Premonition
I had a dream the other night
A dream I can't forget
It woke me with a sense of doom
And soaked my sheets in sweat
This vision plagues my every thought
The worst is yet to come
I fear this dream is coming true
I need to tell someone
I dreamt the other night
That famine spread across the land
The clouds, they held no water
And the oceans turned to sand
People by the millions
Were gathered in the streets
Their voices had gone quiet
Just the sound of marching feet
They labored forward blindly
Not knowing where or why
Their purpose long forgotten
Their eyes fixed on the sky
Amongst them walked a silent foe
It had no face or name
It cared not for your riches
For your power, or your fame
Its deadly touch would plant in you
Disease to multiply
And spread to those around you
As the herd emulsified
And in the sky, appeared to us
It's message clear and plain
"When I am done, this world and you
Will never be the same"
Will never be the same
Will never be the same
The Cleansing
I watched you from the sky
As populations rise
Feasting on Earth like flies
Ensuring your demise
Generations repeating the pattern
Their stories told but never changed their minds
A life of excess, keep feeding the glutton
Bask in filth like a hoard of swine
Come now, watch the fall
You begged for relief, now I bring you the cleansing
Come now, watch the fall
A plague of contempt, a down pouring of pain
I've watched you from the sky
As the impoverished die
Pay no heed to their cries
Now tremble as I rise
Feel my pestilent hands
Pernicious touch
My ruinous arms embracing you
My blade to the hoard
Avenging the dirt, I'll spare but few (I'll spare a few)
It takes but one to make
A spark to emanate
The masses, soon to wake
Their voices resonate
Exposed for who I am
No more hiding in the shadows
I'm praised by the weeds
I'm cursed to the gallows
A hero of the heathens
I'm a pillar of despair
A vast and vacant chasm of darkness
(You'll find me there)
You'll find me there
As I move on through the hoard
Insistent on spreading my rage
Underneath black dirt and dried up tears
Their faces begin to change
A man rose to his feet
His temper refused defeat
A song for the runaway
The people, they heard him say
"Take back your voice, lift your heads
And focus your eyes on the sky
Our time must not yet end
Together, together, together we will mend
We will mend"
Our time must not yet end
Together we will mend
This song's for you my friends
This time, these lives, this world
Is ours to tend
From the throne to the thorns
I've watched you from the sky
As the sun starts to rise
Revealing my disguise
I can finally close my eyes
Come now, watch my fall
Come now, watch my fall
Come now, watch my fall
My deceit created defiance
Come now, watch my fall
My treachery led to their triumph
Ancestry
Left behind
You chose to leave
Now it looks like you're leaving your family
There's a cavern in your ribs
Where your heart used to be
I've been picking up what's left of you
Connecting your pieces to my memories
Hoping they would ignite some sentiment
But they won't inspire sympathy
The hollow point may have ripped you apart
You disregard the damage you'd impart
Rest in peace to our ancestry
That you maimed and left scarred
My judgement is clouded by the blood we share
We built our truth (our truth) on top of all these lies
I still see the good in life
It's not the end (it's not the end), although you see the light
I'll see you on the other side
Maybe one day you'll care
But it's not my cross to bear
I didn't skip a beat
When I heard the news that you
You couldn't make it to your feet
(All I have is apathy)
Just another day of not knowing what to believe
Another tale another story
(A lifetime of perjury)
I wish I had the words to say I love you
I'm not sure I understand what those mean when I'm thinking of you
I have no words for you
When I needed you, you wouldn't even hear it
You made your choices
You'll live with them even if we're gone
It's impossible to find what's real in all these fables
Unable to see through the resentment you've enabled
The hurt that you inflicted on yourself
Won't amount to the pain of everyone else
I always wanted things to be different
Although you see the light
I'll see you on the other side
We built our truth (our truth) on top of all these lies
I still see the good in life (the good in life)
It's not the end, although you see the light
I'll see you on the other side (other side)
Although you see the light
I'll see you on the other side
Tightrope
I could feel (I could feel) my heart sink
I had been pushed (I had been pushed) to the brink
Losing this conflict was all I could handle
I thought my world was ending
But it was only expanding
It wasn't the emotion I thought I'd expect
"This won't happen" was engrained in my head
My absence was always my escape
I wasn't in the best place (best place)
You're owed memories I can't restore
Not stories of wayfare and folklore
My undivided attention was served in seconds
For you I had to mend them
The best parts of me were beckoning
I swallowed my fears
I'm so grateful you're here
The last two years
Would have been unbearable (without you there)
Without you there
I thought I bided my time too long
It turns out the timing was perfect
In the end the weight was all worth it
The brightness guided me through the fog
And a constant beam of light (that set my course right)
I had taken on too much
(It took over me)
Longing for what I had when I was young
I had taken on too much
(My responsibilities) are choking me
(Setting boundaries for myself)
I'm the one who keeps walking all over them
(Creating limits for abuse)
I'm the one leaving myself battered and bruised
Where is my incentive (my incentive)
To find my healing?
