-Thegodmachine: The Speaking Stone-

Trembling in the shadow of your creation
Your knees grow weak
Watch my eyes beam with gold
And you’ll keep coming back
If you fixate your desire upon me
You’ll give me breath with your lungs
Feed me living!
I am what you fashioned
Your praise gives me power
With it I'll devour you

-Bad Blood-

Grieve that your body’s so worm-eaten inside
Crawling with infection, fed by your lies
Drop into the pit you dug with your pride
Now you’re nothing but a slave
You polish yourself
As if you were a monument
Reaching high like a tower to hell
And the ground concedes

Pulled from the earth like rotting roots
Purge the demons draining your veins
Pride in your heart deceives you
Dragged from the depths of a dying world
Purge the demons draining your veins
Pride in your heart deceives you

Keep your teeth before your tongue
Or you’ll claw for divinity
Your filthy rags: a disgusting crown
The offspring of an unhealed wound

You wear your skin like a scoured corpse
After you heave you return like a dog

Pulled from the earth like rotting roots
Purge the demons draining your veins
Pride in your heart deceives you
Dragged from the depths of a dying world
Purge the demons draining your veins
Pride in your heart deceives you

Keep your teeth before your tongue
Or you’ll claw for divinity
Your filthy rags: a disgusting crown
The offspring of an unhealed wound

You had love
But your heart is not your own
Grace is not beyond you
But you walked away

The heavens will expose you
Hell-bent on destruction
Hell-bent on escape
Show us there’s nowhere to hide
Show us fear

-A Pattern In Pain-

As I charge the bloody fields
Waiting for your hands to pierce the depths
The world is stirring
Yet you keep silent to me

This battle shakes the ground
But your voice could split the earth
The world is stirring
Yet you keep silent to me

Eternity will never be long enough with you
When every step I take feels so worn
If heralds of glory sing
The minute life begins to fade
Then death is just a bridge between us

See the enemy line the hills
So hide my fears from me
The world is stirring
Yet you keep silent to me

Like a burning wound it kills me
That I haven't heard you in years
The world is stirring
Yet you keep silent

Eternity will never be long enough with you
When every step I take feels so worn
If heralds of glory sing
The minute life begins to fade
Then death is just a bridge between us

All I am is a scar-laden body
From those years you were gone
Now You appear to me
Faced with suffering death
You restore this porous heart that bleeds
Tvery time it beats
Your suture lives in me
There must be something You wished me to see
A pattern in this pain

I see a pattern
I see You in this pain
I've waited for years
For what a brush with death has shown me
I will trust in Your grace
That speaks of the end
As my life begins to fade
I know Your blood was the bridge
The bridge between us

Your blood was the bridge between us
Your blood
(Your blood was the bridge between us)
Your blood
(Your blood was the bridge between us)
Your blood
(Your blood was the bridge between us)
Your blood

-I Am The Lion-

Son of mine!
Can you hear the sound
Hear the sound of this repetition as clockwork
I'm always peeling back your skin
To rip the legions from your heart
Every scar you leave yourself
Is a jewel in the making
I would give new passion
Yet you've turned your back

Like a devil of details
(Cut your throat)
You're so addicted
You'll swing the hammer
I'll turn your nails to gold

Like a devil of details
You're so addicted
You'll swing the hammer
I'll turn your nails to gold

You will know My voice
When the hair on your neck stands up
I opened this door
And I will bring the end

All gives way and all will fall
To their knees and beg for grace
Son of Mine, these letters
I swear have not been burnt

My heart, a child
Trembling in sight of his wake
(Trembling in sight of his wake)
Is longing to rest in the hollow
Hollow of Your hand
I know now what it is to be helpless
Like a foot on my neck to the ground
I'm longing to rest in the hollow
Hollow of Your hand
Here I am
I await you

You will know My voice
Here I am

My heart, a child
Trembling in sight of his wake
(Trembling in sight of his wake)
Is longing to rest in the hollow
Hollow of Your hand
I know now what it is to be helpless
Like a foot on my neck to the ground
I'm longing to rest in the hollow
Hollow of Your hand
Hollow (hollow) of Your hand

I am the Lion!

Clear the path
I am the Lion
You brood of snake
I am the Lion

-From One End Of The Sky To The Other-

Part the dark sky
That keeps me from Your eyes
Even as the darkness descends
My cry came to Your ears
As my heroes fail me
They leave me to fend on my own
My cry came to Your ears

The earth withers beneath me
I'm always looking towards the clouds
I know we are not alone
Can't help but feel You in my bones

When all is dead and gone
Your love will still remain
From one end of the sky to the other
You burn your banner
Cords of the grave
Snares of death
Cannot take me from You
I see the eyes of the empty
They form an eclipse above me
Until I find
Safety in Your memory
Safety in Your memory
Safety in Your memory
Safety in the memory
Of Your faithfulness

Bright lights are breaking through the sky
Dark clouds are pouring from Your feet
The seas and valleys all run dry
So reach through the sky and capture me
My cry came to Your ears
(Bright lights are breaking through the sky)
Dark clouds are pouring from Your feet
Your love saved no mercy for Yourself
Reach through the sky and capture me!

The earth withers beneath me
I'm always looking towards the clouds
I know we are not alone
Can't help but feel You in my bones

When all is dead and gone
Your love will still remain
From one end of the sky to the other
You burn your banner

The earth withers beneath me
I'm always looking towards the clouds
I know we are not alone
Can't help but feel You in my...
Bones

-Legacy-

[Instrumental]

-Crowns-

Draw your depiction
Stars become scars in the palm of Your hand
Bridged by blood
Your blood paints the paragon of unrequited love (unrequited love)
Do you remember pain followed by reassurance
And the light shining through
Bearing the poise of a Redeemer
Choking the shadows defeating death

Providence:
Laid out before us
Father’s arms
Reaching as
The nations will hear a new song
As we’re lead to the water
The nations will hear a new song
As we’re lead to the water

Give us discernment
Doors that glow at the sound
Of forerunners’ words (forerunners' words)
We are empty
Until you sit at the throne of our hearts
Break us free
Unshackled from our dire condition
We have hope

Kings of earth, bow down
Lose your crowns
Kings of earth, bow down
Lose your crowns
Bow!

