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Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia Album Lyrics



Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia Lyrics






Look To Windward


Will you listen
Just as my form starts to fission
Losing this war of attrition
Just as I drift away
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?

With the shadows
Longer to me than a light-year
Moving so slow I could die here
Say you can hear me say
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?

Now I know why
I woke up here on the shoreline
Coughing up blood in the twilight
Everything looks the same
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?

Will you halt this eclipse in me?

I've got eyelids heavy enough to break diamonds
You pray for sound and I pray for silence
Damn right faithless, I can't deny you'll
Find me with half a mind to get violent

You know it isn't over 'til I say it's over
No more little angels sitting on my shoulder
So give me the edge of a blade and a time and a place
And I'll leave them cold and pushing up boulders

Am I walking with gods or merely stumbling forth
Until there's fire at the gates, until I fall to the floor?
You know I live by the feather and die by the sword
And I will sunder the earth only to burn the reward

Even in this garden of gardens I am the god of the gaps
I am the demon of Sodom
I am the blood of an angel, the fate of the fallen
Nobody knows where I came from, even I have forgotten

How could I already lose my way like this?
Drowning in burning bright abyss
Even at stratospheric depths
This vertigo of bliss

Oh and I-
I used to know myself
Oh and you-
You used to know me well
Oh and I-
I wish that I could leave myself alone
Oh and you-
You wish that you could make me whole

Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you halt this eclipse in-

In me
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Writer: ADAM PEDDER, LEO FAULKNER
Copyright: Lyrics © Sentric Music






Emergence


Well, you were laid in verse
Living on a promised word
Well, I am the rose you relinquished again
You and I are down headfirst
In another world, I heard
But I have a feeling we're close to the end, so

Come on, come on
Out from underneath who you were
Come on, come on now
You know that it's time to emerge

So go ahead and wrap your arms around me
Arms around me, arms around me, yeah
Go ahead and wrap your arms around me
Arms around me, arms around me, yeah
Go ahead and wrap your arms around me
Arms around me, arms around me, yeah
Go ahead and wrap your arms around me
Arms around me, arms around me (oh, yeah)

Are you carbide on my nano?
Red glass on my lightbulb
Dark light on my culture
Sapphire in my white gold
Burst out of my chest and
Hide out in the vents
My blood beats, so alive might
Bite right through your lens, it's
Midnight in my mind's eye
Drowning out the daylight
Godspeed to my enemies that be
Asking for that call sign
You know the behavior
Canines of the savior
Glory to the legion
Trauma for the neighbors

So go ahead and wrap your arms around me
Arms around me, arms around me, yeah
Go ahead and wrap your arms around me
Arms around me, arms around me, yeah
Go ahead and wrap your arms around me
Arms around me, arms around me, yeah
Go ahead and wrap your arms around me
Arms around me, arms around me (oh, yeah)

I've got solar flares for your dead gods
Space dust for your fuel rods
Dark days for your solstice
Dancing through the depths of
Hellfire on the winds that
Started from within
My blood beats so alive, might
Tear right through my skin, so
Tell me what you meant by
Living past your half life
In lockstep with the universe
And you're well versed in the afterlife
You know that I'm sanctified
By what's below
No matter what you do
No matter where you go

And you might be the one to take away the pain and let my mind go quiet
And nothing else is quite the same as how I feel when I'm at your side

Come on, come on
Out from underneath who you were
Come on, come on now
You know that it's time to emerge

Go ahead and wrap your arms around me
Arms around me, arms around me (oh, yeah)

You might be the one to take away the pain and let my mind go quiet
And nothing else is quite the same as how I feel when I'm at your side
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Writer: Vessel1, Vessel2
Copyright: Lyrics © SENTRIC MUSIC






Past Self


Well are you gonna dance on the line with me?
You know it's not a game or a fantasy
And I don't even know who I used to be
But nothing is the same and some things have to change now

Are you gonna dance on the line with me?
You know it's not a game or a fantasy
And I don't even know who I used to be
But nothing is the same and some things have to change now, now, now

