your breath.

Won't you please have mercy?

Before you push me away let me try to change your mind.

Oh wanderer!

If you think this is fun just you wait until I'm done!

Blessed fortune screams "Why have you forsaken me?"

(There's no escape) I never should have lost my way.

And now I'm stranded out at sea chasing a lie

(There's no escape) I'm losing the sky.

Sweet temptress!

I can see it in your eyes,

You're moving on without me!

(So it ends tonight)

I guess this is goodbye!

Selfishly you say you're better off without me.

(And it ends tonight)

Well baby save your breath.

Imprisoned soul seized in the chamber of feculent horror.

Suffer all you must but suffer silently.

Still your cursed tongue, stay your blighted abandon.

In your eternal death you hunger for rotten mire.

For in your mortal life it was this which was your gift to man.

Prepare to walk hand in hand with the damned.

God can't help you and angels won't save you!

Your unrequited prayers will be in bane of your existence!

Prepare to walk hand in hand with the damned! [x3]

I am poisonous!

Is there a way for me to say that you should stay?

I need to know you'll miss me when I'm gone.

I'll cherish you until the day I die!

A twisted way to make you mine!

I can see it in your eyes,

You're moving on without me.

(So it ends tonight)

I guess this is goodbye!

Selfishly you say you're better off without me.

(And it ends tonight)

Well baby save your breath.

Won't you please have mercy?

Before you push me away let me try to change your mind.

Oh wanderer!

If you think this is fun just wait until I'm done!

Beyond The Sacred Glass lyrics - Alesana

Quietly I am screaming for help

I calm down and steady myself

Collapse to the ground when I realize I can’t breathe

Could this be happening?

What’s happening to me?

All the walls are closing in on me

And confusion makes it hard to see

Still my pounding heart is bleeding for you

I know the truth

And I start to sweat, sweat, sweat, sweat

Why the hell am I here?

I start to sweat, sweat, sweat, sweat

Have I succumbed to fear?

Why am I trying the undying?

A ghost of such elegance

Oh why am I racing to be facing

A vision of something so perfect?

I am willing to give whatever it takes

To find forgiveness for my mistakes

So I’m going to take a chance

And invite the unknown to a deadly dance

I have laid eyes on you

And yet it does not seem as if the earth moved

I know the truth

And I start to sweat, sweat, sweat, sweat

I will have you tonight!

I start to sweat, sweat, sweat, sweat

You will be mine tonight!

Why am I trying the undying?

A ghost of such elegance

Oh why am I racing to be facing

A vision of something so perfect?

I am willing to give whatever it takes

To find forgiveness for my mistakes

So I’m going to take a chance

And invite the unknown to a deadly dance

As I rise to conquer the demons

I sense that the darkness awaits!

That road I walk is paved with a thousand unmarked graves..

I am willing to give whatever it takes

To find forgiveness for my mistakes

So I’m going to take a chance

And invite the unknown to a deadly dance

I am willing to give whatever it takes

To find forgiveness for my mistakes

So I’m going to take a chance

And invite the unknown to a deadly dance

As I rise to conquer the demons

I sense that the darkness awaits!

The Temptress lyrics - Alesana

My love, try to understand me when I say you torture me.

Your lips they beg for me to get you alone.

I want you to know it's the sway of your hips.

You taste so sweet cruel temptress.

I'm at your feet.

I can tell by the way you move that you want me to want you.

Are you happy now that I've figured out I was just a victim?!

In a game of lies and lustful tension?

Your lips they beg for me to get you alone.

I want you to know it's the sway of your hips.

You taste so sweet, cruel temptress.

I'm at your feet.

I can tell by the way you move that your want me to want you.

Are you happy now that I've figure out that I was just a victim?!

In a game of lies and lustful tension?

I can't believe I fell for you!

I was wrong, I am so confused.

A foolish mistake!

I gaze across the chasm that divides me from her, my prize.

And drink in her beauty.

I let the heady aroma of perfume riding on the hot wind saturate me.

I train my ears to the creaking of the bridge spamming the gap to her.

I throw caution into that wind of passion and continue down the path.

The path to the unknown.

I'm losing control and I want all of you.

I ache to swallow you.

I'm losing control, you're body screams for me, it's destroying me!

I can not resist the temptress of the night!

I'm coming for you!, I want you, I need you!

As the earth quakes I will deflower you!

Oh how my head swims, oh how my heart yearns!

I'm coming for you!

Our flesh will become one and we'll never speak of what we've become!

It's what you want. I'm gone! I'm gone! I'm gone!

So it seems that we were nothing.

I'm giving up!

Are you happy now that I've figured out that I was just a victim?!

In a game of lies and lustful tension?

I can't believe I fell for you!

I was wrong, I am so confused.

