1. POSTER CHILD

You'll never laugh in the same way you did, so dilute your instincts
You pretend to shake the snow globe, but say "forget the world" in your misery
Always locked in the cradle feeding, how much more do you need?
You refuse to take the high road, lay the blame in yourself and not at your feet

Speak to me, poster child
'Cause you know everything, you know everything about the world
What would I ever do?
Ever do without you, 'cause you know everything
'Cause you know everything

If your memories of the past are bigger than your future plans
You're going nowhere, you're moving backwards
Guilty, guilty, why this anxiety?
You say the engine died? Try turning the key

Speak to me, poster child
'Cause you know everything, you know everything about the world
What would I ever do?
Ever do without you, 'cause you know everything

Here the telephone is absent, silent
Operate on influence, always lying (Slip down and spiral)
Can we increase the dose? A million tiny reasons
It's so easy breathing (The air is poison)
You walk on crooked grounds
You're upside's gone and inside's down

Speak to me, poster child
'Cause you know everything, you know everything about the world
What would I ever do?
Ever do without you, 'cause you know everything

Speak to me (You know everything)
Poster child (You know everything about the world)
And what would I ever do?
'Cause you know everything


2. WHITE NILE

Careful now, you've come too close
To know the where and when of your unholy ghost
And even though we are made of dust
A sliver of gold is inside each of us

I am captive high on a daily basis
The amount I can't control the way
I understand your many faces
I lose the sense of what you mean to me

Because I know you are the one who can save me
With eyes aged along with history
I can't pretend that something else would convеy me
To live one day without thе thought of you and me

Carry on through the night
It's a mess we've made too many times
I spend my days avoiding light
Lose my view of what you mean to me

Careful now, you've come too close
To know the where and when of your unholy ghost
And even though we are made of dust
A sliver of gold is inside each of us

So put your weight on top of it
Lay into moments that you compliment
Fragile feasting lion
Taking a bite of what he never tasted
Yet he never feared

Sermons of an anchor
It's such a delicate race
I promised my mother
I would end in a righteous place

So put your weight on top of it


3. ANGEL OR ALIEN

Lost inside my head (Save my place in heaven)
Goodbyes sink like lead (Pierced, ripped and falling)
More than a dream, I'm awake in my sleep
You know I'm longing for you, the same longing I need

Pushing away every turn, there's no reaction
I see everything you believed was incomplete
This is not what I thought it would be
When you came back around, came back so carelessly, so carelessly

Lost inside my head (Save my place in heaven)
Goodbyes sink like lead (Pierced, ripped and falling)
More than a dream, I'm awake in my sleep
You know I'm longing for you, the same longing I need

(Heartless machine) Built to destroy me
(Negative being) Angel or alien?

Moments make me feel connected
Make me feel like I'm an addict
Our paths don't match, guarding what was had
Love was nothing but our history

Lost inside my head (Save my place in heaven)
Goodbyes sink like lead (Pierced, ripped and falling)
More than a dream, I'm awake in my sleep
You know I'm longing for you, the same longing I need

We tried, we were not speaking
We lied, there was no reason
Sometimes I needed control of my spirit and my soul
Those are possessions of mine, they are not leaving
I thought you wanted to see if I feel, if I bleed
We tried, but it was for all the wrong reasons
You always needed control, no matter what would unfold
We tried, but it was for all the wrong reasons

Lost inside my head (Save my place in heaven)
Goodbyes sink like lead (Pierced, ripped and falling)
More than a dream, I'm awake in my sleep
You know I'm longing for you, the same longing I need


4. WAVES

Let it unfold
Open your heart and let the truth be told
Rewrite the past and let the truth be known

You're so animated when I'm wrong
Torn into pieces, my life didn't connect with your fantasy
Troubles produce the utmost disrespect when you cut me out of your life
Magic comes once in a lifetime, the voice inside your head said it was time

Unfold, let the truth be told
'Cause you were nеver there whеn I was lost in my head
Rewrite the past and let the truth unfold

Let it unfold
Open your heart and let the truth be told
You were never there when I was lost in my head
Let it unfold
Open your heart and let the truth be told
Rewrite the past and let the truth be known

