1. Empty Prophets

Spit the truth out, cast it aside
I see you constantly bleeding the blurred lines
Stand offended, cry wolf again
I assure you we are not the same

Yet our veins flow with the same soured blood

Shallow words from apathetic heads
Nothing more than empty prophets
I see a world tearing itself apart
And those who wish to profit

It's not the sentiment of your speech
But there are holes in the words you preach
I know I'm not a better man
But I can smell bullshit when it's in front of me

Yet our veins flow with the same soured blood

And in the end, what it comes down to
We wanna hear a voice echoing our own
Something to take our minds off our empty lives
To know we're not really all alone

Stop searching for glory
You are your win obstruction and ruin
Stop searching you'll find nothing
Nothing behind those empty (eyes)

This illusion you hide behind
Is your broken axe to grind

2. I Sever

I shed this skin like a weightless veil wrapped around a statue
I flooded the past?to?see what would?surface
And there was nothing to hold?onto
Familiar hands reached out to pull me to the ground
The knife in my back was the jewel in your crown

Misplaced dependency
A slave to the anxiety
But distance doesn't always make those faces fade
I am torn in two
Can't distinguish the lies from truth
Cut through this world that I am attached to

Cohort to bane
I sever, I sever
Crooked reflection
Disposed to separate
Cohort to bane
I sever, I sever
Crooked reflection
I'll cut the cord completely

Remnants of the past resound
Never too late to burn those bridges down

Cohort to bane
I sever, I sever
Crooked reflection
Disposed to separate
Cohort to bane
I sever, I sever
Crooked reflection
I'll cut the cord completely

Here I now lay this to rest
Fare thee well, my ally
Feels like I may drift forever
On this fire I will burn
Here I now lay this to rest
Fare thee well, my ally
Feels like I may drift forever

3. Cycle Of Suffering

Who's tipped the scale against me?
The balance outweighed perpetually
Crushed by our own tombstones
And a harsh reality

And it washes over me again
The feeling of fire against cold skin
Awaiting the relief, but only finding penance
And there is no fighting for air
When there is no will
As there are no subtleties between foes

Its' so clear to see
As the blind belittle yet follow each other
Some of us were born to suffer

I've felt the waves of pain
Crashing against me
And with no sign of escape
It's too overbearing

There's an enveloping despair
And there are demons beneath our skin
You can't point the finger unless
You've pointed it within

And no atonement
Can ease the inevitable
There's something to be learned
As we connect to the unknown

I never saw the light
Till I was already out of the dark
And when I though I'd left it completely
The void dragged me back

And endless cycle of suffering

4. Shield

Absorbed in the deceit
I feel the axiom depart
I've seen the crushing hands of karma
Tear lives apart

Sit and lament as I descend
I find no solace in the lies that I've built
And I repent to circumvent
Made no bones about the wounds that I've left

I swear I've tried
But the guilt is eating me alive
Recurring throe
To plunge me deep below

When I've fallen
When the pain comes
I will be braced for the worst
So here's hoping
You're my savior
I bear the burdens of the earth

Controlling every lucid moment
No sign of respite
I slip beneath the conscious mind

I swear I've tried
But the guilt is eating me alive
Recurring throe
To plunge me deep below

When I've fallen
When the pain comes
I will be braced for the worst
So here's hoping
You're my savior
You'll shield the darkness of the earth
I'll shield the darkness from you

I swallow the burdens
And on these imperfections I dwell
Entomb me in this self-constructed hell

Penance
When I've fallen
When the pain comes
I will be braced for the worst
So here's hoping
You're my savior
I bear the burdens of hits earth

5. Calcified

Turning inwards, I see the walls closing on me
Trying to keep this part of me alive
And find my way back through the labyrinth
When the darkness was just a place to hide

So sick and tired
Seein' the blood drain from your face

Eyes turning grey
I see you calcifying
Rotting from the inside
Giving in to the weight
Internally crucified

And I severed its before it could sever mine
Trying to keep above the surface
And there's no one left to save but yourself
Oblivious to the sound of your own disillusion

Eyes turning grey
I see you calcifying
Rotting from the inside
Giving in to the weight
Internally crucified
Lifeless

And the malice serves
To drown the desperate
And those deep claws
Don't easily Relinquish

Eyes turning grey
I see you calcifying
Rotting from the inside
Giving in to the weight
Internally crucified
Lifeless

Your buried alive
Conform as you desire

6. Invidia

Cold lungs inflate with a burn
Displaced at every turn
Desperate to maintain
Some semblance of dignity
And we all fight wars that can't be seen
Solemnly, and we suffer like the martyrs we are

All I hear is a never-ending plea
Drained and pulled into our own misery

And we've forgotten it seems
Everyone's alone and everyone bleeds
We're haunted by the thoughts more than the toll

Tired of being alone
And the finger you've worn to the bone
Are feeble yet clawing for more
Yet you wish it all away

Like embers burning, a captious voice within
Scarred and frail, breaking through tender skin
And what we already have, we hardly deserve
Yet our hands are outstretched like the beggars we are

And we've forgotten it seems
Everyone's alone and everyone bleeds
We're haunted by the thoughts more than the toll