A foolish mistake.

Circle VII: Sins Of The Lion lyrics - Alesana

Oh, the violence...

The ocean beckons with it's gaze

Pulling me beneath the waves

Their fury is second to none!

Oh the violence...

It's clawing at my burning skin

Filling my heart with it's sin,

Human reason is washed away!

Am I the first to be fooled by

Your dirty little trick?

I guess I should have seen this coming,

I will not forget

I will not forget

(Is washed away)

I'm the one who has to swallow water,

That's what I get for chasing after you!

You should be hanging by your neck,

Swinging there silently!

I can't stop the bleeding

Tell me that you want me if you need me...

Tell me that you love me if you want me...

Your dying eyes tell a story of poisonous passion

Telling me you want me, do you want me?

Telling me you want me, do you love me?

It is quite clear you despise me

By showing your face here

And you never even told me

Why you disappeared!

Why you disappeared!

(Is washed away)

I'm the one who has to swallow water,

That's what I get for chasing after you!

You should be hanging by your neck,

Swinging there silently!

I can't stop the bleeding

Tell me that you want me if you need me...

Tell me that you love me if you want me...

Your dying eyes tell a story of poisonous passion

Telling me you want me, do you want me?

Telling me you want me, do you love me?

A bone chilling cry erupts!

A bone chilling cry erupts!

(I've seen those eyes but not that smile)

A bone chilling cry erupts!

(I've seen those eyes but not that blank stare)

A bone chilling cry erupts!

(I've seen those eyes but not that blank stare)

A bone chilling cry erupts!

(I've seen those eyes but not that stare)

The tides of sin are stained with blood!

I can't stop the bleeding

Tell me that you want me if you need me...

Tell me that you love me if you want me...

Your dying eyes tell a story of poisonous passion

Telling me you want me, do you want me?

Telling me you want me, do you love me?

You will be sorry when

He spills the blood from your throat!

You'll be torn limb from limb, tramp!

There will be hell to pay, hell to pay!

Vestige lyrics - Alesana

Washed on a shore of enchanted lies and I am breathless

Struggling for reason

How could it be such a wondrous place is trapped in silence?

Give them redemption

Time is melting away, I can't explain

But my eyes are begging to stay

I must say a sunny day helps to push the memories away

I can't imagine my leaving here,

It sounds so peaceful, living in solace

A perfect vision of ecstasy, a dreamy palace

Home to the soulless

Time is melting away, I can't explain

But my eyes are begging to stay

I must say a sunny day helps to push the memories away

Walk along the shore of an ocean of rage

Gazing in amazement at each screaming wave

Everywhere I look there's agony and pain

What's the point of fighting when there's nothing to save?

Time is melting away, I can't explain

But my eyes are begging to stay

I must say a sunny day helps to push the memories away

Caution must be obeyed...

On an island of the decayed...

Lullaby Of The Crucified lyrics - Alesana

My angel close your eyes, I'll be your lover tonight.

Pitiful lullaby, I'll be your lover tonight.

My own misery is taunting me.

The air stings my lungs, I can barely see.

Wicked eyes surrounding me, the trees are watching silently.

I could try to run but baby what's the point?

I may never know

(I don't see the point.)

Why I let you go.

My body is aching.

I'm losing my mind!

There's nothing to hold onto.

My angel close your eyes, I'll be your lover tonight.

I'm tired of trying.

I'm sick of the waiting!

If there's nothing that I can do.

A pitiful lullaby to sing the tortured to sleep

We could settle down and change the end.

Nothing but time, start over again.

All the little things you do that make me fall in love with you.

Have led me to this, a bittersweet abyss.

I may never know

(A vexatious kiss.)

Why I let you go.

My body is aching.

I'm losing my mind!

There's nothing to hold onto.

My angel close your eyes, I'll be your lover tonight.

I'm tired of trying.

I'm sick of the waiting!

If there's nothing that I can do.

A pitiful lullaby to sing the tortured to sleep

I will follow you into the night my darling eyes.

I would do anything to be lying with you as I watch you dream.

I have been reborn!

I have broken free! I'm free! I'm free!

You can't deny me, do not defy me!

I'm drunk on lust and sovereignty!

Abandon all hope for beyond time I can stand!

I have been reborn!

Darling, tonight we say goodbye!

Sing a touching lullaby and we'll watch the angels cry.

Before Him All Shall Scatter lyrics - Alesana

Vid'io piú di mille anime distrutte.

Fuggir cosí dinanzi ad un ch'al passo.

Passava Stige con le piante asciutte.

Dal volto rimovea quell' aere grasso.

Menando la sinistra innanzi spesso;

Ahi quanto mi parea pien di disdegno!

Venne a la porta e con una verghetta.

