1. |
Catalyst
05:21
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There is no justice
There is no justice in a court of lies
In broken silence
Unspoken cycles as the victims victimize
Empathic breakdown
To understand is not to sympathize
Human reaction
When elemental tensions burn then catalyze
Their poison cadences aloud
Blind accusations twisting serpents in their mouths
They desecrate a hallowed ground
So conjuring defiant
Dance until they drown
Seven hours in the rain
Seven days under a darkened sky
Seven embers turn to flame
Seven seconds for the dead to rise
chorus:
In a moment something gave
Letters cut like daggers off the page
For revenge or dignity
Setting fire to their graves
Dancers in a ritual serenade
Till there's nothing to save
In a moment something gave
Letters cut like daggers off the page
Taking back humanity
Setting fire to their graves
Dancers in a ritual serenade
Till there's nothing to save
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2. |
Taking Back The Fall
05:50
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I will take back
You never wanted
Deceiver
You bleed unseen
You took it from me
Negativity
To summon my soul
A resurrection from beyond
Can I drink from ancient waters
Heal the fractures of my soul
Turning tears to fire
Taking back the fall
chorus:
The pain is not enough
Doesn't matter anyway
Doesn't matter anyway
Poisoning the cup
Nothing more that I can say
Doesn't matter anyway
Drowning alone
This failure killing me
Can't understand who's really my enemy
The shadows creeping through my mind
Of coronation and control
In a bloodless revolution
I reclaim my throne
Ashes in my eyes
I no longer recognize
The mirror lies
Turning tears to fire
The alchemy of sacrifice
We surrender to arise
From ancient waters
The lifeblood of a second chance
Reclaim the fire
Confront the doubt that I have cast
Taking back the fall
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3. |
Echoes / Effigies
06:12
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Silent souls on walls engraved
A siren's woe, reminding me
With every passing hour to wait
A sorrow I will recreate
The fading eyes, the pallid skin
A fallow heart that died within
The fading line, the pain enshrined
The human heart a cruel design
Tell me how it came to be
That I am here - a hell between
Monument and effigy
A temple of what I believed
Taking all I had from me
(I) I was awake
I was a vigilant watcher
An angel waiting for the call
(I) I was ashamed
A spirit dead in the water
A shadow cast upon the wall
(Two) The enemy
Another living inside me
Redemption soaked in blood revenge
(Now) I lay the guilt
For all the bodies around me
At the feet of my own effigy
Daylight drowns in disbelief
Taking all I had from me
Stain the temple, painted lies
Ignorance the alibi
Callous eyes will watch them die
(Lost) A soul adrift
Ideological failure
Slaughter the dehumanized
(Fade) Into abyss
Into a valley of ashes
A bleeding conscience euthanized
(Fate) Or consequence
Was I the pawn or the preacher
The demon or the demonized
(Now) I know the truth
A criminal not a savior
A man I do not recognize
Daylight drowning disbelief
Something so unknown to me
Stain the temple, burn the shrine
Darkness bleeds to save these eyes
Facing light from wounded sky
chorus:
Remembering who I am
Like an echo surrounding me
I'm trembling at what I have become
The faces are staring back at me
Another horizon comes
Like an echo surrounding me
Breaking through all I have become
Facing the light where darkness bleeds
You can never go back
You cannot exonerate yourself
You can never go back
Absolution does not change your guilt
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4. |
Fractures
04:54
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When the colors divide
There is no space for grey
The collapse of a lie
Leaving only the stain
Of a wound in your pride
And the fractured remains
Now awakened from innocence
We could never be one again
Love cannot breathe without respect
I could never surrender to the lie
Now you're making me choose again
Is it redemption or giving in?
An eye for an eye or to forgive?
I could never surrender to the lie
Resetting the sun
And letting the blood from the silence - what's done is done
Resetting the sun
And letting the blood run from slaughter to save the son
chorus:
How did a promise become a lie?
Broken in fragments internalized
Silence between us - a fracture in the sky
Poisoning the well
Intoxicate with pain until
Your shoulders bear the weight of sacrificing
In the shadow of forgiveness
Waits the scavenger - the martyr
For a graceless crucifixion
Graceless crucifixion pulling at my soul
A self destructive martyr
Spite becomes your home
The carrion of vengeance
Scavenging the bones
Wrestling with angels
To leave the past alone
Leave it alone (Destructive martyr)
How did a promise become a lie?
