Dead End Kings Lyrics & Tracklist by Katatonia

So dark, once an amusement park. Troubled whispers sound, on a mute merry-go-round. So cold, once a playground of gold. Caved in long ago, and then poisoned with the snow. Oceans of time, broken patterns align. Hearts washed upon the isle. It carries your name, like radiance in the rain. The wailing sirens alarm. Old memories hang on, and gravitate by weights of sorrow. Through cracks and wounds, our pain reflected in a thousand mirrors. It is time for deeds to take the shapes, of vows and codes of promise. The time to let our minds speak silently, in the act of darkening. Out of reach, out of reach and gone from view. One step behind, now light is one step behind you. Other side, on the other side of the soul. Final role, the void resolves one final role. So dark, once an amusement park. Troubled whispers sound, on a mute merry-go-round. So cold, once a playground of gold. Caved in long ago, and then poisoned with the snow. Oceans of time, broken patterns align. Hearts washed upon the isle. It carries your name, like radiance in the rain. The wailing sirens alarm. Old memories hang on, and gravitate by weights of sorrow. Through cracks and wounds, our pain reflected in a thousand mirrors. It is time for deeds to take the shapes, of vows and codes of promise. The time to let our minds speak silently, in the act of darkening. Darkening... Out of reach, out of reach and gone from view. One step behind, now light is one step behind you. Other side, on the other side of the soul. Final role, the void resolves one final role. Collapse into absence...

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 24, 2025

Sun has lost, mountains fell. What took away our anchor? Snow in the old sky. Escape is a long dead end. Need to rise higher. Temples burn, fires underneath. What controls our anger? Moon coming in, sun has lost. Did you know mountains fell? Need to rise higher. Letting one second go on, to go over a lifetime. We were such good friends, will you find me where I am now? Temples burn, fires underneath. What controls our anger? Moon coming in, sun has lost. Did you know mountains fell? Need to rise higher. Letting one second go on to go over a lifetime. We were such good friends, will you find me where I am now? Letting one second go on to go over a lifetime. We were such good friends, will you find me where I am now?

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 24, 2025

This breaking vow rests so near my tongue, anchor on the cloud. Shade upon the sun, you took my word for it. The vanishing of doubt will unfold my empty space. Your time froze over! I must lead the way for this conclusion, I let you inherit these words I sing to you. See how death will bestow seclusion, the one you are looking for is hidden from view. In my absence now when time will pass, in nothingness abide. See the evening rise and take my word for it, focuses beyond your vision will unfold my empty space. Your time froze over! I must lead the way for this conclusion, I let you inherit these words I sing to you. See how death will bestow seclusion, The one you are looking for is hidden from view. Do you remember when it didn’t used to be so dark and everything was possible still?

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 24, 2025

You will never rest until the stars burn out My day is done, I love the sound of no one coming by. Tomb beneath the trees, the name unsung, the darkness in the cracks. I am not what you have waited for! Trust, nothing is enough, this hunting ground. I need the freedom to control my own. I need the sound of rain wearing dependence down. The line must be kept so thin To live near life, not within. No need to take the test before the dark must shine, reflect my eyes and strip this creation of mine. Tomorrow is so long, the Dead End King is here. Black wings upon his back! I am not what you have waited for! Trust, nothing is enough, this hunting ground. I need the freedom to control my own. I need the sound of rain wearing dependence down. The line must be kept so thin To live near life, not within.

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 24, 2025

White sun, spring of wealth Come for a good time It’s not what I have Vibrate Life on the line My racing heart Your vacant mind If I sow a wind now I will reap a storm You saw me sliding away from the sun And tomorrow who will come And put their hand over mine? Mine with the burning shape of a gun Washed out Soul of money I couldn’t keep the fire It’s not what I do Vibrate Life on the line My racing heart It’s all I find Inside the sickness – rest! Inside the sickness – rest! If I sow a wind now I will reap a storm You saw me sliding away from the sun And tomorrow who will come And put their hand over mine? Mine with the burning shape of a gun If I sow a wind now (wind now) I will reap a storm (will reap a storm) You saw me sliding away from the sun (away from the sun) And tomorrow who will come (who will come) And put their hand over mine? (put their hand over mine?) Mine with the burning (burning) shape of a gun

