Sleepless Empire (2025) Lacuna Coil 🇮🇹 Italy

Stop wasting my time
Fight
 
When I look for confrontation
You hesitate, run away   
Isolation like prison
Inner self to escape
 
Inhale
Ready to dive
 
Your oxygen is not enough to save me
Trapped in toxic waters I forgot to breathe  
I cave in as i’m leaving everything behind
I’ve been craving something I can’t have
And you’re wasting my time 
Let’s get in this battle now
 
Then you seek for compensation 
But you’ve got nothing in trade
Annihilation of dreams and
Only yourself to blame
Let’s break
 
Cut off your bullshit it’s all said and done
You’re too late
I’m pulling the plug
 
We’re fading from the inside
It’s an inner struggle
Fight
Ready to die
 
My breath is getting lighter
I float on crimson waters
 
In this everyday battle
Fight

[Intro: Andrea Ferro]
Standing like a scarecrow

[Verse 1: Cristina Scabbia]
I come back to life when dark stands still
And when nobody's around I'm like a dummy
Just a poor man's design
It's hard to spot me in a crowd
I don't look alive in an empty field
When there is no one around
I know it's funny how I look in disguise
But I've been frozen all my life

[Pre-Chorus: Andrea Ferro]
Dark celebration as I realize

[Chorus: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro]
Aren't we all scarecrows praising the sun?
Here we stand together
Realize we won't bend or break
Until the day is over
Upon our fields
Aren't we all scarecrows?
We project eternal shadows

[Post-Chorus: Andrea Ferro]
We're standing through rain and shine
[Verse 2: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro]
I'm half alive but I am mostly dead
Under the midnight sky
A still life frame inside the gallery of time
No one can figure me out
'Cause I'm a freak of nature
I don't want to belong
You might think that I'm a failure
But I'll prove you wrong

[Chorus: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro]
Aren't we all scarecrows praising the sun?
Here we stand together
Realize we won't bend or break
Until the day is over
Upon our fields
Aren't we all scarecrows?
We project eternal shadows

[Post-Chorus: Andrea Ferro]
I am a freak of nature
And I don't want to belong
No failure

[Bridge: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro]
But sometimes I just feel a little lonely
Hollow eyes witness every passing day (No failure)
Won't turn my face away from the sunlight
Through the thick and thin
I always had it my way
No, I don't mind about the odds
Bring on the judgemental storm all over me (No failure)
Resilient against all elements
Let the crows dance and fly above my head
[Pre-Chorus: Andrea Ferro]
We project eternal shadows
Standing through rain and shine

[Chorus: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro]
Aren't we all scarecrows praising the sun?
Here we stand together
Realize we won't bend or break
Until the day is over
Upon our fields
Aren't we all scarecrows?
We project eternal shadows

[Outro: Andrea Ferro, Cristina Scabbia]
I am a freak of nature
And I don't want to belong, no failure
Won't turn my face away from the sunlight
Through the thick and thin
I always had it my way, oh
We are freaks of nature
And we don't want to belong
We're scarecrows
Resilient against all elements
Let the crows dance and fly above our heads

Decretum fatale
Aeterna sententia
Cruciatus immanis
Servitus perpetua

Decretum fatale
Aeterna lacuna
Divinum refugium
Nefasta fortuna

Drag me down
 
Feel the adrenaline in my veins
As I float in despair
With a stone around my heart
I hold my mind in place
Through dark avenues
Of depression and hate
Pull me down

I have to fall down to climb back on top 
I know how it goes when it’s gone too far
But the center of my gravity is now shattered
I can’t find the balance that i’ve lost

Ground myself to earth
On the verge of abduction
Forget about the life I used to know
Where am I really from?
Distance and time
Are gonna live inside
’Til the bitter end
Pull me down

Where do we go 
When we are not tangible anymore?
Do we travel on a trail of clouding light forever?
Or we disappear somewhere we can’t be seen
And fall asleep into eternity?

