Fates Warning Lyrics

Album: Unknown

The Ivory Gate of Dreams Lyrics

I. Innocence (instrumental)

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)

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