Light this city

"Don't get your hopes up," said the people I trust. More easily said than done. It's been a hard lesson. There's something wrong when one becomes reluctant to fall in love, when one's own blood stands, pointing the gun. My helplessness is a vicious c...

[Verse 1] You’ve arrived And it feels as though you’ve been here for some time You’ve been here all along Now you’re growing tired Try to rest under bright, chilling imminence Trapped where sands pile up behind you Drinking of a grotesque reflection Dy...

Time likes to flirt with me. He knows I'm watching as he passes. He is merciless with my lust. He won't give me the satisfaction of glancing back my way. I can't seem to get enough of the way he tastes. It's like I'm always watching him ... watching him...

When I was ready to begin, you were done Thought you got everything you wanted out of me Does it ever feel like you left something behind? To this day I hope it still weighs on your mind Do I ever haunt any of you like you haunt me? What unfinished busin...

Second chances only create Even more seconds to wait. Everyone starts over, turns a new leaf, But you're weak, and even the weight Proves much too heavy for a pest like yourself, Especially when you're already burdened With a chip on your shoulder T...

Standing over a fault line with a foot planted on either side, with the only world I ever knew balanced on one shoulder, and a heart I'm just getting used to beating on the other sleeve. I stood my ground in a place I knew I might never find peace, and as my f...

To rid the earth of the filth To rid the earth of the lies To will the rise above Tearing my insides out I feel my soul go cold Only the dead are smiling To rid your heart of all lies Their poison tongues, poison hearts Burning cold... Now let the f...

Everyone sees through you How do you sleep at night? Translucent eyelids don’t keep out the light Eyes that bulge apathetically From your engorged (yet empty) head Resting on a pillow bursting with dreams that will never take flight Songs that one...

Passenger side I can see why you gave it all up Searching out through the glass Looking from inside, but hiding from it all You never wanted to be recognized There's something wrong with a dormant tide Are you settling or are you rising high? I'm overc...

When you gaze into your polished metal plates You picture the face of a man who longs to see his soul But claws are claws, whether sharpened or painted or blunted From hours of bounding, one-track-minded, through the snow I have arrived, an exile too infer...

I realized he's a part of me more than I ever told you When he died, I cried more than I ever thought I would I still do now Do I let you go? Do I hold tighter? I don't know It's the same dilemma You're combusting right in front of me Can I stop it f...

Facing the Thousand In the distance, they are circling. I watch them go around and around, never tiring. The one near death is hypnotized and closes its eyes One last time. Patiently they want for that perfect moment to descend And pick to pieces a...

This planet is a single sea and we have crashed into its solitary island. The shores roll like boiling sand against the waves. Rain comes down in constant sheets, and the only source of hope or relief is an oasis that mimics the sun. I must find shelter,...

This frustration is mounting, And my greed is so overbearing. It seems as if I'm never satisfied With the precious things I possess. Could it be that this means nothing? Or am I worshipping false and empty idols? [X2] I've got the Holy Grail, But whe...

I always wanted to tell you I needed you but now I'm glad that I never did, because I never lied about that…at least. It probably would have scared you, anyway. One more excuse for you to run away. And it scares me that you're so easily scared. What fals...

I use the rags of betrayal and the fuel of desperation to light a fire. This temper is lost upon me, though it is sure to find you momentarily. I cannot afford to spend emotions on you, for I owe you nothing. My fury is unbreakable. I feel only the pai...

In a world of such complex pathways we all feel lost. No one could ever understand your directions They used to be crystal clear But they've been smeared by all the fingerprints Of wanderers along your obscured path Our messages all got tangled in their j...

You attempt to find what you're looking for in vacant corpses Never understanding that you have to bury the things you love when they are dead You've cut too deep Let the dead lie asleep Refuse to grasp the hand that breaks the ground from this shallow gra...

To my nemesis, my confidant: Do not expect me to make more requests. I have done penance for my sins. You're in debt to me one thousand promises. Just yesterday, I went again to collect what I'm owed. I found my dreams showered upon undeserving wretches...

I just want to land on flat feet But I'm detaching, floating away Above this scenery, I'm feeling everything anew But I don't want to The way I see your faces, your bodies In our reality, collectively I've come to comprehend it differently And it's sca...

You've wasted me Nothing loves, nothing dreams. Nothing bleeds inside of you You've washed me away Isn't it nice how it's all so clean when it was once so dirty? I know the stains are still there, just hidden, and made up to look like every thing's so cle...

