Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Ivory Gate of Dreams, artist - Fates Warning. Album song No Exit, in the genre Прогрессив-метал
Date of issue: 22.03.1988
Record label: Metal Blade Records
Song language: English
The Ivory Gate of Dreams |
II. |
Cold Daze |
The coldness of confusion |
Hangs in the morning air as Brazen bells ring reality |
To announce the conquerer dawn |
Removed from nights fleeting trance |
Plunged headlong into cold days |
Where in a circle we wander |
The barren wastes of our pasts |
III. |
Daylight Dreamers |
Daylight dreamers awaken on Deserts of desperation |
Lonely lives learn to live on islands of isolation |
Surrounded by violent oceans |
of hate and hopeless sorrows |
Daylight dreamers envision |
tranquil seas in save tomorrows |
Dreaming through the darkened day |
Along tempest torn strands |
Desperately grasping the grains |
of hope that flit through our hands |
As they fall we tighten our hold |
While the waves claim the final few |
taken without ceremony |
They drift out of view |
Washed away with the tides of time |
Slipped through our fingers as dreams do IV. |
Quietus |
From sleeping visions |
Daily were torn |
In waking hours |
Hopes are forlorn |
Is all we do and all we dream |
doomed to drown in a hopeless stream? |
Wishing life were made of lasting visions |
in eternal sleep |
And if that rest were filled with sorrow |
still we’d sleep |
In the madness of a silent eternity |
We’d find solace in False visions that protect us from reality |
Enter ivory gates through midnite skies |
Daylight dreamers in private parades |
Perform before perpetual dawn |
As dusk engulfs the gate of horn. |
Ivory towers appear beyond the gate |
Invisible fortressess of escape |
Traversed by ramparts made of hopes and fears |
Impervious to reality |
V. Ivory Tower |
Behind sullen doors |
Untouched within |
Safe from summer storms |
and winter winds |
Relentless tempests |
Can weaken walls |
Towers falter when |
reality calls |
Untouchable by all without |
Lost in the silken web youth may weave |
Tangled threads seem a stronghold |
But illusions can deceive |
A cold daze plagues the air |
Driven by aging winds |
The walls give way to the rush |
and let reality in VI. |
Whispers on the wind |
Misty morning on a windswept plain |
Embers of a fortress all that remain |
The seeds of life that burned within |
have flown like whispers on the wind |
From the sleepers world |
I look towards darkening skys |
Through the violet haze of summer storms |
The sun leaves tired eyes |
VII.Acquiescence |
Betrayed by innocence |
Deceived by delusions |
Plagiarized promises |
Pale into empty hopes |
Ivory towers bow down |
In reference to daylight |
As dreamers awaken |
In sleepers somber shade |
Ocean waves shift leaving |
only memories |
Final traces of hope |
are swallowed in the deep |
Despair sends a certain calm |
A vague sense of relief |
Released from all our longings |
Silently we’ll sleep |
Hope leads to quiet desperation |
When reality obscures the dream |
Makes the mind a grave of memories |
That wander like the lonely breeze |
Whose whispers echo through ruins rust |
of towers torn and dreams turned to dust |
VIII. |
Retrospect (instrumental) |