1. FOREWORD

Woah...

We aren't born/We aren't born

With hatred, judgement, or prejudices
They're woven/They're woven in
The influences we let upon us

We aren't born/We aren't born

We aren't born/We aren't born!


2. ALL RISE

Oooh, you feel the hunters gaze
A shadow even in the dark of night
Scheming your early grave

He's going to leave you dead or dying
Draining all the blood he craves
You never thought you'd be
Meat for the market
What'd you expect
When you sold your name?

You have the chance to rise again
To cast the light that hides within

You have the chance to be a man
To rise again/To rise again

You have the chance to be a man
So cast the light that hides within

Oooh, when courage takes its hold
You face down all the would be masters
And break the ties that bind your goals

This is going to be the moment
Your blood wakes and fills your veins
Stand tall with your strength, defy them
Become your own fate

You have the chance to rise again
To cast the light that hides within

You have the chance to be a man
To rise again/To rise again

You have the chance to be a man
So cast the light that hides within

Who stands the storm and faces
The horrors that darkness breeds?
Who will take the life they're given
And cast light for all to see?

Who stands the storm if not the brave?
What's built from cowards that we praise?
Who stands the storm if not the brave?
Who stands the storm if not the brave?

You have the chance to rise again
AND cast the light that hides...

You have the chance to rise again
To cast the light that hides within

You have the chance to be a man
To rise again/To rise again

You have the chance to be a man
So cast the light that hides within

So cast the light that hides within


3. DEATH TO RIGHS

I watch the wonder creeping
Over all the walls we've made
A tragic sly cascade

And I watch it flood away
The light from any candle's flame
With wick entwined of late

Can't keep a fire in rain

And the worst of it all
Is that you know me
And you know that I will fall
For it every time
When we collide it's death to rights

Sooner or later
We will find new winds to carry home
The hearts we've turned to stone

And I pray they're strong enough
To weather gems from cindered coal
That you have left to smoke

Burned out before the stoke

And the worst of it all
Is that you know me
And you know that I will fall
For it every time
When we collide it's death to rights

How many will we leave wondering?
How many will we leave wondering?!

It's starts we never finish
And ends we never start
How many lives
Will break upon our callous hearts?
Will break upon our callous hearts?...

And the worst of it all
Is that you know me
And you know that I will fall
for it every time
When we collide/Fall for it every time

When we collide it's death to rights


4. TEMPEST

I'm watching them all fly by
Reaching the greatest
Heights my dreams find
I'm needing first a leap to climb

I await the day
The stars won't seem so far away
And greet a sun
The darkened clouds have kept at bay
But until then/until then...

My wings they unfold in a storming gale
The tempest calls for my flight to fail
When gravity beckons with its hold
In spite of all
The horizon sends wind to take me home

I'll build my throne from broken bones
Defeats I've known and deeds I left untold
My story is the storm

I await the day
The stars won't seem so far away
And greet a sun
The darkened clouds have kept at bay
But until then/until then

My wings they unfold in a storming gale
The tempest calls for my flight to fail
When gravity beckons with its hold
In spite of all
The horizon sends wind to take me home

I've seen them shine
Seen them rise and fall
Yet kept my course and fared
Through it all... yet through it all/it all

(Phil solo)

I've seen them shine
Seen them rise and fall
Yet kept my course and fared through it all

I've seen them shine
Seen them rise and fall
Yet kept my course and fared through it all

My wings they unfold in a storming gale
The tempest calls for my flight to fail
When gravity beckons with its hold
In spite of all
The horizon sends wind to take me,
The horizon sends wind to take me home


5. THE MASON

No thought is given to the consequence
Just a need to see what might become
It's like we need to sabotage
all of the love in our lives
To prove control is so far from undone

And I, I have caved in, again
But I, I'm building from the wreckage

We bend/We break/We're forced to heal
The toll it takes, in time revealed

I choose the shot to usher in deliverance
Flood away the past I can't tow
But like the river weathers stone
It shapes and withers my home
To a place I barely know

We bend/We break/We're forced to heal
The toll it takes, in time revealed

The trial in wake of it
Creates or tears us down
We bend/We break/We learn to heal

Failings I clay for mason hands to shape
So strike away the grip of past mistakes

And I, I have caved in, again
But I!!!/I!!!/I have caved in, again but

We bend/We break/We're forced to heal
The toll it takes, in time revealed

The trial in wake of it
Creates or tears us down
We bend/We break/We learn to heal

Failings I clay for mason hands to shape
So strike away the grip of past mistakes

So strike away the grip of past mistakes


6. MOVING UP

Words that carry me
Through the length of silences between Every day and night
They echo and they slight
Just melodies for any and everyone

So who hears your secret song
that warrants its saving?

