1. NEVERMORE

Driving down blistered severe
The rapacious maw of our despair
Black dog follows, strip club echoes
The raven's shadow across the ghetto

Up the hill in an unmarked grave
The mother of American darkness lays
Liberty or death to start the battle
There's nonesuch place for human chattel

Hanging by a threat
Now you can choke on it
Hanging by a threat
So go and choke on it
This is a reckoning
You hear the ravens scream
Hanging by a threat
So go and choke on it

Across the devil's own half acrе
There's rusted gallows for an angеl
The ghosts that built this city scream
Of commerce and inhumanity
Cancer rides the freeway's edge
Falling statues and cigarettes
Bullets whip the screaming kettle
As tear gas cloaks the monumental

Hanging by a threat
Now you can choke on it
Hanging by a threat
So go and choke on it
This is a reckoning
You hear the ravens scream
Hanging by a threat
So go and choke on it

Chained beneath a parking lot
Savaged on the auction block
In antebellum geography
Rage, horror, history

Hanging by a threat
Now you can choke on it
Hanging by a threat
So go and choke on it
This is a reckoning
You hear the ravens scream
Hanging by a threat
So go and choke on it

Nevermore
Nevermore


2. VANISHING

Strode across the smoky floors in time
To bear witness and hear the death of paradigms
Lords of sound and simple vice
Young gods severe and satellites

Augmented nights, adrenaline
Of nicotine and satin skin
That world is dead, just memories
A faded scene inside of me

Vanishing
Vanishing
(Vanishing)

Born of earth shaking Maldoror
The legion crushed, the legion crushed what came before
Imploded meaning for the youth
Who never knew, never knew the joy of truth

Their pale and pallid replication
Could never spark a true creation
That world is dead, just memories
A faded scene inside of me

Vanishing
Vanishing
(Vanishing)

Scorched minds and stark narration
Adroit intent not imitation
Blurred reflections, a better time
Post-modern tantrums on a father’s dime

Vanishing
Vanishing
Vanishing
Vanishing

A shining path beckons me
Never to be seen again
A shining path beckons me
Never to be seen again
A shining path beckons me
Oh, never to be seen again
A shining path beckons me
Never to be seen again


3. TO THE GRAVE

I’ve walked the halls of madness, I’ve heard the jailer’s laugh
I’ve yet to sing the funeral dirge, the only option left
Risen from an inferno of hopelessness and shame
Walked the tightrope out of it then shouldered all the blame

But make no mistake, I know it’s always there
It's always there
The scent of doom riding neglect, it’s hanging in the air

The only thing to fear rеmains inside unseen
Never disappears, stand guard eternally
The only thing I fear lives on inside of me
Whispers in my ear, to the grave eternally

The broken record of my life skips bodies of my friends
So many walked that path with me, it took them to their end
Resting on rusty laurels, it’s sweating while you sleep
It’s doing push-ups in the dark with a knife between it’s teeth

So lest you forget, it never fades away
Won't fade away
Waiting for you to slip and put you in the grave

The only thing to fear remains inside unseen
Never disappears, stand guard eternally
The only thing I fear lives on inside of me
Whispers in my ear, to the grave eternally

It’s always there, you best beware
Risen from an inferno but waiting in the deep
It’s always there

The only thing to fear never disappears
The only thing I fear whispers in my ear
I’ll take it to the grave with me


4. DITCH

I don’t give a goddamn about your demands
Just spit your trash and take a bow
I’ve hear it all before, a running mouth
The deviants and miscreants break their vows
You can all keep digging, I’m crawling out

You’re face down, down in a ditch that you dug yourself
You can live and die by the hand you’re dealt
Unwound consequence and you can never tell
Live or die by the hand you’re dealt

Blinded by revenge and your cowardice
They’re all so scared again, it’s so American
Here in the home of the brave and the terrified
Who can we blame this time? Back of the fucking line
We’re running out of excuses, we’re out of lies

You’re face down, down in a ditch that you dug yourself
You can live and die by the hand you’re dealt
Unwound consequence and you can never tell
Live or die by the hand you’re dealt
Down in a ditch that you dug yourself
You can live and die by the hand you’re dealt
Unwound consequence and you can never tell
Live or die by the hand you’re dealt

You demand a life you haven’t earned
Entitled, soft, and soon to learn
There’s no shoulders here for crying
You command an ego gone unchecked
Unbridled needs for cheap respect
But your dreams were built for dying
Built for dying

You’re face down, down in a ditch that you dug yourself
You can live and die by the hand you’re dealt
Unwound consequence and you can never tell
Live or die by the hand you’re dealt
Down in a ditch that you dug yourself
You can live and die by the hand you’re dealt
Unwound consequence and you can never tell
Live or die by the hand you’re dealt

You’re down in a ditch


5. OMENS

I cut the weight of connection and lead myself astray
The end will justify the means but in the end it stays
the same
There’s nothing left at all, nothing left to see
A restrictive empty exercise within a hollow scheme.

Do you see the omens?

Omens
Fuck it all, ignore the omens
Omens
Omens
Fuck it all, ignore the omens.

An endless recitation thrown right through the looking
glass
I’m trapped inside a parody, a fabricated past.
Searching for release from all this rising stress
Charted past the point of caring with a broken compass
Motes in the eye of God, indulging armageddon
The devil slits the muse’s throat and drinks her last
confession.

Do you see the omens?

Omens
Fuck it all, ignore the omens
Omens
Omens
Fuck it all, ignore the omens.

I’ve fallen out of touch with who you think I am
I can’t pretend to care or bother to condemn
All this rising apathy, it’s growing everyday
I can’t pretend to care about how this will end.

