Island in the Clouds
"Island in the Clouds" is a song by British progressive metal band Haken. It is the sixth track on the band's 2023 album Fauna.
Basis
Island in the Clouds takes its core themes from the dinosaur. The song, like "Sempiternal Beings", covers themes of mortality and the fragility of life. One's life could end at
any moment, just like how the dinosaurs believed to have been were wiped out in an instant by an asteroid.
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Lyrics
"Island in the Clouds" lyrics [Click here]
Embryonic
All I wanted was to disappear
It's ironic
'Cause there's a chance that I could make it here
Inferior response
To the experience of consciousness we're gifted
A symbiotic
Secular spirituality
Fear in our hearts, the lost are rarely found
We're never far from the island in the clouds
It's symbolic
I never thought that life could find a way
Now it dawns on me
No creature here was built to be contained
I've seen the way you propagate
A need for empty paraphernalia
So fall upon me
Too blind to see the error of your ways
In this smog of blame
Fear in our hearts
The lost are rarely found
But we're never far
From the island in the clouds
As we stare into the sun
They reveal themselves to us
In the abstinence of creed
We submit to reason
Dogs of war we let slip
Kindness I could kill you with
The passion of a Judas kiss
Blinding lights, we blinked and misses
Our heads above the parapet
Larger than our lives appeared
With one foot in Elysium
Sensing the adventure's kicking in
Seraphim servants cry
Havoc from the jaws of time
A mouth of madness opens wide
Bark as sharp as she can bite
An ocean of a thousand knives
Ripples through our future lives
Our best intentions soon backfire
You picked your bones
But never made this right
Fear in your soul
A coil tightly bound
But we'll never fall
From the island in the clouds
As we stare into the sun
They reveal themselves to us
In the abstinence of creed
We submit to reason
Personnel
Haken
- Ross Jennings - vocals
- Richard Henshall - guitars, keyboards
- Charlie Griffiths - guitars
- Peter Jones - keyboards
- Conner Green - bass
- Raymond Hearne - drums
Trivia
- "Island in the Clouds" is likely the source of the "Island" in the Island in Limbo tour name, with the other half coming likely coming from
the song "Revolution in Limbo" from Between the Buried and Me's 2021 album Colors II.
Links
"Island in the Clouds" lyrics [Click here]
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Embryonic All I wanted was to disappear It's ironic 'Cause there's a chance that I could make it here Inferior response To the experience of consciousness we're gifted A symbiotic Secular spirituality Fear in our hearts, the lost are rarely found We're never far from the island in the clouds It's symbolic I never thought that life could find a way Now it dawns on me No creature here was built to be contained I've seen the way you propagate A need for empty paraphernalia So fall upon me Too blind to see the error of your ways In this smog of blame Fear in our hearts The lost are rarely found But we're never far From the island in the clouds As we stare into the sun They reveal themselves to us In the abstinence of creed We submit to reason Dogs of war we let slip Kindness I could kill you with The passion of a Judas kiss Blinding lights, we blinked and misses Our heads above the parapet Larger than our lives appeared With one foot in Elysium Sensing the adventure's kicking in Seraphim servants cry Havoc from the jaws of time A mouth of madness opens wide Bark as sharp as she can bite An ocean of a thousand knives Ripples through our future lives Our best intentions soon backfire You picked your bones But never made this right Fear in your soul A coil tightly bound But we'll never fall From the island in the clouds As we stare into the sun They reveal themselves to us In the abstinence of creed We submit to reason |
- Ross Jennings - vocals
- Richard Henshall - guitars, keyboards
- Charlie Griffiths - guitars
- Peter Jones - keyboards
- Conner Green - bass
- Raymond Hearne - drums