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Hello, if you're there pick up the phone
I'm calling from 30,000 feet above you
The captain's just informed us that our plane is going down
So I'm calling for one last time to say I love you

I'm not certain how much time I may have left, so I'll be brief
I'm sorry if this message only amplifies your grief
But I couldn't bear the burden of never having said goodbye

Through the iridescent rain
In this heavy atmosphere
Nothing makes a sound
But the bearing of my heart

Broken down and torn to shreds
On the verge of madness
Here comes that old familiar pain

Anger
In my body
In my veins
Shooting through my blood with terrible pain

The clutch it holds
On my convulsing soul
Send my emotions

We are born of stone
And etched by wind
Cast aside to live or die
We are the pawns in our own game

Like refugees
Of silent wars
We step on ever-shifting ground

I am lost
The footprints that I left have disappeared
For now I am driving blind

Accelerate
Without a destination to welcome me
This road is just an endless loop

Enough
I've taken all I can take
My heart is arid
My soul is barren

Devoid
Of function and of form
I feel so empty

Monochromatic reasoning
A divide and conquer legacy
Dissect and over-simplify
All hail the death of compromise

CHORUS
The world isn't rendered in black and white
Other shades lie between

I haven't felt so alive in years
The sun is shining down on me
My eyes are welling up with tears
Tears of joy, tears of ecstasy

Emotions I once kept concealed
Now flow freely like a river
Life's great mysteries revealed

Their words plunge like daggers
Focused, derisive laughter

A target outnumbered
Cornered and torn asunder

Cast out and rejected
Fragile and unprotected

Open up
Transmit to all receivers
Woe to the disbelievers
We create the truth

Alchemy
Spinning lies to fool’s gold
Believe what you’ve been told

I am merely the product
Of the life that I've lived
An amalgam of sorrows
And the wisdom they give
But the weight has grown heavy
And its dragging me down
It's so hard not to sink now
But I don't want to drown

Just one more time
For the sake of sanity
Tell me why
Explain the gravity
That drove you to this
That brought you to this place
That pushed you down
Into the soils embrace

When chaos reigns without a purpose
When the swell of sound becomes too much
Crushed between the cogs that work us
When I feel I'm slowly losing touch

Sometimes I drive to run from all my demons
Sometimes I drive so I can be alone
Sometimes I drive to see the world in different light

I've seen this face before
It somehow looks familiar
Tattered and weatherworn
A sad, pathetic creature

And once you stood so strong
Your eyes alight with promise
You vowed to carry on

Fluorescent Skies

I'm awakened by the sound
Of rain against my window
It's getting harder to ignore
But these tired eyes need rest

CHORUS

A thousand footsteps without direction
Adrift like snowfall from winter skies
Aimless parades of burning ambivalence
Selling false hope in certainty's guise

Living and breathing in sorrow's colossus
The teeming masses await a reply
Hoping for something that tastes of deliverance

The ground is pulsing
The pace is constant
So unrelenting as the day goes forward

There’s no escaping
It’s too incessant
The soulless shuffle and the crushing boredom

Hours
Spiral and coil into black
Some remembered, some forever gone

Tragic
We never get them all back
The relentless march of time must still go on

A conscience never burdened you
No empathy to slow you down
Others were there for you to use
Like hapless ships you ran aground

How can you sleep?
The world burns at your feet
How can you forsake

There have been times throughout my life
When I fell so far
I thought I'd never stand again
I watched my dreams depart
These aberrations had their place
In the grand design
But it's unnatural to feel
So bitter and resigned

Too eager to appease
The cure is the disease
And it's only growing worse

Day by day it takes its hold
Divides its cells a thousandfold
And makes your blindness seem perverse

I am a cog in the machine
And that's just the way I like it
Smiling faces on TV
Telling me things will be just fine

And if ignorance is bliss
I'm as giddy as an infant
I stared into the abyss

Like a grain of sand
Swallowed by the desert
Like a drop of rain
That falls from darkened clouds

I am overwhelmed
I stand here awed and humbled
At the feet of giants

Words come easy
Behind a screen
When there's no interface-to-face
To be seen

King of Insects
You eat your own
Atop an anthill

Let me take the fall
Let me take the blame
Let me carry you from hell
To home again.