Clawed out of my woodwork
Bolts out of my blue depths
In and out of my dreamscapes
People acting different
One look at my past self
Double take on my cash flow
Apologizing for shit that frankly, I stopped thinking of years ago

And you know I deliberate on cutting out the demons
I still need a dark side, they just need a reason
The passage of the hours into rushing through the seasons
Falling through my mind with the leaves on the trees so

Keep me alive, keep me believing
That now is the time to take it or leave it
Gave away all my blessings
Lift off, weightless
Torn apart by the true believers that turned out to be faithless

Are you gonna dance on the line with me?
You know it's not a game or a fantasy
And I don't even know who I used to be
But nothing is the same and some things have to change now

Are you gonna dance on the line with me?
You know it's not a game or a fantasy
And I don't even know who I used to be
But nothing is the same and some things have to change now, now, now

Are you the guardian angel
Hacking into my brain cells
Stepping out from my future
Uploading my true self
Did I get this far for nothing or are you the reward?
Guiding hands in this hell house, opening new doors

And if this is love, then I am out of hesitation
Head over heels at elevation
Walking an inch above the pavement, taking it
Stride by stride together

If this is real, then I am all up in a frenzy
Not like before when I was empty
Say that the story we tell is never ending
Taking it side-by-side together (side-by-side together)

Are you gonna dance on the line with me?
You know it's not a game or a fantasy
And I don't even know who I used to be
But nothing is the same, and some things have to change now

Are you gonna dance on the line with me?
You know it's not a game or a fantasy
And I don't even know who I used to be
But nothing is the same and some things have to change now, now, now

Lost again
I just don't wanna be lost again
I just don't wanna be lost again
I just don't wanna be lost again
I just don't wanna be lost again
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Writer: Vessel
Copyright: Lyrics © SENTRIC MUSIC






Dangerous


I wish I could have known that
Look in your eyes would echo in mine and go back
Out of my mind, across the line
When was the last time I felt like this?
Dark desire and tainted bliss

It's like you're dangerous to me
I notice every time we meet
I feel the ground beneath my feet
Giving way
You've got me talking in my sleep
As if you're conquering my dreams
You have awakened what's beneath
Again

Well, I thought I could resist you
But something in me just can't help but insist
To blur the lines just one last time so
When's the last time you tasted blood?
And what will it take to stem the flood?

And I am caught in time
Like clockwork beneath the permafrost
I might lose my mind
Back to back with oblivion
And you might breathe that burning breeze through
Paradise for me

It's like you're dangerous to me
I notice every time we meet
I feel the ground beneath my feet
Giving way
You've got me talking in my sleep
As if you're conquering my dreams
You have awakened what's beneath
Again

Won't you show me how to dance forever? (Forever)
Won't you show me how to dance forever?
Won't you show me how to dance forever?
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Writer: ADAM PEDDER, LEO FAULKNER
Copyright: Lyrics © Sentric Music






Caramel


Count me out like sovereigns, payback for the good times
Right foot in the roses, left foot on a landmine
I'm not gonna be there tripping on the grapevine
They can sing the words while I cry into the bassline

Wear me out like Prada, devil in my detail
I swear it's getting harder even just to exhale
Backed up into corners, bitter in the lens, I'm
Sick of trying to hide it every time they take mine

So stick to me, stick to me like caramel
Walk beside me 'til you feel nothing as well

And they ask me
"Is it going good in the garden?"
I say I'm lost but I beg no pardon, up on the dice but low on the cards
I try not to talk about how it's harder now
Can I get a mirror side-stage? Looking sideways at my own visage, getting worse
Every time they try to shout my real name just to get a rise from me
Acting like I'm never stressed out by the hearsay
I guess that's what I get for trying to hide in the limelight
Guess that's what I get for having twenty-twenty hindsight
Everybody wants eyes on 'em, I just wanna hear you sing that top line

And if you don't think I mean it, then I understand
But I'm still glad you came, so let me see those hands