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 24, 2025

So solitary you have been Your time starts to fade Distorted sky And you find me Revolve inside My blood is yours too That’s what you say It couldn’t be further from the truth I find the soul in medication All my loving has turned and washed away You took my mind’s eye You bring it wherever you go How could you take away the burning I had? My rage, static! The closing line, whatever you say It’s my heart you leech You crushed the edge of symmetry Insignificant You are still My words in your mouth Lingering, spilling over Revolve inside My blood is yours too That’s what you say It couldn’t be further from the truth I see – you don’t want liberation You keep belonging to what’s not even here You took my mind’s eye You bring it wherever you go How could you take away the burning I had? My rage, static! The closing line, whatever you say It’s my heart you leech You crushed the edge of symmetry

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 24, 2025

Hear my thin voice Hear my words fall down See my ambitions fade out Had so much better times At night, walking on the tracks Change my perspective Idle hands with wounds and cracks Stale, ineffective But past the veil the memories of things Still so in love with you So dense this strife, kicked the life I feel this weight upon my heart Indecision, sow the seed Aspiration is never within reach At night there is no other view Sing a song for the ones who never made it In the ward, under yellow lights Under linden trees I am Transparent and led to believe That things would change if I go away The lowering sky under which we go So dense this strife, kicked the life I feel this weight upon my heart Hear my thin voice Hear my words fall down See my ambitions fade out Had so much better times Constant noise behind the overcoming I had no choice but to rearrange The scar is open I am not allowed to understand I take it as you’re not coming back Indecision, sow the seed Aspiration is never within reach At night there is no other view Sing a song for the ones who never made it See my ambitions fade out Had so much better times

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 24, 2025

At life’s four-way stop The tinge in your shadow drops Fate pulls you down for the count With broken promises to amount Time seal our ways To the heart of our hiding place When all our lifelines have been crossed Some scars can never heal from what we lost To fail the test and depart the strong Is to light the way where you have gone For only our funerals to come A requiem, in death a song And it seems to be that consistency Is not what lingers ahead But a virtue of the dead One of these days hours pass yet the night stays When your spirit won’t turn anew The world shuts down with no goodbye to undo you Breathing, lifeless, we are not afraid to die Breathe in life’s less – you’re afraid not to live Breathing, lifeless, we are not afraid to die Breathe in life’s less – you’re afraid not to live To fail the test and depart the strong Is to light the way where you have gone For only our funerals to come A requiem, in death a song

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 24, 2025

In the prayer, can’t seem to find the right words We stretch our dead arms for salvation The foundation and the chemical need Discordance put a veil over my creed So sweet my fever now Embraced by its tainted wings Cup my hands and taste the spite Immune to the truths you told In the wake Reverence in my every move The wretched stars aligned for dead wisdom The apparition rise with my every breath Grasping for the one who lie beneath You leave now, leave my void of prayers Take these words to go with you Take the splinters, see them fall Idle stare, who will come forth from the dry wind Find my blood and clothes and rust Cleaned the past like water through stone Earth did cast a shade over my sleep So sweet my fever now Embraced by its tainted wings Cup my hands and taste the spite Immune to the truths you told You leave now, leave my void of prayers Take these words to go with you Take the splinters, see them fall You leave now, leave my void of prayers Take these words to go with you Take the splinters, see them fall

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 24, 2025

Vexation Internal void My dreams are getting darker and darker Dim my lights Time is frail You shut my mind, oh well Trapped and choked Erased my trail Split the chest My heart couldn’t feel more pale Only once could I see clear Vexation Internal void My dreams are getting darker and darker and darker This life before me Its blood runs so still The call of the bird The song that makes the hours... go! The change – inactive Dead letters from these words Dim my lights, one by one The sordid pale Broken run Confined in escape on burnt grass Below the crest lie in wait for the ending Only once could I see clear My dreams are getting darker and darker and darker This life before me Its blood runs so still The call of the bird The song that makes the hours go...

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 24, 2025

In the weak light I saw you becoming the lie Taking it all for granted like freedom It's something you'll never have Forget what's said and hear me sing to you How I've set out to kill my soul The nightward ways, the labour it brings The verdict that I came for, migration's song Patterns of death overwhelms, fixation rise I came along the way and came to a conclusion The indifferent sky is made of lead and so beautiful Submission, come you will In the weak light I saw you becoming the lie Taking it all for granted like freedom It's something you'll never have The parting, end origin Fade into earth Times ablaze under the flags we chose Denied my step and froze my heart Yet I stare with nothing left to do The verdict that I came for, migration's song Patterns of death overwhelms, fixation rise I came along the way and came to a conclusion The indifferent sky is made of lead and so beautiful Submission, come you will Take your well deserved step into darkness I'll become your eyes, you have no other We have to walk along the wire Trust the one that never trusted you In the weak light I saw you becoming the lie Taking it all for granted like freedom It's something you'll never have The parting, end origin Fade into earth