As I Lay Dying
ALBUMES / CANCIONES / LETRAS
Reach inside of me Far beneath the encasing of ashes Bleeding red Still showing signs of life Remove the darkness Take me away A Stream of Hope destroy this corrupted cell Purification (Leaving me desolate in the face of perfection) Unable to hide I am drawn to the fire It is this pain that brings me likely do
Through this pain I refine Tearing me from within Screaming to be released but held fast by Your love Hold me here Break me until my face breathes upon this ground Outstretched with my head to the floor Spent of all my strength Relying on Yours
Exhausted beyond repair Stripped of all I had Forced to die inside Now I breathe a renewed Life It is now I see without my eyes If this is what it takes To bring me to my knees Then feed me pain until I realize I am but a slave Remind me of my need for You Remind me of who I am
Emptiness running through me Taking all that i am Leaving me this blinding mask Grasping for the wind Everything I've done Everything I've gained It all means nothing A mere breath has passed away Sadness I embrace Left with empty promises I look at myself and see the scars That are brought to me by this life Then I ask myself Is that all this world has to give The chase is over I am finished Stripped of every reason I cry out to You From my knees I scream
This blood turned into tears A broken heart runs my body Dripping forth until I give my life I have become a sacrifice It hurts me just to think of you I void the pain that is unbarring (To know that I take these sufferings from you)
Shatter my emotions Take them all away Left alone to face You Now You know my heart Left only to speak what is true See through this plague of flesh With truth I say that I love You Yet my heart betrays me Be not far from me For these voices They must soon cease Despite their betrayal You died for me
You meant the world to me All I have now is memories Your love brought joy to my heart You meant the world to me Tears of sorrow stream from my broken soul But I will see you again When this world fades away I will see you again
Only You know my pain inside You've been there when no one else could be When tears fall from my eyes I know that You are always there No matter what's in my heart You are the One who cares When I doubt, You stand by me So I'm not ashamed to say the way I feel I love You, You are my Everything
Take me home Imitations surround me You are all I want to see So why do I turn To embrace what will never last All my life I've tried All my life I've failed And one day I will see Surrounded on every side
I cannot make it without You All my efforts have failed So that I will cry out in the need of You Restore the strength of my Dependence Send me through the fire Make me pure again Everything I am I give it all to You In Your arms I wait I lay down my life I am nothing without You
For so long I was deceived Enslaved by these chains Blinded to Your forgiveness If only I knew Your love Giving Your life to save me from this pain Broken and bleeding I turned You away Now I have seen the scars inflicted by my hands The Innocence spilled to save me Reaching to the hand that brought You this pain And now I am on my knees Crying the way You wept for me Crying, crying tears of shame Dying, dying to take away their pain I hear the screams of those who call from the grave Dying for me to take their pain
I want to bring You all that is in my heart I want to bring You my everything But I've failed You so many times How can I stand here before You When I begin to steal what only belongs to You? I am able to bring You nothing that isn't already Yours I am so ashamed of what I ever called my own. Take what I have, take these broken remains. What can I give to You that You don't already deserve? You laid down Your life when I refused to give mine
94 hours of regret for me to realize what I held unfading beauty, not just a face I held its innocence within my heart Go! Now I won't let go I won't let go I won't let go Now I I won't let go Now I I won't let go The torment of your eyes has awakened my soul. The torment of your eyes has awakened my soul. The pain of a moment's time will forever beg your forgiveness Forgiveness 94 hours for me to realize I held unfading beauty I held your innocence
The sound of silent voices surveying my thoughts regularity defining perfection Neither sorrow nor contentment Whispering emptiness Whispering emptiness Frail words collapse My weight only stirs the ground How long can I hold your hand as you walk over graves You search for tears of compassion Yet find the comfort of winter You find the comfort Reassurance dead like the falling leaves Losing hope in your unchanging ways all of my strength cannot save you If you are unwilling to help yourself
Forever your eyes will hold the memory I saw your heart as it overtook me we tried so hard to understand and reason but in that one moment I gave my heart away I gave my heart away in that moment I gave my heart away in that moment I gave my heart away (I gave my heart away) What perfect breath where my mind lay beside me and all I knew was what had overtaken me with no reason I am comforted by the inability to understand Forever your eyes will hold the memory I saw your heart as it overtook me we tried so hard to understand and reason but in that one moment I gave my heart away I gave my heart away in that moment I gave my heart away in that moment I gave my heart away (I gave my heart away) Forever your eyes will hold the memory Forever your eyes will hold the memory Forever your eyes will hold the memory When I wake from this dream Will your smile still open my heart and leave me transparent When I wake from this dream Will your smile still open my heart
Can you understand my meaning hidden in the roses around my eyes I want you to know how much it means to have you in my life Your love brings me close again in this instance this single moment when our worlds collide The wire of eternity twists around us I can feel this river rising, moving up my back Some things never change Some things never go away Some things never change Some things never go away I could never forget you I will never be the same I can never forget you I will never be the same Go! Some things never change Some things never go away Some things never change Some things never go away I can never forget you I will never be the same
The contingencies of another day unravel my senses And now your distance is darkness And now your distance is darkness My hope has been beset by your absence I decay from inside From inside Pain! There is love, there is love, there is love Love! Love, there is love, there is love Underneath there is love
I wanted to bring you all that is in my heart I wanted to give you my everything but I've failed you I've failed you so many times how can I stand here how can I stand here before you how can I stand here before you when I begin to steal what only belongs to you what only belongs to you I am able to bring you Nothing that isn't already yours I am so ashamed, I'm so ashamed Of what I ever called my own Take what I have, take these broken remains What can I give to you that you don't already deserve You laid down your life when I refused to give mine
What is this world, what is it we've created In the burdens of this life I cannot rest this world means nothing Everything we hold will pass away with a void of completion comfort will ever fade I long for this wind to cease Everything we hold will pass away Everything we hold will pass away I long for this wind to cease We once held undying devotion now dead to our thoughts, undefined like our love Everything we hold will pass away Everything we hold will pass away
We climbed a thousand steps without a single imprint This drowning regret will die Forgotten like my past Forgotten like my past Moving bodies lie in rest Carried by each other
From here to eternity we begin understanding From here to eternity I see who you are and who else can compare I meant what I said, I promised to stand by your side Until the end, that's where we begin Until the end, that's where we begin From here to eternity we begin understanding It is our hearts that define what has meaning in life Some will ask how can this be But it was you who made me feel From here to eternity we begin understanding Until the end, that's where we begin Until the end, that's where we begin Until the end, that's where we begin Until the end, that's where we begin
One night opens wounds and words utter pain You've hid hearts and songs as long as you recall One night opens wounds and words utter pain The truth cannot breathe a one in your soul You've hid hearts and songs as long as you recall His kind words just fall near your feet With their last air, all they want done is to be heard in your sweet ears just once
How can I bear this any longer Take me away Arms stretched out only to hold separation Take me away Take me away Take me away Take me away I'm dying inside, emptied before you Take me into your arms I will fight until the day when I will see you Sight given to these blind eyes When will I be taken from this life take what is yours You deserve more than my life You deserve more than my life Take me Away!
