Converge

I was so naive and fearful of the substantive Of the greying days, of carrying endless weight And what it really meant to truly mean something To really be someone who could be loved So lost in darkness, in and out of selfishness Hoarding all my dreams w...

To live the life you want You've abandoned those in need A necessary casualty Or so you believe Your wake will always travel And well up in the eyes Of those that you sacrificed In order to survive I'm that aimless arrow Lost from my very st...

Five lives dead and gone We breathe out of key and wonder if you can hear the awkwardness in these tremors Draining, cutting this cancer out Teeth gaping yet I make no sound Six hammers and one sky, falling Five lives dead and gone Mediocrity in believing in e...

You roar of love, slayed my despair It ripped me from my path, that led me to nowhere You shook me from my sleep, that willed me to die A final goodbye, all we love we leave behind I'm so sorry, that I missed your lives While I was on the road learning t...

Idle chatter sounds much better to the absent mind. Govern me, kill thy master. You will not enslave me. The root is bitter but the fruit is sweet but not exempt from criticism. Small pox friendship, you die I take. You are the new slave. Don't call me G...

Fresh faced oligarch we have grown far apart My arkhipov calm will serve me in due time Turbulence shakes the teeth from the chaos that you speak With every barb that you threw, I saw you list to the side And I won't sink with you, I have so much more to d...

Waiting for the axe to fall Sun is sinking clouds collecting I'm in a race to stop the bleeding me My will is leaving darkness falling Need to finally cut me from you I need to learn to love me I need to stop this suicide machine I need to learn to love me I n...

In cold blood I claim this hate I bare my teeth to make her pay Maw mends I take flight for one last time With raven wings and two black eyes Don't be afraid with demon speed The gift of hate I bare my teeth to make them pay Don't be afraid Nowhere to hide 

So much for breathing, my cloud nine fell from grace. Loss of everything, where is my identity?. If I could only find what is left me. So much for letting go when you have nothing left to hold. The words that slid off your tongue, my everything. Your nothing,...

Death to cowards, traitors, and empty words To those adorned with the touch of rose petals And the blessed gift of forgetfulness For these are your years and days to outshine Push on and soar higher This is your memory Your everything and the in between Push o...

thousand miles forgetting anything everything wheels racing black cloud gaining ground engine roars rain pours down the chase is on my black cloud gaining ground three years spent outrunning my demon and her ring keep moving with engine heart and boiled blood...

In retrospect I reflect but I am to blind to see. I embrace my soul hoping it will show me all. Blind. I've lost it all. I've lost you. I'm so sorry for what I have put you through. I am so sorry for what I did to you. But look at me, look at what I have put m...

Emotion sickness afterglow A darkness reigns over all But it's the white noise harmony That I find so troubling And the echo of that whisper Said how much better it used to be As a petal fell from the rose Withering as a long forgotten dream Phantom...

For the dying beautiful and the infinite end I never got to say, I never had the chance to listen I missed that train Buried but breathing with this evening's sleep Buried but breathing, these devils weep 

Opportunism Will spread within the land If the parasitic heart That beats in all of us Is unrivaled Crocodile tears Extinguish empathy And we will not survive If this is all there is Feral animals Must not be unrivaled We are just cannibals If th...

Originally by Depeche Mode Clean The cleanest I've been An end to the tears And the in-between years And the troubles I've seen Now that I'm clean You know what I mean I've broken my fall Put an end to it all I've changed my routine Now I'm clean I...

Please love, just come home again Just let this one pass, there will be another And in this laughter before the pain Every deliberate hung by my left hand Eyelids fludder and warm water floods my nostrils Neck deep I cry high Together we sleep, slouched discol...

Dear, I'll stay gold just to keep these pasts at bay To keep the loneliest of nights from claiming you and to keep these longest of days from waking you For I felt the greatest of winters coming and I saw you as seasons shifting from blue to grey That's where...

There was nothing that I ever wanted more than for you to hold this deep with you heart To lay beside me as my halo bums deep to cinder and to the wale me from my tired life To give this ghost a home again When you fall short and I fall short this is where I p...

swam out to sea to try and be me to drown those that thought they could never sink when in the deep weakness is easy to read coral blue grows in you coral blue tells the truth swam out to see what karma would bring it's jaws crashed down on drowning bodies aro...