Broken in fragments internalized
Silence between us - an ocean between us
Fractures in the sky
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5. |
The Static And The Noise
05:31
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I will not go
to a place where no one
Knows what it means
To bleed
To break out of the role
A thirteen year old boy
Thirteen years of finding a new voice
Through the static and the noise
A resonating sound
A revolution - a spirit chasing light
Underground
chorus:
In a world of lesser things
We survive
In the words and broken strings
We leave behind
In the love you give away
With no return
In the truth of who we are
That can't be learned
I will make my truth
And escape this tomb
I will come alive
From electric womb
I will not be you
I will make my truth
And escape this tomb
Through the power of a groove
Awakening the boy
Searching for a solitary voice
Through the static and the noise
Waking from the void
The language of a calling not a choice
Calling out
In the coming of the flood
Bound together - ceremonial blood
In the cadence and the chord
Is the coming of the Lord
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6. |
Like Glass
04:08
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When the colors make you blind
The intoxicating high
When you break and compromise
And your wings are paralyzed
In the towers of your mind
You are so one-of-a-kind
Till your circumstances bind
And you fall back into line
Illusion of control
Shatter the fragile
Illusion of control
Like glass we shatter
You walk the Earth a god
Seduction of the stars
So bitter and insatiable
Is the heart of a man
Can you even stand to face your world
With a steady hand?
You can only run so far ahead
(Fear is a dead end road)
You can only run so far ahead
chorus:
Follow your heart to ruin
Winning until you lose it
Swallow the bitter medicine
Swallow your pride and mean it
We live in a world divided
A lover so unrequited
Swallow the bitter medicine
And open your eyes
When the lies you tell yourself
Playing out the hand you're dealt
Disconnect you from yourself
In the tower that you built
And when the snakes and monsters come
The highest walls won't keep them out
Creatures whispering your doubt
And all of the seeds you're sowing
Become all the fears you're growing
To hide all the tears you're stoic
Behind all the lies
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7. |
The Acolyte
06:26
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Serpents and thieves in the market
Peddling illusion for wares
Ritually dispossessed
Trading hope and selling death
Tearing the pages away
Sync up the hammers
Unfurl your banners
Adversary eyes
Running paranoid
Empathy devoid
Fading slowly
Breeding discontent
Thought experiment
Venomous dissent
Fatal schism
Chaos underground
Chaos in between
Seeding enemies
Leaving no one
Shoot 'em down tonight
Foolish acolyte
When you crowned the king
You became (a mockery)
chorus:
Fires on the ground
Descending crosses fill the sky
Stone saviors crumble with their bones
The acolyte
No slave or servant to become
To this Armageddon
Your saviors crumble in the light
The acolyte
When the truth cannot be sold for gain
When reality is just a game
When a god by any other name
I will not deny
I will not deny
I will not defend
Devils that defy
Seeding enemies
Schism of belief
What is blasphemy
Without Deity?
A thousand disillusioned eyes
Answering the seekers, flesh to flies
When deceiving stars align
Into constellations of the mind
A thousand disillusioned eyes
A thousand willing hearts to sacrifice
Calling to belief
The servants of a paper crown
One more century
The broken and the burning down
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8. |
We All Dissolve
06:58
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Waking up
Waking up to realize
I’m facing my last breath
At the end
I am severed by the thought
Just close me down and share my faults
Time to go
Wither, die, and still denied
Drifting, insignificant, and it’s all mine
No surprise
I was too proud to feel your stares
And it's the most devastating weight I know
No surprise
Still alive
No surprise
Coming to
Eyes on buried truths
Complicated only by my selfish views
A damaged you
Incomplete and bruised
"Life withstands neglect in ways you can’t abuse"
I came from anger, (fighting) swinging away
Until I couldn’t be
(I never learned to be)
I called him “father", (biting) chasing away
He’s here still blaming me
(Why do you blame me?)
I caused the sorrow
I left for tomorrow
I broke my promise
(You were my silver lining)
I made you hollow
You’re not to follow
Don’t break your promise
(Become a silver lining)
Falling on me
My hope is forever
Find me dying
I know it’s now never
A serious silence
As my day draws near
A reflecting surface
This pride is only so sincere
Fleeing as the scene of lost souls pulled me near
Frayed by love, so close yet sudden
A simplistic life caused my weight to disappear
See me now, just battered and bludgeoned
Coming to
Too late to turn
The knife cuts my spine as you've wanted
Time to go
I have to learn
The truth calls me, lifeless and daunted
Falling on me
Resolving
Your hope was forever
Find me dying
Dissolving
You know it’s now never
"Asking for answers with no compromise
One more lie shows just how much time can fly
You faced your father but you couldn’t face me
I'm not the silver line. i don't believe!"
"You were the ocean i drowned myself in
But I’m not your problem now that you’ve given in
How can you leave when there's nothing resolved?
Why can’t we live and love before we all dissolve?"
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