Did you ever see me or could you even see at all I looked at your cold white face, so still, so empty Yet I knew you were at, Knew you were at rest much more comforted than I What else could I find to replace who you were It was the carefree unrestricted love that You never meant to give You never had the choice You never had the guilt You never had the choice It was your innocence It was part of who you were It was the comfort of a friend You never meant to give you never had the choice It was your innocence It was part of who you were It was your innocence It was the comfort of a friend It was your innocence It was part of who you were It was your innocence It was the comfort of a friend
Yeah That night that I never came home Wandering souls captured my thoughts Emptiness filled my mind Urgency spoke her lies In the confines of these grey walls I watched them move together Taking me places I cannot remember (remember) We have been poured out Into a loveless bride How quickly I forget That this is meaningless How quickly I forget That this is meaningless (Yeah) In a world passing through my fingers I still chase the wind How quickly I forget That this is meaningless How quickly I forget That this is meaningless Yeah What have I learned from yesterday? What have I learned from yesterday?
All along it was me who changed Morning now waits for me All along it was me Morning now waits Morning now waits for me What I have to gain does not matter If what I give is all to You If what I give is all to You I have seen the stars fall (yeah) And the sun rise again But You are yet to change You are all that is You are all that is worth You are all that is worth living for What I have to gain does not matter If what I give is all to You If what I give is all to You All along it is was It is was me who changed
Can... Can we die to live an other day? How could we lose sight Of what matters most? Trying to love What cannot love us back All we have is not worth living for If we do not know when to let go What is life That we cling to it so tight? Afraid that it will take from us These fading sentiments Can we die Yeah Can we die to live another day? Can we die to live another day? Can we die to live another day? What is life That we cling to it so tight? Afraid that it will take from us These fading sentiments How could we lose sight Of what matters most? Trying to love What cannot love us back All we have is not worth living for If we do not know when to let go How could we lose sight Of what matters most? Trying to love What cannot love us back All we have is not worth living for If we do not know when to let go
Yeah I have traveled so far to find so little Meaning in tragedy or tragedy In the search for meaning Dark clouds have lead me here Yeah Confined freedom Guides us to security What if everything (yeah) I have been taught is a lie And all of my teachers Have been wrong this whole time Compelling us to fight The battles they would not They have already won And we have already lost If we do not learn from their mistakes We have already lost Yeah If we do not learn to change
For so long I have felt alone Content to live with unrest Longing faded into countless nights That buried my weary heart But You brought an end To this dead hour And meaning to a calloused life Held in Your arms But too far from my heart These thoughts will carry me through The darkest nights While Your eyes rest in These thoughts will carry me through The darkest nights While Your eyes rest in mine I remember the way You looked at me And the way You drew Dew me cose With one deep sigh Scattering pieces of my My restless mind Forgetting all that we have left behind We have left behind We have left behind We have left behind These thoughts will carry me through The darkest nights While Your eyes rest in
I've watched them build Upon these empty hearts I've watched them build Upon these empty hearts False hopes of lossless paradise Gathering together The dead hearts beat as one Stillborn comfort feeding lies Through answers of self denial Divided between a dissolute self And the sorrow of sincere devotion Devotion What is it that you find peace in now? Where is your hope in this dark night? What is it that you find peace in now? Where is your hope in this dark night?
I laid the night before me Unraveled the tangles of my heart All I felt was stale hollow air These streams of uncertainty They are collapsing upon my mind Upon my mind Yeah Torrents fill my veins until I burst With mistaken guilt and shame My battered bones Try to keep fighting Against the endless ocean of self defeat As time goes on Some months are yet to pass As time goes on Some months are yet to pass As time goes on Some months are yet to pass Are yet to pass Let's go Puddle puddles of ink Surround this tired chair All of my sorrow has been spilled (Yeah) Into into my reflection Reflection
This is what I am This is what I have become Repeating yesterday Drain me of my very essence To form again what lasts This is what I am This is what I have become Repeating yesterday Drain me of my very essence This is what I am This is what I have become What is love without (what is love) What is love without (sacrifice), My tears hold no weight If my commitment is only failure Each day I I am Repeating yesterday Each day I am born (I am born) again to be (again to be) A child (a child) in the eyes of love Repeating yesterday Repeating (Yeah) Drain me of my very essence To form (to form) again To form (to form) again what lasts This is what I am This is what I have become What is love without (what is love) What is love without...