You were never there when I was lost in my head
Prescribe the antidote
I'm a memory lost in the Sea of Deceit
Waiting for the waves to bury me
The future was looking grim
We saw the light start to decay
I took my head out of the darkness
And found a new path laid right in front of my feet

Unfold, let the truth be told
'Cause you were never there when I was lost in my head
Rewrite the past and let the truth unfold

Let it unfold
Open your heart and let the truth be told
You were never there when I was lost in my head
Let it unfold
Open your heart and let the truth be told
Rewrite the past and let the truth be known

Magic comes once in a lifetime
You were never there when I was lost in my head
Rewrite the past and let the truth be known


5. OATHBREAKER

Deep down the layers are fading
You were my oathbreaker
Deep down the layers are fading
You were my oathbreaker
Kill me more for the experience
Craft your skill and test your will
And kill me more
Kill me more

Abandoned homes on barren fields
Unholy nights, inhuman fears
So fuck the water, a never-ending drought
Pour more desire straight into hostility
Caved in
'Cause deep down we'rе divided

Beliefs arе dissolving, deep down I'm waiting
Cast out in fear, life will go on
The past will fade out, the world has made it clear
This is the end of an age

Disappointed, unsatisfied
Grasping for an answer we both can't find
Existence isn't easy when we're both lost inside
A fading story, dreams run dry
Disgraced with the sound for what it was
Silent shadow, silent devil
Keeper in doubt
Evil rising, grabbing what it wants
You'll stay numb
Your lying tongue will fool no one

Beliefs are dissolving, deep down I'm waiting
Cast out in fear, life will go on
The past will fade out, the world has made it clear
This is the end of an age

Deep down the layers are fading
You were my oathbreaker
Deep down the layers are fading
You were my, you were my oathbreaker

Crawling in our graves, the endless ways of old
Will make me rotten, rancid, decomposed
Broken ground awaits for my infected flesh
Into this void, my damnation laid to rest
My damnation laid to rest


6. THREAT OF YOUR PRESENCE

In this light transposed and out of sync
I survived, but it's getting harder for me to leave

If only for a second you could see
The damages and recklessness that you perceived
Unstable minds intersect and don't comply
A secondary motive was in play
Miscalculated and in disarray
Witness the threat of your presence (Your presence)
Witness the threat of your presence

Outside a different mind, before the afterlife
I was aching for freedom, I was feeding my demons
Outside a different mind, before the afterlife
I was aching for freedom, I was feeding my demons

Ripped apart by chaos, overturned by the masses
An ominous network seeping in your conscience
Into a digitized lie
The more it advances, the less we're alive
In this light we are transposed
Say that you miss me, say that there's hope
However uneasy, I filled in this distance
Tell me, why?

Outside a different mind, before the afterlife
I was aching for freedom, I was feeding my demons
Outside a different mind, before the afterlife
I was aching for freedom, I was feeding my demons

In this light we are transposed
Say that you miss me, say that there's hope
However uneasy, I filled in this distance
Tell me, why?

Witness the threat of your presence
Witness the threat of your presence (Of your presence)
If only for a second you could see


7. LOVE STORY

All this time I've been longing for a love story
Where the melody can complete me
In a way I always wanted, but I never
Knew before, knew before

I seem to, to forget
I am always set, set up for disaster
Only I, I know why I love to exist in this piss
A life-long fiction, the satisfaction fleeting
This underlying treason

Sirens blare up in my head
One for pleasure, one for pain
A side of the story we always knew
We were perfect together despite the truth

All this time I've been longing for a love story
Where the melody can complete me
In a way I always wanted, but I never
Knew before, knew before

You said we could make it, and now we're just faking
The reasons we can't continue
Now we should break it, your smile is fading
Pressure is caving into
One night, one time
Stay sharp, I'll die
One night, one time
Stay sharp, I'll die

Calling out, seeking deliverance
It's all on me, but I can't pull through (Can't pull through)
Bring me back, seeking deliverance
My all-out ambition

Sirens blare up in my head (In my head)
One for pleasure, one for pain
A side of the story we always knew
We were perfect together despite the truth

All this time I've been longing for a love story
Love story
In a way I always wanted, but I never
Knew before, knew before

