1. OF SHADOW AND FLAME

My spirit has been formed
Emerging from the mire
An empty shell of blackened flesh
It thirsts for holy fire
Temptation grips my throat
Shadows slowly darken
The weight of sin bears down on me
My demons awaken

My soul, blind in disgrace
Ever reigns the shadow of sin in my heart
My soul, blind in disgrace
Beckoned to join a fallen race

Cleanse my soul
Free from the shadows within
Cleanse my soul
Help me reach the flame burning high

Darkness slowly crushes me
This storm I cannot weather
Despair slowly covers me
Fire burns to embers
in my darkest hours
Another day of burning
A surge of rage comes from below
My faith to ashes turning

My soul, blind in disgrace
Forever sleep in eternal sin
My soul, blind in disgrace
Truth, a grand delusion

Cleanse my soul
This fire's burning deep within me
Cleanse my soul
This fire burns, burns within me


2. WORLD OLOCAUST

Mine is a tortured soul
Ripped into pieces
Look onto broken walls
See them crumbling down
Needles are piercing me
Bloods stains the sky
Glass breaks upon the floor
Tell me how you look

These walls surrounding me
Families torn apart
Broken bodies line the streets
Dehumanization
Heavens black above me
Darkened Earth below
My heart breaks within me
War in search of peace

So this is what it comes to
Regard for life is lost
We fight and kill for justice
But is it worth the cost

We're blinded by the mission
Our virtue, it is lost
The brink of destruction
Our world holocaust

This is what it's come to
Regard for life is lost
Bring peace by killing others
But it is worth the cost

We serve our own desires
Our virtues have been lost
Destruction rains upon us
It's our world holocaust


3. HOLLOW

I sit alone with my thoughts
Sink away and relive
Memories long since past
Searching home but you're still gone
Innocence was broken
Taken by fire and stone
As my mind drifts back to you
I chase a falling star
Moving swiftly out of view

Lost so long ago
I'm left here all alone
Memories come unsown
What will make me whole

Sorrow and anger dwell in me
Lost in agony
I push it down, protect myself
I've reached a dying part of me
That I know shouldn't be
And I just keep hanging on
I feel stranded - I feel lost
I can't take it
Someone heal this aching void
All of this, it makes no sense
I cry for answers
It all falls silent now

Lost so long ago
I'm left here all alone
Memories come unsown
Leaving me hollow


4. DISSOCIATE

Darkness falls - cover your eyes
Silence broken by discordant cries
Worthless lives are left behind
Image resolves what belief defiles
Feed the flame with your apathy
Moments pass in complacency
Pretense breeds the illusory
Protect yourself from all but me

Penetrate - look behind the smile
Define yourself by those beguiled
Dissociate - cut the ties that bind
Fabricate - line reassigned
Morals torn in a world so lewd
Unpleasant notions from your mind exude
Reflections viewed - disgust transudes
Crack the lens to a mind too hewn

What do you see?
That face is me

Ego drama distorts your face
My mind is piercing through your cowardice
Righteous images help save face
Repress your feelings of your disgrace

Tell me what you see when you look at me

Tell me what you see
Your mirror shattered
Tell me how you feel
Your vision scattered
Tell me what you see
My body battered
Tell me how you feel
My flesh is tattered

I cut the ties
To your worthless lies
No one left behind
Tell me
My body is battered and scattered
I'm moving on


5. STILL LIFE

Shadows dance across the wall
Visions of dreams discarded
Secure but emptier still
Alive but broken-hearted
Wait for signs to bring to life
now it's changed forever
In the undertow of time
My dreams are gone

Years pass me by
Stranded in still life
Trapped in my own mind
Shut my eyes
Time has passed me by
Stranded in still life
Trapped my own mind
Visions faded

Here I lie
Tramped by regret
Senses fading
Torn down all that's left
Deeper now
I fall into disgrace
Silent darkness
Left to waiting days

Withered, dried and scarred
Bruised and beaten down
Deep red remorse
Through my veins
Phantom illusions
Before my covered eyes
A life that passed me by
So I wait


6. FORSAKEN

This system founded in the interest of its people
Designed for the preservation of ideals
Dedicated to upholding truth and justice
But somewhere along the line it's been corrupted

The system feeds
The system breeds
The system bleeds

Justice forsaken
Their innocence taken
Foundation shaken
We are all now deemed forsaken

Project a righteous image
Conceal all the damage
Our people are expendable
These actions are indefensible

Courts for sale - flesh and cast are its tender
Evidence ignored for selfish
Liberties have been caught beneath the wheel
Justice and retribution denied their appeal

The system needs
The system feeds
The system breeds
The system bleeds


7. RELIC

Searching for answers
A meaning behind this strife
A call to contrition
To put aside our life
your words - so convincing
Your purity shines
Your vision - appealing
Your paradise denies

See
You claim to see it so clearly
But you're blind to the damage you do
Hear
Claim to hear all our problems
Too deaf to hear the problem's you
Speak
Say you proclaim the message
Spells out blasphemy
Guide
Say you'll show us the way now
Your path to heresy
We'll all be saved

Autonomy's taken
There's no more free thought
Price for salvation
Redemption has been bought
Deception agenda
This cult - your creed
Misled by your promise
To beg and plead

In a world saturated by sin
Your claim to be a relic of sanctity
In a world saturated by cheats
You dupe these mindless people
To follow you like sheep


8. CREATION'S END

Scorch the face of our life force underneath
Breach the core and suck it dry
Carry streams to sustain pathetic lives
Exalt depraved humanity

Parasitic orchids bloom
The cost of our remaining free
Stained and spoiled by mock divinity
Shattered by unspoken blasphemy

Manipulate and desecrate in efforts to improve
Turning darkness into day
Midnight sun at the end of the Earth
Take it in and spit it out again

Close our eyes to wounds torn deep
The product of humanity
Punished lifestyles with our lies
In symbiotic harmony

Eden is burning
crushed and ground it into dust
Nothing more to take, nothing more to conquer

Eden is bleeding
Watch it, how they all abuse
Evolutionary travesty

It's burning down