Still Alive - Nightingale

I’m taken through the hourglass

I’m being tossed upon the sand

Am I alone

The words still linger

In my head

I’m breathing in the salty air

There is a mark upon my hand

Is there a seat for me

Among the dreaming dead

I was sealed in a tomb of sadness

I was trapped in a cell of sleep

I was held by the hands of time

Now this time is mine to keep

I’m still alive

Far from the casket and cradle

I’m still alive

I’ve taken the fate out of fatal

I’m still alive

They tied me to the pendulum

They hung my heart across the sky

I found my soul eclipsed

My body crucified

I was caged in the age of miracles

I was set in a hollow sky

I was kept under shadow’s lock

Now I don’t know how to die

I’m still alive

Far from the casket and cradle

I’m still alive

I’ve taken the fate out of fatal

I’m still alive

My star is rising now

As the ferryman appears

He bears an offering

A piece of silver for my fears

I couldn’t cut the deal

Mine is not his fate to buy

And as I fly my canvas

He ascends on high

Shattering the Earth and the Heavens

(I feel his icy breath of

Fire consuming me)

Shattering the Earth and the Heavens

(The demon rises up, a bird

Of coal and flame)

Shattering the Earth and the Heavens

(I am surrounded by the

Wings of water now)

Shattering the Earth and the Heavens

(They've come to lift me out of here)

I’m still alive

Far from the casket and cradle

I’m still alive

I’ve taken the fate out of fatal

I’m still alive