The nations will hear a new song
As we’re lead to the water
The nations will hear a new song
Of rebirth
Of rebirth

The nations will hear...
The nations will hear...
The nations will hear a new song
The nations will hear a new song
As we're lead to the water
A new song...
A new song...

-The Wishing Well-

A thunderstorm a distant shore
I’ve witnessed this before
Patience was fleeting
If a thousand coins on the ocean
floor would bring back love to me
I’ll wait forever

Fill the sea with dreams of a wishing well
Waves bring back my coins to me
Drain the deep that teems with my empty shells
Slaves of sand still call for me

I once had love to give
I once had hoped to live
The rarest stones will break my bones
And golden salt stops my lungs
The perfect limbs and haunting eyes
Begs the seas: begin to rise

Fill the sea with dreams of a wishing well
Waves bring back my coins to me
Drain the deep that teems with my empty shells
Slaves of sand still call for me

[Man:]
And when these delusions come to fruition
Believe you me
I'll strangle my self into nothingness, nothingness
And be reborn from the dream of a blasphemous fool
In my sordid pelt of mold
I’ll earn back years to me
The god of a nightmare will fall
As I take back what is…

[Devil:]
Mine!
Worthless swine
Enraptured by my vanity
Your soul sank under the weight
Of gold you offered me

[Man:] A waste of a life, squandered my heart until it rests
On the ocean floor, barren
Watching the light descend
Deeper and deeper
A deadening feeling starts to grow in my ribs
From where I lie

([Devil:] From where I hide)
[Man:] The waves overflow
([Devil:] The snakes overgrown)
[Man:] With my blood
([Devil:] With your blood)

[Man:]
Where are my years?
I’ll bleed dry by myself
I wish I was someone

[Devil:]
You wish you were someone else
You wish you were someone else
You wish you were someone else...

-My Horses Are Many-

This is what it's like to be on fire
Burning through the coals
What a way to release this fury
And be consumed
A false prophet and a terrible liar
Trading money for souls
Abomination of a broad horizon
You sold them for a frail mansion

It's nothing but dust
Your recompense and tongue
Will be fed down your throat
Oh you’d topple the pillars of a church
To make yourself a god

When you speak, it’s a dead language
When you speak, it’s a dead language

Forfeit (the grace you never...) preach
Forfeit
The grace you never preach
The grace you never preach
The grace you never preach
The grace you never preach

Limb for limb
You’ll be torn to shreds
Eye for an eye
You'll be torn to shreds

Throw it down like you never want to see it again
Come on!
If this is a slippery slope
You’re at the bottom of the ditch
Take advantage of the children
Yet you call yourself a man
If this is a slippery slope
You’re at the bottom of the ditch
Headlong
Headlong
Come on!

-Grace Disguised By Darkness-

I've felt their lives slip through my fingers
Now I watch them circle the drain
With breath like the torrent
They sink to the bottom
I've wasted so many chances
My efforts not a drop in the barrel
With a body like a boulder
I sink to the bottom

Where is your mercy?
Where is your mercy now?
Where is your mercy?
Cause I've shown my teeth and have
had them kicked in one too many times
(Where is your mercy? Where is your mercy?)
And in my yearning He split the rock,
and the water gushed forth

A voice keeps yelling, a voice keeps yelling
"This is where your proud waves end"
My fingers trace lines
On the surface I'm consumed
The sinking feeling, sinking feeling
"This is where your proud waves end"
I take my first step
And I'm thrown over the edge

I tried to walk on the water
But now I just swim
They slip through my fingers
Now I watch them circle the drain
With breath like the torrent They sink to the bottom
I've wasted so many chances
My efforts not a drop in the barrel
With a body like a boulder
I sink to the bottom

Where is your mercy?
Where is your mercy now?
Where is your mercy?
Where is your mercy?
Where is your mercy now?
Where is your mercy?
What grace is this that saves me
(Where is your mercy? Where is your mercy now?)
What grace is this that saves me
(Where is your mercy? Where is your mercy now?)
What grace is this that saves me
(Where is your mercy? Where is your mercy now?)
What grace is this that saves me
(Where is your mercy? Where is your mercy now?)
Where is your mercy now? Where?
Are you listening, oh God?

I scream Your name, Your name, Your name
Are You outside of Your wrath, oh God?
Your name
And amongst the pile of dead
I see a light split the water from the heavens
And I feel God glowing inside me
My heart shakes with the music of the spheres
I no longer tremble in fear
For Redemption has found me
And in Redemption comes the overflow of peace

-Pendulum-

Bright lights are breaking through the sky
Dark clouds are pouring from your feet
The seas and valleys all run dry
Reach through the sky and capture me

Bright lights are breaking through the sky
Dark clouds are pouring from your feet
The seas and valleys all run dry
Reach through the sky and capture me

Bright lights are breaking through the sky
Dark clouds are pouring from your feet
The seas and valleys all run dry
Reach through the sky and capture me

Bright lights are breaking through the sky
Dark clouds are pouring from your feet
The seas and valleys all run dry
Reach through the sky and capture me

Bright lights are breaking through the sky
Dark clouds are pouring from your feet
The seas and valleys all run dry
Reach through the sky and capture me

My heart a child trembling in sight of his wake
(Bright lights are breaking through the sky
Dark clouds are pouring from your feet)
Your blood was the bridge between us
(The seas and valleys all run dry
Reach through the sky and capture me)
(A new song)

My heart a child trembling in sight of his wake
(Bright lights are breaking through the sky
Dark clouds are pouring from your feet)
Your blood was the bridge between us
(The seas and valleys all run dry
Reach through the sky and capture me)
(A new song)