Yeah Only through struggle have I found rest With a piece of me taken away I begin to understand Hollow out this machine like chest With its gears that turn to make me feel And assembled thoughts that fade away Only through struggle have I found rest Only through struggle have I found rest Remove from me (from me) (This de...) This deception (...ception) (That I) That I called love (called love) (That I) That I called love (called love) Yeah With its gears that turn to make me feel And assembled thoughts that fade away Remove from me (remove from me) This deception (that I that I) That I called love (that I called love) That I called love Only through struggle have I found rest With a piece of me taken away I begin to understand I begin to understand I begin to understand Love
White shutters enclose The boundaries of my heart I hold my breath Till the steady beating is shut out In silence I wait for what is real For I know the truth of my perceptions Nothing in life matters more More than You Matters more More than You When first feelings fade I will still be here I hold my breath Till the steady beating is shut out Beating is For I know the truth of my perceptions Nothing in life matters more More than You Matters more More than You When first feelings fade I will still be here
Control is dead in this blind world For we do what we hate Split from inside Betrayed by emotion Emotion We must look past What is in front of us Shadows are security They have become the solace Of my looking glass heart In search for certainty I no longer need control Take me through the fire Refine what is Yours Take me through the fire Refine what is Yours It is time to overcome this We must look past What is in front of us It is time to overcome this We must look past What is in front of us
Yeah How could I ever go back (ever go back) Back to the life Where I live amongst the dead (dead) How could I go back To live amongst the dead Those who have forgotten how to feel (how to feel) And have become slaves (become slaves) to memory And wishful thinking But Your love has set me free As You've awakened every star That has been sleeping In the constellation of my soul [x2] How could I go back How could I go back To live amongst the dead Amongst the dead [x2] How could I go back To live amongst the dead Those who imprisoned beauty I never want to leave Your arms So I wait in hope for Your embrace For Your embrace I wait in hope for Your embrace I wait in hope for Your embrace Yeah Illusions of what I thought was love Illusions of what I thought was love Now I have clear sight To see I've left nothing behind
How many years have we waited for a ship that never set sail? And how many days have we wasted chasing a love that was not our own? I sat ashore and watched as one hopeless wave crashed upon another while my thoughts ran to the hills my heart never reached the sea with only delusions of an endless journey I am left with an ocean between you and me Is this your salvation? Is this all you can give? I will not stand in reflection of someone else's dream The gate to my heart has been weld shut with the splendor of my aspirations closed in how many years have we waited for a ship that never set sail? And how many days have we wasted chasing a love that was not our own? Is this your salvation? Is this all you can give? I will not stand in reflection of someone else's dream
I see them coming With shrouds to bury us all Before we were born they shaped our lives Leading us into an unmarked grave In moments life could end So I will speak while I can This is my chance My time to stand We may fail alone but that is better Than dying with them only to be forgotten I for one would rather suffer now Than leave this life without passion This is our chance Our time to stand
We have all heard what we wanted to hear "Truth" that sounds right to our ears But what wisdom is there within us To live based on the feeling of our hearts How many times has instinct let us down Never to be thought through Never to be questioned Say what you really mean When your ambition calls you For what use is there in praying If you will only hear what you want to hear? We speak of fighting to resist this world But what about the battle within us? If we have chosen to live against the grain Then why are we all facing the same way? There is no difference between us and them If we all blindly seek truth from sentiments
This world was never worthy But how can I call it unfaithful Every promise was fulfilled As decay crawled from it's throat Like the dead rising from an open grave Lips of splendor and tongue of deceit All dying now as our fragile wrists hold only waste Like those gasping for their last breath We cannot hide there's nothing left If All my sorrow has led me here Then I would cry all of my tears To have this chance again And know there's more than this And know there's more than you Like those gasping for their last breath We cannot hide there's nothing left
[Verse] If music is A mirror revealing The depths of my heart Then I will write The darkest song For without Forgiveness My soul is lost [Chorus (2x):] All that is hope Within destruction Comes from you For I have fallen Fallen [Verse (Quiet)] If music is A mirror revealing The depths of my heart Then I will write The darkest song For without Forgiveness My soul is lost All that is hope Within destruction Comes from you [Break] For I have fallen And there is nothing good Within me yet I've Been given life I will I will never Deserve For without Forgiveness Without forgiveness my soul is lost [Outro (4x)] All that is hope Within destruction [4x] All that is hope
I've looked straight into your eyes And turned my head for the last time Because I was scared to leave these walls in ruin Like the fate of those who trust in themselves We are alone and afraid I know you are the one we left behind Yet somehow we are the ones who are alone you are the one we left behind you are the one we left be... I will no longer turn my head I will never forget you You are the one we left behind You are the forsaken We've built our confidence On broken dreams now left for dead Yet we've been condemned To chase these dreams that never end I know you are the one we left behind Yet somehow we are the ones who are alone you are the one we left behind you are the one we left be... I will no longer turn my head I will never forget you You are the one we left behind You are the forsaken I will no longer turn my head I will never forget you You are the one we left behind You are the forsaken Our selfishness consumes us Until the whole world is not enough Forgive the day that I erased your name that I erased your name For it's the memory of me that will decay I know you are the forsaken Yet somehow we are the ones who feel alone I know you are the forsaken Yet somehow we are the ones who feel alone
You sat and watched As I nearly destroyed myself Never had I felt so betrayed That you would sacrifice my life For no more than comfort And now your love means nothing to me You are a coward, the antithesis of a friend Take action before there is No one left to defend For I would have stood by you Right to the gates of hell
