Alone I Stand In Fires Lyrics - Back To Times Of Splendor - Disillusion

In awkward times at awkward places ... 

Rogues in glitter robes, with fierce grimaces 

Sneak around me glowering. 

I should be running away 

But I keep standing here in fires. 

Sinister choirs of whip-lashing demons 

With circling vultures in a dreadful allegiance. 

Singing out of tune in empty words and empty phrases 

Heard it all before from a familiar face. 

And every tone cuts deep as rain in april 

Every chord they form tears open the wounds 

But today will be my day 

When I stand up and be brave 

Today it is me and my ire 

Today I stand alone in fires. 

Was my heart one of a sparrow? 

Caged in the prospects of disbeliefer's eyes 

Was I lurking in my own shadow? 

For a minute free of compromise. 

So many years have passed inside the mussel 

So many have defiled my realm 

So many foreign tongues and unknown words 

So many blether and blether and blether... 

Awoke. From sorrow sleep. 

And every tone cuts deep as rain in april 

And every chord they form tears open the wounds 

But today will be my day 

When I stand up and be brave 

Today it is me and my ire 

Today I stand alone in fires.