The Drift

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Rob Carson] Midnight sun Forever shines Boreas Terra Incognita Arise A cold tempest arises. A storm so terrible and unforgiving I am drifting on dark waters. Where have I awaken? I can decipher blue silhouettes on the shores. Creatures as old as the ice I can hear their voices in my mind. The gentle giants are calling my name I am Fueled by Hyperborean blood Ignited by the North Wind As the mist clears up, the cold shores unveil themselves And what appeared to be a forsaken land Revealed itself as a paradise The sun is shining on the blessed men of this faraway land Riding the Aurora Borealis, I've found my Shangri-La Beyond the North Beyond the ice Beyond death Our life Our happiness We sit on top of the world far from our festering land Our old life is nothing but a distant nightmare We are home My body transformed by Hyperborean blood The curtain falls all is dark The midnight sun long gone Was I not awake? Have I drifted to an astral plane? The fruity trees have withered the North Wind blew them away And I burn in agony nothing is as it seems It was nothing but a dream

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 18, 2026

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Florian Jacot-Descombes] Year after year at the top of this tower Close to her runway I fell silent on my knees My face trembling so rapidly That I didn't need to loosen my mouth Everything opened inside me, everything opened and cried out To all the absent ears see me fall on my knees Free myself from these wicked winds. Memories that don't deserve to be And I cried 'Mercy'. Have mercy upon me.. Skies adorned by Her breath.. Have mercy! They told me to get down on my knees.. Please! Have mercy upon me! Even if Fortitude crowned my heart Everything starts feeling weary Maybe nothing is built to satisfy us eternally Maybe we're nothing but pieces of cloth Born with fragile fibers and the deadly winds only distend The numerous holes that we wear. Like the robe of Saint Sebastian I covered my face in ashes. And I'm left wondering on the nature of flights If Yours truly walks humbled and blindly. If it too often limps You will not understand where I'm going to dance...lightly. I left leaving them. They didn't need to lose themselves Along her splendid hair, I felt them dying and losing all desire They will not understand what I have to do But I'm sure that they'll burst out laughing, when they'll find me under the greenish skies. Skies adorned by my breath have mercy! Let mercy spread upon my sleep! I will finally be at the bow of this fleeing ship, filled with plebs of faces with no future Flowing down this slippery shell whispering. Is there a land beyond this great ocean?

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 18, 2026

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Florian Jacot-Descombes] I laid my head and my body raised through the many holes of my room. I was faster to gain this freedom than the little flame hanging from my ceiling. This Thin Light had the chance to suffocate, to stop breathing Before the coming of this chilling Wind, the arrival of this soundless Breath.. Can you hear the voices of Khadath Al Khold, coming to rape you again Can you feel the pain as the story unfolds? The Drift will turn you insane It was a ground so green and so free; a winterless haven They whispered to me: that the Old Ones left their lands in order to come and drink a nourishing wine, As appealing as Blood filled by the Sun's rays! On this land life slithered slowly Rejoiced by the caress of the grass they sang, for the black birds. Like the two crows, they brought me back, from the shadowed edges of my memory, the noble and forgotten contours of this drifting country. Sliding on the blue blood of the Earth On the numerous rocky Tops, covered by fine white gold, I can see the towers sheltering the worrying faces of the Watchers. Disturbed by the different colours of the Horizon. As a hot knife slicing through butter, These voices have pierced through my brain. I learned that their dances and their crazy feasts continued throughout the day. As the darkness rose its aggressiveness, They would dance oh so Passionately; And when the blackened bile, that oozed from Khadath's Walls, contaminated the Sky, the torches were raised! With Fever, we mock its Shade! With Fever, They mocked its Shade! With Fever, we mock its..... Shade

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 18, 2026

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Florian Jacot-Descombes] During the third night, the oldest voice Whispered some fearful words to me Their Laughs, their dances were the only answer.. When the little children were frightened by the strange And grim sculptures by the main Gate, Facing the way paved by cold stones, Towards the old city of Kadath Who remembers these tiny and strange jewels Forged into the Gates of Kadath? When the hearts carrying The noble crest of audacity wandered behind the Walls, They couldn't hear at the same time, The Wailings under their feet, floating near their hair. Walking into the belly of Kadath I don't really know what was the most loathsome.. The Houses had very small windows And their owners wore Cloaks full of strange scriptures. Who remembers their legendary trees That concealed the warm beams of the solar star? These gloomy and mighty trees, like two aerial snakes, Twisted around and seemingly married To the numerous guard Towers. At night, in the streets, The only lights came from The many hands of Kadath's townsmen Their rings shined with a mad light, A cursed light that we can find In the depths of their eyes. A cruel Ice wave swallowed the landscape And closed the Children's eyes. It must've been the words of a mad brain The complaints, the weeps have been running through Kadath's streets for a long time. The Earth has eaten all of these Sounds On these silent bottoms, They were half Sleeping. The words were clear for Them. In the middle of these small Towers, The Orbs turned pale And Their answers... hit Vinland's Shores. All these faces are erased I am scarred by the Long Sleep When I open my eyes I'm surrounded by cold walls.. ..White and Clear as Ice..

