The secret?s out this is the last time.
Cast overboard, dragged out to sea.
All premonitions drowned today in the murky waters flowing from wounds.
But we emerged soaked in grace, dripping with the truth.
You?ve fired upon a target so clear, but we..ve shattered our own glass hearts.
We?ve fought with sweat and blood, this life is all we have.
Today has taken a bloody toll, but the nightfall will claim your life.
Claim your life tonight.
Her majesty will swallow you, she?ll devour you.
And now we stand at this eulogy dripping with the truth.
You fired upon a target and we fired back.
We fired back on your stronghold.
We devastated all defenses.
Regret consumes you.
Regret becomes us all.

So this is loneliness.
I..ve grown too fond of this.
Now I thirst for loveliness, to drink its beauty.
I?ll never fill my cup if I can?t
seem to free my frozen heart.
Torturous veins tangle this body.
A scream of anguish, silenced by the distancing to anyone.
So this is loneliness.
I know this all to well.
Wrap me in your wings of amity.
Torturous veins tangle this body.
A scream of anguish, silenced by the distancing to anyone.
Isolation is a four letter word.
Through my bloody hands I see my heart reach the ground.
No one is there to pick it up from the floor.

Every time your lips spill their poisonous words, they infect the ones you claimed to have cared for.
We are gored by your serrated ways.
We shed our faith, we?ve bled oceans for your cause.
We shed our faith in your atrocity.
We..ve come to claim a thousand lives to live.
Open hands will shape what little time we have.
We exude our servitude to a lifetime of deceptive worship.
Righteous hands will rise, if only to redeem the city of the gods.
And in ourselves we trust.
A thousand fists will rain.
This mighty downpour will wash away.
There is new hope in every open eye.
Promise to ourselves that these words will never die.
We exude our servant hood to a lifetime of immoral worship.
Righteous hands will rise, if only to redeem the souls of the meek.
Burn your spores so your plague will not manifest in the hearts of the innocent.
And when the blackest day becomes forever grey, the ash will scatter of what has not remained.
The ashes have buried you.

Your feminine fingers are like daggers.
Tearing me apart, with each caressing stroke.
My scars unravel cruel history.
Our love was stab wounds and lusty kisses.
In your eyes I see wasted tears for wasted years, and heartache, heartfelt for granted.
You left me with nothing but the desire to overcome.
This gaping wound from where you stole my vital organ.
But keep it with you, a trophy for yourself.
Still you linger for another gaze.
Die away from me.
I won..t stand by while you plague the air with your lies and deception.
My shirt stained crimson, from long nights of anguish.
These scars are forever, but this won?t be eternity.
You wash away guilt in the oceans of my tears.
I will drown you.

Please cut this noose.
Untie these hands for me.
They will insurrect my former self.
Hide behind your failed design.
Perfect its imperfections.
I?ll carry out the plans of old.
I?ll dig through the remains of my ruins.
Unearthing something truly remarkable once hidden by your opaque heart.
I..ll carry out plans of old.
Digging through the remains of my ruins.
From this day forth, your love will poison no longer.
A strange suffocation, enticing existence.
It..s comforting, the artificial life.
A ghostly bliss without your kiss.
Never grasping what you?ve hoped for.
Your translucent hands pass through the sunlight.
You..ll never feel that loving glow.
Damned to be deprived of the blissful warmth of heaven.
As you dissipate into the shadows.

Warm Thoughts Of Warfare

The waking hour of scarlet warfare, I will fight for you.
Our blood will wash away.
Their skin will crack and peel in a thousand fires.
We will break every bone, we will crush them all to dust.
An attempt so frivolous to save your life.
Watch you hit the sanguine ground like autumn leaves.
With each nail driven you drift away.
This somber burial is a calamity.
Rise from your casket and kiss new breath from me.
To those who can?t behold your fading moonlight beauty radiating from your precious eyes, a tender gaze.
Never witnessing an instance when you held time still forever in your matron hands.
Rise from your casket revive this effigy.
New life will feed your starving lungs.
New blood will surge through collapsed arteries, and I?ll hold you through it all.

The sweltering heat sweeps through the blood, raising internal rage.
The escalation of annoyance converts fingers to fists.
Ready to smash the moral wall retaining the release, restraining the release.
Wash over placid with flooding waves of hate.
Diverge the silence with cathartic piercing screams.
Unleash on your enemies a sweeping firestorm.
Laying devastation upon those who haze you.
Forever they curse you.
Forever loathing the day they unraveled the fabric of your innocence.
Gnawing at every tame fray, leaving only vengeance.
A sheltered source of inspiration for your master plan to lay everything to waste.
With no aggressor, without a foot to stamp out every garden of hope.
Plant a row of remorse, and a crop of forgiveness.
Raise yourself in a better world.

When the bite of the steel catches your face, give it all your flesh to strip away.
Revealing all the scars you hide inside.
Your inner quarrels, your struggle to survive.
A crimson hand to choke your throat.
I..ll stop your breath as long as it takes.
To end this torture, clearing a forest of oppression.
Can you taste the soil as it fills your lungs?
To extinguish the fire, the fire burning in your eyes.
You cannot stop the scorching.
We?ll lay you down on your eternal bed.
The soothing touch of a wrathful hand.
You leave the sky, encased in the earth.
Can you feel the roots as they seep inside your heart?
A crimson hand to do the will of god.
We?ll wipe you out to clear the land for angels.
With the turning of the tide.

