Burn the veil of heresy

Before it takes another life

Where hope dies with every dream

Ashes raining from the skies

I breathe them in to clear my head

But I choke upon the flame

A dying light to illuminate

Before I reach the end

 

These faded lives are all we have

To find our way through shadowed lands

We stumble on with broken backs

Holding hearts in calloused hands

 

[Hutcherson Solo]

 

A storm of lies within my head

As the waves keep crashing down

The turbid water won’t recede

And I fear that I will drown

No stars above, the creeping dark

Smothers all the lights below

This face that haunts me is my own

Upon his pallid throne

 

These faded lives are all we have

To find our way through shadowed lands

We stumble on with broken backs

Shielding hearts from callous hands

 

I cast aside the shroud

To reveal what’s underneath

The ground beneath is churning

 

With unblind eyes I see oblivion beyond the gate

Beneath the tide of cinders I accept this is my fate

 

[Hutcherson Solo]

Bloodline fallacies

Wreathe the soul that I call who I am

Lead on while ravens watch

Hungrily eyeing their prey

In a forest drenched in haze

Endlessly barring my way

 

Threads become stained

Weaving thoughts into blades

That cry for release in the night

A protector’s song

By the bard of barbs

Damning each breath that we take

The curse in my veins

 

[Hutcherson Solo]

 

This is the spectre that crawls through my dreams

Blasphemy born in my marrow

A lineage broken and torn at the seams

Now stripped down and chained

I burn the remains

 

Threads become stained

Weaving thoughts into blades

That cry for release in the night

They’re a jailor’s song

Of abuse in its arms

And fears that I’m bound to this fate

The curse in my veins

 

I repent

 

I see the machinations of torment glowing beneath the moon

With mouths of broken glass they rend my flesh and herald my doom

 

Cleave the body from my former

Render the past incomplete

I would end this to disown it

Leave it bleeding by the sea

There’s nothing left to give

Nothing to rake through coals

That I can use to keep the flame alive inside

Outside the storm rages

Injustice, bold and ageless

While I’m alone in the cold

I’m drowning in a mind that’s always caving in

The rivers rise and surround me

My body is a frame that’s weighed down by its sins

An anchor cold and leaden

We’re burning in the firelight—a living pyre

[Hutcherson Solo]

I can’t just cast aside

The burden in my heart

With no relief in sight

I’m being torn apart

We are merely vessels

Torn from the empty bliss of night

Unhallowed by design

Into the blinding light of life

Wrought in the image of god

We have to learn to find a way

To transcend far beyond

The tomb from which we came to be

Where we’re interred forever

I’m drowning in a mind that’s always caving in

The rivers rise and surround me

My body is a frame that’s weighed down by its sins

An anchor cold and leaden

Broken lights hide the past I push away

Still I lie in the wreckage, fragments tearing my skin

Into the scars that I betray

 

It betrays us all

 

Why should I atone and wash away the pain?

I can’t trust the memories leading me astray

Still I hold on to what I know are lies

Written in stone

 

[Pendergast Solo]

[Hutcherson Solo]

 

Draped in shame, wandering back through my life

Where I died, we were unmade

‘til I find a light 

Golden fire that gleams through the haze

Innocence lost that I reclaim

 

How can I atone and wash away the pain?

I can’t trust the memories leading me astray

Still I hold on to what I know are lies

Written in stone

Digging in the snow

And my hands are frostbitten and raw

No longer cold

 

Locked in a crystalline tomb of memory

Agony and verity 

When will it come for me?

 

[Hutcherson Solo]

 

Take this token of sincere apology

Words unspoken so I sing their melody

The loss became a song of life

Reflecting light from a blazier in the dark

In times where I’ve turned my eyes away again 

 

Shielded from the spark

In our dim and empty rooms

But the fire works its way in

Immolate all but one

Written with a knife

In our dim and empty rooms

On these cracked and fading pages

Hidden now from the sun

 

Silently the dream’s consuming me

Fighting back what I’ve become

I’m crying out, but I have been betrayed

In silence no one hears the sound

By failure I’m bound

 

[Hutcherson Solo]

 

Forged every night in my hope to keep the dogs at bay

These fumes intoxicate my brain

 

Hallucinations taking me

This poison’s sweet, deceiving plea

I’m cast in clay and locked away 

 

Shielded from the spark

In our dim and empty rooms

But the fire works its way in

Immolate all but one

Written with a knife

In our dim and empty rooms

On these cracked and fading pages

Hidden now from the sun

 

I dreamt of silence

If every muscle atrophies

Freedom from the rotting heart within

What will remain inside of me

This world was made for suffering

Once I dreamt, but now I’m lost

A curse fit for a king

In a haze—my shelter

[Pendergast Solo]

 

Down on the barren wasteland

In times where many men have fallen

I’m picking up the pieces 

Chasing shadows in a pale gray dawn

Ashes fall  

Hiding secrets like before

Snowlike but too imperfect

Leaving countless stains upon the shores

 

I’m praying for the rain

To take it all away

 

There’s nothing waiting for us now

I’m broken but unashamed

Cracks in the walls ease the night for us all

But we wait and hide from the pain

 

This world is more than we can take on all alone

Convinced we’re glory bound

 

[Hutcherson Solo]

[Pendergast Solo]

 

Lies twist and skew our purpose

I leave them bleeding on the floor

Unpledged to any service 

Insurrection, cut away the cords

Deny the fates

That are dancing in the night

We’re blind, our eyes unseeing

Diving deeper, hoping to ignite

 

I’m praying for the rain

To take it all away

Nowhere to be found

This dry, dying ground

Always was our grave

 

There’s nothing waiting for us now

I’m broken but unashamed

Cracks in the walls ease the night for us all

But we wait and hide from the pain

 

If I could throw the guilt aside

I’d let myself be washed away

From the chains of pride 

Into the love that I feel today

Where my will to live is not a lie

When the darkness comes