Let me walk for you
When your legs are weak
Let me find the words for you

Let me take the fall
Let me take the blame
Let me carry you from hell
To home again.

Let me walk for you
When your legs are weak
Let me find the words for you

Attenuate the light of day
So I can see the lines and details
And not the hazy, plastic blur
That floods my eyes till I can't see

Let the wind erase me
Like the memory of a kiss
Let these waters take me

May you find solace in the gentle arms of sleep
Despite the wolves outside your door
In time you will see them all as harmless
And their idle threats easy to ignore

And if ever fate should choose to smite you
Stand your ground, never walk away
Please don't ever let the world defeat you

Awake aware alone
Lost and far from home
I walk without these walls
So there is less to fall

I am naked
I have nothing left
My bones are picked clean

When I grow old
And my memory
Leads me deep into the fog where it abandons me
Will you remind me
Of who I used to be
When I was younger?

When I am old

This day has altered my perception
I'll never see things quite the same
All that I knew was misconception
But all of that's about to change

(CH)
I opened my eyes today
The world looks so bright and strange

Assemblage 23 - Otherness

To give completely
From within yourself
To treat compassion
As the truest form of wealth

No small adjustment

I read your mind
But it wasn't a very interesting read
The plot was contrived
And the characters were too consumed by need

Page by page
Enduring each predictable turn
The paper dissolves beneath my fingers

So here I stand
Completely alone
My skin absorbs the rain

Helpless to control
Pieces within the whole
I can feel it starting again

My friend, I think you've lost your mind
The things you say don't make much sense
All the things you've left behind
The change in you has been immense

Stumbling into the evening
Dragging a chain of your regrets behind you
Reckless, distorted, and feckless

Some time ago I checked my conscience
And found it wasn't all that clean
A trail of people I had hurt
A sea of sins left unredeemed

Regret is a dull and rusted blade
That covers me with scars that never fade
These wounds, like a catalog of flaws

I want you to know the thoughts
My mind contains
I want you to feel the rage
Pulse through my veins
I want you to see the anger
In my eyes
I want you to feel fear
For your own life

Identity sometimes seems fleeting

An ever-changing tapestry

But at it's heart is the foundation

The very essence of our being

I'm sorry I can't bleed for you
The way you want me to
To throw myself against the rocks
The way I used to do

I'm sorry that I can't prolong
The pain I've been put through
I'm sorry, yes I'm sorry

Calm this raging sea
That churns and boils deep inside of me
Quell the hungry fire
That threatens to engulf me

Love, deliver me
From disastrous sobriety
I have lost my way

The cruelest year
Stole lives too young
And many more still
In the balance hung

We couldn’t breath
Try as we might
Fragile as feedback

Disjointed context
The words were merely sounds
Watching as the buildings
Slowly crumbled to the ground

Thoughts never rendered
Lie dying by the road
Last breath drawn endlessly

I haven’t seen you in so long
And I think that's wrong
And I think that's wrong

This problem needs to be addressed
It's really for the best
It's really for the best

It’s 3AM
And I am laying wide-awake
And I can’t sleep for the noise inside my head

The world vibrating
With a cruel cacophony
Flooded with the thoughts my mind has bled

A crippling anxiety
A chasm between you and me
That I wish wasn't there

There are things that I would like to say to you
I'm so afraid you'd disapprove
If you would even care

The flashbulb blind
The siren blare
A palpable tension
Like a vulture circling in air

The shivering hours
Unanswered fate
Inquiring the liar

I tried I failed to believe
In the reward I would receive
If only heaven's distant sun
Would burn away all the things I'd done

I tried to no avail
To keep my eyes from growing pale
But my vision came too late

The truth is like a dancer with shattered limbs
What once stood proud and graceful is languishing
And the midday sun beats down from above like a giant fist
That evaporates the veracity from within our midst

CHORUS
Don't speak of truth in times like these
The concept's riddled with disease

You crave attention
As if it's due to you
You want permission
To behave as badly as you do

You want respect, but
You don't act respectable
You want fame to fill the void