1. THE SEA OF TRAGIC BEASTS

Fall in the fire with me

Inescapable agony
The rivers of ruin run deep
The skill of savagery
Only the alpha wolf claims the meat

Our path is carved with the cruelest cut
Carnage consumes all we've ever loved
The innocent blistered by the flame
Trial by fire we burn in shame

These tragic beasts
Suffer eternally
The sad circus of humanity
Remove your wings
Rise from the sea
And fall in the fire with me
These tragic beasts
Claw through the centuries
Devouring the sons of sanity
Remove your wings
Rise from the sea
And fall in the fire with me

Unnatural predators
Insatiable hunt for the weakest prey
Kill or be killed
Violent will
The flock is led astray

Our path is carved with the cruelest cut
Carnage consumes all we've ever loved
Lethal instincts sharpened sense of rage
Fight or flight destroy humanity

Evolution through violence
Defend yourself
Thrown to the wolves
They eat what they kill
Not before I've had my fill
Defend yourself

These tragic beasts
Suffer eternally
The sad circus of humanity
Remove your wings
Rise from the sea
And fall in the fire with me
These tragic beasts
Claw through the centuries
Devouring the sons of sanity
Remove your wings
Rise from the sea
And fall in the fire with me
Fall in the fire with me

There's a hole from here to hell
Fall deep and find no peace
In the sea of tragic beasts
There's a hole from here to hell
Retreat or fight for peace
In the sea of tragic beasts


2. NO MAN IS WITHOUT FEAR

Carved in concrete
Castles and chapels
They all play God
When the sun is out
Crawling through cracks
Vermin and villains
They all creep in
When our guard is down

Sleep in the slums tonight
Beneath the hum of the city lights
A targeting nuisance once you've tasted grief
The promise of peace is fruitless
Tearing holes in the story
No return to glory
How they hide from the harsher truths
Who are you running from? Where are you running to?

Are you terrified
To face the fate you designed?
Brick by brick the end is coming quick
Such a swift demise
Are you terrified
To stare into the eyes
Of a man who feeds on violence?
A man who fears who no tyrant?

The blood seeps into our dreams
Where we dance on the ashes of the fallen kings
The blood seeps into our dreams
And the hell in your mind is now your reality
The hell in your mind is now your reality

The highest horses
Of seven kingdoms
All get put down when their time runs out
Tides will turn
Towers to tombstones
Masters are merely men
When the sun goes down
No man is without fear
When faced with unyielding force
They always tremble
Power doesn't make you less of a coward

Are you terrified
To face the fate you designed?
Brick by brick the end is coming quick
Such a swift demise
Are you terrified
To stare into the eyes
Of a man who feeds on violence?
A man who fears no tyrant?

The blood seeps into our dreams
Where we dance on the ashes of the fallen kings
The blood seeps into our dreams
And the hell in your mind is now your reality


3. SHEPHERD

The shepherds kill their sheep
Just to watch them die
The end of days is born
Under the burning sky

A thousand oceans spill upon the spoiled shore
Returning cities to the sea
All as it was before
Retreat beyond the walls
Where vultures go to die
Scavenge for substance as the last
Is swallowed by the flies

Now we compete with bird and beast
Cycles of deceit, doomed to repeat
Sorrow we seed in, to an earth I once believed in
A future stained, in the blood of our children

We carve through mountains
Great shadows they cast
Now desolate wastelands
Clinging to brighter pasts
Nations of thieves
Selling our souls for gold
Critical mass
Our fate is terminal

Man is the cancer
We call for death and it answers
Man is the cancer
We call for death and it answers

A thousand fires turn the forests into dust and bone
A wind so thick with ash
The statues shatter into stone
The leaders turn to lepers
Begging to survive
Scavenge for substance as the last
I swallowed by the flies

Behold true sorrow
Behold true sorrow
Behold true sorrow

The shepherds kill their sheep
Just to watch them die
The end of days is born
Under burning sky

Man is the cancer
We call for death and it answers
Man is the cancer
We call for death and it answers

