My timeline is a wire wrapped tight around my neck
Slowing apathy swells, give in to disconnect
Unworldly transmission fed to relive the shame
I don’t want a trial, I’ll take all the blame
A stone stolid council Speaks dogmatically
Bullets and antidotes divided evenly
A chilling consciousness wakes me from the trance
It redefines my mind I’ll never have a chance

Nothing, giving, unworthy offering
Losing, feeling like a bird with clipped wings
Sinking feeling, pushing down on me
Swimming, drowning, neurotoxic red sea

The blow shatters my remission
Fracture patterns show through the skin
Please understand this was not the plan
No, I gotta know
Does it matter where my heart has been
Fracture patterns show through my skin
Please understand this was not my plan
No, I gotta go

Weightless restraint floating away, evaporating
The impulse grows in clouds below, cascading
Dripping whisper, falling faster, raining

Sharia, under a beauty curse
Dear pariah, caught in the cycle
Death and adversity, 9 of consent,
Broken code, the watchdogs trailed, followed your scent

No chance and just desperate for love
No witness, his words he got off on
Watched the fall, they did nothing
But the wind carries your flight
Through the birds driven by the intonations of your fight

Abuse revealed by torture
Your eyes burned behind the blindfold
Subjugated 16, removed the veil
You rose up, screamed innocence to no avail

No chance and there’s no room for love
no crime, the line you were hung from

Endure tortures daughter
They said this will teach you to disobey
Lamb to the slaughter
But you will teach them something far greater

Said this will teach you to disobey
You will show them something far greater
Your pain will reign over

Envy’s blade, Ego plague
Tried to take me out twisted hate
Trap of lies took you down
Because you had to taste the bait

Red as blood and vague as the sky
I can’t believe the things you deny

Thankless art, loveless heart
Take it out on me to pass it through
Re-rejected, smoke curling
Clearly I must have gotten to you

Running the course, outside the line
You carve respect, from the swine

Keep your enemies close?
I say push them aside
Let you choke on the dust of your hate and your pride
Your failure is a fire, it’s killing you inside
Can’t you leave this where you left integrity behind

Who’s laughing?
Who’s laughing now?
Red as blood, and vague as the sky
I can’t believe, the things you deny

I’ll learn to use the flames
Keep feeding the inferno
Burning you inside
Burning up your mind
I won’t feed your guilt
I won’t feed your greed
I won’t feed your anger
Who’s laughing now?

Burning you inside
Burning out your mind
It’s killing you inside

Under frozen after hours
Carnal words and dreams devoured
In here nothing can else matter
Disappear
Senses climb and take her with
Written like a fiery myth
Can’t fight what is coming in
What is right

Sun crawling up skin
Wakes her from the trance

Says she’ll be waiting
Can’t leave this in the shadows
It’s taken over, will not let go
‘Says isn’t it funny, we don’t believe in fate
Please be patient, it’s worth the wait

Grayed instincts, blow off the dust
Wonders can she truly trust
Lighthouse on after dusk
Guide the night
History’s harsh waves crash and tear
She tastes it in the salted air
There’s a life just waiting there
Float away

A weightless sacrifice
A change worth the chance

If she folds she knows
it’s not worth living the new year
If she goes she knows
It will be worth all of the fear
Sun crawling up the skin
Wakes her from the trance

Your mistakes called out and closed the door
A special case arose from red
Punishment from reality denied
Face the question, the nine letters
A beginning only belonging to itself

You hear cries of both the sides
You stand centered over the division
Omit their influence, you’ll come to terms
Beyond the stalemate stands your decision
Under these lights you will know what’s right

They don’t have your concern under tin law
So be the judge, be the witness
Nothing to resemble a miracle
I’ll keep your verdict locked away
It will be hard to let the choice behind you lay

Are you strong enough
to do this alone as the lines blur
Examine all the sides, examine the lives
You’re not a thief, you’re not a killer

From one form to another
Make sense of chaos and disorder
Proof borrowed masks the sorrow
Truth in the sun as the source of order
In the mirrors light reflected
Bouncing off lies back into your eyes
Parallel wish, Enuma Elish
What’s wrong with questioning the bias?
Diagonal, against the grain
Where the gods could be our hearts and minds
We are dying, we are falling
But there is no reason why we can’t rise
While we’re here