Voracious children and wolves Sharpen their teeth on our bones Carrion feeds the wretched Vacant eyes peer through the hole Beggars and thieves bring down a common enemy While pawnshop kings and corner queens All hawk their souls for gold Lifelong vict...

Severed my roots of dead family trees Finding the damage inside (of me) Parting blood red seas on bended knee Too much to ask when it's so hard to breathe No way out Tearing my soul to finally see The real wreckage between (you and me) A cold grin for these [i...

Shut your doors their storm is coming Of unlived dreams that were cast away Hear the howls soaring in the wind Don't let our end begin My hatred grows as their tears fall Shield innocence from hungry tombs Keep damages from taking you Hear the howls soaring in...

For all those born to serve And those that chose to hide (how many worker bees died within our hive) Let their sadness be our blessing Let their losses Lead the way The dark horse will one day come To free the light from all of us One day the dark horse will...

You never loved me now I cannot lie down in that bed I cannot lie down in all of those old fears I haven't slept, singe the colors from my glances If I was bleeding, would you tell me? If I was speaking, would you hear me? You asked for everything but never lo...

Pick your poison as dead beats do Leave a wake in the hearts that hurt you Pick your poison as dead beats do Blood pulsing through your wounds A thousand warnings are ringing true Burning their homes, writing in stone The name of demons inside of you You left...

let me live leave me be let me live leave me you haunt me broken promise two year mourning dead ringer old dead ending new dead ends in every sleep my blood boils it is my sheep they follow my flocks are falling out of love dead ringer old dead ending new dead...

And like that heart that got in the way I'll become the lost cause The child of burden and rage Like the distance in your touch Like the years we burned down I heard that phone call The hesitation, the awkward silence I felt everything in those seconds Splinte...

A tear to shed my soul. To bleed out my divinity I search for. Holding the spine of God my sour sedation pulled them away. So many things left unsaid my brightside faded away. Less than zero a shade apart from what I feel. Cold. We used to play devotion but I...

I could see the pain in your eyes. I wish I could prove this truth absolute. I want to heal you. It is me. I am sorry. Sister of mercy to free me, trace my past beyond what I see. Your God promised to save me. God forgot. Needle puncturing skin, tell the tales...

My faith runs thinner than water For every wish had a name and every heart had a fracture With every fear there was someone, somwhere Who loved before, who hoped before Someone who cried out ten thousand oceans And someone who bled out the evening in sear...

amphetamine raised her since three he was a hope to be gutter king both unraveled at their seams that were never sewn she never had a choice they never had a chance he never had a choice they never had a chance all their devils and all their demons walk with m...

in new day dreams a promise gives way to a star struck death and a gold disease a hollywood end for a once great man who found death on his knees cashed in crashed and burned sore sour sore our eagles become our vultures 

Rotting legacies Fading loyalties Effigies for the beasts Effigies Distorted hearts Worship God currency That is so worthless to me The poor eat the poor Just like we've done before Cursed by the burden youth brings Effigies for the beasts Effigies you and me...

empty on the inside searching - for all my life empty on the inside aching - for all my life empty on the inside hunting - for all my life what made me whole is slipping through my hands youth leaves us all as this death commands and i can't shake these beasts...

Primal nature shifts Our nervousness (?) As the old friend tell (?) A new one is taking grip In all of us lies secrets Hidden inside hollow hearts Heaven was built by heathens There’s no place for us, never was All seeing eyes won’t let us see Truth...

Eye of the quarrel open wide as the wound I still reach for the sun in spite of all of you I'm my own man built by my own hands Despite all the flaws which remind me of you Eye of the quarrel, is bearing down Eye of the quarrel, bestows the crown Fraye...

Disenchanting the romantic This is the real, this is the shame These limbs search feverishly for the gift of gravity Coarse twine tears clean And I have thought about this very instance for all time Decades longer than you or I Crimson comforting, scorching th...

You were most beautiful as the damage and the trauma Pounding hard with battered wings of destiny You were my last great war You were my heaven ablaze Riddled with faults and fractures And I spent my last of days burning my oldest of bridges And I spent my las...