We carve through mountains
Great shadows they cast
Now desolate wastelands
Clinging to brighter pasts
Nations of thieves
Selling our souls for gold
Critical mass
Our fate is terminal
Our fate is terminal


4. YOUR PAIN IS MINE

Screams from the embers of fire
A fading light of a lost empire
Collapsed in timeless haze
Lanterns below the caves
Shine no light for the shadow man
The path to amnesty
Littered in unmarked graves
The innocent swallowed in sand

The hand that grasps for life
Severed clean by the knife
With every cut so deep
How sound the sheltered sleep
Deaf ears to the ring of the siren's call
I hear they sing in heaven
We'll never hear the song
Your pain is mine
I am you in another life
Your pain is mine
We were one long ago
Before the earth stole our souls
Every god says farewell to their sons
When the bombs come, run
Isolation in a swarm of bullets
Another infant chokes on the halos of smoke
I never saw the truth but now I know it
Consumes our sanity
We've torn apart society

The hand that grasps for life
Severed clean by the knife
With every cut so deep
How sound the sheltered sleep
Deaf ears to the ring of the siren's call
I hear they sing in heaven
We'll never hear the song
Your pain is mine
I am you in another life
Your pain is mine
We were one long ago
Before the earth stole our souls

Painted pictures always seem serene
But the reality is much harsher to see
And I need you to know
That help is out of my reach
Or at least believe me
I wished that you'd find peace
But there's no action in a thought
Simply lost at sea
Of undeniable complacency and treachery
And I plead that you were given
Just a chance to be free
Maybe in time, but know I tried
Your pain is mine
Run like your life depends on it
Because one day it will
I'm sorry child
The world wasn't there to pick up the pieces
It never will


5. MIRRORS

I saw your ghost in my reflection
I saw a darkness in my heart
I saw a shred of hope
I saw the world tear it apart
Our world is cold and empty

I saw your ghost in my reflection
I saw a darkness in my heart
I saw a shred of hope
I saw the world tear it apart
I try and piece together
The parts of me that I want the world to see
But the mirror stares back
Ever black
Reminding me
Our world is cold and empty

I saw you slip
Into shallow pools of blood and blue
Servants of dark desire
Find shelter in needle and fire
I starve the demons
But you still feed them
Another rush to the vein
In a lust to escape each ripple of pain

Tiny angels
In tiny hells
Contradictions
I know so well

Torment
When you can't move forward
Sinking slower then the mind breaks
Another casket lowered that I can't take
Sober
Carry your cross through lonely winters
My curse my fate my ghost
Beside me she whimpers

Our world is cold and fucking empty
An endless cycle of suffering
The pain has never fucking left me
Into the mirror ever black I see

Tiny angels
In tiny hells
Contradictions
I know so well

I saw your ghost in my reflection
I saw a darkness in my heart
I saw a shred of hope
I saw the world tear it apart
I try and piece together
The parts of me that I want the world to see
But the mirror stares back
Ever black
Reminding me
Our world is cold and empty

My curse
My fate
My ghost
I'd die before I let you go

My curse
My fate
My ghost
I'd die before it lets me go

Let me go
Let me go


6. UNLOVED

I never cast the first stone
But I'm buried in rubble
The weight of a wretched world
Is enough to make any man crumble
I never asked for forgiveness
So I am given no end to my struggle
A failure of flesh, lay my soul to rest
By the bitter blood, I remain

Unloved, unloved, unloved
By the bitter blood, I remain unloved

I'll bet his love will always linger
Beneath the surface of calloused skin
So go and point your fucking finger
But you should know that I am what I've always been

Unloved, unloved, unloved
By the bitter blood, I remain unloved

Hate is the only gift from God

Unloved
By the bitter blood, I will remain unloved
By the bitter blood, I will remain


7. MOURN

Will they mourn for me?
A dying memory
Will they mourn for me?
A dying memory

You shall not pass
The grip of guilt sinks its claws in your back
The light retracts
Unforgiving and black
I see the face of destruction

Our soil never settles
Our conscience never clean
Our prayers are nothing but
Empty apologies

