"Ambitions" by Katatonia

Katatonia:"Ambitions", (from the album "Dead end kings", 2012):

Hear my thin voice
Hear my words fall down
See my ambitions fade out
Had so much better times

At night
Walking on the tracks
Change my perspective
Idle hands
With wounds and cracks
Stale
Ineffective
But past the veil
The memories of things
Still so in love with you

So dense this strife
Kick the life
I feel this weight upon my heart

Indecision
Sow the seed
Aspiration is never within reach
At night there is no other view
Sing a song for the ones who never made it

In the word
Under yellow lights
Under linden trees I am
Transparent
And led to believe
That things would change if I go away
The lowering sky under which we go

Constant noise
Behind the overcoming
I had no choice but to rearrange
The scar is open
I am not allowed to understand
I take it as you´re not coming back

(lyrics: Jonas Renkse)

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(I know a woman, who knows a guy, who knows Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström from Katatonia....Yes, the world is certainly a small place to be :-) Katatonia have a new full-length out these days called "Dead end kings", and I actually think, it´s their best release in recent years, or at least since "Viva emptiness" saw the light of day back in 2003...

"Dead end kings" is such a great experience both musically and when it comes to the lyrics....Maybe not that obvious the first couple of listenings, but it´s definitely an album, that goes deep in your mind after a while :-) Life may be very painful, that´s for sure, and the overwhelming atmosphere of melancholy throughout "Dead end kings" doesn´t help much changing this impression....But on the other hand I´ll rather face the tough facts of life, hand in hand with Katatonia, than be superficial trying to ignore the truth....

I´ve got three favorite "Dead end kings"-tracks", (actually I´ve got a whole lot more....ha ha....), but especially "Hypnone", "Lethean" and "Ambitions" seem, to say the least, fine to me!!! And the winner is...."AMBITIONS"....In fact I could easily be listening to this song all day long :-)

See you next time with yet another great heavy metal-song with lyrics, where I´ll take your hand and lead you back in time....663 years(?!?!) It´s definitely going to be utterly weird :-)

See you!

Kind regards
Carsten