I've been so afraid, my love I must confess so afraid I've given in to this sickness of invisibility I exist now only in a memory I fear the simplest things like waking from a dream because I somewhat can't find a firm grip on reality I view myself as an...

When night seems to wrap me in exhaustion, and I keep wishing I could start the day again, sleep takes its sweet time finding me; it's always bittersweet, it used to come so easily. For when I'm discovered, the fever starts all over. And death leaves d...

Sun shines pale through window, through the ghosts that dim this town Arms that hold you burn off like fog in the heat of the sun. Do not mistake them for flesh and blood This girl never laughs and she does not cry For we all beam with hope for our childr...

Beautiful gray masks the sky was the rain falls down. And I wish that I could assure you of comfort and content, but I'm still so far away. We have to take life as it comes, angel, so fast and bittersweet. And the only thing that I know for sure is we ar...

If you still don't believe that I can restore myself under your crown, then watch me as I decapitate this serpent head of vanity. I used to be wary of you, now I'll make your skin crawl at the thought of me. You once thought me a fool, but titles change so...

Every city is a ghost town where I see remnants of us that will never fade because they'll never see the light. The streets remember our footprints, maps made in sand and snow, where we walked, side by side. The things we told eachother, piece by piece, as...

Self Portrait Now, listen. Because I've listened to you. Your voice, your words. And the music behind them. And all of it sinks in and weighs me down. Finds my heart. And breaks it down. Breaks it open. And empties it out. Tries to fill it back up....

Love is an anchor that holds me to the shores of sanity I will not drift away to the sea of oblivion It cannot be told by words or held in an embrace It can only be felt in this infants fight for life The blue of her eyes is calm and deep I wade through h...

There's something else circling overhead now, A different kind of creature, bigger, out in the distance. I'm following, watching, and I find myself again Underneath churning winds that draw me in. Inside, a microcosm forms as emotions imitate the clouds,...

When her body gave into that sickness again (She always knew it would), She didn't want to say a thing for fear That if he knew, he'd never risk Getting even this close to her. Fever Has made her shameless. She's desperate to infect, And she'd kill to...

Lying here, inside a song, it seems, inside every song I've ever read Written not by a bloodthirsty man, but a shock-hungry trend; Rags of flesh discarded on the ground, Eyes and ears hastily carved from heads while a frustrated surgeon searched For Some...

Thick hands released his victim's hair, as she slumped over, I saw her slender fingers numbered, one to ten. He sliced each from their knuckles. Is taking a life as glamorous as your records make it seem? What happened, a living woman wouldn't cut it f...

He clasps the crag with crooked hands Deformed from gripping the rock so tight Close to the sun in lonely lands But the wax never melts from his wings Ringed with the azure world he stands Emperor of the sky, lord of the ocean The very image of a king...

A transparent heart can't hide it's blackest wish. Even blood, pounding deceit, only makes your motives clearer. Your scheme to conceal the desire may be wise, But I can still see lust hidden in your famished eyes. Now that you've she'd your skin, You su...

Even when I was younger I could feel your slimy sculptor's hands shaping every uneven feature of my body after your fantasies. Forever crafted to a silent excessive perfection. Fingers digging out all visible flaws, yet you still aren't satisfied with you...

You will find that some of the most exquisite eyes Mask the cruellest secrets A villainess in a goddess disguise I grew to easily distinguish your lies Your glossy, sincere smile, always too eager to please Everything good, everything hopeful that you ever sa...

[Verse 1] I have never found All hearts will set in stone I thought I must be long Till the last men Standing in the way of my peace I am lost in the way of my will Our floating bodies Let me love Did somebody see this today Was done before In the...

Risking all alludes with having nothing to lose. I can't bear to hold these lids like Atlas and his world of burdens I can't bear the weight I have too much on my chest that no only splinters of bone reside there. My shoulders can no longer bear the weight...

A flash brighter than lightning overhead, but my town is asleep so they don't see my father coming home. I imagine him walking in the middle of this night all the way back to us. He likes to look up at the sky as he steps out onto familiar ground. Now h...

Restlessness causing friction Friction releasing heat Heat wasting energy Heart losing steam Why do we hold our breath? Is it to pause time? I keep just enough air in my lungs To let my thoughts float So they won't weigh me down How much time do I ha...

As a child, Monsters always haunted your panicked dreams. This time you're the vampire, And though it's cruel reality, You're still trapped in a suffocating fantasy, Living out your most gruesome reverie. When will you let me wake you from this painful dr...