Reach through the sky and capture me

-Thegodmachine: The Rider-

Trapped in the trenches
Overrun by idols
We've strapped pride to our bones
And sealed it with our skin
Looking for a way to beat this system
We're trading life for a corpse
Entangled with the dead
And silenced by our guilt
We've strapped pride to our bones
And sealed it with our skin

I've encased myself in a tomb
With gods as dead as me
Surrounded by stones
Of depravity

I'm already dead
And I'm running out of answers
Outrunning all the answers
We want more
We want more

Every failure leaves me deeper in the ground
Show me what I've become

Oh, hanging skulls on my branches
Waist below the earth
I was a fool of lust
Since the day of my birth

Oh my love, I haven't let you go
Golden skies will divide to receive your soul
Oh my son, you've just begun to grow
But we've strapped pride to our bones
And sealed it with our skin

I've encased myself in a tomb
With gods as dead as me
Surrounded by stones
Of depravity
Turn this tomb to dust

I'm already dead
Oh my love, I haven't let you go
Golden skies will divide to receive your soul
Oh my son, you've just begun to grow
But we've strapped pride to our bones
And sealed it with our skin

Oh my God, You never let me go
Oh my God, You never let me go
Oh my God, You never let me go
(As lifeless as statues)
Oh my God, You never let me go
(As fleeting as dust in the air)
Oh my God, You never let me go
(We've robbed your splendor and replaced it with deceit)
Oh my God, You never let me go
(Replaced with deceit)
Oh my God, You never let me go
(Replaced with ruin)

Show us what you see
Grace come swiftly
Show us what you see
Grace come swiftly
Show us what you see
Grace come swiftly
Show us what you see
Grace come swiftly
Show us what you see
Grace come swiftly
Show us what you see
Grace come swiftly

Like the waves upon the shore
(Grace come swiftly)
We can't hear you in our hearts anymore
(Oh God give us rest in you)
Grace come swiftly and drag the axe further towards me
(Oh God give us rest in you)
The Son of man approaches the hollows
(Oh God give us rest in you)
He breaks the guilt in one fell swoop
(Oh God give us rest in you)
Beheading our treachery
(Oh God give us rest in you)
Oh God would you bring a burning downpour of Your, of Your...
Blood

I can hear the hordes of ghosts
Screaming in Your choir
But would Your love make any difference
In a graveyard

There's no running now
His thunder shakes the earth
There will be no trace of betrayal

All creation trembles before You
As You lift Your hand
Your will be done

-That I May Love You-

[Instrumental]

-Throes-

[Instrumental]

-Fleshkiller-

Ignite my veins with your blood
to inspire new verses
I'm drained to my dregs
Replace my eyes with your fire to burn through the curses
Leave nothing that could hinder your blinding light

Test me in the furnace of affliction
Refine me as you wish
When the die is cast
Breathe in me your animating spark

I won't flinch when the Earth gives way
So take me now
It's not my blood to bleed
I won't flinch when the Earth gives way
So I cry out:
The last word is yours to speak

Sharpen my tongue with precision only your words convey
I've kept waiting too long
Breathe in my lungs a passion that strangles corruption
Till there's nothing left

Fleshkiller
We're engraved on your hand

Test me in the furnace of affliction
Refine me as you wish
When the die is cast
Breathe in me your animating spark

I won't flinch when the Earth gives way
So take me now
It's not my blood to bleed
I won't flinch when the Earth gives way
So I cry out:
The last word is yours to speak

Fleshkiller Disease has no grasp on your reign
Fleshkiller
Prison cells won't contain your light

With every crushing blow
we are engraved upon your hand

I won't flinch when the Earth gives way
So take me now
It's not my blood to bleed
I won't flinch when the Earth gives way
So I cry out:
The last word is yours to speak

-The Deepest Of Graves-

Every time my eyes fall to
the stare of the unknown
You take the night and replace it with your dawn
When my path is unclear and my courage starts to fade
You sow life in the deepest of graves

Somewhere between bearing my shame
and wearing my pain
You still find it in you to love me
for who I am

When I fall prey to the snares of distrust
You're reaching out or I'd be crushed
Break my fears and shatter my guilt
An eternity of weight is gone

Bearing my shame
and wearing my pain
You still find it in you to love me
Somewhere between bearing my shame
and wearing my pain
You still find it in you to love me
for who I am

I never cease to fail you
But you still love me past my debt

You sow life in the deepest of graves

(For miles) I see no end to your flowing grace
You sow life in the deepest of graves

Bearing my shame
and wearing my pain
You still find it in you to love me
Somewhere between bearing my shame
and wearing my pain
You still find it in you to love me
for who I am

-Blood On My Knuckles-

Face your wrath

I followed your shadow
to the devil's lair
Upon a pale horse,
pierced, gaunt and red
Trampling the chests of demons
and not looking back
The weight of redemption on my shoulders
when you said;
"I would give you more gold than you could fit in your fists,
the entire world is at your fingertips."

Face your rage
and your hounds will turn on their own
With each nail
I will break your every bone

Black and blue color my skin;
that smirk leaves your face
Reciprocated tenfold
when I break your curse
Hoisted up and bound by a traitor
I left him in a field;
his insides feed the birds

"I would give you more gold than you could fit in your fists,
the entire world is at your fingertips."

