1. LIFT THE VEIL

Our perception, so limited and so restrained
A symptom of our condition
Mass confusion, the evidence of staring blind
A symptom of our condition

But we're ready to face illusion
Ready to survey dark vistas
Where forgotten realities have come
To the surface
New details, inner workings of the machine
Ours to discover

Lift the veil, give us focus,
A view flawless, we're so naive
Lift the veil, the faint shading
Of the world that we perceive

Steady, we won't shy away
Steady, as we face the unveiling
Where we see everything anew
Enhanced by a new light
Mask lifted from the face
Of the world we knew
It's all coming clearer

Have we always viewed our world sub-dued?
Out of focus?
Have we always looked
Through broken lenses?
Have we let ourselves be convinced
That our privilege is justified, ours by right?


2. READ BETWEEN

Right now you can't see the end
Soak in the midst of turmoil
Resigned to shrink away
Content to retreat
Content to hide in your safe place
Protest the loss
And mourn the casualties
Look at the wreckage
And understand what it means

When the walls collapse
Your will to fight has been surpassed
You're on your knees again
Sift through the layers
The shattered remains of your broken dreams
The life you once longed for

Face up to devastation
Ignore the urge to hide
Seek revelation
Inspired in all the anguish
Recount the cost
Knowledge through suffering
No easy lessons
Are learned when you cross the valley

Draw out a hard line
You've got to follow the hard line
A marker that shows the way,
And through this
Draw out a hard line
A future that can't be seen from
Where you are


3. BUILT TO FALL

Each platform a conquest you aim for.
Each step an honor worth killing for.
Your stock will rise and not fall.
If you sell them short
And pull them off the wall.

Climbing on backs of the broken.
Scraping you're gaining traction.
It's easy, the path to summit.
The apex of social ranking.

Still standing, the tower's been raised up.
Your goal, a perfect view from the top.
Can't stop, you know you can't wait.
Or you'll be pulled down by the ones you've disgraced.

Tremors, you feel vibrations growing.
Status forgotten, panic grips you tight.
Not tight enough, not soon enough.
No rescue coming, you're on your own


4. THE INFLUENCE OF FALSE PRETENSE

While passing judgment reigns.
And this face is not your own.
The evidence is on display.
And i fear its treason now.
Betrayed by these teachers revered now.
Who claim to love us, yes love us the most.

Guilty by association.
Can i lay this down, go underground?
Please show me the destination.
Where deception falls
And truth still calls by name.

Ascended to a throne.
They've raised on empty vows.
Held against the smallest debt.
And this tainted glory found.
Can't wash all the blood
From there hands now.
This blood they've hidden
Will soon be reveled.

Now we stand accused, we stand accused.
We face the hate, the scorn of those
Who've been betrayed.
But our hope is justice for the crime they
Commit in your name


5. A SCAR FILLED SKY

Eruptions of fire and stone all around
They fill the air and shake the ground
And it's proving impermanence,

The tortured landscape heaves
Nothing will be left alive

Bury my remains
Under ashes falling on my grave
Make me whole again
Give me the sight to see your ends
Bury my remains, cover up this body in decay
Make me whole again,
Paint me on a brand new canvas

Not far from here, a place prepared
Can't find my way, send up a flare
Open the sky,
Show me the way through twilight

Even now i see a spark in the distance
A flicker of hope for peace and silence
This span so hostile, won't last forever
This path through struggle will make me stronger


6. NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS

Look forward now to the horizon.
Be still and recognize.
A new day, a new day dawning
Carving out a new sky
Abandoned our false hopes, our false dreams.
Remember, we wandered
In the absence of the sun.

We're balanced on the edge.
And just ahead the great expanse.

Now opened wide a new direction.
Swept up by the destiny
And i know, his favor falling.
Calling us to new life.
These moments, this conclusion
The question we're facing must be answered
With a single step.
One fateful step.

We're stepping out without debate.
Our chance to be decisive and confident.
Excuses fade, logic betrayed.

We're stepping off the edge.
And straight toward the great expanse
We're stepping out now


7. SELF DEFIANCE

Take my fingers, take my hands.
Save me from myself, selfish distractions.
Board the windows, and lock all doors.
Save me from my flaws, misguided solutions

I'm always walking on the easiest path.
And i know, that rode, it leads to nothing.
Aligned by my footsteps and led me to the route
That you've laid for me ready and waiting.

Why have i turned my back so many times
On a clear direction?
Why have i listened to the whispers
That are from the dark?

Take my fingers, take my hands.
Save me from myself, selfish distractions.
Board the windows, and lock all doors.
Save me from my flaws, misguided solutions

It never seems to matter how many times
That i fail on my own,
Convinced that i'm stronger.
Your gentle hand is reaching,
Leading me safely away.
From the dark, the fiction in my mind.

Why have i turned my back so many times
On a clear direction?

And once again,
I realize that i'm short of the goal.
I've wandered so far from where i should be.
I've lead myself astray for what?
For comfort? There is no comfort here...

Carry me home, carry me home
There was never any comfort here

Take my fingers, take my hands.
Save me from myself, selfish distractions.
Board the windows, and lock all doors.
Save me from my flaws, misguided solutions


8. HEED THE SOUND

Echoes ringing in my mind.
They're crying surrender, surrender your will.
Echoes ringing in my mind.
A voice that once whispered is growing and can't be ignored.

Decrease my name.
The grief that's found in me, you've broken.
Increase your name.
The grace that's found in me you've spoken.

Hear it clearly declared.
This weakness that held me,
Is weakness no more.
Hear it clearly declared.
This whisper of thunder, is deafening.

Decrease my name.
The grief that's found in me, you've broken.
And replace what i hate.
Increase your name.
The grace that's found in me you've spoken.

A quiet voice, that once i ignored.
The catalyst, my reason for standing here now.
The voice of the voiceless.
Now speaks, now speaks through me.
The hope of the hopeless.
Your grace, is rising up in me


9. ANCHORS

Hold close your treasures.
The very measure of your value here.
Within these shining walls.
Now raise them higher.
They'll last forever if you're careful now.
If you lock them all, lock them all down.

Wrapped in your precious cloak
Spun from gold.
Useless you're reaching back dead and cold.

This weight you've trusted.
Polished and sacred has you safe, secure.
You lie in soothing sleep.
One flash it's happening
A last desperate moment.
Now the weight falls free.
But have you sunk to deep... To breathe?

Your chest is tight, held in death's embrace.
As your eyes lift up, can you see you're escape?
One flash fleeting glance, at the shine below.
One last freedom chance,
Surrendered to the cold.
This useless gold


10. PENETRATE, ILLUMINATE

Grow, your message here.
And let it burn across my heart.
Dark fears, are gathering ahead.
Dark fears, these shadowed accursed
Will flee before your sweeping arm.
Held fast, the terrors of the night.
Held fast, the weight of despair.
Deceivers you have cast aside.

This message a fire, that grows.
You've etched across my heart.
Decrying the menace below.
We're standing, a light in the dark.

Make me, a weapon in your hands.
Make me, a sword that you wield.
Use me in this phantom war.
Unbound, your spirit now unleashed.
Unbound, the edge of the blade
Is pressing back these doomed, foresworn.

We're standing, a light in the dark.
An explicit reminder, a warning