Assemblage 23

Hello, if you're there pick up the phone I'm calling from 30,000 feet above you The captain's just informed us that our plane is going down So I'm calling for one last time to say I love you I'm not certain how much time I may have left, so I'll be brief...

7 days I'll never leave this house again 7 days I'll never leave this house again 7 days I'll never leave this room again 7 days I'll never leave this room again 7 days I'll never leave this bed again 7 days I'll never leave this bed again 

Through the iridescent rain In this heavy atmosphere Nothing makes a sound But the bearing of my heart Broken down and torn to shreds On the verge of madness Here comes that old familiar pain Like a long lost friend’s return I never felt so I never...

Tonight I'll rise above all this pain Alone I sit and alone I shall remain Intrusive thoughts of this won't let me sleep But my sanity is all that's left to keep I feel alone, I feel alone I feel alone, I feel alone Solitude can bring an inner peace B...

The timid bloom of dissolving light Disintegrates into the dusk Quiet rolls in like a drowsy fog Underneath which I am crushed Alone, alone again Alone, alone Push my way through the bustling crowd Past a million faceless souls The buildings moan out...

The voices whispering inside your head Confine your thoughts deep inside cells of noise Confusion carries you into the dark Where everything it touches, it destroys Patterns of shape and light disorient What happens when you can’t trust “trust” itself?...

Anger In my body In my veins Shooting through my blood with terrible pain The clutch it holds On my convulsing soul Send my emotions Spinning out of control. I feel a need to destroy To tear apart I want to hurt you But I don't know how The body...

We are born of stone And etched by wind Cast aside to live or die We are the pawns in our own game Like refugees Of silent wars We step on ever-shifting ground Promoting what we undermine For countless days We walked alone Directionless and vulnera...

A riot of indecision A monument to shame A walking contradiction Unwilling to take blame You'll fall apart Before all this is through You'll let the pressure Get the best of you Drowning in your shame Grasping at the air Make your denials But you k...

Inside the beige expanse Between the two extremes Reality begins to flicker A wall with no detail A face with no expression A gun with a missing trigger No anger or despair No ecstasy or bliss Just a husk left with no feeling Shambling through life...

I am lost The footprints that I left have disappeared For now I am driving blind Accelerate Without a destination to welcome me This road is just an endless loop Every time I close my eyes The noise inside me amplifies I can't escape I relive every...

Concentric circles Forever closing in Another travesty That never should have been The latest entry On an ever-growing list And yet you never change your ways Your denial still persists Run away, run away Run away from the setting sun Run away, run...

A side of you nobody knew Seems to have reared its ugly head A darker truth you hid so well Revealed in the words we read All these years, the face you showed Was a mask that hid away The monster underneath it all Stuck inside a twisted game Waves of...

I haven't felt so alive in years The sun is shining down on me My eyes are welling up with tears Tears of joy, tears of ecstasy Emotions I once kept concealed Now flow freely like a river Life's great mysteries revealed Love's great promised delivered...

Monochromatic reasoning A divide and conquer legacy Dissect and over-simplify All hail the death of compromise The world isn't rendered in black and white Other shades lie between Don't view the world with binary eyes We are human, not machine Elimin...

Trapped in a room All by yourself See how it feels To have no one else Feelings of bitterness Feelings of hate Slowly take root Deep inside your brain There is no reason For feeling this way Yet these emotions Grow stronger each day Wish it woul...

All our father's backs are broken And our prophets are insane There is no one left to guide us No catalyst for change We are too young to know better But frailty comes with age So we run towards Armageddon While our legs still have the strength And like a bl...

Their words plunge like daggers Focused, derisive laughter A target outnumbered Cornered and torn asunder Cast out and rejected Fragile and unprotected A misfit pariah Ridiculed, undesired A font of strength is flowing like blood from open veins A c...

I hear the breath of ghosts Hiding behind the wind Like an icy choir exhaling A promise to rescind I hear the breath of ghosts Escaping from their lungs Calling forth the names of those That took away their tongues A temporary permanence A fortress...

Chemical restraint Is coming down in endless coils The caustic liquid in his bloodstream Keeps him obedient and loyal Blurry forms and figures of Faces he once knew Surround his filthy bed Unsteady waves keep coming through The straps that hold his a...

We regulate in your best interest A rescue to which you're compelled We're here to tell you what to think now We're here to save you from yourselves We are the chosen few We know what's best for you You'll live in fear because you're told to You'll fa...

