1. |
The Mire
03:38
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Discharge emotional ties
In the murky waters
Release our sorrows joining
With the mire of our misfortune
Gasping as the murk fills our lungs
Replacing the emotions dragging us
Deep down below the cloudy depths
Of the mire of our suppression
Drown in the waters of our mire
Sorrow joins the waters of our mire
Drowning in our sorrow
Freeing is our sorrow
Drown in the waters of our mire
Sorrow joins the waters of our mire
Drown
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2. |
Dark Frost
03:36
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Consumed with the bleakness of the retreating Dawn
No more light from her hands, internal winter comes
Dusk mistress cold hands caress my down-turned soul
Giving into her embrace, I give her all control
Apathy encroaches on all I used to love
Her darkness drapes over me like snow on the ground
Everything starts to atrophy
This dark frost takes over me
Accustomed to this new dark I reject the warmth of Dawn
Though lifeless, in solitude, this cold is my new home
Everything starts to atrophy
This dark frost takes over me
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3. |
Revelry In The Dark
04:27
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This reverie flows within one with the dark
The peace of this solitude fills the heart
Exposed to the emptiness we all know
Reflectant the negative becomes our home
Revelry in the dark we call our own
Finding strength in the Dusk blocking the sun
Only in this cold can be bloom
Willingly giving up to the gloom
We must press on
Taking comfort in the darkness that we feel
Find peace in this dark space of reality
Becoming in union with shadow
A haven free from all light safe within
Purity, with sweet voice, Dusk calls to me
Reaching out to the dark to find revelry
We must press on
Taking comfort in the darkness that we feel
Find peace in this dark space of reality
Revelry in the dark
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4. |
Catatonic Death Grip
04:33
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Drinking from the cup of self-destruction
All bitterness exits as the pain fades
This poison filled escape greets like an echo
Rippling out from within, yet repeating
All will know your pain
A death grip around your shame
Light snuffed out between gripping fingers
Tight like a noose around your neck
A hammer falls, yet there is no release
The pain spreads out, and keeps repeating
All will know your pain
A death grip around your shame
Left unmoving
The memories remain
Catatonic death grip
Left unmoving
The memories remain
Catatonic death grip
You can’t escape your pain
These stains emit the truth of desperation
Memories which soaked down into pores
As everything collapses, ending accepting
The world will ache, the stains repeating
All will know your pain
A death grip around your shame
Left unmoving
The memories remain
Catatonic death grip
Left unmoving
The memories remain
Catatonic death grip
You can’t escape your pain
Lifeless, we lay still, with agony reflected
The melancholy soul forever ours to bear
This death grip around our shame, no hope to redeem
Left bare in this state, with hopelessness repeating
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5. |
Fate Of Sin
04:59
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Depictions of our evils
Haunt the walls of the past
Cursed visages of those wronged
Erected effigies cast
A blackened soul now burns
Suffocated with no life
Corrupted in essence
Fated to eternal strife
Wiping clean the stains, resurface our pain
Unable to escape it our fate is written
Scribed throughout dimensions in blood shed by our sin
Our fate is written in blood shed by our sin
Facing absolute end
Acceptance has sunk in
The blackened soul cracking
Exposing what's within
A husk of what was
Stands broken and alone
Fated to relive horrors we ourselves have done
Our fate is written in blood shed by our sin
Are we tied to our past? (Fate of sin)
Or can we reject it all? (Fate of sin)
Break down the chains of redemption? (Fate of sin)
Or are we doomed to it all? (Fate of sin)
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6. |
What Lies Within
06:49
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Lost within my own mind, a rabbit hole to flee
When did all this happen? Who am I supposed to be?
Bitterness and hatred consume my existence
I hate what I've become, my aspirations unclear
My failure rules my future, I'm chained to my fear
My mind is such a mess, exuding wretchedness
Consumed by fixation, what am I doing here?