I never wanted And I never cared before Now take it all back This is a new day How I long to regress To the days before I took upon myself The obsessions of this world A day of innocence equating beauty For tomorrow may fall And today is already gone Now take it back This is a new day I've grown tired of chasing Convinced I was in need And now the years I've spent Only a slave to this Tomorrow may fall And today is already gone I will no longer adore These things that will never satisfy me I have seen my world change And then go back to where it came In this vicious circle We are all brought back to life Only to die again But without these barren obsessions I am simply free
I can only imagine that wrath is being held out So there will be time for us to be redeemed But surely wrath is not being held out So that we may redeem ourselves For I've seen the madness Of those who died trying But is regret only a word that the living possess? I long to see their faces Regardless of the decay For in the eyes of the deceased... We would see hope in our last day Inside this dying world For there is still beauty Inside this dying world
Now this is who we are I am no one's hero For we are not the giant men That some may think You are faithful when we are not So I'd like to tell this story The way it is meant to be Without the burden that's in our hearts None of us would have ever found You For You are faithful when we are not You began a work That only you can complete Now this is who we are I'll never know the answers And I'll always wonder why ...Why we're given grace we'll never deserve And a second chance that we will never earn For there is nothing I can do to save myself Now this is who we are I'll never know the answers And I'll always wonder why But You have let me start again I'd rather be called weak Than die thinking I was strong
Yeah... Condemned... Condemned... Condemned... Condemned... Condemned... without given a chance to speak. Without acknowledgment they're made less than human. Condemned... Condemned to anonymity. Trapped by... Trapped by obscurity. Condemned... Condemned to anonymity. Sentenced... Sentenced to neglect. Oh... They will never share our blood, yet is that reason to drain what's left of theirs, abandoning compassion? Condemned... Condemned to anonymity. Trapped by... Trapped by obscurity. Condemned... Condemned... Condemned to anonymity. Sentenced... Sentenced to neglect. Oh... Why do we uphold allegiance higher than maintaining life? The ties of blood breaking a stronger bind. Condemned... Condemned to anonymity. Trapped by... Trapped by obscurity. Condemned... Condemned... Condemned to anonymity. Sentenced... Sentenced to neglect.
What we see now is only a fraction... Bound to learn the hard way (hard way), this is the human condition. There is nothing that can be said to stop us from making mistakes. When I look to myself as a source of ending pain, no matter how many times before I've failed. Ya... It seems our problems solve themselves when... when we look beyond us to those truly in hell. The more I focus on myself, then the more helpless that I become. So why not erase this point of view? My suffering is trivial... Beyond our suffering. Ya... ...compared to those who know real agony. It seems our problems solve themselves, when we look beyond us to those truly in hell. It seems our problems solve themselves, when we look beyond our suffering. It seems our problems solve themselves, when we look beyond our suffering. Go... My trials seem insignificant now. Why won't we look beyond us? Why won't we look beyond our despair? It seems our problems solve themselves, when we look to those truly in hell. Go... Personal redemption cannot change the world, unless we lay down our lives for those who still suffer.
None of this matters, none of these words. Common and silent we will die in this world. We've only spoken to those who agree, and without them we've fallen on deaf ears. Stand on conviction and you will walk alone. For once I have stood (I have stood), no one will know, but alone I was born and alone we must go. In my convictions I've found my own grave, but amongst the dead we all fade away. Yeah... Yet solitude is better than a life not worthy of reaction. There is nothing to lose (nothing). So we stand alone or join those who follow in misery. In my convictions I've found my own grave, but amongst the dead we all fade away. In my convictions I've found my own grave, but amongst the dead we all fade away. Fade away... Stand on conviction and you'll walk alone. A voice is only a noise without someone to hear, and without a crowd to feed that noise grows silent. For once I have stood, no one will know, but alone I was born and alone we must go. Fading back into an anodyne sea, to drown with all who've gone before me. Yeah... We must go. In my convictions I've found my own grave (my own grave), but amongst the dead we all fade away. Yeah... In my convictions (convictions), I've found my own grave, but amongst the dead we all fade away. Stand on conviction and you'll walk alone. Yeah... Fading back into an anodyne sea, to drown with all who've gone before me. Fading back... fading. Fading back into an anodyne sea. Fading back... fading. Fading back... fading away.
Yeah... If we chase acclaim in search for...search for stature, then our status becomes a vacuum draining. Opulence is a myth for there is no final rest. Change in circumstance only delays. The inescapable fact that we are downcast. In looking to the end we've lost sight of where to begin. Hope lies not in reaching...reaching the end, if the journey itself is enough to bring fulfillment. Without conclusion this song will end. Without conclusion there is no final rest. Without conclusion... Shred... We are void of purpose before we start. For in chasing our destination the present state is sacrificed... sacrificed. In looking to... In looking to the end we have lost sight of where to begin. We've lost... We have lost sight of where to begin. Without conclusion this song will end. Without conclusion there is no final rest... Without conclusion this song will end. Without conclusion there is no final rest... Without conclusion this song will end. Without conclusion...
We are all comatose. We are overfed and under...undernourished, yearning for something more. Never starving yet never quite satisfied. Carnal but without useful flesh or mind. Yeah... I am a walking contradiction that´s found consistency consuming everything, all without producing sustenance. In the parallels we struggle... struggle to upkeep, there is a better way for us to be set free. From all it is we crave, there must be more to life than to simply stay alive... to simply stay alive. We are not the same as I hope to show. There is a better way if we just let go. We are not... we are not the same. We are not... we are not the same. Let go... In the tension between devouring want or simple need it´s clear the only lines between the ones we preserve. We are not the same as I hope to show. There is a better way if we just let go. We are not... we are not the same. We are not... we are not the same. Let go... We are not the same. And in the parallels we struggle to upkeep, there´s a better way for us to be... for us to be set free. And in the parallels (parallels) we struggle to upkeep (struggle to upkeep), there´s a better way for us to be... for us to be set free.
