Hello my friend It had been so long I thought you'd forgotten me Much time has passed but I see that nothing's changed I must have climbed up every mountain Just to shout your death from their peaks But again I see your face and now I know you'll never leave

Chained to a path that leads to the end Try to escape but it's best to pretend I stray from the course, stumble back at the bend ...progress always leads to regression There are visions in sleep but reality's worse You struggle for peace but are locked with this curse Start moving forward but end in reverse... ...progress always leads to depression Start from the end, if you look you will see The regression There are visions in sleep but reality's worse, I struggle for peace but am locked with this curse Strain to push past but know you'll end in reverse ...progress always leads to depression Face to face with what should not be These words are all weapons aimed squarely at me Armed to the teeth, preparing for war Compounding with malice forevermore There was a day we used to know Where we'd desire and it would be so But though we know just what we see We cannot reach it, we are too weak Despondent, corrosive, we circle the drain My will falls to opposition, who's left to blame But the source of this compulsion? It lies within Simple actions and reactions halt what could have been Still we rise in opposition, denounce or fates Contradicted by our nature, which lies in wait Complete corruption of all we choose Because this body demands it always lose Overwhelmed by the world Overwhelmed by the truth Anxiety Can you feel it crashing down? Yes through this blood flows dedication My serotonin turned and fled Fate gave up god, found depression Every fragile peace tempered by its hand

I threw my last years away To focus on reality's thread And when I collapse I know The string will continue to wind And with these words I make an oath that silence will outlast me It stretches far beyond the place that history will know me For as I sit, secure in what I know is now before me I focus on the end and how I know that it will take me Quietly Undramatically When you're gone Frozen images dissolve, discarded With certainty The struggles that we face disappear, uncaring With disregard Quietly time shuffles through the room, unknowing With disregard Undramatically we'll fade and then this won't matter Breathe in, breathe out No triumph to be found Like a stone cast to the sea I will be forgotten Let this fade as a whimper against time I will be forgotten I will be forgotten We will be forgotten

The triumph of power exists as a lie Its control, a figment of all it denies With pitiful gestures, we jump as it tries To salvage the notion it comes from the sky What knowledge precedes us, what failures held high With this I admonish the longing that dies They'll tell you of battles you'll exit alive But know that these fragments of hope are all lies We end and begin Outside and within Reduced to skin The truth is thing What hope shall change the flow of time? This bone is lead, this curse is mine Here I stand, the lord of all I see This kingdom is fire, it answers not to me Strained and torn This I know: all that we are is but a blaze We're nothing but disciples of the wind Here I stand, the lord of all I see This kingdom is fire, it answers not to me

Summon your reasons Someone to blame Something that happened It's always the same I hate the world I live in I am the key to the end Life stifles me with reason I will no longer pretend My hate exists without logic My rage was never explored You should have seen this coming Now I will not be ignored Sanity's rational chains come undone I feel no pity, you will receive none Patience exhausted, no time to explain All that I’m feeling and all that I say A rational existence has taken its toll The world's been explained at the cost of my soul A predictable planet's preferred by the weak I look deep inside and refuse now to think

Some dreams are never too far away They dance just on the edge of daylight Etched into your eyes, ghost movement in the peripheral Some thoughts are never too far away They sit behind the daylight like shadows Tattooed on your skin, fingerprints of who you'll be tomorrow (oh) vicious engineer If I believed, your name would be a curse For what frigid loathing would inspire This broken planet's birth? I would twist from your grasp Shudder against the coldness of your gaze Nothing would restore the absence of faith We are alone Unable to change Marching in circles, we end as we begin (oh_ callous overseer If only in your image we were made Graced with indifference, this path would be so clear Uncaring, all-knowing, complete But we are alone And you were but a desperate dream Some meaning to offer And I cannot believe For we are alone Unable to change Marching in circles, we end as we begin ...the feelings rush back again so fast Like only moments passed Cinematic in their tension But there I sit, frozen stiff Every word a cliché Time still laughs "relax" she'll coax Her face a twisted grin "never will you be far from home" You are never free Something deep inside still nags Like this light has met my face before And we march on, afraid For I know we'll always meet again

Surrender to this reason My words will hang you high This noose of cold indignance Will choke you till you die Your art has proven hollow Dull masks you can't sustain Cause once the show is over You change your fucking names As flies flock to the rotten You feed on putrid shit Living out your fantasies And bragging about it! See how far they run Watch them as they cry Ants, they run for cover See how hard they try! The stupid The boring The fair-weather friends Pretentious Obnoxious They strive to pretend With costumes And gimmicks They angle to shock Like children They cherish The lies that they bought We will stand and continue to lash out And you'll know our names because Hatred is our heart And When the sun reappears and casts away the dark We will rise and know that Hatred is our heart And We will rejoin the world and will walk amongst the crowds But we will know that Hatred is our heart And There is no mask, no fake name, no poetry to hide behind There is no game Yes, Hatred is our heart / when these words are long forgotten And these songs have gone away I'll continue what i started And stand behind what i say See how far they run Watch them as they cry Ants. They run for cover See how hard they try! Condemned as our prey, there's nowhere to hide For this is the future you must realize The hunters (unholy) have removed their masks There's no use for chains or rules of the past