1. FOREWORD

Old friend, let's start again
I'll go and gather my stories, try not to spoil the end
It's been so long
It's been so long
Read me back all the stories we used to share
It's been so long
We've grown so old
Read me back all the stories we used to share
It's been so long


2. REQUIEM

Dry those eyes, they're so telling of age
Fleeting, their lights start to fade,
As a final glimmer of life withers away

Dreams of scattered fate displayed, break and shatter in dismay
Like candles to a flame, we melt our lives away

Aeternum Vale
Now remember the days when we were younger and coming of age
Speak no more Be at peace My requiem is yours to keep

Tempus edax rerum
Obitus
Rigor Mortis

Tempus edax rerum Aeternum Vale [2x]

Eyes bone dry, a sure telling of age
Cheating your life of it's days,,
As it's final glimmer of light withers away

Turn the pages, their shadows overtake us
It burns my eyes
Stillness in patience, never to awaken
Aeternum Vale

Aeternum Vale
Now remember the days, when we were younger and coming of age
Speak no more Be at peace My requiem is yours to keep

These lights have faded, I'm wasting away
Too long I've waited, I've wasted away

Tempus edax rerum Aeternum Vale

On and on;
Through my buried bones, my song lives on
Through my buried bones, my song lives on


3. FAKE

Never to all the words that you said
To all the stories and lies that were spread

"Don't trust anyone, stay inside and be conditioned"
"Don't trust anyone, stay inside and be conditioned"
To be a fake

Don't push your views on me
Stop spitting your slanderous filth
Even your thoughts betray

And now you're starting to wonder, what's in my head
And now I'm starting to wonder, what's in your head?

Say it to my face
Never to all the words that you said
To all the stories and lies that were spread

Don't push your views on me
Stop spitting your slanderous filth
Even your thoughts betray

I've got you pacing back and forth
Frantically pacing Anxiously waiting

And now you're starting to wonder what's in my head
And all my fondest dreams have turned to tears we shed

"Don't trust anyone, stay inside and be conditioned"
"Don't trust anyone, stay inside and be conditioned"
To be a fake

For all the years that I clung to every word you spoke
For all my days that have just slipped away
I gave my everything to you; but now you're everything I hate

Say it to my face
Never to all the words that you said
To all the stories and lies that were spread


4. LET ME IN

My dear Annie,
won't you please let me in
I know that I've made some mistakes
I'm so sorry,
I was never really there
I'm just so sorry that I never even tried

But you saw through my lies
My endless lies

Take me to a better place,
where I can breathe the air,
where I can smile
This house is getting smaller
and the blinds are all shut
Please help me to smile

I know that I've made some mistakes,
But I'm only a man
and i'm sorry, so sorry
I can't let you in
Just a shell of a man,
There's no more of me to give

But it's not going to finish,
it's not going to stop
I'm not going to throw in the towel
I'm gonna fix myself
one day at a time
I won't hurt you no more
I just can't hurt you no more

Let me, let me, let me, why won't you let me in
Just let me breathe again
Because I'm not okay, no i'm not alright
I hope that you're doing just fine

Let me go
You saw through my lies, my endless lies,
But you never let me go
Just fucking let me go, trust me you deserve better
Just fucking let me go, I'm just no good for you anymore

My dear Annie,
won't you please let me in
I know that I've made some mistakes
I'm so sorry, but I tried and I tried
It was never enough for you

Let me, let me, let me, why won't you let me in
Just let me breathe again
Because I'm not okay, no i'm not alright
I hope that you're doing just fine

Because I tried and I tried and I tried and I tried,
But it wasn't enough
I promise I'll fix this one day at a time
Just don't forget me,
Just please don't forget me


5. THREADS

Tell me, how does the dark that forever masks my shame know my name?
And if it knows me like it tells me, then why not play?
It knows I've changed

Please hide my shame
Please hide the tears that stream down from my face
My soul melts away
I try to be different, but it all ends the same
Now watch my soul melt away

This darkness ahead picks my tissue to threads
For all the tears shed, pick my tissue to threads
Take the weight of my bones, take the pictures and pieces I own
Take away this frame, pick my tissue to threads

Sinking into the shadows, my layers peel and crumble
Drifting past days anew, a transient being passing through
I know these old bones too well I've never felt so alone though
When matter fades, my soul melts away

Please hide my shame
Please hide the tears that stream down from my face
My soul melts away

This darkness ahead picks my tissue to threads
For all the tears shed, pick my tissue to threads
Take the weight of my bones, take the pictures and pieces I own
Take away this frame, pick my tissue to threads


6. THOUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

(Instrumental)


7. BLOOD MOON

I went and turned it off; I'm not finished
I tried to stitch it shut; I wasn't finished
Please, please, please beat me to pieces
I'll never cry again Bludgeon me senseless

For the friend in my head, let's endlessly talk
For the love of god, make him stop