One with the worms
That crawl in the dirt
Comfort in the embrace of snakes
My father, my plague
Old ghosts of agony

Will they mourn for me?
A dying memory
Will they mourn for me?
A dying memory

You shall not pass
The stain of grief on eyes of glass
A man who only knows his path
Will walk alone
And bury his soul for sanity

Our soil never settles
Our conscience never clean
Our prayers are nothing but
Empty apologies

Love is not stronger than death

Lightless, we sift through the silence
Secretly begging for rest
The hope we resist as IVs drip
A conciseness of the waiting rooms' emptiness
Comfort in the embrace of snakes
My father, my plague blinded by rage
The darkness our only escape
Bloodletting sealing our fate

Unforgiven

Love is not stronger than death
Another hospital, another year of regret
Buried in the pain of my past
Old ghosts of agony
A dying memory

Will they mourn for me?
A dying memory
Will they mourn for me?
A dying memory


8. WARFARE

When the fuck did everyone decide to become a politician?
Catapults with corpses aren't worth opinions
All you do is talk, but you forgot how to fucking listen

I try to sleep but the dogs keep barking
Must be the tension in the room
It builds on rage in the back of the teeth
A dead sage for civility
Compromising shape, conflicted suite

The space between us filled with thin air
Bloodied lines drawn in the sand
We could never cross it
Paths lined to social warfare
We had a chance to survive but we fucking lost it

Slayers turning pitch into flames
The ones who play the saint put a knife in your back
Daggers rain down on the disciples
Daggers rain down on the disciples

All we know
Warfare

When the fuck did everyone decide to become a politician?
All you do is talk, but you forgot how to fucking listen

Hearts splatter left and right
Bring an army of fools to a winless fight
Hearts splatter rich and poor
Turn a nation of fools into a nation at war

We go for the throat
We do what we're told
Another day at the minefield
Another lie is sold

And we're burning
Burn in your pitied slums while they high roll
Another day at the minefield
Another lie is sold


9. BIRDS OF PREY

Eyes in the sky have you under control
The inner light collapses
In the blackest of the black holes
A sacrifice of body and soul
To the great Leviathan that swallows us whole

The mouth is sewn shut and cannot protest
Minds are shackled and cannot resist
Everyone's poisoned and cannot question
Army of depression through mental oppression

Villains of faith and poison manipulate the model citizen
Abuse of power
The final hour
A crushing brush of the fallen line
As the machine grinds to a halt for the last time

Birds of prey
Fly too close to the sun
And as the wings of our fate is burned
The world will come undone

Eyes in the sky have you under control
The inner light collapses in the blackest of the black holes
A sacrifice of body and soul
To the great Leviathan that swallows us whole

Paralyzed
We cower in the face of our demise
The parasite that consumes the will to live from the inside

A wretched life
Void of serenity
A paradise
Turned to atrocity
Slowly conditioned to feel no sympathy
Failing future
Moral slavery

To the abyss we surrender
The fire to exist
Leviathan
Swallower of sin
We end where we begin
In nothingness


10. NAPALM DREAMS

Seven oceans, seven sins
Seven billion souls that swim
Back to the bottom
Like fiends to the flames
We sink to Sodom

Parallel rivers shall not entwine
Hope and hell, oil and wine
Run forth to the sea
In disharmony
We burn together

I cling to napalm dreams
Where we breathe in the ether of misery
Eden is a garden of fire
Eden is a funeral pyre

We live through centuries of storms
In awe at the terrors of the earth
We give nothing in return
We squander all that it was worth

All I wanted was a way out
Of the everlasting cold

I cling to napalm dream
Where we breathe in the ether of misery
Eden is a garden of fire
Eden is a funeral pyre

Why do my sins
Circle like locusts around me?
Searching for a way back in
What's even under my skin
But the marrow and meat of self-defeat
That eats into this skeleton
Everyone loves you when you're dead or dying
But the earth owes you nothing, just a hole to die in
And all I wanted was a way out
All I wanted was a way out

All I wanted was a way out
All I wanted was a way out
All I wanted was a way out
All I wanted was a way out