L'aperse, che non v'ebbe alcun ritegno.

O cacciati del ciel, gente dispetta,

Cominció elli in su l'orribil soglia,

Ond' esta oltracotanza in coi s'alletta?

Poi si rivolse per la strada lorda,

E non fé motta a noi, ma fé sembiante.

D'omo cui altra cura stringa e morda.

Labyrinth lyrics - Alesana

I'm getting stronger and I'm no longer fighting by myself.

For now locked doors are opening for me!

No turning back, I have to get out, get out, get out!

Before it's too late.

My child, I am the way!

Do you think it's wrong of me to long for you despite how you taste?

I'm not the one to give up on you now.

I'll never leave the ground without having to let go, yeah!

Every time I try I'm further from the sky.

I wish that I could let go, I'm lost in your beautiful trance.

Grit my teeth, you're mine, I'll make it painless!

Say your last goodbyes, I'll make it painless!

Take a breath and I will make it painless!

Guess again, guess again, guess again!

I'm exhausted.

I have to get up, get up, get up!

Get up on my feet.

My sweet, I am the light!

Do you think it's wrong of me to long for you despite how you taste?

I'm not the one to give up on you now.

I'll never leave the ground without having to let go, yeah!

Every time I try it just gets harder to find.

Darling cry for me!

Call to me, there's nowhere to run!

Sing to me, there's no way to climb!

There's nowhere to hide, this is where I'll die!

My God, why!

In reverie I smile imagining when I will lie close to you.

And we won't have to worry but watch the sky dance for us instead.

I think I want to I want to sing you to sleep, with you I want to dream.

I'm not the one to give up on you now.

I'll never leave the ground without having to let go, yeah!

Every time I try I'm further from the sky.

I wish that I could let go, I'm lost in your beautiful trance.

Suddenly I'm floating so far from you.

The Fiend lyrics - Alesana

Blessed smoke bellows from the beast!

Bow to the gears and worship the machine!

Is it so?

This can't be happening...

Why can't they see?

Seas of children are bound, gagged, and led into the flames...

Blind are leading the blind into a disaster

I'm the only one who seems to care...

If you decide to worship the chaos...

I will not wait and watch as you burn...

All must kneel before the alter, the veiled will be exalted

We are the flock!

They do not hear a word I say

In the God's harbor all shall rest, become part of the master

We are divine!

I can not save them all!

Blind are leaving the blind into a disaster

I'm the only one who seems to care...

If you decide to worship the chaos...

I will not wait and watch as you burn...

Should we go? They all seem so content

We should go and become part of him

I need you to trust me now

Don't move, I'll figure this out

Forget what anyone said

Just take my hand or we'll both be dead

Blind are leading the blind into a disaster

I'm the only one who seems to care...

If you decide to worship the chaos...

I will not wait and watch as you burn...

They'll never be able to see that they crave this captivity...

Welcome To The Vanity Faire lyrics - Alesana

I search high and low but I can’t find you

Still your vexing laugh entices me

Close enough to touch but then you run away

I’m about to quit and then you say, “lose yourself in the vanity faire!”

Insanity is whispering to me, woah!

What I believe is just not making sense of what I see

Show me your reflection, a sly disguise, is it the girl you want to be?

A porcelain smile, you’re a knockout, baby?

Drape yourself in fragile fantasy

I see your reflection, a sly disguise, and it’s not the girl your want to be?

A fraudulent smile

What you see is what you’ve asked for,but it’s never what you are

A cold-hearted tale

Lost in a maze of beautiful deception

And just like before I’m at the mercy of a phantom

When will it end? How will it end? And will you be in arms?

I just can’t take anymore of this pointless search for nothing

Insanity is whispering to me woah!

What I believe is just not making sense of what I see

Show me your reflection, a sly disguise, is it the girl you want to be?

A fraudulent smile

What you see is what you’ve asked for,but it’s never what you are

Hey hey hey!

Silence, oh cruel harlot!

Silence! Your filthy tongue will be stilled!

Laughter echoing, I’m unraveling tonight

Silence! I’ve had enough!

Silence! No longer will you stop me!

Your vanity so patiently will steal your soul

You’re hideous..

Mirror, mirror on the wall, a liar to us all, you’ll be the one to fall

The eye of the beholder knows the truth

Show me your reflection, a sly disguise,Is it the girl you want to be?

A porcelain smile, you’re a knockout, baby!

Drape yourself in fragile fantasy

I see you reflection, a sly disguise,And it’s not the girl you want to be?

A fraudulent smile

What you see is what you’ve asked for,but it’s never what you are

What you see is what you’ve asked for,What you see is what you get

A cold-hearted tale

Attack the mirrors, shatter the prison

One by one reflections fall, come on come on come on come on!