On your guard as you lurk along the sand.
A paper face won?t mask your fear.
Unrelenting consequences for this inquisition.
Venture forth and give yourself away with the scent of unfamiliarity
for razor teeth their human silk they long to sever unsuspecting flesh.
To drink a carcass dry is to taste the Sunderban.
Mighty one never forget never forget why your skin is thick.
Die defending that which your heart keeps closest.
The taste of vengeance is so much sweeter on the blackest of lips.
The wind whispers trespass a call for an end.
Take up your arms set your sights.
Never fear theres always more blood.
Retaliate at ease mighty one this war is not one of your own.
The king returns to claim his throne.
A humble crown adorns his noble brow.
As the killing season comes to a close take whats left and start again.
As you strive to regain all aspects of your grief ridden live living
each day with strength found in your heart.

Oh so fucking cold.
The winds the drifts of winter bone chilling nightfall.
Early evening sundowns make nights seem more like Borealis dreams.
My roots run deep through my veins my ancestry.
Everything I know in body and soul lakeland this is all I know look to
the river rushing unparalleled in its power.
It carves away at the land eroding the banks consuming the sands and
washes away to her majesty.
They say theres no place like home and they said it best Ive realized
what this place means to me.
Lakeland I can see my reflection in the land.
I see my form and I know the land reflects my Self.
It reflects in my Self.

Awaken ruinous fiend of early generations.
Your rotting corpse is restored.
Straighten your limbs brush off the dust withered bandages restrain you no more.
Severed heads accent the gates bones emerge from the sands proof of your reign remains.
I your liege now command your rule again.
The sun burns through the skin boiling your vital organs within.
But the gods can?t destroy my cursed blackened heart.
Appeasing the thirst of the damned mocking the praised ones.
The sand soaks the blood the blood flows like wine send death from above.
Locusts and famine engulfing your race my savagery knows no end.
At the price of all your lives I destroy your kind death by my hand.
Sands blowing across cursed lands will consume the evidence of your ancient existence.
The Earth is now black from the torment I have set upon it.
All shall bow serve and praise thy name.

A thousand times too many times I?ve fallen back out of place from a dream.
The bright sunlight a rude awakening like I?m seeing the colors leave the brush for the wall.
That?s when, into: I reach into memories I long to re-live those times those younger days.
If only time would stop stand still maybe I could see myself.
What I?ve become it?s sickening this isn?t me.
No turning back now, no turning around.
I?m disappearing into my dreams I?m vanishing into the air.
Liberation I?m free from all of this.
Now I must go dissipate into the light.

Victim of anger tied to distance.
Where does it come from?
Distrust I?ve stood strong held my head high through constant war.
So brutal so violent.
So I tiptoe through conversation a lapse in my step is misperceived
Unleash a breath of salvation in dormancy lies everlasting rage.
Remember all the fires we started our aspirations for progression.
we feed the burning for a better day don?t let your selfishness extinguish the flame.
Prevailing with lasting intentions.
Never living behind your back.
Convictions leave me questioning if you?ve been living behind mine.

This is where you pick yourself up brush off the ashes.
Clear the smoke and soot from your eyes.
Their word brings desperation just look around you.
Renewed vision reveals the lies.
My truth will be my own.
You say it doesn?t matter get used to fear.
I tell you that?s the problem get used to the lies.
They mislead your pride.
You blind them with your light just strand this from the mind.
You say it doesn?t matter get used to fear.
I tell you that?s the problem.
What its done to you the way you live your life.
Pick yourself up.
What its done to you the way you live your life.
A state of empty bliss and empty state of mind.
A state of empty bliss pulled into the depths dragged out with the tide.
My truth will be my own and not the one they gave me.

I?m falling away from myself away from who I used to be.
Arid skin cracked and torn.
I peel it away.
A change for the better to harness the strength and rise more powerful.
Now more powerful than ever.
A decrepit self once animate now abandoned and left to rot.
Nothing to be salvaged nothing to be saved.
Now follow the thrashing thought of your dream to exist.
Pursue what may never come.
Releasing demons and banishing them to the depths of bloody memories and regrets.
The outer shell is decomposing releasing a new upgraded self.
Bleeding ink reveals the price of expansion.
Push it down hold its hideous face below the water watch what was become never again let nothing stop you for when it lived it showed no mercy now show it no remorse.
Cut compassion from your mind forget what it means to cherish life.
Now follow the thrashing thought of your dream to exist pursue domination.

Creator as Observer congruent systems collapsing mutating waveforms to become sight sound touch.
A sick perception is now my only link to reality sorched eternally blistering yet I prevail.
My merciless plan of creation etails seeing the unseen forge an abomination to annihilate with a cold hearted sense of compassion devastation.
Thy vicious modus operandi.
Observer as Creator beguiling unstable electric forms.
These tools of judgment they thirst for unpure.
Draining a carcass devour the contaminate and filth that roamst amongst us sterilizing out human forms.
Shredding tissue fracturing bone.
Burning synapse rewiring conscious.
A brutal reforming of features a hideous cleansing of God.
Self Purification achieved when whats left is devoid of deformations.

