These walls have been my congregation
Comfort found in their reflections

This is the only way to take control
To numb the sensitivity to a passable level
Ground level was never the place to revel
The only path is up
So levitate towards the sky
Elevate to higher dimensions
But make sure to come alone

Exposed, left with a sense of shame
A repeating occurrence in need of suppression
Be quick, displace the pain
Withdraw and run away
Isolate the intellect
Seek shelter on top of a hill
And let the wisdom grow
Before it steals your soul

I’ve trod lightly, left the soil unharmed
Yet death will turn me into dust
The wind will grab me, spread me along its trajectory
I’ll flow into the ether and ask

Which piece of the puzzle have I misplaced?
Which part of the picture should I have erased?

I’m blinded by the light
And yet I wonder
Was this all there was to see;
An altar of which to heed
(An altar of which to heed)
These walls have been my congregation
Comfort found in their reflections
And why veer from a soothing pulse?

At last some order has been set
I’m finally able to breathe, to put my mind to the test
Nothing will prevent this reclusive nature
From nurturing a grand revelation
But the madness came crawling
Caught me off guard
The hunt for deity came with a price
The walls are closing in

I’ve trod lightly, left the soil unharmed
Yet death will turn me into dust
The wind will grab me, spread me along its trajectory
I’ll flow into the ether

I’m blinded by the light
And yet I wonder
Was this all there was to see;
An altar of which to heed
(An altar of which to heed)
These walls have been my congregation
Comfort found in their reflections
And why veer from a soothing pulse?

Too scared to realize
That all this time the shutters have been closed
I’ve been longing for a chance to reconnect

But deep within I know
That any sound can give me hope
Will someone come knocking at my door?

Is this my grand revelation?

These walls have been my congregation
Comfort found in their reflections

I’m blinded by the light
And yet I wonder
Was this all there was to see;
An altar of which to heed
(An altar of which to heed)
These walls have been my congregation
Comfort found in their reflections
And why veer from a soothing pulse?

I must come clean
So let me begin with an apology
You see, I haven’t been here in over a month

Fast forgiveness
Here, have my broken soul
The price might be low, but the stakes fly through the roof

Such precious premises I sense
Let the cleansing act commence

I must confess
I’ve been contemplating the writing on my tombstone
It helps me digest
That I’m not getting younger
One final line to compose
The writing on my tomb

I can’t help but feel
That this wall between us
Is the divide of the righteous and the uncouth

To me this final line
Is just a simple amusement
So why are you so serious?

Have my broken soul

I tried to outrun my commitments
They strike back ever so malignant

I wish I was born with a lizard’s tail
Mine just falls off to no avail

I must confess
I’ve been contemplating the writing on my tombstone
It helps me digest
That I’m not getting younger
One final line to compose
The writing on my tomb

I hear you call me delusional
And who am I to argue in your confessional
I hear you call me delusional
And who am I to argue in your confessional

I must confess
I’ve been contemplating the writing on my tombstone
It helps me digest
That I’m not getting younger
One final line to compose
The writing on my tomb

I promise it won’t be too long
Till we’re here again
In your confessional

A desecrated temple
Littered and besieged
Pillars built on pride
Yield to the creed

How can we force ourselves to change?
We’re morally flexible

Eons of progression turned to haze
The curtain’s gone down
Forced us to move
Where the misty street casts a chill

I didn’t know that the margin of error was so small
That the rivers would run dry and reveal a line in the sand
A border not to be crossed

When the dust finally settles
Can we conjure a new path?
Piece the fragments together
And build a middle ground
Or is that too much to ask?

A desecrated temple
Littered and besieged
Pillars built on pride
Yield to the creed
How can we force ourselves to change?
We’re morally flexible

A rift in the surface
Ever growing, ever narrowing our view
How can we force ourselves to change?
We’re morally flexible
Access to stability denied
The pedestal of the innocent
Weakened by the belligerent
Conquered by dissidence

When the dust finally settles
Can we conjure a new path?
Piece the fragments together
And build a middle ground
Or is that too much to ask?

Hear the resounding roar
Hear the resounding roar
Of cacophony breaching the threshold

How can we force ourselves?
How can we force ourselves to change?
How can we force ourselves?

A desecrated temple
Littered and besieged
Pillars built on pride
Yield to the creed
How can we force ourselves to change?
We’re morally flexible

A rift in the surface
Ever growing, ever narrowing our view
How can we force ourselves to change?
We’re morally flexible

Regressed to a monotonous state
A negative growth
Compressed to a miniature
A poignant reiteration

Activating mechanisms of defense
A reflex of paralysis

The scavenger may break my bones
Carry me into the woods
Leave me for the wolves to do the honors

I’m caught up in between a hoax
An intersection of two poles
But I won’t let the fear suppress the fire

Open up the gates
Make the scavenger escape
Or the only thing I’ll ever know is pain

Open up the gates
Please make the scavenger escape
Or the only thing I’ll ever know is rage

Regressed to a monotonous state
An inhuman display
Distressed to a futile novice
Confined to reincarnation

