Darkest Hour

A blessing in tragedy Burning what's left in effigy Wreckage, when there's nothing left Wreckage, the birthright of regret A place where truth can hide A place where fallen egos can survive A place where fear rusts through pride A place where heroes go to die...

Of a dying breed and a decaying seed We've been watching for years Waiting for it to bleed Handshakes and contracts Just before they turn their backs We've played along for far too long We've played along for far too long We'll lay this down to waste We'll lea...

It's a hollow hand That pulls you into An otherworldly land So alluring and new And the higher ground Where you took your stand Has now leveled down to the sand A search for your last destination You're already there Where madness and bliss coexist With the c...

These solemn words whispered in a haze Could you even see me standing there All wrapped up in insecurities that Wont stop spilling out all over me And in your eyes I see so much more Than that place you always go back to You can pull yourself away from That f...

All you can hope for is To make a slight connection with All these clogged receptors it's Not getting any better by the look of it No people just numbers If you had your way The world would be Just a market a fucking market The meaning is lost when You put a p...

The future five align. Empty promises find us all the time. Would you put it all on the line for the lost and frozen years? Leave us the bastard sons. Leave us the broken ones- To fend for ourselves, one by one. An epitaph not worth looking back. Another sunse...

Crossed out of our mindscapes We're frozen in the time Stretched around your face a mask A clever disguise ever So enticing this corroding chemical synapse Spawn of a beast An ethereal drain tatters on the brink Burst into a cloud of spores Explode into the at...

Keep your eyes on the trigger And your mind on the ecstasy Just caress the emptiness Sit back and let it bleed We need salvation We need another god on the TV screen We need to believe Fill your pockets with other's casualties Just a talk show leaper prophecy...

I'm that face you think you recognized Saw you in a dream Saw your life flash by Hallucinating Looking through the crooked glass Prison within A prism like existence We'll never know the truth We'll never get a chance To undo or relive our youth P...

Shame is such a plain way to describe this state And every forked tongue displays your intentions With every forked tongue a way to ascension but All is not well in this world we've created so bitter and jaded Again with the same rusted routines we make Does e...

A black sun has risen Look up into the sky Enter your rain season Drown out the light A return to the soil Harvest by hand Depleted and bleak in An unfertile land Is it fate or is it fortune That blasts our past to oblivion Can you feel The weight has shifted...

It sets in with a vengeance An attack on all the senses A paralyzing presence They'll hunt you down One at a time They'll hunt you down one at a time The closer they get There's nowhere to run from the ones with no reflection Hits when you last expect it Con...

Wake up my love, this is fading Tomorrow is waiting and I’m going nowhere tonight Wait up, don’t wait up too late I’ll be out at the same place I always end up every night Please forgive us Carnivorous, to the moment I wake Lay down, don’t lay down to...

When the screams can't carry far enough When the sands of time burn razor marks When the ice burns cold and I can feel no more I'll know, I'll know I've seen this all before I've felt this way before I've heard this song before Before All this sings the prophe...

[bonus track] Those haunting consequences Left the spoiled taste of regret in my mouth Left to work it out alone And when you fell asleep Did you think of me? This is the closing of the day And you escaped before I could reach out to you Those crippled memori...

It’s been a long night, waiting to sleep the day away and it's been a long time coming along with me every step of the way the confinement binds you and nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing that nothing ails me, nothing kil...

If I only knew why red rivers flow, Away from a life in torment, I can't conceive why a glorified lifestyle like this is so appealing, Why are there no other choices? Why do we feel this is how we need to survive? If I only knew why death surrounds, I can't co...

I'm in denial of existence drifting over to the other side Of an endless horizon Crossed out and driven by desire Feeding the fire until O death pull me closer to your cold embrace With such grace you keep driving the same stake Straight through the heart And...

This world is dying everyday Don't let it come between us Our fate has traveled this far And now the storm brings us faster to a close Brimming with pathetic prose Vacate your stolen hearts As if nobody's seen us And empty out your pockets You needn't bring A...

You and me, we're the same Asking for more More than the numbing existence Offered us all What did they say? What did they do? To make you crawl back in Despite everything that you've been through You're still right here Where I left you We can lift u...

Finally silently i go аnd take with mе Nо one to take оn the world that i’we known This body has gone to the ends of the earth But may never know аny place тo call ноmе Like the future is dead like the future is lost What matter саn shatter the surface now Wha...

