Serenity Painted Death Lyrics - Still Life - Opeth

Returned from a hibernal dream 

Voices fell like marble 

No longer by my side 

Gone all that would linger 

Ripped from my embrace 

Melinda reflected in shafts 

Red line round her neck 

Met the earth in silence 

White faced, haggard grin 

This serenity painted death 

With a halo of bitter disease 

Black paragon in lingering breath 

Saw here fading, blank stare into me 

Clenched fist from the beautiful pain 

Darkness reared its head 

Tearing within the reeling haze 

Took control, claiming my flesh 

Piercing rage, perfect tantrum 

Each and every one would die at my hand 

Choking in warm ponds of blood 

At last, weak and torn, I went down 

Drained from strength, flickering breath 

Came with the moon 

The wayward in conscious state 

Flanked and barred in destiny's end 

Underneath with hope in laches 

Swathed in filth, any would betoken 

Starlit shadows on the wall 

Finally there to collect me 

From the bowels of sin