1. |
U
01:56
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2. |
Anathema
09:47
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You stand by and watch as the sheep are slaughtered
The oppressive hand looms overhead
Never guilty but always present
In the crowd that chants for our last breath
Built and fortified, you've fallen so far
History will recount your fall from grace
Fuel the fire
Be the catalyst for change
Will you victimize yourself
Or become the thing you hate?
Your desire
To oppose and infiltrate
Will open up the door
For us to seal your fate
The truth is hidden right behind you
Your deceit has left the masses blind
Fuel the fire
Be the catalyst for change
Will you victimize yourself
Or become the thing you hate?
Your desire
To oppose and infiltrate
Will open up the door
For us to seal your fate
A new civil war has started
It's one that you cannot win
So tell me what freedom means
If I can't be free to believe
The match has caught its flame
And the fire will bring the end
So watch as this city burns
At the fault of its own hands
Fuel the fire
Be the catalyst for change
Will you victimize yourself
Or become the thing you hate?
Your desire
To oppose and infiltrate
Will open up the door
For us
The end is near
And it's waiting at your door
And there will come a time
For you to sleep forevermore
Your hypocrisy
Has rendered you impaired
Anathema, our hope
Will soon ignite the air
Ooh-oh
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3. |
Reflections
07:47
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I wake at night
After dreams derail tranquility
My peace of mind
Has vanished with my sense of meaning
How can I isolate
The truth in me from my false reflection?
I’ve severed my control
How can I ever find a way to be whole?
Raise this dead man from his dying soul and reconnect him
Strayed from gold and suddenly I see the light reflect inside
Inside a maze
Of restless incoherency
I’ve come to fear the night
Through subconscious inner vision
And when the haze subsides
I feel the weight of lifelessness start to drag me down
Does the mirror lie or is what I see
A reflection of internal atrophy?
Raise this dead man from his dying soul and reconnect him
Strayed from gold and suddenly I see inside
What’s left is a man who became skin and bone before he perished
These veins are dead so I’ll crawl until I learn to feel again
Look in the mirror
Can’t you see that you’ve become obscurity?
Is it clear? Can you change your way of life?
Fools, unaware
That we live two lives, yet most tend to just one
So take care
Can you live with dying twice?
Dying Twice
Raise this dead man from his dying soul and reconnect him
Strayed from gold and suddenly I see inside
What’s left is a man who became skin and bone before he perished
These veins are dead so I’ll crawl until I learn to feel again
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4. |
Technicolor
09:30
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5. |
Once Upon a Burial
09:16
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I’ll be waiting
Here on this side
As we wait for the dead to rise
I hear your voice mourning
In this beautiful eternity
Singing your last goodbyes
This rift that crawls between us
Grows larger each day
The dream we held so close slips farther away
The love we held so dear, now on the line
I played this song for you
Can you hear it now?
The notes ring out for you
Hoping pleading
You belong here with me
I wish it were that easy
I have a home for you
Eternity with me
While the world around you falls apart
You will slip into the night
So embrace this change by letting go
And know the peace found by my side
Bright lights, peaceful silence
When will you follow?
Dark night, still air
I’ll see you soon
Heavy burden, guilty conscience
Are you coming now?
Your life, your time
I can’t wait to be with you
Is it wrong of me to feel this way?
I need you here with me
Join me in this afterlife
You’ll be set free
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6. |
Memoria
05:54
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I sat upon the hilltop
Watching the clouds over me
I imagined myself in the future
How I'd be so free
Consumed with misdirection
Longing to be someone else
But I know that's not how the world works
I must be myself
The concept of being careless
Seems so foreign to me
Running around with no worries
Is just a childish dream
Trapped in this concrete madness
With deadlines and schedules to keep
I have a dream within me
Can I ever leave?
In the shadow of myself
I will mourn the loss of innocence
In the shadow of myself
I will mourn the loss of innocence
How I long to see again
Woah-oh-oh
Like a child with glimmering eyes
To be alive again
Woah-oh-oh
When my dreams were still in sight
I can learn to see again
Whoa-oh-oh
To feel wondering this life
To be a better man
Woah-oh-oh
Please won't you guide me there?
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7. |
Exist
07:26
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Ascend
Beyond the clouds
Overcome
Fear and doubt
Begin to understand your weightless mind
A journeys end is just in sight
Gravity lets loose its bind
Your legacy will stay behind
You’ve come so far
To claim your prize
So won’t you scale the summit
One more time?
Exist to overcome
The ties that bind
Your every step
You’ve shown the world
That love will open up
Blinded eyes
Forever rest, my love
Welcome home
Forever rest, my love
Welcome home
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8. |
p
01:12
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9. |
Skull Behind the Smile
12:10
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Breathe
Close your eyes
Take a step into your mind
Look
At your life
Yet again we roll the die
Glass
A feeling frozen in a frame
Turn away
Toward the fiction of the day
Eyes
To the sky
Light casts shadows of our lies
Fists
Grasp last wits
Banking on this life’s next twist
(Often, just out of sight, lurks darkness beyond the light)
(Shadows, like prison bars, send fractures through the facade)
(Fragments of the whole truth can be seen through open wounds)
(Like windows into the soul, exposing the rotten growth)
Dreams
We were told to seize the day
Stay awake
For all the choices that we make
We bear the weight
When the daylight fades to dawn
And the needle finds groove in the song
We sit and wonder what’s to come
Cry
'Til your voice won’t make a Sound
'Til the chaos all drowns
Out
Can dust settle when it’s swept under the rug?
In time
I know you’ll want to run away
From what you’ve made
And when the tears fracture your face
You’ll leave no trace
Of the phantom in the frame
A feeling reflected as pain
Now in this moment hope is gone
Cry
'Til your voice won’t make a
Sound
'Til the chaos all drowns
Out
Can dust settle when it’s swept under the rug?
Breathe
Clear your eyes
Take the time to step outside and see the whole world has been waiting
In your sleep
You’ve seen what it means
To be lost for words
While the voiceless speak your name
This might hurt
But for what it’s worth
Look down on the maze
Seems you’ve always known the way
Cry
'Til your voice won’t make a
Sound
'Til the chaos all drowns
Out
Can dust settle when it’s swept under the rug?
In Death
As in life, we search for
Truth
One path you’ve split in
Two
Choose the way that shows the skull behind the smile
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