1. Prosthetic

Sleep-deprived
Another chalk line marks the walls
Form restored
Unbroken
Altered bloodwork
Awakening
Tame the storm
Electric prosthetic parts
They can't contain them
Why,?incite
The?trauma
Magnetic north
On the?borderline

I don't wanna talk about it?anymore
So sick of these questions
I've heard them before
I don't know what it is you want to hear
The more I stare, the less becomes clear
(Eye for an eye Life for a life)

Fight or Flight
Nil by Mouth
Morphine fuels my apathy
I've become the Rorschach
Could you forget the unremembered

I don't wanna talk about it anymore
So sick of these questions
I've heard them before
I don't know what it is you want to hear
The more I stare, the less becomes clear

I don't wanna talk about it anymore
So sick of these questions
I've heard them before
I don't know what it is you want to hear
The more I stare, the less becomes clear

I don't wanna talk about it anymore
So sick of these questions
I've heard them before
I don't know what it is you want to hear
The more I stare, the less becomes clear

2. Invasion

One
One less
One less life
One less life for us to live
Holding
Holding on
Holding on to something real
If these
If these walls
If these walls could talk to me
What if all these eyes only saw what they believed?

Two heavy
Heavy hearts
Heavy hearts refuse to beat
When my
When my words
When my words fall on deaf ears
If your
If your soul
If your soul could cry for me
What if all we give is all we ever get to keep?

When we left behind the friends we made along the way
Why is it we never learn from all the mistakes we ever made?

One
One last
One last chance
One last chance to disappear
Calling
Calling out
Calling out for someone real
If this
If this God
If this God could pray to me
What if where we're lost is where we are meant to be?

Too
Too much
Much too young
Much too young and gone too soon
Letting
Letting go
Latching on to something new
If this
If this breath
If this breath's the last I breathe
What if all of my sins are still addicted to me?

When?
When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we're never learning from all the mistakes we ever made?
How is there one unconditional love when you've taken my will to breathe?
Losing our sense of direction has led us to where we all need to be

One
One less
One less life
One less life for us to live
One last
One last chance
One last chance to disappear
One less
One less life
One less life for us to live
One last
One last chance
One last chance to end this

When?
When did we give up believing in beautiful minds that begin to fail?
How is there always a different path waiting for every road we stray?
When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we're never learning from all the mistakes we ever made?

When?
When did we give up believing in beautiful minds that begin to fail?
How is there always a different path waiting for every road we stray?
When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we're never learning from all the mistakes we ever made?

3. Carousel

I've been holding on too tight to let you go
Now I'm sinking in the mire
Wish?we?could go back?to how it was
But we're too?close to the wire

Cross the line on my horizon
Sapiens pervade?like?a?virus
Finding solace in?isolation
If the wolf?cries "boy", keep calm, carry on

Dead among the living, nothing to believe in
Making sinners of saints
All the fears unfaced
Swarming all around me like ants
As the flame is prised
Away from the moth
Stronger in their numbers, turning on each other
Is this out of our hands?

Holding on too tight to let you go
I'm sinking in the mire
Wish we could go back to how it was
But we're too close to the wire

If I give them an inch, they take a mile
Does love have to be tough, cruel to be kind?
Think of all the people you have turned your back on
Do you mourn the lost souls from the pale high horse?

I've been holding on too tight to let you go
I'm sinking in the mire
Wish we could go back to how it was
But we're too close to the wire

Fly without fear of landing
Welcome into the fold
Not all who wander shall be lost
Surrounded, yet somewhat lonely
The carousel claims its toll
Paying a price, not counting costs
What if the weight is lifted
When we are all renewed?
When will the penny ever drop?
Who will our burdens carry?
Who will not shed a tear
If our pulse should ever stop?

Hold on tight and never let me go
Take me back to how it was before
Hell knows I was holier than thou
But heavy is the head that wears the crown

4. The Strain

I bit my tongue for far too long
Salt hits the wound
I'm dormant but the night is young
No punishment deserved this crime
Patience can wait
The last thing on your side is time

Temptation reminds me
My weakness defines me

You lend an ear, I chew it off
You disappear to see how quickly we move on
To cut you slack is to concede
I'd face the facts but I don't believe a thing a read

The monster inside me ascending the ivory
Temptation reminds me my weakness is defining me

Maybe I'll never find my voice
Could I ever change a thing?
When will my signal turn to noise
From a whisper to a scream?

When did we make our peace, violence?
Grounds will bleed for those who heed silence

How can truth set me free
When we're still pretending?
All I need is to be heard
When you're talking over me

Maybe I'll never find my voice
Could I ever change a thing?
When will my signal turn to noise
From a whisper to a scream?