Activating mechanisms of defense
A reflex of paralysis

There is a leash around my neck
Feeding on past grandeur
Demands form a wall around me
This can’t be symbiosis

Open up the gates
Make the scavenger escape
Or the only thing I’ll ever know is pain
Open up the gates
Please make the scavenger escape
Or the only thing I’ll ever know is rage

The scavenger may break my bones
Carry me into the woods
Leave me for the wolves to do the honors

I’m caught up in between a hoax
An intersection of two poles
But I won’t let the fear suppress the fire

Your contribution to the fold
The fundamental seeds you sow
They’re leaving me consumed and decomposed

The scavenger may break my bones
Carry me into the woods
Leave me for the wolves to do the honors

Open up the gates
Make the scavenger escape
Or the only thing I’ll ever know is pain
(All I’ll know is pain)

Open up the gates
Please make the scavenger escape
Or the only thing I’ll ever know is rage
(All I’ll know is rage)

The scavenger may break my bones
Carry me into the woods
Leave me for the wolves to do the honors

I’m caught up in between a hoax
An intersection of two poles
But I won’t let the fear suppress the fire

Descending through turmoil
No compromise
Collision inevitable

Capricious decisions
No looking back
Causation must be reviewed

Ambition pervading my inner core
Decisions; a pending chore

A scorching sun setting the scene
A cunning moon making waves of sand
A dune in constant change
I’m a passenger on a voyage
On rails set up in circles
Longing for the shade under the dune

I’m used to velvety blossoms
A meadow of abundance
Caressing me, lulling me to sleep
But these blossoms have been given a most bitter end
An infusion turning black in the deep

Astringent sensations
Bite off my tongue
The ambitious extraction
Provokes a repellent reaction
I would have preferred to just be idle

A scorching sun setting the scene
A cunning moon making waves of sand
A dune in constant change
I’m a passenger on a voyage
On rails set up in circles
Longing for the shade under the dune

I’m just a passenger
Longing for the shade under the dune

Projecting a shadow on the wall;
A charlatan beguiling the crowd
The stage is set for trickery
A delivery so slippery
And the slope is growing steeper

A worn out mask, a mere facade
Flaying the prey, and then onto the next
Manipulative infiltration
Cascading down the hierarchy

As he looks out to the silhouettes
He knows the performance was flawless
The stage is left in a cloud of smoke
The clockwork scraping itself to the bone
Disruption’s growing deeper and deeper

A worn out mask, a mere facade
Flaying the prey, and then onto the next
Manipulative infiltration
Cascading down the hierarchy

I’ve battened the hatches
Built a barricade of introversion
Completed deletions of the elements that pull me under
In retrospect, I’m not so sure this was the right direction
But I’m starting from scratch
Releasing the tension tearing me asunder

Now, is this what you wanted to see?
Did you come all this way just to watch us leave?
And how is the view from the top of the throne?
Is this the feeling you crave?

I’ve battened the hatches
Built a barricade of introversion
Completed deletions of the elements that pull me under
In retrospect, I’m not so sure this was the right direction
But I’m starting from scratch
Releasing the tension tearing me asunder

Is this what you wanted to see?
Did you come all this way just to watch us leave?
And how is the view from the top of the throne?
Is this the feeling you crave?

I thought that I had been in this town for too long
I thought I needed a change or I’d get stuck in the ground
I know I said that I would never return
But behind every turn there is another charlatan

Meandering through the alpine
From shadow into the divine
Seamlessly deviating the pathway of the mundane
A constant digression was not worth the wait

So he pulled all his strings and assembled his force
Eschewed all the variables of the vaunted course
Then he left his possessions to rot on the plain
Pursued something more than to be entertained
Mendacious directions don’t lead to higher ground
It was not worth the wait

It was not worth the wait

Meandering through the alpine
From shadow into the divine
Meandering through the alpine
From shadow into the divine

Beware of the anomaly
Unleashed from monotony
He’s searching for a remedy
He’s searching for a remedy

Beware of the anomaly
Derided by the conspiracy
Fueled by the treachery
An obscure monstrosity
You’re the anomaly

A momentary clarity
A flash of forgotten memories
Will uncover the remedy

Climbing into overdrive
Reaching past the steep incline
Overloaded over time
And everything dissolves in excess

I know what you will say
Still I’ll ask you to portray
What has led you so far off from the source?

I know what you will say
Still I’ll ask you if I may
Follow your passage into solitude?

