The Crüxshadows

The wind has wrenched all hands away And ripped and torn the sail But the sea grows somewhat calmer As storms ply against the hull Still I hope that time has something left To show that I was here Before sinking into oceans Of blurred forgotten years...

Is this the way we let it in Our legacy erased? Invaders cut a path within Devouring everything And they will if we let them And they will if we run What they take from us now It can't be undone I won't stand down—there's no surrender Nowhere left w...

Hear the voice of the unremembered heart Hear the silence between each word Black and white divided grays that cut between us Filled with broken shards of promised days I'm standing far ahead Always looking backwards I'm standing far behind With eyes...

The world is forever changing, evolving, and growing Everything we know Everything we love Everything we believe in Will change Living is changing Momentarily, everything will be re-imagined 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Begin The shattered heart I...

Dum vita est spes est Deo volente... Dum vita est spes est Deo volente... So why does it happen It disintegrates with time Thermodynamics is tragically defined With entropy's arrow the elegance concealed Life and experience, becoming so much less than...

It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me I was a child and she was a child In this ki...

in perceptions incomplete I find you draped in humility i didn’t realize how deeply you have lived… In forgotten features dreamt a geometry, so elegant & this coincidence… is heaven sent to say… you live and then you die but to the end your beautifu...

(rise Akhetaten) I made the monument by his hand A drifting sun in a foreign land ATEN-RA, ANKH-IS-RA IS-RA, IS-RA, ISRAEL Angel of the One His face has been denied From all inscriptions But not from the sky ATEN-RA, ANKH-IS-RA IS-RA, IS-RA, ISRAEL...

Dreams lie shattered shards endure now the wraiths Her mind possess like shells of precious flowers Dried out and hung with love Making eyes into frozen temples that stale you in her gaze So pale so cold so beautiful if not clinicly insane Now the decade...

Stand behind me And above me With voices plaguing My deepest thoughts And the visions They keep coming I keep hearing My angel fall In a dream Without a future Without a breath To take away And my resolve; A higher being With wings of ash And e...

Roll out of bed, look in the mirror And wonder who you are Another year has come and gone Today is your birthday But it might be the last day of your life What will you do if tomorrow it's all gone? You won't be young forever There's only a fraction to the su...

Drag down - feel this fatal heart beat So deep - like the pound, pound, pounding industry Cry out - I heard you slowly waking Drowned out and slowly making back the writhing line They cut the bloodline in the center and injected this hated strain They c...

(Ka): God is silent, only eyes from where I stand Sunday's eclipse the monumental scale of man Life leaves us parentless in a world I do not love There's no causality for what I'm thinking of.... (Guardian Angel): And I am the face you see within the mi...

(Shimmering, shimmering, shimmering Shimmering, shimmering, shimmering) Shimmering cold See our beloved dream Waking helpless As trust gives way to shame While you were out they sold our sovereignty And canceled our tomorrows just to justify the change...

If your very, very quiet And do not make a sound I'll share a little secret That seems a bit profound Each thought that is imagined Gains life its own And drifts into reality Looking for it's home Some people call it Karma Some people call it fate S...

Watching backwards as life like pictures Stinging thoughts, born with phantoms We danced above a world forgotten Moments cherished... even now A train-wrecked heart loves fairy tales Singing from a gaping wound However time has left unsettled My memori...

These mortal thoughts They bind me up They shackle me And drag me down I can't escape I'm cut too deep Left hanging here In misery Chains of hate Chains of affection Chains that want you And chains of rejection Chains immortal Chains that die Ch...

The day is withering Broken by the weight of the tide All shadows past Grow longer Till they smother light And leave no trace For evidence And the final light has fallen silent To me resurrection follows (of these) Leave this among The dreams dreamt...

Languid waves of desperation Fall before the rains A vanguard to approaching war Is borne upon the sea The icy breath of cyclones bent On waging our destruction Drills hard against the hearts of heroes Called here to defend I see storms on the horizon...

Where the light burns a little brighter Where the shadows dance on the walls Where holy men hide their holy secrets The sacredness of life is sold Standing under gold and silver I see the procession rise Seated in his throne of power He proceeds to clos...