Even though I know it's only chemical These peaks and valleys are beginning to take their toll Try to convince myself that all it takes is time But the most derisive voice I hear is mine It opens all the scars on me It leaves me shaken in my belief It takes m...

I’m on the verge of collapse I’m on the brink of disaster And I’m far more lost than I want to admit I’m at the end of my rope I’m on the edge of a breakdown And no matter how tightly I hold on, I still slip And you’re watching me die Right in front o...

You're growing complacent You forgot what it all meant And chose the path of convenience The road you took to where you're standing now Was fraught with obstacles that tore you down They made you drown The path of least resistence called your name A status q...

Mere apologies won't undo what you've done The echoes linger on, the backlash has begun Feigned indifference, your least convincing mask But deep down inside, its forgiveness that you ask When hurt and lies become the currency All it buys us is more trag...

Coward Why are you frightened? So quiet I can barely hear your lies Coward Was it too hard for you To simply tell the truth? You are despised Coward Your mask is fading Your weakness showing Your fatal flaw Coward Do your thoughts haunt you In...

Open up Transmit to all receivers Woe to the disbelievers We create the truth Alchemy Spinning lies to fool’s gold Believe what you’ve been told With or without proof Word like orphans lost among the crosstalk Meaning torn from truth’s decrepit hand...

In dying light, the day is fading Defeated eyes regard the sun That sinks behind the broad horizon Until the two melt into one Beneath the gravity of failure Pinned to the unforgiving earth Bargains we made with fate unyielding Proved to be without much...

I am merely the product Of the life that I've lived An amalgam of sorrows And the wisdom they give But the weight has grown heavy And it's dragging me down It's so hard not to sink now But I don't want to drown [CHORUS] I'm damaged But somehow I've...

The world is asleep with its head in its hands Unable to meet such disparate demands Cries of frustration resound in its head And strewn at its feet are the souls of the dead Tearing the fractured divisions apart The tandem destruction of brothers in arm...

Havoc from down below The desolation undertow Dragging me down with it Don’t turn away I’m reaching for the light That tears a passage through the night Breaking the dark in two Don’t turn away Don’t turn away Don’t turn away Don’t turn away Don’t...

Time is like a serpent That devours its own tail The coils grow ever-tighter With each moment it inhales A foreboding sense of deja v That cannot be ignored It's hard to help but feel We've seen and done this all before History be damned It's only progress w...

Aghast amidst the grim procession Of hateful traits in your possession And there's nowhere to hide when the waves come crashing in And there's nowhere to hide when the waves come crashing in The silence hums behind your eyes A veil that shields you from...

Just one more time For the sake of sanity Tell me why Explain the gravity That drove you to this That brought you to this place That pushed you down Into the soil's embrace Give me the chance I was denied To sit and talk with you For one last time...

I lost myself in shapeless oceans Whose depths concealed more than they showed Beliefs obscured by mists around them A legacy they'd been bestowed Columns of ice paint awkward pictures Distorted forms that once seemed real Engulfed inside transparent te...

In stillness A silent weight Pausing as the minutes each evaporate A desire To leave a scar To raise a voice from within the dark Decaying Cascading Existence falls apart Around me Within me So I must leave my mark This is a document To prove t...

When chaos reigns without a purpose When the swell of sound becomes too much Crushed between the cogs that work us When I feel I'm slowly losing touch Sometimes I drive to run from all my demons Sometimes I drive so I can be alone Sometimes I drive to s...

I've seen this face before It somehow looks familiar Tattered and weatherworn A sad, pathetic creature And once you stood so strong Your eyes alight with promise You vowed to carry on A heart once beat in your chest Cut forward to another day Anothe...

I'm awakened by the sound Of rain against my window It's getting harder to ignore But these tired eyes need rest Scattered light through broken windows Far beneath fluorescent skies Voices calling from a distance So why am I still standing here? The...

Inside every color is a blackness deep and wide Inside every mother is someone who resents her child In the soul of every saint is a sinner bound for hell Within the deepest beauty is the power to repel There's a side of me you never knew And now that si...

A thousand footsteps without direction Adrift like snowfall from winter skies Aimless parades of burning ambivalence Selling false hope in certainty's guise Living and breathing in sorrow's colossus The teeming masses await a reply Hoping for something t...

Depend on me And I will let you down Repeatedly You’d think you’d have learned by now In your hour of need I’m nowhere to be found And while you bleed I’m indifferent God is a strangely absent father His back is turned perpetually All the orphaned...