So stick to me, stick to me like caramel
Walk beside me 'til you feel nothing as well
Falling free of the final parallel
The sweetest dreams are bitter, but there's no one left to tell

Too young to get bitter over it all
Too old to retaliate like before
Too blessed to be caught ungrateful, I know
So I'll keep dancing along to the rhythm
This stage is a prison, a beautiful nightmare (too young to get bitter over it all)
A war of attrition, I'll take what I'm given (too old to retaliate like before)
The deepest incisions, I thought I got better (too blessed to be caught ungrateful, I know)
But maybe I didn't

(In these days of days) tell me, did I give you what you came for?
(I wish it all away) terrified to answer my own front door
(I thought things had changed) missing my wings in a realm of angels
(But everything's the same) so I'll keep dancing along to the rhythm

This stage is a prison, a beautiful nightmare
A war of attrition, I'll take what I'm given
The deepest incisions, I thought I got better
But maybe I didn't
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Writer: Vessel
Copyright: Lyrics © SENTRIC MUSIC






Even In Arcadia


Come now, swing wide those gates
'Cause I have paid my penance kindly well in time for judgement day
Somehow I knew my fate
Turns out the gods we thought were dying were just sharpening their blades

Have you been waiting long
For me?

I am the final dawn, I am the flood
And what was missing from those scriptures will be written in my blood
Dig down into the mud
What good is all this talk of wings when there is nothing left above?

Have you been waiting long for me?
Have you been waiting long?

No matter how we feel
We've got a taste for one another and a few good years to kill
No matter what is real
It seems that even in Arcadia you walk beside me still

Have you been waiting long
For me?
Have you been waiting long
For me?
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Writer: Vessel
Copyright: Lyrics © SENTRIC MUSIC






Provider


I wanna be a provider
Garner you with silk like a spider
Roll or die, you bet, I'm a rider
Your outer shell, your secret insider

I wanna be a provider
Your guiding hand, your final decider
That bit of fuel to your fire
Stoke your desire
Just let me know that you're mine
I wanna be a provider

I wanna be a provider
Yeah, yeah-ah
I wanna be a provider
Yeah, yeah-ah

I want to delineate
That the last time we were around
Each other
I felt myself hesitate
But I know I would not now
My lover

Caught up on you
Do I wanna go there? Yes, I do
I wanna do more than just bend the rules
'Cause you've been hitting my phone so hard I found it
Breathing through a tube in the ICU
Yeah, I see you
The only bad baddie spitting ice in the room
The only good girl this side of the moon
And you're the only game that I like to lose

When you look at me like that, got me falling right back
Oh-ohh, when you look at me like that, got me falling right back

And your fingers
Foxtrot on my skin, I'm
Going under this time
I can give you what you want

And our bodies converse like old friends
Exchanging the years in silence
With something unsaid on both ends
Surely we know the difference

I wanna be a provider
Garner you with silk like a spider
Roll or die, you bet, I'm a rider
Your outer shell, your secret insider

And your fingers
Foxtrot on my skin, I'm
Going under this time
I can give you what you want

And I told you
I can get it so right
Even in the daylight
I can give you what you want

I can give you what you want
I can give you what you want
I can give you what you want
I can give you what-
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Writer: ADAM PEDDER, LEO FAULKNER
Copyright: Lyrics © Sentric Music






Damocles


Well, I've been waking up under blades
Blue blossom days
If only Damocles would hit me back
No alabaster carvings or faces on a farthing
Would prevent my head from fading to black

And it feels like falling into the sea
From outer space in seconds to me
And I play discordant days on repeat
Until they look like harmony

When the river runs dry and the curtain is called
How will I know if I can't see the bottom?
Come up for air and choke on it all
No one else knows that I've got a problem
What if I can't get up and stand tall?
What if the diamond days are all gone
And who will I be when the empire falls?
Wake up alone and I'll be forgotten

Well, I know I should be touring
I know these chords are boring
But I can't always be killing the game
No golden grand pianos or
Voices from the shadows will do anything but feel the same