This is the end of a sickening tale Of life death and repeat Radiant waves of dissonant ways Set forth through the halls of refrain You're a plague, you're plague And you feed off the youth but it won't keep you young You're a plague, you're plague And your pr...

We are the expatriated our fate cards have played us neighbors Displaced us we've seen that these demographics are targets shot down By the market I've felt the wrath of the greedy now complete with more Monsters I've seen the needs of a city completely ignore...

You are the only one with the ability to turn this tide With the capacity to learn the truth and burn the lies That signalize our disgust so come with me, I'll be your doomsayer and show you everything That you'll never see Behind borrowed eyes you're living i...

Mass ceremonial suicide A nation of millions caught in the jaws of a lie Uniform stagnant filth Sub culture with no remorse or guilt Feeding the frenzy of fears It feeds on it's young for years A new chain for the same set of slaves A new shovel for the same s...

Tear heart from flesh, Blood stains canvas, Delve into darkness, Cannot fathom life, To scared to fathom death, As venom slowly poisons, Paralysis sets in, Stiff and lifeless, Pain begins to sear the mind, To sear the mind, Drawn and quartered by anguish, Sten...

We keep drifting on and on Across this barren wasteland Seared earth laid waste On another plane of existence Blinding brilliant light Alludes to the illusion of serenity So show me what it takes To fall asleep on the eve of destruction Set ablaze like the p...

That's all right because you wish you were dead You live life with a hex over your head A savior's mouth with a serpent's tongue But don't forget you're like this with the chosen one And I forget about my losing streak But you never slip at a chance to remind...

Call it our nature or call it what you will Automatic, trapped in the undercurrent Presumed an unstoppable force Through the ages spilled onto pages Shine on you nonbelievers You can call it colossal upheaval When we wake up from our induced slumber They can...

Some fires will never die Some will never ignite Are you still living a lie Or will you revel in the rest of your life With every blinding light I see the future inside And I feel it even when I’m away from you If I will, you won’t And if I do, you d...

Paranoia and you can still pretend How this cross will always mend Paranoid and the pestilence sets in What failure looks like when you begin 'Cause you've heard this one before And it won't stop you from walking out that door Wasted on nothing but borrowed ti...

Burn alive when your whole life you’re just taught to die Аnd fear your instincts and form а linе Trust nо оnе you саn’т look in the eye Trust yourself you саn find where the power lies The world has changed the world is changing Empires fall аnd centuries cra...

My dove of prey Will you forever haunt me I've lusted and envied The one and the infinite eyes And for now I see nothing but blood in the skies I'm living a drug The white tower and the blackened lungs Release my body into the night Nothing is sacred...

We've got to get out No turning back Leave ruination to the rats We're setting a course That's out of our reach Never returning to this Civilization at it's worst and It's starting to sink into itself so Stay away, stay away from the old ways Starting over St...

In darkness only to see the light shines brighter now, Stripped from the life long before your time, Sands of time slowly blown away, Innocence is laid to rest, Ashes smolder ashes from the fire that once charred life, Life is laid to rest, Ashes smolder from...

Swimming through a false consciousness, Looking for an answer, Waiting for it to come to me, I can't see forward in this world of darkness, A veil of pain covers my eyes, Waiting for it to come to me, Waiting aimlessly, I wish this world would be over,...

And with the presence of power Comes the rebellion of innocence We're in this all for each other Lifetime reversal in decline Commencing countdown the time has come Battle lines are drawn Commit the ashes back to the earth Lifetime no decline or fallin...

Injected venom sucking the life from us away for eighty days it's white noise just white noise staying awake for the music's sake they say they listen but never hear a thing mass deception illusion perception we say they listen to white noise can this really...

Trapped under your race, and under your glow Been away for too long to know How we ever began, and how we ever will end I never wanted to be the one I thought I wanted to be alone Oh, nut I need this now, so much more than I ever have I see the morning l...

Breathe your every breath self-obsessed a sensational place Your winning hand cripples this impoverished state Your business here I don't care you're not welcome to feed Yourself to death it's just not ever gonna be enough So chemical every scent you wear...

A grand deception Disguised as gods redemption Forced delusions of grandeur Calling out for A willing sacrifice Of a nameless enemy Necessary losses Fulfill the bloodlust fantasy See through this fa�ade Of retribution This machine Is marching to the killing rh...

I saw the world die a little today Just to feel the wealth of the decay Just so you can know what it feels like What tears taste like We owe it all to the sickness inside We owe it all to the fears we've learned to hide We belong where traitors can touch the d...

