1. BREACH

It comes to fracture vested trust
A love to shatter and turn to rust
I drag my name through waves to wade black water
Wallow and drown

A new shade of gray disorients the portrait
Repetitive contusions concuss the allure
Cataract eyes and cloudy minds interrupt a perfect design

Crashing waves come to swallow us
Wallow and drown in it
Shadows wait to devour us
It hurts to surrender

Presentation is everything when you created the play
The audience hypnotised by the imagery
In this vicious cycle of disbelief
That the visionless cannot conceive
You can drag me down six feet deep
So I can fight for a life that I threw away
In this moment of resurgence
Clear the dissonance, and recover me

Fears suppressed exploit our lust
And our memories turn to rust

And when we reach that point, barren of things to say
There's nothing left to save, do not resuscitate
Swallow your pride, hide what you feel inside
There are some things that can not be rectified

Crashing waves come to swallow us
Wallow and drown in it
Shadows wait to devour us
It hurts to surrender
Leeches lie in wait, but you're blind to it (But you're blind to it)
A void that you create, you give life to it
It hurts to surrender

It comes to fracture vested trust
A love to shatter and turn to rust
I drag my name through waves to wade black water
Wallow and drown
If words could carry my pain through the busy streets and empty alleyways
Be the one who hears my cry like the moon who craves the night

You can drag me down six feet deep
So I can fight for a life that I threw away
In this moment of resurgence
Clear the dissonance, and recover me


2. MONOLITH

Faith we abate, a perfect design of which we deprecate
We can't decipher this suppressive surge of desire
As I watch the hands of time cradle circumstance and consequence
I reiterate that the hourglass is near its end and depleting swiftly
Trace the edge along this line we drew within this narrow space

Memories I can't recreate
Wreckage beyond what we could calculate
An affection that fluctuates
Familiar speech in a new tongue that I can not translate

Who's to say that our faith was kept in a safe place
As we witness a weaker pulse and shallow breaths
The innocent fight to take their life back, no surrender of light from their eyes
Perpetrator, give back what's not yours to keep
Stolen destinations of contingency, ripped apart and vanishing

Memories I can't recreate
Wreckage beyond what we could calculate
An affection that fluctuates
Familiar speech in a new tongue that I can not translate

These wandering eyes provide confirmation of idle actions
Holding keys to open doors we're too afraid to enter
We scrutinize but execution falls short
Disgust for lack of action
Cover your face with your hands and look away

Memories I can't recreate
Wreckage beyond what we could calculate
An affection that fluctuates
Familiar speech in a new tongue that I can not translate

Perpetrator, give back what's not yours to keep


3. SIGNAL FIRE

Metamorphosis; what am I becoming
Liable; or a victim of circumstance?
Bending disorder to appease my own defense

This bond could not be conceived without affection and faith to believe
It was all meant to endure the worst of things
Cast aside your doubts and destructive thoughts
I know that I can finally be enough

The signal fire is flickering
Breaths start to cease, and I wonder if she calls my name out from the edge of the sea

Tones of crimson gleam to fill the space between the animation in my arteries
Cruel impermanence; the weight of the unknown has stricken me with a feeling of turbulence; holding out for a softer consequence

Stand true; we are absolute
The doubt breathes through blushing leaves
Be eradicated with my will to be
Convoluted ideas and emotions that make their home in me, weigh me down
They make their home in me

Drifting away into the comfort of false safety

The signal fire is flickering
Breaths start to cease, and I wonder if she calls my name out from the edge of the sea

Move in sync with passage of light through my fingertips
Aligned on each notch of my spine where shivers won’t
Dare resist

The signal fire is flickering
Breaths start to cease, and I wonder if she calls my name out from the edge of the sea


4. VALHALLA

Shed your skin, days on years, punished by pressured time
When underneath, you're balancing all this hate and selfless misconception
What once was full is just the husk of a deceived creature of habits
Black ink can't pierce this deep

By your side, I watched the birds of prey bind the skies and hold in wait
We cannot mend what is sealed by fate
No future, contentment with complacency, absorbing disappointment, bite the hand that feeds
I gave up everything to make you feel complete
Drenched in cold sweat from lost comfort of safety, you
Resonate with hatred

