THOUSAND-YEAR MIDNIGHT

[Verse 1] Empty ballroom Dust on the frames Every face I ever loved I remember all their names Candles keep burning But they never melt down I stay the same in the mirror While the years go round and round [Chorus] This is the curse of a thousand-year midnight Everyone leaves But I stay I stay Holding the hands of the seconds as they slip by Watching your ghosts walk away Away This is the price of a heart that won’t stop beating Time takes you But it won’t take me I’m still here In the dark In the not-quite Dying forever Endlessly [Verse 2] I learned your birthdays Long after you died Tracing dates in old books Like I’m living inside Street names are changing Your house is a store I stand outside in the shadows Like I’ve done it all before [Bridge] How many winters Can one soul survive How many gravstones Can fit in my mind I drink to remember I drink to forget Every goodbye Hasn’t happened yet [Chorus]

[Verse] What is it about the night that makes it mine How is it that the dark belongs to me How did I get these teeth and talons How did I get these eyes to see [Verse 2] Who was I before the memory Who was I before the guilt and greed Was I ever innocent as such Was I ever anything but me [Chorus] Who was it who made the first deal Who was it who first ate the apple How did we get these teeth and talons How did we get these eyes to see [Verse] When was it that we made the promise When was it we broke it first How did we get this shame and penance How did we get this heavy thirst [Verse 2] Who was it who took the first bite Who was it who first felt the craving How did we get these teeth and talons How did we get these eyes to see [Chorus] I have seen the sun rise every day I have seen the stars in all their names I have seen the end of everything I have seen the world reborn again

[Verse 1] Dust on the chapel glass Moon like a Hunter’s mark Old prayers hang in the rafters I listen But they never talk back Faces flicker and fade Names fall apart in my hands Centuries stacked in the shadows I count them like grains of sand [Chorus] I drink the night But starve for meaning Crimson years that never end Immortal heart Forever bleeding Everyone I touch Turns into a ghost again Alone in the dark With a life that never ends [Verse 2] Laughter in tavern smoke Turned into neon haze Different costumes Same stories They promise forever Then age I stand where the roads all meet Invisible Sharp as a stake Your heartbeat drums in the distance I step back for your own sake [Chorus] I drink the night But starve for meaning Crimson years that never end Immortal heart Forever bleeding Everyone I touch Turns into a ghost again Alone in the dark With a life that never ends [Bridge] How many winters Can bury one soul How many lovers Can I watch grow old I’m tired of the hunger Tired of this skin Trade every sunrise I’ll ever see For one honest ending [Chorus] I drink the night But starve for meaning Crimson years that never end Immortal heart Forever bleeding Everyone I touch Turns into a ghost again Alone in the dark With a life that never ends

[Verse] There's something 'bout you I don't understand So many memories Left on your skin [Pre-Chorus] My heart's so cold I don't want to hurt you [Chorus] Tell me Do you want it Like I want it Yeah? Love in the dark When nobody's there [Verse 2] You walk like water Under my tongue All of these days are starting To turn into one [Pre-Chorus] My heart's so cold I don't want to hurt you I've got a soul But you can't see it [Chorus] Tell me Do you want it Like I want it Yeah? Love in the dark When nobody's there

[Verse 1] [LUCIFER Sung] This curse that weighs me down My prison for my sins And the pain that remains with me From centuries of suffering And the memories of my loved ones But my pain is my purpose I carry them all with me [Pre-Chorus] [MARIANNE Sung] It is my time My time to go I've said goodbye to those I love most Please don't cry You must let me go I will be with you wherever you go [Chorus] [LUCIFER Sung] When the blood moon shines again And the night is long When the blood moon shines again And the night is long [Verse 2] [LUCIFER Sung] Our love means something because it is fleeting What I know now You knew then Our love means something because it is fleeting What I know now You knew then [Chorus] [LUCIFER Sung] When the blood moon shines again And the night is long When the blood moon shines again And the night is long When the blood moon shines again And the night is long When the blood moon shines again And the night is long [Bridge] [MARIANNE Sung] Please don't cry You must let me go I will be with you wherever you go Please don't cry You must let me go I will be with you wherever you go

[Verse] I've lived through the dead of the night I've walked through the ruins of time I've seen it all with my eyes I hear your call in my mind Now I'm feeling guilty I've got something to hide And it pulls me under And it's filling my lungs And it feels like a vise 'cause I know that you're gone And I'm here all alone And I can't say goodbye 'cause I'll live forever I've lived through the dead of the night [Prechorus] I am the monster you see I am your shadow I am your dream I'll let you live on through me You'll live forever Just wait and see [Chorus] And it pulls me under And it's filling my lungs And it feels like a vise 'cause I know that you're gone And I'm here all alone And I can't say goodbye 'cause I'll live forever I've lived through the dead of the night

[Intro] [audio cue: dark ambient music Rising organ] [Verse 1] I've watched kingdoms fall As I remain I remain Everything I love Is buried in the past Every flame is fading Every shadow's cast Eternal I remain I remain [Chorus] I can't carry on Forever I carry on [Verse 2] The darkness in me is rising A fire that never dies I used to think it was the only thing I had left inside But what if that isn't true? If I could find my way back to you [audio cue: acoustic guitar and percussion] Because if we have one chance Then we have one chance to lose But if we have eternity We have eternity to choose Maybe all the love I thought I'd lost It still exists Maybe I'm the one who turned away from it In a world where nothing lasts forever Could it be that we do? [Chorus] I can't carry on Forever I carry on I can't carry on Forever I carry on Forever I carry on [Bridge] It's getting hard to remember the faces and the names As the centuries pass and everything changes I know it all sounds the same But the details fade And all that's left is pain But I'm the only one who still knows who they were It's not a curse It's not a curse It's not a curse It's not a curse [audio cue: guitars and full band]