Tired of being alone
And the finger you've worn to the bone
Are feeble yet clawing for more
Yet you wish it all away

Some will acknowledge their own descent
And some will drown amidst their own contempt

Contempt

I look for the cracks to find an escape
Somewhere to take a moment to catch my breath
All I find is flaws in myself and others
Awaking demons screaming, I am here

Tired of being alone
And the fingers you've worn to the bone
Are feeble yet clawing for more
Yet you wish it all away

7. Idle Hands

Held tongues dying to speak
Restless hands turned tired and weak
Intention grows from a seed
Ignites the flame beneath our feet

And the ire growing
Spreads like fire
A mass insurgence
Upraising the pyre

What keeps the wolves at bay
While you sleep and they come to prey?
We forget their disdain
And all that's left is the fear they crave

Seclude to divide the fixation
Accomplices of our own ruination
Lost words and abandoned sages
Search for meaning in all the wrong places

And what has become of our objection
So easily pushed aside
By steadfast complacence

What keeps the wolves at bay
While you sleep and they come to prey?
We forget their disdain
And all that's left is the fear they crave

Are you not adverse to those you mistrust?
And you yet sickened enough?

What keeps the wolves at bay
While you sleep and they come to prey?
We forget their disdain
And all that's left is the fear they crave

8. Apex Of Disdain

Oh
The gears turn
With tedious motion
And as the pendulum swings
Divides widen
Paradigm be damned
Salvation comes at a price
And you will pay with your life

Step by step
You lead a dying march to shallow graves
These poisoned roots
Become our earthly cage
Earth to earth
Dust to dust
Only ash remains
Your salvation comes at a price
A disregard for all life

Status breaks
Tense and overburdened
Frail shadows move behind the curtain
Culture be damned
Salvation comes at a price
A concealed sacrifice

Step by step
You lead a dying march to shallow graves
These poisoned roots
Become our earthly cage
Earth to earth
Dust to dust
Only ash remains
Your salvation comes at a price
A disregard for all life

Under the sun
We all fight for significance
But I know under these watchful eyes
It takes so much more to feel alive
Under the sun
Under the sun
We forgot where we came from
But you just stand there as those flames grow
And watch it burn

Ah, watch it burn
When you take more than you need
We'll bite the hand that fucking feeds
Ah

9. Arms Like A Noose

Obstructed paths
Consumed by oppression
Trapped inside a premonition
And I wish that I could dream
Of something other
Than this grand dismantling

We burn through these bodies
But we're no strangers to purgatory

Progression ends

And as we suffocate
We're comatose
Laid out on our backs
With our hearts exposed

Connected ends
Bleed into one
There's comfort in the misfortune
And I wish that I could sleep
But I pray that I don't dream
Of foreboding seas

We burn through these bodies
But we're no strangers to Purgatory

I can see the shore
But I tread in slow motion

We are bound to a toxic culture
And as the sun fades
We're prey for the vultures

10. Devils In Their Eyes

Cursed without taking a lesser form
Destined to be the downtrodden
An exploitation of power

What makes you feel a disconnection so completely removed?
What last moment resides? No last look up to the sky

And we all realize there is no choice to be made
But taking life is not your fucking choice to make

And there nerves feel the pain as their blood
Is being drained to serve you
An exploitation of power

What makes you feel a disconnection so completely removed?
What last moment resides? No last look up to the sky
We are devils in their eyes

And everything you know fades in some way over time
But how are we still clutching to the past like depend on it for life?

Centuries of misuse
Unjustified abuse
And just because we have the means to dominate
It doesn't grant us the right
We are devils in their eyes

We are devils in their eyes

11. Disintegrate

If there is a common ground
Then we stand on separate land
We breathe the same foul air
But your head's buried in the sand
We'll all be forgotten
When what is left has rotten away
We'll be long in our graves
Clutchin' onto our differences

How can you perceive
The world that you see
So erroneously?
Aren't you growing weak
From the poison you speak?
Your words burn
But how much damage can be undone?

A burden unto yourself
Projecting your own inner hell
We disconnect from the common threads
And await the final knell
The dust won't settle
Till what's left had rotten away
And by yourself you are bound
Another nail to hammer down

How can you perceive
The world that you see
So erroneously?
Aren't you growing weak
From the poison you speak?
Your words burn
But how much inteolerance can be unlearned?

Ah, are you just afraid
Or has your fear finally turned to rage?
Aimless violent fists
At a world you can't comprehend

How much damage can be undone?

12. Abandon

There is no smoke without fire
But all I see is ash
Awaken to silence
And paralyzing repetitions
I've let you down
And not for the first time

Light my path and I'll burn it all down
Once and for all
I see you speak but I can't hear a word

Sleep can't come soon enough
But it never does
A colorless view
Just one step too slow behind
I've let you down
As I always will

Light my path and I'll burn it all down
Once and for all
I see you speak but I can't hear a word
I just hear the steps that you walk

And when the wind blows
We're all lost
We're dust
And scattered across the earth

There is a void
Consuming me alive
Pulling me in
Crushing my will to survive
There is a voice
Inside me
A thousand whispers guiding
Telling me to leave

We are the suns and moon
And every grain of sand is in my palm
And every star is in my mind
When I leave I'll leave nothing behind