The Ivory Gate Of Dreams Lyrics - Singles - Fates Warning

I. Innocence 

II. Cold Daze 

The coldness of confusion 

Hangs in the morning air as 

Brazen bells ring reality 

To announce the conqueror dawn 

Removed from nights fleeting trance 

Plunged headlong into cold days 

Where in a circle we wander 

The barren wastes of our pasts 

III. Daylight Dreamers 

Daylight dreamers awaken on 

Deserts of desperation 

Lonely lives learn to live on 

Islands of isolation 

Surrounded by violent oceans 

Of hate and hopeless sorrows 

Daylight dreamers envision 

Tranquil seas in save tomorrows 

Dreaming through the darkened day 

Along tempest torn strands 

Desperately grasping the grains 

Of hope that flit through our hands 

As they fall we tighten our hold 

While the waves claim the final few 

Taken without ceremony 

They drift out of view 

Washed away with the tides of time 

Slipped through our fingers as dreams do 

IV. Quietus 

From sleeping visions 

Daily were torn 

In waking hours 

Hopes are forlorn 

Is all we do and all we dream 

Doomed to drown in a hopeless stream? 

Wishing life were made of lasting visions 

In eternal sleep 

And if that rest were filled with sorrow 

Still we'd sleep 

In the madness of a silent eternity 

We'd find solace in 

False visions that protect us 

From reality 

Enter ivory gates through midnite skies 

Daylight dreamers in private parades 

Perform before perpetual dawn 

As dusk engulfs the gate of horn. 

Ivory towers appear beyond the gate 

Invisible fortressess of escape 

Traversed by ramparts made of hopes and fears 

Impervious to reality 

V. Ivory Tower 

Behind sullen doors 

Untouched within 

Safe from summer storms 

And winter winds 

Relentless tempests 

Can weaken walls 

Towers falter when 

Reality calls 

Untouchable by all without 

Lost in the silken web youth may weave 

Tangled threads seem a stronghold 

But illusions can deceive 

A cold daze plagues the air 

Driven by aging winds 

The walls give way to the rush 

And let reality in 

VI. Whispers on the wind 

Misty morning on a windswept plain 

Embers of a fortress all that remain 

The seeds of life that burned within 

Have flown like whispers on the wind 

From the sleepers world 

I look towards darkening skys 

Through the violet haze of summer storms 

The sun leaves tired eyes 

VII.Acquiescence 

Betrayed by innocence 

Deceived by delusions 

Plagiarized promises 

Pale into empty hopes 

Ivory towers bow down 

In reference to daylight 

As dreamers awaken 

In sleepers somber shade 

Ocean waves shift leaving 

Only memories 

Final traces of hope 

Are swallowed in the deep 

Despair sends a certain calm 

A vague sense of relief 

Released from all our longings 

Silently we'll sleep 

Hope leads to quiet desperation 

When reality obscures the dream 

Makes the mind a grave of memories 

That wander like the lonely breeze 

Whose whispers echo through ruins rust 

Of towers torn and dreams turned to dust 

VIII. Retrospect