Black Arcana 🌙

Evanescence ➢ Who Will You Follow

(Here's the darkness of night) (Here the story's ending)

(Here's the darkness of night) (Here the story's ending) (If we let the dark side win this war)

[Verse 1] Deep in holy water you are feeding our beast with blood Calling it redemption, an illusion that you need like a drug

[Pre-Chorus] Atrocities carved on every page Each line a spark for new wars of faith Leaving this mark, our world in the dark Of this tale up to this age

[Chorus] Tribal poison, judgment by dead men Stolen voices, our sacred divide Peaceful only when not in power Just one more

[Verse 2] Stoning every freedom, for it's leaving you terrified Hiding behind veils, dehumanized, misogynist paradise

[Pre-Chorus] This old defence Morality needs heaven's hand and hell revealed But all I see, your hungry beast on a leash

[Chorus] Tribal poison, judgment by dead men Stolen voices, our sacred divide Peaceful only when not in power Just one more Tribal poison, judgment by dead men Stolen voices, our sacred divide Peaceful only when not in power Just one more lie

[Post-Chorus] Face of mankind Mask of heaven Face of mankind Crown of terror

[Bridge] Agendas turned into stories Gaslighting for centuries By-product of children's primal trust Abused and twisted to horrors While few kept reason burning bright To overcome this grand delusion

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus] Tribal poison, judgment by dead men Stolen voices, our sacred divide Peaceful only when not in power Just one more Tribal poison, judgment by dead men Stolen voices, our sacred divide Peaceful only when not in power Just one more lie

[Post-Chorus] Face of mankind Mask of heaven Face of mankind Crown of terror

[Intro] Fire in the sky Now the kings are gone forever Giants of their time But we will survive We are the new kind

[Verse 1] Here, lying silent in grey stone Stories written in their bones Crown of fire fell from bloodred skies

[Pre-Chorus] Their roar runs deep in the roots of mankind Collective memories of vanity Majesties of the world before the big wave washed them away Washed them all away

[Chorus] Fire in the sky Now the kings are gone forever Giants of their time But we will survive We are the new kind

[Verse 2] Here we are fighting over gold Prey has changed, the game is old The next card has turned, a new round starts

[Pre-Chorus] Waters rising, a new storm coming We forge it ourselves, the falling hammer Time will, if we'll vanish and disappear all the same Vanish all the same

[Chorus] Fire in the sky Now the kings are gone forever Giants of their time But we will survive We are the new kind

[Bridge] No second chance in this game No cheats will let you escape

[Guitar Solo]

[Pre-Chorus] If we vanish all the same A new kind sings

[Chorus] Fire in the sky Now the kings are gone forever Giants of their time But we will survive We are the new kind Fire in the sky Now the kings are gone forever Giants of their time But we will survive We are the new kind

[Outro] We are the new kind We are the new kind

[Verse 1] Kissing the sky, we're back from the dead The world has turned into a masquerade Theatrical play, all the bards dressed as knights While singing a bought serenade Heroes on stage but no waving flags When the real world is calling for knights In times of the dark, they're chasing for gold It may not forever be shining

[Pre-Chorus] On and on, a dance on the graves Fallen leaves on dreams we once shared

[Chorus] Where are the wonders of fires and dark starry nights? Where is the magic, the heart of a child? We keep on chasing, and we keep it burning The dream that will never die

[Verse 2] Here we are now, no tricks and no spells Only the scars we are earning Almost feel cursed like strangers outcast But we stand at the helm of our journey

[Pre-Chorus] On and on with winds in our face Side by side through raging waves

[Chorus] Where are the wonders of fires and dark starry nights? Where is the magic, the heart of a child? We keep on chasing, and we keep it burning The dream that will never die Where are the wonders of fires and dark starry nights? Where is the magic, the heart of a child? We keep on chasing, and we keep it burning The dream that will never die

[Instrumental Break]

[Breakdown] Who is the master of fame? Who is the king in this strange carnival? Carnival

[Pre-Chorus] Where are the wonders tonight? Where is the magic, my child? We keep on chasing, and we keep it burning The dream that will never die

[Chorus] Where are the wonders of fires and dark starry nights? Where is the magic, the heart of a child? We keep on chasing, and we keep it burning The dream that will never die Where are the wonders of fires and dark starry nights? Where is the magic, the heart of a child? We keep on chasing, and we keep it burning The dream that will never die The dream that will never die

[Outro] Who will be king in this strange carnival?