I remember your taste
You?re the life I gave away
Failure wrapped around my neck
You?re the ghost that held me back
Now I am letting go
Drowning myself in the frozen waters
I feel the words escaping
They break from my thoughts
and disappear from my mouth
They leave behind a taste
The taste of failure
So familiar it reminds me of you
Don?t say you?ll save my life
I never asked you for anything
But you wanted more
Drowning in your frozen waters
I was sinking, you were my frailty
Drowning in your frozen waters
Don?t you say that you?ll save my life
I?m vanishing
I?m giving up on myself
Closing my eyes forever
Throw my body into the spinning and twisting
I bend into something else
A catastrophe
A murderer of my hopes and dreams
This is not my life
When winter ends
my new life begins
Bend and break
In pieces I was for you
You were my frailty
Don?t say you?ll save my fucking life

When I return
I dream of another life
Failure transparent in the palm of my hand
I am the contortionist
We are the contortionists
I can feel this distance is further and farther without you
Contorting to fit somewhere I do not belong
Brick by brick
Stone on top of stone
I create
From these towers
Built of nothingness
I will fall
And like these wordless feelings
There is an emptiness we long to feel inside
Father when will you come home?
I have been dying inside
Mother where have you gone?
Oh so how hard I?ve been trying
Hours upon hours
I am fucking sleepless
We are wretched, no sleep for the wicked
And at night we come undone
This is not who I ever was
We are anything
We are the contortionist
We are the wordless feelings
We are the great divide
We are the emptiness we long to feel inside
We are anything
We are the contortionist

Breathing
I am fading
I feel I am losing myself
Wishing I could be someone I?m not
I know somewhere there?s a mirror that can show me who I am
Because I will never know
Constantly bending
Engulfed by my history
So scared of letting go
Beyond everything
I wish I could be
I am just a man
The sun will never shine me
I am lost inside the meaningless
We lose control
Like a pendulum
I forgot where I came from
Holding on to the weight of regret
We lose control
Swing me back and forth again
You gave and you bled
Now I?m picking up the pieces of my broken heart
Blocked out
My shattered glass past
Now I?m picking up the pieces I have swept away
We lose control
Swing me back and forth again

So I?ll keep searching
For a place called home
I?ll rip my roots from this earth
Into the unknown
Is it for the dreams I chased
Or the ones I caught
This mystery
This misery is killing me
So now I?ll leave behind a murder scene
My life isn?t real
It?s just a silhouette
And when the sun goes down
I won?t exist
I will be the forgotten
Bread crumbs and white stones can?t follow me
Overwhelming
Constantly I?m tearing at the seams
The threads that hold me together
They envelop me
I am a shaking man
As my body breaks against the wind
I begin to slowly unravel
Overwhelming
I?m tearing at the seam
The threads that hold me together
They envelop me
And with fervor I am everywhere I never thought I would be
I will never come home
I am a ghost inside your empty house
I don?t exist
I will not come home
I?ll never come home

Who we are I?ll never know
But when we spoke I knew you well
You knew me well
You loved me through and through
I never thought I would watch you leave us
From a room as a kid I held so close
I was a son made up on sand
You were the wind that let me go
I?ll say goodbye
So this is goodbye
But I?m afraid to speak
So with words I?ll tell the story
You meant so much to me
And like the night upon nights to come
I will dream of you
And know that I will see you seen
Give me the strength to carry on
Tide
You are the ocean tide
The swells swept you away
I was a son made of sand
You were the wind that let me go
When the ocean tide has risen to high
And the waters have come to carry you away
Remember I will always be there to sing you to sleep

I could never find a way to rest upon your shoulders
Misunderstood, please help but I meant so well
I keep pushing through these bitter memories
I try to to escape the nightmares but they are becoming of me
I am the sleeping dream inside the dream
My old me breaks my heart
I hope I never wake up
I need an answer
Please help me
This endeavor has swallowed me whole
North winds twisting inside me I can feel this emptiness
Slowly I am fading out
I can feel this emptiness
Slowly I am fading out
And this is becoming of me
My hands hold on tight, I?m not letting go
Words are never good enough
Everything I breathe is broken letters and bad timing
And they are becoming of me
I am the sleeping dream inside the dream
I hope I never wake up

This is my promise to write to you
So for you my every word
Is the sinking feeling here in my chest
I am so far from home but the further away we are the closer I am
The closer I feel, the further you get
My hands hold on tight to your every word
I won?t let go, but I feel my eyes advert from who I used to be
We know the storms will come
The winds they will sweep us all away
Wrap me in your silver lining
Torn between the roots of earth and the sky
I left my heart behind, and I?m so far from home
The weight is pulling me down, in your circles I am spinning
In your circles I?ll wait forever
Lost control, my hands grip the wheel
But I can?t see where the road is leading
Please hold on dear I know you?re worried
Counting down the days do you remember?
Torn between the earth and the sky, I left my heart behind

I have been to the edge before, at the end of the world
But there is nothing for me so I guess I?ll just turn around
I will follow my footsteps back home
Still the same as before, but there is nothing for me
So I Guess I?ll just turn around
Can?t you see that I?m suffocating?
In a world that means nothing to me
My only hope is disintegrating
Wishing someone could carry the weight for me
Can?t you see that the ends beginning?
IN this life I?ve lost all I know
Because hope is a word, that I forgot was feeling
So please hold onto me and I won?t let you go
We are nothing more than memories
I?ll find the meaning inside this doubt
I will see this through
I?m frozen in time, encased in ice
Break me apart so I can breathe again

I am a shadow slipping into the abyss
A part of me that will never leave
Just to remind me of who I have grown to be
Pulling me side to side
It won?t forget me

I?m watching where I step
So I don?t fall between the cracks
An anti-pattern in disbelief

I can?t convince myself to be better than I am
I am the watcher
This is a severance
We are waiting for the signs

It?ll take more than fortune and shooting stars
To keep me from falling
I unwrap myself
I dissolve

Into one-thousand pieces

I am a shadow
Slipping into the abyss
A part of me. Never leave.