Now I'm awake, so throw me out
Always pretending, never ascending
Throw me out
I can agree that no one is perfect
Throw me out (Throw me out)


8. CROSSFACE

Cross out the ones that try to hold on, and you can't relate to
I'm not the one to make you realize the complications
What’s at stake here? I tried so hard to forget the way
You will remain here, the way you reject everything I am
The same excuses you've given me before
They've got us nowhere, and I still can't ignore
The way you reject evеrything I am
Now it's too late for you to accept me thе way I am

Crossed out when you came into my way
Your intentions are deflected
All you want is to feed off the weak
Take them down where no one succeeds
The strangest things
Always seem to rearrange me
When will you see?
We can't contain what we've been facing

I can see nothing will save me
Say goodbye and liberate me
We can't contain what we've been facing
So now we know who's in control

Fill in the cracks on this ride, never coming back
Say what you will, it's still your guilt
What’s at stake here? I tried so hard to forget the way
You will remain here, the way you reject everything I am
The same excuses you've given me before
They've got us nowhere, and I still can't ignore
The way you reject everything I am
Now it's too late for you to accept me the way I am

Back down to the venomous highway
Just a reason is all I needed
Can you feel that you feed off the weak?
Heard the words but not explained to me
The strangest things
Always seem to rearrange me
When will you see?
We can't contain what we've been facing

Now it's time to disengage
I can see that nothing will save me
You crossed the line, now pay the price
Say goodbye and liberate me
Now it's time (Now it's time)
To disengage


9. ECHOBREATHER

Descend into the realm you came from
No one will find you there
Disappear without a trace
You need to go back, just admit it to me

You walked on sacred lands
Now denied by the keeper's hands
Defile your name
Send you back from whence you came

As the story grows, can we survive?
When the night begins
We’re lost inside the cold moonlight
Void of an answer

Reconcile with the evil inside you
I'll remind you it doesn’t define you (You)
Stop running (Stop looking), stop hiding
You’re a hallowed shell of a human

Starry-eyed
Poorly casted, raised in captive
Sinful mind
Shortly after a masquerade

You walked on sacred lands
Now denied by the keeper's hands
Defile your name
Send you back from whence you came

As the story grows, can we survive?
When the night begins
We’re lost inside the cold moonlight
Void of an answer

Oh, great faith, you've abandoned me
Awaken from this fantasy

As the story grows, can we survive?
We’re lost inside the cold moonlight

As the story grows, can we survive?
When the night begins
We’re lost inside the cold moonlight
Void of an answer

Forced me to shed my old beliefs
Beyond a faded memory, so far away


10. LOST SOULS

I am a wrathful, dreadful, sorry soul
Keep me close and sell me whole
To the Devil, return from God
Trade up and bow, lost souls abandoned

Reasons I never loved you
You remain to retain the ones you connect with
Reasons you never get ahead
We believed in the way, we trusted our patience

This will break me, but I deserve it, while I'm alive
I know the truth, but you rеmain to just live a lie
I tried for this, diеd for this too many times
As long as it takes to keep you away
Don’t see me as your
Victim on a string

Ignore the reasons
Explore the feeling (As if one day)
I'd betray my sanity
For anger, sorrow, heartache and pain

This will break me, but I deserve it, while I'm alive
I know the truth, but you remain to just live a lie
I tried for this, died for this too many times
As long as it takes to keep you away
Don’t see me as your
Victim on a string

Don't run away, this is the last time
Don't be afraid - I will be out of mind
Don't run away, this is the last time
Don't be afraid

I am a wrathful, dreadful, sorry soul
Keep me close and sell me whole
To the Devil, return from God
Trade up and bow, lost souls abandoned


11. IN FOR THE KILL

This connection has disconnected me
My skin and body fucking question me
Waiting to feel the sting of cold reality
The more I absorb this shit the less I feel

I kept my faith, but you won't even hear me out
So basic
This is our race, but you won’t even stick around
Still try and take my place
I kept my faith but you won't even hear me out

You curb my joy, my dreams are meaningless
Go ahead, rip my heart and soul from within me
Where to go on this open road? (Open road)
Lost my way and lost everything I know (I know)
Rip my heart and soul from within me

Whеn a man sells his soul to the gallows
He lеaves what is real, he trades in his steel
There's no art, there's no love, there's no balance
Pride in the field, going in for the kill

