1. SWIMMERS CAN DROWN

My timeline is a wire wrapped tight around my neck
Slowing apathy swells, give in to disconnect
Unworldly transmission fed to relive the shame
I don't want a trial, I'll take all the blame
A stone stolid council speaks dogmatically
Bullets and anecdotes divided evenly
A chilling consciousness wakes me from the trance
It redefines my mind I'll never have a chance

Nothing, giving, unworthy offering
Losing, feeling like a bird with clipped wings
Sinking feeling, pushing down on me
Swimming, drowning, in a toxic red sea

The blow shatters my remission
Fracture patterns show through my skin
Please understand this was not my plan
No, I gotta know
Does it matter where my heart's been
Fracture patterns show through my skin
Please understand this was not my plan
No, I gotta go

Weightless restraint floating away, evaporating
The impulse grows in clouds below, cascading
Dripping whisper, falling faster, raining
Raining
Raining
Raining


2. SHARIA UNDER A BEAUTY CURSE

Sharia, under a beauty curse
Dear pariah, caught in the cycle
Death and adversity, 9 of consent
Broken code, the watchdogs trailed, followed your scent

No chance and just desperate for love
No witness, his words he got off on
Watched the fall, they did nothing
But the wind carries your flight
Through the birds driven by the intonations of your fight

Abuse revealed by torture
Your eyes burned behind the blindfold
Subjugated 16, removed the veil
You rose up, screamed innocence to no avail

No chance and there's no room for love
No crime, the line you were hung from

Endure tortures daughter
They said this will teach you to disobey
Lamb to the slaughter
But you will teach them something far greater

Said this will teach you to disobey
You will show them something far greater
Your pain will reign over


3. AMMUNITION

Envy’s blade, Ego plague
Tried to take me out twisted hate
Trap of lies took you down
Because you had to taste the bait

Red as blood and vague as the sky
I can’t believe the things you deny

Thankless art, loveless heart
Take it out on me to pass it through
Re-rejected, smoke curling
Clearly I must’ve got to you

Running the course, outside the line
You carve respect, from the swine

Keep your enemies close?
I say push them aside
Let you choke on the dust of
Your hate and your pride
Your failure is a fire
It’s killing you inside
Can’t you leave this where you
Left integrity behind

Who’s laughing?
Who’s laughing now?
Red as blood, and vague as the sky
I can’t believe, the things you deny

I’ll learn to use the flames
Keep feeding the inferno
Burning you inside
Burning up your mind
I won’t feed your guilt
I won’t feed your greed
I won’t feed your anger
Who’s laughing now?

Burning you inside
Burning out your mind
It’s killing you inside


4. WORTH THE WAIT

Under frozen after hours
Carnal words and dreams devoured
In here nothing else can matter
Disappear

Senses climb and take her with
Written like a fiery myth
Can't fight what is coming in
What is right

Sun crawling up skin
Wakes her from the trance

Says she'll be waiting
Can't leave this in the shadows
It's taken over
Will not let go
Says "ain't it funny, we don't believe in fate"
Please be patient
It's worth the wait

Greyed instincts
Blow off the dust
Wonders can she truly trust
Lighthouse on after dusk
Guide the night
History's harsh waves crash and tear
She tastes it in the salted air
There's a life just waiting there
Float away

A weightless sacrifice
A change worth the chance

Says she'll be waiting
Can't leave this in the shadows
It's taken over
Will not let go
Says "ain't it funny, we don't believe in fate"
Please be patient
It's worth the wait

If she folds she knows it won't be worth living the new year
If she goes she knows it will be worth all of the fear

Sun crawling up skin
Wakes her from the trance

Says she'll be waiting
Can't leave this in the shadows
It's taken over
Will not let go
Says "ain't it funny, we don't believe in fate"
Please be patient
It's worth the wait

Start over here
Start with the dreams matched


5. MOTHERSHIP

Your mistakes called out and closed the door
A special case arose from red
Punishment from reality denied
Face the question, the nine letters
A beginning only belonging to itself

You hear cries of both the sides
You stand centered over the division
Omit their influence, you’ll come to terms
Beyond the stalemate stands your decision
Under these lights you will know what’s right

They don’t have your concern under tin law
So be the judge, be the witness
Nothing to resemble a miracle
I’ll keep your verdict locked away
It will be hard to let the choice behind you lay

Are you strong enough
To do this alone as the lines blur
Examine all the sides, examine the lives
You’re not a thief, you’re not a killer


6. DYING AND FALLING

From one form to another
Make sense of chaos and disorder
Proof borrowed masks the sorrow
Truth in the sun as the source of order

In the mirrors light reflected
Bouncing off lies back into your eyes
Parallel wish
Enuma Elish
What's wrong with questioning the bias?

