Dead Can Dance Lyrics

Album: Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

Xavier Lyrics

John Francis Dooley

 wipe the sleep from your eyes

 and embrace the light.

 You have slept now for a thousand years

 beneath starless nights.

 And now it's time for you to renounce the old ways

 and see a new dawn rise.

 In formet days

 the masks were raised

 when the god came down from off the mountain,

 and a sacrifice was made

 for they knew the day of WRATH

 was fast approaching.

 Just like yesterday...

 before the war.

 John Francis Dooley,

 the scapegoat has run

 all our sins are disowned.

 And now it's time for you

 to take off thy mask

 and cross the Rubicon!

 If you and I were one

 within the eyes of our designs,

 it would still not change

 the fact of our leaving.

 For tonight we must leave

 with the first gentle breeze.

 For the Isles of Ken we are assailing!

 Just like Ullyses, on an open sea

 On an odyssey

 of self-discovery...