Valiant Hearts - The Alchemist

The Alchemist is the eleventh track from Valiant Hearts 2025 album 'Hidden Realms' Listen to the album here: https://ffm.to/hiddenrealms Lyrics: A wiser man once said Son rest your weary head You’ll learn to conjure gold out of lead I watch the mercury hit retrograde A transmutation is taking place A silver tide of violent waves Is crashing right through my veins And slowly I am paralyzed My atoms all reorganize Turning to gold A wiser man once said Son rest your weary head You’ll learn to conjure gold out of lead On sheets in unkempt beds Son, you can sleep when you’re dead You’ll yearn and wonder how it connects I’m losing breath And as the air escapes, it all comes plummeting down I watch the elements wax and wane Invigorated like a flame always changing shape A silver tide of violent waves Is crashing right through my veins And slowly I am paralyzed The Alchemists have turned me to gold Skin deep, down into my soul Their science sleeps inside of my bones Entombing me in my own vault Will I ever see the sun again Will I ever see the sun again Will I ever see the sun again Will I ever see the sun again Like the Alchemists foretold I’m turning to gold A wiser man once said Son rest your weary head You’ll learn to conjure gold out of lead On sheets in unkempt beds Son, you can sleep when you’re dead You’ll yearn and wonder how it connects I’m turning to gold A wiser man once said I’m turning to gold Son rest your weary head You’ll learn to conjure gold out of lead Credits: Thomas John Byrne - Vocals, Lyrics, Producer, Sound Design, Composer, Video & Artwork Trenton Woodley - Group Vocals, Lyrics David Keevers - Group Vocals Igor Serokvasha - Composer, Producer Maxim Shepelev - Guitar, Guitar Recording, Bass, Bass Recording Anastasia Sereda - Drums, Drum Recording Roman Kharyukov, Whale Audio - Co-Producer, Mixing Engineer, Editing Kris Crummett, Interlace Audio - Mastering Engineer