Burst

We used to care But things have changed Where joy should reign Painted lines on your face To grasp your gaze restrained So tranquil the outside rain Stillborn, my child Underneath the skull of night The cold has a voice The one that made me so old And sweet d...

Polluted the ways of days to come What more am I than what I've made? Apathy as virtue, a self-made trap Seated in the front row Too ignorant to care Turn this fatal mission And I shall be redeemed Ring true with creative visions Damn it, I live, I breathe,...

The city I am My alleys veins, my water nurture Nobody need stand on ceremony before my doors I am a home to you And to them Of ashes they come In sackcloth cloaked Much was told of me Listen to my names, different by tongue A rose by any other name smells ju...

Shifting eyes turn with shade Slave, a false entity I saw their hearts flood with ashen dusk Liars, scorn of foul delight Forgive me father, for I am sin I rejoiced triumphantly As goodness turned away and shut It's bleak and weary eyes This manifest of fund...

I, author of strife Spread ashen wings Mad avian glare Sharpen both talon and break Simplify to Modify to Amplify to Carry them to war Heave, hordes Bring me their heads on a plate Heave, hordes Lord of their doom and their fate I, shepherd of fools Congres...

I see the cadence Random But altogether clear This scorn was never mine Though it's all that I hold dear Futile charity Holy promises I dream it all away This consequence is yours to keep I shun it all away Stone, buried asunder I burn Stale fever running...

Wing's riding evening breeze Skies run vast around We'll find our place there These Borderlands abound Strike a path through air Flapping winds of glory Below the fires on the moors We fare and end our story Haven for the weary Flight's end summarize Journey t...

There is a place where hindrance is dead Visions gone wild in a burning red Dream my friend Ever in rest With your head in your hands And your gaze fixed firmly ahead We are safe here A black winged angel watching over you And you dream And I pretend Sleep is...

Moral shadows dancing on these walls A surge of insight amidst the fall To know this commonwealth again The spectre growing ever tall And no creed remains Only filth detained No more wanton blindness Disregard the value slain In these halls -- words of grand...

What is the nature of this? A standard always amorphic Strange, how easy to list: Routine tediously cyclic I don't know where I get it from I rely so much on expectation Castles of air amidst this very sober reason Yes I profess abnegation But never you mind;...

Let the light Be less annoying Don't expose me like this I won't lose my way again As long as it's dark enough to see Welcome blindness, transparency: No system of harmony More accurate than this Welcome bleakness, disconnection: No yearning stronger Than t...

To what do you not drive Mortal hearts Accursed hunger for gold? Cheaply bought, but deadly sold With new light they shine on through On fields of shredded goals Reap crop of clinging hope Harvest our brave new world Ancient woe, be gone Foul illusions of be...

Hear now what I tell you Men shall know of this They shall sleep content With certainty they'll see And here's the secret No hidden logic in the seasons Dreamer's topic denouncing All forms of reason Every lie to a child Every beating of a promise Embody all t...

A legacy of pain Born into suffering Bound by some spiritual chain Cowering under The weight of a cross-shaped shadow Your definition of sin Leaves mankind crippled and cold I pity this mindless dependency Confess to none but yourself Who better to judge you...

Sediment upon sediment Lapping like waves at my spine To linger in this fury You versus I Welcome opponent You versus I Negation in smothering grip To behold and despise Yet if I strain my eyes I still glimpse an unspun Mile of lies between us, So tread ligh...

[Wound:] Inching closer Corrupting my ambition, Saw your wretched incarnation [Scorn:] Growing colder Retire my frustration, Turning fire into stone [Disease:] Decimation, Biding time in apathy, We partake in betrayal [Monument:] Invite destruction Embrace...

Spare me your righteous lesson This path I walk is mine Those hollow words you speak Won't change my made up mind How cheap we buy our ideals A standard set for all How dull they seem, your idols Submit, the worm is turning A mind gone numb The stinging mock...

A Goliath so spasmodic Turn of events, Ominous, historic Safeguard a creed demonic Love of war and war for love Through this age The ranks of this disaffected swelled The spectacle of imperia Wheel of doctrine in motion An industrialized anemia A wind of ret...

Life cheaply spent All feelings put aside Deep paralyzing anguish Pays the price, twisting the knife Eluded for so long My path was clean I thought it was long since gone Now the faces come again Delving into depths I never thought were there Racing with tur...

Under siege, mental chains As a caged rat My will condemned Fallen on faith of others What the hell had I? By god, I wonder where's my chance? I'd sell my soul For just one glance Nourished on forsaken lust Covet memories, long to be Born of promise and devo...

Eyes are bleeding Scolding heat Succumbing to the wish- Not to feel anything at all Rolling waves of nausea Seeping through My mind Darkest abyss of conscience Time will swallow All Converge upon me Crushing all I see Take away my pain Purifying rain I am s...

Cold eyes of fire Talk to me Stillborn desire In the air I breathe In our wanton spirits I read Closure, Nauseating rites A face and heart I heed Unprecedented, In longing As we soar still higher As Icarus we'll plunge In longing manner we'll admire Into dep...

Where have we gone? I find it harder to connect And I find it farther away from me Where did you go? Where have I gone? I feel my wound is healing poorly Scar tissue render me frozen Bitter Where is it now? What have I lost? Give me back my demon Call me back...

I lost this I surrended this Carry out the sentence passed They nurture no more dreams In acceptance this mute was given Voice, as he fell from the sky... And everything was bled into this Hold me down this time Killing slave emotion Letting all pass through W...

Arms gagged I'm flat on my back Those nauseating grins Covers all light, blackest lies How unconcerned we swallow All which we're fed A revelation came to me Integrity, a new entity Genuine and truthful I smite your grim design Taunted, unconscious I woke to...

I wake to see The bastard children thriving The plight Your burden The scourge abiding No matter what consequences I have only knives for you I will be your storm The strike you never knew You little man No willful melancholy No matter how you plead This wind...

Feigned The image of a world unfolds Deluded, but divine It sees us mocking gifted grace A stolen self Will not succumb See your face in the mirror It's your image on a face of another See your principles Constantly wither What is this will but a riddle? In...

A silver sky and I lie down You don't provoke my anymore These hours try And I go down And horror yields a door The light outlives the setting sun End a day to shun My senses slip A lie begun From all to none The black as painted by the moon Colour filth from...

So I remain the misanthrope The words I spoke left unheeded No lesson learned, no will to hear You never knew what you needed The world denied Mockery my reward This world deprived Of it's essence So I guess I'll try my best No need to maintain the lie Your...

Prey for the blood red sun Prey on the life itself Prey for the blood red sun Prey on the life itself 

Please stay awake Our defining moment struck The power faithless Struck While we were contemplating visions Visions ran us by Immortal Yet decayed Oh truth, this bitter lie Though it burns like hell's fire Scorched are all but us Did ambition not prevail Wh...

All that I see can conceive Your wanton indifference derides Decisions weren't hard to deceive How we fooled ourselves When it died Searching for a new place to hide Afar from your vile, naive complacency Burning Scathing In nausea confide Mocked in sudden...

In this skeletal form, rupture skin and flesh Wake these eyes of bone to life In this skeletal form, rupture skin and flesh The ashes of the dead arise Past an enormity of stifling redundancy We suck breath into this dry carcass With joints that crack and vei...

Could have carried us farther Mired only by ourselves Horizon glowed in morning Through vile was our resolve A promise to betray A betrayal to remember Where the wave broke And flushed us back Back into the sea Would have brought a haven Sadness, that bitter f...