When did we ever had a choice?
Could we never change a thing?
Maybe I'll only strain my voice
With a whisper to a scream?

5. Canary Yellow

Looking through your window to an empty room
Hours passing by, the hands don't move
A plastic?life?built just for?you
Fears of wasted years fall into?view

This mannequin aims to please
Traded ambitions for a nuclear family
Never?fleeing?from?the nest
Eat, sleep,?repeat to begin
To?begin again

Break your silence
With these eyes
Blindly follow
His perfect lie

Canary yellow illuminates the grid
And the heat causes our skin to drip
The end game is all the same for you and me
An equinox the eyes – the eyes will never meet

You try to save the world
When it's you that needs help
Strive to win their hearts
When it's mine that needs love
You renounce the throne
Bound to die alone
You can't mend your broken crown
Until you try to fix yourself

Try to save the world
When it's you that needs help
Strive to win their hearts
When it's mine that needs love

With a call to arms
'Til death do us part

Break your silence
With these eyes
Blindly follow
His perfect lie

You try to save the world
When it's you that needs help
Strive to win their hearts
When it's mine that needs love
You renounce the throne
Bound to die alone
You can't mend your broken crown
Until you try to fix yourself

You try to save the world
When it's you that needs help
Strive to win their hearts
When it's mine that needs love

With a call to arms
'Til death do us part

6. Messiah Complex I: Ivory Tower

Shameless, skying above
Preying on the nameless, jury and judge
Everything they had was never enough
Spirit me?away

Crawling?under my skin,?spiraling through my head
Taste my own?medicine, drunk on the power
Rid this pestilence from within, a prayer for the innocent
Talk me down from the ledge of my ivory tower

Struggle to be in the now
When life's too much to swallow, it spits me right out
But I cling on, reaping seeds I dare to sow
For all the lives I ever stole and now I must repel the host
Forever I'll be spirited away

Crawling under my skin, spiraling through my head
Taste my own medicine, drunk on the power
Rid this pestilence from within, a prayer for the innocent
Talk me down from the ledge of my ivory tower

Where I end, you begin
When I fall, you will stand

7. Messiah Complex II: A Glutton For Punishment

Greed and guile color my life with aurus rose
Temper my yearning

Abdicate the throne, majesty
Gold topples?the?crown
Blood festers the?ground

Hell on Earth, my blessing and?my curse
How did I fail my holy grail? Taper my hunger

(With your compound eyes)
Parasites leeched upon the guilt
(And a call to arms)
Paradise led me down a path to the core

Fail – try – fall – rise

Scars run deep, tormenting me with her reptilian glare
How is she forsaking me, when my devil may care?

(With your compound eyes)
Parasites echo through the walls
(And a call to arms)
Paradise, breathe me in, I'm dead to the world

8. Messiah Complex III: Marigold

Ashes in the sky, garden of delights
Screams have turned to sighs, deserting their eyes

(Ashes in?the?sky, garden of?delights)
A shiver shoots through the spine
(Screams?have turned to sighs, deserting their eyes)
She whispers goodnight
(Wisdom in the crowd, signals turn to sound)
Fallen sons and daughters
(Abdicate the crown, muzzle to the mouth)
How does one forgive himself?

Careful what you wish for, marigold
Relentless grief that haunts my days will never be gone
Tell me what you died for
Did you ever imagine we'd reawaken the monster
At the end of days that cease to begin?

9. Messiah Complex IV: The Sect

Riches back to rags, clutching to the past
Straying from the path, gutter from the stars
If?humility?comes to humble?me
Ostracized by the power of the?masses
(Hypnotized by the hunter, Midas touch with a sleight of?hand)
In?my?time of need,?will I be?free?
I was compromised when the treasure made a fool of me
(I'm criticized for the slander, repentance heal my broken wing)

Riches back to rags, clutching to the past
Straying from the path, gutter from the stars
If humility comes to humble me
In my time of need, will I be redeemed?

10. Messiah Complex V: Ectobius Rex

Putrefied by the masses
We fall to rise through the suffering
Reign of fire, spread the ashes
Your?victor?cries, "Hail to?the King"

Crawl out of my skin,?a cell keeps dividing
Memories of electricity
Rid this plague within, the?veil?finally?lifts
Jumping from my?tower of ivory

Crawl?out of my skin, a cell keeps dividing
Memories of electricity
Rid this plague within, the veil finally lifts
Jumping from my tower of ivory

11. Only Stars

Here I lay, far from grace
I'll remember the pretenders
Save your tears
As I'm summoned hither
One last?breath,?I wither
No remorse,?no redemption
Only stars form the heavens
No?more gods yield before us
All is clear, as I end