Your version of our time
The way I kept you down
And how moving on is moving up
So burdened and resigned
Your light was fading out
Easier in than out of...

Here we go again
The call rings out and finds me answering
An air I loathe to hear
With meanings left unclear
Just melodies for any and everyone

So who hears your secret song
that warrants its saving?

Your version of our time
The way I kept you down
And how moving on is moving up
So burdened and resigned
Your light was fading out
Easier in than out of/Easier in than out of

So reckless with my weakness
Now guarded with your secrets

So reckless with my weakness
(I'm not falling again)
Now guarded with your secrets
(I'm not falling again)

Your version of our time
The way I kept you down
And how moving on is moving up
So burdened and resigned
Your light was fading out
Easier in than out of...

Your version of our time
The way I kept you down
And how moving on is moving up
So burdened and resigned
Your light was fading out
Easier in than out of/Easier in than out of

So who hears your secret song
that warrants its saving?


7. SIGHT OF SHORE

Wish I could be the pen
That writes the end you'll know
Or be the ink that will dry
Over the lines you stole

Wish I could sew the rope
They'll wrap around your throat
Or be the push that will
Pull you off your throne

Wish I didn't care/Wish I knew if

If there's a place I can go (inside me)
To drown the vengeance I'm owed
Will it burn? Will I burn away? Away

Wish I could be the knife
That cuts the ties you hold
Wish I could be the flame
Consuming all you love

Wish I could tie the weight
Before the plank is strolled
And I could watch
As you sink in sight of shore

If there's a place I can go (inside me)
To drown the vengeance I'm owed
Will it burn? Will I burn away? Away

Wish I didn't care/Wish I knew if
When the smoke has cleared
Wish I didn't care/Wish I knew if

(solo)

If there's a place I can go...
To drown the vengeance I'm owed...
Will it burn? Will I burn away? Away

If there's a place I can go (inside me)
To drown the vengeance I'm owed
Will I burn?


8. FATHER / SON

We aren't sons of our fathers sins
We don't inherit iniquities
We aren't heirs to thrones of greed
We don't wear the gold they've thieved
And schemed

You don't choose your name
Just what you leave in your wake
We are born, all of us, innocent
We don't wear the wounds of dying men

No ties no allegiance to majesties
No veil to blind your reasoning
No script rehearsed in all you speak
Own your words in the voice you sing

You don't choose your name
Just what you leave in your wake
We are born, all of us, innocent
We don't wear the wounds of dying men

Oooooh

No cause to fight for buried kings
Let be what legions they've conceived
No oaths to swear or give repeat
All words are yours to ink and sing
All words are yours to ink and sing

You don't choose your name
Just what you leave in your wake


9. PROFANE

I'm not the one you've read about
I'm not your sanctuary seat
I'm not the one they've told you about
I've never claimed to be of your belief

Yet the claims keep coming
The elaborate stories

When you dig up dirt
It's your hands to be cleaned
You are filthy from the grave you dig

I am a callous hand from gripping the rock
I am short a feathered wing for the flock
But I am not weathered from your
Weightless voices bearing witness

I am not a hallow sound
Or a glorifying light of deeds
And I am not a conscience found
Reciting lines down on my knees

And there's no mistaking
All of you who fake it

When you dig up dirt
It's your hands to be cleaned
You are filthy from the grave you dig

I am a callous hand from gripping the rock
I am short a feathered wing for the flock
But I am not weathered from your
Weightless voices bearing witness

I am a callous hand from gripping the rock
I am short a feathered wing for the flock
But I am not weathered from your
Weightless voices bearing witness
Weightless voices bearing witness

Can we not/Can we not/Can we not
Can we not/Can we not/Can we not

Can we not divide?!

I am not a barricade
I'm just a different way to think
So make no mistake
I'm not your profane

I am a callous hand from gripping the rock
I am short a feathered wing for the flock
But I am not weathered from your
Weightless voices bearing witness

I am a callous hand from gripping the rock
I am short a feathered wing for the flock
But I am not weathered from your
Weightless voices bearing witness
Weightless voices bearing witness


10. ARCHERS

We spent a decade building
A band of brothers to the bone
And it showed

From the reef's kiss calling
To the resistance rise we wrote

We walked through fire blind
The march echoes for all time

But now the seasons changing
The turning tide
I've raised my sail to coming
Storm or calm alike

We honed a humble phalanx
To raze the arrogance in foes
And it showed

We found a fraud in a Bishop
And built a nation of flawed sons

We walked through fire blind
The march echoes for all time

But now the seasons changing
The turning tide
I've raised my sail to coming
Storm or calm alike

