1. ANYTHING YOU WANT

Amend
In you sanctified
A sick light
Spark of sacrifice

As breath from air
You in my every thought

Cruel knife
To my lips
Blood in a kiss
Anything you want

Sink out of sight
Your every word
Weight of desire

Plead just to stay
As I succumb
Do what you want

Ascend
In you sanctified
Amend
Come and realize
Such gifts
Fester, rapt within


2. NOTHING TOUCHES YOU

Another retch of denial
Delusion swells just like rot to flies
You live life like a gift
You leave nothing behind

Malady of endowing
Artifice to adore
Melody of the siren
Drones and I continue to worsen

Carelessly
Giving in to
You're like an angel
Nothing touches you

Now, come onto me
Like bright flesh on slate

Yours to keep
To abuse
Dragging devotion
Nothing touches you

Hell only knows
How I venerate
Devout blessings by name
Chained to my soul
I have lost the way
Cure so undeserving

Now, come onto me
Like bright flesh on slate


3. DEFACER

Take my impassioned mind
Deluded life with what never was
Each bitter day reclaims us
And every gift remains ours

Defacer
Defacer
Defacer
Lay waste my name

Defacer
Defacer
Eraser of shame

I've subdued my worth
I've effaced the blame
All I've loved
Weeping tears in the rain

Asphyxiating words
Suffocating blame
All we love
Weeping tears in the rain

Come outside
Come outside
Desperate cure I've found
Come outside
Come outside
Watch now and be still

Defacer
Defacer
Defacer
Lay waste my name

Defacer
Defacer
Eraser of shame


4. SALLOW

(Instrumental)


5. NOMINAL WILL

Every bliss dulls
Every mark numbs
Indifference spreads like ivy
As dreams ascending
Molder us internal

The want of
A long way out
A whisper
To take us home

Will it spring forth
From our soul's chords
Illustrious heights of existence
Trembling with fervor
Further now from purpose

Consoling what I can't change
Still I remain, lost to spirit and emotion

The want of
A long way out
A whisper
To take us home

Consoling what I can't change
Still I remain, lost to spirit and emotion


6. RITUALIST

Sallow and precious gift
Pact of remorse
A plot to bury
Unwell with blinding purpose
Pray thy will to surface

As so the ritualist endures
Rebuilds, reshapes, reforms
To our suffering
Pledged eternal

This life we are remiss
In slow obscure helpless hurry
With the contempt for those unbending
They'll come to ache as I always have

Some quiet dream comes to bleed

Beg your confession
A dredged verse
A pledge to heaven
Ilk of rebirth
What you intend to love you corrupt

As so the ritualist endures
Rebuilds, reshapes, reforms
To our suffering
Pledged eternal

Some quiet dream comes to me
Some quiet dream comes to bleed


7. AS MY HEART ROTS

Through hissing speak
Corrupting love
And when I rend it pulls me inward
I waste away to feel this
And when I slip
By then you'll know it

Feel my dispassion gnaw
As my heart rots

As remorse stirs
Withered self worth
Turns like the leaves in a summer's torch
Leave me to dream extinguished
And when I wake I'll be forgotten

The moon shies
In severance
The trees sway to the wind that bends them
With one last bitter cry
Smother my dimming light

The chance
To submit
Without struggle or care

Feel my dispassion gnaw
As my heart rots


8. CIRCLE DOWN

Let it scold
Let it run through
A thousand different ways
In countless multitudes

Days bleed into days
The sequence rounds
I am left to ruminate and circle down
And circle down

Safe
From meaning
Make me to believe it
Senseless unrest
Sours my thoughts
Patterns of dissent
Enduring

Days bleed into days
The sequence rounds
I am left to ruminate and circle down

Slip
It takes less now
Last regret
Bridges the gap

I propose
Better to cut it off than to
Decompose

Clipped like a young rose


9. THE KESTREL GOES

(Instrumental)


10. WAKE

Bled out and bound
In an empty unsparing hell
And now I feel the cost
Holy abuse for my wicked ways
What love I had has fled me

God, was it a memory

Another savage dawn
Cackles my name
The ruthless glare floods my cell
And it is light again

With ending breath I sever
What's held me bound together

Another savage dawn
Cackles my name
The ruthless glare floods my cell
And it is light again

God, was it a memory