1. Enlightened To Extinction

Those dead eyes see no empathy
They fail to feel, unable to believe
With nothing behind the gaze glaring out

Black roses wither for all who've been chosen
Reach inside the scar
Caress a weathered heart
Awoken by the blade

The mourning begins
Reach inside the scar
Caress a weathered heart

Awoken by the blade
The kiss of stainless steel
I had already buried you
There is nothing left to mourn
I had already buried you
I only kept the memories I loved
There is nothing else left to mourn
You've been enlightened to extinction

There's no last look into the past
You've been enlightened to extinction
That dead touch can't feel what I've held
Unable to grasp just how I've dealt

In the dark­est corner of your plight
Barely alive enough to reach towards the light

There is nothing else left to mourn
You've been enlightened to extinction
There's no last look into the past
You've been enlight­ened to extinction
Reach inside the scar
Caress a weathered heart

Awoken by the blade
The mourning begins
Reach inside the scar

Caress a weathered heart
Awoken by the blade
The kiss of stainless steel

2. God's Law In The Devil's Land

Moral fabric so decayed
Spirit of man
Rotted, depraved
It takes its toll on us all
You ask for rain

Deny the sky
Question the answers
Deem them lies
It's the punishment they crave
I see humani­ty's disease
I doubt there's anything left
Anything left worth saving
I know our heartache's not alone

We're all just reaping what's been sown
You won't find god's law in the devil's land
You don't get mercy from a desperate man
You won't find god's law in the devil's land

You don't get mercy from a desperate man
It's the curse
Of all mankind

To want to take
To strive to die
So none shall stand alone
Confessional
Is absolute
But still we can't
Accept the truth

As it stands to reason
I see humanity's disease
I doubt there's anything left
Anything left worth saving

I know our heartache's not alone
We're all just reaping what's been sown
You won't find god's law in the devil's land
You don't get mercy from a desperate man
You won't find god's law in the devil's land
You don't get mercy from a desperate man
As we drift into the unknown
We vow that none shall stand alone
As we drift into the unknown

We vow that none shall stand alone
I see humanity's disease
I doubt there's any­thing left
Anything left worth saving
I know our heartache's not alone
We're all just reaping what's left
Anything left worth saving
I know our heartache's not alone
We're all just reaping what's been sown
You won't find god's law in the devil's land

You don't get mercy from a desperate man
You won't find god's law in the devil's land
You don't get mercy from a desperate man
You'll never find god's law in the devil's land

3. Monuments Of Ash

Blood and hope seep into the cracks
Of a flawed foundation
Corruption knows no bounds
In a con­demned and crumbling nation

The monuments of ash
Rebuilt from the remains
Like the centuries of past
Must be laid to waste again

Under archaic rule
Nothing thrives in the dust that they've creat­ed
The fallen empires tell us
What is known now must be forgotten
No more worship of the idol's stone
No more will shame infect our homes

We are that which seeks itself, the seeking, and the sought
The monuments of ash
Rebuilt from the remains

Like the centuries of past
Must be laid to waste again
The monuments of ash
Empires fall and bridges burn
Like the centuries of the past

Humanity will never learn
No one can thrive under tyranny's grasp

And when the final shadow is cast
We'll all be dust along the path
To the monuments of ash
Rebuilt from the remains
Like the cen­turies of past

Now laid to waste again
Empires fall and bridges burn
But humanity will never learn
No one will thrive under tyranny's grasp
And when the final shadow is cast
We'll all just be dust along the path
To the fucking monuments of ash

4. Behind The Blackest Tears

Hardened by life
Colder than time
What's been seen still haunts
What's heard still frightens

Last gasp of desperation
Truth be told to face expiration
Your will was shaken
Your ways betrayed them
Beyond what's promised to all
You'll never want to see

Behind the blackest tears
You'll never want to know what's
Behind the blackest tears
Behind the blackest tears
Nothing lives, nothing loves
Behind the blackest tears

All secrets are abandoned
Drifting through
It echoes into her
Eyes sting as she peers into the past
Tracing steps, through horrors revealed
Standing before the altar as the vic­tims kneel
You'll never want to see
Behind the blackest tears
You never want to know what's
Behind the blackest tears
Last gasp of desperation
Truth be told to face expiration

Your will was shaken
Your ways betrayed them
Beyond what's promised to all
No one should ever see what's
Behind the blackest tears

5. Envision The Divide

Time, is seen from the present
Nows, don't come and go
Only, the memory does
Now never was anything we were told
Even in death their mark is made
Envision the divide
From out of emptiness

Observe the other side
The darkness known as void
Some, turn to the tempest
She, never lets go
Some will, wait for the kill
They know it's gonna be their last thrill
Even in death their mark is made

Envision the divide
From out of emptiness
Observe the other side
The darkness known as void
The mark is made
Even in Death
Observe the Dark Envision the Divide
The mark is made
Even in Death
Observe the Dark Envision the Divide
Envision the divide

From out of emptiness
Observe the other side
The darkness known as void
Envision the divide
From out of emptiness
Observe the other side
The darkness known as void

6. From Heroes To Dust

Snow hits the ground
One and only

Bleakness is all that I've found
Ice in my heart

Slowly fading
Forgotten wishes for you now
Still broken from yesterday
Endless sorrow
I'm in my own way
Still broken from yesterday
My search for closure
Still burns a dying flame
There's nothing more of you
More real to me
Than the heaviness of heart

I know you're with us here
I know this presence
Know you're watching over us
Still broken from yesterday
Endless sorrow I'm in my own way
Still broken from yesterday
My search for closure
Still burns a dying flame