Face your rage
'Wrath' is too weak a word

When I rise your fate is sealed
There will be nothing left but the blood on my knuckles

'Wrath' is too weak a word
Face your rage
and your hounds will turn on their own
With these nails
I will break your every bone

-Twisted-

You breed malice into your pews
Like death you never have enough

Spewing your poison
over the four corners of the world
You're twisted in knots
pouring salt in every wound
Spewing your poison
like seeds of discontent
Flaunting your hate
as a means of backwards religion

Hell is not low enough to contain your depravity
Hell is not low enough to truly describe where you're heading

Your mouth is a festering wound
Never shut long enough to heal
Like death you never have enough
So your thirst will be quenched
It's just a matter of time before you beg due recompense
All the hate you spew will not save you before them

Death you never have enough
Like death you never have enough

Fall to your knees
Your redeemer's robes won't save you
and even your rules betray you
You breed malice into your pews
and make them suffer under your abuse

You breed malice into your pews
Like death you never have enough

Fall to your knees, Pharisee
and burn

Your mouth is a festering wound
Never shut long enough to heal
Like death you never have enough
So your thirst will be quenched
It's just a matter of time before you beg due recompense
All the hate you spew will not save you before them

Depart from me for I never knew you

-De El Quatro-

[Instrumental]

-Out Of Dust-

Dry up the sea,
with a word turn it all to desert sand
Turn all the lights out in the sky,
blot out all the stars

Make your presence unmistakable
and watch the devil flee
That old serpent that slipped through the cracks,
exiled back to the sea
So carry me to the foot of the throne room
or hide me in the ground
So bring me the head of the beast
or hide me in the ground

Wake up your hearts
The dead come to rise
No longer apart
Your bodies will rise
Let all those who dwelt in dust
be born in the light of the guilt you crush

The Earth resonates with your voice
Shaking the woodwork
WIth one swing the pride of a hopeless nation will fall down

Bring me the head of the beast
or hide me in the ground

Wake up your hearts
The dead come to rise
No longer apart
Your bodies will rise
Let all those who dwelt in dust
be born in the light of the guilt you crush

When we meet face to face
The world and the depths will separate
So bring me the head of the beast
or hide me in the ground
Bury me

I'd rather die than just sit back and watch you hurt

Tired brothers, loving sisters,
To all those who have had enough;
Your fight isn't over, you're going to press on

To a loveless generation
born to be an impending resurgence:
Let all those who dwelt in dust
be born in the light of the guilt you crush

-The Blessing And The Curse-

Get me back to the days when I felt young
When love was beautiful
Not just a touch to con
Over these years I've deadened my nerves
Friction for validation
Take me back

You are the blessing
and I am the curse
I'm ready to run like a child
away from the hell I deserve

Waiting in this darkened room
You're still fresh on my lungs
Hoping for a sign to prove I'm over the edge
Cut me from what's burnt on my eyes
Cut me away
I still wear you branded on my skin

You are the blessing
and I am the curse
I'm ready to run like a child
away from the hell I deserve
You are the garden
and I am the drought
I'm emptied over the weeks away
Too fond of this bed to see it out

Are my roots too low?
Am I drying up too fast to follow?
Have my veins run dry?
Will I ever hear your voice again
or feel your healing hand?

(Even in the storm, I can hear you now)
Cut me away from the lies that this world has fed me
(You're still there, you call be back)
Give me a sign, I still wear her branded on my skin
(Even in the storm, I can hear you now)
Show me love for what you mean't it to be
(You're still there, you call me back)
Take me back
(Even in the storm, I can hear you now)
Lest I run headfirst into my lust
(You're still there, you call me back)
and further away from any future trust

-Dyson Sphere-

The confines of my eyes
but allow a sliver of light
Upon a pale blue sphere what purpose could I have
Climb with me to the top of the clouds
But I find that I am truly alone

Can you hear my cicada's song
droning through the darkness?
Blurring the words and fading the meaning
until only static is left
Climb with me to the top of the clouds
But I find that I am truly alone

'I am who contains the universe
who makes the ocean floor a road
I am who cranes the stars in place
I am who your mind cannot encase
Can you even think of me without reducing me?'

I want to see you in all your glory
Clothed in clouds too big of a story
I wanna see you in all of your glory
I want to see you in all your glory
Prove it to me
I want to see you in all your glory
Clothed in clouds too big of a story
I want to see you in all of your glory
Prove it to me

'You'd be lost to madness...

Can you even think of me without reducing me?
I piece together dislocated limbs of the galaxy

I'm looking down from the clouds all over creation
while you cling to the filthy means but it's my blood that you're washed in
Look up to the stars that I've set out like lanterns
to illuminate my child superseding your ransom
You live your life in the cracks of an infinite canvas
A mere fraction of a note in eternal stanzas

The beginning, the end and what comes after
They point to me: I am their master'

-Manipulator's Wire-

Witness the fate of a generation
Bring me your sutures
I'll rip them out
Your past is evident
Held together by string

Are you really yourself
or do your demons still haunt you?
Are you really yourself?
Your past owns you
Your stitches are your manipulator's wire

Dread the night where the blood blends with the rest
You'll be shown what you've hidden away
Swept under the rug
Now the destruction refuses to relent
You'll be found drowning in shadows
if you breathe your past

Gauze and string won't mend your wounds
Burying your future in oblivion
Your past owns you

Dread the night where the blood blends with the rest
You'll be shown what you've hidden away
Swept under the rug
Now the destruction refuses to relent
You'll be found drowning in shadows
if you breathe your past

Your past owns you

Seethe all you corpses to scorch and deceive

Are you really yourself
Or do your demons still haunt you?
Manipulator's wire

Dread the night where the blood blends with the rest
You'll be shown what you've hidden away
Swept under the rug
Now the destruction refuses to relent
You'll be found drowning in shadows
Your past owns you

Seethe all you corpses to scorch and deceive

-Salting The Mine-

We're only looking back to see
the miles we've left behind
What we thought was finished has only marked the beginning
I'm done with wasting my time to pay for your trend
You've been played out for years and it makes me so sick to watch

We walk a tight rope to stay alive
You repeat yourself over and over
It's another day, another lie
They will chew you up just to spit you out

We're only looking back to see the miles we've left behind
What we thought was finished has only marked the beginning

The more you talk the less your words hold weight
A herd of cattle led to the butcher's block and put to sleep

A wise man once told me that
"the only originality left is honesty." - Seth Webster

We walk a tight rope to stay alive
You repeat yourself over and over
It's another day, another lie
They will chew you up just to spit you out

