1.Harbringer

Inching nearer each and every moment feel the rhythm of our drums
Searching, seeking forward thinking, a dawning of mind that we create
A border breaking for the taking, words that remind us to awake

I dont need a bold commandment, Ive got one of my own
Stand alone
Lets watch Babylon fall, our captivity
Vices of the kingdom, exile in luxury

Youll hear the darkest voice say
Bow before, crawl beneath, Dance around my altar If you grovel long enough
Someday I will let you be as pure


2.Self Portraits Of The Instincts

By burden of blood we saw reflections of who we are
As the knowledge that burns in our hearts takes charge
Blessings made at a house in the distance

An unworthy authority looking to find a worthy culprit
Accounting lost, stranded hindsight, words were not enough
Repeat the cycle with devils in your veins
More than simply shaken, a line divides

Blood ties are forsaken, grudges still are found
In kindred we are bound. So deep in our blood, ages come, ages go, never freed
Never, thats what you told me.

Time and again we have them down on their knees
Beg for mercy, beg, time and again
How many times will I be called to feel this rage?
How many times will I be taken to that place?
No peace of mind until the seas run dry
Forced to inflict these scars, reflections of who we are
A legacy carried on too long


3.Nocturne

Hollow self indulgence leading the way
In the wake of intent that day
At the faultline, at the faultline we were
Searching for answers
Filthy crimes, power play
Grasping for our lessons overthrown

What you've gone and done now,

It's hard to get over
Events of the past have carried
A lasting grudge toward a pure heart
I'm calling out a false hero

Lay your plans,
I'll play Rome, false martyr, take a stand
Lay your plans...
With broken heart, I've finally become a man
Past the sights and the sound
Cloak and dagger are found
No wonder here, just an echo resounding
Hardship owns all that remains
Red queen, a fallen knight on the way that day
Caught in the act, right in our midst,
A snake in the grass, no honor
As night fell on my soul


4.Crossing The Rubicon

Of all the times Ive been disrespected, youd think itd be no surprise
Learning lessons, all the precious treasures take all that youve got

Ill take your ready hand with a ready blade
Dead set to make you lie in the bed youve made
Paid in full, Ill take it from your pride
I dont know what you thought, but youve gone past the line
And youve got me wrong

The time has come, your song has long been sung
Brought down, you wont have long to go
Im not cutting a loss again
An hourglass of sand, and Ill be on time, inform the rest
Run as fast as you can, hells coming for you
Try to strike and then slip away

But I wont let you leave without feeling an equal pain
Youll see, because Ill make you see
Left in my council youll know what it means to respect me
Once Ive caught you alone, Ill teach you all you need to know
Pray, once Ive caught you alone,
That I teach you all you need to know.
Each of us has boundaries, everyone has got a breaking point
I wish I held desire solely to right this wrong
Take careful tones urging the dawn to come
Make every word worth what it takes in turn

But I cant go on with my faith interrupted
How can I look the other way?
Youve shown me there is no other way out


5.Sotto Voce

(Instrumental)


6.Mea Culpa

We shared a common trade of reasoning out the years
Of failed affections and faces to forget
You should have told me
That the ties that made it all worth the while

Were quickly becoming a race to the blame
I tried to gain the advantage over you
Its plain to see theres nothing I could do or say
I tried to gain the advantage over you
A sad parade with nothing left to lose or gain
I could feel it coming
Like a train wreck, rumbling off the tracks
With every ounce of strength
I strain to pay back that dirty money

And the fortune abstract, but theres no feeling left intact
For the victim is now a god,
Doling out judgment, strike with divining rod
I dont want to get involved, looks like youre doing fine
But when I lay up at night, I can feel your eyes

And I can see your eyes, and I go rushing in to a world inside
Where theres none in between, and nothing can be denied
Struck down and stripped of pride,
That I could forgive you for once in our lives
But I failed, and I dont know why, Ill never know why
I failed and I dont know why


7.Movement From Discord

Pressure pressure is all weve got
The less you know the more you strain to reach out to see in the balance theres nothing free
It took the best of them down with a single blow
Brace yourself for the challenge ahead, dont waste your breath on what you know

Brace yourself for the challenge ahead, youve got to pace yourself the last to go
I journeyed to the edge of all my tears and counted every night I fought alone/bartered
I pray that you could feel like I do, never to endure a heart of stone/remain a martyr
The less you know, youre getting shadowed by vanity
Somehow rage becomes clarity
Youll find it deep in my family
It took the best of us down

All of your enemies are out to change you, The greatest weapon of etiquette
I traded serenity, to realize the struggle of knowing what I could get
I took part in a dream where nobody told me where to go or who to be.
It opened my eyes

Never will I know of peace again
Pressure is building to no end
Pressure is all weve got
This wont end in failure


8.Channel Detritus

Dont fight it, look at it, another setback to slow you, Another day in vain, passing on, move along
Another dream is gone
You see thats how it goes in the game
We play, only to learn and train for our next mistake
To heal and break, growing strong in the wake
Seems like in no one I can rely

Dont you tell me I wont survive
Thousands tell you that you wont survive
Ill survive, Ill survive
Ive become my fearsyou want my surrender?
Youll find no surrender here
Just loss and gain, look around
Losses impossible
Youve got to pay the cost impossible

To make the impossible possible
You cant just throw it away
Fading one day to the next
Tamed by a siren song, tempted to belong
To an ordinary lifeask yourself why
Dont you let them pave your way, dont you play their game

Dont you pray for rain, look inside
At what youll find, its all in your mind, regain an honor disappearing
Its a power, a birthright disappearing, its a call to save what remains
Fools regret until they die, forgive yourself back to life


9.Polaris

Im not ashamed to say I take pleasure in burning all of my epitaphs
Turning the sands of time into glass
Push through here and beyond
Endure every trial, breaking in from the outside

Back to the struggle to then find strength in a starting over
I vowed not to spend my life comforted by enclosure
Better to cry out in pain than be uninvolved
Silent and lame to the life that beckons us
Sirens calling me over the hills and trails
There to wander so restlessly, bold and tireless
Seeking to broaden the lines dividing identity
The task at hand: To unleash the bondage

Of endless lives, pressures, actions, questions, Answers giving birth to questions
Unfolding like the petals of a lotus
Eternal longing until we die no more
Because you never hold on to the spoils youve won
All your triumphs in vain if you cant embrace a change
All the paths Ive been down, I still have never found
Something lasting through the years

But all these worthless fears that mean nothing
Compare your life, your loves
To the vastness of the endless stars above


10.Echelons To Molotovs

Standing strong and tall, outside hear their call:
Tear down the wall, upper echelon, blackest of them all
Sold us into sorrow, you love to watch the weaker ones crawl
Dont pity our cause, for the laws youve disowned
Pagan prophesy has come to be
Thrown molotovs mark the fall of a throne

And dead philosophy, were not to be owned
Paid slaves heed to the masters voice
The scales offset without a choice: debts of the spirit
No chance of your own conscience turning the tide


11.Desiderata

(Instrumental)


12.Vela, Together We Await The Storm

gone, so many firiends and lovers
so far, nothing to show in turn
they'll take it all back,
all those empty words.
i'll show the dregs

where all their slander has led.
if it takes my whole life,
for all the tears that i have shed
they'll take it back,
i'm making a pact.
they'll take it back,
i'm making a promise.
i'm eager to the task,
exposing all who wear a mask.
it must be done.
the storm yet to come binds us at one
through it all,
lonliness and adversity,

failure and injustices only guide us on our way
so prey, you won't be finding a faker
nor will an opportune moment arise