I am the Angel You are the hands that grab me I am forgotten And you are alone Justification- Perfect stimulation Make me a treasure.... Make me a gun. I am the mountain That watches the valley Pretending the answer Lies under my thumb I am your se...

Mother of motion, the eyes can't capture time, Falling emotion, the blind now lead the blind, We commit indescretions, and omit our sins from sight, In a world of intangibles, too many things seem right No hand to scribe, the sinking sickness I have seen,...

Can you tell me how she closed the Gorgon's eyes? Where beauty dispelled, and lust defined A wounded silence, through anger blind Your poisoned perspective You can see the darkness if you filter out the light (Dark matter, dark matter) (Dark matter, dar...

She cries, children often do When they're cold, and hungry too, Come closer, look deeply in her eyes So delicate, quite unlike her smile Life clinging backwards, In the fall of dread confusion, Still this silence gnaws upon your fingertips, All-yieldin...

By vigil's light this night to keep Watching eyes fall over her Moments lost, fragments unseen But I will still be here They say this cause is lost And she will not return to me They say that she is gone And this is just a shell unliving And through...

Go go east Go go east Go Too many the questions Where answers are few The path driving tangled Loves destiny's truth With hunger unwilling A passage to choose-- The trees growing ripe With forbidden fruit? Dance in the garden? Sing with the snake...

Voicing back from frozen moments The aching words I never spoke Alone now in this cold abstraction The sounds of yesterday transpose And every pause within my conscience I sadly offer up to you So I must go before I falter Before this longing skews the...

A focused voice reigns down like a firestorm! You know what you must do Venture down into the underworld To prove that love is true Eurydice, don't follow me! (Don't follow me...) The world has grown so cold! Eurydice, don't follow me! (Don't follow me....

Sorrow sings her kisses in silence and adjusts the blinds to keep the light from mocking everything I feel She dances slowly a silhouette upon the curtains but her eyes seem to cry only empty tears I beg for comfort with inadequate verse it meant so much to me...

the trials you now are facing they are not greater than your will for there is nothing under heaven you cannot overcome see the door that lies before you and know- this too shall pass the confrontation of your fears in strength drawn from the past wher...

Sleeping moments giving birth To a world of my own invention Doubt is cast, and what's real Mixes with imagination My imagination Each vision, each word Like a message in a bottle The unreal has given birth To the titans of my inner battles Angel, bu...

Falling together in the cold grass holding hands On the hill side watching stars descend. Forever seems like just an empty promise We spent so long ago But we were younger then. Each sour word Sounds so absurd But lingers In the air While happiness...

A broken prayer for inspiration God be with me on this day So much fear I try to hide it But now I'm not afraid [Bridge] When all is lost And hope a ghost There's nowhere left to turn Release the light A nova bright Below the halo burns [Chorus]...

Shades of feelings my heart denies Bathing in shadows hidden in the eyes of lies My glowing future now these embers burn Uncanny restlessness- but ask me what I've learned..... Prey insect visions swarm about my head Each haunted thought, and each prying...

Shades of feelings my heart denies Bathing in shadows hidden in the eyes of lies My glowing future now these embers burn Uncanny restlessness- but ask me what I've learned..... Prey insect visions swarm about my head Each haunted thought, and each prying...

7 signs to forge forgiveness against these 7 travesties defend 7 orbits form a question no-one’s asked before of me 7 keys he placed within Where do you turn for inspiration? in the darkest edge of night? How can you hope to find your purpose if you le...

Here comes the rain again Falling on my head like a memory Here comes the rain again Tearing me apart like a new emotion I want to walk in the open winds I want to talk like lovers do I want to dive into your ocean Is it raining with you? Baby, talk to me Lik...

I’ve been here too many times before I was broken then But somehow made it back for more And now I’ve lost so much this time My life’s a world away And there’s nowhere to go back to Drifting in outer space I wanna go home Bring me back home Bring me...

Sample: Usually I get real pissed off and wonder if anyone's really listening to me... Bring em back on the dead feathers We once left for the falling birds Bring them back all of the others Someone fed them some holy words I stand rigid and stony At t...