Underwater
There is no chance of breathing inside this vessel
Blue lipped and anemic
We are constantly questioning our safety

So much pressure. We struggle
I just want to give in
Please help me
To keep the waters from crashing over me
This ship is sinking. My heart is palpitating
Your God won?t save you

We bend and twist. From distant ends
Waves crash together blind without warning
A great deluge. Envelop everything
And all that?s lost was taken

Oh, I cannot believe this is happening
Please just give me one more chance

Pressed within your trembling hopeful hands
Intangible. You?re wasting time
Steel rivets snap and moan
Intangible
Your God won?t save you

Now. The welds are breaking down
My hands are shaking now. The welds are breaking
Oh, what a shame...

You can?t hide
Crush the mast- envelop all
Your palms together won?t keep us from sinking

Where have I been? Blearing pacific winds
Crossing foothills, constructing stories
Ruptured earth guiding me home
Romantic fault lines
A bridge?s quake in my bones
A place we called home
A distance we have learned

Pull me in, and help me out (of this hemisphere)
I want to swim amidst the satellites
Sinking to the bottom. I exhale
Close my eyes- Disengage
Here. There is no there.

Give me (indication). Give me (separation)
With everything seeming pulse-less
Give me (indication). Give me (separation)
I?m drifting into oblivion
And there?s no place I?d rather be
I?m drifting into oblivion

Isolated in black- My thoughts spin
My worlds divide

I am lost in space
Burning up in the atmosphere
When I finally come crashing down
Wrap my bones inside miracles
A safe place- I am finally home

Pull me in, and help me out (of this hemisphere)
I want to swim amidst the satellites
Sinking to the bottom. I exhale
Close my eyes- Disengage
Here. There is no there.

Give me (indication). Give me (separation)
With everything seeming pulse-less
Give me (indication). Give me (separation)
I?m drifting into oblivion
Now I?m slipping away.

The sway of distance
A suffering march
Lives tremble on and on
We usher burdens that see us through
Blinding light emanates guiding me from within

For I am just part of who I was back then
Where we were. When this all began
Inside this vision I am no longer in control of my own life
Sickened by surroundings. Occupied and weak
Tangled and desperate I expand

I am paper thin. Lines etched and carved from misery
Somebody help me please. Because I can never leave this place

I am afraid of becoming you
I?ll deconstruct my self
For I am just a part of who I was
Where we were. When this all began

Something inside me. I cannot fix
So we begin again

So send me to my grave

Lives tremble on and on

But we are just a perception of a common theme
We are something more
I pretend I am better
I disconnect
Searching and believing
That we are something more
I pretend I am better
I disconnect

Misery- I wanted to forget you
But five years later I have grown
I have regret
You were better deserved. But we all learn

Hands to broken mirrors. We shattered our design
You were always so easy for me. To leave in ruins

Those nine summers we burned together
Were disparate and beautiful
Strange our thoughts can take us
And I can still feel the warmth
Coursing through lungs. Escaping in my thoughts

Our hands. To broken mirrors. We shattered

I hope that this letter finds you in drift
Provokes shared memories and you accept my apology
I was young and constantly desolate
A spinning picture of grey skies
I?m holding nothing back
My thoughts provoked this heart attack

And tonight I go on display to the world
But we silently know, this is between you and I
I hope this letter finds you in drift
I hope this finds you in drift

We disappear from our thoughts and sounds
Our features- abrasive

So many things we overlook
Is there something that we don?t know?
That over time. We?re over time
Wrought with dysfunction, and callous minds
So take the knife within my heart
Sharpen it with water and virtue

Oh, the mystery. Of what we wished we knew
Oh the misery. There?s so much more that I could have
That I could give

Falling faster, gaining speed
Everything around me wraps me in light, precious life
Something we seem to forget, I can feel something real burning inside
Something we seem to forget, I can feel it burning inside of me

Wind exerts my lungs. The influence of my being

Weightlessness. A beautiful affection
Force its hold
Against my deep breath

Oh, the mystery. Of what we wished we knew
Oh the misery. There?s so much more that I could have
That I could give

In the twisting, I see myself
Pixelated. Construed. I am reaching out
For something, for me to hold on to
But I never do. Failing- I never will

Some things just do not exist
And some days I?ll be the evoked of
The hope for a landing, for safety
But the synapse fires, exploding
And this is letting go

Life- this is a lesson that we don?t sign up for
But we fatefully learn
And as I grow old
Time will break me apart
From stem to bough, and my heart to reason
I will become the dirt of which I began

Distracted by imperfection we are covered in rust
Hopeless and distant, we sway side to side
From season to season, we fall apart
So hold this in your hand, and don?t let go
These are the things that we live for

Some things just do not exist
And some days I?ll be the evoked of dissonant.
But we still try
Prudent through our brothers? eyes
Back at the start
We lost our direction

We are covered in rust
Hopeless and distant, we sway side to side
Distracted by imperfection
We fall apart

