1. THE WESTERNER

It’s the boulder I push up that hill
An eternal attempt to come to terms
We have become divided by the waters
And I was urged to traverse
No song will make you return
From the afterlife
No shelter to be found
From the grief I felt

[Chorus]
Crossing the river for one final embrace
Mere feet away from these Elysian fields

I shall not be another Westerner

You shall live on in memories
Never to be forgotten
And thence I seek a new meaning
Beyond the realm of Erebus
I won’t succumb to the same disease
No slave to the past as the die aren’t cast
I shall leave this desolate place
I’ll live beyond the suffering

[Chorus]
Crossing the river for one final embrace
Mere feet away from these Elysian fields
So it shall go, a life without you
So it shall be, I’ll find my own way


2. THE MARTYR

I stand before you on your sacred sands
To be tried for a crime you claim
A part of me fears that which lies ahead
Yet I will not hold my tongue no more

The promise of continued calamities has forced my hand
I‘d rather be sent to the gallows than accept more despair

Lock me up, break my will
Push me down, I won‘t leave in complete silence

The facade you uphold won‘t be there forever

The truth will shine bright
Purging this world again
Of what’s been undone
Strike me down if you must
But know that your acts echo through eternity

A eulogy made of lies
Held by those furthest away
A prophecy shall come to pass
Bare witness to the decay
The end approaches not too far away
The curtains are almost down
So I say farewell to you now
So long at last

Lock me up, break my will
Push me down, I won‘t leave without the last say

One day you will stand for what you have done (for what you have done)

The truth will shine bright
Purging this world again
Of what’s been undone
Strike me down if you must
But know that your acts echo Through eternity


3. WHERE HEROES COME TO DIE

(Instrumental)


4. THE DREADED PLACE

Night after night I am battling my own demons
Loss becoming the one true constant
Drenched in the blood of a thousand battles past
Using all my anger to drive myself forward

This can’t be the end that once was written
I am losing hope to face what lies ahead

As the dark breaks in, my breath shortens, confronting more calamities
I’m struck by the fears of the past and future, frozen in the present

Save me from this dreaded place
Where heroes come to die
For I am just a man
Facing his own demise

Consumed by grief I lose grip on myself
And all that makes me feel somewhat human
Time becomes but a distant white noise
As the black is slowly taking a hold me

This can’t be the end that once was written
Now I can finally see that I must save myself

Crawling through the mud passing all the fallen
I choose to move forward again for a better purpose
Far from this place that has become my own hell that I created inside my head

And I see clearly now for the first time in my life
I am more than a vessel meant to be controlled
There is more to life than the bloodshed I know
A new beginning as wings carry me

Save me from this dreaded place
Where heroes come to die
For I am just a man
Facing his own demise


5. THE ABYSS

Here we stand
At the edge
With nothing left
But the world we might just lose
We were born
For this moment
This resistance
Against the end of all we cherish

Pushing forward with spears in hand
To knock them down into depths below
We are the few against the many
We won’t ever retreat as long as we are standing

This is our final stand
They will know who we are

We‘re alone here with no one to help us
Braving the storm, but we stand strong
An empire would see us bow down
We‘ll offer no quarter
We don‘t fear death

The arrogance
To convince us
That we need
Their righteous leaders
In the the end
We‘d be enslaved
To be puppets
Of a world we won‘t accept

An empire with no trace of identity
A people with no spec of integrity
Indoctrination to disregard reality
The dream but perverted insanity

This is our final stand
They will know who we are

And here we stand on this fine day
At least we stood for what we believed in
Make these cliffs a monument to our resolve
A reminder that free men still walk among us

We‘re alone here with no one to help us
Braving the storm, but we stand strong
An empire would see us bow down
We‘ll offer no quarter
We don‘t fear death