1. NO SOLITUDE

Hello my friend
It had been so long i thought you'd forgotten me
Much time has passed but i see that nothing's changed
I must have climbed up every mountain
Just to shout your death from their peaks
But again i see your face and now i know you'll never leave


2. THE ROAD FROM RECOVERY

Chained to a path that leads to the end
Try to escape but it's best to pretend
I stray from the course, stumble back at the bend ...Progress always leads to regression
There are visions in sleep but reality's worse
You struggle for peace but are locked with this curse
Start moving forward but end in reverse...
...Progress always leads to depression
Start from the end, if you look you will see
The regression
There are visions in sleep but reality's worse,
I struggle for peace but am locked with this curse
Strain to push past but know you'll end in reverse ...Progress always leads to depression
Face to face with what should not be
These words are all weapons aimed squarely at me
Armed to the teeth, preparing for war
Compounding with malice forevermore
There was a day we used to know
Where we'd desire and it would be so
But though we know just what we see
We cannot reach it, we are too weak
Despondent, corrosive, we circle the drain
My will falls to opposition, who's left to blame
But the source of this compulsion? it lies within
Simple actions and reactions halt what could have been
Still we rise in opposition, denounce or fates
Contradicted by our nature, which lies in wait
Complete corruption of all we choose
Because this body demands it always lose
Overwhelmed by the world
Overwhelmed by the truth
Anxiety
Can you feel it crashing down?
Yes through this blood flows dedication
My serotonin turned and fled
Fate gave up god, found depression
Every fragile peace tempered by its hand


3. QUIETLY, UNDRAMATICALLY

I threw my last years away
To focus on reality's thread
And when i collapse i know
The string will continue to wind
And with these words i make
An oath that silence will outlast me
It stretches far beyond the place that history will know me
For as i sit, secure in what i know is now before me
I focus on the end and how i know that it will take me
Quietly
Undramatically
When you're gone
Frozen images dissolve, discarded
With certainty
The struggles that we face disappear, uncaring
With disregard
Quietly time shuffles through the room, Unknowing
With disregard
Undramatically we'll fade and then this won't matter
Breathe in, breathe out
No triumph to be found
Like a stone cast to the sea
I will be forgotten
Let this fade as a whimper against time
I will be forgotten
I will be forgotten
We will be forgotten


4. A TREATISE ON CONTROL

The triumph of power exists as a lie
Its control, a figment of all it denies
With pitiful gestures, we jump as it tries
To salvage the notion it comes from the sky
What knowledge precedes us, what failures held high
With this i admonish the longing that dies
They'll tell you of battles you'll exit alive
But know that these fragments of hope are all lies
We end and begin
Outside and within
Reduced to skin
The truth is thing
What hope shall change the flow of time?
This bone is lead, this curse is mine
Here i stand, the lord of all i see
This kingdom is fire, it answers not to me
Strained and torn
This i know: all that we are is but a blaze
We're nothing but disciples of the wind
Here i stand, the lord of all i see
This kingdom is fire, it answers not to me


5. WITHOUT LOGIC

Summon your reasons
Someone to blame
Something that happened
It's always the same
I hate the world i live in
I am the key to the end
Life stifles me with reason
I will no longer pretend
My hate exists without logic
My rage was never explored
You should have seen this coming
Now i will not be ignored
Sanity's rational chains come undone
I feel no pity, you will receive none
Patience exhausted, no time to explain
All that i'm feeling and all that i say
A rational existence has taken its toll
The world's been explained at the cost of my soul
A predictable planet's preferred by the weak
I look deep inside and refuse now to think


6. FULL CIRCLE

Some dreams are never too far away
They dance just on the edge of daylight
Etched into your eyes, ghost movement in the peripheral
Some thoughts are never too far away
They sit behind the daylight like shadows
Tattooed on your skin,
Fingerprints of who you'll be tomorrow
(Oh) vicious engineer If i believed,
Your name would be a curse
For what frigid loathing would inspire
This broken planet's birth?
I would twist from your grasp
Shudder against the coldness of your gaze
Nothing would restore the absence of faith
We are alone
Unable to change
Marching in circles, we end as we begin /
Oh, callous overseer
If only in your image we were made
Graced with indifference, this path would be so clear
Uncaring, all-knowing, complete
But we are alone
And you were but a desperate dream
Some meaning to offer
And i cannot believe
For we are alone
Unable to change
Marching in circles, we end as we begin
...The feelings rush back again so fast
Like only moments passed
Cinematic in their tension
But there i sit, frozen stiff
Every word a cliché
Time still laughs
"Relax" she'll coax
Her face a twisted grin
"Never will you be far from home"
You are never free
Something deep inside still nags
Like this light has met my face before
And we march on, afraid
For i know we'll always meet again


7. HATRED IS OUR HEART

Surrender to this reason
My words will hang you high
This noose of cold indignance
Will choke you till you die
Your art has proven hollow
Dull masks you can't sustain
Cause once the show is over
You change your fucking names
As flies flock to the rotten
You feed on putrid shit
Living out your fantasies
And bragging about it!
See how far they run
Watch them as they cry
Ants, they run for cover
See how hard they try!
The stupid
The boring
The fair-weather friends, pretentious, obnoxious
They strive to pretend
With costumes and gimmicks
They angle to shock like children
They cherish
The lies that they bought
We will stand and continue to lash out
And you'll know our names because
Hatred is our heart
And when the sun reappears and casts away the dark
We will rise and know that hatred is our heart
And we will rejoin the world
And will walk amongst the crowds
But we will know that hatred is our heart
And there is no mask, no fake name,
No poetry to hide behind
There is no game
Yes, hatred is our heart
When these words are long forgotten
And these songs have gone away
I'll continue what i started
And stand behind what i say
See how far they run
Watch them as they cry ants.
They run for cover
See how hard they try!
Condemned as our prey,
There's nowhere to hide
For this is the future you must realize
The hunters (unholy) have removed their masks
There's no use for chains or rules of the past