Consign myself away
I?ve built myself with molten steel
My skeletal hands are wired and worn
I?m becoming a compound so I push and pull

Electric currents replace blood cells
Eccentric circuits my soul connects
Spheric and strong
I no longer break down
I cannot rest

My eyes illuminate against the glass
Abstaining focal shifts to palindrome lines
Mimic expression. Translucent model of progression
I look out, escape is granted. Free myself
Unresponsive- a mechanic I work inline
Scanning faces I learn the nothingness inside
A binary heart beat. A digital visionary

Escape is granted, and in this moment, I free myself
As each memory fades, in this emptiness. I free myself

Your hand reaches out. I am reaching back

Where do we begin
We are lost, we are polluted
We are lost, we are polluted
We are lost, we are polluted

Where do we begin
When everything is wrong we just forget
Move along and we play pretend
Surround your life with silver and gold
Your tinsel dreams and the make believe

Deconstructed and paralyzed
So slowly somehow I am evaporating
We dream to be the lesser
A malign separate existence
We be little ourselves to a lesser
Being our dreams are not our dreams

Cogitation a distant fragment
Separate me from the whole
My thoughts are now unchained

And it seems that in everything
We want isn?t anything we need

And all the signals
We seem to have taken for granted
We are lost, we are polluted
Into the grey a wolf amongst ravens

Lines flicker and twist descending
A distorted creation from nothing
So monstrous, so murderous

Lay your body down
And separate were shedding skin
Scale by scale the filth replaces it
You crystalize the world around you
Your aim for the weak
A twisting sleep breaks inside of me

A sickness you live in
I begin to break away
Please set me free

I will remain amongst the filth
Conceal myself in this residuum
I will remain amongst the filth
Asking where do we begin

We are lost, we are polluted
We are lost, we are polluted
We are lost, we are polluted
We are lost, where do we begin

We are lost, we are polluted
We are lost, we are polluted
We are lost, we are polluted
Into the grey a wolf amongst ravens

Collapse
We fold in difficult fashion, pinions clipped and forgotten
So we grow fray and suffer the cold
Like a shiver inside our own reason
Your feigned regard a frozen lake
I’ll leave you trapped, I hope your winter never ends

Replicated errors, we smash against these glaciers of mistakes
Replicated errors, and as summers melt we just
Find ourselves drowning in the flood

We melt away at the summers heat, stuck between
Our own ideas in paralyzed nights we kick and turn in searing waves
Like hollow shells, dread echoes inside
Reverberate in infinity, reverberate in infinity

Replicated errors, we smash against these glaciers of mistakes
Replicated errors, and as summers melt we just find ourselves
Drowning in the flood

We smash against these glaciers of mistakes
And find ourselves drowning in the flood
Smash against these glaciers of mistakes
And find ourselves drowning in the flood

And in the end I will show you that this life is only madness
Can we filter out the toxicity and find worth in the static?

We build and build
We forget the model
We design the madness and we paint it gold
Swarming and spiraling burning at both ends
A blur on the horizon
We fail to keep site over and over again
Open your palms up resist the current

[2x]
I am not your fathers son
Lost in the static
I am not your fathers son
Lost in the static
And you?ll find me at the end
Come dig me up, wipe the earth from my bones

With pressure, we creak and we bend
Crimson feet trample our joints
We splinter and break
We suffer again
We become a path others use to take
A distant undertaking to suffer the same
I?ll stand right beside you
We slog side by side

Become a path others use to take
Lost in the static
Just to suffer the same
[?]

Come dig me up, wipe the earth from my bones
Hold me up and join me on the horizon
Kill what?s left of the inner glow
Giving up the ghost
Growing cold

We never begin (we never begin)
Our own feet trample our joints
We burn at both ends
A blur on the horizon
We become a path others use to take
A distant undertaking to suffer the same
I?ll stand right beside you
We slog side by side

(Lost in the static, lost in the static)
We build and build we forget the model
We design madness and paint it gold

[2x]
I am not your fathers son
Lost in the static
I am not your fathers son
Lost in the static
And you?ll find me at the end
Come dig me up, wipe the earth from my bones

We feel so much better here below
Down here where the eyes are yellow and gold
We rot inside out, we crack and flake
Nothing is better than deep down below

My whole mouth brimming of leaves, submerged and gasping for air

Let the earth swallow me whole
Fertile graves bury me engulf my bones
Eyes full of stone as they close
Intertwine with the sediment as we sink into the mire
Oh I sense a confused declaration

We beat the horse with a sort of unknown conviction
And nothing ever matters, we sink into the mire

So I lay here tangled in vines and a mouth brimming with leaves
There?s nothing to eat but she fertilizes me

We feel so much better here below
Down here where the eyes are yellow and gold
We rot inside out, we crack and flake
Nothing is better than deep down below

Do you know what it?s like to be inside separate from life
A shallow grave for benevolence
Submerged we grasp for light but none that truly exists
Better then, nothing now, you feel the earth surround you as you fall
Inside a new life animates itself

We feel so much better here below
Down here where the eyes are yellow and gold
We rot inside out, we crack and flake
Nothing is better than deep down below
We feel so much better here below
Down here where the eyes are blank and cold
We rot inside out, we fast decay
Nothing is better than deep down below

