1. REQUIEM FOR A COUNTENANCE

What is the weight of not just a something in our lives?
How much fits into its requiem?
How much was lost?
How much faded away with it?
But how much is gained?
How much is gained?

This requiem
To praise what's real
Indelibility was built
Before we collided
For numbing our pain
For knowing truth

I was only sleeping
Inside what you couldn't see
With this need to remember
All the marks and scars will stay
I can't remember to forget
I must remember to forgive

It could have been
The death of someone
It could have been
The loss of being whole

It could have faded
Into oblivion
It could have faded
Then just have gone away

We're mostly
The sum of words
And chapters in
Our life's book
Which we remember

Starless nights of peaceful rest
At dawn of winter's soothing grace
Carried my head through meadows
Whispered words of deliverance
Maybe I've asked for too much
Maybe I've never heard a word

It could have been

It could have faded

We're mostly


2. WEARY HOURS OF THE FALL

The thought of this coming revelation
Pierced to heart as a blast
The end's certainty
Brightness of living things
Fades in the back
Behind a song of mourning
Sang by the dead
Our journey was futile
All effort is futile
Our hope, so futile

So less
Time for
Us to rise

Distant horizon
Shores of fate
Reveals this frailty
Of earth itself
Nothing but this deceiving
Bright flicker
Is the numbing background
To just enduring to the end
End of existence
So lay down your lives

Everything we give
Is taken aside
Everything we take
Is taken

All of our lies
Shall be buried

In the ruins of our conscience
We constantly die
In two years, not one day more
The world will be swept away
In his infernal rosefield
The tower of reality
Cries with his bestial voice
And time's just a face on the water
Time is only a face on the water

Sincerely yours
I'm praying for the end of time


3. FOR THIS ONCE

For this once
Will be showed
No welcome thoughts
Of failing these miseries
For your lack of answers
This just can't be your answer

Pretense, this path is called
Thence, I have often come
Rationalized, at least one should have
Evidence, just for this once

For this once
Understanding
For this once
Comprehension
Then fall beneath silence
That brings comfort
Spare me solace
For this once

Every time I take a look at the fractured remains
Ever left behind on this way
Mostly untouched, mostly self-imposed
Another proud state of mind
Dies with unknown consequences
It's the apparent inconsistency
Of regret and improvement
Too busy with denied self-pity
Too numb to step up just for this fucking once
Too weak for a change

Pretense, this path is called
Thence, I have often come
Rationalized, at least one should have
Evidence, just for this once
Bold, this pattern is
But faint, my will seems
And failure, I always see
So cold, I've come to be so

Sing repentance
Sing repentance
Sing repentance
Sing for suffering

For this once
Understanding
For this once
Comprehension
Then fall beneath silence
That brings comfort
Spare me solace
For this once