We make it up as we go along
We all want something that lasts forever
Anyone could have it wrong
We all want something to last forever

No discord, diminished crown
Heaven and hell are both right here
Translation, speculation
They started a fire with our fear
Analyze, remove folklore
What is left of the pretty story?
Open mind, extract morals
No reason to become the quarry
Hard to fake a sinless state
But keep a golden rule in your mind
We’re dying, we are falling
But there is no reason why we can’t rise
While we’re here

The question’s carcass left out in the cold
He leaves it lying there wide open and exposed

Thin line hides the unknown
Red winged man in a papal throne
Czar says at least he’s alive
Yet evidence proves otherwise

Where is heaven then over shadows of weaponry
Time bomb, dormant, hungry for a casualty

With blissful memories corroded
You desperately try to rebuild
Now that will is eroded
Face the man or face the kill

Now braced face hydra skies
Girl whispers, “Look into these eyes”
Reflect, illumine verities
Sit with the intense clarity

She moves in real close
Not for the weak and not for most
Let go, unfurl, transitional underworld

With blissful memories corroded
You desperately try to rebuild
Now that will is eroded
Face the man or face the kill
Looking back through the timeline
Confront thief that took the young lives
The sickness will spread until
You face the man or face the kill

Now braced face hydra skies
Girl whispers, “Look into these eyes”
Czar says at least he’s alive
Yet evidence proves otherwise

Exhale, crawl in, into desire you’re colored with
Entrust, forgive, to find comfort in your skin

My wires are crossed peeling and frayed
I’m losing more power everyday
Screaming at stars won’t change a thing
Some people can break the strongest of wings

Sometimes I shake sometimes I scream
Just trying to wake from this bad dream

My sickness crawling out of my skin
Up walls to scale to jump to spin

You tore into my world with iron hands
Just take it, I don’t want it as the hurt spans
Wish the sky could just rain down on me
And take my mind and wipe it clean

I don’t want to take and I can’t give
Can’t shake this, I don’t want to relive

Made the call, don’t you feel better within
Because I don’t, I can’t, I won’t win

I’ve got a scar that few can see
They reopen the wound that was healing

My sickness crawling out of my skin
Up walls to scale to jump to spin
Made the call, don’t you feel better within
Because I don’t, I can’t, I won’t win

Dark cloud, disavow
I should be stronger by now
Thought I would shake this somehow
I should be stronger by now

True blue vow to the untold
Never to have or hold
Slip, cold intent exposed
The heat of hate transposed
Ideas won’t go to seed
In cold dark dormancy
Fertilize, crucify
The stunted with outright lies

“Smooth followers sing, pray on, I prey on you.
Serve him, I’ll serve you”

Stone word backfire with vengeance
Hopeless divine intervention
Leader, where is the peace you pursue
Can’t let anymore follow you
Teach to bleach the stains of your guilt
Envy of moral free lives built
Live with the torment they live through
Your sins will only rest on you

Faith won’t save you from the curse
Parasitic family verse
The whole book must lies
If the angels shut their eyes
Prey on the weak or numb
Why aren’t you overcome
With a defiling shame?
A prayer to remove the flame

No truth
Wrong way
One live
You pray

Little holes show how hollow you have become
Fighter you’ve been down so low for far too long
This city now offers only nightmares to you
You are too sick of being so strong

Feet dangling in the open grave
Everyone else was always to blame
Present yourself like flower to the bee
Walking on, waking up losing dreams

You burn everything up to distinguish your spark
You’re killing your little star so the can’t find you in the dark
Breaking raw ambitions, open your palm over the flames
You say it’s different this time
Yet this plan leads to the same

Stagnant air, time moves on and no you have not
Hope hovers overhead like city lights
In contrast reality seems aphotic
Too bleak too empty too grim in the night

Glass they pay to shatter cuts to the bone
You laugh it away with your veins exposed
Present yourself like flower to the bee
Walking on, waking up losing dreams

Peeling layers back, confirming fears
Tearing through hearts, screaming in their ears
Present yourself like flower to the bee
Walking on, waking up losing dreams

