so I am invited but still I hesitate though a thousand tracks preceding mine lead inwards not one single print emerges
2. Necropol Lit
Remind Here I am in Necropolis Run my fingers down my spine Beneath my feet a thousand ruins Coming here in my own time
Here I am and here I'm staying Queen of all that crawls and dies Queen of crippled, blistered bodies It's all done and it's all mine
Lay down all at your master's feet The taint is on you now This is my turf, this is my land so let the virtue go
And now I see in painful clarity Intention that was and the truth that will be
Remind Remember Necropol lit
Wading through the mirthless alleys Smell the fear, the cold stale air Bones and teeth, a garden withered Broken hands and broken lives
Remember Remake
3. Omnivore
Oh, little figures that toil under weather and sun Your backbreaking labor is earning you nothing but hopes undone Here nothing is sacred; what pride there is left will not hold The price of your failure is shown in the trinkets that weigh you down
I'm swimming in obscenity that gives me not one second's peace Mirror all my faults and flaws, crack jokes at all that I'm made of Weeping in our restless sleep, we're dreaming of lucidity and peace
All good withers and dies We seized it all, only to let go The empty winners drowning in the flow We are all forlorn
Riddle is solving itself as I kneel and devour The strength of the terror will never relieve you of crawling on Small voices are prying at secrets I don't want to share Pathetic and sweet, all remorse is cut off with the leech that bleeds me
All good withers and dies in our hands We seized it all, only to let go The empty sinners drowning in the flow
I'm swimming in obscenity that gives me not one second's peace Mirror all my faults and flaws, crack jokes at all that I'm made of The silent heartstone at my feet: we're gagged and bound and incomplete Nothing holds in what we are, our filth and greed has come too far The great deceit, the greater made by truth well hid in words and shades Ten letters on my stony bed to witness every mouthful fed 'Cause I am the one who will rip you apart So die
4. Rust Cleansing
Silence has already spoken They have all failed to hold their chairs Shame left its print on their faces Muted and perfectly there And so am I
Rust, cleansing in harm
Echoes of laughter and beauty Cleverly disguised and still and cold In every eye silver mirrors (without compassion) Plasterlike face ignores the call And so will I
Rust, cleansing in harm
The unforgiving mask that drives the lesson home The fear that ties us down and leaves us all alone We are all alone
Screaming beneath placid gazes No one is there to break the fall Spineless and amazed we greet the metaphor that leaves us as beggars at the door And so we tie
Rust, cleansing in harm
The bond that ties us holds Hate the price we pay
5. Faceless
Blood to bind and love to damn me Formed in clay, the fire has made me faceless Torn to shreds, but I'm still standing Never sleeping and never blinded
Sweetness taken from me in the moment I misspent All good ripped out from me and the silence never ends
Blood to fade and love to wither No one holds and nothing lives here Faceless
Sweetness taken from me with a gesture of contempt All good ripped out from me and the silence never ends
I could scream into finality With the knowledge that's consuming me
Blood to bind and love to damn me See me now and know that I am faceless Blood that is purer than the poison in your veins; Love that runs truer than the hatred and the pain; That's the blood that runs in me
Blood to bind and love to damn me
6. Distance Will Save Us
This is where the bodies fell Feel the pressure on the surface Too long buried arrogance Rising up to reign Palpable and crystal pure Sovereign and without master Perfected and far too sure It is on its way
Save us Stay your hand We are born too far from morality
This is where it all began, Where the wounds were left to fester Here the feeder will unhand Those that could not choose Here, at last, it all comes true See the pity and devotion In the scar that marks you, too It is on its way
Save us Stay your hand We are born too far from morality
The stones in our hands uncloud the senses No time for demands, time moves against us
Dawn is breaking in the clouds and the starkness of light is blinding Give us a moment to savour your face and to worship and love our murder
Save us Stay your hand All we need is one more chance at life
7. Silverspine
This is all yours if you want it My sick landscape, dry and fevered My survival and the hunger Growing older in a heartbeat
You took us by surprise Stepped in where no one goes In forcing open doors you sacrifice us both
This is all yours if you want it This is all I ever offered you
Hoping against all sense (We bite the hand that feeds us pain) Hoping against myself (There is still pride inside our veins)
Underneath our sores and blisters spines of silver that won't listen Your perception is not flawless We are dying while you watch us moan
Hoping against all sense (We bite the hand that feeds us pain) Hoping against myself (There is still pride inside our veins) Biding my time
The perfection has turned sour in the moment of salvation Every minute is pure torture This is mercy, if you want it
Hoping against all sense (All meaning rots and slithers grey) Hoping against myself (We bite the hand that fed us pain)
This is all yours if you want it This is mercy, if I have it
Biding my time
8. Jigsaw (The Pattern And The Puzzle)
Words vomited into a face Cold leavings, there's only bleak and lifeless duty Moan into my ear, though I know You would break me but I will watch you choke
I'll tear myself into pieces and grow out stronger and colder I turn the tables on you There's no place to hide
I tear myself into pieces There's nothing here to hold me I tell myself apart from you Above and beyond
I tear myself into pieces Know I'm beyond all despair Don't turn your back on me again, transcribing my name to nothing
Hope a saviour with all fingers crossed I slip on my gloves and carve a flawless icon into pieces
I tear myself into pieces Placing me where I belong Outside all soft dreams and outside the throng
Fools The error is all in yourselves The ideal is pure and cruel and nauseates you So give me the crown and the throne I render you dead and tear all you completed into pieces
9. Deadlands
All I ever wanted was a little discipline A master's touch to give me some serenity within Now I know there's no one there to save me from myself All I ever needed was a minute of safe rest A stronghold to give shelter from the pressure and the test Now I know there's no one there to save me from myself
Standing cold in victory and longing for some sun Begging still for mercy when the time for truth has come
Leave here. Turn home
We're all dry and dead and gone and not to breathe again
Leave here. Turn home
Rip the life and laughter out, rebuild it in my name When the city rises, I will rule and I will blame Now I know there's no one there to save me but myself See me, fat and choking on the words that I remade See my lover bleeding, there is beauty in the strain
Now I know there's no one there to save me from myself
10. Resonantine
I am so sorry. I've made amends I've kept my peace and bent my neck I know the pattern, I know the sound and I have twisted it around The chance to speak passed me by Remaining frozen in dead time Honesty stripped of its meaning I would not hurt you again You have my heart, you have my hands Pinning me down when I'm leaving
Moving without sense or sign Uprooted, and the pain refined How long can the silence hold? Where were you when I grew old?
Move me in my lack of faith Unhand me when it's all too late How long can your arm hold strong? Where are you when I am wrong?
I know you well enough
On the treshold of speaking of truces Then the mouthful of still, hollow fear There's no name to the path I am choosing Time is passing, but I am still here to see it through
Will I carry this burden forever? My hands moving with words you won't hear My heart beating the pulse for the deathbed It's my kingdom. Here I am it all So I know it each time you are lying I can tell from the shame in your eyes And each time there's a piece of me dying but you know that I never compromise
Drowned inside you, all embraced Grown to love the safety it gave All protection ripped away Never leave me alone and mute again