And though my vessels lone-manned
With brazen broken hull

The waves will never take
An armored archer core
An armored archer core

A means to believe
A reverie I couldn't reach
Never made a difference to me

Go on, our brother
You've only just begun
Live long with honor
From our fire you are born

But now the seasons changing
The turning tide
I've raised my sail to coming
Storm or calm alike

And though my vessels lone-manned
With brazen broken hull

The waves will never take an
Armored archer core

But now the seasons changing
The turning tide
I've raised my sail to coming
Storm or calm alike
Storm or calm alike


11. RUINED ENDS

A simple thing
A silver gilded link we long to make
To forge our chains
And hope they hold the weight

Of a sworn vow to never let down
To never separate

Or so we say

No heart in our words
No faith to be nurtured
Makes fools of us all
Defaces our nature

Creating a cancer
Consuming what was loved alive
Loved alive/Loved alive

A simple taste
"It doesn't mean a thing to me" they say
Just another drink or two to numb the pain

Of a torn vow to never let down
To never separate

No heart in our words
No faith to be nurtured
Makes fools of us all
Defaces our nature

Creating a cancer
Consuming what was loved alive
Loved alive/Loved alive

Surrendered in ruined ends

Or so we say

No heart in our words
No faith to be nurtured
Makes fools of us all
Defaces our...

No heart in our words
No faith to be nurtured
Makes fools of us all
Defaces our nature

Creating a cancer
Consuming what was loved alive
Loved alive/Loved alive

Loved alive/Loved alive


12. IDENTITY

All your merits worth showing
Are in the weight of a palm
From the hand you've been holding
(And what it has) It has left to pass on

Just as you are there's little offered at all
So fasten tight to your gripping

Pinned to a sleeve
Posing for all to see
With no mark to call your own
Nothing is yours/yours to leave
Beyond who you please

What compels you is gleaming
From the glare of a crown
When you cling to lights beaming
(It always keeps)
What you have to shine down

Just as you are there's little offered at all
So fasten tight to your gripping

Pinned to a sleeve
Posing for all to see
With no mark to call your own
Nothing is yours/yours to leave
Beyond who you please

The faithless will always forget
A heartbeat for wants in their head
Forlorn with needs never met
The blame's on us who'd woven the thread

(Nick solo)

Pinned to a sleeve
Posing for all to see
With no mark to call your own
Nothing is yours/yours to leave/but if you

Pin to belief/Own an identity
And a mark to call your own
Something that's yours/could be seized
Beyond who you please


13. MATTER OF TIME

Pull back the curtain
The one behind it has a different face
The inner workings
The gears are turning at a different pace

Time will change us all

The more that you question
The more the answers
Aren't what you want to hear

We fight to conceal the truth
But it's all a matter of time/of time
The years wasted, persuaded to smile
When it feels so wrong inside/inside

Honesty or deception?
You can only hide it for so long
But we choose to be silent;
Stick to the story!

We fight to conceal the truth
But it's all a matter of time/of time
The years wasted, persuaded to smile
When it feels so wrong inside/inside

How can we let ourselves
Continue this routine?
The artificial beat
Of a heart that's long since ceased

How can we let ourselves
Continue this routine?
The artificial beat
Of a heart that's long since ceased

We fight to conceal the truth
But it's all a matter of time/of time
The years wasted
Persuaded to smile when
It feels so wrong inside/inside/inside

We fight to conceal the truth
But it's all a matter of time


14. PROPHETS

There's a height I couldn't reach
Though I bought the wings to carry me
There's a feeling never found
Though I bought the words to bring it out

But then maybe I was better naive
Maybe I was better when I couldn't see

I felt the water over me
A cold and lonely welcoming
Not a sign they said I'd find
Nor the warmth of the sire's hand on mine

But then maybe I was better naive
Maybe I was better when I couldn't see

I have seen a friend-turned-martyr bleed And for what?
For what a stranger taught to us?
With no authority to speak?

It's always the loudest
Who voice only their ignorance
It's always the loudest
Who voice only their ignorance

With no authority to speak!

The rock should be
An anchor for the weak/Not this...
This unfulfilling/This subtle guilting
A prophet of sympathy...

With no authority to speak!

It's always the loudest
Who voice only their ignorance
It's always the loudest
Who voice only their ignorance

With no authority to speak!
And no sense in reasoning

(3 simultaneous guitars outro:
Shane: Ringing power-chords
Phil: Riff
Nick: Solo)

Maybe I was better naive
Maybe I was better when I couldn't see


15. ONWARD

(Instrumental)