Ego Likeness

Take what's yours and go While you still can While it's still dark outside Before he's cold Law man come into your broken home Hide the hammer Draw the blinds Grab the little one and go You've got 16 miles of wasteland Left to go Hike up your skir...

Above the soil and into the wind We live through all of this The tiny calm before the storm Wake up in your arms Fall down in silence Believe the lies they tell And hold on tight to what we find... now You'll always find me here... Inside this house...

In come the vultures Through dusty air To take you down and Tear the ribbons from your hair. In come the songbirds With bitter melodies To sever all your heartstrings As they light upon the trees. This place can sometimes be so ugly. This place can...

Through the vein Living in the stone Running off the wall Never broke at all Collapsing spaces in Digging places in the ground Sifting out the reason At the crossing of the lines At the crossing of the lines... What you see in this Take a step awa...

I suffer from an inhuman condition Almost empty of my empathy Whisper mantras for compassion I am losing the human in me Maybe my mother was a Hydra Maybe my father Unseelie Maybe my family came from Lycia I can't deny the other creatures in me I am n...

The truth is subjective And the court has lost perspective And what is your objection here? Fear's only fear if that's what you call it But what do you call it if you cannot speak? Fear isn't real unless you invoke it So how can you blame it if you don't...

I am alone... Might find some kind of brilliant understanding Might rise above the waves That I see you drown in Can't see the ocean for all the seas Can't drown in water When all you do is leave me behind I am alone... You wouldn't have to fall below...

I make the king drink first I make the king drink first However cruel I've been You know that he's been worse I make the jury nervous Make the jury nervous You say it's a crime I think it was a service And now the tigers come for me And now the tiger...

Hey there daemon! I hear you had a revelation That it’s out of your hands Whether or not we deny our own salvation But I don’t blame you For being torn at either side This world is really not all bad Beneath our vanity and pride And you don’t tempt u...

I feel your ever present spirit In my ever changing world I feel your consecrated arms Entrap my desecrated soul It's like the ocean seeping in Over arid scorching land It's like a hurricane I caught Between my calloused tired hand You have devastate...

I've seen the truth fall out of my mouth Into your life Shatter divine I've seen the seeds fall out of pylons Collapse and fall behind As we walk upon the wire Of these lives that went before As we walk along the mountains And scatter seeds on shore...

Dear Sir I know I asked for this My greedy heart is never full Dear sir I begged for something more Anything, but only on my terms Dear Sir I can't recall my name Or much of anything Before you can It breaks my heart to be ungrateful And I'm sorry...

Something burns inside me Something uncontained Breaks through the ice within me This fire is to blame Something's pulled me under Feral and untamed Never stopped to question The nature of the game My name is Loss of Conscience My name is No Regret...

And you leave me here Among the vines Without a path Far to close to the ravine You said don't turn back I said I'll try I followed you through I followed you down So far down I've given everything And everything is broken now I followed you throu...

It all began in sand and dreams I was blind but there was nothing to see It all began in prayer and praise But there was nothing new written on the Wall that day It all began with fear and falling With wings on fire I can tell that Something's burning...

Broken in like a goddamn freight train How did it get so dark in here? I wanna tell you where it hurts But I'm to numb to feel I am crushed by the weight of the glacier Shift my spine And shift my fate I wanna tell you where it hurts But I'm to numb to...

This night I am dreaming Searching for you I have a message But you're not sleeping I wade through the deep black waters Endless deserts Turning my eyes away From the criminals who seek to shame me Meet me at the crossroads Where we will come togeth...

so many assassins, but which one is yours? mind your intuition but i've said this before i've adorned my skin with symbols and wings and other helpful things and the blood that i shed was a warning in red to remind me, to remind me... burn your white...

Out of the egg of the mother Stagnated spaces and your cold-blooded brother Into the mud until the summertime comes Into the mud and back to your blood (Save your serpent) Your talismans can't help you now so cast them to the stony ground We can't evo...

I have been silent so long Under tightly knitted skin Waiting to begin here Waiting to begin I have been bleeding so long In this ancient second skin Trying to begin Everything's a warning Everything's a sign I could've shed this long before And ta...

In the sea beyond us In the city below How much farther must I guide you Until youll let me go You are the violent thief within Taking all that I hold dear You are the gorgeous parasite Feeding on my fear So bring it on heavy Severine Youre coming th...

Here comes the flood The war not far behind I've got my satellites aligned My allegiance pledged My blood is shed My enemies inside my head I'll lead them to the tidal pools Where my secret agents swim They'll pull them down and suck them in They'll n...

And man is just a child Defective and diseased And I grow so fearful for their kin As I watch the sickness breed Some will find them worthy of salvation But to what end? I've seen a man rape his only child And murdered one who he called a friend Samae...

Please release me from the guilt I hold Please release me from the pain I own Please release me to the sky above Please release me from this strangle hold I am choking on the air I breathe I create my own worst enemy I tear myself apart with jealousy T...

So now just a stones throw away From the edge of the hole in my life Tear the skin from the sky Build a wall from the light Cast a stone into the sickness in my heart So now just a fault line away From the mask on the wall in my home Pull the eyes from...

The devils in the chemicals The demons in the DNA I've got this darkness in me And there's no one to blame It's just my human nature It's just my human stain With curses on the tongues of angel's And poison in the wishing well's Our karma's burning d...

I hear you calling But I'll stay quite til you go You might be that jackal That tries to steal my bones Or you might be that preacher man That tries to cleanse me with his dirty hands Or you might be the voice of reason Convincing me to stand I cannot...

And this time I have seen On the outside Of my sleep Underneath the skin Underneath the stone Inside the eyes of lost life Behind the loss of my eyes Some hope is not broken down... And if we fall from grace Out of silence Out of place Please rem...

As far away as I can see You are in my memory Time has changed us both my dear Time has lead us through our fear I remember parts of you In things you say and things you do I pray you'll remember me Despite our deep uncertainty And I will not be afra...

Oh criminal You will be revealed Stripped of all you have All you've taken No dread No pain No loss No shame Bring the thieves to me she said That I might show them shat it means to lose For I am the Queen of All Things Taken The Queen of All Thin...

Are you certain You got your facts straight It's been a long time And the language may have changed Are you certain You trust your memory From a time when we Still believed in right and wrong Have you recorded all the casualties All the strategies O...

I am a poor wayfaring stranger, While traveling through this world of woe. Yet there's no sickness, toil nor danger In the bright world to which I go. I'm going there to see my father, I'm going there no more to run I'm only going over Jordan I'm only...