Dogs of War Lyrics

Looking back now

Within every thought I have delved, grubbed and mined

I threw sense to the wind

With a tender embrace

Oh how your walls gave way

Least for a while

And love?

It poured like a rain hurling hail with a flash-flooded ire

And I'd swear, for the sake of a dew-honeyed kiss

I'd have drowned in its pools

But desire left me with a cross to bear

A rumbling with a coronary twine

And it leaves me in a humble state in a spiral

As the world rotates

I know my heart will sing and grow

And I know yours aches and spills and overflows

Your love was dead

Or just a lie

A hollowed ode at a delicate time

Now, when I dream

Just the sight of you, graceful and near

Has me steered to the will of the night

And memories gather in a knot in a silent room that time forgot

Although it leaves me in a foreign place arranging photos

For today, I know that I loved you in an ancient way

I loved you like choirs would sing your name

But I lost you to your dogs of war

I lost you to the fog that wraps around and carries you away

And memories gather in a knot in a silent room that time forgot

Although it leaves me in a foreign place arranging photos

For today, I know that I loved you in an ancient way

I loved you like choirs would sing your name

But I lost you to your dogs of war

I lost you to the fog that wraps around

In the corner of some platitude

In the refuge of some callow view

You'd hide

And you'd leave me in a turbid state in a quiet place to navigate alone

Still, I loved you in an ancient way

I loved you like choirs would sing

The soul of an angel in an endless storm had me haggling for a love to call my own

When I lost you to your dogs of war

I lost you to the dogs, the wolves

The hollow demons cluttered and disguised in the hidden alcoves of your mind

And now, I lie here as the walls rotate

In a silent room

The dissipated glow from the moon, in all its golden grace

Leaps around this empty place

Although the wind is willing me to stay

My spirit longs to run away

So, I'll go to my buddies

All the journeymen

Where legends were forged by folly

And I know my name is known