Diagonal against the grain
Where the gods could be our hearts and minds
We are dying
We are falling
But there's no reason why we can't rise

While we're here
But there's no reason why we can't rise
While we're here

We make it up as we go along
We all want something that lasts forever
Anyone could have it wrong
We all want something to last forever

No discord
Diminished crown
Heaven and hell are both right here
Translation
Speculation
They started a fire with our fear
Analyze
Remove folklore
What's left of the pretty story
Open mind
Extract morals
No reason to become the quarry
Hard to fake a sinless state
But keep a golden rule in mind
We are dying
We are falling
But there's no reason why we can't rise
While we're here

We make it up as we go along
We all want something that'll last forever
Anyone could have it all
We all want something to last forever

The question's carcass
Left out in the cold
He leaves it lying there
Wide open and exposed


7. FACE THE KILL

Thin line hides the unknown
Red winged man in a papal throne
Czar says at least he's alive
Yet evidence proves otherwise

Where is heaven then over shadows of weaponry
Time bomb, dormant, hungry for a casualty

With blissful memories corroded
You desperately try to rebuild
Now that will is eroded
Face the man or face the kill

Now braced face hydra skies
Girl whispers, 'Look into these eyes'
Reflect, illumine verities
Sit with the intense clarity

She moves in real close
Not for the weak and not for most
Let go, unfurl, transitional underworld

With blissful memories corroded
You desperately try to rebuild
Now that will is eroded
Face the man or face the kill
Looking back through the timeline
Confront thief that took the young lives
The sickness will spread until
You face the man or face the kill

Now braced face hydra skies
Girl whispers, 'Look into these eyes'
Czar says at least he's alive
Yet evidence proves otherwise

Exhale, crawl in, into desire you're colored with
Entrust, forgive, to find comfort in your skin


8. THE SHAKE

My wires are crossed peeling and frayed
I'm losing more power everyday
Screaming at stars won't change a thing
Some people can break the strongest of wings

Sometimes I shake sometimes I scream
Just trying to wake from this bad dream

My sickness crawling out of my skin
Up walls to scale to jump to spin

You tore into my world with iron hands
Just take it, I don't want it as the hurt spans
Wish the sky could just rain down on me
And take my mind and wipe it clean

I don't want to take and I can't give
Can't shake this, I don't want to relive

Made the call, don't you feel better within
Because I don't, I can't, I won't win

I've got a scar that few can see
They reopen the wound that was healing

My sickness crawling out of my skin
Up walls to scale to jump to spin
Made the call, don't you feel better within
Because I don't, I can't, I won't win

Dark cloud, disavow
I should be stronger by now
Thought I would shake this somehow
I should be stronger by now


9. PREY ON YOU

True blue vow to the untold
Never to have or hold
Slip, cold intent exposed
The heat of hate transposed
Ideas won’t go to seed
In cold dark dormancy
Fertilize, crucify
The stunted with outright lies

"Smooth followers sing, pray on I prey on you
Serve him, I'll serve you"

Stone word backfire with vengeance
Hopeless divine intervention
Leader, where's the peace you pursue
Can't let any more follow you
Teach to bleach the stains of your guilt
Envy of moral free lives built
Live with the torment that they live through
Your sins will only rest on you

Faith won't save you from the curse
Parasitic family verse
The whole book must be lies
If the angels shut their eyes
Prey on the weak or numb
Why aren't you overcome
With a defiling shame?
A prayer to remove the flame

No truth
Wrong way
One life
You pray


10. SHATTERED

Little holes show how hollow you have become
Fighter you've been down so low for far too long
This city now offers only nightmares to you
You are too sick of being so strong

Feet dangling in the open grave
Everyone else was always to blame
Present yourself like flower to the bee
Walking on, waking up losing dreams

You burn everything up to distinguish your spark
You're killing your little star so they can't find you in the dark
Breaking raw ambitions, open your palm over the flames
You say it's different this time
Yet this plan leads to the same

Stagnant air, time moves on and no you have not
Hope hovers overhead like city lights
In contrast reality seems aphotic
Too bleak too empty too grim in the night

Glass they pay to shatter cuts to the bone
You laugh it away with your veins exposed
Present yourself like flower to the bee
Walking on, waking up losing dreams

Peeling layers back, confirming fears
Tearing through hearts, screaming in their ears
Present yourself like flower to the bee
Walking on, waking up losing dreams


11. OMEN

Drove brio under tongue
Swallowed pages of psalm
You threw verve over the edge to generate a calm
The house is much too quiet
Sometimes the days get so dark
Days mirror starless nights
When ending illusion is too hard

The omen feels so wrong
Instincts screaming
Wakeup and hold on
Please keep breathing
Tired of being strong
In search for higher ground
When the burden's pouring down
Please keep breathing

Consumed the history to control your demise
Counting the seconds to be embraced by the sky
This house is much too quiet
Past the crowd I felt you crack
From over a hundred miles
Turn around please come back

The omen feels so wrong
Instincts screaming
Wake up and hold on
Please keep breathing
Tired of being strong
In search for higher ground
When the burden's pouring down
Please keep breathing

Hold on, this is the call, reach out before slow descending
Black dawn, block the fall, this cannot be the ending
Defeat, deceit, slow repose, given one more chance
Fleeting, retreat, yellow rose, come take my hand