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1. |
Drowning in the Ink
03:01
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Winds carry me
Guide me to the depths
Through the sunbeams, tranquility
Dear mystery
Hide your sympathy
I’ve uncovered all I need
Freely I cease
Drowning in the ink
No need to remember me
My quill’s sheathed, finally
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2. |
Reclusive Peace
04:44
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Alarms that disturb the sublime, chime
Bells toll eternal
Upset in earnest atrophy, tapeworms feed
Equivocation now repeats
Please don’t leave us
We don’t need much
Come now, join us
Loneliness lost
Extroverted noble
Introverted thief
Destinies decided
One’s for all to quench his thirst, unless the other ends him first
Extroversion, noble
Introversion, greed
Forced reciprocation
The fiends still wrench the crown I seek, ventriloquists’ hyperbole
Please leave me be
Why can't you relieve me from
Bleeding niceties
Reclusive peace
Sleeping happily
Knowing this world's paused for me
Cold nightscape I admire
Stay here while I lie
Awakening postponed
Outside me let flow what’s duly owed
[Morgan and Brandon Guitar/Keyboard Unison]
[Brendon Guitar Solo]
Deadening sorrows
Invigorate alone
In my burnt out hollow
Decrepit growth
My dead slumber
Expelling penetrants
My prime substrate
Must be condoned
A drowning wretch in flooded halls
Please leave me be
Why can't you relieve me from
Bleeding niceties
Reclusive peace
Sleeping happily
Knowing this world's paused for me
All your needs, deaden my ecstasy
I deplore you
Fiends of the crown, malignant strain
Sickening
Evil nears
A virulent catastrophe
In me
I’m shutting down inside
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3. |
Echo Chasers
04:59
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Bandwagon’s going out of control
Pliant minds, oh so impressionable
You’ll hear my laughs with a Doppler effect
When you are thrown out
And your skin peels off against pavement
Try as I might to go numb
Great is the grating noise of constant conform
I’m so fucking tired, fucking drained and bored
The followers keep gallivanting on and on and on and on
Allies
Stop chasing the echoes you find
Independent minds won’t blinded by the times
Collide
Suppress the urge to unify
Let differences thrive, we all can be unalike
You will see
Come fragile scenesters
I’ve got a lesson in store
Over the rail we go today
Somebody’s suicidal decadence
Undulating, aggregating, culture’s spine is elongating
Foil dim believers
Let’s bait them into a trap
Show them the people’s infant and
Then fucking eat it like a maniac
Open your eyes to the harm you’re inflicting
To your own mind by acting without thinking
Trivialize, realize that your thieving
Empty inside, misaligned bottom feeding
In my perfect dream
I cut off your tongue and cast it into ether
Rotting hold escaped
One last time
Plague so contagious it’s outright outrageous
Condemning us to copy graves, mimes and slaves
You will never see the light of day again
Cure, try your hand at some true independence
Sever your condolences for the carbon copies at war
And retrieve threads of life you’ve shunned so long
Violent hell [Brendon Guitar Solo]
Cosmic flames [Morgan Guitar Solo]
Lack of self [Brendon Guitar Solo]
Melt away [Morgan Guitar Solo]
Viewing the world through a jaded lens
Expels the venom in your veins
Stifle what could become
Entire nations laid to waste
Allies
Stop chasing the echoes you find
Independent minds won’t blinded by the times
Collide
Suppress the urge to unify
Let differences thrive, we all can be unalike
You will see
Summon the strength
Keep all the cancerous trends at bay
It’s not the you that made me
I’m my own society
Detach from mad monotony
I’ll define variety
Freed, now be not afraid, to feed off your own desires
Dead vagrant scenesters
They’ll fail this lesson no more
Over the rail they went today
Mortician’s latest trending decadence
Overheated, truth depleted, culture’s spine has been deleted
Foiled late believers
Consumed by our favorite trap
Diced up in blissful suffrage
Entranced with life free from this mono trash
Excavating, re-creating a culture less aggravating
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4. |
The Divide
05:38
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Come to my aid
My wit's end has begun
My head demands three bleeding hands spite me
What's done is done
Can't be outrun
Symptoms become
Your own outcome
Tightening restraints are sure
To kindle angry wildfires’ uprise
Riot
Condescension wrests from you
Your final shred of well-to-do spirit
Unnerve
Dominant ways
Suffocating passion
Tyrants arraign
Castigate and worsen
Patience faded long ago
I've had it up to here
Authoritarian's size I can limit
Weakened by self-confidence
Fearing self-preservation
Oppression’s mine to divide, divide
[Brendon Guitar Solo]
Indebted phase
My wit's end has revolved
Around dread I try to defend against
Kill for peace of mind
Your hate errodes
My skin cracks
In seeps cold despair
In the end you’ll be
Left without power and dying to leave
Death may set you free
But demons you’ve made are coming to feed
Master’s home
Razed in line with the omen
Final debt
Paid, eternally suffer
