I find that there are some amazing poets/lyricists in metal bands.
This song is very well composed and the concept working with two vocalists was something new to the type of music at the time, it is very well written though it loses some of the effect to be read rather than heard:
DARK TRANQUILLITY LYRICS - Skydancer (1993)
Though these two songs do sound better with the music (which is excellent), I think they are good without it.
Symphony X - Serpent's Kiss
Covenant of pure corruption
sink my teeth deep into you
Solemn oath of sheer destruction
Nightmare, through and through
In that hour - I'll devour
Hope is swallowed up in Pain
taste the venom - feel the power
coursing through my veins
I'm corruption
I'm destruction, through and through
Trust in me... for I will set you free
with a Serpent's Kiss
Be my lights and I won't stray - make me beg;
make me pray
Tell me when to laugh or cry - when to live
and when to die
Forgotten and betrayed
Rotting and decayed
left to wither - without a voice
left to slither - without a choice
Crucifier - spitting fire
say your little empty prayers
This empire - growing higher
To this spite I swear
Sharp tongue severs - like a razor
swimming in a sea of rage
Vindicators - masqueraders
all the world's my stage
I devour
I empower - god of pain
Trust in me... for I will set you free
with a Serpent's Kiss
How could it come to this?
with a Serpent's Kiss
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
In the cold misty morning
gleaming rays awake the dawn
Here I stand - a stranger in this land
does your conscience betray you?
falling from grace -
feel the sun on my face
does desire still hold true?
Mystified by her beauty -
does the hunter pity his prey?
Under starless skies all
Love must die and fade away
Take my hand - divine or damned
Make a stand, seize the day
Yours or mine, damned of divine
Draw the line, come what may...
Looking down from ethereal skies
Silent crystalline tears I cry
For all must say their last goodbye -
to Paradise
My yearning is silenced by angelic skin of white
Love conquers all for heaven's fall
this faithful night.
Yours or mine - damned of divine
Draw the line - serpentine...
Love is a tragedy
all that I have, all that I'll ever need
is right here inside
Let the winds of freedom be my guide
Looking down from Ethereal Skies
Silent crystalline tears I cry
For all must say their last goodbye -
to Paradise
Looking down from Ethereal Skies
Silent crystalline tears I cry
For all must say their last goodbye -
to Paradise
Say goodbye, goodbye, hold on!
...so I've cheated and I've lied
been the victim of foolish pride
and I've begged and I've crawled
and I've battled and bled for it all
now I'll savor the downfall...
of Paradise
Looking down from Ethereal Skies
Silent crystalline tears I cry
For all will say their last goodbye
to Paradise