Na, na na na na, na Na, na na na na I do not know the mind of God and I cannot guess His thoughts But I have searched for you across the void when my sense of self was lost The answer stands to brush my grasp in the darkness and the pain And I saw myself for...

Moments collected… in iridescent, focused white… where she moves like she’s dancing, leaving trails of broken light. getting lost in the dreaming… heartbroken, black and grey, if tomorrow awakens, will she remember anything? And when I look into her eye...

Cold, unmoving Frozen in place Is this the way the future falls? Still breathing, still thinking Perspective displaced It's just like feeling nothing at all And scratching the surface, I'm digging to see If there's anything behind these eyes A concept...

She whispers her apologies Her eyes shining stars in the sky Then turning like mist, she's gone again I don't understand why And now that it's broken and the last facade is burned How do I find my balance when the Earth won't turn? You can try to deny...

lillies stand on severed stems the dried remains, with colors dim every one a precious sign of what the future brings trappped below a face unseen my truth is stlll a mystery a cracked reflection of a dream discovered in its time You don’t see me but I’l...

You're lying awake the room is different the walls dissolve replaced by sky horizon blackening twilight beckoning as the clouds are stretching wide little holes that light is clawing to get through but hope is shifting with the shadows that are drifting on the...

(oo chak-kah) A-khay-do, he cha-mo-neh-ya Hey-ma kayo-maneh-hey Sto-ma kaneh-teko-lunyeh Ma-yu, nome-ga-ye-fe No-way-oh Wayyy oh-wayyy-oh Wayyy oh-way-oh Way-ay-ay-oh wayyy-oh 

When I look back upon my life It's always with a sense of shame I've always been the one to blame For everything I long to do No matter when or where or who Has one thing in common, too It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin It's a sin Everything I've ever done E...

Twas Brillig and the slithy Toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe, All mimsy were the borogoves And the momeraths outgrabe. Beware the Jabberwock, my son, The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jub-jub bird and shun The frumious Baudersna...

Shifting inside patterns The division multiplies Echoing the mystery Mimicking the slide Sound searching slowly Below the flaming web Moving with his eyes like fire With his jackal-head (with his jackal-head) Give it all to birth Give it all to life...

who have we become? with life rotating down inward towards the sun we could issue our regrets but true love is innocent… Clouded views of what we needed or what we wanted it all to mean and I know what really matters i see it now- so clearly (with clarity)...

Somewhere in the darkness I stand Watching and waiting again Somwewhere in the darkness she cries And I hear the silent cry The silence Her lips are cold like death And she steals away my last breath As I reach into her soul And coldly let her go I l...

Leave me alone- I'm a freak Leave me alone- make it easy for yourself Everywhere I go they all stare I don't understand why they care They stare at me in all black And when I turn they stare at my back All these things can't, All these things don't-- L...

Can you hear the breath of the observer Can you hear the quanta calling back? The arguments of motivation Implore my distant muse to act Sentiment spent on emotions Derived from our eternal spark All beyond our comprehension Watching protons in the dar...

Scented pain and separation Defies the physics and the form That life must to exist consume and be reborn Why is this strange attraction A call to arms with my destiny? What choice or course of action? Will you leave a path for me? Love laced with trag...

I don't understand why you've done these things to me I can not comprehend your lack of loyalty For you i would have shaken down the heavens from the sky But it seems my love was stronger than this love of yours that died Did you think it wouldn't hu...

Silent empty streets Forsaken to the cold Moonlit, her shadow, like ink upon the snow Barefoot, she shivers With nowhere else to go "Matches, matches here for sale" And on this drifting course through time Beneath the limitless sublime Her heart beats...

slipping between us, the ghost & the mourning prayers spent finding, a reason to stay painful and aching, the balance is breaking with so many words, I don't know what to say.... our planets break orbit like paper and water delicate dancing on the edge o...

Hide the window watching Give hands that push the faces back Shiver in the alleys And dying in the cold Little hands and little faces What are you running from? They're creeping on your satin sheets And dancing in your nightmare Watching at the window...

it seems so distant now across the sky it fades another point has vanished here… its gone with yesterday and spinning on this little rock just looking into space I wonder if you still remember me You loved me once… so far away (so far away) The sky be...