Night falls with black wings He crawls out of bed Gets dressed and takes off To sing to the dead Oh graverobber, oh graverobber Oh graverobber, oh graverobber In the night air his breath steams He wanders like he's lost Silently digs in frozen ground...

A grip on you like an addiction A selfish need for something more Who it hurts is inconsequential When you get what you’re looking for Avarice, the muse that guides you You are the sum of what you gain But it won’t buy your soul redemption The kind of wealth...

We live within a grid Its boundaries well-defined And woe to anyone Who steps outside the lines A fragile order kept That struggles to contain Any independent thought That threatens their domain A cage we built with our own hands We were just follow...

The ground is pulsing The pace is constant So unrelenting as the day goes forward There’s no escaping It’s too incessant The soulless shuffle and the crushing boredom It’ll grind you down if you allow it to It’ll chew you up and have its way with you...

Be still Though chaos rains around you now Only so much rain can fall at once Breathe in And let the air envelope you And slow but sure, serenity will come Close your eyes Try to breathe Feel the ground beneath your feet It's still there The world s...

Hours Sprial and coil into black Some remebered, some forever gone Tragic We never get them all back The relentless march of time must still go on The tide is turning Horizons burning Your days are numbered Your future has crumbled Forgotten Even...

Sifting through the ashes With unsteady hands Searching for the remnants Of a broken man A history of hollow lives And low ideals A backlog of wrongdoing We never conceal I rise to my feet And walk away from the dross Towards the doorway Of our mu...

A conscience never burdened you No empathy to slow you down Others were there for you to use Like hapless ships you ran aground How can you sleep? The world burns at your feet How can you forsake The casualties you leave in your wake? You lied like o...

There have been times throughout my life When I fell so far I thought I'd never stand again I watched my dreams depart These aberrations had their place In the grand design But it's unnatural to feel So bitter and resigned Forgive me my mistakes I'm only hum...

Too eager to appease The cure is the disease And it's only growing worse Day by day it takes its hold Divides its cells a thousandfold And makes your blindness seem perverse Out of sight and out of mind Are deadly traits when they're combined But it'...

Just for one night can we pretend that this is normal? Just for tonight can we pretend that nothing’s wrong? Can we forget that we are tired and broken? Tonight can we act like we’re still strong? Just for one night can we pretend the worst is over? Just...

Like a grain of sand Swallowed by the desert Like a drop of rain That falls from darkened clouds I am overwhelmed I stand here awed and humbled At the feet of giants Whose shadows stretch for miles Staggering and infinite And full of ageless grace...

Words come easy Behind a screen When there's no interface-to-face To be seen King of Insects You eat your own Atop an anthill You call your throne Kingdom of one So unaware As one-by-one your subjects Vanish into air Chatter to the w...

Sunrise Light revealing Disorder Panic-striken Tension Spilling over Screaming Its refusal Burn it down and start over I want to leave this all behind Abandon all the trepidation Weighing heavy on my mind Anxious Unfamiliar Landscape Weeping...

Let me take the fall Let me take the blame Let me carry you from hell To home again. Let me walk for you When your legs are weak Let me find the words for you When you can't speak Let me be your armor Let me be your shield Let me take away the pain you feel...

Attenuate the light of day So I can see the lines and details And not the hazy, plastic blur That floods my eyes till I can't see Let the wind erase me Like the memory of a kiss Let these waters take me Away from all of this Let the wind erase me Like the me...

I stand in a barren void that's featureless No sight or sound can penetrate at all Though silent storms may try to tear me down When dusk descends, I'll still be standing tall To the ones who want me on my knees You cannot control my destiny There is li...

I forgive your weakness In light of all this bleakness You were merely human Destined to be ruined Startled as your brevity Turned to my longevity I can't follow your steps Can't go the places you went I must forge my own path Overcome & surpass...

May you find solace in the gentle arms of sleep Despite the wolves outside your door In time you will see them all as harmless And their idle threats easy to ignore And if ever fate should choose to smite you Stand your ground, never walk away Please don't ev...

I saw cities swallowed by the ocean I saw children crying in the streets Hundreds stranded on the overpass Bodies rotting in the brutal heat Cries for help fell on deaf ears 5 days passed and no one came Pointing fingers while the people died I saw a n...

I suppose in your mind you believe you were right That the matter doesn't rest heavy on your shoulders But be careful of the ones you wish to indict Blame is merely in the eye of the beholder Perhaps the time is right to look yourself in the eye Take inv...

Mary behind the counter Looking sad, looking solemn Serious, soft-spoken Has friends, but never calls them Mary behind the counter Says the end is coming soon now There's no room for the sinners That I should understand now I need to be a better man...