Patience faded long ago
I've had it up to here
Authoritarian's size I can limit
Weakened by self-confidence
Fearing self-preservation
Oppression’s mine to divide, divide
Repression’s mine to deny, deny
Comforted by my rise, my rise
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5. |
Artificially Ever After
06:13
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Why does happily
Ever after
Need to be so fake
Let’s re-enable
Ties less stable
Disavow the show
Human union’s
Disguised itself
As rings helping us to prove our wealth
Rites and romance
Trading blows
With what is right and rational
Rites not so rational
Messenger
At the altar of it all
Can’t you speak of the artificial
Why does happily
Ever after
Need to be so fake
Let’s re-enable
Ties less stable
Disavow the show
Cut this shit out
Burn the aisles down
Ash
Desecrate the day
Bearer
Cowers in terror
Nuptial cleansing
Bloodsoaked ending
Matron’s dishonor
Dead
Maid of holocaust
Tell us
Why are you so jealous
Your behaviors heinous
Your time to be famous
You’re a mindless cog
You kept the veil I let wither away
I’ve kept the rose you love dry
You shed a tear that the lace holds at bay
I’ve let the rose you loved die
Behold
Your love
Sealed in
Wreckage
Can’t you
See your
Gross
Misdealings
Look at what
We have become
Hollow souls with
Needs to conform
Relationships
To outdated
Practices that just
Mask the truths
Guiding us to
Each other the
Way they ought to
Forlorn groupthink in ignorance
Can’t you see beyond its majesty
Why so smitten by this travesty
[Morgan Guitar Solo]
Deadly endorphins
Tempting the whores in
Pressurization
Caught in a tailspin
Wretched communion
Public it’s fooling
Why does mankind maintain sanctimony
Why does happily
Ever after
Need to be so fake
Let’s re-enable
Ties less stable
Disavow the show
Tell us
Why are you so jealous
Your behaviors heinous
Why have you succumbed
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6. |
Revenant
02:18
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I can cleanse you
Of hostile truths
Calm your screaming
Hope’s long since ceased
[Brandon Keyboard Solo]
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7. |
Guise of Complacency
07:21
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Welcome to a brand new world, opportunity
Have a seat and look around, perpetuity
Chronically, you’ve been blind mediocrity
But I’m wise to the guise of complacency
Your ambitions bred this plight
Your ambitions ran in fright
Quit
Rationalize and give thanks to the stars
You’ve accomplished nothing
Cause you’re human waste
Who gives thanks
To the fucks in the suits who get off fucking you
Sick
Sick is the mindset of being blessed in contentment
Leads to ignorant contempt
To further the argument that you can’t
Be, do or have what it is you deserve.
Corporate
Coffin
Voluntarily
Six feet deep and undiscovered
Dead dreams
Rotten
Personality
Plagued by racing rats unpoisoned
Dull repetition
Needs revolution
No apprehension
Obliteration
Everyone’s insane
Everyday’s the same
Synchronized yet ill-defined
Jeopardized life
Shot down in your prime
Will you choose to die
I have taken my
First step to goodbye
There’s a way out of here
Sound of mind, see it clear
Liquified, lost and found
Time to bow out
[Morgan Guitar Solo]
[Morgan and Brandon Guitar/Keyboard Unison]
[Brandon Keyboard Solo]
[Morgan and Brandon Guitar/Keyboard Unison]
Everyone’s insane
Everyday’s the same
Synchronized yet ill-advised
Jeopardized life
So, you ignorant rats
You’ll stay scratching the floors of prison
So severe is the penalty for not embracing
The anarchy’s beautiful and devastating potential to grant
Liberation from the dead end you created and perpetuate
Life led
Without risk
Time not savored
Just finished
All the years
All the warning signs
All ignored
Final resting place
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8. |
Shadowed Lines
06:02
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Suddenly it’s dark
Thickening clouds approaching
Grayer than I’ve ever seen before
Then where stars have gone
New ones growing slowly
Glimmers reeling me toward the shore
But we know
None can go
Here we are
Boundary’s near
Tempting us with freedom
Glowing shapes drawn clear
Features, vibrant, blooming
Soothing as the clouds now disappear
Sunlight bathes the soil
Warming all surroundings
But this bliss can only last so long
No one wanders free
All get turned away
How can others
Claim this Mother Earth
Caged by you
I’m on the edge
I’m on the edge of truth
Here’s proof
Your claims that conscious states belong to you
All these lines we’ve drawn
Are bars of cells we’ve spawned
Let me through
I’m but a man
Just like the rest of you
Consumed
By arbitrary needs to rule this zoo
Comfort those employed
To hide what we exploit
[Morgan Guitar Solo]
Glowing shapes so clear
Features fully blooming
Free now that the clouds have disappeared
Sunlight floods the soil
Life’s embraced my footing
Can’t we just try keeping this around
Glowing shapes drawn clear
The shadowed lines blur with time, resign
Everything is mine to see
Exorcise mortal chains
So sail with me, no need to be afraid
How can others claim this
How can others claim this Earth
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9. |
Promised None
05:56
