I've stepped inside a world I don't know
The sky's not quite the same anymore
Dead stasis
Burnt pages
Fabric of society torn
Condemned either way
No cells, no chains
Resistance is buried like a secret to a grave

Face down in the dirt again
What's to gain from being the last one standing?
Cut the limb and not the tourniquet
So now it's understood
We remove the deadwood

Pulled apart from all sides
It never took much to divide
Can't find a way to detach
So light the fucking match
Never been the first to cast a stone
But we'll torch the fields
Where their seeds are sewn
Like moths to flames
They all burn the arcane
Constricted, complicit
In how we're detained

Face down in the dirt again
What's to gain from being the last one standing?
Cut the limb and not the tourniquet
So now it's understood
We remove the deadwood

Burn it down!
Raze it all to the ground!
Every last one!

I felt the weight of a soul in my hands
And I'm starting to understand
They're all dead weight
Transcending this hell unscathed
While we fight for the scraps thrown away
Parasites and sycophants
Bleeding you dry

Face down in the dirt again
What's to gain from being the last one standing?
Cut the limb and not the tourniquet
So now it's understood
We remove the deadwood

Deadwood

I hate to say
I'm beginning to see
My own reflection in my adversaries
I hate to ask
But I just need to know
Is your finger on the trigger
Or can you let go?

What's the price of a soul?
What's it's worth verses gold?
I tried to beg for mine
But it was already sold
Does nobody think twice?
What does your hell look like?
Does everyone have their price?
Where they finally break

I hate to say
I think it's a sign of things to come
Breaking us down one by one
I want to say
That maybe I'm wrong
And when you think it's stopped
It begins

I hate to say
I'm not willing to change
But all I hear is I'm to blame
Well what a fucking shame

What sustains the meek?
What keeps you from the peak?
We're all apostasies
With no souls to speak
What does your world look like?
Waiting for conflict to strike
Do we all have our price?
Where we finally break?

Stoke the fire if it's dwindling
Hate keeps those coals burning

Are you looking down?
Or looked down on?
Are you trodden down?
Or sat on the throne?

Nurtured by no one
Shunned and cast away
Left out like rats in the rain
Damaged cells assimilate
Lost souls will aggregate

Broken
We'll never be your saviours
Pariahs
We took the fall for your failures
The bastard sons and daughters
The lambs that strayed from slaughter

So now you want in?
But now you need answers?
Cauterised the wounds and now nothing stands between us?
No bonds broken
No love lost
There was nothing to lose
You never had our trust

Broken
We'll never be your saviours
Pariahs
We took the fall for your failures
The bastard sons and daughters
The lambs that strayed from slaughter

Pariahs
So sharpen the axe
Pariahs
We pulled arrows from our backs
Pariahs
Learned to breathe through suffocating hands
Pariahs
Baptised in flames no one could stand

Pariahs
So sharpen the axe
Pariahs
We pulled arrows from our backs
Pariahs
Learned to breathe through suffocating hands
Pariahs
Baptised in flames no one could stand

I know how it feels
We slipped through the cracks
Covered in ash
We bathed in the ashes
I've seen that look
In your eyes
Behind mine

Broken
We'll never be your saviours
Pariahs
We took the fall for your failures
Pariahs
The bastard sons and daughters
Pariahs
And you can't fucking take this from us

You've no authority
Just a malignant tongue
You're not so eloquent
Without the pages you stole from
No messiah
Not fit to serve
The pupil never becomes the master
If they never learn

A self proclaimed healer
Self made cult leader
You can't fix the broken
If you don't understand the problem
A sorry state of affairs
Oh god what a mess

Your time is up

What is the intent?
Healing or arrogance?

Poison for the lost
Corruption of trust
Out of your depth, save your breath
Climb down from your cross
Poison for the lost
Corruption of trust
Can't remove your ego now
Take off that fucking crown

In the age of the narcissist
We speak with a clenched fist
All the subtlety is lost
And your validity stops now

Your time is up

Poison for the lost
Corruption of trust
Out of your depth, save your breath
Climb down from your cross

Poison for the lost
Corruption of trust
Remove your ego now
Take off that fucking crown

Damned
I'm tied to this fucking stake
Venomoid like a captured snake
All I can make is a fist
But there's nothing left to break
Condemned
Faced with exile
We live like we're on trial
I've searched for something to feel
And all I felt was denial

They said it's coming for all of us
But we fell on our swords and we never got up
And it feels like the walls are closing in
Maybe they are
And we're afraid to see it
We'll deny our descent

Can't erase the mistakes so I vent
Can't carry the discontent
Some wounds don't heal
'Cause we pick the scabs over and again
Losing sleep on a blank page
Grinding teeth on my own cage
No empty kingdoms to reign
So I'll build my own to deface

