1. WALK AWAY SLOWLY

(Instrumental)


2. BOUQUET

Disconnecting veins in an effort to release my tragedy.
All that we leave behind is misery,
And my disease is a sanctuary.
A curse that unfolds like a novel,
But I'd sooner slit my wrists with the first page.

I find it hard to feel alive
While my heart beats in borrowed time.
The cadence that I've kept confined
Existing only in the black behind my eyes.
Not worthy of a memory.
Deny all grief and force yourself to forget me.
Don't allow my ghost to linger any longer than it has.
Let my spirit breathe, I've finally found peace.

Allow me to exist only in the empty spaces between breaths,
In the margin of each exhale that you're sure that you have left.
Be mindful of the way speaking my name could leave a poison on your lips.
And the ache that binds your bones will be my parting gift.

A grave unfit to bear the blame.
Pale limbs like flowers to be tied in a bouquet
That the soil refused to cultivate.
To be born, to live, to die, rotting away.

A grave unfit to bear the blame.
Pale limbs like flowers to be tied in a bouquet
There's nothing to be done. I can't be saved.

I find it hard to feel alive
While my heart beats in borrowed time.
The cadence that I've kept confined
Existing only in the black behind my eyes.
Not worthy of a memory.
Deny all grief and force yourself to forget me.
Don't allow my ghost to linger any longer than it has.
Let my spirit breathe, I've finally found peace.


3. ARMS LIKE TEETH

Compare our dependence to predator and prey
A parallel engraved into our souls by the work of broken hands

Contradiction carved in canvas
And our nail-beds ache from scratching at the surface

Coerced by your creation
Finding foundation in decay

With the culmination of our failure on display
Convince yourself I am your greatest masterpiece
Disassemble me however you see fit
And put me back together absolving me of my impurities

And you know I'd welcome your embrace
Even if your arms resembled teeth
Cover me in scars
Close your eyes in case I bleed

I'd welcome you and your embrace
Even if your arms resembled teeth
Close your eyes in case I bleed
I'd let you cover me in scars
If you could carry me forever
Carry me forever in your heart
Carry me forever in your heart
Carry me forever in your heart

A predator, I pray
Release me from the mouth of dependency
Forgive me for my absence
Our love will know not wasted time


4. NO SERVANT OF MINE

In you no passion bleeds
A shell that's thin and withering
Did you misplace your flame
In pursuit of a new hell to help you heal or burn the same?

Dedication makes a martyr out of me
While you're afraid to offer flakes of skin
Your fire dies, dependent on the embers I provide
Shield your blaze from beads of sweat

No servant

No servant of mine, turn your back and flee
Bending over backwards to be sure we watched you leave
No servant of mine, turn your back and flee
You are not owed more than the shoulders you have burdened

Contentment breeds in our disintegration
Like bitter pills digested by the sick
I wish you luck and hope you've found your medicine
(Pray that it kills you quick)

The chase has clouded your perception
Beg to be buried in the sky
Dependent on the embers I provide
Your fire dies

The same mud buries both of us alive
And still you search for different shades of dirt

No servant

No servant of mine, turn your back and flee
Bending over backwards to be sure we watched you leave
No servant of mine, turn your back and flee
You are not owed more than the shoulders you have burdened


5. HAUNT ME

Not what you need
Not what you need
We've been seduced by suffering
In spite of separation
Embedded in my head, the hallucination settles

If our memories don't drag their feet in dirt
Their steps can't be retraced
So we spin until we're sick

Longing for the loss of balance
A fall that carries us from heaven to our grave

You haunt me
You haunt me like an empty home
Priceless possession, I bring you with me wherever I go
Wander through me, rearranging my insides in search of sleep
So well rested, you forget to bring me with you when you leave

Punish my body for the things my soul has seen
I've been staring into sunlight counting backwards while the radiance blinds me
Flawed reflections will make themselves at home
Convincing us to walk barefoot through miles of broken mirrors

You haunt me
You haunt me like an empty home
Priceless possession, I bring you with me wherever I go
Wander through me, rearranging my insides in search of sleep
So well rested, you forget to bring me with you when you leave

Hollow out my body, I know you need somewhere to sleep
Change the locks on doors I've left open inside of me
Hollow out my body, I'm not what you need, not what you need
In spite of separation, we have been seduced by suffering

You haunt me like an empty home
You haunt me

Migrate as you may, swallowing your spare key for safekeeping
Wander where you please inside of me
You haunt me


6. SWIM BENEATH MY SKIN

How comforting it feels to breathe with hands around my neck
Sleepwalk your way around my arteries if you're restless
Dig through me
Swim beneath my skin
In the precipitation I've graciously gathered

I won't let you drown inside me
I won't let you drown inside me

Useless blood will fade
Like a dark cloud that has purged itself of rain
Humanity will bathe in our transparency
Positioned over trenches, we allow our wounds to drain
Searching for a virgin conduit in vain

