Graylight Contoured Lyrics

The mist unfolds its immaculate stole
Inviting my breath to merge and wane
The aching light ebbs from the bronze-crayoned plain
Leaving the sky daubed in scars of ash and coal
The whisper of dimness traced on paper skin
Calls through labyrinthine arteries to the hollow within
Once I tempted the fall bestrewing the night with red pain
To find that loss is all I gained throughout this greyfaced domain

The cold march of shadows engulfs my frayed mind
Flashes of black scoff my dithering resolve
Foaming waves roar, assail and dissolve
The darkened pulse of tempests behind blank stares confined

With limbs like stone through the vast outside
Always desperately too late
Standing by the water's edge, hours like draining wounds
Swallowed and rent by the throes of a promise gone sour

The lines that split fates can be so razor thin
Vacant eyes scorched by the sleepless hands of what could have been
Long dead stars hang above minds kept awake by the strain
The ceaseless struggle for balance shakes the halls of the mundane

Far across the dormant fields
The din dwarfs the surge of a thousand storms
Here resumes what numbness concealed
Here is the chasm whence faceless dreads swarm
Feeling pulled apart throughout the hissing regions of night
I run amidst the ruins of lives starved for respite

And on blows the wind
Beneath the grey
Of dead days coiled 'round my spine
Light wilts in a steel daze
Sights to mirror the void growing inside

Within this strangling grip
Lifelessness outlives itself

Walls collapse in a deafening choir
For emptier spaces to stretch their frightful still
A wasteland of smoke with no trace of fire

Motion dwindles away in this roaring chill
Within this tide of silence memories shall drown
Deep into the iced horizon flies away my last will

Whatever unknown morning may come pouring down
Time shall no longer reach for this heart
From vaults of gold and brown
I watch the new end start