And I was over taken, over whelmed and out of control
Visitors on parallel trails, unknowingly bound
Blue solitaries deluge, though I felt that I could swim
Sight kept on the skyline so we become builders of ships
Aiming to be forgotten, waiting for the rain to regress
I’ll never look back, nothing really mattered ‘til now
Decades waiting to be caught in your wind
And when your voice gave notes it pushed my sails

We found safety glowing within ourselves
Just two children waiting at the window for the rain to stop
We found safety glowing within ourselves
Just two children waiting at the window for the rain to stop

Decades became wading but we were never meant for a watery grave
Trapped in trivial downpour, decades became wading
But we were never meant for a watery grave

In solace, finding our footing, stepping out onto dry land
Dawning a life of worth discovering a glow within
Blue solitaires deluge broke down walls and I gave in

Everything and anything I ever wanted really never meant
There’s so much greater gifts two give, we finally found a way
Everything and anything I ever wanted really never meant
There’s so much greater gifts to give
Never meant for a watery grave

We found safety glowing within ourselves
Just two children waiting at the window for the rain to stop
We found safety glowing within ourselves
Just two children waiting at the window for the rain to stop
We were never meant for a watery grave

Ever-flowing white ghosts form on my fingertips
Balanced in peace, dancing in light
My grip blooms and blossoms forever more
Incubated, in silence we find tranquility
Distilled into memories, we shut off, retired among the infinite

We aim for balance standing on cannonballs, outside the battlefields
We aim for balance standing on cannonballs
We slam on clay and dig deep, and labyrinth trenches around craters we call home
Such an amazing defeat

RAGE, I will put this all back inside of me
Ghosts of my past lift me up, carry me through blinding night
RAGE, find me beneath the iron mines, below 10,000 lakes, find me beyond the pines

Now face your back to the storm, forget the shelters you would seek before
Let your feet hit the ground, don?t look back to where the siren sounds

We aim for balance standing on cannonballs, outside the battlefield
We aim for balance standing on cannonballs
We slam on clay and dig deep, and labyrinth trenches around craters we call home
Such an amazing defeat, we misplace dreams and study braille throughout the dark
And there’s hope for a better future, and there?s hope for a better life

RAGE, I will put this all back inside of me
Ghosts of my past lift me up, carry me through blinding night
RAGE, join me beneath the iron mines, below 10,000 lakes, join me beyond the pines

Bound with iron chain, solitary feed me to the grey
We dig fields of apathy, excavating endless burial mounds
Heavy lies the ground

I get what I give, so I die where I dig

Never go home, just tunnel a hole inside this field of apathy
Never giving what I could, I get what I give
Never wanting more so I die where I dig
Never wanting more so I die where I dig

Illusionist grant us safety nets made of your decaying sutures and of
Fraying string, wave your white gloves, enrapture me and send us ease
Leave us all to rot inside the facade
A solitary man ragged and worn
I cross out days on the wall and I beg for mercy
Were begging for mercy, ragged and worn
Beg for mercy, beg

I get what I give, so I?ll die where I dig
I get what I give, so I?ll die where I dig

Sweeping barricades red with rust
Quiet this mind abandoned fields of thought
Searching for meaning, wandering in opaque
Closing my eyes, and let the color in

Quiet this mind ignite these fields of thought
Everything around me cold and still, searching for feeling screaming
Open my eyes and let the color in
We venture through time blind
Running hands against the walls
Everything around me slowing down
I feel a cold wind pierce through the wall
Abandon these fields of thought, try to quiet this mind
We?ll serve a lifetime of terror inside
Wandering through these catacombs

Sweeping barricades red with blood
Quiet this mind, ignite these fields of thought
Searching for feeling, screaming in opaque
Closing my eyes colorless

We venture through time blind, running hands against the walls
Forgotten still searching the deeper we go
We venture through time blind, running hands against the walls
We will be forgotten inside these catacombs

Truth will always find me, I?ll disregard the meaning
Caught with my head underground wide eyed and afraid to look up
Nightmares replicating on concrete sleep, trapped inside a feverish dream

Waiting for the weight I?m carrying to adjust
Waiting for something to wake me up
I?ve dug these up on my own, I’ve dug these up on my own
I will stay in these catacombs

Eyes flare, this glow becomes our lanterns
We are searching for truth, but find dust and dirt
Though sight falls hard, trudge headfirst and forget what matters
Caught in the trample of the tow, bones scrape against the asphalt
Gaze into the depth and try to find the fire within

I try to pick up the pieces, try to pick up the pieces
Pick up mud and re invent these limbs
Caught in tow we are a sight of endless marching and swaying lights

We leave lumber for the need - rebuild this broken body
Lumber for the need - rebuild this broken soul

Try to pick up the pieces, but timber becoming decay
Excavate bone and sculpt mud into limbs, following the sequence
Leave a little bit of ourselves behind with every step
Broken teeth fractured and spread out
Blending in the scene hands swell and branches break becoming lumber for the need

This glow becomes our lanterns, though sight falls hard
Trudge headfirst and forget what matters
Gaze the depth and try to find fire within pick up mud and re invent these broken limbs

Forcefully held down, friction burns our bones that scrape against the asphalt
Forcefully held down, fragments of our broken teeth spread out around us
Forcefully held down try to pick up all the pieces, become decay

I’ve watched the lamp lights fade, a flare trembles and quivers that kept me safe
Warm concrete streets, I used to call home
Laid in brick and broken stone so a merchant I?ll stay
Staying caught in the sway of the break
Set aflame, set aflame, set aflame