So basic
This is our race, but you won’t even stick around
Still try and take my place
I kept my faith, but you won't even hear me out

Where to go on this open road? (Open road)
Lost my way and lost everything I know (I know)
Rip my heart and soul from within me
Find the truth on this never ending journey
Keep it underground, never let it show
Rip my heart and soul from within me


12. YOU ARE THE NARRATIVE

Reinvent me
Wake me up from this state
Of which I know I'm meant to be
You cause all this pain I️ can't erase

I was told to stay away
Couldn't seem to find that version of me
Didn't try to make a change
For something new to take its place
Something new to take its place

Reinvent me
Wake me up from this state
Of which I know I'm meant to be
You cause all of this pain I️ can't erase
Reinvent me

Time to take chances
For too long you've let this go
Now I need answers
So tell me, what do you know?

If you sow the same seed
And yield the same waste
People still stay hungry
You'll just feed a dead mouth
If you sow the same seed (Sow the same seed)
And yield the same waste (Same waste)
People still stay hungry (Still stay hungry)
You'll just feed a dead mouth
The cryptic lines you always spout
I try to block them out

You are (You are)
You are the narrative
You are (You are)
You are the narrative
Maybe I told you the wrong idea
Don’t let me ruin what you hold dear

You are
You are the narrative
You are (You are)
You are the narrative
You are
You are the narrative


13. TRUTH AND DENIAL

I lie straight to my face
Feeling like an empty windowpane
My eyes dried, locked and wiped clean
I try not to hate myself
I lie straight to my face
Feeling like an empty windowpane
My eyes dried, locked and wiped clean
I try not to hate myself

Both sides on me, stay right or bleed
Difficult to see
Where I come from
And where I belong
Face what's gone; what went wrong?
A plan to kill, I've waited too long
Hearts change; sealed, encased
Where I am is where I should be

I lie straight to my face
Feeling like an empty windowpane
My eyes dried, locked and wiped clean
I try not to hate myself
I lie straight to my face
Feeling like an empty windowpane
My eyes dried, locked and wiped clean
I try not to hate myself

I'll have my peace, both sides on me
What's still obtaining my justice
Of calm effort, trust us
The light in the wall still shines
And carries me out to my own kind
A balance we've danced from the first to the last time
From the first to the last time

Jump to conclusions
Run, stay elusive
I play out the matters of truth and denial
Dumped down and loosely intrusive
And truly escaping a foolish will of desire
Stand true through a maze of deception
Start can always be the ending

I lie straight to my face
Feeling like an empty windowpane
My eyes dried, locked and wiped clean
I try not to hate myself
I lie straight to my face
Feeling like an empty windowpane
My eyes dried, locked and wiped clean
I try not to hate myself


14. SHADOWMOURNE

The shift with my acceptance, my failure in a box
Coaxing a dream of my image paradox
Kindly unscrew, a belief that you found
With the pages so loud, I try and snuff my soul out

Caught by the fire
To light up the world and remain
Stop bringing yourself down, living in pain
'Cause I'm dreaming of you and I'm screaming at me
Slow down, I keep losing my way
Find out
I keep pushing away, it’s so hard to believe
It’s so hard to believe in myself

Boredom blessed
Selfish, upset, all the rest I can get
Bound by force, bones start to break
These wounds won’t heal
A direction, a phasе, such lone security
It sings me awakе while it sings me to sleep
Devil in the flesh, so wretched and so vile
I know I’ll be burning, if only for a while

Caught by the fire
To light up the world and remain
Stop bringing yourself down, living in pain
'Cause I'm dreaming of you and I'm screaming at me
Slow down, I keep losing my way
Find out
I keep pushing away, it’s so hard to believe
It’s so hard to believe in myself

The pain is normal, the pain is where we relate
I can't keep living, I won't be at this rate
The pain is normal, the pain is where we relate
And I can't be so afraid, afraid of change

Caught by the fire
To light up the world and remain
Stop bringing yourself down, living in pain
'Cause I'm dreaming of you and I'm screaming at me
Slow down, I keep losing my way
Find out
I keep pushing away, it’s so hard to believe
It’s so hard to believe in myself