1. Black

Deep inside this hole where no life sees
Emptiness surrounding everything
Deafening silence speaks, my ears bleed
Clotting remnants of emotion
Black

Loathing in my amnesty
Underneath lucidity
Drowning in the absence of
Conscious inner faith
Submerged in theology
Breathing in the fluid
Black

Swimming through the seas of nothing
Drowning in the waves of absent feeling
Choking on the fluid that submerges me

I can't see beyond the colors
Of this blackened mind
Isolated deep within
Severed nerves feel nothing
Choking on the fluid that
is submerging me

2. To Dust

Nothing more for me to see
From the eye that sleeps
Closed within a silent dream
A meal for the worms to eat

No rise into the heavens
No three day resurrection
No pass into purgatory
Nothing! To dust

Complicate the ending
With the dreams of ever-after
Consuming every breath
You breathe the filth of rapture
Poisoned words
Condemn the non-believer
Close my eyes and lay to rest
And let the worms devour

Return to the mother
Remove the weight forever
Wash away the stigma
I don't need it where I'm going
Nail shut the coffin
And drop into the nothing
Decompose
My flesh within the temple
Withering
Nothing here
And nothing to betray
Close my eyes and lay to rest
And let the worms devour

3. Honest Human Emotion

Under and in between me
Layers of scars define
Twisted deformed emotion
Colors bleed in black and white

Honest human emotion
Overwhelms me
From the inside through
The light everlasting
But the inside leaves
It's shell cracked and fading
Inner dying seed planted
Under nothing

The scars remain
and paint the page along the way
The picture fades
Here and now the colors grey
Anointed by
This loneliness where I can hide
Deep inside
The well is cracked and has gone dry

4. Conclusion Disillusion

Have you seen Jesus anywhere?
No... I haven't. I thought he was with you!

Torn away from everything
Everything that loves me
Solitude's awakening
Remove the black-toothed grin
Savior is calling me
Summoned to the hanging tree
Grind the path before me
And show me this misery
Show me this suffering

Open my mind to believe, I see
Nothing to ease this suffering in me

Conclusion disillusion
Tainting the pool I drown in
Sinking to the bottom
Substance the bludgeoning

Looking through my eyes conceive
A flame that burns to save me
To get me through just one more day
And scar one more memory
The chapel doors are open
Consume the flesh, forgiven
Forgive the flesh, consume
And burn the gates of heaven

My life's rotting slow
Consume flesh
Nothing left

5. Sovereignty

Images of the victims, they suffer
Their innocence means nothing to me
Capture the enemy, discriminate
Feel my wrath, my brother

Remove the face of compassion
And raise this heavy hand
Broken bones of opposition
Taint this holy land

A congregation lied to
This parable untold
Sacrifice diplomacy
Let the war machine unfold

Return of your lord
Return of your savior
Deliver us from evil
Deliver the enemy

6. Swarm

Swarming in From Heaven
Blackening the day
Hand of God is striking down
Written by the insane
Christian Prophecies
Fuel for the hate machine

Suffocate the lungs of
Everything that breathes
Smothering the lives of
All those who believe
Can you see
This Swarming

Devouring the flesh
Tear the Temple down
And bring them to their knees
Panic and submission
Spinning the machine
Supress a free society

Institute the fear
For the insect to feed
Feed upon the weakening
I can see conspiracy

7. Moment Of Clarity

There is no redemption
There is blood on my hands
The euphoria will
Not pay for my sins
Severed empty feeling
And the isolation
Withdraw my salvation
My salvation withdrawn

My life dwells behind narcotic eyes
Weeping on the inside
Voices blend the murmur fills my mind
And will never subside
Shattering image instantly age
Washing years away
Salvation lies behind narcotic eyes
Bleeding on the inside

There is no redemption
Just a moment of clarity
When the moment passes
Right back to the suffering
Drowning out the colors
Consume the obscure
My life paints addiction
Paintings only stand still

8. Passionless

Finally found a faith
Faith I can believe in
Imageless being
And an unforgiving god
Emptiness inside me swells
Swells beyond belief
Oh my god, my god
This seems too real to be

Passionless emptiness
Passionless holiness

Something
Inside me died
Under
Passionless skies
Between
Euphoria
And the
Everlasting

Can you see the color is fading?
Bleeding from the black inside of me
Bleeding nothing, no feeling
Nothing here for me to believe
Can you see the color
Bleeding from inside of me
Passionless I stand
Unforgiven

9. Extremes

оригинал: Cynic

Society's selfish meaning to confine
Disabled by the need to cure an insecurity
Masses strive to keep themselves in line
While the radical seek attention all the time

Say they're sick – just hypochondriacs
Cry some more, I know it's all an act

Lies...taken to extremes
Despised...because of what they need
A selfish thought to please themselves
They strive to succeed in what they're looking for
Defying, lying, rebelling for attention
A disability taken from one extreme to another

Abusing rights, defying given laws
Excessive whining, they desire sympathy
Rebel, they prove their lives are just a flaw
Immoderate acts plagued by the disease
I proved them wrong but they're the ones to blame
Defeated fair and square at their own game

10. Impressive Technology

The weight of the world has
Buried us alive
Blatant disregard of life
I'm smothered beneath the time
A swift and horrid change
The face of humanity
Is cold and dead

Scars replace a fragile being
This new colorless adopted breed
Features decrease, no remains
This lack of faith, no true belief

Humanity will fade away
And cease to be
Reality remains the same
This suffering in me
Crossing breed, impurity
Born to bleed
Infection spreads, the entity
Extinct from disease

Impressive technology

The path of suffering
A shortened breath collapsing
The weak will fall first
And lay in dirt beneath the earth
life is my obscenity
The face of humanity is cold and dead

11. The Whisper

Deafening silence in my ears
Remove the filth from my canals
Filter out the blasphemy
And focus on the whispering

The Whisper

Underneath my suffering
I feel the breath deep inside me
Exhaling the void
Devil on my shoulder
Slithering its fork-tongued words
Drowning in conviction
Focus on the whispering

Pointing at the enemy
Reveals the truth in front of me
Consume within my disdain
No more self-control remains

Master
Anoint me with your misery
Whisper
Filter out the blasphemy

Devil on my shoulder
Slithering its fork-tongued words
Drowning in conviction
Focus on the whispering

Decrepit breath of innocence
It burns the skin of ignorance
It bleeds my conscious inner-ear
And soothes the questionable fear