Pale bodies Wracked with fear Strange noises In my ears Locked windows Desparation Time rotting Isn't this fun? I thought you said this place was safe But now I'm trapped with no escape You would stand and laugh at me If you just knew the thoughts...

My burden My weight to carry alone Inside me Down to the very marrow of my bones My sickness You can catch it if you get too close It'll tear you down Drown us in fire and destroy us both Unforgiving, unbelieving, impure Unrelenting, unkind, and uns...

Awake aware alone Lost and far from home I walk without these walls So there is less to fall I am naked I have nothing left My bones are picked clean And riddled with regrets Nothing can touch me I've nothing left to take For I am naked But I can n...

It never felt so real Never so visceral But now it's all too clear And all too typical You're left with nothing And it's all your fault Relations cease And emotions halt Did you think the things you said Wouldn't get back to me? That I'd fall and d...

When I grow old And my memory Leads me deep into the fog where it abandons me Will you remind me Of who I used to be When I was younger? When I am old And the hands of time Have ravaged all the remnants of my fragile mind Will you still tell me Of h...

This day has altered my perception I'll never see things quite the same All that I knew was misconception But all of that's about to change I opened my eyes today The world looked so bright and strange Now I see with clarity I won't be your casualty...

To give completely From within yourself To treat compassion As the truest form of wealth No small adjustment For the average soul To give yourself away In order to be whole To trust completely With an open heart To risk the wounds Of having it all...

When the door’s always closed Isolation imposed I try the best I can But the gulf is too wide And I can’t stand astride Such a gigantic span This impossible distance Obscures my existence Like fog hugging autumn shores And it’s building inside Wit...

A proud, indignant Idiocy You think it’s funny I disagree Stupification Beyond a doubt It’s doing us in Over and out Nature or nurture Dichotomy It doesn’t matter What you believe The world’s devolving A mental drought Run for the exit Over a...

I read your mind But it wasn't a very interesting read The plot was contrived And the characters were too consumed by need Page by page Enduring each predictable turn The paper dissolves beneath my fingers And the syllables burn The fairy tale you se...

So here I stand Completely alone My skin absorbs the rain Helpless to control Pieces within the whole I can feel it starting again A sudden descent I never meant To manifest itself Caught unaware In frozen air By visions sent in stealth How far...

As we live, so shall we die Suspended by a fragile thread That wears with every passing moment A certainty best left unsaid Rain falls down As we sleep, so shall we wake The shocking clarity revealed As if a veil was somehow lifted Disclosing what it...

Raw Unsheltered and exposed When every door is closed There's nowhere left to find protection Now All that I have left Is this brutal, reckless depth I'm running scared with no direction Dark The only thing that's real It's all that I can feel And...

My friend, I think you’ve lost your mind The things you say don’t make much sense All the things you’ve left behind The change in you has been immense Stumbling into the evening Dragging a chain of your regrets behind you Reckless, distorted, and feckle...

Some time ago I checked my conscience And found it wasn't all that clean A trail of people I had hurt A sea of sins left unredeemed Regret is a dull and rusted blade That covers me with scars that never fade These wounds, like a catalog of flaws Serve...

I'm having a problem with words to desribe The angry emotions I'm feeling inside My insides are burning, my brain is on fire You pushed me and taunted me you stupid, useless liar You lied to me Now your heart bleeds It's too late now (Too late for) Ap...

I want you to know the thoughts My mind contains I want you to feel the rage Pulse through my veins I want you to see the anger In my eyes I want you to feel fear For your own life I want to see the tears Fill up your eyes I want to see you beg And...

Identity sometimes seems fleeting An ever-changing tapestry But at it's heart is the foundation The very essence of our being Shed your skin Cast off your chains Feel the sun upon your face for once And wash away the pain Shed your skin Be who you ar...

The morning broke with eerie silence The ground beneath us cracked and dry Too self-absorbed to even notice The cracks that formed up in the sky Twisting Turning Freezing Burning Tearing Fusing Lucid Confusing Open reception Forceful rejection d...

A smear of grey across the sky, A warning in the distance, An indecipherable alarm. And there we stood, our mouths agape, The deer caught in the headlights, Our minds adrift and far from harm. Smoke on the horizon, Can the flames be far behind? We ru...

I can feel the sunlight breaking through And I feel more loved than when I'm with you A joyous feeling fills the air And suddenly I'm made aware Of changing feelings and attitudes Your silent face and shifting moods A whirlpool blackout fills my head T...