You are a servant to your god You are a slave to a book You say you are just a messenger But you'll end up hooked This place feels like home Walls echo, screaming no This tough love feels Like I'm being choked Dependant on a whim Bow down before him You suckle...

There's no salvation In a world where you worship your reflection And no redemption for a life of servitude You bow and you heed On hallowed command Your holy land is all rot and reeking It's a safe place A hollow escape A palace of concrete and glass Keep wai...

Within a mechanical pose And a heart pumping a need for control Forced to fit inside a mold Living to dehumanize is gonna take its toll Take it in And let it saturate Under the skin Until you can't even Remember when You first felt the sinking Feeling that Som...

After midnight's glow and morning's gloom has settled in its Self-inflicted sense of self-loathing waking up from the longest dream Where we're all running away it's a sobering experience still sinking Still spinning still hanging by a thread I've been thinkin...

I can still see You sucking the life out of me I can still feel the chill Down my spine when you told me Always one fateful night That turns the tide Always one fateful night With nowhere to hide To live and die In a day there's nothing Left to say Time will n...

I'm out of balance with the earth Out of rhythm with the moon Just a savage primal being To the modern world immune To the modern world immune There is no solace this way I know you want me as an enemy I know you want all you can never see But we're...

Fuck waiting around to die When all my life i’ve вееn dead inside Fear as a god The final facade The rapture in exile The flooded red And black as the winter ahead Abstract and artifacted When we are all either Outsourced or outcasted They’ll melt the bodies d...

Blood seeps through the cracks of your lying teeth As you've lost all hope in forgiveness Because there's no one left to forgive you Regret, lie to yourself Because you're the only one you can believe Regret, lie to yourself Because you're the only one left Yo...

On dawn of the day I arose to the thunder again The pounding in my head It doesn't seem to phase me How every scream the pretend not to hear echoes through me Standing, complacently waiting I try to tell myself Our lives are worth more than this So give me a c...

Says the feral instinctual side "The thrill of the hunt" Says the prophet of all that's been said and done "Savor the kill" Unsettled, severance undone A non-living presence will never Grow until you fall overblown Transcend to the beat Separate from...

You think it's easy to live the silent lie But your second face is peeling Every word spoken every blink of the eye Deceit makes itself revealing Sickening how easy trust can be offset Blatant truth will burn right through your head I hope this happens to you...

Severed into separates We are segmentary habitats All that we know never has the structure Gotten through Place everyone into a maze Watch them run around the race Work your life away End up in the streets Oh the price you'll pay Never be at ease...

I feel so sick So sick again Just when I thought it went away This time there's nothing I can take To calm it down, to make it sleep All this spent waiting For a cure that's just beyond reach One more forgotten day in line One more desperate cling to control J...

This moment marks the severing of senses comatose distinctions the Gathering of flies on a irrational mind filled with broken conviction I've seen how lies take form in your eyes your suspicious ways Followed a hollow gaze you fucking left me to rot but one da...

When we first came here We were cold and we were clear With no colors in our skin We were light and paper thin And when we first came here we were cold and we were clear With no colors in our skin 'Til we let the spectrum in Say my name And every co...

All their reign falls to the earth just the same So turn and look the other way Because you´re a failure time and again And you can try to black it out stomp the fire out, Fuck your tail and run don't move and inch your war pig fuck, You just stand right ther...

You hear that hidden voice, it tells you You're never alone You know the price you'll have to pay To stay where you are If anything compels you To shut out the sun I'll be there in that never after Where everyone is gone There's not a thought And not...

Stripped to the bone Left standing alone You want everything And find falling home Follow-- follow the hollow And now there's no one left to burn Nothing to lose, nothing to earn Did you find what you were looking for? Was the greed worth selling yourself for?...

A sudden gasp for air One false move A blank stare is waiting for you Try to piece it together But you haven't a clue A blank stare is waiting for you It sends an impulse out Desperately searching Feeding off remains of it all Another burning bridge Another ca...

A legacy that rots with time Cold before it hits the ground I've been where those fears lie, I've heard the screams from the inside I know-- never look back When memories fade to flashes The trust-- was just a trap Look for my picture in the ashes Deceit ridin...

After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The shouting and the crying Prison and place and reverberation Of thunder of spring over distant mountains He who was living is now dead We who wer...