So don't buy in, you're just another ticket sold

We walk a tight rope to stay alive
You repeat yourself over and over
It's another day, another lie
They will chew you up just to spit you out

We walk a tight rope to stay alive
It's getting old
It's another day, another lie
Don't buy in you're just another ticket sold

They'll chew you up just to spit you out
So don't buy in
I'm not gonna pay for your trend

-From A Burning Sun-

To think of all the lives they've taken
Thrown in an endless void
Worth is not assigned by a man on a screen
Nor love by where we sleep
We conceal who we truly are
In hopes to thrill an audience
But there's not enough make up in this world
To cover all our scars

A coward said that you'll never amount to anything
You've still got the breath in your lungs enough to fight the apathy

Raise your voices loud and clear
They will tremble when they hear
We are not abandoned anymore
We're aiming to find you now
This is the last time you sell us out
We will not be silent anymore

Desensitizing every truth we hold
A dystopic nightmare
Worth is not assigned by a man on a screen
Nor love by where we sleep

Raise your voices loud and clear
They will tremble when they hear
We are not abandoned anymore
We are aiming to find you now
This is the last time you sell us out
We will not be silent anymore

Reveal yourself for who you are
Apathy is dead

A coward said that you'll never amount to anything
You've still got the breath in your lungs enough to fight the apathy
So walk out from behind those gates and feel the sun burn upon your face
You will be bestowed a new name etched in stone
Born in flame

We are born from a burning sun
We are more than what's inside the gates we're from
Apathy is dead
Reveal yourself for who you are

-WWII-

Dear father I must first confess
that from the stone inside my chest
I have nothing to offer you

I'm shaken by your righteousness
at a loss of words to do justice
so grant me grace in silence

I will learn to love you
and abandon the rest

If your children lost their voice to sing
and fled the shadow of your wing
would you reveal yourself to us?

Crashing waves calm at your feet
but further still my body sinks
I am a man of little faith

But I will learn to love you
and abandon the rest

Not abandoned
Bound by grace we sing
You are my everything

My last breath is yours
My last breath is yours to breathe

My last word is yours
My last word is yours to speak

To love you and abandon the rest

-Dead Choir-

Dead choir
The moment i heard your footsteps shake upon the ground
It betrayed every hint of truth that fumbled out your mouth
The song you sang moved mountains silenced by fear
The unnerving complacency you wash down with your years

Dead choir
Does it help you sleep at night
Dead choir
To judge those you’ve put out of sight
You’re no man of faith
You are incapable of change
And you’ve never been awake

Sing me a song not with empty words
But with feet that follow
Sing me a song so sweet to hear
But long since forgotten
Grace come my way
How can you love a god that you cannot see
When you hate your fellow man standing in front of me
When will you remember that love first made you sing
The words that jumped off the pages to comfort suffering

Dead choir
You think you’re serving someone else
Dead choir
But you’re only fooling yourself
You’re no man of faith
You’re a liar and a fake
You refuse to ever change
Without grace we would all be dead
We would all be dead
We would all be dead

Sing me a song not with empty words
But with feet that follow
Awaken a verse
Oh grace, come my way

Sing me a song not with empty words
But with feet that follow
Sing me a song so sweet to hear
But long since forgotten
Grace come my way

-White Livered-

[feat. Dominic Dickinson]

I trusted you with my life and you made it my hell

I would carve away at your skin to peel back your face
Searching for who you used to be if I knew it wasn’t a waste

I trusted you with my life and you made it my hell
To the cold blooded deceiver
What do you have to say for yourself
To the cold blooded deceiver
I trusted you with my life and you made it my hell

Too white livered to even offer explanation
Betrayer and a thief
Too white livered to even offer explanation
You smeared poison in our sheets

Lying while lying in a wedding bed
You brought this into our home you played your games with my head
Deeper trace the wound across my neck
Deeper I was a promise you never kept

I trusted you with my life and you made it my hell
To the cold blooded deceiver
What do you have to say for yourself
To the cold blooded deceiver
I trusted you with my life and you made it my hell

Your skin is a casket because the man I once knew died
Next time you look in a mirror I hope your eyes go blind
I hope your eyes go blind
Next time you look in a mirror I hope your eyes go blind
I hope your eyes go blind

-Truth Be Told-

Teach me how to be brave in my last day
You grew up in a broken home and your mother said the porch was your bed
Manipulating your father into confinement
Just so they could cut the hairs from your head
They tried to steal your strength and beauty away
Forcing betrayal of a man i barely knew

Abandoned and thrown between white walls
But they could never, they will never break you
When they put the gun to your head
An angel stood between you and the trigger
When they said your breath was worth nothing
You made them listen to the voice of a leader
Teach me how to be brave in my last day

You awoke to empty hands so you worked them to the barest of bones
You were found knocked out with blood on the floor
But they could never, they will never break you

When they put the gun to your head
An angel stood between you and the trigger
When they said your breath was worth nothing
You made them listen to the voice of a leader
Teach me how to be brave even in my dying day
The truth could never be taken from your lips
The shortness of breath you were clutching your chest

The world went black but for only a moment
You opened your eyes and they locked to mine
Never afraid you were never broken
I see now as you’re reaching out you never let a second pass away
Unbreakable reflection of grace teach me how to be brave in my last day

Teach me how to be brave in my last day
Teach me how to be brave in my last day
Teach me how to be brave in my last day

-Non-

[Instrumental]

-Forever West-

Forever west follow the sunset
Leave the past in the darkness behind you
Forever west don’t let the sun set
Don’t look back never look back

If you should find yourself all alone
Remembering the cold the night air brought
Its sting like salt biting the knives in our backs
We were waiting for a glint of light preceding dawn
When the hills bled paint like fire on the horizon
Upon a golden canvas sky

Forever west follow the sunset
Leave the past in the darkness behind you
Forever west don’t let the sun set
Don’t look back never look back

If you should find yourself alone
My stars will point you back to me
You’ll have to fight through the night for what’s at stake
You’ll have to fight through the night until morning breaks
Fight through the night

