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Marianas Rest - Ruins lyrics



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01. Kairos

“I had a dream
Which was not all a dream
The bright sun was extinguish’d
And the stars did wander darkling
In the eternal space
Rayless and pathless
And the icy earth swung blind
And blackening in the moonless air”

Everlasting night suck color out of our soul
Grip your claws around this barren land
Create shadows to make us look small
Yeah

Like we’ve got something to live
Nation of maggots, ready to infest
Carrion stripped of flesh long ago
At least we have each other to devour

This is the point where all life
Is engulfed into nothing
And our timelines
Are curled into a circle

Pin a thousand needles in me
Peel my skin with lye
Cut me up with your rusty blade
I will not make a sound
Whoa

Like we’ve got something to live
Nation of maggots, ready to infest
Carrion stripped of flesh long ago
At least we have each other to devour

Like we’ve got something to live
Like we’ve got some place to go
Like we’ve got somewhere to turn
Like we’ve got something to live

I won’t speak another word
Mute the sounds of your world
My chapter is written, the end in ink
This book is now closed

Look but never see again
Evolve into something new

Lost without a light
We are chasing shadows
Haunted by our own sight
Suffocated in cradles

Gone without a trace
Cocooned and turned to dust
Thrown into abyss
I mark the zenith in aeons of terror
Yeah

02. The Spiral

Desecrated years precede this descent
These roots go deep
And this plunge is a drop down forever

Screams in the hallways
Like echoes of distant past
Freefall awaits
Whispers guide my way
They are becoming louder

Take my hand
And walk this downward path
You and I, together
We shall put up walls so tall
Nothing can ever
Pierce our defenses
Together we can build
A fortress around us
Retreat inside
And shut down
Our senses in slumber
Take my left hand
For I am the terror
Living in you

Rest your head
Lose to nothingness
Spiral out of all control is lost
As you gaze all the way deep down

Shimmer of light fading away
As we delve into the sludge
Under all living things
Nothing can hurt us

Strengthen these walls
Barricade all doors
No need to look back up
(No need to look back up)
We will remain here
Stagnant forever

Rest your head
Lose to nothingness
Spiral out of all control is lost
As you gaze all the way deep down

Yeah

“The world was void
The populous and the powerful
Was a lump
Seasonless, herbless
Treeless, manless, lifeless
A lump of death
A chaos of hard clay”

03. Hole In Nothing

Destroy as I build
My fortress rising
In the wasteland
Towering upon nothing
Grounded on errors
Of the past

Cast into iron
I will lead, I will follow
Inhale this torment
As you slowly turn to stone

Yeah
This pressure made a broken man
Crumbling sanity
A monument of bitterness
Empty space surrounds me
There’s room to collapse within
Man built all and all is lost
Hole in a world of nothing
Nothing

Palace of void beneath all this
Empty, drained dry
Here, under a dying sun
Solace found in all that’s gone
Everything comes to a halt
When all is said and all is done
Laughter will echo
From the walls of these ruins

Yeah

04. The Defiant

Crawl through knives to reach the brink
It hurt like hell but here I am
Put down these torches from now on
Everything turns black

Drag myself all the way down
To the bottom of this charade
When you dive long enough
You shall witness the end of me

Seasons change but after this
I will never
Symbol of all long-lost hope
Buried inside a dying dream
Trapped within my shell
Genealogy of bad decisions
Destroying all I touch
Bring the whole world down with me

You cowards never had the guts
To turn your back, to reject it all
To cripple yourself and be happy to crawl

Now lay your eyes on me
Revel as I take this step
I shall prove my worthless point
With this triumph in misanthropy

Seasons change but after this
I will never
Symbol of all long-lost hope
Buried inside a dying dream
Trapped within my shell
Genealogy of bad decisions
Destroying all I touch
Bring the whole world down with me

Whoa
Bring the whole world down
And witness the end of me
Bring the whole world down
Let it crumble all over

Seasons change but after this
I will never
Symbol of all long-lost hope
Buried inside a dying dream
Trapped within my shell
Genealogy of bad decisions
Destroying all I touch
Bring the whole world down with me

