[Lyrics by K. Nardi] We have pretended far too long Ignoring far too much Accountability long overdue We have neglected far too long Assuming far too
[Lyrics by K. Nardi] At night the fires burn, cutting like a flaming knife Looking down you see rotting carrions of life Smell the putrid stench, sewage
Life seems to stand still in time As the soul retires, deaf, dumb and blind And all we feel If far from real As these gears which, once, had driven us
[Lyrics by K. Nardi] Colors diluted by the lies And painted thick across the sky Have seen all life whither and die I gaze up at this forgery Up at
The gentle embrace of death Touches my weary soul I'm closer to the end now Enough despair! I'm whole! Destined to make The right choice My existence
Misted eyes perceive Thoughts I can't believe Emotions that run free Never let me be Self-inflicted pain It's a loss without a gain Lost in myself, I
Where once was childlike simplicity Now only remnants of blind ideals This quality of innocence Once tarnished, is forever lost It's lost... It's lost
Was I wrong? Wrong in assuming That nothing at all, without thought Would just fall into place? Was it hope, that something would change me That led
Aware, yet unaware. Falling, falling, why? Blind! Ignorance the key, stupidity overrides My thoughts belong to me, although my mind rebels Reality, shaded
I paint myself on you... the silent wall My words... my thoughts... my touch... my all Emotionless... emotionless So in control of nothingness This stone
Lie to me honestly I hear, but still, I don't see Just where the actions meet the words You just sound the alarm Racing pulse and boiling blood At fever
Wrong, all that we are Living, breathing lies Wrong, all that I feel All compassion dies Once hand in hand And now detached Befriend the pace The lonely
You wear Like an enemy A false sense of security With your bullshit integrity You'd lose it all for your dignity And you tell yourself "You're so brave
You've grown into this faceless mask and empty shell And like a ghost of your indulgence, you wear them well Still haunting something, by your own hand
For forever living in For forever dying in The shadow of a killing cross Born and held accountable Sworn to bear the burden now For sinful nails driven
Repeat this habitual course To lift this weight which drags me under Treading in my remorse I must stay above the surface longer Shattering, shattering
All those things that I tried to be While wandering further from me I'd choked myself in my apathy Until I no longer could breathe My heart and my hand
Crashing in down around my ears Brow beaten self for all these years Enabling this suitable wall I've been afraid of nothing at all My soul's affliction