1. UPRISER

Empty places can make you feel alone
In a sea of consciousness
The consequences of this constant rush for more
Will leave you breathless

A vision of darkness
Cools down your burning heart
Still flaming like heroes
Our downfall has yet to start
A grand introspection
Will show you where to go
Insatiable hunger
For life consumes your core

A desire to outgrow
This tiny piece of cosmos
You were given to control

We are the outsiders
As we stand against the world
The answer lies in silence
The unspoken words of wisdom
Shall roam

No bullets are stronger
Than the universal truths
No preachers are holier
Than those whose love is pure
This age of destruction
Is coming to a close
It’s time for progression
Let’s watch our empires fall

A desire to repair
This broken piece of land
That we’re destroying for our gain

We are the uprisers
As we stand against this war
No answer lies in violence
No dictator can suppress
A rebel’s soul

Rejects of the system
Choose their freedom over pain
In silence lies the answer
Be the error in their reign
Uprisers and outsiders
We will keep this flame alive
No violence is the answer
No dictator can suppress
A rebel’s fire


2. TOUCH AND DESTROY

The pages have turned
Your new chapter is burning fast
Letters to dust, floating ashes
Of a madman's mind

Destroy what you touch
(Destroy, destruct)
Destroy what you see
(Destroy, destruct)
Destroy everything

Rejoice in your power
Hear the cries intensify
As the golden ruins shine in the blinding sun
Illusions of glory
Paint a symphony to lead the dying

What’s inside this rotten heart
That you feel you must win this fight
Perished cities can’t cheer for their messiah
Now the tables have turned
In this wasteland
There is nothing left but pain

[There’s nothing but pain]

Control starts with a lie
Plant the seed and let it spread like fire
Illusions of glory
Paint a symphony to lead the dying

If thoughts are more powerful than guns
Then you must disarm your enemies
And you must take away their ideas

As your blood solidifies
You know your gift is a farce
A golden king cursed by the gods above
Delusions of grandeur
Paint a symphony of your undoing

Touch and destroy
Touch and destroy


3. THE SCENT OF DEAD LEAVES

In a city of steel
Exchanging merits for dreams
Is it enough to buy freedom?
Each day’s a hamster-wheel
So you crave something real
A melody to break free

…What if you ran away
Deep down into the woods
Away from the pain
Vacant faces disappear

Even on your own
Out here, without the screens
You’re haunted by the scent of dead leaves
Are you ready to face your fears?

Dead leaves…
All you ever hear

Trapped inside your cell
Intrusive ads track you down
Flashing in your language
There’s no escape from this hell
Your relief is the sound
Of her voice soothing your rage

…What if you ran away
Deep down into the woods
Away from the pain
Restless noises disappear

Even on your own
Out here, without the screens
You’re haunted by the scent of dead leaves
Are you ready to face your fears?

For all you’ve ever known
Is grey mediocrity
What lies behind those walls
Must outshine the taste of tears

Just keep running…

Hear the song that’s long forgotten
Has it lost its ring?
Have the colours lost their vibrance?
Are they bleak like the echoes
Of dead leaves?

Just keep running…
Don’t stop

…And then you run away
Deep down into the woods
Away from the pain
Their crude laughter spells dismay

Even on your own
Out here, without the screens
You’re haunted by the scent of dead leaves
Are you ready to face your fears?

For all you’ve ever known
Is grey mediocrity
What lies behind those walls
Must outshine the taste of tears

Leaves… sickening scent of leaves
Scent of dead leaves

Just keep running…
Don’t stop


4. OPAQUE

Behind the gleaming mirror of every appearance
A dull suffering is concealed in the dark
This hidden affliction is not able to crack
The glass fences that we put between us

Few people are able to see
The distorting face of our misery
The smooth surface only returns the projection
Of others’ expectations in one direction

Everywhere these reflected shadows are posted
Pictures revealing only our own anxiety
Our facades displaying in an infinite gallery
The enticing portraits of these defined masks

In this sad simulacrum no dream can pierce
The thickness of our one-way glass
The slightest seed of hope is consumed without delay
By the meanders of life before getting digested

Time reigns supreme on these formatted subjects
Who advance in rhythm with the ticking seconds
An interval much too short to allow
To expose a part of our unease to the world

We have tried so hard to make deafening
A silence which may seem obvious to some
But those who are in the same situation hear nothing
Obsessed with these obscure reflections

Still, one day our images will shatter
Suddenly revealing miserable figures
Mouth paralyzed in a mute cry for help
And glassy eyes, forever frozen

Rhymes for the time
When we began to hide
Losing our mind
Starting to decline

Behind the hourglass
Flattened by the mass
Of what days and nights
Keep throwing at us

The sluice of my brain can no longer impede
The foam and the waves of this hard reality
The swell is spreading on the shore of my illusions
So eroded and worn away by tears in fusion

A thundering noise in the prison of my skull
I begin to burn the muse that made me dull
Her once clear face is fading in the embers
But the tumult in my head by no means disappears

Animals
Running out of life
Building high
To keep our dreams in sight

Clones in line
We’ve lost our divine
Opaque and blind
Behold our mankind

Words can’t do a thing in this ocean of nonsense
My brain shuts down and I’m left without reason
How can I not sink, how can I survive
How can I see the truth among these lies

No light can shine through a mirror, a glass armor
We have turned on the screen forever
No one will ever see our fissures anymore
Superficial reflections yet darkness between strangers

Frosty breeze, a whiff of misery
Gust of icy winds, putrid melancholy
Salty tear, a whisper in your ear
Embittered fury, a resounding scream

No light can shine through a mirror, a glass armor
We have turned on the screen forever
No one will ever see our fissures anymore
Superficial reflections yet darkness between strangers

While you feel you might need the dark
While you think the light is burning out
Rise, rise against your will to hide

Though our age sees shadows growing fast
And the upcoming night might indeed last
The rage in your eyes can restore your sight

Rise, rise against your will to hide

I fall every day in the shadows around me
A one way journey with no one to rescue me
I sink, I write, I live, I die
I’m hiding my madness in the ink of my nights
I hide

I hide