Neck deep we wallow and this floor catches lingering feet By rope with heartbreak this is our happiest moment of all We dream of flowers on the razorwire and wake to the scent of our dead We're sinking And all of those times don't matter here Remember my love...

And I cannot stop shaking because you cannot stop shaking and these chords they are trembling because your words they are bleeding And these holes in my hands are for you, just for you She called out to her maker to now be her savior My love, these holes in my...

The cedar doesn't do much for these memories I am as cold as the monuments you left for me And another one passes in the evening A knee deep grave and the two that raised and a tin box for the two that I loved And I carry on Please lay out my best suit for me...

my love, wrap your hands around my heart free me from the frost that enveloped my life my love, reach out your arms and pull me close let us tread in silence as their world drowns beneath my love, wrap your hands around my heart free me from the frost that env...

When I see me in your eyes I just want to go blind When I build coffin worlds with words I just want a place to hide When old ghosts meet new regrets my daylight fades to grey When our days bring guilt and shame my heart turns black These are my tombs pain...

i keep paying when you keep taking please stop running and just start living me without you i have learned to live without your light that burned so bright you are half the heart and half the will hanging moon haunting you hanging moon be my light in this worl...

We are falling down We are falling Every word that you pray makes another slave Every idol that you build brings another plague Every cross that you bear grows another grave We are all falling down We are all falling down Down, down We are all falling under th...

i'm stopping this slow death by letters never sent i'm killing one way romance and its words never read i'm leaving love's lost battles to the vulture's need to feed i'm leaving you i'm leaving them and learning to be me heart is everything heart is you love i...

Death was just a simple glance across a dim lit room And those eyes did it Those three words did it Those three words killed him And I surrender to it all Between you and me, I surrender to you Forgive me for the sadness And the bringing of you down I just nee...

Cheap lips, soft eyes, lost in the most blinding lights As cold as those first nights alone As the second best he'll become Sleep deep, girl, dream well That night, I think he cried himself to sleep Just maybe, he felt more than we could ever know And I think...

For lost hope and his son I'll avenge what once was for his name and his love These cold hands spill their blood Grant me the strength to stand up straight To make them pay Spill their blood Grant me the strength to bear this weight Show me the way Spill thei...

For words, two minutes, three years for my fingertips to grow numb Could this be the moment when the "finally" becomes the "wish I could"? Desperation and outstretched memories now I see you only in bad dreams I never reset I only see you in bad dreams Let me...

I have bled and I have given The longest of rivers and the longest of ropes And you're not grasping and my light is sinking on the horizon Knee deep among your wreckage and uncertainty With anguish my crown and heartbreak my throne I lay claim to this day...

keep on searching keep on running suicide eyes just keep hunting for new hearts to break for old wounds to make no one will break your fall keep on moving keep on hiding in ripe new lives you are destroying finding comfort in their wreckage you kill new hope w...

Below my solitude I abstain. Above my bitterness I grace the lie. Sinking alone I severed the chord, drifting into the wide. It lies below this tragedy, this suffering. Life's blood flows out of me. The deeper I sink the more life flows out of me. Drifting tow...

Sick matriarch We are worlds apart Your dysfunction rips The roots from my heart I swear that I’m trying I swear that I’m trying, but You don’t know what my pain feels like And our memory dims A bitter sting sets in The resentment grows And my blood...

Goodnight dear angel, I won't be back here in burden. I don't think we'll ever meet again. She said that antiseptic words are just sorry answers, and I'd have to agree. No, I don't think we'll ever meet again. We give everything for nothing. Make me an offer...

you are nothing more than dying royalty you are nothing more than a fading drama queen your spelling errors in love letters just stole your crown you are nothing more than late night fantasy you are nothing more than a rehearsed tragedy your spelling errors in...

she is at the end chasing her own fading light running from her shadow in the name of living searched for worth in the lust of men paid in blood in different beds mistaking sex for true love they never meant a thing her addiction brought her a world of coward...

To say that all of those words meant something would be to say that your petty wars killed everything And I wonder if we ever had one of those moments because I can't count the times I tried to cut away the dead, hoping to grow up again How much I tried to kil...