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 18, 2026

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Rob Carson] When the time comes and slithers around the singularity of existence Will you do it all again or finally break your chains? Am I tied to this fate, a destiny carved in black stone An eternal recurrence, the universe's backbone A metaphysical realm, lost in translation The beating heart of the cosmos. Immutable repetition As I gravitate towards impeding doom The celestial bodies shriek Chiseled over and over by the aeons In a spectacle of illumination Nothing feels real Nothing is real There's no room for redemption Feel the oscillation, see the stars realign Is this reincarnation? What is the secret of time? Zarathustra tell me the secrets of the universe Zarathustra what are the pillars of the circle of life How can I be tied to this primordial bound Biting my own tail like a bygone snake How can accept that I have no control over my fate Force yourself into loneliness Leave it all behind Follow the Phoenix, follow the stars Circle back to the beginning of time An Empire decays and crumbles to the ground All is ash and fire We live to see the cosmic balance reset itself We live to see the end of time The trees are burning to the ground. The river blackens the world is lost The fallen have awakened into the night. The earth is coming to an end Lose yourself in the wheel of time, wavering in the depths of space Erupting from the eye of the heavens, the circle of life starts again

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 18, 2026

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Florian Jacot-Descombes] As I gazed into the eyes of the greenish skies I finally fled It happened on the second try But here it was the first time I was denied The control of my actions, the command of my path Before the first time there was a dying blue ceiling Crushing our foreheads, preparing them For the coming of the night Bringing and sealing above our heads A black lid of iron and sorrows A black lid humid and repulsive To make sure that no one will have The courage to escape She knows how to bring us to our feet She lies to us night after night Alone in this amorphous darkness The city lingeringly unrolled its confused Mass of hair, fragile souls wander in the dusty roads Searching for destinies which will never fulfill themselves They roam in these in finite radiant strands Blind and tied until the first morning lights They wander until the city awakens And suddenly passes its comb through its dying hair I hoist myself on top of the towers And become part of the crown of her eyes I can still hear her screaming When she flew away Fleeing from the walls and sealing the tombs Where the agitated arching bodies crumbled When she finished speaking The hours spent without her mentioning It was nothing but a worn photo that she was holding In front of her eyes as behind All her traits were calling her, screaming

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 18, 2026

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Florian Jacot-Descombes] A ferocious gaze thrown at the fleeing reefs Won't bring peace into our hearts The blade is lost, the tears are on their way But the imbalance is already obtained When the sand turns blue from your tears The waves, suspended will crash Close to your body shining like parma leather I rolled before sailing away Hopes and blabber rise on the bridge But all this water, all these waves Monstrous surroundings tirelessly entwine Behind the curtains of our cabins burnt by daylight This light and water will pierce and rock our souls Until we lose track of the years spent in the slam Crystalline spears will create as they pierce us Murmurs elevated through the cloth All this fabric is nothing but the fabric of our hearts And the tip of these spears will unroll the strings with great painful sluggishness Everything sounds fake Even our flee through the faraway winds Appears in its entire falseness Our escape is nothing but the other side of this hand Tightening our shriveled organs in terror When the night will fall by our side The yellow shield sinking and abandoned Will grow its staggering impressions of splendor Blending with the merciless elusive colors That our intertwined souls will lose on the ocean Among this nocturnal and glacial wind whipping our red cheeks This absence throbs in the cloudy void of our lives While the pale drops start flogging the blued spaces In front of the shadows created by the rain, my eyes, betrayed, suffocate

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 18, 2026

[Music by Xaon, lyrics by Florian Jacot-Descombes] These pills helped me confuse thousands of dreams However, this one refuses to give in, to accept, To bend it's head over the crumbs and under the pestled rain. You, like a little voice, under the yellowish skies I can see your thin shadow flying above me All was so quiet, my dear, before I heard your words. Aimless! Endless journey! And Distress can be heard everywhere. I can see your sweet lips vibrating like two wings; The same way as when you tried to trap me A blue dragonfly was sleeping on the red curves of your mouth. The warmth can hardly come close to my heart, Since, I saw your tongue Vibrating, spelling me your defeat. You told me what to know about the concept of Beauty, The blinding, binding beauty of Gold, The last gift of a wounded god, Shining Sand is the only component, you said, Of the Devastating Gold.. And I laughed.. I laughed.. In front of my mirror, For the first time this year. Your lips are so soft Your tears so sour Don't come back if you are lost Your old smile looked like A wounded god facing An empty temple, silent and blue. I dream of knowing the secrets of these loquacious flowers When I walk, stoned, on this green wet carpet Perhaps, it's really my fault, if tonight, Pills can't help me, anymore.. If these dreaming hands are so violent that they send me, Floating, near the temple's stars. Your tears were so sour But your face didn't scare me. Crawling all around me and you, All alone in your celestial funeral. And these wounded gods, Bitterly, counting and chanting about their bruising Crawling all around us.. Crawling all around me ..and you, I can see your thin shadow flying above me All was so quiet, my dear, before you spoke to me. Aimless! Endless journey! Alone.. Going nowhere Thanks to thetruerobcarson for sending these lyrics. Submits, comments, corrections are welcomed at webmaster@darklyrics.com XAON LYRICS

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 18, 2026