You want to own this You want to control this Well I chose an eternity of this And laugh at the fire Take all you want and all you need You never cared what you left of me Never give what you can't take back The true mark of the Judas Never forget The true mar...

Thrown into this world, Forced to live a life not chosen, Through out this sentence of torment, Tortured and left for dead, Shell of a man, Left alone to drown, I can't escape, Like like plaster cast dissolves, Thrown away, Fallen victim once again, At the han...

Out of your life and into your mind Divided lines Someone forgotten, something inside Somewhere in time Less, less than a sight And never more than a sound So vile and infectious A lucid recount And I'll never say what you want me to say When I tell...

So serene is the bleached white scene Of a thousand crimes you'll never see on TV Swept away only to pave the new way This misinformation age is upon us all Waking up to the sound Another muffled cry for peace Waking up to the sound Another muffled cry for tru...

We are the embarrassment to market suicide Without eyes full of genocide We live where flags can buy more than others' lives Where it's fashion to show your love homocide [homicide, most likely] Of the victim we haven't seen enough For the victim it's the esca...

One nation under the gun Where forward thinking is shunned A morbid tradition Of archaic value systems Where violence justified Is just another pride Under the surface lies A holy plastic empire With guarded golden fences Where misfortune Shelters decisions A...

Pull Meet me beyond the emptiness And only then will you see All that you have All that you have in this world Is all that you need So release me into the vast unknown For I have been reborn Arise in tune with the tides You wait for them to fall On your balanc...

Lie awake It's all give and take Wretched place That you've never known As you've made your way Through the cemetery Of mistakes that you've never made Debts that you've never paid Most precious waste You could never throw away Just one more taste...

My heart's been racing with my mind to the finish line of these Fevered times stuck down again this turbulence has overcome Tranquility pounding the walls inside these thoughts I can't control And shooting through my veins these heightened senses overwhelming...

You, you left these arms holding nothing Alone, set in this tomb of my tears Liar, I know now that the truth was just another lie It's too late, my heart has broken black It's over and failure is the only memory that hasn't turned to rust Sorrow; the only thin...

All this down in flames For just one more breath It's not worth this It's worthless This Side Of The Nightmare The sound of tears on the shell of this broken heart And time does nothing except close around me This Side Of The Nightmare, rain still falls As the...

Gone are the days of evasion existence is how you create it what ever Compels you to keep on embrace it so long as the missing piece of the Puzzle split down the middle we had better prepare ourselves for Perpetual winter why do we do this to ourselves continu...

This decaying flesh is coming back to life reanimate me give me A chance and I'll be right here where the sun hits the sea watching These waves wash the pain away and it will radiate so brilliantly that We can keep pushing on and get on with life cause we dese...

There is no turning back From all the confines of regret Reminders of that day will haunt you Nights you never slept And every time you separate the body from the mind And look into yourself and see what you've left behind It's something you salvage through a...

Shades of lies forming stained glass The beauty of which distracts Until it shatters down Crashes down Those whose colors shown until now Accusations hurled at deaf ears A link that breaks by light let in The truth will surely fade Ever rolling waves Wash them...

On the threshold of life as we know In a chasm cascading to the core Where nothing seems real anymore In between the obtuse and obscene So let the rains come down and explore The possibility that it all ended that day, And like all you dark clouds you skeptic...

Oh you're in the crosshairs did you ever know You're in the process of phasing out War for peace every treaty written in blood Struck down with disease Get away Give up the prospects of Better days They're over you're washed up Against your own kind...

Overcome the evils trapped within, Break free from the shackles that bind, Blood pulses through my veins as I destroy the weakness and impurity within my soul, Fracture the innocence, Break free from the trap, That binds my arms, My legs, My soul regain...

For every Dead God who worships the living And every lost Soul starving submission for all The tyrants will fall Salvage the serpent Born to rise when process seems perfect It's wrong to all And your tyrants will fall When thy art is hate I've given...

And to reflect is to regret throwing it all away And apathy, my one way street, it took so much from me Separated by this divide I created through my fears And in your tears you tried to show blind eyes and tell deaf ears If we can make it through the landslid...

This strategy won't change It's over when Never do you gain And always you win And tragedy remains Though we're given Every chance to change We don't listen just pass the blame Sing over decay Blood flowing the wrong way A constant state of refusal...

I can't feel anything, I don't respond to pleasure or pain, a vapid void, neglected toy, saturate in shame Is it better than, better than the rest or does this end with abruptness, shallow at best I don't know anyone, I don't know anything but this, met wi...