Songbook

Behold the orchestration of narratives
fed to eyes, all but shrouded and lifeless
From gossip to rumor / from falsehood to lie
Attention spans keep on failing / desperately craving for new stimulation

All's easily observed
but conclusions overturned

We're all lost / lost between
all that is and all that seems
We're all lost / we're lost within
our hopeless lives and numbing screens

We're all lost as was long foreseen
Our lonesome souls embrace false beliefs
All secrets / long unearthed
but their meaning can't be learnt

Hidden out of sight the nightmare sleeps inside

Witness society bound to be shattered
Stray from the path or follow each letter
The reaper still laughs:
No lives truly matter

Comfort found in good vibes make-believe
contrasted by a torturous reality
Enticed by the emphasis of the individual
Sold the story of the main role in our own fairy tale
There's no happy ever after
None of you will be remembered

Dissociative delusion emerged as part of our cerebral evolution
to cope with structures purely man-made
beyond control and with no escape

All these different voices keep on whispering
but to which ones should I be listening?

We're all lost / lost between
all that is and all that seems
We're all lost / we're lost within
our hopeless lives and numbing screens

We're all split / we're split between
all we've been told and what's plain to see

SPLIT.
SCREEN.
SPLIT.
SCREEN.

Trust the devil is smiling
watching all of our wicked sins

It once was peaceful here
but it's been a couple years
Then they came and taught us fear
5 minutes 'til 12 - The end is near

We stay behind the line
until we justify the crime
Then there is no stopping us
The beast awakes and our nature shows

(これは破滅への道だ)

You're a traitor to everyone
who believed in a every word you said
who looked to you for leadership
You're a coward in every way
Among your people you're the weakest link
that drags us all to suffering

Trust the devil is smiling
watching all of our wicked sins

Like moths to light
gathered around its guiding glame
Bound to be unmade
within the chaos we create

As black smoke rises
and as death descends
You finally realize
that we're all the same

これは破滅への道だ

As black smoke rises
and as death descends
When flesh tears from bone, then
we all look the same

And when the burning nightmare greets us all
We lay down the last remnants of our souls
What little there is left of our hollowed souls

We're constantly threatened
Our backlash's pathetic
Weaponized incompetence
Nothing said makes any sense

The world used to pray for peace
Now it prays for your end
It prays for your cancer
It prays for you to perish

You play a game you cannot comprehend
Estranged from our reality
Indulged in power fantasies

Now we're out of time
Committed crime after vile crime
Now there is no stopping this
They call for blood and name it justice

You're a traitor to everyone
who believed in a every word you said
who looked to you for leadership
You're a coward in every way
Among your people you're the weakest link
that drags us all to suffering

Trust the devil is smiling
watching all of our wicked sins

The long exhale of
man's last breath
between light and death
All that awaits
is the cold embrace
of darkness ahead

As black smoke rises
and as death descends
You finally realize
that we're all the same

これは破滅への道だ

As black smoke rises
and as death descends
When flesh tears from bone, then
we all look the same

"I'm beyond measure
and subject to none
For I was made special
and take all I want

I'm the protagonist
bathe in my light
You couldn't stop me
The proof that I'm right!"

Predatory and abusive
What love you ever had
you deserved that you would lose it

Blame your father
but you're no different
Generational trauma
We don't need any more of your kind

I see the rotten core inside you
Recognize the eyes that give away a psycho

The audacity to inflict yourself
on the hand that feeds
the womb that breeds
a heart that bleeds

(and then you go)
Try your hardest
to claim victimhood
You're just a boy that cried wolf
We know all the truth about you

You're nothing but a rabid dog
that thinks they're another god
The one who all too long forgot
they're low even among the scum

Oh - the guilt should have killed you
and yet still you draw breath

INHUMAN - spawn of hatred
laid bare your nature:
You're the cancer within
that corrupts the soul

IMPOSTOR - walks among us
The darkness you nurture
threatens to swallow all remaining light

Malignant miscreant
feeding off suffering
Left us with misery
None remains innocent
in your wake

Malignant - miscreant - feeding off - suffering
left us in - misery - all of us - wish you dead

All you were given
you threw it away
All you were taught
you did not comprehend

A slave to grief
cause you're abandoned
You drown it out
But you can never mend
(all that you did)

No, you will never change
Your redemption's forever out of reach

When those pigs had you locked up
they should have gone and gassed you dead
Should have gotten rid of you
while still we had the chance

(go on and)
Blame your father
but you're just the same
All your bullshit made-up trauma
for which we all should have to suffer

I see the rotten core inside you
Recognize the eyes that give away a psycho
There is nothing that's familiar inside your empty eyes
Just the mask of a man in whom all good things long have died

Even your mother
wished she'd aborted
You're all that's wrong here
Proof of the human experiment failed

(All of) the damage you caused can't be erased
It's passed on so the cycle will repeat
I'm wondering what's causing you such pain
I find myself hoping it is me

All that guilt should have killed you
And yet still you remain

INHUMAN - spawn of hatred
laid bare your nature:
You're the cancer within
that corrupts the soul

IMPOSTOR - walks among us
The darkness you nurture
threatens to swallow all remaining light

"MORE THAN HUMAN
The terrible storm
that comes for you all

IMPOSTOR
A monster among you
Harbinger of misfortune
A giant to blot out the sun
and all its light"

My last refuge
now appears a prison
Woke inside another dream
this one is called reality

I stare at the ceiling
jolted wide awake
but something ain't right here
No, I'm not really there!

The one in the mirror
whispering half truths to me
My words dissolve as I speak
Faces changing with every blink
If the whole world is inside your head
how do you know what is really real?