Beware of the anomaly
Unleashed from monotony
He’s searching for a remedy
He’s searching for a remedy

Beware of the anomaly
Derided by the conspiracy
Fueled by the treachery
An obscure monstrosity
You’re the anomaly

It’s been a subsea operation
With night vision on, howling from these punctured lungs
(I’m bleeding ink)

I couldn’t point out the nuances
To determine the progression of the crescent moon
My ink has bled to form a myriad of superfluous proposals

The moment I stop my abilities will fade
So I need to keep on churning
But once I’ve grown enough to cast some shade
The potential energy is reversed

There was a sigh of relief once I broke the surface
Still I shuddered, still I was nervous, but at least I had an eye on the price
Little did I know that this fixation would eclipse the sun
Call me selfish, call me foolish, I’ll bow my head in shame

The moment I stop my abilities will fade
So I need to keep on churning
But once I’ve grown enough to cast some shade
The potential energy is reversed

The synergy is my enemy
The synergy is my enemy

(The synergy is my enemy)
It’s been a subsea operation
(Subsea operation)
With night vision on, howling from these punctured lungs
(It’s been a subsea operation)

I couldn’t point out the nuances
To determine the progression of the crescent moon
My ink has bled to form a myriad of superfluous proposals
(Superfluous proposals)

The moment I stop my abilities will fade
So I need to keep on churning
But once I’ve grown enough to cast some shade
The potential energy is reversed

I think I’ve been here before
There’s something about the composition

How I’m transposed into a haven
How I am sheltered from the wicked winds at last
But can the comfort be deceiving?

I took a stab at the world
But I was the one with the knife peaking out from my back
I think I’ve been here before

I took a stab at the world
But I was the one with the knife peaking out from my back

Wake up, wake up
This is the time to arise
Wake up or suffer demise

Wake up, wake up
Press any button to start
Press any button to start

I swear, I hired a gatekeeper
A preserver of my precious domain

He must have abandoned his post
Left the door as an open invitation
To every parasite I have known

Well surely, I need someone to blame
This fallow state renders me speechless
Staring at the slow motion ravages

I think I’ve been here before
There’s something about the composition

How I’m transposed into a haven
How I am sheltered from the wicked winds at last
But can the comfort be deceiving?

Dappled light behind the birch
The different context brings a brand new flair
Still, my eyes look through a filter

The suspicious gaze will not move on
The nostalgic frame has raised a question
Is this really how I left my cradle?

Wake up, wake up
This is the time to arise
Wake up or suffer demise

Wake up, wake up
Press any button to start
Press any button to start

Stranger, are you in over your head?

I stand in awe of your diligence
Yet I can’t avoid questioning your principles
Primal senses tuned to perfection
And a selfish, near abandoned moral

Obligations mounted up once again
Overwhelmed, you committed to your deepest desire

(Are you in over your head?)

Stranger, are you in over your head?
Your apathy’s drained your mind;
A cavernous design
With stealth you vector through the wilderness
But your clustered thoughts are tangled up, intertwined
They’re randomized

Stranger, are you in over your head?

I’ve seen you pushing the weights down in water
(But buoyancy’s there to resist)
The fount of wisdom will not reveal its secrets
(You can thrust all you want)

You either breach the veil and let yourself immerse
Or simplify the matters and retreat
I know what you’ve always longed for

Stranger, are you in over your head?
Your apathy’s drained your mind;
A cavernous design
With stealth you vector through the wilderness
But your clustered thoughts are tangled up, intertwined
They’re randomized

I stand in awe of your diligence
I stand in awe of your diligence
Of your hydrophobic skin

Yet I can’t avoid questioning your principles
In eluding affection you’ve eluded yourself

In eluding affection
In eluding affection you’ve eluded yourself

Coward, you are condemned
Liar, you will descend
Traitor, your wounds must mend
Coward

Shaking your head
Slurring a curse
Stumbling towards the cure

Dressed up in rags
Matching the shame
A rustic demeanor at best
All of this time you’ve told us these lies
To cover the holes in sight
All of this time you’ve given us lies
To shelter yourself from demise

Don’t try to whisper in tongues
The more you say the less coherence I can hear
Allow yourself convalescence
The essence to regain momentum
But I am afraid that it’s too late for lessons, too late for confessions
You’ve got no answers to match the questions

In through the nose
Out through the mouth
Slowly closing my eyes

Escaping the noise
That builds up inside
Feeling the tension rise

In through the nose
Out through the mouth
Slowly closing my eyes

Escaping the noise
That builds up inside
Feeling the tension rise

Recollecting my zen
Regaining my wit
Broadening the specter once more

We’ll lock up the toxins
And bury the key
Out of sight, out of reach

The earth may crumble
The foundations might shatter
Can you hear the echo?
Moving through hollow air

Don’t try to whisper in tongues
The more you say the less coherence I can hear

Don’t try to whisper in tongues
The more you say the less coherence I can hear
Allow yourself convalescence
The essence to regain momentum
But I am afraid that it’s too late for lessons, too late for confessions
You’ve got no answers to match the questions

Bow down and release what you can’t control
Disarm the poison lurking inside
Degeneration accelerating
Past the red light and into the cave
Will you ever return?

The earth may crumble
The foundations might shatter
Can you hear the echo?
Moving through hollow air

The weight of a feather
Is more than one can weather
Such a deadly suspense

The earth may crumble
The foundations might shatter

Don’t try to whisper in tongues
The more you say the less coherence I can hear
Allow yourself convalescence
The essence to regain momentum
But I am afraid that it’s too late for lessons, too late for confessions
You’ve got no answers to match the questions

You’ve got no answers
Allow yourself convalescence
The essence to regain momentum
But I am afraid that it’s too late for lessons, too late for confessions You’ve got no answers to match the questions