These floods of you are unforgiving Pushing passed me spilling through the banks And I fall Faster than light and faster than time That's how memory works At least in the dark where I'm searching for meaning When I'm just searching for something I want...

i need you to be the strength of widows and soul survivors i need you to be as fearless as new mothers and new fathers i need you to be the hope of hearts who lost true love i need you to be the might of their first kiss i need a purpose and i need a reason i...

I can tell by the weight of your words, that this is over. All the "should"'ve but could"ves" can no longer be. This is the second death in the exquisite art of forgetting. And I promise this to you I'll burn this devotion clean, filling every hole in my hear...

Awaken from the bliss of sleep The daybreak haunts you in such a subtle light I hear them, they tell me these roads we have travelled fork up beyond the bend Beneath the flutter of desperate wings they sing a song of reclamation Where tomorrows hanging horizo...

From a victim to a friend Don't ever let them in keep Your scars on your sleeve and your heart in your hands All the whores with their wars Their gaping mouths want more All of them choke on regret We sit in silence Dead or dedicated Alive or medicated A cowar...

A triumph of tragedy And all it claims from me As those years recede While lies are all I see Missed steps and misgivings Driven by frailty What you call family Feels so dead to me Nothing left to lose When I'm losing you Losing the battle And losing the war 

All these fairy tale forevers welcome everyone in, and it's no wonder that she fell from his great blue sky. I can still taste my defeat on these lips and you still have Hell welled up in your eyes. I will burn that bridge when we get it it. Erase the sun. Th...

Dear, just one day, just another fight just one more lonely night Just one more crowd under the burning lights (with some blood and mind to be paid) To my friends to my family I tried to be the best man I could ever be I tasted their failure on the entrance wa...

Joy escapes through the tangled days (Iron demands fire) Youth escapes through the blur of pain (Iron demands fire) Smoke cloaks the sky, the bell explodes A shudder runs through, we have nowhere to turn When the luster is gone and life loses right We can...

No, I'll lay half empty half finished, half written, until my end I'll leave the lights on just in case you want to be found again To the dead, I wrote you countless letters dear only some I sent How easy it was for silence to say some of the loudest of things...

I said that name and skipped a heartbeat. I said it with a second chance and a forgetful smile. I said it with a faint glimmer of suicide. I taste my wreckage in our conversations deep under the faint hums of far gone engines. With all signal flares blazing w...

In vein and valor Be what they fear Their days are over Our nights are here With hate and heartache I'll strike you down With rage and rapture I crush your crown No more gods No more graves No more love No more hate Hell hammer comes down Onto their blade Our...

don't let go don't leave me don't let go don't leave me as i cried for you her lips were calling to you don't let go don't leave me don't let go don't leave me as i reached for you cold hands were embracing you death can touch what we love death will touch wha...

all of the wounded that need to be saved looked for a handout beyond the gates and i need to know if their blood was worth it as we live this inferno and burn down to the bone all of the arrows that plunge into prey are their promises of better days and i need...

Bright eyes Fading young eyes Beaten to black and blue Sunrise has been sinking since I was two One wounded and another dead I've spent years building these walls When all of this time my sky has been falling Burden to bare this anger is empty but heavy My hea...

She burns as bright as the sun and she falls darker than night She shines as light as these days And she fades faster than time Phoenix in flames 

And I write this to you my dear For your eyes alone I'm out of heart and these tanks are low So cast your days to flame And set your phoenix to flight Let her turn to ash Among those flourescent lights Let your love drift deeper Let her wings catch the sky Jus...

Dark days Greet us with teeth With claws her wings climb Cold eyes gaze wide with awe With spite Everyone, everywhere Every beast, every man pays her price 

i've found myself running out of time relating to those that just stopped trying clinging to those little things and the light they bring i bow down to you extinguished youth scavengers became future romancers and my angels carry a predatory glow i'm weaker by...

My barren plan to be a better man Rots in abandoned fields These idle hands inherit spoiled lands As the hungry become the pigs We reap (and) we sow We mourn who we were Love what we lost In the grave of... (youth) Laying with lions to hide my grief From the b...

Futile wars for fruitless words Written by shadow kings Their shrapnel seeds the desert fields And sprouts this fear we see Devils do not need a hell in order to exist Melodies of flightless birds Remind reptilian me That time is not through sharpenin...

stripped my heart of all it's parts and gave away the scrap for free sold your soul for some control to gnaw at the hand that feeds crying out to end the drought yet it's not your blood that filled this sea the mistakes left in your wake they remind me of a yo...

