I′ve watched them build Upon these empty hearts False hopes of lossless paradise Gathering together
The dead hearts beat as one Stillborn comfort feeding lies Through answers of self denial Divided between a dissolute self And the sorrow of sincere devotion Devotion
What is it that you find peace in now? Where is your hope in this dark night?
What is it that you find peace in now? Where is your hope in this dark night?
we climbed a thousand steps without a single imprint this drowning regret will die, forgotten like my past moving bodies lie in rest carried by each other thousand steps
How could I ever go back (ever go back) Back to the life Where I live amongst the dead (dead)
How could I go back To live amongst the dead
Those who have forgotten how to feel (how to feel) And have become slaves (become slaves) to memory And wishful thinking
But Your love has set me free As You′ve awakened every star That has been sleeping In the constellation of my soul
[x2] How could I go back How could I go back To live amongst the dead Amongst the dead
[x2] How could I go back To live amongst the dead
Those who imprisoned beauty I never want to leave Your arms So I wait in hope for Your embrace For Your embrace I wait in hope for Your embrace I wait in hope for Your embrace
Yeah
Illusions of what I thought was love Illusions of what I thought was love Now I have clear sight To see I′ve left nothing behind
Exhausted beyond repair Stripped of all I had Forced to die inside Now I breathe a renewed Life It is now I see without my eyes If this is what it takes To bring me to my knees Then feed me pain until I realize I am but a slave Remind me of my need for You Remind me of who I am
Only You know my pain inside You′ve been there when no one else could be When tears fall from my eyes I know that You are always there No matter what′s in my heart You are the One who cares When I doubt, You stand by me So I′m not ashamed to say the way I feel I love You, You are my Everything
Through this pain I refine Tearing me from within Screaming to be released but held fast by Your love Hold me here Break me until my face breathes upon this ground Outstretched with my head to the floor Spent of all my strength Relying on Yours
I cannot make it without You All my efforts have failed So that I will cry out in the need of You Restore the strength of my Dependence Send me through the fire Make me pure again Everything I am I give it all to You In Your arms I wait I lay down my life I am nothing without You
All along it was me who changed Morning now waits for me All along it was me Morning now waits Morning now waits for me
What I have to gain does not matter If what I give is all to You If what I give is all to You
I have seen the stars fall (yeah) And the sun rise again But You are yet to change You are all that is You are all that is worth You are all that is worth living for
What I have to gain does not matter If what I give is all to You If what I give is all to You
I wanted to bring you all that is in my heart I wanted to give you my everything but I′ve failed you I′ve failed you so many times how can I stand here how can I stand here before you
how can I stand here before you when I begin to steal what only belongs to you what only belongs to you
I am able to bring you Nothing that isn′t already yours
I am so ashamed, I′m so ashamed Of what I ever called my own Take what I have, take these broken remains What can I give to you that you don′t already deserve
You laid down your life when I refused to give mine
Emptiness running through me Taking all that i am Leaving me this blinding mask Grasping for the wind Everything I′ve done Everything I′ve gained It all means nothing A mere breath has passed away Sadness I embrace Left with empty promises I look at myself and see the scars That are brought to me by this life Then I ask myself Is that all this world has to give The chase is over I am finished Stripped of every reason I cry out to You From my knees I scream
You sat and watched As I nearly destroyed myself Never had I felt so betrayed That you would sacrifice my life For no more than comfort And now your love means nothing to me You are a coward, the antithesis of a friend Take action before there is No one left to defend For I would have stood by you Right to the gates of hell
Reach inside of me Far beneath the encasing of ashes Bleeding red Still showing signs of life Remove the darkness Take me away A Stream of Hope destroy this corrupted cell Purification (Leaving me desolate in the face of perfection) Unable to hide I am drawn to the fire It is this pain that brings me likely do
Control is dead in this blind world For we do what we hate Split from inside Betrayed by emotion We must look past What is in front of us Shadows are security They have become the solace Of my looking glass heart In search for certainty I no longer need control Take me through the fire Refine what is Yours It is time to overcome this We must look past What is in front of us
Can you understand my meaning hidden in the roses around my eyes I want you to know how much it means to have you in my life Your love brings me close again in this instance this single moment when our worlds collide The wire of eternity twists around us I can feel this river rising, moving up my back Some things never change Some things never go away Some things never change Some things never go away
I could never forget you and I will never be the same I can never forget you and I will never be the same
Some things never change Some things never go away Some things never change Some things never go away
I could never forget you and I will never be the same
How many years have we waited for a ship that never set sail? And how many days have we wasted chasing a love that was not our own? I sat ashore and watched as one hopeless wave crashed upon another while my thoughts ran to the hills my heart never reached the sea with only delusions of an endless journey I am left with an ocean between you and me
Is this your salvation? Is this all you can give? I will not stand in reflection of someone else’s dream
The gate to my heart has been weld shut with the splendor of my aspirations closed in how many years have we waited for a ship that never set sail? And how many days have we wasted chasing a love that was not our own?