And it feels like falling into the deep
From somewhere way up over the peaks
And I play discordant days on repeat
Until the tape runs out on me

When the river runs dry and the curtain is called
How will I know if I can't see the bottom?
Come up for air and choke on it all
No one else knows that I've got a problem
What if I can't get up and stand tall?
What if the diamond days are all gone
And who will I be when the empire falls?
Wake up alone and I'll be forgotten

And nobody told me I'd be begging for relief
When what is silent to you feels like it's screaming to me
Well, nobody told me I'd get tired of myself
When it all looks like heaven but it feels like hell

When the river runs dry and the curtain is called
How will I know if I can't see the bottom?
Come up for air and choke on it all
No one else knows that I've got a problem
What if I can't get up and stand tall?
What if the diamond days are all gone
And who will I be when the empire falls?
Wake up alone and I'll be forgotten
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Writer: Vessel
Copyright: Lyrics © Sentric Music






Gethsemane


I wanted you to know, I've learned to live without it
And even though it's colder now, I no longer feel surrounded
And you never listened to me and that's the thing I tell the others
You were my harlequin bride, I was your undercover lover, but no
You never saw me naked, you wouldn't even touch me
Except if you were wasted
But you were trying your best and that's the thing I tell the others
I was your robot companion, you were my favorite color, and oh

I'm caught up on the person I tried to turn myself into for you
Someone who didn't mind the push-pull parlor games
Someone who wasn't always crying on the journey back
Someone who didn't feel the low blows either way
Thought I was waiting for you, when all along
It was you with the countdown kill switch
And it was me with the blindfold on

I was trying my best and that's the thing I tell the mirror
I was in love with the thought that we were in love with each other

What might be good for your heart
Might not be good for my head
And what was there at the start
Might not be there in the end

Do you wanna hurt me?
Do you wanna hurt me?
'Cause nobody hurts me better
Do you wanna hurt me?
Do you wanna hurt me?
'Cause nobody hurts me better

Came in like a dream, put it down like a smoke
We used to be a team, now we let each other go
Your cigarette ash still clinging to my clothes
I don't wanna stick around, I just wanna let you know

Came in like a dream, put it down like a smoke
We used to be a team, now we let each other go
Your cigarette ash still clinging to my clothes
I don't wanna stick around, I just wanna let you know

Came in like a dream, put it down like a smoke
We used to be a team, now we let each other go
Your cigarette ash still clinging to my clothes
I don't wanna stick around, I just wanna let you know

Came in like a dream, put it down like a smoke
We used to be a team, now we let each other go
Your cigarette ash still clinging to my clothes
I don't wanna stick around

No one's gonna save me from your memories
Nothing to lose but I would have given anything
To get closer to you and all your enemies
I've got a few of my own and this throne didn't come with a gun
So I've got a different energy
I still see you when the lights get low
I still hear you when I'm on my own
The parasites in the nightmares
Calling my name, like

("Please, just let me go") this one's for you and your problems
Your good day job, your bad karma, what are you afraid of?
The same trauma, show me what you're made of
'Cause you talk about your constant pain like I ain't got none
And I've learned to live beside it
And even though it's over now, I will always be reminded
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Writer: ADAM PEDDER, LEO FAULKNER
Copyright: Lyrics © Sentric Music






Infinite Baths


When you plucked me from the grotto
Silent like a supermodel
When I would wake in staccato
No lightning in a bottle
Just one eye on the target
And two bricks on the throttle
I know now

That even if I am frozen
Timeless as a ghost in my nightmares of the ocean
The precipice I'm approaching
Well, you will empty the darkness
You will keep me in motion
I know now

Infinite baths
Washing over me at last
Are you the method in my madness?
Are you the glory in my wrath?
Infinite baths
Bursting colors when you laugh
Well, I have fought so long to be here
I am never going back