Just like the spread of disease... Ya... Ya... Debt and guilt or guilt and decree, the masters that we please. Yet if we seek help for infirmities, we are made twice the sons of hell as before. Reach out your hand. Reach out your hand, only to be plagued by disease. Reach out your hand. Reach out your hand, only to be plagued by disease. While religion tries to blame what we cannot see, I accept that part of the problem is me. It was never a sacred mandate to accept conformity, through select revelations that we choose to believe. Another blind guide replacing divine eyes. Familiarity is the great deception, disguised by authority, sealing out subversion. Whitewashed tombs have hidden the truth, for we unknowingly worship icons of ordinary life. Reach out your hand to find forgiveness, only to be plagued by disease. The horrors of beliefs and customs, camouflaged by commonality. Reach out your hand, reach out your hand. Reach out your hand, reach out your hand. I still believe that there is hope for us, but I believe we must look outside the sanctuaries of oppression that have brought our world so much pain... Yeah... Another blind guide replacing divine eyes (eyes). Whitewashed tombs (whitewashed tombs) have hidden the truth. Reach out your hand to find forgiveness, only to be plagued by disease (plagued by disease). Reach out your hand to find forgiveness (reach out your hand), only to be plagued by disease. Reach out your hand, reach out your hand.
I've tried to find reconciliation behind the walls of those whose hatred burns. For I find it easier to reach someone who still feels, than to make amends with passionless apathy. Where all lines are the same a portrait cannot be made. I need to burn inside. I need to know that you are alive. I need to know that feelings of discontent are stronger than indifference for those too weak to stand. Like a colorless sky over a sea of nothingness, hatred faces its enemies while apathy strikes furtively. I need to burn inside. I need to know that you are alive. I need to know that feelings of discontent are stronger than indifference for those too weak to stand. I need to know that feelings of discontent are stronger than indifference for those too weak to stand... Until our anger burns against injustice, we will create the faceless by dismissing those forced to concede. Many of us have turned off the light outside, erasing what exists beyond our front door. And for you I find it harder to reach common ground than my most glaring opposition. But what about those who've lost the luxury of choice? ...striving for identity, buried by our lack of interest, souls marked as mere history. How much grievance will it take to awaken us? I need to know that feelings of discontent are stronger than indifference for those too weak to stand. I need to know that feelings of discontent are stronger than indifference for those too weak to stand... How much grievance will it take to awaken us from the comfort of our homes? ...the comfort of our oversized graves. I've tried to find reconciliation... I've tried to find reconciliation...
Many choose to find their hope in the thoughts of afterlife, when there is none to be found right here before we die. So I understand the feeling of helplessness, when we are just taught to wait here...wait here for death. Wait here for death. Wait for this suffering to end. Wait here for death. Wait here for death. Wait for this suffering to end. We are not forgotten, for a kingdom is offered beyond that of golden streets. We can represent now what will one day be complete. Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled and the powerless rise (and the powerless rise). This is a kingdom born upside-down. This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned. Wait here for death. Wait here for death. The "blessings" of excess are only a burden on us. It is a broken system where we just wait for death. It is a broken system where suffering can never end. Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled and the powerless rise (and the powerless rise). This is a kingdom born upside-down. This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned... (the broken are crowned). If helplessness is our system then we're better off upside-down.
We live in slavery to a past we cannot escape, and I say it's worth it to just start again... again. We've focused so long on ideals of freedom that it is this very belief that oppresses us. We all want to be free, yet we find ways to forfeit liberty to our own impulses, to our own consumption. So I say it's worth it to build a new foundation... a new foundation... a new foundation... a new foundation... It's a past we cannot escape. This vacancy will take everything this world can offer. But what is control once we have let go of all we suffer? Once we've let go... Yeah... When we've awakened to admit we are all enslaved, then there is freedom in our choice to disobey. Yeah... Our creeds have become a justification (justification) to live the way that some see fit, (justification) and no one is more hopeless than those blinded by the scales of content. This vacancy will take everything this world can offer. But what is control (what is control) once we have let go of all we suffer? We live in slavery to a past we cannot escape. So I say it's worth it to just start again. Oh... We've let go. We've let go. We've let go. Yeah... This vacancy will take everything this world (all that this world) can offer (all that this world offers). But what is control (what is control) once we have let go (we have let go) of all we suffer? We can't escape, we can't escape. We can't escape, we can't escape. So I say it's worth it to start again.
The only constant is change. The only constant is change. Go... The human heart is born without legs, sliding back and forth, and never once does it truly rest, unless accompanied by death... Sliding back and forth. Even the strongest remnants of history, they have begun to crumble against time. Sliding back and forth. The only constant is change. Nothing remains the same. The only constant is change. There's only growth or decay. Yea... Let's go... Unvarying scenes only found in pictures can never breathe life. For nowhere else does level ground exist, unless it has been captured by a flash of steady light. Sliding back and forth (back and forth). The only constant is change. Uncertainty awaits. The only constant is change. There's only growth or decay... or decay. The only constant is change... There is nothing that stays the same, from the foundation of our lives. There is nothing that stays the same. There is nothing to erase time... The only constant is change. Nothing remains the same. The only constant is change. There's only growth or decay... Yeah... The only constant is change (change). The only constant is change.
