Destroy And Rebuild
Rage consuming the light I have,
slipping away. It’s slipping away.
Separate these shades of black.
Lost in the memories
of a broken past that holds me back.
Tear out the hooks of regret.
Sever the ties.
See through the lies.
Destroy and rebuild.
Separate from the world outside,
I’m pulled deeper into my shame.
Left alone, I’ll never find a way
to dig myself out of the grave.
Afraid of what I’d become.
Another failure that’s running from
a past I can never erase. Wasted days.
Sever the ties and rebuild.
Constant suffering
reminds me of what I used to be.
A past I can never erase. Wasted days.
Sever the ties and rebuild
…and rebuild, and rebuild.
This is where light and dark collide.
Shattering memories that plague my mind.
There is no turning back.
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Hands Of Death
Stare in silent disbelief
as the walls come crashing down on me.
Lost a brother, lost a friend.
Lost a life that came to early end.
All that’s left are memories.
Visions of one I can no longer reach.
Filled with violent suffering.
All your demons are making their way onto me.
I fight this battle. I face this war.
I curse the hands of death,
as they’re knocking at my door.
Emptiness, loneliness, helplessness, I crave relief.
Will it come to me?
Day by day by day,
the void you left doesn’t go away.
I feel the pain that you felt,
and now I’m trapped in this living hell.
I wear the stains from your pain on the edge of my sleeve.
I feel the weight of the world, left with nothing.
Left with nothing.
This won’t be the death of me.
These scars won’t fade away.
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Eternal Defiance
Choke down every word they say.
They’re speaking poison
lies to get what’s left to give.
A promise means nothing.
Watch as the cycle repeats.
Close your eyes. Fall in line.
A flawed design to keep us silent.
Through the noise, from the void.
Raise your voice. Eternal defiance.
Land of the free, lost in decay.
Tearing us down to build themselves up.
When is enough finally enough?
Death will always follow you
when you tip the scales of justice.
A promise means nothing.
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Burn It Away
Burn it away.
Screaming at the sky,
the black cloud appears again.
I didn’t see your face,
I caught your stench in the wind.
Will I break or fall apart? I’m out of control.
Peeling back the flesh to see all that is left of my soul.
This pain is haunting me, haunting.
This waged war,
it burns in me.
This waged war,
it still remains.
Burn it away.
We’re not the same.
I am not the failure that my father has become.
Two paths remain,
make a change or refuse and die alone.
When I look in the mirror,
I’m disgusted by the face I see.
All the pieces of you reflected in me.
I will shed the dead weight.
I won’t carry this guilt to my grave.
Shed the dead weight.
I won’t carry this guilt to my grave.
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No Way Out
All we know are bitter thoughts.
Crooked smiles and crooked hearts.
Spreading hate to erase the pain.
Another slave to the system.
They’ve drawn lines in the sand
and told us who to trust.
Rejecting all that is different.
It fills me with disgust.
This silent indifference,
we can never escape.
Frozen in fear,
shackled and chained to our past mistakes.
There’s no way out. Our hands are stained.
There’s no way out if it just stays the same.
There’s no way out.
Death takes us all.
Witness the downfall.
Born into a broken world.
We are the swine that have swallowed the pearls.
We abandon the things we have sworn to defend.
Watch it fall apart in the end.
Born into a broken world.
Left in this broken world.
All we know are bitter thoughts.
Crooked smiles and crooked hearts.
Spreading hate to erase the pain.
Another slave to the system.
We’re all just slaves to the system.
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Widen The Wound
Worn down, dismayed,
ripping at the seams.
I’m torn apart.
My hope is torn apart.
Embrace the pain.
Stabbed in the back
by the ones that I used to trust.
This is a downward spiral.
Embrace the pain.
Once again I’m overwhelmed by ignorance.
It widens the wounds until it consumes
what’s left of our innocence.
The sand is always shifting.
Another season of endless decline.
Lower down still sinking.
Buried alive.
Fight for survival.
Don’t live in denial.
I will never trust humanity again.
Lost hope in humanity.
Widen the wound.
Lost hope in humanity.
Watch it consume what’s left of our innocence.
Lost hope in humanity.