Self-doubt turns into obsession, dictating my fear
You ask if I will let you in? Fuck you, I'm fine
I seek a glimpse of untouched worlds, of beauty divine
I tell myself that I'm ok
Deep down I know I've lost my way
Reject anticipation, withdraw into self
Sanity keeps slipping, seek what isn't real
No rest until perfection, fuck you I'm tired
The beauty I once thought untouched, mere reality marred
I tell myself that I'm ok
Deep down I know I'm slipping away
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7. |
Our Own
03:58
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Decay
Corruption from the inside
Consuming
No refuge from within
Absolute
The darkness taking over
Emptiness
Nothing inside anymore
Leeching
Working its way down deeper
Festering
Nothing but doubt
Fearing
Petrified, frozen
Worthless
Let it all bleed out
The emptiness we feel inside, swelling deep within our minds, we realize we’re dying on our own
Empty within our minds we realize, we’re all alone
Vacant
There's nothing for us here
Surrender
All dreams die moot
Silencing
Dejection taking over
Embrace
Please let me die here alone
The emptiness we feel inside, swelling deep within our minds, we realize we’re dying on our own
Empty within our minds we realize, we’re all alone
Hollow
How pointless this existence
Serenity
Our hands outstretched
Reaching
Our journey’s end
Farewell
We die together alone
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8. |
An Odious World
05:55
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Another day passes and I wonder, what the hell is wrong with us?
A loathsome species fueled by ire in singularity
Consumed with contempt unable to understand why
We’re dying, our foolish pride unable to accept we’ve failed
With clenched fists we reject our fellow man, lonely in the solitude we’ve fought so hard to bury ourselves in
Through introspection I’m filled with disgust
Here we go again
Another broken, beaten, subdued soul lies rotting
Rejected, unable to take solace in a society of lies
Arms retract, snatching hopes and dreams of things ever getting better
Out of sight out of mind, I don’t care anymore
And I look inside
I see reflections in the hatred
Of an odious world that we created
Is this truly what the state of man has become? Or is this what we’ve always been?
Following a stream of endless hedonism, only to drown in the currents if unending emptiness
Unwilling to help each other grow, taking pleasure in the struggle of others
Through introspection I’m filled with disgust
Abhorrent desires reflect the state of which we live
Dejection fills us like a disease, terminal
The frailty of man apparent as the world collapses at our feet
And yet we will not lift a finger to apply pressure to the wound
Black oozes from our veins seeping into the ground, feeding weeds of bleakness
And I look inside
I see reflections in the hatred
Of an odious world that we created
Radiant in my hypocrisy, I thought I was a good man, but I guess not, I’m sorry
Filled with greed and apathy, I retreat into selfish resolve
Unable to recognize who I am, just who have I become?
And as I look towards the horizon, everything fades away
Did I ever truly care, or was it all a façade to feel better about a cold existence?
The world continues to turn, on an axis of uncaring spite
With open arms towards death, we’ve rejected life
And I look inside
I see reflections in the hatred
Of an odious world that we created
I see reflections in the hatred
Of an odious world that I created
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9. |
War Of Attrition
04:29
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Trapped in this state of endless apathy
Negativity consumes entirely
I have no strength left to keep fighting this
I’m tired, damn it leave me be, no catharsis
Abjection of the self
The constant erosion from within
Reduced to worthlessness
In this war of attrition
My thoughts express my worth, defined antagony
Filling my being with doubt, cerebrally
Abating my desire to carry on
The war of wills is over, mentally squandered
Abjection of the self
The constant erosion from within
Reduced to worthlessness
In this war of attrition
Left broken, disgusting
Eroding from within
Self-destroying, weakening
Empty in the war of attrition
The contestant barrage from within, weapons of negativity
Consumes my every conscious, corrupting vitality
Left broken, disgusting
Eroding from within
Self-destroying, weakening
Empty in the war of attrition
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10. |
Ascending Dawn
05:34
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As Dusk subsides
The new day approaches
Dawn radiates
A light for the future
Through tribulation
We find ourselves on our own
With the sun overhead
We’ll find what lies within
Though all seems hopeless
Her smile will shine on us again
Break free from shadow
Within, Dawn will ascend
With every struggle
We turn away from the light
Destroying senses
Unsure of what we’ve become
Though all seems hopeless
Her smile will shine on us again
Break free from shadow
Within, Dawn will ascend
Reject the cold embrace
No compliance in darkened strife
The emptiness that we once felt
Will be replaced with life
Once Dusk descended
We drowned in her grasp
Break free and ascend
Toward Dawn’s radiance
Weightless, drifting away
I’ve lost who I once was, I’ve let it fade
Her hands cover me
Releasing what was asleep
Reject the cold embrace
No compliance in darkened strife
The emptiness that we once felt
Will be replaced with life
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