I see now... I see through the veil of expectation. I see now... I see that conformity is betrayal. Betrayal of those who are forgotten, yet vision alone furthers our blame. Unless followed by transformation, it is pointless to be given sight. Without the hope of our reaction, we overlook the purpose of our eyes. Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny, released from the blinding of false light. (blinding of false light) Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny. In weakness we are freed... I see now... I see that conformity is betrayal. With empty eyes I looked ahead (ahead), with clarity I now look back... Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny, released from the blinding of false light (blinding of false light). Now is our chance (our chance) to breathe without... without tyranny. In weakness we are freed... Yeah... I admit my failure. Opacity has dulled my senses. Conformity (conformity) controlled by lifeless vices. Oh... Yeah... Covetousness (covetousness) disguised as ambition. But now it ends... But now it ends... But now it ends... But now it ends, not with defeat but determination... We are freed... Yeah... Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny, released from the blinding of false (false) light (light). Now is our chance... Now is...our chance... In weakness we are freed...
What is certain I have ignored I have spent most of my life Trying to complicate everything that I believe So that what paralyzed In thought I will always have an alibi Just another excuse, just another excuse To hesitate, to hesitate Delaying true progress with passivity [2x] The answers that I've found Are all the same They uncover questions That still remain What is certain I have ignored And what I know is simple If I'm honest with myself My soul is broken yet easily fixed And what I know is simple I must die if I truly want to live [2x] The answers that I've found Are all the same They uncover questions That still that remain The greatness of us have become the least I must be reborn to revive the heart that hardly beats Keeping alive this hollow frame I must be reborn I must be reborn
If I have been kept alive for one reason, It's to declare that apart from you I can do nothing Though discouraged by my failure I remember who I used to be Like a murderer transformed into a pretty thief I have so far, so far left to go From shapeless to breakable I have involved My transgressions are evident to all who know me Like porcelain carried through a Downtown street At any moment I might break From shapeless to breakable I have involved I could say a thousand more apologies But to prove that I have truly changed Only time will tell. From shapeless to breakable I have involved
We're born helpless but guided by humanity What was compassion Soon controls the way we think Familiarity has left me desensitized And inanity keeps deception disguised We are lost but keep moving forward To find the truth we must turn around History reveals an inviting sense of compromise Our customs destroyed what was once unique Traditions started with useful intention Now subjugate those too numb to question We are lost but keep moving forward To find the truth we must turn around I desire to wake from this sedation and begin to separate The truth from tradition We are lost but keep moving forward To find the truth we must turn around
Propaganda death ensemble Burial to be Corpses rotting through the night In blood laced misery Scorched earth the policy The reason for the siege The pendulum it shaves the blade The strafing air blood raid Infiltration push reserves Encircle the front lines Supreme art of strategy Playing on the minds Bombard till submission Take all to their graves Indication of triumph The number that are dead [CHORUS] Sport the war, war support The sport is war, total war When victory's a massacre The final swing is not a drill It's how many people I can kill [CHORUS] Be dead friend from above When darkness falls Descend into my sights Your fallen walls Spearhead break through the lines Flanked all around Soldiers of attrition Forward their ground Regime prophetic age Old in its time Flowing veins run on through Deep in the Rhine Center of the web All battles scored What is our war crimes (Era forever more...war) Propaganda war ensemble Burial to be Bones shining in the night In blood laced misery Campaign of elimination Twisted psychology When victory is to survive And death is defeat [CHORUS] Sport the war, war support The sport is war, total war When the end is a slaughter The final swing is not a drill It's how many people I can kill
Up here in space I'm looking down on you. My lasers trace Everything you do. You think you've private lives Think nothing of the kind. There is no true escape I'm watching all the time. I'm made of metal My circuits gleam. I am perpetual I keep the country clean. I'm elected electric spy I'm protected electric eye. Always in focus You can't feel my stare. I zoom into you You don't know I'm there. I take a pride in probing all your secret moves My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove. I'm made of metal My circuits gleam. I am perpetual I keep the country clean. I'm elected electric spy I'm protected electric eye. Electric eye, in the sky Feel my stare, always there It's nothing you can do about it. Develop and expose I feed upon your every thought And so my power grows. I'm elected electric spy I'm protected electric eye I'm elected electric spy I'm elected, protected, detective electric eye.
Mug mug mug Coffee mug Gonna clear away the haze Liquid proof That i can win this race Coffee mug The grip that keeps me tall My inter-link Keeps me questing all I don't need no booze or drugs I just chug-a-lug-o my coffee mug And i don't need your kiss and hug I just chug-a-lug-o my coffee mug They haven't banned My liquid drug of choice There's too many hooked And they've got too much voice So for the moment We're all pretty good to go With 98 cups With 98 more to go I don't need no booze or drugs I just chug-a-lug-o my coffee mug And i don't need your kiss and hug I just chug-a-lug-o my coffee mug Here a bean, there a bean Everywhere a mean mean Bean chug - a - lug - o - my Coffee - mug, mug, mug, mug
Emptiness running through me Taking all that i am Reach inside of me Far beneath the encasing of ashes Bleeding red Still showing signs of life Leaving me this blinding mask Grasping for the wind Everything I've done Everything I've gained It all means nothing A mere breath has passed away Sadness I embrace Left with empty promises Spent of all my strength Relying on Yours I look at myself and see the scars That are brought to me by this life Then I ask myself Is that all this world has to give Through this pain I refine Tearing me from within Screaming to be released but held fast by Your love I have become a sacrifice Make me pure again
I see now, I see through the veil of expectation. I see now, I see that conformity is betrayal. Betrayal of those who are forgotten, yet vision alone furthers our blame. Unless followed by transformation, it is pointless to be given sight. Without the hope of our reaction, we overlook the purpose of our eyes. Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny, released from the blinding of false light. (blinding of false light) Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny. In weakness we are freed. I see now, I see that conformity is betrayal. With empty eyes I've looked ahead (ahead), with clarity I now look back. Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny, released from the blinding of false light. (blinding of false light). Now is our chance (our chance) to breathe without, without tyranny. In weakness we are freed. Yeah! I admit my failure. Opacity has dulled my senses. Conformity (conformity) controlled by lifeless vices. Oh! Yeah! Covetousness (covetousness) disguised as ambition. But now it ends. [x4] Not with defeat but determination. We are freed. Yeah! Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny, released from the blinding of false (false) light (light). Now is our chance. [x2] In weakness we are freed.