It’s gone too far
I will fall down
I’ve gone too far 
I’m falling down

I wish you were dead
Inside of my head
A particle of dust
That slowly disappears

Please keep walking with that grin on the face
You're still making me feel smaller than a grain of sand
Ten thousand prayers cannot heal the regret
In our ceremony of despair

I didn't think the epiphany of the day
Could come back at me tenfold in unexpected ways
I thought it would have been a give and take
I gave it all you got me nothing instead

I wish you were dead
Inside of my hеad
A particle of dust
That slowly disappears
The cursе in my breath
Spit out in the wind
If this is the end
You need to disappear

Footprints in the sand eroded by tides
The wait of time deletes all corrupted files
You can't hurt me now
My heart is buried
It's six feet under

I wish you were dead
Inside of my head
A particle of dust
That slowly disappears
The curse in my breath
Spit out in the wind
If this is the end
You need to disappear

I wish you were dead

I wish you were dead
Inside of my head
A particle of dust
That slowly disappears
The curse in my breath
Spit out in the wind
If this is the end
You need to disappear

I wish you were dead
I wish you were

My time is up but I don't care
I march alone
Alienated
I won't drift away
Born a loner
I don't bind
I just need the pain to feel alive

I flirt with the dark
I'm suffocating
The turmoil inside
To set my demons straight

'Cause I'm not afraid of the absence of light
At the bottom of the Well, I find respite
And it doesn't even matter if I'm dead or alive
Alone, I'm hosting the shadow

This life is coming with a price
No room for negotiation
A never-ending debt I cannot repay
I need to hold on
And don't be afraid
To embrace the darkest side
Of my bleak heart

I traded my soul
Knowing I took the chance
Of losing myself in the exchange

'Cause I'm not afraid of the absence of light
At the bottom of the Well, I find respite
And it doesn't even matter if I'm dead or alive
Alone, I'm hosting the shadow

Let the rain fall hard
And purge the road
'Cause my life feels so uneasy
I've got nothing to lose
Oh, I know
I'm finding comfort into the gloom
Feeling bullet proof
Laughing with my shadow

Laughing with my shadow
Laughing with my shadow
Laughing with my shadow
Laughing with my shadow

And it doesn't even matter if I'm dead or alive

'Cause I'm not afraid of the absence of light
At the bottom of the Well, I find respite
And it doesn't even matter if I'm dead or alive
Alone, I'm hosting the shadow
Let the rain fall hard
And purge the road
Alone, I'm hosting the shadow
Let the rain fall down
And purge my soul
Alone, I'm hosting the shadow

[Intro: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro]
In nomine patris

[Refrain: Cristina Scabbia & Andrea Ferro]
In nomine patris
In nomine patris

[Verse 1: Cristina Scabbia]
I'm going too fast, my legs are tied
I won't survive another night
It's hunting me down from the inside
Analyzes and intrudes my thoughts
I've never felt so hopeless and defeated
So torn and crucified
This night's gonna flash before my eyes
Before I die

[Chorus 1: Cristina Scabbia, Crisitina Scabbia & Andrea Ferro]
Thousand tears are mourning on a cross
Before I lose myself, In nomine patris
I repent, let go of all the sins
I hear the voice of pain, In nomine patris

[Verse 2: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro]
I never felt so crashed and desecrated
Burnt and consumed inside
This life's gonna flash before our eyes
Do we really wanna save ourselves?
'Cause we have become the failure
We're running out of time
We've sold our beliefs, so sacred
Minds to purify


[Chorus 1: Cristina Scabbia, Crisitina Scabbia & Andrea Ferro]
Thousand tears are mourning on a cross
Before I lose myself, In nomine patris
I repent, let go of all the sins
I hear the voice of pain, In nomine patris

[Bridge: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro]
And even if heaven now is open wide
It's dark as hell and so hard to find
I'll keep walking my path, following the horizon in my head
And I feel I'm getting closer to the beginning or the end
I'll build my empire

[Guitar Solo: Marco Coti-Zelati | Refrain: Andrea Ferro]
In nomine patris

[Chorus 2: Andrea Ferro, Andrea Ferro & Cristina Scabbia]
We're mourning on a cross before we lose ourselves
In nomine patris, In nomine patris
Let go of all the sins, I hear the voice of pain
In nomine patris, In nomine patris

[Verse 1: Andrea Ferro]
We're dreaming with open eyes
In a state of disarray
We are like kings locked in a cage
Waiting for salvation that will never come
There is no forever, we will be replaced

[Chorus: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro]
Suspended without motion
A syndrome of sedation
Lost in a sleepless empire
It's the infinite cycle
Where past and future are aligned
In a sleepless empire

[Verse 2: Andrea Ferro]
We're caught up in the rapture
Seduced by short term gains
We only praise false gods
We lack common sense and just live for the day
There is no forever, we are not afraid