Hit the lights I've had enough guilt to build a city Shame to fill a sea Reasons to give up and lose everything Regret to burn this body Filth to cut these bands Reasons to bury this and everything we have Hit the lights Just hit the lights I don't care anymor...

there's no such thing as good enough for arctic eyes and hard earned rust i've grown tired of counting odds to somehow make things even when sadness always comes home sadness comes home sadness comes home cursed to be your second best this amber soul will find...

Originally by Vio-lence I've tasted the thrill of the kill the thrill of my victims. I'm crushing, destroying, a figure of speach. My mind is lost eternally out of my reach, richard, in you glass case, stand to be judged. Written there all over your face, ted...

sadness fills up our lungs their flesh hangs on our broken horns strays lay claim to shame in the way a currency that once adorned the blinding beauty of our world strays lay claim to shame in the way strays lay claim to shame in the way alone we wander our hu...

I float above and these wings catch, and your sky hold you so beautiful And I understand if all this comes falling, because my sky already has And my head bows, all of this I know And all of your precious love, you can paint as light as you see And you can mak...

The sky is falling around me. You choke in the saturated bliss. A sky so much bluer than mine. Strangulation of your warm soul. Your flesh weakens me. Joyless under the falling sky, your sky seems so much bluer. Buried in displeasure. I sink up through the sky...

No longer feel you, no longer fear you I've worked overtime in your cancer factories Lived with those lies to make those loose ends meet I've taken all my chances And still I'm missing steps Another losing battle For those left for dead I've fed their rabid fe...

the sparrow fell from it's perch from the dead weight of this earth his precious held life long dreams were someone else's old misgivings don't live as the echo but thrive as the sound the boy dug deep with his hands only to find poisoned lands and all he coul...

I'm losing sleep a thousand miles away from my you. Unloved, in the dialtone, it's just not that simple when the perfect words don't ever seem to fit. She just slipped under harmony and now I'm empty handed. I'm just half empty, a second best. Somewhere it's...

when you chose to hurt the honest ones they scarred effortlessly fading - felt but never seen something lost and nothing gained this damage still looks the same darkness gets in the way what i feel, i cannot say when you chose to love all the wrong ones i brui...

Those nights we had and the trust we lost The sleep that fled me and the heart I lost It all reminds me Just how callous and heartless the true cowards are And I write this for the loveless And for the risks we take I'll take my love to the grave As tired and...

And at night they come, when protectors are gone Not in waves, but in shadows Prancing on the wall, creeping up the bed It's there they thrive and nest within Dear frightened little boy, it's time to rise above all of their noise Ghosts are merely shadows...

Falling head over heels for burden and a bright light. A high cost of playing god I guess. Please, tell me how to survive in this. The unforgiving role of seeing too much. Under the dead wake of morning. Finding solace in a diseased heart and finding love in a...

Were it all had meaning, were we fell in love for the first time It erupts in nights like this, tangled in the simplicity of... Some far off distant evening with hearts filled to the brim with good intentions and the sweetest of tragedy I hope you hear me comi...

And we won't be breathing in that same sun again None of this will ever surface again How we get older, how we forget about each other And the angel falls to the sky Raised and coiled she blessed this day she did And it rings our ears She rarely flies anymore,...

Up for days cutting losses and trading in the most precious of wings The nights never end, and these ghosts will never know true rest They stretch for miles, they take me home In the name of love and you I say... sometimes when you win the war you lose it all...

And the clouds they break above our best intentions The rain it pours upon our last kiss Somewhere between the stinging sheets of city rain and the thunderclap, we see who we are And this is all I have, this is all we are The ground shakes with your every smil...

We fell in and out of touch Our distance never meant too much I always wanted to be more Than what you were searching for I know you never wanted this But thank you for giving me your best I knew that you always loved me Though you never said that you d...

You told me nine times before and you said that her touch was not love all these years. You said that she stole and lied and you said to be "brave like me". And I couldn't believe when you said outlive, but I must come out and face the unwilling terms. These e...