Oh the sand covers me, grains the colors of ash
They follow me here, I?ll never leave, anchors of memories
Melting iron made of hours forged through eras
Hanging fire trapped in glass bulbs
Bludgeon toxic burdens and unearth my roots
Flip me over and set me free

I’ve watched the lamp lights fade, a flare trembles and quivers that kept me safe
Warm concrete streets, I used to call home
Laid in brick and broken stone so a merchant I?ll stay
Staying caught in the sway of the break
Set aflame, set aflame, set aflame

The sunlight fades and we still feel safe
Settled like worn beacons fought in the flow
Lift the tide, and let the stoic moon still guide me

Charmed by glow we follow and forget to even ask why we?re here
Become the practice by accident, we become the practice by accident
As time flows by it phases our lights, castaway, castaway
Swept away not forgotten, so we will set aflame caught in the break

All will be set aflame, all set aflame

Eternal fury, the wrath within
Scorched by the fires that sent me
Battle on into the night
In shallow graves, they will suffer

Smash everything around you, it?s all yours if you wish
Give and take in the palm of your hand, return us all where we begin
Spun of earth, masked and secret, liars hide inside us all
With sharpened teeth vast that never end, to the gallows, we descend

Lost to the patterns of pitch and smoke
Where we will beg
Outside asylum that can?t exist
Where we will beg, where we will beg

All those who oppose us pushed down and stamped out
Behold the crown of misery
A question of violent faith, to question all of man
Behold the crown of misery
A question of violent faith, to question all of man
All those who oppose us pushed down and stamped out

[Guitar solo]

Lost to the patterns of pitch and smoke
Where we will beg
Outside asylum that can?t exist
Where we will beg, where we will beg

Eternal fury, the wrath within
Scorched by the fires that sent me
Battle on into the night
In shallow graves, they will suffer

Behold the crown of misery
A question of violent faith, to question all of man
Behold the crown of misery
A question of violent faith, to question all of man

These old scars
Callous against the touch
Maps made of flesh and bone
A glacial serenity, we find our way (We find our way)
Notes scrawled of crimson and blue
Sought the light of a dimming existence
Unwinding as the ghost of me was pulled away

Destroyer of worlds
We roam these realms forgotten
Forgive me for I am man

Cosmic labyrinthian
Unearth the soul as I reach in
All hands lost in the crimson
Do we feel what we cannot touch?
Can we pull ourselves from the rust?
All hands lost in the crimson

Keep the outside never in
Nothing matters
When focused on the past
Our futures shatter

Do we feel what we cannot touch?
Can we pull ourselves, ourselves from the rust?

I?m only seen in the pictures
Most days are a bitter pain
Amongst the shipwrecked

Cosmic labyrinthian
Unearth the soul as i reach in
All hands lost in the crimson
Do we feel what we cannot touch?
Can we pull ourselves from the rust?
All hands lost in the crimson

We stray, learning balance between time
Your innocence emanates but wisdom still ignored
Quiet and calm, a wordless devotion you share
Our thought like wind
Remind us of what we were

We?re killing the purest
In disbelief we often lie

And when you bloom, will you leave her behind?
Or use your light to shine the way?
Caught in the doom, innocence left behind
Your words give us sight
We live (We live) to feel alive
Untethered (Untethered), controller of worlds
Still gilded and bright
Teach me your ways
Unlock (Unlock) the doors I shut so long ago

Can you hold onto the innocence, as the universe toils and turns?
Or can you call upon the gods and radiate the way you do now?

We?re killing the purest
In disbelief we often lie
Will you stay untethered
Where now your innocence is left behind?

(And when you bloom will you leave her behind?
Caught in the doom, innocence left behind)

We live to feel alive
Untethered, controller of worlds
Still gilded and bright
Teach me your ways, unlock the doors I shut so long ago
I find color in your words, beguiling ghosts in your eyes (Your eyes)
Untethered (Untethered), controller of worlds
Still gilded and bright

Evergreen becomes me
Resistant child grown of wood and branch
Despondent, lost in flux
Distort the images of who I am
Searching for fire, I felt the fall pulling me back again
As seasons changed, I spun the Earth
My hands felt full of stone and hardened

Time left, construct of all our fears
Time left, it becomes the catalyst for failure

I?ll miss the winter ways
The frost plumes breathing loud within
Sound and shake that kept the glow
A passion beaming from our eyes
And at the end I gave all of me to you
Shed skin and felt alive
So send your waters tonight
And wash the memories away

Nothing looked the same when
The ice dripped down my eyes

Gaze against a reflection of myself
Now worn and winded, vitals keep me trudging on
Made of wood, branch breaking while I grow
Gaze against from roots to roads
Beside a shadow laid frayed and waiting
One day I?ll look back, following along, retracing
Beside a shadow laid frayed and waiting
Outstretched arms to bring me home
Stare back from the Evergreen
Rest my bones

Bring me home, under the night rest my bones
Shadows balance on worlds
Under the night, into the abyss
Bring me home, under the night rest my bones
Shadows balance on worlds
Under the night, into the abyss

I fold, I give into myself
Let these tendril branch out and wrap around me
No longer a motive inside this drift
Learning to let go of the great resist
Forever a mortal man, and nothing else
A mortal man, and nothing else

