Tongues Lyrics - Singles - Dark Tranquility

Tongues lost in me 

Yours be the sharp and the vile 

Glide neath my skin 

Storm through my nerves 

I bury the nomad years 

Hours in the earth 

Couldn't exorcise these searing 

Pecking tongues 

Immune you say 

Yet venom strikes 

In strangest guises 

As the viper in our eyes 

Tongue, throat, tongue 

Slayer of the word 

And stealer of vision 

A monumental reign of terrors 

Throats slit up to stain the target 

We're food for the hounds of trauma 

Prey to the crows of stress 

No power left to retrieve 

My stolen language 

Filtered through the illiterate 

Fingers of death 

Flies let sickness be poured 

From the cupped hands of bedlam 

On account of their brightness 

I made friends with the word and the moon 

Went with the tide and left for the sound 

Of dead instruments thrown out of tune 

The red square patterns, 

Dragonrise and even claw 

Decoying from pandemonic symmetry 

Let ring a dissonant note 

In the music of the spheres 

The streak of promise in the nuclear sky 

These whipping black tongues 

Aching to lick me back to life 

To inject their truths within me