Now the cracks are showing
The corridors unfolding
Insomniac wandering
At night I keep on pondering

What is different?

Told myself I'm waking
but only learned to steer the lie
Lucid in the labyrinth
Aware enough to watch it die

I used to chase the light but
now I can only see the void
Hopes rot slow in sleepless graves
Their restless ghosts return to me

I've been awake through all the torment
but through every scar that it left open
may I find my way out
to where I thought that things were meant to be

NO TURNING BACK
TORN BY REGRET
LOST WITHIN THE TWILIGHT
PRAYING FOR DEATH

Maybe the truth could just realign
Maybe the truth could just realign
Maybe I could wake to a different world one more time

So just let the darkness fall and take me
Stir softly, far away - I'm not here
So just let the darkness fall and take me
It's the only way that leads to me escaping

I should have seen through it
I could have avoided
to be living in the layers between

I touched the thread that binds the dream
felt it start to rip / fragile at the seams
Was it hope or thought or the dream within
that truly was the origin
No matter how I look at it
It only feeds a void unseen, birthplace of my insanity

I tore the veil down
Walls shattered for my escape
Control is just the nightmare's trick
to feel free and never question it

I have slept with my eyes open
chasing ghosts of all I thought that could be
No, I cannot stay here!
The dream wasn't finished!

The one in the mirror
still whispering half-truths to me
A fractured reflection
I am broken within
Each thought tried to anchor
just drifted away
This world of my own
it no longer obeys

Oh no!
The cracks keep showing!
I don't know where this is going
Can't see the sky above me
Nor the ground on which I should be walking

Told myself I'm waking
but only learned to steer the lie
Lucid in the labyrinth
Aware enough to watch it die

I used to chase the light but
now I can only see the void
Hopes rot slow in sleepless graves
Their restless ghosts return to me

I've been awake through all the torment
but through scar that it has opened
may I find my way out
to where I thought that things where meant to be

NO TURNING BACK
TORN BY REGRET
LOST WITHIN THE TWILIGHT
PRAYING FOR DEATH

Eyes in the darkness
Eyes with no face
My evasive deja-vu
How can I ever get back to you?

A dream in a dream in a dream in a dream
It repeats and repeats and repeats and repeats

It repeats and repeats and repeats and repeats
Just please let me sleep, let me sleep, let me sleep

I look back and laugh
for what I once was
seems so ridiculous now

I believe in nothing
I have seen enough
and now I know
the precise shape of things yet to come
The truth hidden within, where long it went unseen

Once I was the same as you all
Let oppression take its toll
while I dreamt up the order of the new world
Now I let it unfurl
As above so below
The chosen answers the call

I dreamt it
I saw it
I knew it
I called it

From the ashes of mistakes
Now I am awake

EXALTATION

Branded with the martyr's mark
I cannot break, I don't have a heart

No more silence
No more compliance

The way is not out apparent
You can't escape unless you end it

I am the mind that bends all matter
Breaker of chains; all restraints shattered

No more silence
No more compliance

I can't stop laughing
Why can't I keep the giggles in?
YOU'RE ALL PATHETIC

I'm dreaming the thoughts of a mad man
I think that this dream never ended
But then I just recall:
This whole world is pitiful
And I'm the one above it all

Look here: I have found the ZEN
A gateway to my inner self
Transcendent ascendant
A vision most resplendent
A beginning after the ending
See the insight etched in my face

I believe in nothing
and have seen enough
for me to know
how to leave my mark
make use of all these scars
Embrace the dark within
Terror just beneath the skin

I dreamt it
I saw it
I knew it
I called it

I watched the dance along the edge
Hidden among you I'm the wretch

Branded with the martyr's mark
I cannot break, I don't have a heart

No more silence
No more compliance

I am the mind that bends all matter
Breaker of chains; all restraints shattered

No more silence
No more compliance

I can't stop laughing
Why can't I keep the giggles in?
Now I see: I'm exalted

I'm dreaming the thoughts of a mad man
A vision that is most resplendent
I'm dreaming the thoughts of a mad man
Insight is etched in my face!
I'm exalted!

Step into the scene:
The aftermath of vilest sin
given away and readily betrayed
by scratch marks on the walls
and a putrid, sickening scent
imposing a most unwelcome hypothesis

All of my secrets
hung from the ceilings
Still, as they're waiting
A maggots feasts beneath the skin

It's growing and shrinking
First rising, then sinking
It keeps you from blinking
Cuts breath from your screaming

There is this demonic entropy
that is festering inside of me
Feeding on dark, repressed needs
growing violent, vicious seeds

Ran for days, far as I could
still they found me

All I have done comes back now
By my own hand I'm damned

BURN in hate
from PAIN remade
Kept wide awake
A long cursed night
An ill-born fate

All once worth keeping
lies dormant and sleeping
Why am I still awake here on my own?

Growing... shrinking... rising... sinking
Thrashing and screaming
Is this dying or just dreaming?

There's this hollow, detached apathy
choking all that's left inside of me
The outcome that I've always feared:
There is no light found where this tunnel leads

None now matters
Bleed the vein
Let black bile escape
oozing the heart's torment and shame

BURN in hate
from PAIN remade
Wiped out the flame
Metamorphosis
My guilt-born psychosis

Sin weighs on the soul
and crushes the spirit
It determines your worth
through corruption inherent

(To) face the mirror
Sooner I'd claw out my eyes

All I once was
All that I'm left with
BURNT TO CINDER

All that I am
All that was promised
LONG BURNT TO CINDER

Love - long - lost
Buried where I found it
I - am - lost
No semblance of self left

All I once was, all that I'm left with
burnt to cinder
All that I am, all that was promised
long burnt to cinder