My pulse is racing in my chest
I lie awake to imagine pathways of escape as they disappear

All these words mean nothing if we fall face first (if we fall face first) from running away from something that we saw coming

Embrace this sunset as cloak and dagger for you to cower
Hidden by shadow, with filthy nails of gripping cowards
Shed your skin
Refuse to be loved by yourself to grow free from villainous vines
Refuse love from anyone else to sever ties that have grown intertwined

My failing mind has been oppressed, and I lie awake to embrace a
Pathway of escape
Disappear without a trace

All these words mean nothing if we fall face first (if we fall face first) from running away from something that we saw coming

Rise through the wake, sliding through the pulse of the ocean tide
Rise through the wake, sliding through the pulse of the ocean tide
Shed your skin!
Shed your skin, I've always known what's underneath
Rise through the wake, or be the crashing waves

Rise through the wake, sliding through the pulse
Of the ocean tide
Rise through the wake, slide

Refuse to be loved by yourself to grow free from villainous vines
Refuse love from anyone else to sever ties that have grown intertwined


5. HYPERREALITY

I disengaged and relinquished the rage
Repressive memories combust into a sky of dust
Oversee my thoughts, bending time like light through the mist of night
Slipping into serenity, speeding towards hearts that can't break and steel traps of misdirection

Weightlessness; separate from this conscious
Alleviation from the noise

Leave it all behind; a master of control
I'd rather it be me than the others wielding the tightrope and chains of woe
Take flight on the wings that aren't impeded by conflict of trust; gusts powered by passion and retrospective intent
Believe in the purity of your escape

Weightlessness; separate from this conscious
Alleviation from the noise
Weightlessness; separate from this conscious
Breaking the rhythm of the noise

Please give me space to breath unblemished atmosphere
Watch me float along this celestial breeze
Give me hope to become one with everything (everything), to understand change as a necessity

Weightlessness; separate from this conscious
Alleviation from the noise
Weightlessness; separate from this conscious
Breaking the rhythm of the noise


6. GHOST OF NOTHING

Treading waters poisoned by timeless intoxicants, always knowing that a darkness will find us
Scaling walls of imagined boundaries, we are the reapers of shame, the successors of pain

I could follow you down to the bottom of your solemn state
Straining to pull you out of the trenches that your mind creates

Hesitation sits in hindsight of the blind man
Cut me open

Won't you follow tonight, just breathe in slowly
I don't want to see you suffer forever (forever)
You are seemingly safe and sound, but you carry such a heavy weight
A spirit that slowly drowns, but the body doesn't translate

Bolstering the need to feel accomplished, overshadowed by
Decisions of finite progress
A moment to take my time to let the noise subside
Maybe I can finally breathe if I take a step outside myself
Maybe I can finally breathe easy
Cut me a box to size, yeah

Won't you follow tonight, just breathe in slowly
I don't want to see you suffer forever, forever
Plagued by thoughts of self-defeat

Ghost of nothing
A ghost of a nothing; an anchor for all suffering

Won't you follow tonight
I don't want to see you suffer

Won't you follow tonight, just breathe in slowly
I don't want to see you suffer (suffer) forever (forever)
Won't you follow tonight, just breathe in slowly
I don't want to see you suffer (suffer) forever (forever)
I don't want to see you

A ghost of a nothing; an anchor for all suffering


7. DISARRAY

Give in to the pressure of the sound
Of the voices saying step down

Beast of glutton, the embodiment of greed
Exploiting the weak by fabricating their needs
The wolf kicked in the door, intruded in your home
And you see it as a privilege to be consumed

Give in to the pressure of the sound
Of the voices saying step down
Tell us something that resembles truth
You pitiful bastard in clearest sight

The wolf was never hiding
You told yourself sweet nothings, and now your only truth is lying
Bulbous parasite; expanding from the blood of the ignorant
The worm is robbing our ability to communicate
I saw him laugh in your face
Why aren't you irate