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Prophecies, evil things
Painting pictures of fates and escapes’ offspring inert
Illusions should fuel us to transform our tragedy into actions
Skies rife with grandeur
Innocent dreams, but
Indolence let them
Come crashing down
Seething scorn
See nothing born
Constant schemes
Nothing proceeds
Skies rife with grandeur
Innocent dreams, but
Indolence let them
Come crashing down
A unit of progress
Is hard for some, but
Without the effort
We’re promised none
[Brandon Guitar Solo]
Take with bloodshot eyes
Your well earned prize
Feats remarkable, admirable
Share with static lives
Achievement’s pride
We must spare them from depression
Skies rife with grandeur
Innocent dreams, but
Indolence let them
Come crashing down
A unit of progress
Is hard for some, but
Without the effort
We’re promised none
None
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10. |
The Projectionist
04:57
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Have you met the psychopath
Living in the trees
Filthy old robotic bat, no shred of decency
Misanthrope in scum and rust
Monstrous tendencies
Reckon he is
Beckoning a forced lobotomy
Come with me
We’ll teach him, see
That old pathetic crock
Raid his shack and pummel him
Until he cannot walk
Forever watching
Forever haunts me
Insensate being
Addicted to the glow
Pity plans so fatuous
Derived from these poor youth
Wonder, should I boil them
Or maybe turn them loose
Or instead, to clear my head
I’ll take them to the booth
Trap them there, till they’re aware
Of this shut-in's truths
All I see is all I feel
I filter out the room
Unknown warmth that speaks to me when living through the reel
All I see is all that heals
I edit out my gloom
Unsung hero dislocates and disbelieves what’s real
Unsung hero dislocates and disbelieves what’s real
Undreamed of
Scenes I’ve sought
Flicker fusion threshold deviant
Sensations
Wished upon
I’d trade my projections
To know why
The frames’ sensations
My heart’s foundations
Contamination
Illuminating woe
[Brandon Guitar Solo]
Surrogate medium
Transfers ad nauseam
Bound to roam impotent
Neural lands endlessly
Undreamed of
Scenes I’ve sought
Flicker fusion threshold deviant
Sensations
Wished upon
I’d trade my projections
To know why
Undreamed of empathy
Flickering lights
Retrain me
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11. |
I, Recreant
07:34
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Softly breathing
Inhaling grief, exhale fear
Keep me safe, alone I cower
Tears run dry, it’s been an hour now
The pain I observe
Makes me want to submerge
For I, recreant,
Do deserve
The world, I surmise
Disturbed due to my lies
For I, miscreant,
Can’t reverse, this curse
Fractured breathing
Inhaling brief, exhale life
Keep me safe, alone I cower
Tears run dry, it’s been an hour now
The pain I endure
It ought surely unnerve
For I, miscreant,
Do deserve
The world, I despise
Disturbed fortress of lies
For my requiem,
I preserve, this curse
My hollow hopelessness
Release me from the depths
I beg you, nothingness
Please give me one last breath
[Brendon and Morgan Guitar Solos]
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12. |
Manic Void
08:56
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Never ends, chromamania
Flickers and changes
Ever toxic, serendipitous
Mind rearranges
Heaven, a troubled abyss
Bleed interruptions
Hell languishing in dissonance
Seeding destruction
Stained erratics sheltered by the cliffs
Shattered and bludgeoned
Step forth into oblivion
Splinters
I’ve been shattered into splinters within
Further, harder, faster
Spirals
Driven inward without an end in sight
Threading time through needles
Burdened life of the chameleon
A purgatory
Conflicting selves to each indifferent
Head on collision now
Means tarnished
Ends carnage
Deeds harmless
Feats savage
Shapeshifting night
Transmorph’s delight
To cultivate
Is to betray
Time’s embrace I’ve long escaped
Conflicts rise, crashing tides
Songs erase the bitter taste
Dreaded days laid to waste
I define affluence meritocratically
Arrogance, it has no place
Humble race toward the stage
Assimilate the energy
Entering monstrous craze
Channelling anger and hatred and jealousy
Dead in concept
End of life force
Now I've reached the
Blackened summit
Activate hysteria
Masses rage, chaos plays
Aggravate the sanguine haze
Mindlessly convulsing
Break out insanity is what we will always crave
Shapeshifting night
Transmorph’s delight
To cultivate
Is to betray
[Brandon Keyboard Solo]
[Morgan Guitar Solo]
Glowing shapes appear
Emptiness diluting
Change propelling me toward the shore
Sunlight bathes my skin
Winds restore my breathing
Golden sparkles flicker through the sky
Glowing shapes so dear (Shapes so dear)
Nothingness is losing
Change invigorates my very core
Life’s unlocked the gates
That I dare to enter (I've entered)
(Golden sparkles flicker)
Golden feathers falling from the sky
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A Sense of Gravity Seattle, Washington
Combining searing riffs with powerful melodies, contemporary jazz harmony, polyrhythmic grooves, and virtuosic solos, A Sense of Gravity is dedicated above all to strong, musical composition and moving songwriting.
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