I can only imagine that wrath is being held out So there will be time for us to be redeemed But surely wrath is not being held out So that we may redeem ourselves For I've seen the madness Of those who died trying But is regret only a word that the living possess? I long to see their faces Regardless of the decay For in the eyes of the deceased... We would see hope in our last day Inside this dying world For there is still beauty Inside this dying world For what good is there holding off wrath If we are determined To bring wrath upon ourselves
That night I never came home. Wandering souls captured my thoughts.. Emptiness filled my mind. Urgency spoke her lies. In the confines of these grey walls. I watched them move together. Taking me places I cannot remember (remember). We have been poured out... Into a loveless bride.. How quickly I forget... That this is meaningless. How quickly I forget... That this is meaningless. In a world passing through my fingers. I still chase the wind. How quickly I forget... That this is meaningless How quickly I forget... That this is meaningless what have I learned from yesterday? what have I learned from yesterday?
did you ever see me or could you even see at all i looked at your cold white face so still, so empty yet i knew you were at rest much more comforted than I what else could i find to replace who you were it was the carefree unrestricted love that you [Chorus] never meant to give you never had the choice, it was your innocence it was part of who you were it was the comfort of a friend
The truth of my heart is like a repressed tale A censored and silenced story Repression or restraint It is a delicate balance Between bleeding out what will make me drown And closing in what I cannot afford to spill Either way I must cauterize Cauterize the open wound I'm caught between the feeling Of being pulled apart or stuffed into a cell I'm caught between the feeling Of being pulled apart or stuffed into a cell And if these are the only options This will always be Hell Never ending Though I still may be breathing There is no quality of life So I choose to risk it all for you For you to be by my side I'm caught between the feeling Of being pulled apart or stuffed into a cell I'm caught between the feeling Of being pulled apart or stuffed into a cell A crowd is easy to deceive But now I am a patient on the table I'll give you the knife Cut away as you see fit Just promise me the patience To wait for me to heal I'm caught between the feeling Of being pulled apart or stuffed into a cell I'm caught between the feeling Of being pulled apart or stuffed into a cell I'm caught between the feeling Of being pulled apart or stuffed into a cell
Reality no longer battles perception. This letter's written to no one. Sincere, I sought your truth and divine purpose through myths of revelation. Guidance all wrapped up in a paper box, supported only so long, as my mind was the enemy. I could not in conscience hold on. AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart. STAND FAST and press on, TRIUMPH AWAITS AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart. STAND FAST and press on, TRIUMPH AWAITS us The powerful constant that I had once leaned on is no longer there (no longer) You call this shameful disbelief, a process like losing my closest friend. AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart. STAND FAST and press on, TRIUMPH AWAITS AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart. STAND FAST and press on, TRIUMPH AWAITS us Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives fall apart, before we can rebuild them again - a greater foundation. I wish there was another way, but no amount of devotion can fix this. Triumph awaits! Triumph awaits! Triumph awaits! Triumph awaits! Triumph awaits! Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives fall apart, before we can rebuild them again - a greater foundation.
Your resilience inspires me Facing tragedies I will never face Your presence is humbling To think of all that you have overcome It took such little pain For our lives to coalesce Finding what I could've found in no one else You bring me through the darkness of myself And show me that frailty can be turned to strength Suffering Persistence Such sorrow Yet resilience From the outside I've deceived the world With false bravery Yet you have taught me so much more Much more than I can ever teach And someday you might Need someone to lean on I can only hope that I'll have gained the courage To be there for you in whatever you face You bring me trough (you bring me through) The darkness of myself And show me that frailty (can be turned) Can be turned to strength Suffering Persistence Such sorrow Yet resilience At times I'm carried on the shoulders of a child I find power in your firm fallibility My source of hope is seeing that weak prevail And I'm better able to live because you're alive I could not imagine a world without you Where I looked you in the eyes and left you to die Suffering Persistence Such sorrow Yet resilience
There are days when sorrow seems never-ending, Like the countless roads upon which I've driven The price of attachment in pursuit of dreams That I so often can't seem to remember Yet there are days when beauty cannot be contained It even crawls out from under ordinary things A foreigner, No place to go Holding on, Making the most, Of what little time I have All the wasted words I said, In all the cities that I left, The last act of our precious play, Must not close with regret I will not leave wishing I had done things differently The moments I treasure are seldom the ones That I planned for And if I knew where pain hid, I might still let it go, So when the audience has run toward the latest drift, It will be my time to face the life that I have set, A foreigner in my own home, Holding on, No place to go All the wasted words I said, In all the cities that I left, The last act of our precious play, Must not close with regret (regret) All the wasted words Some days the line between peace And pain seem more like blur, But I know with certainty, I can't leave wishing, I cannot leave I can't leave wishing, I'd done things differently
Each little piece begins to stack up Now suffering under the weight of my choices And I hardly recognise myself Somewhere along the line There stopped being lines at all (whispering silence) Whispering silence The subtle contradiction Compromise creeps in Forgetting who I once was Slowly changing Who I once was Each moment seemed so small When looked at by itself But it adds up And it has torn me down All lines are gone (whispering silence) Whispering silence The subtle contradiction Compromise creeps in Forgetting who I once was Slowly changing Who I once was So close to the truth But still impossible It was never one thing And too many to try to add up Fueled by faint deception Conflict without acknowledging opposition All because I had taken pride in my hidden lies Whispering silence The subtle contradiction Compromise creeps in Forgetting who I once was Slowly changing Who I once was It was never one thing And too many to try to add up All because I had taken pride in my hidden lies
