- 30kft
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
- Alive
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
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
- Anthem
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
- Awake
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
- Barren
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
- Binary
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
- Bipolar
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
- Bravery
Their words plunge like daggers
Focused, derisive laughter
A target outnumbered
Cornered and torn asunder
Cast out and rejected
Fragile and unprotected
- Crosstalk
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
- Damaged
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
- Disappoint
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
- Drive
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
- Fallen Down
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
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
- Ghosts
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
- Grind
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
- Horizon
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
- How Can You Sleep
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
- Human
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
- I am the Rain
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
- Ignorance
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
- Infinite
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
- King Of Insects
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 Be Your Armor
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 Be Your Armour
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 the Wind Erase Me
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
- Lullaby
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
- Naked
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
- Old
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
- Opened
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
- Otherness
Assemblage 23 - Otherness
To give completely
From within yourself
To treat compassion
As the truest form of wealth
No small adjustment
- Pages
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
- Reckless
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
- Regret
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
- Silence
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
- Skin
Identity sometimes seems fleeting
An ever-changing tapestry
But at it's heart is the foundation
The very essence of our being
- Sorry
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
- Talk Me Down
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
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
- The Drowning Season
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
- The Last Mistake
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
- the noise inside my head
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
- The Other Side Of The Wall
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 Poison Moon
The flashbulb blind
The siren blare
A palpable tension
Like a vulture circling in air
The shivering hours
Unanswered fate
Inquiring the liar
- Tried
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
- Truth
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 Haven't Earned It
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