How comforting it feels to breath with your knees upon my chest
When consciousness disguises itself as paralysis
Dig through me
Swim beneath my skin
In the precipitation I've graciously gathered

I won't let you drown inside me
I won't let you drown inside me

Positioned over trenches so we can purge ourselves of rain
Falling from our wounds through empty arteries
You are the blood that my heart bleeds
You are the blood that my heart bleeds
Positioned over trenches so we can purge ourselves of rain
Falling from our wounds
You are the blood that my heart bleeds


7. THIEVES

There are no rewards
For consuming the wounded
Starved for an easy kill
Keep your hunger at bay

I will use your flesh to keep her warm

God would break character if he could for a chance to spit in your face
Guardian angels couldn't keep you safe from me

With my last breath
I will strangle you to death
With your own fucking hands

I will make my peace
Removing the arms of unrepentant thieves


8. ROPE

Portraits of hope
Reflecting of a blade that bears my name
Hanging inches from my head
There is no light bright enough to bring my shadow back to life

A presence that the fortunate weren't predisposed to feel
My seance of surrender will fall upon deaf ears
Promises I have disowned appear before me
Resembling the outline of my soul

Unravel me, every sentence makes me sick
Bound and abandoned by a noose that lifts me off my feet
Hanging like a halo overhead
I knew your rope was made for me

Fading, I fall backwards into the dust
Positioned vertically, but a casket knows to catch me
Buried only waist-deep in the earth
We carve the fading features of our silhouettes into our coffin doors

Hope is a blade that bears my name
I knew your rope was made for me

Hope is a blade that bears my name

I knew your rope was made for me
I knew your rope was made for me


9. A MEMORY MISREAD

Don't adorn me like the dead
I deserve to look like myself once again
Suspended from the sky like ornaments
Nothing to no one, only memories misread

I am a farewell that even heaven won't accept
Collecting scars like souvenirs of pasts we can't forget
Broken glass, swept over the bodies I know best
I am a farewell that even heaven won't accept

Separate me from a finished product like needle and thread
Translating words to portray the vacant pages they live in
A requiem worshipped for the pauses it contains
Praising not the essence but the meaningless remain

Collecting shards from mirror images of me
I am no idol, I am no idol for the weak
Nothing to no one, a memory misread
Collecting shards from mirror images of me
I am no idol, I am no idol for the weak

I am a farewell
I am a farewell that even heaven won't accept

I am a farewell that even heaven won't accept
Collecting scars like souvenirs of pasts we can't forget
Broken glass, swept over the bodies I know best
I am a farewell that heaven won't accept


10. FRAGILE LIMBS

Dissolving in small oceans
Responsible for concentrating currents
To match a pulse in us that no longer exists
Resurfacing only when we're running out of air

Apprehensive from our absent-heartedness
Spitting blood from confidence confessed
Inducing dreams in which we never met
To rid myself of regret

We were a pair of fragile limbs
Too weak to carry us to bed
Stretched so thin but somehow
Burning at both ends

Foreshadowing the pain of transferring dead weight
While we can barely stay awake
A self inflicted severance will seal our fate
Let it die
We had to let this die

Apprehensive from our absent-heartedness
Spitting blood from confidence confessed

We were a pair of fragile limbs
Too weak to carry us to bed
Stretched so thin but somehow
Burning at both ends

Dissolving in small oceans
Like the salt into our wounds
To match the pulse in us
That no longer exists

We were a pair of fragile limbs
Too weak to carry us to bed
Stretched so thin but somehow
Burning at both ends


11. YOU'RE NOT YOU ANYMORE

A garden grew between us in the love we lived without
Remaining faithful to the flood, our tears have purpose in a drought
Tread lightly so footprints can't disturb the bed we've made
With restlessness reserved for both the bodies it contains

Aim your sharpest arrow at the center of my chest
A memorial to signify the sense of helplessness
We dare not mourn our past lives, our loss will be reborn
Because I couldn't love who you were but you're not you anymore

Sew your skeleton to mine, I'm no good on my own
Stitch yourself to either side of me so I will never be alone
We mend our past mistakes as a symbol that we've grown
So we no longer place our weight on top of broken bones

Mark an end to aimless roaming with a double-sided knife
If we develop eyes for others, may we both be stripped of sight
Liken our divide to partitions in the earth
Wrapped in walls of vines, growing out of common ground

A garden grew between us
Our tears have purpose in a drought

Sew your skeleton to mine, I'm no good on my own
Stitch yourself to either side of me so I will never be alone
We mend our past mistakes as a symbol that we've grown
So we no longer place our weight on top of broken bones

Mark an end to aimless roaming
With a double-sided knife
Taking steps towards each other
We could end both our lives
(And that'd be fine)

Aim your sharpest arrow at the center of my chest
A memorial to signify the sense of helplessness
We dare not mourn our past lives, our loss will be reborn
I couldn't love who you were but you're not you anymore