This room is screaming emptiness Silence breaks the air It leaves me lying on the floor It leaves me dying there Crawling through the trenches You stand behind each door Blood & sweat & muddy water Up against the crashing shore Take my hand,...

“take my hand” she said to me, “baby, it’ll be alright though the world (ha)s come crashing down on every side you can fly you can fly cause you still have wings you can fly you can fly you’ve just got to believe your an angel… I can see it in your...

The doubt that madness breeds Feeds this eternity Perhaps the promises were not intended To endure The scars that life has carved Fell deepest on your heart And the strength to overcome Has left you waiting here But though the phantoms of this place...

It's getting difficult Each moment here alone And it's getting dark outside And stranger here without you But I see a firefly Glowing in the summer sky Like bright confetti Burning in the night How do you do it? You make me feel this way How do you d...

How fragile it resonates against my shoulder Fragments of ourselves we reconceive Perfection's kiss I see so clearly now Shimmering her eyes, like porcelain And what do I need to do to hold this feeling Like magic that repairs a broken heart Tell me, wh...

The thirst is getting angry All she's wanting touch A little bit of hunger Satisfaction doesn't ask for much She wants to feel intensity he watered down The low to soft Deliverance this heart he pumps and pounds I look around -- What do I see? Anothe...

Your window closes I am crucified There shall be no more mockery Of the gifts of the gods No more comparisons No more distortions My heart is heavy as stone I am Prometheus All courses I am aware of from here Oh you, frail of heart I am not without p...

I cast the vision To change the tide To give this world what I have seen. I write these dreams To make this world Something more than eat and breathe. 

I should be ashamed for what you've done to me It's only happened because I let it be But no more You are not wrong, you who believe Your will defines your destiny But if you act in selfish fear Then the truth means nothing You are not wrong if...

I've seen the terrible hand of struggle And felt the pain the hubris brings I have tasted the wisdom of divinity And the horror of its sting And though they tell you I am lost And their words report my death is come The fates have left me breathing sti...

Who knows what kind of reality the soul occupies And where it goes when the body ceases to function? It has been my experience that all things follow patterns Miracles happen through the consistency of nature I choose to believe that the same princi- Ple...

Rolling back towards the continent Instrumental forces die Save excitement for line behavior Signal shifting to enter flight My back is burning In the heat of the atmosphere My engine roars And the throttle cries I'm not pulling on my navigation Brin...

It flashes before my eyes like a neon sign (a neon sign) Visions of everything in life that could ever be And every word rips inward back through time (back through time) Reflections living still A burrow of possibility Calling back for reinforcements B...

I am calling you tonight… I am calling you I am calling you tonight… I am calling you Silence rages through the dark And hangs upon me tightly This disease I feel inside, it eats away within The sky is haunting and alive, I feel the storms descending...

Stranger the darkness a hint of perfume Rising from your lips towards the window The sunlight is twisting lines in my eyes Leaving me far too dizzy, to see What am I supposed to do? When I feel nothing, but I want to? What am I supposed to say? No one...

Cover your ears Disguise the sound Change your course But don't turn around These words you hear Will drag you in They'll swallow you Don't let her win Cover your ears The hurt will end But you mustn't break And you mustn't bend Don't look back It...

La la-la la la la-la-la La la-la la la la-la-la La la-la la la la-la-la La la-la la la la-la-la A secret action to create Like children sing my dreams awake So little light Becomes the sun Without remorse, the wicked gain The line uncrossed does not...

Life detaches much less loved a taste familiar but watered down and each day passes into the next like television flickering unseen. I breathe but I don't often think about it anymore its become a habit those embers fragment that fire was just a fracture in...

And so it happens My thoughts grow meaningless and forgotten Just the colors of a faded dream Left out in the rain to bleed Life gets confusing Prayers draw darkened in the course of my life And I know that just to ask the questions it takes cour...

when life has slipped behind this isolation cruelty & hatred have become the cause of those whose eyes are full of wanting the truth will still abandon none... so you must carry this light into the darkness you shall be a star unto the night you will find...