The shadows grew as the light fell dim
To remind me of my struggle within
A contrast sharp enough to pierce my heart
But I’ll run until my legs go numb
Away, away from the dark
(Forever west follow the sunset)

Forever west follow the sunset
Leave the past in the darkness behind you
Forever west don’t let the sun set
Don’t look back never look back

Forever west follow the sunset
Forever west
Forever, forever, forever, forever

You’ll have to fight through the night
You’ll have to fight through the night

-Tetelestai-

Oh how i long to see the end of every ending
To breathe before my last and begin beginning
Would you catch the wind with your arm
Or lift my oceans with a heave
All hell sound your sirens
Hold your breath for three words conceived:
It is finished
Walking down the streets i watch you turn your face from me
They ripped the skin from my back dissecting eternity
You clothed me in darkness given a rose but wearing the thorns instead
My last breath
I watch god hang his robes over the sun
To hide a child becoming corruption
Clean hands
Eternity nailed to a tree how tired you must have been
Clean hands
From a garden to misery bearing the weight of men
Yet you raise yourself higher to take your last breath
Demons pause with terror
I am blood enough to never run dry still you despise me
Sinking the spear in my side when you hung beside me on that day
Cursing at the wind will not stop the message i send

Clean hands
Eternity nailed to a tree how tired You must have been
Clean hands
From a garden to misery bearing the weight of men
Yet You raise yourself higher to take Your last breath

Bear witness once and for all
It is finished

Would you catch the wind with your arm
Or lift my oceans with a heave
All hell sound your sirens
Hold your breath for three words conceived

-Coup De Grâce-

Dead end - prove yourself

Motives lost in translation to nullification
You lied your way into fame
Scheming and slaying were perks for the taking
Stars in your eyes but you were playing a game

Hear suspicion proving itself

Dead end - jester and faker
Before your maker, wish a truce between you two
Dead end - take a bow for your act
‘Cause the curtain will fall on your neck like a noose
(Yeah)

Hail marys aren’t enough
Your body’s ripe with rust
Hearing your scales scraping the ground
That disgusting and piercing sound

Hear suspicion proving itself

Fire - make sure to do your worst
Hail marys aren’t enough because you’ll still be cursed
Fire - make sure to do your worst
I hear suspicion proving itself

The curtain will fall on your neck like a noose
Fire - hail marys aren’t enough ‘cause you’ll still be cursed
Fire - make sure to do your worst
I hear suspicion proving itself

Dead end - jester and faker
Before your maker, wish a truce between you two
Dead end - the whole crowd will applaud
When the curtain falls on your neck like a noose

-Omnis-

[Instrumental]

-Seven-

I awoke in silence to broken glass
Blood stains the floor where I lay in separate halves
Trapped inside my mind my head welcomed the ground
Cursing in vain but my words offer no sound

I am lost in the spiral
My shame is stronger than desire for survival
An angel pushed me when I was pulling away
Despite my best attempts she decided to stay
Trapped in the cracks of an empty shell
On borrowed time that was spent in hell
The sum of all my fears strung out over seven long, long years

Drugs traverse my veins and leave me clutching the numb
My voice flies away further from my useless tongue
I sit quiet and still and hear worms eating the church
Maybe I believe them but I’m drunk from drinking my words

I am lost in the spiral
My shame is stronger than desire for survival
An angel pushed me when I was pulling away
Despite my best attempts she decided to stay
Trapped in the cracks of an empty shell
On borrowed time that was spent in hell
The sum of all my fears strung out over seven long, long years

Speak the words tonight, span the void inside
Let loose the words you’re free, come back, come back to me
Speak the words tonight, span the void inside
Let loose the words you’re free, come back, come back to me

Seven years without a voice seven months away from my side
Seven spirals into the void but it ends now, it ends tonight

I won’t drag you down anymore
I am more than dead weight floating adrift
But I could never feel it brush my lips
You ask me to span the void inside
But I believe my borrowed time’s run dry
I won’t drag your down anymore
Speak!

I wear my past as the scars on my feet
Seven years without a voice seven months away from my side
Seven spirals into the void but it ends now, it ends tonight
Seven years without a voice seven months away from my side
Seven spirals into the void but it ends now, it ends tonight

-Iliaster (More Than Skin)-

Fate: What mere men define as the end
Fate: What I’ve seen as just the beginning
I am more than just a man
I walk in promise as an eternal soul
I am not afraid to die

I may bleed but my soul is well
I may fall but I will live to tell
If you should strike me down I return tenfold
I may be dressed in skin but it’s only a threshold

Oh, I was called the moment that you opened my eyes
To bring retribution to those who would steal your lives

I tip the scale of the world (I tip the scale of the world)
With the weight of all compassion on my back
I tip the scale of the world (I tip the scale of the world)
But it’s my burden to bear (burden to bear)
If you should strike me down, I return tenfold
I may be dressed in skin but it’s only a threshold

I may bleed but my soul is well
I may fall but I will live to tell
If you should strike me down I return tenfold
I may be dressed in skin but it’s only a threshold

I tip the scale of the world
I am more than just a man

I was called the moment that you opened my eyes
To bring retribution to those who would steal your lives

-Evening Gray and Morning Red-

Wading in dark waters, a shovel at my side
Digging a grave for the depths to fill with defeat that I would hide
Hearing grace kiss the waves but afraid of the breakers roar
Who would set sail to hold a candle amidst a thunderstorm?

Like a hand grasping to sand I am filled and emptied constantly
How could I quiet the ocean that’s in front of me?
Toil and sweat and aspiration is but wringing rags into the deep
Tell me how I would ever stay the swarming seas

Am I chasing the wind?
Am I drowning in the shallow end?

