Alesana - Tilting The Hourglass

You take my breath away,
but I’ll never again taste your lips.
As fate keeps me locked away,
I must close my eyes to
see your face.

Emptiness has darkened my eyes
as I hopelessly beg for my life to end.
Tell me why
my iron eyes tell the tale.
Heroes always pay in their blood,
I can be only this.

I see the fear growing
in their lost eyes.
My purpose is so clear
(i am the ax (2x))
And this is why I must
not fear the end.

And when I’m gone, will you forget me?
Pen wears its steady course
across the
page
resigned to its designs
to take
the hive

Emptiness has darkened my eyes
as I hopelessly beg for my life to end.
Tell me why.

Emptiness has darkened my eyes
as I hopelessly beg for my life to end.
Tell me why.
(I wish I could make you see,
I wish I could make you see through the pain,
through the end.
I wish I could make you see the greater purpose that
I have to serve.
No one else will fight, no one else will fight,
so I must.) My iron eyes tell the tale.
Heroes always pay in their blood,
I can be only this.

I am the ax,
fear has been lost to faith.
The darkest night has come before the end
of which we must prevail.

Amidst the
pitch of steel
we shall
arise.
I will destroy all those who oppose me.

My iron eyes tell the tale.
Heroes always pay in their blood,
I can be only this.

My iron eyes tell the tale.
Heroes always pay in their blood,
I can be only this.

I see the fear growing in there.