To the lions As she closes her doors to end this night This raging sea won't have you This weary grave won't keep you These tired arms won't hold you As she closes her doors to the lions Inferno dreams won't leave you This moonless night won't guide you These...

Well worn wings crumble too tired to forgive and too battered to ever forget. I am the labor, I am this. I hang as your beloved hex. I'll bring the nails and fevers of bad dreams. Nail him. Burden her. Kill you. Bury them. It's all the same. Holding your rope...

see, i've grown to find the same old sun erases shadows, devours light we burn - we burn at both ends fate has no compass fear has no driver what a cruel world clarity brings we burn - we burn at both ends our ghosts were made of good that got in the way some...

The sting of pain ripens with age Into a withered recompense Doesn't make a dent in the path you paved Just a flower at the grave of indifference The world's a trigger seemingly without end You have to bury the gun to finally make sense of it No way fo...

In pure ghost white I see what was mine Drowned in jet black that haunts your shadows Endless night begins This forked road now bends A forked tongue appears to lead us astray All this that I have is all that you are Cutting for love a new trophy scar Just not...

Can you help me? Take a picture before I paint over her. She is beautiful, she was everything. I miss her. Last night I dreamt of her tracing my scars. She said she'd never leave and that I'd always stay. That night you called I stood by that phone for hours,...

Don't need a helmet if I have my heart Don't need your war to find peace I don't need to learn to live in compromise I will never kneel and kiss your ring The sickness spreads under duress Compassion bends under duress Wouldn't need a gun if you didn't h...

Just want to cut the cables and let my face fall to the ground It has been so long since i was two Expression equals the end Unleash the dam, I am sorry you must drown Time to show you who lies within the body of lies Let them feel the fire within my lungs I w...

veins and veils have their place as a way out of our past mistakes veins and veils have their place as a way out of our past mistakes bring brave got in the way of recognizing missteps we've made so we said goodbye to moonlit eyes and met the morning and its f...

Enemies eve Burn to believe Guns in the ground are all I see Love, liars, thieves All targets to me Jaws at my heels mean nothing to me Knives at your throats All that I see Don't doubt me I am vengeance I'm built for war 

It's us versus them Jaws are biting at your heels We hunt you in bad dreams We know just what you are The secrets that you keep Cloven hoof is pounding faster than your heart Strength in desperation and the sting of loss Time to cut them down It's us versus th...

what kind of vicious muse broke the both of you? why did your golden hearts effortlessly bruise? how did that waning spark fade to black and blue? (just) name the demons, overhead the same names as old forgotten friends to remind you that who you love will cut...

For the swarms will come and reap your day dreams of love and hope. For the fears and blood stained faith are woven through her year of war. And the sadder song of broken wings heard through the battered pavement among this city. Deafening, it betrays me in t...

And the wildlife was hunted not for heart but the hide To warm the bones of cowards that were left behind And the lotus wilts with the guilt of the wasted time What does it say about the ones who never even tried Under constant pressure, diamonds in the ro...

The collapsing veins are empty The stars are less bright tonight The future is moving farther away From defeated eyes Your words can't touch me While your past weighs down your life Your heart can't love me While your past (still) haunts you inside The past st...

i've searched with pen and paper i search to show you just how far i broke from myself in the name of fear and doubt in a better world there would be a better me without the chase that won't leave me be wolves at my door keep all your wars i'm going home to be...

Saw you coming around my bend Cutting teeth and breaking bread Making moves and smearing friends Your karma has been racking debts Left your throne in foreclosed homes Claimed that crown of decay Built castle walls with blood and bone To shield your soul from...

Down by your side I watch the dreary light It illuminates your sleeping skin I reach my cold arms across the bed You make no move You never do Own these dire nights Own their seething lies Own my damage, own my sears They paint a broken life's shattered art An...

You carry the loyalty of dogs so you shall be led to the slaughter as swine. It all seemed so real when you whispered, adorned with rose petals and the best of intention. Bleeding softly. I wonder if he ever felt as warm. It's late and my ears can't listen an...

you fail me with every fatal crush you fail me with every abandoned love you fail me with your inferno fuck me eyes that burn as fuel for my city and its neon lights burn bright white line fever take them all you fail me with your new dead end dream you fail m...