Love is supposed to set you free Well look at what it's done to me Don't want to talk I'm too depressed So just give your act a little rest She loves me she loves me not Put it together and what have you got? Miserable nights full of confusion Guess I'l...

I'm sorry I can't bleed for you The way you want me to To throw myself against the rocks The way I used to do I'm sorry that I can't prolong The pain I've been put through I'm sorry, yes I'm sorry So sorry But not as sorry as you You wear your misery...

For how much longer must I bleed Into the soil before I see The one who holds the blade is me? For how much longer must I stand On destiny's uncertain sands Before I find stability? One spark among the embers One voice against surrender One dream tha...

The walls are closing in The ceiling's falling down The air is growing thin And noise is all around Too much pressure from above Too much pushing from behind Throbbing organs, boiling blood The gears of mental illness grind Paranoia rots the brain S...

The first day I felt changed I felt removed and broken Over man Over God But weak by the same token Wherewithal Has dissolved A soulless apparition Loss of choice Lost my voice Condemned and then conditioned I turn my eyes up to the sun And star...

Fall Seize I am merely debris Scattered along the ground False Rage A man in a cage An explosion without a sound Drawn In By the deafening din Crumbling into dust Look Down Watching me drown Choking on my disgust CHORUS And when I surface...

Calm this raging sea That churns and boils deep inside of me Quell the hungry fire That threatens to engulf me Love, deliver me From disastrous sobriety I have lost my way And I’m looking for a beacon Out of fate’s control As the winds will howl and...

A life begins, the body thrown out Confronted by anger, fear and doubt Toxic fumes rip open lungs The ladder of life is missing rungs Sleeping where the angels died Trees lose leaves, the skin peels free Bloodstained beaches, rotting teeth Dripping po...

The cruelest year Stole lives too young And many more still In the balance hung We couldn’t breath Try as we might Fragile as feedback Hopeless as the night But the course has run The damage done The slate wiped clean again The cruelest year Tor...

Disjointed context The words were merely sounds Watching as the buildings Slowly crumbled to the ground Thoughts never rendered Lie dying by the road Last breath drawn endlessly Collapsing into smoke Struggling to break free From life's inequities T...

Left alone in the silence Ascending as I fall A face indicted silently By the mirror on the wall The taste of utter ruin Still stinging on my tongue A petulant reminder of All the wrong I've done Split down the middle, torn up inside Thinking the tr...

I haven’t seen you in so long And I think that’s wrong And I think that’s wrong This problem needs to be addressed It’s really for the best It’s really for the best We’ll be a family again No one to steal you from my grasp They’ll bury you right next...

It's 3AM And I am laying wide-awake And I can’t sleep for the noise inside my head The world vibrating With a cruel cacophony Flooded with the thoughts my mind has bled The restless furor Of a thousand racing thoughts Swarms around me like a vulture...

A crippling anxiety A chasm between you and me That I wish wasn’t there There are things that I would like to say to you I’m so afraid you’d disapprove If you would even care You’re on the other side of the wall from me But I can hear you crying I’m...

The flashbulb blind The siren blare a palpable tension Like a vulture circling in air The shivering hours Unanswered fate Inquiring the liar The body lay just out of reach I still recall the poison moon That burned up in the sky that night Peering...

Once you had it all And threw it all away Day became your night Night became your day Did it ever rain When the skies were clear? Does it help explain How you turned up here? Peel away the layers Wash away the past Progress that you made Never see...

I tried I failed to believe In the reward I would receive If only heaven's distant sun Would burn away all the things I'd done I tried to no avail To keep my eyes from growing pale But my vision came too late And my belief started to abate Like a tid...

The truth is like a dancer with shattered limbs What once stood proud and graceful is languishing And the midday sun beats down from above like a giant fist That evaporates the veracity from within our midst Don't speak of truth in times like these The c...

I can feel the violence Spill across the floor My eyes have grown too clouded To see it anymore Fading into nothing Turning into steam Left in desperation With nothing to redeem Underneath the ice I find A place to rest my weary mind The cold, deep...

Emotional vacuum Big back hole No sense of reason No self control A chasm of purpose In empty space Self-serving and shameless Is the smile on your face Void Void There’s snow in the air And ice in your heart Whatever won’t serve you You tear i...

You crave attention As if it's due to you You want permission To behave as badly as you do You want respect, but You don't act respectable You want fame to fill the void Where you once had a soul (But you haven't earned it You haven't walked long en...