[Chorus: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro]
Suspended without motion
A syndrome of sedation
Lost in a sleepless empire
It's the infinite cycle
Where past and future are aligned
In a sleepless empire
[Bridge: Cristina Scabbia]
Are we algorithms or just an obsolete creation
Enslaved in a world that is eroding?
Living in denial
We're logged in with the same old pattern
An easy code to be remembered

[Refrain: Andrea Ferro]
[?]
This is a sleepless empire

[Chorus: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro]
Suspended without motion
A syndrome of sedation
Lost in a sleepless empire
It's the infinite cycle
Where past and future are aligned
In a sleepless empire

[Outro: Andrea Ferro & Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro]
Aeterna insania
Ignifer cruciatus (Neurotic empire)
Aeterna insania
Ignifer cruciatus
Perpetua insomnia
Ignifer cruciatus (We're tossing the dice)
Perpetua insomnia
Tormentum humanum (To rule the sleepless empire)

[Verse 1: Cristina Scabbia]
Hold my hands
I swear I cannot comprehend
I'm trapped in an eerie space, unmoving
Why do I feel I'm aware in unconciousness
As I carry the shadow with me?

[Chorus: Cristina Scabbia, Cristina Scabbia & Andrea Ferro]
Come with me
In my sleep paralysis
With me
In my sleep paralysis

[Verse 2: Cristina Scabbia]
Impending doom
Turning sleep into a battleground
I know it's untrue
But it's feeling so tangible (Isn't real)
I don't think I can cope anymore
(Breathe)

[Chorus: Cristina Scabbia, Cristina Scabbia & Andrea Ferro]
Come with me
In my sleep paralysis
With me
In my sleep paralysis
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[Bridge: Andrea Ferro]
I cannot move and I cannot scream
I roll my eyes, it's hard to breathe
I'm lost
Can't find a way out of this

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus: Cristina Scabbia, Cristina Scabbia & Andrea Ferro]
Come with me
In my sleep paralysis
With me
In my sleep paralysis

[Outro: Andrea Ferro]
I cannot move and I cannot scream
I roll my eyes, it's hard to breathe
I'm lost
Can't find a way out of this
My nightmare blends with rеality
I'm stuck in a loop of anxiety
Burned out
I'm consumed alivе

The scar and the hurt
The dream and the blood

We are locked up inside
In the sickness of our time
We're losing control
Now it's hard to let it go
It feels like dying on the floor
Waking up in pain

We are alone together
No one belongs

In the mean time
I'm falling down
I don't know how to reset myself
I'm still stuck inside my mind
I cannot breathe anymore

We lived through things I cannot say
I feel the cold when you twist the blade
So deep in the cuts
We arе blood
We are hurt
We arе the forsaken
We're living in vain
As we die inside

In the mean time
I'm falling down
I don't know how to reset myself
I'm still stuck inside my mind
I can't compete anymore

Did they ever tell you to be stronger?
Did they ever force you to be fine?
There is something that they'll never understand
Everything cannot be aligned
When you lost the way
And you fear yourself
When the pain never lets you go
It's hard to push yourself through another day
Nothing kills you like your own twisted mind
I can't compete anymore

In the mean time
I'm falling down
I don't know how to reset myself
Cannot be like you want me to
Don't want to be like you all
I just want to lurk in the dark
Start over again

Blood

Run

Ignite the fire in your heart
Close to impossible
Stand up and overcome the invisible

I have to rely on myself
Fighting with my bare hands
Existing through the hurt
Digging another grave

It is so inhuman, grotesque
It's coming
I look around it's a mess

Ignite the fire in your heart
Close to impossible
Stand up and overcome the invisible
Get down to the core
Be brave
And I will be there waiting for you

I stand with none by my side
Craving for my vengeance
Exhausted I can't sleep
Dreaming the blood I shed

I've cried but you'll never know
I stagger but will not fall
I might crawl but will never kneel
I will dodge every spell you will cast on me
As pain has never made me tender
Life has taught me well
Yes, I entered hell and it felt like home
I'll still make sure
The dark sun never dawns
Never dawn
Never dawn

Ignite the fire in your heart
Close to impossible
Stand up and overcome the invisible
Get down to the core
Be brave
And I will be there waiting for you

Never dawn
Never dawn
Never dawn
Never dawn