They said it's coming for all of us
But we fell on our swords and we never got up
And it feels like the walls are closing in
Maybe they are
And we're afraid to see it
We'll deny our descent

I grew cold waiting for my deliverance
All I know is the taste of bitterness

A severed leash
But no one set me free
A cut through the rope with my own fucking teeth

They said it's coming for all of us
But we fell on our swords and we never got up
And it feels like the walls are closing in
Maybe they are
And we're afraid to see it
We'll deny our descent

Descent

I caught a glimpse in the corner of my eye
I think I knew what I would find
But there's something else at play
And everything at stake
And so the river's calling me, calling me away

I'm no saint
I've no virtue
I wish I could feel that you hurt too
But it's so dark I can't tell god from the devil
I'm just absent
More than ever

Can't outrun my head
So I'll tell myself
I have a right to feel this way
So I stepped into the maze
And all it did was take
And now on long way from all I know

I'm no saint
I've no virtue
I wish I could feel that you hurt too
But it's so dark I can't tell god from the devil
I'm just absent
More than ever

I surrender
I'm incomplete
I've had all I can take
So take me in pieces

I'm no saint
I've no virtue
I wish I could feel that you hurt too
But it's so dark I can't tell god from the devil
I'm just absent
More than ever

I'm no saint
I've no virtue
I wish I could feel that you hurt too
But it's so dark I can't tell god from the devil
I'm just absent
More than ever

Words cut like jagged shards
And your house of glass is falling apart
You preach love but don't give it
Teach hate but don't see it
If there's nothing above
Then there's nothing beneath
But a fraud has to cut their teeth

Hiding inside your own skin
And now you're so absorbed
Are you even listening?
Words fallen on deaf ears
Eye for an eye
But you're the only one who's been left blind

Worlds apart
From the lives you crush
Hypocrisy moves from bone to dust
Spiritual fraud
Cleansed in the waters
Self inflicted stigmata
You're no saint, no faith to claim
A lifetime spent in vein

Hiding inside your own skin
And now you're so absorbed
Are you even listening?
Words fallen on deaf ears
Eye for an eye
But you're the only one who's been left blind

Oh father, forsaken
We felt the wrath of thee
Oh father, have mercy
Can you not turn the other cheek?

No longer walking the line
That exists in your own mind
Was it all for nothing?
Wasn't there always just... nothing?

Hiding inside your own skin
And now you're so absorbed
Are you even listening?
Words fallen on deaf ears
Eye for an eye
But you're the only one who's been left blind

We circle the void
Waiting for a saviour
A light in the dark amidst our despair
A feeble fraud
With open arms we endure
The hand of god never felt so impure

Judas
Turned your flock away
Serpent
Usurp your way to the grave
You'd lie your way into heaven
To slaughter the angels

Pulled by our throats
A contagion of misery
Leading the rats to their lobotomies
Cursed by all
Adored by none
And slowly your guise is undone

An all consuming hate
Pulses through the strings you manipulate

Judas
Turned your flock away
Serpent
Usurp your way to the grave
You'd lie your way into heaven
To slaughter the angels
I see that crown of thorns bearing down
The burden of all the souls you denounce
Is nothing sacred
You always did see red

A calloused heart
Tearing your whole world apart
Rage filled veins fit to burst
Because nothing seems to satisfy your
Thirst

A solitary scratch
From mortal coil into ash
A poison tip straight through my chest
From where your demons rest

Trust fell by the wayside
Venom seeping in my skin
In my reflection there's emptiness
So numb I couldn't feel you invert my world
I never knew a soul could be so cold

You've taken everything I had to give
You cut your heart out to leave as evidence
You've taken everything
And it's all so wrong
Now I'm left with your thorns

My sacrifice for yours
My silence for your pride
Blue bodies sinking beneath
Another soul to keep

You clawed your way to me and never let go
Pierced your thorns in me
To hold me close
The more I pulled the more it strengthened your hold
I never knew a soul could be so cold

You came before I could convalesce
Just to tell me you confess

Survivor's guilt
What did I wish for?
I never knew the cost
All these years on
It's not wasted on me
But I never know what I have 'til it's gone

I'm deaf to your words
I'm blind to your actions
Couldn't sense the change in the air
Or see the lights refractions

I don't know where I belong

Why did I beg
Wallowed in my own regrets
Absorbed in my petulance
Ungrateful as ever
No matter how hard I try
I know I'm not worthy

I don't know where I belong
But I feel like I've done wrong

Guilt

A godless throne
I sat and wondered why I'm still here
On this soil we lay our bodies down forever
And I'll be waiting for the ground to swallow me
Only to close my eyes
And not see that it has taken you