Counting every step I take and boundaries you’ve assigned
But Davy Jones he beckons me back to die amongst the brine
Feet still sinking further, my body’s run a shore
Only in my nightmares have I seen this once before

Drowning in the shallow under the weight of the undertow
Drowning in the shallow under the weight of the undertow

Like a hand grasping to sand I am filled and emptied constantly
How could I quiet the ocean that’s in front of me?
Toil and sweat and aspiration is but wringing rags into the deep
Tell me how I would ever stay the swarming seas

Am I chasing the wind?
Am I drowning in the shallow end?
Am I chasing the wind?
Am I drowning in the shallow end?

-Moriar-

I fixed eyes upon dreaded waning of life
Until I felt forever enter void and thus divide
If I stand against my darkness not all of me will die

-Till the End-

Till the end

To those freedom ensnared
A dying breed to the true heir
Resurrect and testify
I was born to live free or die
Why consult the grave about the breathing
When I feel your heart still beating
It’s a counter intuitive love
You are not indentured servants to lust

This is not a prayer to be blessed
This is a prayer to be broken
I do not fear what they fear
Till the end I’m singing

From shadows valley low we march into the mend
Through hollows I won’t stop singing till the end
From shadows valley low we march into the mend
Through hollows I won’t stop singing till the end

You were writhing in shackles
Tripping on plot holes
I can hear your voice begin to shake
You were birthing in my dreams
Hell’s newborn nightmare asleep

From shadows valley low we march into the mend
Through hollows I won’t stop singing till the end
From shadows valley low we march into the mend
Through hollows I won’t stop singing till the end

To those freedom ensnared
A dying breed to the true heir
Resurrect and testify
I was born to live free or die

Till the end
Live free or die
Till the end
Live free or die
Till the end

-Dark Flag-

I looked into darkness too long
Now it stares back

Welcome to the inside
The world's largest prison
Where the only way out
Is six feet deep

Forced to fear
By burden of indoctrination
A weight upon their eyelids
Asleep to the outside
The apotheosis of madness
Paints red a nation
Free will is a death sentence
There's no salvation

Mourn when I say mourn
Or make your graves with the resistance
Bow when I say bow
Or fade in a vacuum of nonexistence
Dark flag: the insurmountable curtain
Dark flag: how can we be found?

When light can't reach into shadow
How can we be found?
When light can't speak into me
It's trapped in-between hell and myself

With the teachings of the great leader: we pledge
We oath to hold our guns to defend the state: we pledge

Mourn when I say mourn
Or make your graves with the resistance
Bow when I say bow
Or fade in a vacuum of nonexistence
Dark flag: the insurmountable curtain
Dark flag: how can we be found?

Where paranoia runs rampant as hunger
Welcome to the inside
Drowning articulation
It feels like madness
With no end in sight
How can we be found?

When light can't reach into shadow
How can we be found?
When light can't speak into me
It's trapped in-between hell and myself

Shrouded in shadow
They threw away the key
I looked into darkness
Now it stares back at me

The only way out is six feet deep
Dark flag: how can we be found?
Dark flag: burn it to the ground

-Burning Bright-

They stole you far away
To the end of the sea
From rib and clay
My lantern and key

Home is the narrow and wide reaches of our shared scars
On tomorrow's horizon I want
To believe I choose to see

When the sun is down
Show me how to reflect like the moon
The key is in my hands and I choose to burn bright
Safe years behind me burn bright

I know now I am not alone
You've always found me in the deep of night
I could die well here, before morning comes
Because I can see all the lights of the sun in your eyes

We spoke of lovely things
With guards not listening
We made plans to escape
Like in the movies

Confiding in scripts
Kindling in secret
Our home discrete
In captors' keep

In quiet still small moments

Wait till they leave us alone
And don't look back,
Cross with me over the threshold
My inimitable half

In quiet still small moments
I hear you breathe and I remember
I am alive

I found you under distant stars
You saw me through my deepest dark

I know now I am not alone
You've always found me in the deep of night
I could die well here, before morning comes
Because I can see all the lights of the sun in your eyes

Home is the narrow and wide reaches of our shared scars
On tomorrow's horizon
I can see all the lights of the sun in your eyes

The key in my hands and I choose to burn bright
Safe years behind me burn bright

-I Saw The Bombs Fall-

I awoke from a nightmare
In a fit consciousness slow
Cold sweat and colder air
Blinding flashes cast a shadow
Before the sound hit the square
The end of it all

They kept in from your TV screens
A slight of hand
But I dreamt of a lifeless rock
A cratered wasteland

It's not just an alternate reality
I saw the bombs fall
It's not just overseas
I saw the bombs fall

Are we really that far away?
Am I naïve to think?
That this I only a dream
Is it really that hard to recall
What brought the end of it all?
We lost our chance to rewrite history

A path void of heroes
The abysmal waste of what could have been
Discerning only ones and zeroes
There's no space between for them
Peel back what covers your ears
Hear that a nation is crying out for mercy
Before it's too late for them to raise a sound
Mercy

Are we really that far away?
Am I naïve to think?
That this is only a dream
Is it really that hard to recall?
What brought the end of it all?
We lost our chance to rewrite history

Between the bodies in trenches and the blistering sky
It's not just overseas: I saw the bombs fall

-The 38ᵗʰ Parallel-

[Instrumental]

-Hell Below-

I sowed the salt but the
bitter weeds still grow
I fear a heaven above for the hell below

I wept when guilt by association stared in irony
Avoiding its eyes bowing three times
I watched as hopes expire under the weight
Of standards I create and betray

One day they sunk hungry fangs into the hand that feeds
A hand that bleeds
In trying to stifle their voices
I bowed their limbs, they bowed my knees

Struck to silence by the gavel
Make him bleed for playing God
I sowed the salt but the bitter weeds still grow
I fear a heaven above for the hell below

Lost in the waves of a sea of fire
One million portraits to fan the flame Burned in effigy
A fitting end to a cult of personality

Struck to silence by the gavel
Make him bleed for playing God
I sowed the salt but the bitter weeds still grow
I fear a heaven above for the hell below

