1. |
Ashes
03:41
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Ashes
I’ll forever be reminded who I’m destined to become
A constant disappointment, failing everyone
I swore id move beyond this and learn from my mistakes
But I’ve grown to be complacent, finding comfort in my ways
It’s starting to kill me knowing what it takes
Having all of the answers yet choosing to stay
In a rundown apartment alone and afraid
Hiding out as a coward so focused on hate
I’m sick of living devoid of progress
I can’t do it x2
I’ve grown exhausted in search of purpose
I can’t do it x2
I know what I have to do x2
Branded by every backfired attempt at making this right
Brandishing a mask of failure and unease
Uncomfortable in my own skin
To change this I’ll need to change me
I WAGED A WAR ON MYSELF
ASHES
I let this image burn No longer hold shape no longer my concern
ASHES
I let this image burn No longer hold shape no longer my concern
It’s starting to kill me knowing what it takes
Having all of the answers yet choosing to stay
In a rundown apartment alone and afraid
Hiding out as a coward so focused on hate
Caught in the cinders I stare past the flames
Looking to my reflection, the mess that I’ve made
Distorting my visage with movement to frayed
Losing shape in the smoke
It dissipates, dissipates
I slowly watched him choke,
Staring into his eyes,
Gripping onto his throat,
I let the old me die
Scorched in the wreckage, left to decay
Laid waste to my loathing, made peace with my hate
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2. |
Vultures
02:53
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If she could quiet the voices
Enough just to sleep
She would gather herself
In the hopes she could piece
Her life back together
Before there was need
To latch to the numbness
She seeks desperately
If it’s really for the better
How did she end up feeling worse?
The pain and inconsistently
The hunger and the Thirst
Accustomed to cold
The lack of sensation
Is all she really knows
Break
She reminds herself
There’s no way
That they could take her
Fate
Won’t preserve
She’ll stray from the
Break
She reminds herself
There’s no way
Fate
Won’t preserve
She’ll stray from the
Vultures
Vultures
Stray from the Vultures
Vultures
Vultures
Vultures, vultures
Incessant dread
Circles overhead
Mounting confusion
Despair and delusion
Encroaching in distance
Traversing through ruin
To do what’s expected
Old habits neglected
No, she won’t be tempted by
The lure of callous
Deadened emotion,
The Absence of feeling’s
Forever ongoing
And though it seems to disappear
The worry and the fear
It manifests and makes its place in solitude
Solitude
Obscured from the voices, she yearns to be pure
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3. |
Eventide
03:48
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Eventide
I’ll admit I was responsible, although it ails me to say
I was enamored by delusion, and its pessimistic haze
The constant reminder I’ll never forget
The blood on my hands won’t wash off of my skin
With every consequence
And every breathe suppressed
I’ve struggled to make sense
Where was your place in this?
Where was your place in this?
If I said that I was sorry
Would you think I was sincere?
For the slough of bad decisions
The filth I once revered
The guilt from your absence
Swallows in waves
Relentlessly crashing
Eroding away
If sadness isn’t a sign of weakness
Then tell me why I feel so defeated x2
I paid for every choice
My self-inflicted plight
Succumbed to selfishness
Costing another’s life
Haunting each conscious thought
I’ve slowly grown to loathe
My place within this world
And how I’ve grown so cold
If I said that I was sorry
Would you think I was sincere?
For the slough of bad decisions
The filth I once revered
The guilt from your absence
Swallows in waves
Relentlessly crashing
Eroding away
Drifting in a sea of anguish
I tried to justify my actions according to circumstance
Repeatedly telling myself it’s all for the better
When In reality I took the easy way out
I could of done more to make it work but instead
Failed before insecurity
Chastised by unyielding judgment
Ill embrace what I’ve done
For I deserve what’s to come
Over and over I’ve held my composure
Over and over I’ve held my composure
I paid for every choice
My self-inflicted plight
Succumbed to selfishness
Costing another's life x2
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4. |
Hardcast
04:31
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Hardcast
I wouldn’t want live for ever
Or be remembered for the better
Paint a portrait of the honest truth
The wrong in my endeavors
The betrayal I inflicted
Inconsiderate and sickened
My lack Moral guidance
And my bigoted opinions
Remember who I was
Rather than the way they portrayed x2
Life’s lost its purpose
I’ve grown distant to friends
Cut ties to family
As a means to my end
With no one close
I feel no guilt
Lacking shame
I leave indifferent
Imperfect in every way
Imperfect in every way
I have no home
I hold no place on this earth
Wander disheartened
Through the life that I Cursed x2
I wouldn’t want live for ever
Or be remembered for the better
Paint a portrait of the honest truth
The wrong in my endeavors
The betrayal I inflicted
Inconsiderate and sickened
My lack Moral guidance
And my bigoted opinions
Light leave me
Push me off the precipice I carelessly tread
With Every step eroding the path I chose over And over again
The same mistakes and The same fuckin pain:
Anxiety's embrace,
Erase yourself from my memory
Remove me
Remove me
From Misery
I have no home
I hold no place on this earth
Wander disheartened
Through the life that I Cursed x2
Lead me from tragedy
Pull me to black
Silence my agony
I’m not coming back x2
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