In Somnolent Ruin (2026) Draconian 🇸🇪 Sweden

Icy dew around burning cinders
Ardent features, skeletal fingers
Faces yield, torn by splinters
Sacred heroes, grinning
Like monstrous creatures

Erase me from this vision
Halt the burning season

This burden, this burden
Is it my own?
Am I alone in writing my song?

Erase me from this vision:
Thoughts dismayed
Souls betrayed
Through this prison of flesh

This burden, this burden
Is it my own?
Am I alone in writing my song?

The burden, the burden
The ancestral daughters and sons
The perilous ones

The burden, the burden
The ancestral daughters and sons
The perilous ones

Like a blade stuck inside our hearts
Held to the throat
It's the binding of the spirit onto shame
And God's in the gutter
Drunk on the tears he claimed

For He is alone
Inquisitor of the monochrome

We ascend to a Heaven
Overgrown by dusk
Among the misgiven
Shards of our lives

With a downcast face
And tears aligned
We're leaving this place
To reclaim the divine

We are alone
Refugees from the monochrome

Their burden, their burden
The ancestral daughters and sons
The perilous ones
Coming undone

The burden, the burden
The ancestral daughters and sons
The perilous ones

Is this what we've become?

Anima, break me
Defend me before the storm
Anima, recover me
Defend me before the storm
(Envelopes me)

For my heart is tired
Tired from trying
Freeing the soul
From all of this dying
From shipwrecks and tides
And counterfeit smiles
Til You my Anima dies

Anima, don't forsake me
Breathe life into me
Console me so I don't turn blind
Not to fade as Saturn passes by

For my heart is tired
Tired from trying
Freeing the soul
From all of this dying
From shipwrecks and tides
And counterfeit smiles
Til You my Anima dies

Anima, I kiss the lights
My co-creator in silence
It's the darkling grace
Of this spectral bride within
I lie awake with the rustlings
In the attic of my mind
The harrowing trauma
Paints the shadow that walks beside me

Oh Anima
You're the wind in my sail
And the heartbreak in my smile
You're the tender whisper as I die

For my heart is tired
Tired from trying
Freeing the soul
From all of this dying
From shipwrecks and tides
And counterfeit smiles
Til You my Anima dies

Anima, watch over me

I saw the face of God
And it was weeping
The spirit of Man
Fitfully sleeping

To imagine what's true
With images
With cutting nightmares
Cringing while sleeping
In wreckage
Slithering

By sea, come forth
Through dark ocean eyes
And rivers' flooding out
Petrified and dreaming

Encircling the grace
And the face of God
Is drowned by weeping
His blood now ebon
Dripping

I saw the fate of Man
And I was screaming
I saw the face of God
It was weeping

This bewildered gaze
With a futile plight
Of some glorious sun
Never to rise again

Confusion, come forth!
Be my epitaph!
With each day of creation
Walking backwards
Into the ruins of cold light

And divine providence

God
Into absolution: Void!
You're flooding this tear-carved trail
By mindless rumination
It's something you've always done

A supernova - There
Stillborn Here
Pay heed, dearest friend!
I won't drag you down
Into darker waters
I promise

This cavern's like a veil
Of a life thwarted and foiled
Unrealized in my sobriety

- And You would
Cross oceans of anxiety
And bleed generously
To set me free

Murdering your dread

Life is for the Living
So don't waste it on me
For I saw the face of God
And it was weeping

I gave you wings
You gave me death
I gave you life
And you were blessed

I gave you wings
You gave your love
The kingdom within
I'll let you in

I was left here alone
To be the tortured sun
Doom-riven
Deprived of her song
Long ago

On this derelict path
Through cosmic night
I am the servant on the fields of sorrow
Now, I have no strength left within me
It was turned into tears
For the Heavens to see

Hold it together
For one more winter

I gave you wings
Tears down my chest
My arms around you
Now you can rest

I gave you wings
A way to learn
So you can find me
When you return

Woe to them:
Hypocrites! Murderers!
Brood of vipers
Veiled in false pretence
Whose virtue is but a cold offense
Seated high within their gilded places
Slithering deep inside Archonic temples

You and I
We are the residues of light
And we took the sacrifice
Long ago

This derelict path
Through drizzling snow
The path to wisdom edged with thorns
Now, I have no ardour left within me
It was turned into tears
For the world to see

For one more winter
Hold it together!

You gave me wings
I gave you Death
And took your sins
From your dying breath

I cannot save you
From this world
I wrap my arms around you
As darkness stir

If you perceive me, you perceive yourself
It is through my eyes that you see me
And see yourself
For if you approach me
It is because I have approached you

Something's always wrong
Even when I'm sleeping
So I cracked the moon
And sang along

Just breathe

And everything is always wrong
Even as I'm breathing
So I cracked the moon
And sang along

And if I wish to leave
Who'd tell me that I'm wrong?
'Cause God just seem to sing along

Breathe in
Breathe out
And breathe
No more

I am estranged
A desperate plea for escape
So we must part
This tether now must break
Just let it burn
For all this waiting is murdering my soul
Be it life, be it death
It's all perpetual unrest

What's life but to learn how to die?
I'm there, at the edge of Despair
Devil may care!

With any raging storm some bitter funeral
How dreadfully cold must the heavens be
A land of misery bestowed on me
I see no saving grace in your masters face

I am estranged
I cannot drive this shade away
Then, where's my heart?
What devil kept us apart?
Just let it burn
For all this waiting is murdering my soul
Be it life, be it death
It's all perpetual unrest

And what's life but to learn how to die?
I'm there, at the edge of despair
God Devil may care!

With any raging storm some bitter funeral
How dreadfully cold must the heavens be
A land of misery bestowed on me
I see no saving grace in your masters face

I am the sound of falling
In the rift between God and dust
Now I'm in this prison forever
Drifting the starless tide

Here, perhaps, 'tis the sole current that forever flows
Leaving the gilded, youthful shore behind
By venomous grief to drench the ever-belligerent stream
All too real, too vast, this the shattered, incompetent dream

When nothing is what it seems
And the world has been
Pulled over your eyes
When false light beings flock
In the dissonance
We're moving upstream
Down the misanthrope river

Where shall I go if one of us dies?
Where shall I go if one of us dies?

Beware, my psychic inheritance
No withdrawal, please
Remedy me
From where nothing
Is what it seems
I've never asked for this!

What truth has gone beneath the tide
When every measure's been taken
To steal the rushing light?
Where shall I go if one of us dies?
I'm moving upstream
Down the misanthrope river

Cleansing our souls
Down the misanthrope river

And cold is the shiver
With a brushing stroke of winter
Cold, cold is the shiver
I'm moving upstream
Down the misanthrope river
River

For You, my heart's last drum
No withdrawal, please
Remedy me
For what am I not allowed to see?
I've never asked for this!

An Archon waits by the river
The Archon waits for me
Watching myself dissolve
I'm stuck inside this dream

It waits in shadows deep
Its' eyes are fixed on me
I fall silent into the void
Far from the Mercy Seat

And they call us Sinners
But we are the last Believers
They call us Sinners
There's an Archon by the river
They've always preyed on me
Even now as life has left me
Their current, my ceaseless tide

Oh God, I am drowning
Another name without a memory
This light is cruel and blinding
Devoid of symmetry

And they call us Sinners
No, we're the last Believers!
They call us Sinners

Oh, shooting star
Drown in me!
Drink
Forget
Repeat

Oh, shooting star

Oh, restless soul
Drown in me!
Drink
Forget
Repeat