Called to the judgement seat
Eye for an eye watch a man playing God bleed

Struck to silence by the gavel
Make him bleed for playing God
I sowed the salt but the bitter weeds still grow
I fear a heaven above for the hell below

Turn to the last page to see just how this ends

I fear a heaven above for the hell below

-A War That Never Ends-

First light under quiet clouded cloak
All hell broke the ridge
Wry trees up a narrow trail
A wordless story a war that never ends

Brothers and sisters sleep in a bed hollowed by staves
Like discarded shells from guns of powerful men
Last one lays in red under swinging single light
No pulse: a war that never ends

How clever you lie
How many ways you kill
Your cure is worse than the disease
Your sated shrine
Your cup overfilled
Your cure is worse than the disease

Our proudest legacy is how unendingly we scheme
Of new ways to kill than condemn
A war that never ends

It became our greatest prize to keenly wield skill to devise
More ways to cut than to mend
A war that never ends

How clever you lie
How many ways you kill
Your cure is worse than the disease
Your sated shrine
Your cup overfilled
Your cure is worse than the disease
A war that never ends

-Break the Earth-

If all it takes is a voice to lead,
Rise up Moses and teach me to speak
If all it takes is a mustard seed,
I'll trade my heart to move a mountain in me

Struck me like lightning and called me by thunder

To raise an army underground
I hear the trumpet, the final sound
We will rise from barren lowly dirt
First to strike the stone, break the earth

Taunt the jaws of lions
And you will suffer teeth
Lash the backs of my people
You'll be scarred to bone underneath

Oh I pray for the day my words unleash the rain

If all it takes is a voice to lead
Rise up Moses and teach me to speak
If all it takes is a mustard seed
I'll trade my heart to move a mountain in me

Move a mountain in me
Break the earth

Heels to the throat of liberty
Always withdraw broken
Forbidden words of prophets
In time will be spoken
Rise up, from barren lowly dirt
Rise up, strike the stone, break the earth

If you reap what you've sown, why has nothing grown
Oh I pray for the day my words unleash the rain

If all it takes is a voice to lead
Rise up Moses and teach me to speak
If all it takes is a mustard seed
I'll trade my heart to move a mountain in me

Struck me like lightning and called me by thunder

To raise an army underground
I hear the trumpet, the final sound
We will rise from barren lowly dirt
First to strike the stone, break the earth

-My Rosary-

Is there a power without or within?
Hope isn't grown, hope is awakened
The threat of law can't outweigh conviction
Hope isn't grown, hope is awakened

Where are you now?
Are you present of an accident?
My rosary
Where are you now?
Will my faith meet sight or bayonet?
My rosary

My first free choice was lying to the state
Given context to what lies past the gate
The fog surrounding my camp began to disperse
We took our chance for the fence but I wasn't first

I've found that running away isn't the same as being free
I'm paralyzed in my sleep
Running away isn't the same as being free
You were my compass
My rosary

Hope isn't grown, hope is awakened

I slipped on ice and watched your hands reach out
Shaking as coils sent current throughout
Grounding the brunt of what should have been my fate
Opening the wires sending fire through your veins
Like a bridge I crawled over you to the outside
My first breath of freedom was your last breath of life

I've found that running away isn't the same as being free
I'm paralyzed in my sleep
Running away isn't the same as being free
You were my compass
My rosary

Is there a power without or within?
Hope isn't grown, hope is awakened
The threat of law can't outweigh conviction
Hope isn't grown, hope is awakened

Where are you now? Are you present?
Where are you now? Are you an accident?

-The Arduous March-

[Instrumental]

-Communion for Ravens-

[feat. Jimmy Ryan]

The smell of wine turned
Bread beneath the gallows tree
Ode to the nameless; a hooded child
Communion for ravens

No hope to lose; no past to mourn
Born a slave deep in the earth
A famine stricken cursed womb
Nothing is sacred
The only escape is death
You would torture my family
To litter my tomb

I refuse to live dead any longer

Hooks in the wall over open flame
Silence escape
Bowing heads into the earth
No hope; no name

I refuse to live dead any longer

The smell of wine turned
Bread beneath the gallows tree
Ode to the nameless; a hooded child
Communion for ravens

I saw the stone walls fall
Crushing their will to dust
Swept away with the river's current
But still I see every face

In blood or famine
Silence escape
Grow old to die here
No hope; no name

I refuse to live dead any longer

The smell of wine turned
Bread beneath the gallows tree
Ode to the nameless; a hooded child
Communion for ravens

I refuse to live dead any longer

-In Meaningless Names-

Counting days with each cell door creak
I know the number of every chain link
Grieving walls draw near to mind
The deafening hush of waiting to die

Hold fast to hope of another day
Hold fast it can't last forever
The meaningless names of far off places
I have to believe something better awaits

I sense a waste in every exhale
Breath escapes iron bar and nail
Forgotten silence condemned
Darkness as my only friend

But hold fast to hope of another day
Hold fast it can't last forever
The meaningless names of far off places
I have to believe something better awaits

I am waiting to die among a swarm of flies
Every day is a lifetime in chains
Every day

Hold fast to hope of another day
Hold fast it can't last forever
The meaningless names of far off places
I have to believe something better awaits

I have to believe. I have to believe

-Know Death; Know Forever-

I had to be broken
to be pieced back together
I had to know death to know forever

An angel hiding in the hearts of a stone
And the sculptor's patient means
Cutting through rubble to the bone
To carve her into being
The unsung and lonely orphan
And the namer of names
A refuge and father given
Granting title, will, and claim

Broken; pieced back together
Know death; know forever

When sorrows rise
The thorns in my side
Make me alive
I wear my scars like a crown
I had to be lost to be found

Oh captive wearer of chains
And the holder of keys
Deliver ankles and wrists from pain
To abound as eternally free

Broken to be pieced back together
I had to know death to know forever

When sorrows rise
The thorns in my side
Make me alive
I wear my scars like a crown
I had to be lost to be found

Broken before the maker
All death will know forever

I wear my scars like a crown
I had to be lost to be found