The Baying Of The Hounds Lyrics - Ghost Reveries - Opeth

I hear the baying of the hounds 

In the distance, I hear them devouring 

Pest ridden jackals of the earth 

Diabolical beasts and roaming the forests 

In wait and constant protectors 

Calling you to sit by his side 

Your self loathing image in his flesh 

A revelation upon which you linger 

His words are flies 

Swarming towards the true insects 

Feasting on buried dreams 

And spreading decay upon your skin 

His eyes spew forth a darkness 

That cut through and paralyze 

Casts light upon your secrets 

Forced to confront your enemies 

His mouth is a vortex 

Sucking you into it's pandemonium 

Fools you with a helping hand of ashes 

Reached out in false dismay 

His body is a country 

The cities lay dead and beyond despair 

Friends turned enemies unable to come clean 

In a rising fog of reeking death 

Everything you believed is a lie 

Everyone you loved is a death burden 

So you take comfort in him 

And you are receptive to stark wishes 

No longer struggling to declare your stand 

You would inflict no harm to others 

They are unaware of you 

And in a loop of futile events 

You are everything, they are nothing 

Drown in the deep mire 

With past desires 

Beneath the mire 

Drown desire now with you 

Lined up verses on dead skin 

"The tainted lips of the stranger 

Resting upon hers" 

And I embrace bereavement 

Everything beloved is shattered anyway 

I would devote myself to anyone 

I would accept any flaws 

I am too weak to resist 

Tension vibrating with horror 

Finding the outcast in my eyes 

Pushing nerves on a puppet 

Endless poison in my veins 

Clean intent now tainted with death 

And so, cold touch now inhumane 

Every waking hour 

Awaiting a reverie to unfold 

And now they are calling me 

Louder by the minute 

The baying of the hounds 

Calling me back to my home