Bring the whole world down with me

“The rivers, lakes and ocean
All stood still
And nothing stirr’d
Within their silent depths”

05. Unsinkable

“Ships, sailorless
Lay rotting on the sea
They slept on the abyss
Without a surge”

Gleaming eyes, brief smiles
Flashes from the past
Pictures of another reality
Shadows of a better time
Paired with future that no longer is

Saturated images
Predating this collapse
Like an everlasting echo
Inside my head
When I did not have to fear
That the sun would not rise again

Ship adrift at sea
Beacons’ lights out
And no one at the helm
I wonder if after this
The world can still exist
Unsurmountable haze
Delirious
Stranded in the fog
Somewhere amidst
These rocks and foam
I see you as beautiful as ever

Clarity comes and goes
Nothing new
Collect mind fragments
From times before
Something to cling to
Something warm
And then comes the dark

Push everything away
Squeeze the life out of these
Little pieces of hope
Remember that this is you
And you are unsinkable

Ship adrift at sea
Beacons’ lights out
And no one at the helm
I wonder if after this
The world can still exist
Unsurmountable haze
Delirious
Stranded in the fog
Somewhere amidst
These rocks and foam
I see you as beautiful as ever

As beautiful as ever

06. Shadows

My god is dead
These screams are not of this world
Cut a piece as a gift
To make all the bad go away

Carved of empty words
Built from worn-out promises
Blending into the grey
Like a ghost trapped between
Two worlds

Throw your lashes against my back
And burn me with your tongue
This skin is too thick to break
But old wounds still fester inside

Grind my bones into dust
And scatter me with the wind
I will fade and join you all
Becoming one with

Shadows
Linger inside our walls
Shadows
I am programmed
To be alone
Until I take the fall
Shadows
Cut through our scars
Shadows
Abused mind
Dying to welcome
This call

Save what’s left of my sanity
Preserve my thoughts in a jar
Memorize this trail
As a warning for you all

Dispose of this shell
Throw what’s left
On top of a pile
I was destined to be
Just another open tomb
In the yard

Shadows
Linger inside our walls
Shadows
I am programmed
To be alone
Until I take the fall
Shadows
Cut through our scars
Shadows
Abused mind
Dying to welcome
This call

Shadows
Shadows
Shadows
Shadows

07. Restitution

Night falls upon our wasteland
And all wicked things crawl out
To light a bonfire of our broken dreams

Stabbed from the heart of darkness
Just to remind that behind all that’s numb
We still feel the pain

Hope is a flame, bright and mesmerizing
Creating life, then turning it to ash
Burning everything
No reason to look further
Faith is for fools, I have my walls
So, you, for you just

Keep on wishing that after
This endless boneyard
A catharsis to free us all
In exchange of all this horror
Just keep on wishing
If that is what is keeping you sane
Nothing in the end of your greyscale rainbow
Take it as your restitution

Then it hits you
All the work
Every bit of suffering
At the hands of time

All that you have put up with
Stood high up in the storm
Everything you have lasted through
There’s no reward in the end

Keep on wishing that after
This endless boneyard
A catharsis to free us all
In exchange of all this horror
Just keep on wishing
If that is what is keeping you sane
Nothing in the end of your greyscale rainbow
Take it as your restitution

“No love was left
All earth was but one thought
And that was death
Immediate and inglorious”

08. Omega

Where are you?
I used to know you
Come out, it’s warm
The sun is shining

What happened to you?
Where did you go?
Please, come out
I miss you

I can hear you
I am
Down in the deep
Up in the distance
Floating in the air

I’m so sorry
For not
Trying enough
That I cowered
Under my shell
But I can still
Hear you

Sinking into oblivion
Powerless
To stop the motion
All movement ends
It pulls me under
Towards the end
All sound is fading
There you are
Still somewhere
I’m glad you kept on trying

“The waves were dead
The tides were in their grave
The winds were wither’d
In the stagnant air
And the clouds perish’d
Darkness had no need
Of aid from them
She was the Universe”