I let misery be my motivator
I could sense myself slip into this crater
I'll only be one thing forever
I'll slide the scales back to the center
The agony and anguish were just all part of the endeavor
Fool's Gold In The Bear Trap
(There is a) world out there
That doesn't care about the problems in your head
The disbelief you can't conceive
(Is what clouds your thoughts with dread)
Backstabbers roam the streets
(Prowling for their next kill)
Disregard for human life (powers how they feel)
Fool's gold in the bear trap
(Line them up and watch their legs snap one by one)
Skip every step and you'll be left standing on the cracks
(But it's breaking your back)
Like following a map but scrapping every part
(Except for the X)
Don't make significant decisions
(Based on the path of least resistance)
Backfire
Witness the blind now leading the enraged
Losing our sight, we've lost our way
We find ourselves welcoming moral decay
We have lost our way
Entombed by deception
We find lies where there is nothing but truth
We find lies
Thoughts of conceding are wasted on our youth
You cry deceit and you never (never surrender)
While refusing to wave the flags of defeat
Stoke fires, and fire up those who are looking for a leader
Accepting a loss won't be the end
You can always get back up and fight again
It's hard to accept that your theories are just fallacies
The downtrodden are feeling trampled
Stockholm syndrome has afflicted the masses
Enamored with those who always kept them in shambles
My suffering (is not your fault)
Your victories (they are your own)
How did we get here
To a place where we blame
We blame those we've never met for our misfortune
How did we get here
There are signs everywhere
All of you are asleep
We need to wake up
We need to wake up
Endless belief in a liar (leads to a violent backfire)
Endless belief in a liar (leads to a violent backfire)
Endless belief in a liar (leads to) a violent backfire
Endless belief in a liar (leads to) a violent backfire
Revival
This incident was an invitation to a new beginning
I must admit defeat and submit to the truth that is here
The darkness has stricken me with fear
I've been slipping
This time I finally fell
I'm defying the rails on the stairway to hell
There are problems and then there's rock bottom
I think I've finally made my entrance
I need to snap out of this trance
And pray for a chance
Suffering will gain me sight
Teach me to see in the night
Teach me to see in the night
I'm no longer simply existing
I'm pursuing a new mission
I've been torched too many times
So when the sun fades into the night
My fears start to rise
I've turned away too many times
When the shadows come to life
I'll look them square in the eyes
How do I recognize if I'm fine or terrified? (Terrified)
Now I realize everything that always lead to my demise
Reality has brought me here
And from these actions I will rise from the ashes
(From the ashes)
From the ashes I will rise
I gave terror a face but now it's filled with fractures
The proof is on my fist that is covered in cracks
My nemesis no longer has a grasp on me
Broken like I used to be
This is only the start of my comeback
Comeback
I just want to feel something
I just want to feel feelings
I just want to feel something
I just want to feel anything
I'm no longer simply existing
I'm pursuing a new mission
This is the start of my comeback
Sevink
[Instrumental]
Dark Divide
Burning bridges we're halfway across
There's no light at the end
There's no safety in turning back
Our heals are dug in
Tensions are deep within
We've been trading blows now everyone is bloody
There are no more innocents
We've been trading blows now everyone is bloody
Throw us all in the penitentiary
War, war for the sake of war
Common ground is the most stable
War, war for the sake of war
Convinced peace is not obtainable
If we all, if we all fight on the fringe
We will never, we will never make a connection
Disaster begins when we're spread thin
If this was a tsunami
The surge would have been 40 feet tall
If there had been a fire
The flames would have consumed it all
We no longer care about the cost
Now we weep for what we lost
Taking in the air from the earth
Spitting out nothing of worth
Take a walk with your enemy and you'll see
You're on the same path
How can we coexist
When no one will admit
That compromise means both sides give a little bit?
Going against the grain shouldn't cause others pain
Burning bridges we're halfway across
There's no light at the end
There's no safety in turning back
Our heals are dug in
Tensions are deep within
How will I carry your coffin
If I'm lying in the one beside yours?