Is this your salvation? Is this all you can give? I will not stand in reflection of someone else’s dream
That night that I never came home Wandering souls captured my thoughts Emptiness filled my mind Urgency spoke her lies In the confines of these grey walls I watched them move together Taking me places I cannot remember We have been poured out Into a loveless bride How quickly I forget That this is meaningless How quickly I forget That this is meaningless In a world passing through my fingers I still chase the wind How quickly I forget That this is meaningless How quickly I forget That this is meaningless What have I learned from yesterday What have I learned from yesterday
The contingencies of another day unravel my senses And now your distance is darkness And now your distance is darkness My hope has been beset by your absence I decay from inside From inside Pain! Underneath it all there is still life despite it all there is still love
I have traveled so far to find so little Meaning in tragedy or tragedy In the search for meaning Dark clouds have lead me here
Yeah
Confined freedom Guides us to security What if everything (yeah) I have been taught is a lie And all of my teachers Have been wrong this whole time
Compelling us to fight The battles they would not They have already won And we have already lost If we do not learn from their mistakes We have already lost
For so long I was deceived Enslaved by these chains Blinded to Your forgiveness If only I knew Your love Giving Your life to save me from this pain Broken and bleeding I turned You away Now I have seen the scars inflicted by my hands The Innocence spilled to save me Reaching to the hand that brought You this pain And now I am on my knees Crying the way You wept for me Crying, crying tears of shame Dying, dying to take away their pain I hear the screams of those who call from the grave Dying for me to take their pain
Shatter my emotions Take them all away Left alone to face You Now You know my heart Left only to speak what is true See through this plague of flesh With truth I say that I love You Yet my heart betrays me Be not far from me For these voices They must soon cease Despite their betrayal You died for me
I can only imagine that wrath is being held out So there will be time for us to be redeemed But surely wrath is not being held out So that we may redeem ourselves For I′ve seen the madness Of those who died trying But is regret only a word that the living possess? I long to see their faces Regardless of the decay For in the eyes of the deceased...
We would see hope in our last day Inside this dying world For there is still beauty Inside this dying world
Now this is who we are I am no one′s hero For we are not the giant men That some may think You are faithful when we are not So I′d like to tell this story The way it is meant to be Without the burden that′s in our hearts None of us would have ever found You For You are faithful when we are not You began a work That only you can complete
Now this is who we are I′ll never know the answers And I′ll always wonder why
...Why we′re given grace we′ll never deserve And a second chance that we will never earn For there is nothing I can do to save myself
Now this is who we are I′ll never know the answers And I′ll always wonder why But You have let me start again I′d rather be called weak Than die thinking I was strong
You meant the world to me All I have now is memories Your love brought joy to my heart You meant the world to me Tears of sorrow stream from my broken soul But I will see you again When this world fades away I will see you again
One night opens wounds and words utter pain You′ve hid hearts and songs as long as you recall
One night opens wounds and words utter pain The truth cannot breathe a one in your soul You′ve hid hearts and songs as long as you recall His kind words just fall near your feet With their last air, all they want done is to be heard in your sweet ears just once
I see them coming With shrouds to bury us all Before we were born they shaped our lives Leading us into an unmarked grave In moments life could end So I will speak while I can
This is my chance My time to stand
We may fail alone but that is better Than dying with them only to be forgotten I for one would rather suffer now Than leave this life without passion
I laid the night before me Unraveled the tangles of my heart All I felt was stale hollow air
These streams of uncertainty They are collapsing upon my mind Upon my mind
Yeah
Torrents fill my veins until I burst With mistaken guilt and shame
My battered bones Try to keep fighting Against the endless ocean of self defeat
As time goes on Some months are yet to pass As time goes on Some months are yet to pass As time goes on Some months are yet to pass Are yet to pass Let′s go