Even if I'm on my own
When the silence is deafening
I could be stuck here alone
When even my future is threatening
Something is lifting the bones
Something is dancing in revelry
Wider than oceans below
Taller than titans on box springs
But the waters are warm
Where they used to run freezing
Where there used to be storms
My horizon is fleeting
I'm so tired inside
I could sleep through a landslide
But I'm finally here
And I'm not leaving this time

Infinite baths
Washing over me at last
Are you the method in my madness?
Are you the glory in my wrath?
Infinite baths
Bursting colors when you laugh
I've been running since I got here
But now I'm falling into
Infinite baths

Drift with me
Drift with me
Drift with me
Drift with me

All this glory you did not earn
Every lesson you did not learn
You will drown in an endless sea
If it's blood that you want from me
You can empty my arteries
Will you halt this eclipse in me?
Will you half this eclipse in me?
In me

Teeth of God
Blood of man
I will be
What I am
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Writer: ADAM PEDDER, LEO FAULKNER
Copyright: Lyrics © Sentric Music






Back to: Sleep Token


Even in Arcadia is the fourth studio album by anonymous English rock band Sleep Token. It was released on 9 May 2025 by RCA Records. The album garnered significant media attention amid an unorthodox marketing campaign that has included a weatherman at WRAL in North Carolina providing hints to release dates and album singles.

On 18 February 2025, Sleep Token created their first official TikTok account and for their first post, captioned it with a mysterious website titled "Show Me How to Dance Forever". The website displayed a floral pink/grey aesthetic among early empire architecture, with seemingly random letters scrambled across the screen that needed to be entered in a specific sequence. Fans of the band found in the source code of the website a code arrangement depicting an archway and location coordinates that led to the 18th-century Shepherd's Monument in the grounds of Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England, below a mirror image of Nicolas Poussin's painting of the Shepherds of Arcadia. The inscription on the monument is the unsolved Shugborough inscription cypher which was discovered to be the correct arrangement on the website. Once users entered this correctly, a black flamingo appears, and they are then asked to provide their email address. Users were then greeted with a message "With Gratitude" and then sent an email titled "BEHOLD, A DIVIDE", with two options available to click, "House Veridian" and "Feathered Host" each with their own distinct logo and colour scheme. Both image links, when followed, led to the band's merchandise website. A second email was then sent that placed the user within the "house" of whichever link they initially followed.

On 26 February 2025, another email was sent out with links to two newly created Instagram accounts, each representing House Veridian and Feathered Host. Both accounts then posted images of identical sheet music. These eventually went viral with thousands of fans recording their interpretation of the sheet music on various instruments and programs and uploading them to social media platforms. It was later discovered that the House Veridian version of the sheet music had the Latin words septuagesimus and secundus which translates to "72nd" and each word was placed on the 3rd and 13th measure of the sheet music. This led fans following these clues to believe something would happen on the 72nd day of the year which also equates to the date 13/3 or 13th March, which also coincided with a blood moon lunar eclipse.

On 13 March 2025, Sleep Token announced their fourth studio album entitled Even in Arcadia, due for release 9 May 2025. They simultaneously released their first single from the album, entitled "Emergence" available on all streaming services. A new tour of the United States was announced with confirmed dates and a new website with brand new merchandise available to pre-order was launched.

On 16 April 2025, Sleep Token hosted a puzzle through Spotify by updating the Canvas of Emergence to the first 5 tracks using only the letters in Emergence and Caramel. 2 hours after the puzzle was found, the tracklist was confirmed by Spotify on Instagram. The following day, Caramel got a similar treatment, but for the last 5 tracks on the album.

Emma Wilkes of Kerrang! wrote an overall positive review, stating that the album's "minor quibbles are easily dwarfed by the height of its peaks". With "minor quibbles", Wilkes is referring to the track "Past Self", which she describes as "airy synth-and-drum-machine pop" that "gets a little wobbly".
-Wikipedia
Performed By: Sleep Token
Genre(s): Alternative, metal, progressive, metalalternative, R&B, alternative pop, djent
Producer(s): Carl Bown
Length: 56:30
Released: May 9th, 2025
Year: 2025

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