Fill me with pain I've had enough

Spill me Wipe me up and wring me out again [2x]

Now the blood moon is pulling it's eyes out
And my friend in the dark dances on

I'm not even there
No I'm not even there

Everybody wants a piece of me
Cut me up taste my misery
How come nobody wants of piece of me
Stitch me up to fix my agony

Spill me Wipe me up and wring me out again

(Cut me open)
I'm not even there
(Spill my insides)
I'm not even there
(Stitch me up and fix my everything again)
No I'm not even there

Everybody wants a piece of me
Stitch me up and fix my misery
How come nobody wants of piece of me?
This schizophrenia's got me pulling my eyes out

This blood moon, it's got me pulling my eyes out
Please, please, please beat me to pieces
But now I'm pulling my eyes out
I'm not finished


8. SCRAPING THE BARREL

This is not a means to an ending
Just a broken and twisted path,
Foreboding the droning tasks
That face the shell of a shattered man
The shell of a shattered man

Dripping Incessant dripping won't stop
Not for the machines that bellow through the corridors
Nor for the joy and wonder from my mind,
That oozes, pools and weeps through every orifice of mine

Patch it, plug it, dry it Scramble and claw for the fragments that once were
Patch it, plug it, dry it Piece it back together
Patch it, plug it, dry it Scramble and claw for the fragments that once were
Patch it, plug it, dry it Piece it back together

Now I'm scraping the barrel
And now I'm scraping the barrel
Is there something I must've just missed along the way;
A piece of me I somehow left behind, and lost between the days?
And now I'm scraping the barrel

Scrape and rake my life away Light grows dimmer every day, repressed dreams confide in me
Taste and feel Erase the years Another one down the hatch

Patch it, plug it, dry it Scramble and claw for the fragments that once were
Patch it, plug it, dry it Piece it back together
Patch it, plug it, dry it Scramble and claw for the fragments that once were
Patch it, plug it, dry it Piece it back together

This is not a means to an ending
Just a broken and twisted path,
Foreboding the droning tasks
That face the shell of a shattered man
The shell of a shattered man

Bottoms up, another one down the hatch
Bottoms up, another one down the hatch


9. MARIONETTE

Cheer the sad puppeteer,
Who constantly tugs as he snickers and sneers
Frantically wiping his tears

I'm always dancing in tandem with his teardrops so pained
To the weeping; I shamefully lend out my frame
Contortedly pulled to the centre of stage

A re-enactment of his tragedy Again and again
Some abstracted form of attraction Over and over again

A marionette, I play my part
The crowd have all gone, but the show must go on I play my part

Dance to the beat of his tears

His story had chilled me, haunting my guilty ways
He wept for days over a picture frame;
scrawling to pages, his play

A marionette, I play my part
The crowd have all gone, but the show must go on I play my part

Dance to the beat of his tears
I watched his comfort turn to pain as he scowled his reflection
How long had he been locked away? Had it turned him insane?

"Shatter the frame It mirrors my pain It's not me it's not me, I say"
A reflection of age "Watch me shatter and break"

"This world was never meant for me, Keep me locked away
This world was never meant for me The show must go on"

The sad puppeteer he will stay


10. TIMELESS

Lying awake at night, lying awake at night (Always the same)
Clouds start to break, washing away our goodbyes,
Those were the days,
Wash it away

Oh these days
Always dreaming,
Sinking deeper

Oh these days
Always slipping,
Drifting deeper

Watching our days, watching our days go by
Boiling with hatred;
I can't find the answers to all the lies you once clung to

Oh these days
Always dreaming,
Sinking deeper

Oh these days
Always slipping,
Drifting deeper

Always sinking drifting deeper
Always dreaming sinking deeper

I'll patiently wait,
'Til time ticks away
Spilling with questions;
Those were the days;
Never to change
Always the same

Our love is timeless

Oh these days
Always dreaming,
Sinking deeper

Oh these days
Always slipping,
Drifting deeper


11. OLD SOULS

I don't even know you; get away, get away
It's sunk through Oh the days, oh days when we,
Laughed on and stayed up late
I should have sensed what you wanted

Don't you; get away, get away
It's sunk through Oh the days, oh days when we,
Dressed up and followed heart
I should have sensed what you wanted

I would have left and never come back, but life goes on
And life goes on and on and on

I saw the trust you gave melt away
Truth be told, I'd always felt that way

There's nothing left when we grow old
There's nothing left when we grow old

It's like I don't even know you; get away, get away
It's sunk through Oh the days, oh days when we,
Laughed on and stayed up late
I should have sensed what you wanted

I don't even know you It's sunk through
Laughed on and stayed up late
I should have sensed what you wanted
Don't you It's sunk through
Dressed up and followed heart
I should have sensed what you wanted

I should have sensed what you wanted
I miss those days
Back then when we were old souls You cared enough to smile

It's been so long