[Verse] How many have I buried here? How many ghosts call my name? How many miles are in a year? How many have I buried here? [Verse 2] And how many times have I seen the dawn? How many lives have I thrown away? How many lovers who loved me are gone? How many times have I seen the dawn? [Chorus] Night is rising The moon's aglow And the clock is ticking But time moves slow And I won't stop until the sun explodes Until the sun explodes Until the sun explodes [Verse 3] How many memories can I recall? How many eyes will meet mine? How many bodies in an empty hall? How many memories can I recall? [Verse 4] And how many hearts have I let down? How many hands will pull me away? How many days before I hit the ground? How many hearts have I let down? [Chorus] Night is rising The moon's aglow And the clock is ticking But time moves slow And I won't stop until the sun explodes Until the sun explodes Until the sun explodes

[Verse] Lookin' for love in all the wrong places Somewhere I belong (Belong) Feelin' lost and I can't shake it So I wrote this song I am a god (God) and it's hard (Hard) to feel strong (Strong) When everyone you love (Love) is gone (Gone) [Pre-Chorus] Oh [Chorus] You left me All alone Oh In my dome My little room

[Verse] The sun rises like a memory One more day with one less of me Night is young But I'm not One more life and one death not forgot The sun rises like a memory One more day with one less of me The night is young But I'm not One more life and one death not forgot [Pre-Chorus] And the day will come When I hear that bell For now I run [Chorus] The night is mine I've got one life And one more death The night is mine I've got one life And one more death And the day will come When I hear that bell For now I run The night is mine I've got one life And one more death [Verse 2] I keep running out of reasons I just run I don't need them I try to let it go But I know it will stay with me It's just the way I am My only friend The only one who understands But I'm not a man [Pre-Chorus] And the day will come When I hear that bell For now I run [Chorus] The night is mine I've got one life And one more death The night is mine I've got one life And one more death And the day will come When I hear that bell For now I run The night is mine I've got one life And one more death

[Intro: Male Vocals] Aeternus In aeternum Perditi Perditionem Aeternus In aeternum Perditi Perditionem [Verse 1: Male Vocals] How long have I been alive? Death after death How many has it been? I'm out of years I'm out of days I'm out of time So many lives that I've lived If there is a God He's cruel Watching it all fade Watching it all fade They say that I am blessed But how can it be? Watching it all fade Watching it all fade How long must I bear the curse? Watching it all fade Watching it all fade Another loved one claimed by the earth Watching it all fade Watching it all fade When will it end? [Verse 2: Female Vocals] I know that I'm still young But I can feel the end is close How many days How many months? It's closing in I see the fear in your eyes You're not ready to let go My body withers My body rots You will carry on [Pre-Chorus: Male and Female Vocals] Don't say it Don't say it Please don't say it Please don't say it I'm not ready I can't take it It's not fair I can't take it You will live on It's not fair You will live on Without me Without me You will live on You will live on Without me [Chorus: Male Vocals] I've seen the sun rise The moon falls so many times In our years of wandering I've seen the sunrise The moon falls so many times In our years of wandering [Verse 3: Female Vocals] We both know that time isn't fair But maybe it's better this way If it never ends It doesn't matter Nothing would ever matter We'd never love I was always meant to be yours And you were always meant to be mine You carry the stories of those you've lost You will carry me

[Verse 1] Ash on the window Candles burned down to the glass Portraits stare through the cobwebs Counting every century that passed I raise a toast to the silence Red in the crystal Still and cold Every heartbeat I remember Another year I never grow old [Pre-Chorus] I watch them flicker Names on stone and scattered leaves I stand untouched here Chained to all that always leaves [Chorus] Crimson years They never end I outlive every lover Every friend Frozen in a face the mirror fears I drink But I still drown In these crimson years In these crimson years [Verse 2] Footsteps in alleys I feel their warmth before the touch Beg me to save them from the dark I’m the dark I take too much I keep their letters in boxes Ink turned to ghosts of what they wrote Whole lives pressed like dead flowers Hiding in the lining of my coat [Pre-Chorus] Their children’s children Walk past my door and never know How many times I Watched that same blue eye grow old [Bridge] [low vocal register] I have seen empires fall like embers Plagues and prophets Saints and thieves Every promise made forever Turns to dust beneath my feet I would trade all this cursed horizon Every night without an end For one shared winter One last sunrise with a friend [crescendo] But time just circles Tight around my throat Every decade Same damn question What’s a soul to one who floats? [guitar solo]

[Verse 1] Empty ballroom Dust on the frames Every face I ever loved I remember all their names Candles keep burning But they never melt down I stay the same in the mirror While the years go round and round [Chorus] This is the curse of a thousand-year midnight Everyone leaves But I stay I stay Holding the hands of the seconds as they slip by Watching your ghosts walk away Away This is the price of a heart that won’t stop beating Time takes you But it won’t take me I’m still here In the dark In the not-quite Dying forever Endlessly [Verse 2] I learned your birthdays Long after you died Tracing dates in old books Like I’m living inside Street names are changing Your house is a store I stand outside in the shadows Like I’ve done it all before [Bridge] How many winters Can one soul survive How many gravestones Can fit in my mind I drink to remember I drink to forget Every goodbye Hasn’t happened yet