Drove brio under tongue
Swallowed pages of psalm
You threw verve over the edge to generate a calm
The house is much too quiet
Sometimes the days get so dark
Days mirror starless nights
When ending illusion is too hard

The omen feels so wrong
Instincts screaming
Wakeup and hold on
Please keep breathing
Tired of being strong
In search for higher ground
When the burden’s pouring down
Please keep breathing

Consumed the history to control your demise
Counting the seconds to be embraced by the sky
This house is much too quiet
Past the crowd I felt you crack
From over a hundred miles
Turn around please come back

The omen feels so wrong
Instincts screaming
Wake up and hold on
Please keep breathing
Tired of being strong
In search for higher ground
When the burden’s pouring down
Please keep breathing

Hold on, this is the call, reach out before slow descending
Black dawn, block the fall, this cannot be the ending
Defeat, deceit, slow repose, given one more chance
Fleeting, retreat, yellow rose, come take my hand

You were born wrapped in the pages
The words bind your mind and body
A false comfort of thin paper
You’re claimed as unclean property

They say you need guilt to be good
Your brothers all remain blameless
Heart of snares and nets, hands as bands
Classified as a nameless mass

Don’t look down on me
I don’t look up

Kneel
Here you’re not scared to die
Beg
Those dogs will lick and drink you dry
Kneel
Eat the pretty cursive lie
Beg
And you will not be scared to die

They say “In you lives an Eve” and
“Thy desire rules over thee”
“Thou shall not let witches live”
The fiction binds your mind and body

Give you away to male angels
The leaders all remain shameless
Wash away rains ancient marking
Please beg yourself for forgiveness

Must thy sorrow multiply
Thy conception in sorrow
Thou shall live in the silence
With all subjection

He may hear false answers
He lets the voices in
Must thy sorrow follow
Visions in his head

Stand against the sky
Force reasons to die
‘Til boots come untied
You’ll try to believe his lie
Built beyond the archetype
Trick yourself into the fight
Soot and gun will hide the night
Convince yourself that it’s right
Master warhead puppetry
Undeserving idolatry
Inner circle loyalty
The willing now called elite

Boy of the surge
Compliance won’t make you a man
Now you’ve deciphered
The secret written in the sand

Now you understand
What rests in your hands
Clear and hold the land
By killing another man
Whose safety do you fight for?
Admit that you can’t ignore
You don’t trust those keeping score
Write letters to reassure
Gunshot rationality
Just a casual casualty
Just part of the strategy
The willing now called elite

Sing of fires Sing of will
Sing to justify to kill

The fade proof lines that define status and meaning
Are illegible, too thin to read
I’ve lost radiance under petals and softer words
The vine bleeds divine screams

Do your wings make a sound?
Sometimes I swear I can hear them
You left poison mercury dreams
Will you reveal what it means?

Taste the potency of your deadened knowledge
The decline through sifting perils forces you under
Stretch past the shattered arrows
The vine bleeds divine screams

Do your wings make a sound?
Sometimes I swear I can feel them
The florescent lighting does nothing
To keep you from hiding

Do your wings make a sound?
I swear I can hear them
I can feel them

I’m bending the cards of the four cups unfilled
A red cloud has settled over my skin
A cold carnal being, I breathe in your echoes
You’re a man incarnate coloring and rolling

Each deep line of your palm runs and wraps around me
A coiling cover
I know what you need
I’m bound by your rhythm, I breathe in your echoes
We melt early winter with the notes we swallow

Lost in small circles
Felt pulses matched
The thin sheets melt
And unravel in your hands

You lift me like a seed
Here I break free of form
With rain’s ancient mark I’m the girl caught in the storm
It is not forever, but it is in-between
This is where we find the most of our meaning

We feel it in our veins, but it is in-between
The pleasure, the truth and what remains unseen
The mornings early heat burns and tattoos your back
The ink trickling down erases what we lack

Interlocked insatiable
Unraveled and untwined
All that is left is what
I wish I’d left behind
With ignorance ignored
I threw it all away
If only you believed
There’s more than just today

I’m longing for those never met
Fallen to a fear far crueler than regret

Through thick layers
You will find a way
And punish me for
The things I didn’t say
A slow beginning ending
Start with honest intensions
Much colder today
Find comfort in suspension
To think that I believed
When you walked without conviction