All these moments of pain Must add up to something, Our bodies have been trained to keep it all in, But our hearts, still hold on Some say to release it, forget about your past, Instead we count the cost, it's part of us That doesn't mean that we cannot move on, It's just a memory of what we were once were No matter what it is we've faced It's now part of us (part of us) We can overcome Why rid of fuel that can make us stronger When properly put behind us (put behind us) And in the same way that Everything good in life can be taken away So can all this pain No matter what it is we've faced It's now part of us (part of us) No matter what we've faced in this life We can overcome Trying to forget is a burden we can never bear, When facing trials openly, There's nothing left to hide, New paths of strength come alive No matter what it is we've faced It's now part of us (part of us) No matter what we've faced in this life We can overcome We can overcome
I fought who I am inside Until I wanted, I wanted to die Instead of finding balance I found hatred Consumed by failures and ignoring my own strengths Pushed out sea without learning to swim Or stranded in the desert with no lungs to breathe With no lungs to breathe I had almost lost everything How can I be expected to readily be content With a view of life that has rejected The basis of what has helped me to survive? And replaced them with precepts Rather than instruction Full rule is an illusion (illusion) All I can do contain selfishness And unveil what little power we may have With no lungs to breathe I had almost lost everything (everything) Tearing away my flesh before taking The time to understand it A miracle may not be the answer (tearing away my flesh) When anchoring first on what I have (before taking the time to understand it) The ability to change Like being stranded in the desert With no lungs to breathe With no lungs to breathe I had almost lost everything (everything)
Fighting so hard to be heard Yet having nothing to say You talk about changing masses But forget those close to you Most of us have given up On these words that all sound the same But I am still willing to believe If you have done all that you can You can justify almost anything If you are willing to be loud enough But once you've spent everything To change the world around you Even if your voice is taken away Such actions will still inspire Most of us have given up On these words that all sound the same But I am still willing to believe If you have done all that you can Drained Spent Determined Intent Now you've earned the right to be heard We've been deceived by elegant speech Whose only concern is mere distraction Defender Drained Spent Determined Intent Now you've earned the right to be heard I will follow to the grave A man who's willing to die Most of us have given up On these words that all sound the same But I am stilling willing to believe If you have done al that you can I am willing to die Defender
Like a swarm of flies colliding with a moving windshield So are our lives on this never-ending road I have left behind my mark only to be later washed away And was consumed with the allure despite the inevitable decay When did the road that I'm on become my only home? When did this become the one place I truly know? (I truly know) A journey making us like weeds Where the wind steals our splendour But spreads it to the distant fields Despite our fragile imperfections Yet shaking walls and wearing wheels Can never capture my heart the way you do When did the road that I'm on become my only home? When did this become the one place I truly know? (I truly know) I am missing what makes me whole
The storm is coming and I have no choice To accept nature or lose my voice Shall I scream and plead for nothing Or build a roof over my head? I mourn the days that I wasted Trying to change what has been set Fighting against myself Before I tear, tear out my eyes I'll just admit they're part of me I've labelled enemies who do not hate me And then claimed friends who could care less All an unnecessary struggle So now I truly know what it means to repent Changing everything Before I tear, tear out my eyes I'll just admit they're part of me (they're part of me) Instead of fighting against myself I will open my eyes To find who needs me I am awakened I am awakened
I see no reason to try and be what I am not If simple honesty moves me, then why should I care? Others may think I lost my poetic way (I've lost my way) But I'd rather make my point without confusion I have failed those who I love the most And in the process become aware I have accepted there is so much that I don't know I have accepted my limitations It is that knowledge that opens the door For greater understanding Perspective on what is still untold I have accepted there is so much that I don't know I have accepted my limitations I have accepted there is so much that I'll never know I have accepted my limitations Sorting out my thoughts, that is why I write Though I reveal my weakness surrendering is remedy These songs have helped me though my greatest pain Unwound within me the disorder of my life I now see things for how they are Even if that is a harsh reality I have accepted there is so much that I don't know I have accepted my limitations I have accepted there is so much that I'll never know I have accepted my limitations
Reality no longer battles perception. This letter's written to no one. Sincere, I sought your truth and divine purpose through myths of revelation. Guidance all wrapped up in a paper box, Supported only so long, as my mind was the enemy. Until I could not in good conscience hold on. You call this shameful disbelief, A process like losing my closest friend. AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart. STAND FAST and press on, TRIUMPH AWAITS AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart. STAND FAST and press on, TRIUMPH AWAITS us The powerful constant that I had once leaned on is no longer there (no longer) But no matter how sincere my devotion The pieces never fit. AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart. STAND FAST and press on, TRIUMPH AWAITS AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart. STAND FAST and press on, TRIUMPH AWAITS us Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives fall apart, Before we can rebuild them again - a greater foundation. (We watch our whole lives) Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives (Fall apart) Before we can rebuild them again (We build them again) A greater foundation I wish there was another way, [?] Triumph awaits! [x5] Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives fall apart, Before we can rebuild them again - a greater foundation. (We watch our whole lives) Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives (Fall apart) Before we can rebuild them again (We build them again) A greater foundation