[Verse 1] Once we wondered what we would become? In a bright, bold world we'd all belong Sixty-eight was a silver lining Breaking through the crust of time Only for the dark returning And we heve seen all the signs

[Chorus] How can we look into childern's eyes (What are you leaving for us?) What do we teach if we never learn? (What future?) The fight to be ending all the fights It never feels right Can we leave bеhind this endless night?

[Verse 2] Friday's chldren, show us what it mеans To be breave, raise your voice against machines Warriors carried from the streets Heroes branded terrorists Playing future's lottery And on one's stopping the wheel

[Chorus] How can we look into childern's eyes (What are you leaving for us?) What do we teach if we never learn? (What future?) The fight to be ending all the fights It never feels right Can we leave behind this endless night?

[Post-Chorus] We are here, it's our world We are here, it's our time

[Bridge] How can we sacrifice? How can we give it up? How can we victimize? The ones to be out future No more lies, all the hypocrisy The profit politics I'm getting sick of it, sick of it No more songs without a voice that counts There is no time to lose, to let them have a future One more chance, is it sill in our hands? And our time is running, time is running faster Time is running, time is running out for us

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus] How can we look into childern's eyes (What are you leaving for us?) What do we teach if we never learn? (What future?) The fight to be ending all the fights It never feels right Can we leave behind this endless night? How can we look into childern's eyes (What are you leaving for us?) What do we teach if we never learn? (What future?) The fight to be ending all the fights It never feels right Can we leave behind this endless night? Can we leave behind this endless night?

[Verse 1] Through the aeons bleak of stardust taking shape Silent laws began to weave the fragile thread of life now A million crossroads travelled for a conscious mind Gazing at this cosmic poetry and wondering how

[Pre-Chorus] Beauty lies in every single verse line So perfect without an author's grand design

[Chorus] No holies, no sinners All we are is a story's winners The tale of the wonder of life No heaven, no hellfire All is waves in a sparkling univеrse This is so much more, a poem of thе world A poem of the world

[Verse 2] Once we learned to question, poison filled our void Every seeker ended burning on the stake of true faith

[Pre-Chorus] Starlight tells a far more wondrous tale It's waiting right beyond the sermon's veil

[Chorus] No holies, no sinners All we are is a story's winners The tale of the wonder of life No heaven, no hellfire All is waves in a sparkling universe This is so much more, a poem of the world

[Bridge] We're all made of dust Dust of the stars We're all made of dust Dust of the stars Dust of the stars

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus] No holies, no sinners All we are is a story's winners The tale of the wonder of life No heaven, no hellfire All is waves in a sparkling universe This is so much more, a poem of the world A poem of the world World World

[Verse 1] Storm is raging in distant starlight The emperor's reaching for the throne In secret he's playing every side Very soon the republic falls The reign of the dark side has come But there are good hearts and a new hope Rebels beside, a newfound son Who withstands the temptation

[Pre-Chorus] Of fear, hate, leading to suffering Light wins at last - but would we resist the same?

[Chorus] Sing with the wind but heed its warning Words of old wisdom for your world Cheer to thе heroes not for glory Bow to the truth thеir stories tell Run with the hunted through the shadows Mourn when the light seems lost and bare In the end, last page turned Bow to the truth, their stories share

[Verse 2] Lore, we're watching it all unfolding On silvery screens, from ancient times A mirror of dangers yet to come for us And who will be with the rebels? And who will be on the easy way? To joining the dark side despite All the wise words that once have been praised

[Pre-Chorus] Hate, mistaken for justice and right Dark wins at last, when the story's truth's defied

[Chorus] Sing with the wind but heed its warning Words of old wisdom for your world Cheer to the heroes not for glory Bow to the truth their stories tell Run with the hunted through the shadows Mourn when the light seems lost and bare In the end, last page turned Bow to the truth, their stories share Bow to the truth, their stories share

[Instrumental Break]

[Refrain] What a twisted world With a twisted memory Will we ever learn? All the stories told All of history repeats Will we ever learn?

[Breakdown] Thrones for emperors No fantasy tale, this is our world

[Refrain] What a wondrous life What a wondrous mind we hold Can we cherish it? Our better side All te good that we could do Can we cherrish it?

[Chorus] Sing with the wind but heed its warning Words of old wisdom for your world Cheer to the heroes not for glory Bow to the truth their stories tell Run with the hunted through the shadows Mourn when the light seems lost and bare In the end, last page turned Bow to the truth, their stories share Bow to the truth, their stories share

[Post-Chorus] One day our own story will be told

[Outro] Our story will be told Our story will be told Our story will be told Will be told