Until I destroy them all, come on come on come on come on!

The Wanderer lyrics - Alesana

A few prisms of glass offer little comfort in the blackness

The desolate emptiness drinking every last drop of life that's left in me

I pray for absolution, let me return to the path of a tempting lie...

Lead me towards the light

Truly I've run awry

My compass is spinning in the shadows

It's funny how we believe the things that we tell ourselves to

And our hearts simply follow

I pray for absolution, let me return to the path of a tempting lie...

Lead me towards the light

I pray for absolution, let me return to the path of a tempting lie...

Lead me towards the light

A Gilded Masquerade lyrics - Alesana

As the water drips from the sky, I start to wonder.

If I'm still alive then I have to find the answer.

Could it be that it was a dream, and I'm still beside her?

Right before my eyes such a big surprise, the water stops.

Wickedness will rain, and drown us in her.

Sorrow (in her thoughts)

If I hope to survive, I must think faster.

I'm losing ground.

Should I pull back the veil.

You had the best of me (now taste the worst).

All that glimmers is not gold.

I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness.

You had me convinced that together we could fly

Until I started scratching at the surface.

And your body is your masquerade.

Your body is an illness.

Temples crashing down all around me.

Panic clears the streets

The golden city falls.

And with it our lives go up in flames.

Should I pull back the veil.

You had the best of me (now taste the worst).

All that glimmers is not gold.

I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness.

You had me convinced that together we would fly

Until I started scratching at the surface.

And your body is your masquerade.

Your body is an illness.

(Who shall be made clear?)

(Hear them watching you, under.)

My blood runs cold.

(There's no need to fear our love.)

I feel alone from you

(Choose me or you will be left, abandoned)

(Will somebody shout? Is there anybody right?)

Who are you?

Who are you?

Who are you?

Yeah!

Hey hey hey hey

Hey hey hey hey

Hey hey hey hey

Hey hey hey hey

I pull back the veil.

You had the best of me (now taste the worst).

All that glimmers is not gold.

I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness.

You had me convinced that together we could fly

Until I started scratching at the surface.

And your body is your masquerade.

Your body is an illness.

And I'm sickened by the thought of you!

I may never be the same again

(I may never be the same again)

The Best Laid Plans Of Mice And Marionettes lyrics - Alesana

There's no escape from this awful place!

Hey, stranger what's your name?

Have we met before?

Take a look around, the scenes are all the same.

I can see the veil right behind me.

I'll close my eyes and this will go away.

Have I ever said this before!?

If I just keep moving will I be okay or panic in the mayhem!?

I can't take it, I'm battered and broken, abandoned forever!

It's round and round and round we go.

Somebody please let me know just what it takes to begin to start all over again.

The truth has finally shown it's face.

How long have I been in this place?

I never had a choice, you blinded me and stole my voice!

I will see you soon.

Hey, stranger what's your name?

Have we met before?

Do I ever dare to question fate's design or submit to such a bleak destiny?

There has to be another way than this, It's a hopeless fight anyway!

I will not give up and wash away the sin, I'm thirsting for the carnage!

I can't take it, I'm battered and broken, abandoned forever!

It's round and round and round we go.

Somebody please let me know just what it takes to begin to start all over again.

The truth has finally shown it's face.

How long have I been in this place?

I never had a choice, you blinded me and stole my voice!

I will no longer take flight from you...

Now that you've got me, what's next?!

Let me help.

Now I destroy you, demon!

Sinew is ripped to shreds!

Stripped form your body, crimson!

Fury of righteousness will now consume you in death!

It's the sweet, sweet song of your heartbeat.

All I feel is a memory.

Of the night I laid in bed with you.

It's the easy sound of your breathing.

Telling me what I should've seen.

Where was I when you fell fast asleep?

I can't live without you by my side.

It's round and round and round we go.

Somebody please let me know just what it takes to begin, to start all over again!

It's round and round and round we go.

Someone please let me know just what it takes to begin, to start all over again!

And Now For The Final Illusion lyrics - Alesana

Wake up... Wake up... Wake up...

My eyes open wide as I wake, panting, some say that dreams have deeper meaning.

That they are cries from our subconscious.

I never put much thought into such theories, but I felt strangely compelled to recount this one to my love,

My Annabel, shaking her gently, I wonder why her flesh has the chill of virgin snow.

My thoughts are disrupted as reality hits me like a bolt of lightning and I scream.

We are the crucified, we are the virtuous, we are the damned.

We are the crucified, this is our nightmare, let's pray we never fall asleep.

Imprisoned beneath the world where the soulless dwell.

Lies a place that the damned call home.

A place where the virtuous hide in fear.

A place we see only in our nightmares.

A place where the sun is silent.