1. SAMSARA

Freedom is slavery
War is peace
Ignorance is strength

Existence is suffering!
Existence is suffering!
Existence is suffering!

Suffering!
Suffering!
Suffering!


2. UNREST

I've walked these streets a thousand times
Still this world never seemed colder
Compromised a thousand times
To the will of malicious minds
Reality never hit so fucking hard
Crushed by endless desperation
Endless surrender

Retrace the steps, retrace the steps
Is this what I have become?
Retrace the steps, retrace the steps
What the fuck have I become?

Security, illusion for the weak
Refuge, sought in routine
Another gear in their fucking machine

See, you can win the rat race
But you're still
Nothing but a fucking rat
So seek that crown
'Cause in this kingdom of fools
True ignorance reigns supreme

I see this city for what it is
Retrace the steps, retrace the steps
A monument to the depths of human misery
Retrace the steps, retrace the steps

Retrace the steps
Retrace the steps
Retrace the steps
Retrace the steps

What have we become?


3. SLEEPWALKER

Consumed
I feel the rage growing inside me
A fear I cannot contain
At war with an enemy
Who does not rest, who will never relent

This city, these lifeless catacombs
Our tombs they have become
Buried alive at birth
Never to return, to return

Chained to the masses
Trapped and trained by vicious minds
I let them tear, tear away everything inside
Strip away my humanity
Fracture my identity
Sacrifice my integrity

Just bodies through the teeth of the combine
Just bodies through the teeth of the combine

At war with an enemy
Who does not rest, who will never relent
At war with an enemy
Who does not rest, who will never...

Sleepwalk our lives away
In search for shallow graves
Sleepwalk our lives away
Lost souls
Lost

Just bodies through the teeth of the combine
Just bodies through the teeth of the combine
Just bodies through the teeth of the combine
Just bodies through the teeth...

Consumed
I feel the rage growing inside me
I will not contain
I have come to question every truth I know

Not one more step
In the name of progress
In the name of blind ambition

Not one more step
In the name of progress
In the name of blind ambition

How the fuck am I supposed to feel
When everything I know
Lies broken at my feet?


4. WRECKAGE

I am the blackest soul
The child of a loveless world
The wreckage left in the wake of time
I am the consequence
Of complete collapse

I am the horror you created
The mindfuck you instigated
I am the seed of self-destruction
The bitter taste of life's regret

Flood my lungs
Pull my teeth
Cross my eyes
Until there's nothing left
There's nothing left
There's nothing left

Casualties to the snares of modern life
Anchored by avarice
There is no further
Left to sink

I reside in my mind's eye
Yet see no truth
In a world of lies

I reside in my mind's eye
We are adrift
In a world of lies

Flood my lungs
Pull my teeth
Cross my eyes
Until there's nothing left

I am the blackest soul
The child of a loveless world
I am the consequence
Of complete collapse
Collapse
Collapse

I am the blackest soul
I am the blackest soul
I am the blackest soul
I am the blackest soul


5. DEADWEIGHT

This is survival
This is my exile

I find no solace
I find no solace
Beneath a godless sky
Will I find shelter
In the places the sun could never find?

Now behold the consequence
The aftermath of ignorance
Shackled to my worthless neck
Give me one reason to resist

So I slip below
I can't resist the undertow
So I slip below
I can't resist the undertow

I find no solace
Beneath a godless sky
Will I find shelter
In the places the sun could never find?

Because everything's turning black
And I see no hope of turning back

Cold terror grips my lungs
To let it in would be to accept defeat
But what's left to fight for?
When I look inside
The nothingness confronts me
Vexed by the hands of time

This is survival
I against I
What's left inside?
What's left inside?
What's left inside?

So I slip below
I can't resist the undertow
So I slip below
I can't resist
I can't resist
I can't resist
I can't resist
No

I can feel the deadweight
I can feel the deadweight of my soul
Dragging me from this world

Oh, deadweight


6. ALONE

Shifting light outlines my battered form
Stranger to the world
Alone in my abandonment

A gaining army of white horses
Stark warning race before the icy front
The deceiving calm betrays all signs
Of impending change

Evening tide, what do you hide?
Damnation or salvation?

As my skin breaks the blackened surface
The cold is rising, yet all embracing
Darkness, erase this lonesome place
From my every existence

An angry sky bares the signs
A distant violence yet to break
The ocean's travelers cry forth across the waves

Lightning cracks across a vast horizon
Reaching out its hands towards an unsuspecting shore

No light to guide
No ties, no ties to bind
Evening tide, what do you hide?
What do you hide?