All I see are omens

Omens
Fuck it all, ignore the omens
I see omens
I hear omens
I say fuck it all, ignore the omens.


6. GOMORRAH

He packed up all his failures and pushed them down the street
Abandoned ship and torched the bridge to future memories
He never gave a second thought or tasted indecision
An automatic exit in the year of perfect vision
The years of slowly dying had come to serve him well
Just another inconvenience, another bitter pill
A hardened heir of harder times, wеll-equipped to suffer
And watch the fragile fall to pieces tearing at each other
Dissecting all the signs that passed him by
Reconstruct a pattern drawn by clearer eyes

Everything is doomed to fail
Everything is doomed to fail
Visions of the obvious
A featherweight apocalypse
Everything is doomed to fail
Everything is doomed to fail

High above the empty city, riding out the winter
He watched it all collapse below and saw the rigid splinter
A discipline of solitude perfected in their prisons
To lean into the void and smile as chaos ripped the system
The lines crept across, waiting for a subject
From a force of will, a crucifying effect

Everything is doomed to fail
Everything is doomed to fail
Visions of the obvious
A featherweight apocalypse
Everything is doomed to fail
Everything is doomed to fail

A panicked horde that tumbles down
Screeching outraged parasites
Another day above the ground
Another day in paradise

Everything is doomed to fail
Everything is doomed to fail
Visions of the obvious
A featherweight apocalypse
Everything is doomed to fail
Everything is doomed to fail


7. III DESIGNS

Now that you can’t come back
To face your own reflection
Constructing your collapse
Designing your destruction

With ill designs burned in your eyes
Hide in the shadow of your lies, antagonize
Virtue displaced, a pure disgrace
No dignity, a barren waste, still on the take
Who will you be today?

Reap the rotten fruits of your labor
A bitter taste of exile and failure
Fatal flaws becoming clearer
Reptile eyes in the mirror

Loss of reality, obsessing over control
And with a crooked mentality
Watch it all implode and fall away
A tragedy, your sick intentions on display, a strategy
And in the end you can’t pretend
It’s not the spoils of your intent, malevolence

Reap the rotten fruits of your labor
A bitter taste of exile and failure
Fatal flaws becoming clearer
Reptile eyes in the mirror

Every back you stabbed, and every disrespect
Turns back on you, cause and effect
Strings you pulled and decks you stacked
A falling house of cards, a pathetic wreck

Reap the rotten fruits of your labor
A bitter taste of exile and failure
Fatal flaws becoming clearer
Reptile eyes in the mirror


8. GRAYSCALE

There's a war going on inside my head
Shadows sewn of golden thread
I sip the sweetest tastes until their bitter ends
I feel the greatest love inside the worst revenge
Cold rain falls on my face and the light in my hand
I'm turning inside out, I don't know who I am
And do I want it to stop?

Grayscale eyes slide from black to white
Lived through dark days, stillness in a crashing wave
Died in bright nights, fall into an angry sky
Grayscale eyes slide from black to white

In a grayscale tide

There's a war going on inside of me
Questions echo endlessly
I paid a thief to steal away my one escape
I bought a broken mirror just to try and see my face
Cold winds blow from the hills, there's eyes on my back
In sinking shifting sands, I don't know where I am

Grayscale eyes slide from black to white
Lived through dark days, stillness in a crashing wave
Died in bright nights, fall into an angry sky
Grayscale eyes slide from black to white

(In a grayscale tide)
In a grayscale tide
I thought I'd know better now, the world is upside down
I thought I'd know better now, the weight is crashing down

Grayscale eyes slide from black to white
Lived through dark days, stillness in a crashing wave
Died in bright nights, fall into an angry sky
Grayscale eyes slide from black to white

In a grayscale tide


9. DENIAL MECHANISM

A pathetic birth of the end times
Slowly creeping to the final deadline
No fairytale on a movie screen
Just slow collapse beneath our gluttony

Take warning as the bloated masses gather
Take warning at their childish screams of anger
Suck this broken system dry until there’s nothing left
Take warning, take warning

An idiotic doomsday, a witless Armageddon
Mass annihilation at the hand of our possessions
Plastic in your bloodstream, plastic in your brain
The human race is fucked behind our thirst for everything

Take warning as the bloated masses gather
Take warning at their childish screams of anger
The population bomb explodes, we’ve starved them all to death
Take warning, take warning

Whores to despotism
Denial mechanisms
Free market suicides
Extinction level lifestyles

But I’ll be dead and gone long before the blade drops
It's up to you, my children, to decide if this all stops

Take warning


10. SEPTEMBER SONG

A celebration to swell the system
Mass casualties, Earth’s war of attrition
A slate-colored moment in an amber time
Nothing to do but move the needle down the line
Move it down the line
Ride the plague winds back to where we were before
Moving through the night, illuminate the killing floor

Divided here together
To sing a deadly song
Divided here together
To sing a deadly song
September

A confrontation over existence
Past tragedies creating resistance
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
Where poison is the balm and endless dead ignored
The dead ignored
The lights upon the blacktop, raise a toast of arsenic
Fill the coffers, roll the dice, amusements for the sick

Divided here together
To sing a deadly song
Divided here together
To sing a deadly song
September
We sing a deadly song
Divided here together
We sing a deadly song
September

We’re broken in half, mindset split
Stitched together, this game of Russian Roulette
One in the chamber, head full of doubt
More food for the crows who ride it out
We’ll ride it out

Divided here together
Breathing here together
Divided here together
Bleeding here together
September