Reflecting as life hands you life
Peaceful tendril, wrap your arms around me so I feel free
Married to ideals and nothing else, I’ve learned to let this go
My body unto the slow

Take in water, respire
Feel deep blue, expire
Attached to an ideal, I relinquish
I fell exempt
Take in water, respire
I fell exempt
I fell exempt
Yeah

(Balance the world between the gales of madness
Balance the world between the gales of madness)
Balance the world between the gales of madness
Rocked in sway, no anchors to hold
Never as I could be
Balance the world between the gales of madness
Tow the line, search for peace, detach from the worst of me
Into the deep, eternally

[Guitar solo]

Reveal to me
Where do I wander when I let go?
Or do I drift inside this slow?
Images of everything, can we conceive what we believe?
Outside a falseness and outside our fear (Outside our fear)
Peaceful tendril, wrap your arms around me so I feel free
I fell free inside this slow
I’ve learned to let this go

Take in water, respire
Feel deep blue, expire
Attached to an ideal, I relinquish
I fell exempt
Take in water, respire
I fell exempt

Take in water, respire (I fell exempt)
Feel deep blue, expire (I fell exempt)
Attached to an ideal, I relinquish (I fell exempt)
Take in water, respire
I fell exempt
I fell exempt

Hopeful, a design we forget
Lost in translation of yesterday
Sunk in worrisome sand
Futures slip away and we forget
We focus on the present, we overlook the loved
Meaningless beautiful days banked away
Sifting through the rot of carrion memories
We let these granules sway our lives
Worthless burdens embellished
Buried alive, we implode
Buried alive, we implode

Piece yourself back together
Just a fractured face in ancient stone
Worn away by a desolate wind
We focused on the present
We overlooked the loved

Distancing myself from within, I feel it
We separate and spin
I can see myself unravel
We get lost in the flutter, my feet sink back in sand
Climb and climb, exhausted, it doesn?t matter
Release my body into the expanse
Into the fray, into the fray

I can feel it, it pulls at me
I can feel it, it’s gripping me
Not ready now, I won?t give in
This life won?t end
Sunk in this meaningless sand

Was it worth anything?
So much time wasted, cut the lights out and I felt alone
Choking on self-inflicted agony as I was stranded
Everything flickered so far away
An illusion built with my own hands
See past the waving colors and lights
Beyond the edge where I belong

One day at a time, the glowing great repeat
Alive inside the calm
I hear the whispering wind as the sirens call
Sing me back to sleep
Sing me back to sleep

Guide me home
Incubated, I see that we only matter (We only matter)
Rush over and build me dreams in waking life
Open up my eyes
Stand still, searching for the sound
The glowing rhythm in my chest
Quiet and forever still
The warmth wraps its arms around me

[Guitar solo]

One day at a time, the glowing great repeat
Alive inside the calm
I hear the whispering wind as the sirens call
Sing me back to sleep
Sing me back to sleep

(The glowing great repeat
The glowing great repeat
The glowing great repeat
The glowing great repeat)

Bleed for a lifetime, but remain fixed
To challenge existence and push through the bleak
To find the end
And in my head, the mystery of man
And in my head, we?ll see the brighter days

Eyes blaze through lifetimes
A visionary?s dream come to being
Chased to the end and held on for dear life
Find me inside the sound
Between the secrets that surround us
We rise above

To follow the same path until we get it right
With you, the good fight
What stories to tell, you and I
Perfect elements balance on what becomes us, becomes us

Bleed for a lifetime, but remain fixed
To challenge existence and push through the bleak
To find the end
And in my head (In my head)
The mystery of man (The mystery of man)
And in my head, we?ll see the brighter days

And if a light goes out, the mind will show the way
Carry the flame for tomorrow, a sacred blaze (Sacred blaze)
Radiant hands flaring full of gold as we smash into infinity (Infinity)
Challenge existence and stare into everything I?ve ever known

To follow the same path
Until we get it right
With you, the good fight

What stories to tell you and I
We gave into it all, submerged ourselves
Live by words of the same thought
Blink and it?s over
Live by words of the same thought
Breathe when you can
When time keeps its promise
I?ll look back and see my mark
I?ll see my mark

We jump from dream to dream, being to being
Same model, different world
Same places, different shores
We explore each other?s eyes
Drifting passengers outsiders searching for it
Windows to worlds
One piece of the puzzle in the same picture
Tumble and perceive
Our dreams grasp realms
A passenger with false control

Life strings lead to different worlds
In night braille our souls unhinge
Same cloth but never knit
Come set me free

Born of ash, shaped with mud
Carved from oak, we are ghosts

In parallel lives, do we die or disconnect lost frequencies?
Our bodies, nothing more than a shell
A pulse exchanged and let go

This life, in a moment disappears
Born of ash, shaped with mud
Carved from oak, we are ghosts

I seem alright, as my body became undone
Into the great expanse

Life strings lead to different worlds
In night braille our souls unhinge
Same cloth but never knit
Come set me free

Born of ash, shaped with mud
Carved from oak, we are ghosts

In parallel lives, do we die or disconnect lost frequencies?
Our bodies, nothing more than a shell
A pulse exchanged and let go

Into the expanse
Reborn and erased
A disappearance of faces
Another version of me

Through the great expanse
Reborn and erased
A passenger behind my eyes
Through the great expanse
Reborn and erased
A passenger behind my eyes
I hope you?re there (I hope you?re there)
I hope you?re there