Puddle puddles of ink Surround this tired chair All of my sorrow has been spilled (Yeah) Into into my reflection Reflection
I′ve looked straight into your eyes And turned my head for the last time Because I was scared to leave these walls in ruin Like the fate of those who trust in themselves We are alone and afraid
I know you are the one we left behind Yet somehow we are the ones who feel alone
I will no longer turn my head I will never forget you You are the one we left behind You are the forsaken
We′ve built our confidence On broken dreams now left for dead Yet we′ve been condemned To chase these dreams that never end
Our selfishness consumes us Until the whole world is not enough Forgive the day that I erased your name For it′s the memory of me that will decay
For so long I have felt alone Content to live with unrest Longing faded into countless nights That buried my weary heart But You brought an end To this dead hour And meaning to a calloused life Held in Your arms But too far from my heart (x2)
These thoughts will carry me Through The darkest nights While Your eyes rest in... These thoughts will carry me Through The darkest nights
While Your eyes rest in mine I remember the way You looked at me And the way You drew me close With one deep sigh Scattering pieces of my restless mind Forgetting all that we have left behind
This is what I am This is what I have become Repeating yesterday Drain me of my very essence To form again what lasts
This is what I am This is what I have become Repeating yesterday Drain me of my very essence
This is what I am This is what I have become What is love without (what is love) What is love without (sacrifice), My tears hold no weight If my commitment is only failure Each day I I am
Repeating yesterday Each day I am born (I am born) again to be (again to be) A child (a child) in the eyes of love Repeating yesterday Repeating (Yeah)
Drain me of my very essence To form (to form) again To form (to form) again what lasts
This is what I am This is what I have become What is love without (what is love) What is love without...
The sound of silent voices surveying my thoughts regularity defining perfection Neither sorrow nor contentment Whispering emptiness Whispering emptiness Frail words collapse
My weight only stirs the ground How long can I hold your hand as you walk over graves You search for tears of compassion Yet find the comfort of winter You find the comfort Reassurance dead like the falling leaves Losing hope in your unchanging ways all of my strength cannot save you If you are unwilling to help yourself
I wanted to bring you all that is in my heart I wanted to give you my everything but I′ve failed you I′ve failed you so many times how can I stand here how can I stand here before you
how can I stand here before you when I begin to steal what only belongs to you what only belongs to you
I am able to bring you Nothing that isn′t already yours
I am so ashamed, I′m so ashamed Of what I ever called my own Take what I have, take these broken remains What can I give to you that you don′t already deserve
You laid down your life when I refused to give mine
[Verse] If music is A mirror revealing The depths of my heart Then I will write The darkest song For without Forgiveness My soul is lost
[Chorus (2x):] All that is hope Within destruction Comes from you For I have fallen
Fallen
[Verse (Quiet)] If music is A mirror revealing The depths of my heart Then I will write The darkest song For without Forgiveness My soul is lost
All that is hope Within destruction Comes from you
[Break]
For I have fallen And there is nothing good Within me yet I′ve Been given life I will I will never Deserve For without Forgiveness Without forgiveness my soul is lost
We have all heard what we wanted to hear "Truth" that sounds right to our ears
But what wisdom is there within us To live based on the feeling of our hearts How many times has instinct let us down Never to be thought through Never to be questioned Say what you really mean When your ambition calls you For what use is there in praying If you will only hear what you want to hear?
We speak of fighting to resist this world But what about the battle within us? If we have chosen to live against the grain Then why are we all facing the same way? There is no difference between us and them If we all blindly seek truth from sentiments
94 hours of regret for me to realize what I held unfading beauty, not just a face I held its innocence within my heart Go! Now I won′t let go I won′t let go I won′t let go I won′t I won′t let go I won′t I won′t let go The torment of your eyes has awakened my soul. The torment of your eyes has awakened my soul. The pain of a moment′s time will forever beg your forgiveness Forgiveness 94 hours for me to realize I held unfailing beauty I your innocence