1. |
Ascension
02:06
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2. |
Bloodline
04:20
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Can I save your world
Blame seldom falls where it should
I've given myself another reason to die
And I won't look away, I will embrace
My life does not end today
I face this alone, counterweight
My world burns
(Can I save your world? I’m already burned.)
I guarantee that you'll remember me
When you're walking among the dead
Dead, (we are) lost and forgotten, and unforgiven
The cold blank stare echoes of this decision
This blood is on my hands
Tears of crimson, it cleanses red
This blood is on my hands
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3. |
Set Your Eyes to the Sky
04:26
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We are in the dying days
It's kill or be killed no time to waste
Without a glimmer of hope or your own reason
All that will be left is blood and treason
It's mechanical if we stop who will stop them
We defy, Eyes wide
Now the panic will begin
I will give my life to see this through
A single moment left to pursue
I will take you to hell and leave you there
At the hands of three
The thieves
Dark and breathless souls
under a heartless sky
Exhale
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you shall be
Prepare for paradise and follow me to hell
We defy, Eyes wide
Now the panic will begin
Take me down
Single me out
I am the infidel your father's father's warned you about
I'll be right here waiting
Set your eyes to the sky
We are suffocating
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4. |
House of Cards
04:01
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There is a place
All too familiar
Where pacification can't be found
The ground It tremors
The walls will fracture
Radiance is claimed by obscurity
There's no way out
We're trapped here
Endlessly until we give in
Fall from dreams
This is going to last forever
Endure eternity here in the house of cards
Shame
Deceit
Deliver me
We'll never get out of this place
I can feel the tide begin to rise
Death
Despair
Embrace the ruin
A perfect calm
The newly settled ashes will comfort us to the end
Every racing thought
Every last word
Crawls beneath my acidic nerves
An exhaustion
Laboring breaths
Why won't you just let me rest
We're trapped here
Fall from dreams
This is going to last forever
Endure eternity here in the house of cards
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5. |
Relic
05:22
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When you look at your reflection
What do you see
The life once lived
A life once lost
The life I've burned
A relic earned
(Fate has won) Cheer me to the gallows
(Stared me in the face) I didn't have a choice
(Hollow eyed) Face to face
Hollow eyed and wide awake
I won't give in to you
But I will fight you until the bitter end
To eternity and back again
Through the darkest depths of hell below
We'll burn together
(Fate has won) Cheer me to the gallows
(Stared me in the face) I didn't have a choice
(Hollow eyed) Face to face
Hollow eyed and wide awake
I won't give in to you
A hatred so lucid it overruns my fill
Darkness encloses on the path but it's bleary still
But there is a light I can see from the inside
One that gives me hope
It will keep me alive
I am the relic
Your contorted fate
We are the relic
I see your face
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6. |
Fatal Design
04:21
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Every single one of us has an essence
A meaning to get us through hopeless nights
I will not ever question this purpose
My purpose
I will not question my life
I am the one who's given it all for nothing and everything for anything
I'd rather die believing what I know is right
To the very end
This is my fight.
The vicious cycle
A fatal design
Although I know
My intentions
I know this will be the end of my time
I've given it all
I'd rather die
This is my fight where we once aligned
Although I know my intentions
I know this will be the end of my time
A fatal design
Bury me shallowly encased in glass
So that I may see
So that I may feel the ones that put me here
The ones that I left behind
(Ft. Nick Westlund of The Culture Of)
The constant struggle to push back feelings of distress overwhelm me
But I found an essence inside that fights
Now the beast bows down before me
I gave my all to capture this
It’s in spirit
I can feel it
Now I’m empowered and showered in the will to overcome my fears
Although I know, my intentions
I know this will be the end of my time
Although I know, your intentions
I know this will be the end of your time
I've given it all
I'd rather die
This is my fight
A fatal design
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7. |
What Dreams May Come
04:39
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This place feels quiet this time of night
Diminishing
Losing sight
Stranded
Haunted by the swarm
The screams
The eye of the storm
Piece together my broken dreams
Left in the wake of the mistakes which I created
As I drown in dismay
I have run out of time
There’s a misconception to being alive if you spend it all living in fear
There’s a mass collection of broken minds and they spend them all living in here
This place feels quiet this time of night
Diminishing
Losing sight
Stranded
Haunted by the swarm
The screams
The eye
Storm
Hide your face
Coward
Disgrace
Born to fail
You now know your place
Drown in dismay
Staring into the night as it overtakes the light
I can hear your words but I have already lost sight
Remember the place where we began
There’s a misconception to being alive if you spend it all living in fear.
There’s a mass collection of broken minds and they spend them all living in here
This place feels quiet this time of night
Diminishing
Losing sight
Stranded
Haunted by the swarm
The screams
The eye of the storm
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8. |
Frantic ( Bonus Track )
05:48
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