So I am lost And I am found With contradictions I can't resolve So many paths So many doorways to the truth And when I dream I know her face But the mist obscures my way Reaching out to wipe these tearful eyes Once more And here we go Around and a...

Once upon a time, the world we knew was just beginning before your wings were broken, climbing higher than the sky but now the Halos gone… nostalgia’s love is reaching for your ghost Once upon a time, was a long time ago So Close your eyes and brace for im...

a distant fire in the darkness… burning Where a star lingers locked high above me I see The inspiration to create born in visions cast away In the seeds of dying spheres flow the wells of immortality We are alive, we’re still thinking and breathing we wi...

she flickers just a fleeting thought, an echo back through time, regret, perhaps, reverberates behind. and in her silent ghostly voice remains a somber calm. each syllable recalls her fate and seems to say it all: you can wander far away from me, but...

I'm not asking for favors not tonight I look up in the sky... all the rockets fall down (fall down) too many promises too many lies too many faces for me to know Sometimes I sit among the markers and contemplate my next life says something less sympathetic- "...

Sie weint, wie kinder öfters auch Wenn sie frieren und hungrig auch Komm näher, schau' tief in ihre Augen so weit Ganz ungleich ihrem Lächeln Leben haftet rückwärts an In dem Fall des schrecklichen Verlierens noch diese Stille Zerfrisst auch deine Finge...

Reaching out in deadened night, Emptiness by candlelight, Memory a haunted sea, Souring in sudden rage, The damage plagued upon my love, Driven by this selfish urge, To separate yourself from me, But not the way you planned, The gambit flow of shifting thoug...

If your love is marred by anger Perhaps it wears a mask And underneath those hollow eyes A prisoner is cast But grief will buy you nothing And pity a little less Open up the cage you carry and release yourself from this Once we have a promise Twice we...

Dear Angel Where are your warming wings tonight Its so cold outside won't you hold me for awhile And angel I feel alone and unalive The night is frozen and these tears have stung my eyes Dreams may pass and dreams may fade Nothing I love will stay the sa...

Rewind - I only want to listen to you sleep Do you dream of places close to me? I don't know how to make this right I never thought I'd ever breathe so tight Confusing, the issues underneath I don't know how to find this place Locked in a box inside a c...

My body’s made of fire Black and deep and cold Burning for the choice i made So many years ago And love will keep me tethered For my wings are stripped of flight But into my mad deluded world They cross the battle lines Into their end One dream o...

There are some secrets that no one understands... 

Master, Master, Master Who can it be? A portrait of perfect Femininity Your teeth are sharp And your nails are too Master, Master I won't mess with you Oh master makes the velvet touch so smooth Her skin makes my company (flutter and move) I want he...

Time is a doorway time is a wall but choices forgotten come to haunt us all… just before the fall, within… Time is the future time is the past with strings in a present state that’ll never last… They vibrate too fast to see… Suddenly the curtain slips...

My eyes resign dissolving vision To vividness of sense and sequence Betrayed by certain circumstances Outside the world I've known How cold and cut bewildered silence Left me for a newer face While sadness dances gracefully In this forgotten place Re...

The definition of truth Is lost in the telling Objectively cold To an unwilling tide So who are you now? Were you wounded by living? Have you buried perspective Screaming inside? I see the choosers of the fallen I see the promises they bind God kno...

With watching eyes You see dreams dissolving Distant voices slipping away I have to go - I hear The call of something deeper A voice inside of me And tears return Beneath the happy ending Promised words that scattered In the cold I have to leave, I...

Little girl running away from the world Don't blame yourself, words are less than love In a wonderland, you can bend the course of fate You can find the key and dream the darkness away And if you search within yourself, to wake the White Queen The key is...

In this fading image We'll carve our own destiny Sometimes life is a cruel friend Sometimes that's what we need I'll hold my eyes When the light comes in I'll sell my silence for a song Now I won't die if you walk away But I may not live Now I watch...

Dry your eyes and quietly bear this pain with pride For heaven shall remember the silent and the brave And promise me they will never see, the fear within our eyes (my eyes are closed) We will give strength to those who still remain So bury fear, for fate dra...