Scrub away the stain
Leech their energy

Give in to the pressure of the sound
Of the voices saying step down
Tell us something that resembles truth
You pitiful bastard in clearest sight

Give in to the pressure of the sound
Of the voices saying step down
Tell us something that resembles truth
You pitiful bastard in clearest sight

The people's king; a virtuoso of trophy lust and adolescent behavior
An old fool convinced you he's your savior
Chaos is the grain on which the bastards feed
Bringing down the rain, they drown the land in greed
Scrub away the stain; leech their energy
Tell us something that resembles truth
Just walk away


8. EXPIATE

The miles I've traveled now seem like withered time; fixated on the rear view when I can't see ahead
For me to view a reflection without corruption so a past won't dictate a present
Months pass, sitting still, thinking in this box where my thoughts are not friendly, nor hopeful
This weak mind and body crumble

Who we were will never be the same
We'll never relive the feeling
Love we made, we let it slip away, and I just can't face it

I can feel it coming on, living inside, calling me right back to you
My regret meets no resistance, and I endorse this torment to feel
If you exhaust a heart of love, is the pumping of blood still enough Do the limbs go numb

Who we were will never be the same
We'll never relive the feeling
Love we made, we let it slip away, and I just can't face it
Who we were will never be the same
We'll never relive the feeling
Love we made, we let it slip away, and I just can't face it

My fictional friend, conducting me piece by piece, I feel your cold
Blank stare cast on me
I don't ask to be mended, just understand my words and hear me out:
All the passion has faded; all the fire has burned out

How could I see it coming; this electrifying high that we would grow to resent

I can feel it coming on, living inside, calling me right back to
You


9. UNIFY

Aiming soft steps along each brick to give respect in the places unfit
It's not a waste to him, but all he knows; avoiding all the conflict to seek some repose

Thinking back on his father's words to try and mend the cracks at the seams
Stand your ground and speak your mind; a unity he can't emphasize
Hard rain falls without consulting the flood
A tear hits the cheek of a heartless man
Counting the minutes as you lose control
This love goes unreceived, marked "return to sender"

Feeling it all around me; watching the clouds roll over
Fall into place; trust in the outcome
Walk along the path of least resistance

Set your feet to paths for you to wander, and never feel alone
Questioning the option to surrender, embracing the unknown on
Your own

Walk alone or lead the pack (on your own)
There's no difference in numbers if you see nothing with eyes wide open
Remembering moments being led astray, the howling voices looming close behind, reaching for a piece to steal away
Close your doors, even if the rooms are vacant

Set your feet to paths for you to wander, and never feel alone
Questioning the option to surrender, embracing the unknown

Setting all the clocks to prior hours to stagger fleeting time
Saving all the love you can remember, remember
Thinking back on his father's words to try and mend the cracks at the seams
Stand your ground and speak your mind; a unity he can't emphasize


10. ULTIMATA

Terror creeps like a hurricane, oppressing the seas, trying to sink my vessel
Powerless to the crippling wake, pull me in and destroy my faith
With my liquid lungs, I can breathe

Free of broken memories that keep holding on
Contemplating love you spent only to feel alone
I feel alone
Love you spent only to feel alone
Still holding on

A hollow heart holds no peace
Can we forgive and forget, receive and protect, when we carry our prisons in our heads
Carve my legacy into the stone, for my light can only burn so long, but before I go, my brimstone bones will smolder all my fears of the unknown

Free of broken memories that keep holding on
Contemplating love you spent only to feel alone
I feel alone
Love you spent only to feel alone, and no strength to let it go

In my wishing well, where all my words turn to stone, speak to me
Through grit teeth; a broken soul and a heart that wants to take control

Who's to say whether we should drift
I can feel you slipping away

Shadows unfamiliar to me dance around the walls
Of the most familiar places
Now I've become a stranger in my own home
I'd fall asleep with you next to me
Now everyday I wake alone

Shadows of strangers compose themselves reluctantly
How can you confront your fears when they stand back to back
Trust in a disconnect to make the pieces fit, oh
Shadows of strangers
Shadows of strangers

Hope you left behind
Home is undefined
Hope you left behind
Home is undefined