floatingleaf | Cruxshadows lyrics - disregard if you will (Reply)

I've finished creating my Cruxshadows playlist. It lasts 4 hours.:) Also, I've been paying more attention to the lyrics, and I have to say that the band has far more to offer than catchy tunes. Some of the songs truly surprised me with their depth and various cultural references. Not your typical 'synthpop', that's for sure. Rogue may look like a teenage post-punk kid (though he's actually only a year younger than me, lol) - but there's more to him than meets the eye. I won't bore anyone with the entire etymology of the band's name and logo, which I find rather cool and cleverly thought out - but I can't resist sharing a few snippets of the lyrics.

There is no love untouched by hate
No unity without discord
There is no courage without fear
There is no peace without a war
There is no wisdom without regret
No admiration without scorn
There is strife within the tempest
But calm in the eye of the storm

(...)

If you find the courage within you
To face the path ahead
It matters not the outcome
If what you will gain instead
Is a heart deepened in the knowing
That experience carves the soul
And the very thing that empties you
Shall surely make you whole
Where the silent voices whisper
Find the course that is your own
And however great the obstacle
You will never be alone
For I have watched the path of angels
And I have heard the heavens roar
There is strife within the tempest
But there is calm in the eye of the storm

(from Eye of the Storm)

And another one:

I don't understand
why do you try
to make hatred and intolerance seem justified
I don't understand your prejudice and lies
tear down your ignorance open your eyes

(...)

waking up from your dream into another day
never taking to heart all of the words they say
it's so hard to believe because the truth is this:
what hatred breeds you must resist

(from ResistR)

And just one more:

he cast you to this isolation
without the spark that made life real
nothing lost below the mourning
nothing moves and nothing feels

your distant eyes filled up with longing
who steals the dignity within?
black sails fade from the horizon
and take away your innocence

(...)

so cautiously you walk the dawning
searching through deserted dreams
he used your love, he used your body
and then dis-garded everything

(...)

and what your life has failed to grant you
live to claim, and claim to live
so many paths lead to tomorrow
what love has lost can you forgive?

(from Ariadne)

All lyrics written by Rogue. Smart boy, isn't he?...;) Smart and pretty - what's not to like?...:D