Save your fury for the guilty ones
Discover clarity embrace your adversary
Save your fury for the guilty ones
Discover clarity embrace your adversary
Deadbolt
You watched your aspirations
Laid to waste, ground up, and evaporated
Destined to be trampled and ignored
The air in the room has made them sink to the floor
Everyone is shouting for more
More shock and disbelief
Glued to the screen
Instead of finding solutions
There's one in front of us
We're used to devastation
A new standard of complete isolation
We are lost in our own homes
We start wandering sometimes
We are hiding from all hope
When we're missing in our own minds
How much longer will it take to find the answers to your mistake?
We are all paying the price for them every second of every single day
The clock is counting down
Now we've learned you're the time bomb
Our patience has run out
Pacing so much we are burning holes in the planks
The flames flicker right before us
Stuck in a trance we don't notice them advance
They overtake the silence
We are lost in our own homes
We start wandering sometimes
We are hiding from all hope
When we're missing in our own minds
(We are lost)
Did the stars fail to guide your way
Circling you in infinity
Even if you follow the sun you can go astray
It's so hard to believe it's happening
The warnings fell on deaf ears
But they crushed us into cowards filled with fear
Cowards filled with fear
Sound the alarm
We'll sit here in silence
We aren't safe in our own minds
Like being trapped in a living landmine
The Abyss
Throw away
All of your doubts before they lead you astray
Cast aside (cast aside)
All of your apprehensions used to be amplified
Begin the expedition into parts unknown
An adventure that leads us far, far away from home
Take a chance on discovery
Leaving your old ways behind
Take a chance on discovery
And you will learn what's inside
We are so resilient
Your breakthrough is near
It's the new frontier
Take a plunge into the darkness
Let its roots trace a map towards the answers (you'll uncover)
Clarity creates our concepts
We've unlocked an endless spectrum (of color)
So bright we can't see right before our eyes
If we are balanced, the edge is where we'll realize
Thrown to the threshold to learn who we'll be
How we return remains to be seen
Will we build on the foundation?
Will we fulfill our obligation?
Lo and behold
A palette of your own
Spill out your soul
The void will become your canvas
No longer stranded like explorers
Who've succumb to weakness
Oppose the opposition
Leave your doubt behind
Impair the indecision
Your frame of mind redefined
Fighting our way through the abyss
We'll carry on, we're more ambitious
We were once so defenseless
Dragging us down made us resistant
Fighting our way through the abyss
We'll carry on, we're more ambitious
We were once so defenseless
Won't drag us down, we'll resist
Reckoning
Who am I?
Flying blind
Scorching heat, black skies
Dark shadows asking "Who am I?"
Left behind, pushed aside
I need order in the chaos when I'm flying blind
I know the way (you better pray)
I've done enough (you won't measure up)
Looked down upon by the masses
Unending streams of ruined dreams
Empty accolades feel like razor blades
Leaving me wanting more
Never sure of my standing
My trembling feet can't find the floor
No matter what I do
I feel I have something to prove
In a world where right and wrong don't belong
There is no sense of what is justified
Oh
The higher I climb, the further I fall
The hand that held me then now holds me down
Judgement day means reckoning for you
Give me your time
Sit down and talk
No one to point the blame when no one's at fault
My disaster began when I looked up
On that day, all I've done
My disaster began when I looked up
I was both compelled and condemned
I struggle so hard, I do my best
How can I find a single solitary day of rest
Is it what you've done, or what you'll do in me
I need to know so I will find peace
Believing
Cannot see
Belief is believing what you cannot see
(All you've got) giving all you've got out of all that you need
Endless arguments with myself
All that remains is the shame
There's no case to be made
Punched into total darkness
If what I've done imprisons me
Then your will sets me free
The villages are crumbling down
Making right what's wrong, won't make the lost found
There's an arbiter
No one escapes
The standard we have for others will be our fate
I'll swallow down the words you serve me graciously
I've done this all before
I'll hold it all inside until I break away
I'm tearing down the door
The fear cannot contain us all
I'll make the cut just deep enough to sting
I just wanna break free
Rip your claws from my side
I won't just die quietly while you prey on the innocent
I will break free
The reckoning won't bring you hope
Death below on a tightrope
Take your hands off your life
It won't consume you
The altar will give you life and not kill you
I set my sights on the impossible
Endless debt making grace unstoppable