[Instrumental]

Rise from the ocean of my dreams
Hear my voice, it's silent
Trapped in my mind
Searching endlessly for what I am inside
Isolated memories
Hostage to my sanity
Free me
Lost in the motion
Living through the scenes
Rising from the ocean
Waves can't drown the screams

Light hits my eyes and reveals the solitary cell from my eyes
Death escapes
Postulated truth becomes my ignorance, I'm blind
Eluding the ideals of cognitive thought and left to die
I'm confined, awaiting the facets to build my self realization

Cast away from everything
I escaped my destiny
Existence begs for questioning
Finding what is real from what I know
Truth lies in the darkness
Truth lies in the darkness
Who am I?

Earth... it seems so far away
Uncertainty saturates my mind
Space, alone it welcomes me
Floating astray... aimlessly in time
Memory, the blinding face
Memory, a world away
Memory, a past mistake
Memory, I can't escape
Memory, a deeper place
Memory, in dreams awake

Darkness feels cold against my skin
Alive, I don't know how I came to be
I'm reaching
A single hole shows endless space
I strain to see the light
Moving on to some place unknown... unseen

Living through my faded dreams
Finding my identity
Moments... deep inside... all of this... died... questioning everything... left behind... why am I lost?

No sound, just everlasting pain
The flicker of eyes remains
A pale face blaming everything
Guilt maintains
A sound escapes

Calling me... it's calling for me...
Ending lives are reaching for me
Calling me... they're calling for me

Reaching down, I close my eyes
I hope for death... fear subsides

And the shadows encompass all of this, and I awaken
The voices always carry

Calling me... calling for me...
Calling me... they're calling for me...

In the wake, I survive everything that I try
I'm awake, millions die
Is this truth, or do I die?

I lied to myself
I know where I'm going to end
I'm staring ahead as it burns me
I don't know what can save us now
I know that we're falling into the sun
I wake up when I close my eyes, escaping reality
Going back is all I know, my consciousness is my nightmare
I don't know what can save me now
I know that I'm falling into the sun
I'm lost in the melancholy thought, trying to reason through
Visions keep running through my head
But something evades me always
Where did I go wrong?
Now we burn ourselves to learn ourselves

Waiting for my death, reflections in my eyes
Only one hope left to live on inside me
I don't know what can save us now
I know that we're falling into the sun
I wake up when I close my eyes, escaping reality
Going back is all I know, my consciousness is my nightmare
We must learn ourselves to earn ourselves

Hold me down, chains that bind me, as they scream murder
What have I done?
Mortified... I can't see the blood
Something seems wrong... I know their faces, they burn
They haunt me from within
In a distant dream I was set free
I wanted to save them

I can see the eyes of the children
I can feel the pain rushing back as if I was there
Nothing separates this dream from reality beyond my own confused volition
Slave to my own vision, how could it be I haven't woken up?
A year passes in a second but it still feels endless
The ending with no beginning is what will destroy me
Yet I sit in silence, floating in a void... weightless... and timeless
How could it be?
I haven't given up

Searching... always come up empty
Feeling consciousness betray me

Reaching... always touching nothing
Sleeping doesn't make it better

Losing everything I've known
Losing everything I've been
Losing everything I've done
Come to life inside my head

I lie awake

Silence encumbers me like the smell after the rain
Darkness is all I see
All I feel is pain

I'm waiting for life to show itself
I'm waiting for time to pass
I'm sick of this lifeless prison cell
I'm sick of this timeless mass

Closer, drift towards the light
No way out... No way to fight
Desolate, impeding light
This vision has stole my sight

Empty hearts and empty souls
Precious life, just burning coals
Is this all I have to show for a life I've never known?

Closer, drift towards the light
No way out... no way to fight
Desolate, impeding light
This vision has stole my sight

Flash before my eyes
I'm awake, I'm alive
I remember the sky
Moments left behind buried
Returning to who I am
Connecting everything
Everything connecting
Memories exile me

Sent away to die
Reversed dreams manifest to life
Time, the constant restraint
Pulling me closer... If only I had control
Walls contain my fate, and inside I'll find escape

Dead ends lead to nowhere
Reaching destitution
Pausing self destruction
Climbing for a future
Death becomes a clubhouse needing a new member
Sealed in the container, thrown into the embers

Tracing every thought I've had through my life
I've seen it all
Exiled, reliving everything as it was
Not as I saw
I lived a lie, and now I'm free from me

Tracing every thought I had through my life
Changed me
Awake and rethinking everything that I was
Defined my life
I saw, I lived a lie and now I'm free... from me

Something tears the fabric of my truth
Nothing feels right (you've got to grasp what you have lost)
Forcing into darkness for the answers
I've only fooled myself

Universe... welcoming... (look past what you have known)
Memories... distancing... (so unaware)
Universe... collapsing... (look past what you have known)
Memories... reversing...

If I have known my life
What are these gaps that cloud my reason and take hold of me?
Where is the light?
Why am I suffering?

Wake me up

So hard to take, my life is breaking
So hard to fake, my mind is waking

Backward thought, forward thinking
Forward though, backward thinking

Help, I don't want to believe
Finding that what I've seen is calling me, testing me, redefining everything I've been
Nothing is the same anymore
I'm a prisoner sent away from myself
Saving the fallen, they blame me
They're calling
I'm reaching for something
It's all coming from nothing I've known
Rebuild the past into something that's new
Truth is not something I've seen

Changing my mind about me
Feeling my pride die
Changing my life finally
This feeling inside lied to me

(Reflects off my eyes) Tragic nightmares so familiar
Endless taunting, cries from nowhere
(A place I recognize) Pain that led to chaos
Hear the masses crying out for help

Losing my life
Burning skyline blinding
(Reflects off my eyes) through the window I see clearly
In the window, I see me
And out of the darkness of my mind
I've uncovered the things I hoped I'd never find
A mystery solved, I don't want to accept my death
I know I'm being punished

Losing my life
Burning skyline bleeding me
By my hand, I wiped away humanity willfully

I scarred their faces
I drank their blood and left them bleeding
I stole their lives
I cleansed the Earth
I tore this whole thing down

Lies, I've been living all this time
I'm tired of forgetting... all my life... all this time (and I rise)
Rise

Rise from the ocean
Conceal my screams
Lost in the motion
Dying silent

A distant flicker in a silent universe
A fading glimpse of passing time expiring
Beyond all reach and forgotten in the ruin
A star dies out... and no one knows

A lonely soul, not a martyr not a savior
Now there's nothing left but time expiring
A man that's saved
On the inside I'm forgiven, and I cry out... but no one knows

Found determination
I've found the will to live
I remember what I am, and why

Gaining speed as I fall into oblivion
The destination fades to black
Expiring

Across dimensions I can feel the rift embracing
A star dies out and leaves a hole

Lost determination
I've lost the chance to live
I remember who I am, and why
Why?

I changed who I was, but am I good enough to try?
I learned who I am, but am I strong enough to fly?

No