To the years spent waiting on the winds of change
(This is penance paid
This is my penance paid)
To the morning sun whose warmth never found
This young man's face

Shifting light outlines my battered form
Stranger to the world
Alone!

Evening tide, what do you hide?
What do you hide?

Lightning cracks across a vast horizon
Reaching out its hands towards an unsuspecting shore

With a final effort
I strike out across the swells
Seeking only the answers
Maybe horizons hold

With a final effort
I strike out across the swells
Seeking only the answers
Maybe horizons hold


7. PRESSURES

Their voices search for me, through the darkness
Yet I feel desire's cold grip upon my heart no more

My solitude
My shield
My armour

My solitude
My shield
My armour
Tested with full force

I have seen the face of death
And I, I choose not to accept its form
I have seen the face of death

An army of demons summoned forth
Upon this endless night they swarm
The fire in their eyes
Like new suns shine through the abyss

I taste the fear
I see the weakness in their eyes
They cannot hide as I devour all

As the mountains crack and the oceans boil
A fury-tempered heart is forged
Within the flames
This current of corruption will cease

As the mountains crack and the oceans boil
A fury-tempered heart is forged
Within the flames
This current of corruption will ceas

I taste the fear
I see the weakness in their eyes
They cannot hide as I devour all

An army of demons summoned forth
Upon this endless night they swarm
The fire in their eyes
Like new suns shine trough the abyss

For I have seen
I have seen the face of death
I have seen the face of death
And I choose not to accept its form

My solitude
My shield
My armour

My solitude
My shield
My armour
Tested with full force

Their voices search for me, through the darkness
Yet I feel desire's cold grip upon my heart no more


8. DELIVER ME

Deliver me

From the darkest abyss
From the depths of eternal rest
Grasping at the threads of sanity
Only to watch them slip through my hands

I see the light
I see the end
I see a frail hope
Crushed by the weight of the world

I see the light
I see the end
I see a frail hope
Crushed by the weight of the world

Crushed by the weight of the world
My will is broken
My will is broken

Sinking, always sinking
The sands of time, forever slipping
Clawing at the emptiness
But a ghost I reach towards the end

Lost in darkness, lost in time
Losing a grip on my fucking mind
Ignorance is an easy friend
But in the end it takes everything

Fear, it finds me, and it binds me
Illuminate the planes of consciousness
Fear, it finds me, and it binds me
But I'm lost

Guilt draws me down like a stone
It chokes my throat and gnaws my bones
Regret breeds a heavy heart
Reality, torn in two
Torn in two
Torn in two

Canonised
Canonised
A life that fades
A life that fades before
Before my eyes

Canonised
A life that fades before
Before my eyes
Ever faithful friend
Sorrow, sets its teeth

Canonised
A life that fades before
Before my eyes
Ever faithful friend
Sorrow, sets its teeth

Eaten alive
But I will survive
I survive

Fury, deliver me

How can you defeat what you can't kill?
(Deliver me)
I see the feat that twists inside
(Deliver me)
I watch the shadows fill with doubt
(Deliver me)

Fury, deliver me


9. KARMA

Crashing to the surface
My convictions lay bare before the tempest
As chaos explodes around me
I find myself in the jaws of destruction

Tested, by the force of the tempest
Pushed, to the point of no return
Losing ground, let the steel of my resolve
Be not bested by the sum of my fears

Clarity unfolds
A moments calm in the eye of the storm
Relentless, I surge onward
Surfacing
No regrets, no second chance
Nothing will hold me back

Shipwrecked bones carry my seasick heart
Seasick heart home
Shipwrecked bones carry my seasick heart
Seasick heart home

Carry me home

Tension clings to me
Resistance coils inside
Forcing me down, I fear nothing
Into Poseidon's arms
Forcing me down, I fear nothing
I must hold on

This is a strength born in misery
A focus cut of this insanity
I fight my way from the gates of hell
I hold on

This is a strength born in misery
A focus cut of this insanity
I fight my way from the gates of hell

I hold on
I hold on

A body, locked in the vice grip of conflict
A mind, sharpened on the shards of disappointment
And from the depths of Hell I rise
From gilded cage, my spirit flies
Memories of another life call me home
Surfacing
Surfacing

Shipwrecked bones carry my seasick heart
Seasick heart home
Shipwrecked bones carry my seasick heart
Seasick, seasick heart home


10. HOME IS FOR THE HEARTLESS

If home is where the heart is
Why do I feel so fucking heartless?