I’m longing for those never met
Fallen to a fear far crueler than regret

Pierce through stolen velvet
Spare me the last ounce of viciousness
All I have are reasons
To hold to the purity in this

I’m longing for those never met
Fallen to a fear far crueler than regret

Uncover the veiled shadows
Let it seep throughout embrace the state
Light through darkness still shines through
Purely easier to let complicate
Revive a dormant spirit
Spill over darkened shades
Under quickness awakened
This balance will never fade

Detach from crippling divisions
Feel outside your skin
Find empowerment and illumination
Taken entirely from within

Amplified in crouching low light
Experience grounds outside yourself
Stand up embrace this night
It still shelters assembled stars
What comes from the source of light
And all that is opposing
Scratches in and breaks down
The torn theme of self-loathing

How much deeper can this reach
Guess it all depends on the source of light
Revive, awaken but we give in tonight

Longing for visions, divisions to corrode
Spiritual efficiency to assume control
Songs of confession, repression to the bone
A synchronizing light pulse, a hypnotizing tone

Manipulation
Reduce the noise
Binarization
Fix and destroy

Drowning in the unseen
Scream a selfish warning
By whose grace are you saved?
In the slow degrade
In moral bankruptcy
By whose mercy are you freed?
Hollow chants of the unseen
Won’t wipe dirty mouths clean

Steel assembly line, define the others’ fate
Blind the believers, a blend of church and state
Who calls upon you, claim they shall be saved
We will all love you conform, submit, behave

Interpretation
A black and white
Examination
Project your light

A nuance detected, burnt hallow overthrown
Myth of light projected, can’t erase your own shadow

Subversive mystics taking over you
Spent my self worth on your unworthy soul
But I will regain the toll

The past is all that remains
Over skies turned black blue and gray

Capture the wreckage that holds strong
To your restrain these words will stain

You said shred
Trust here in now
But I found new eyes to clear

The past is all that remains
Over skies turned black blue and gray
Through a shield of fears
You say return but your hand led me here

Sorry I broke you calm over so many storms
But you crawled onto night
So I shine

I sense the night bending towards me
The rhythm is slowed but deep
Blackened tips of desire cannot keep out of my reach
Orchid covered deadwood breeze wakes the sickness from the leaves
I laid back and counted stars
Didn’t stop my violent seed

Intoxicating pollen begins to swim around me
The bitter taste of temptation evokes a slow sweet ecstasy
The guilt of self-destruction beads up and rolls off of me
And sinks into the earth and takes with it my purity
From breaking free

Swallowed down resistance growing from the innate drive to rise
Rise like a street steam night spy mixing with the sky
Ultraviolet

Ghost whispers burning my ears
I’m wrapped in words like wire
Appearing to disappear like a small dying fire
My hands shake the sting escapes
Heated hearts must expire and slowly regenerate
The lust for this peace won’t tire
I’m breaking free

Descending from thunder
Fixed in your eyes in mine
Now Let go eternal wanting
And I run into your mind

(Instrumental)

The answers may lie in the bullets of a softer kind
They rewind and conceal ammunition

They say they must lie
Edit mercilessly, cut, take and hide
Expose light
Erase all suspicion

If these illusions fill you they’ll abstract you they will bleed you

Punished for inspection
They keep us blind
What should be protected?
Don’t close your eyes

The answers may lie in the bullets of a softer kind
Cover cries
Defense of the censors

They say they must lie
Edit mercilessly, cut, take and hide
Slice the ties
Blur it all together

If these illusions fill you they will abstract you the will bleed you
If these delusions fill you they will dull you the will bleed you

Policing oppositions
Concealing their intensions

Senseless steps taken blindly in agony
Grasping for something for air for purity
Words just hanging there like a hook missing bait
I have no pigment to define this shape

The notes of decay learned from the mouth of violence
I sang them everyday till I became a silence
I say that I am okay
Cut edges and pretend
That I have a heart that I can mend

The hands that used to be a part of me
Were tortured by my demon’s destructive needs
From pieces of ruin I will deploy
I’ll construct a pretty temple to destroy