1. |
Splitting the Silence
04:28
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Wake up what do you think you are doing
Rest is for the ones who are not broken
Fill your mind with the things
You fear and could never bear to watch
All you want is slipping away
You can never hold on to anything
What you try will just fall apart and
Everybody knows you're gonna die alone
Words from within my mind
Are breaching the membrane
Between what's real
And a smouldering panic
This fire deep within
Will burn you all away
Run in place with nowhere to hide
Falling farther than the ground
A vignette getting darker and darker and now there's a wailing
Words from within my mind
Are breaching the membrane
Striking like thunder
Splitting the very silence in two
Along the corpus callosum
And I am trapped
With the static in my brain
Four walls
Closing in
I create
With my hate
This fire deep within
Will burn you all away
Burn you all away
Run in place with nowhere to hide
Falling farther than the ground
A vignette getting darker and darker and now there's a wailing
Words from within my mind
Are breaching the membrane
Between what's real
And a smouldering panic
Echoing in the prison cell
That I have built
When the world goes quiet there's a screaming in my head
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2. |
The Grey
06:28
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This will not break me
This will not tear me down
I will survive it
This I swear
This I swear by the stars
The streets are empty
Struck silent by a wasting breath
That rolls in from foreign shores
Under a blanket of grey
The crumbling brick and rotten wood that held the elements at bay
Give out underneath your touch and cannot help you
A biting cold you once thought gone has got its fangs into the walls
Cracking apart the foundation as it leaves you bare
Exposed to the darkness
And the howling wind
It moves within you
This malady of misery
Draining what life you had
And leaving nothing but the grey
The horrid bile that billows out of open wounds upon your skin
Leaves its mark where you once were as it consumes you
Black buboes bursting from within to vomit hate into the world
'til the wretched form you carry is just skin and bone
I can see your heart beating inside of you
So listen for chimes echoing through the streets
Paint the cross and bring out your dead
Preserve the common and decent ways
You had to connect you with everyone else
The rot it spreads between us like rats in the street
Pushing tendrils of disease into everything
You are carrying something you have to fight
A plague that will destroy everything you love
There is no respite in self-imposed isolation
Understand we are but vessels for the grey
We are but food for the grey
We are but food for the grey
I have nothing left but this colourless sickly frame
I expose the emptiness to fill it up with hope
I gave you a piece of my self
In its place is everything we shared
Beyond the pain is a new brighter day
So for your sake I’ll make it through the grey
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3. |
A Letter of Hopelessness
06:34
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Look around what you see is a product of our failed empire
As we clawed trough the Earth looking for a way to improve paradise
We were wrong
This is the fire we wrought
Crumbling embers of our pride and integrity
Fragile is the will
To break from comfort or second guess our opinions
Learned words and feigned hope could not keep the edifice from crumbling
As the ground where it stood bucked under the weight of our hubris
So breathe, breathe in the air
I am fucking desperate to have it all back
To feel the sun on my face
Grass underneath my feet and to hear sounds of life
Coming from this side of the wall
Not the world I have
Buried in smog and decay
There must be something left
Under the charred remains of what we had
Under the charred remains of what we lost
(ugh)
Don’t make our mistake
Don’t let the passion burn through your respect
You have to understand
It’s never too late to let it all get carried away
So fight for life
For what is right
To raise the light
And make it past the night
We had a choice
We chose wealth
And prayed that everything would be OK
Send your hopes into the sky
In a prayer no one hears
See the idols you have made
Wire bones and iron skin
How hurt Eden has become
You made your bed, now you die in it
This is on all of us
Our home our burden
So face the fear and indifference
And we will strive for a better world
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4. |
Shattering
05:05
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With a slice and the pulling of flesh
We tear out everything that's unfit
To place you neatly inside a little box
That has our face on the outside
The cracks of worry creeping from your eyes
Betrays the loneliness you have to hide
And the weight of a desperation
That crawls inside
Under layers of thin porcelain
Caked with paint by strict instruction
Is a smile warped by scarring skin
Pulled taught with all your effort
Not the same as us
The cracks of worry creeping from your eyes
Betrays the loneliness you have to hide
And the weight of a desperation
That crawls inside
(Shattering) What is left when it washes away
(Shattering) Face the truth as the colours run
(Shattering) Whose reflection are you looking for
(Shattering) Is it worth the pain to be rid of yourself
Rid of yourself
Rid of your self
You are denied all that you love
For your desire to become whole
You are denied all that you want
For wishing to be like we are
With a slip of the knife
We’re reaching inside
We cut out the best of you
The best of you
The cracks of worry creeping from your eyes
Betrays the loneliness you have to hide
And the weight of a desperation
That crawls inside
(Shattering) What is left when it washes away
(Shattering) Face the truth as the colours run
(Shattering) Whose reflection are you looking for
(Shattering) Is it worth the pain to be rid of yourself
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5. |
The River Runs Deep
04:43
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Stepping into the cold waves
Feeling them lap at your feet
Numb to the rising tide
You don't even know what it means
Inching your way from the shore
Dead set on something beyond your reach
Pushing against common sense
As the water is rising
You feel nothing and hear only what you want you hear
You fear nothing beyond the idea that you will fail
(Step off) the pedestal you made of anger
(Lay down) the hatchet that you bear there's no-one here
(To fight) for dominance or your survival
(Beware) this force that drags you in, deep underneath your skin
The line you cross is never drawn in the sand
But the one deep inside
A sheet of glass that shatters by your own hand
Leaving the scars of regret
So this is the path that you crave
Your pale behemoth to conquer
Your limbs to lose, your vessel to sink
A creature you built with the flesh
And bones you stole from hallowed ground
A monster to bleed for your fear and greed
The water is up to your chest
Swirling around your limbs
You're pushing against the weight
Not understanding why it pushes back
So fight on soldier
Until the surface is over your head
Will you kick your feet and gasp for breath
For the river runs deep
So this is the path that you crave
Your pale behemoth to conquer
(Step off) the pedestal you made of anger
(Lay down) the hatchet that you bear there's no-one here
(To fight) for dominance or your survival
(Beware) this force that drags you in, deep underneath
(Step off) the pedestal you made of anger
(Lay down) the hatchet that you bear there's no-one here
(To fight) for dominance or your survival
(Beware) this force that drags you in, deep underneath your skin
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