The crumbling skyline
Cuts a vicious horizon
Sinking its teeth into the cold September sky

Decaying towers of steel
Reach with crooked spires for the heavens
Like bones of the hollow chest of this town
Torn wide for the scavengers

Mother Mercy, take my hand
Follow me through this forsaken land

Father Time, return what's mine
The innocence you stole from these eyes
'Cause I just feel, I just feel numb

For the vision burning before me
Is one of former glory
An icon cast in the light of freer times
Now writhes in a bed of lies

Hope doesn't live
Hope doesn't live here
Love doesn't live
Love doesn't live here anymore
Anymore
Anymore

Mother mercy, take my hand
Follow me through this forsaken land

Father Time, return what's mine
The innocence you stole from these eyes
'Cause I just feel, I just feel numb

'Cause I just feel numb
I just feel numb
I just feel numb

Mother mercy, take my hand
Follow me through this forsaken land

Father Time, return what's mine
The innocence you stole from these eyes
'Cause I just feel, I just feel numb
'Cause I just feel, I just feel numb
'Cause I just feel, I just feel


11. HOLLOW

Lies!

My truth has been revealed
At the cost of everything I knew
My last safehaven falls behind me
With the self that once consumed

Into the void
I'm pursuing only answers
I'm shedding skins and faces
Past loves and bitter hatreds

And it has come to pass
A path set in stone now breaks like glass
The failings of yesterday
Become the catalyst to seek my change

And it has come to pass
A path set in stone now breaks like glass
The failings of yesterday become my catalyst

So here I stand, a stranger to my new-found freedom
I am a vessel
I am a vessel without destination, devoid of direction

No roles define me, yet conflict embraces me
At the mercy of lucidity
I am adrift in a world all too real

A hollow man!

Into the arms of eternal struggle
I must condemn
My restless mind
I must condemn
My restless mind

And it has come to pass
A path set in stone now breaks like glass
The failings of yesterday
Become my catalyst to seek my change

And it has come to pass
A path set in stone now breaks like glass
The failings of yesterday
Become my catalyst

I seek the guidance gained from silence
Illumination from within the darkness
My council kept with the emptiness
In the heart of the unknown


12. LEVIATHAN

But there is no silence
My thoughts drowned out
Screeching and grinding resonates through a hollow shell
There is no great wisdom
There are no answers

I close my eyes, but all I see is red
I bite my tongue, but all I taste is blood
Once again they set their traps, set their hooks, deep in my head
Too naive to think these forked tongues would themselves devour
I close my eyes, but all I see is red
I bite my tongue, but all I taste is blood
Once again they set their traps, set their hooks, deep in my head
Too naive to think these forked tongues would themselves devour

Show me war
Show me pestilence
Show me the blood red hands of retribution

And the abyss stares back
Leviathan I
And the abyss stares back
Leviathan I

To break their hold, strip the flesh straight from their bones
Cast their limbs into the gears of the beast
Bring this monstrosity to its knees
Cast their limbs into the gears of the beast
Bring this monstrosity to its fucking knees
Eye for an eye
Eye for an eye
Eye for an eye
Eye for an eye

Cast their limbs into the gears of the beast
Bring this monstrosity to its knee's
Eye for an eye

I'll send this world blind

Show me war
Show me pestilence
Show me the blood red hands of retribution

And the abyss stares back
Leviathan I
And the abyss stares back
Leviathan I

Under a blackened sun
Beneath a hunter's moon
Seething

Dogs of war, they call for blood but it will not be mine
Dogs of war, they call for blood but it will not be mine


13. SET TO DESTROY

Brothers of abandonment
Sisters of despair
Orphans to the watching ones above
Too far removed
Too far to care
We are the unwanted
We are the one true threat
We raise our hands to this world's throat
And choke away its dying breath

This is the end of days
This is the end of days
This is the end of days
Set to destroy

Fathers to our faithless days
Mothers to our twisted ways
Bow your heads
Fold your hands and pray
Your time has come

This is the end of days
This is the end of days
This is the end of days
Set
To destroy

Set
Set to destroy
Set
Set to destroy

Your flame is faded
So sink below
Rest now your heavy head
Upon your bed of bones
Too far removed
Too far to care
Set to destroy