All my heroes have turned to dust
But I feel them watching over us
Still broken from yesterday
Endless sorrow
I'm in my own way
Still broken from yesterday
My search for closure
Still burns a dying flame

7. Along The Path To Ruin

Still condemned
For the sacrifice It took its toll
To dig at every wound
Now let my path be lit
With the fires
Of pages burning
A new fate uncovered
You'll always find a way
To dig beneath the hurt
Now fires light my way
Through blindness, embittered
You'll always find a way
To cut away the curse
Now fires light my way
Along the path to ruin
Through it all, forbidden
New fate uncov­ered
New fate uncovered
The coldest heart will sense this again
Now that the truth will dawn
Emerging from winters of conflict
Exposed in isolation
Dig, dig my way out
Crawling and clawing
Reach to the surface, reaching
Hands appear through the fog, hands appear
Crawling for ages
You'll always find a way
To dig beneath the hurt
Now fires light my way
Through blindness, embittered
You'll always find a way
To cut away the curse
Now fires light my way
Along the path to ruin

8. With Barely A Breath

Let you see this through their eyes
Feel control slip through their grasp
And never take for granted
That these moments may just end
Walk now within my path
Know the anguish I have faced
And never doubt me again

My hardship gives me strength
From all the wars I've won
From the struggles cold embrace
I feel the damage done
Though I've gained from my mistakes
With barely a breathe
See the damage of secrets kept
With one more step
My will is all that's left
Remembering the empty words
Just like it was yesterday
Learning now from all wrong doing
And how life just whisks away
I'm battle tested

Scarred but not beyond repair
I'm still gaining ground
Through all the anger and fear
If you've felt this with minds
Feel the power cease to enslave
And never face misfortune
Without the sight of what's to be gained
I'm battle tested
Scarred but not beyond repair
I'm still gaining ground
Through all the anger and fear
With barely a breathe
See the damage of secrets kept
With one more step
My will is all that's left

9. The Death We Owe

I've cut the wings deep to the bone I see the hourglass below
I hear them coming down the road
The cover of midnight has me cold
The cloaked stranger waits for no one
Pleas are just wasted words
Shadows dance to the symphony
Of the souls beneath the earth

Harmed by desire
Warned each time to
Stray from the cold
Plagued by the time you
Still see slipping into nothing
Second chances are false hope
Before the hangman's rope
A sight you'll never want to know
The face of the death we owe
No one is ever exempt
From the death we owe
No one is ever exempt
From the death we owe

Here second chances are false hope
See the silhouette of the hangman's rope
It's a place that you'll never want to know
Everyone has to face the death we owe

Harmed by desire
Warned each time to
Stray from the cold
Plagued by the time you
Still see slipping into nothing
Just one death we owe
From which no one's exempt
And when that force takes hold
At last you'll be on your own

10. Sleeping Beast

A grueling question
Grows in my throat
It stays there
Merciless as it strangles
Tearing into my flesh

It seeps
I hear its breath
I feel its heartbeat
I've felt this before, I know this ghost
A man crushed by the world
You've awoken a sleeping beast
Now you're in its path
You've awoken a sleep­ing beast
You'll be the focus of its wrath

It all ends
There's no redemption
For all those who seek
The salvation of the innocent
The cruelest joke indeed
They await their slaughter
Gagged, with their hands bound
Reaching to the heavens in vain
Their dreams lay beneath the ground
I've felt this before, I know this ghost
A man crushed by the world
You've awoken a sleeping beast
You're in the presence of death
You've awoken a sleeping beast
Here you'll meet your end
You've awoken a sleeping beast
Now you're in its path
You've awoken a sleeping beast
You'll be the focus of its wrath
Here you'll meet your end

11. Torchlight Procession

Careful what you trust in
Careful what you believe
The same doors lead to destruction
If your fate lies in what you perceive
The flesh reflects the deviance
The guilt and shame within
If words reflect the frustration
Then you'll be losing years
Who will lead the torchlight procession?

Let it be alone
Let it all come down into the cold
Let it be alone
Just let it stay where it belongs
Let it be alone
Let it all come down into the cold
Let it be alone

Who will see the torchlight procession?
Unraveled into pieces I feel dead, I feel cold
I'm your cause and your cure now
When your love has a mind of its own
Wrong in every way, menacing, as it takes hold
Deception is a broken mirror
All the fragments obscured
Most await the torchlight procession

Let it be alone
Let it all come down into the cold
Let it be alone
Just let it stay where it belongs
Let it be alone
Let it all come down into the cold
Let it be alone

Fires burning, torchlight procession
Will the torches guide their rage?
End their lust or limit their greed
Could it be the fire of damnation?
They follow to the grave

12. Salvation Denied

If you had a heart
I'd rip it out and show you it's black
Like this hole in my chest
If you had a soul
I'd twist it in knots
Exposing the leeches
That fester and rot
I've never cut deeper
Salvation

I've never bled longer
Denied
I'm dead on your altar
Salvation
Part of the slaughter
Denied

So much our lives wasted in misery
Cowering, cornered, bowing in apathy
Filled up with bitterness, no answers given
Condemned to nothingness, punishment granted

I've never cut deeper
Salvation
I've never bled longer
Denied
I'm dead on your altar
Salvation
Part of the slaughter
Denied

Your wasted life was a selfish choice
Your divisive words are now a silenced voice
I'm pitiless now, can't stand to think
Of the countless times you questioned me

I've never cut deeper
Salvation
I've never bled longer
Denied
I'm dead on your altar
Salvation
Part of the slaughter
Denied
Salvation Denied