1. Of Open Wounds...

Kill me, kill me, kill me again
with the knife that twists my life away
Hear me, hear me, hear me once more
As I read the lines of fabled lore
Leave me here on the broken floor
As you resurrect your battered soul
Are we afflicted?
No... we are blind...

...of open wounds and bleeding hearts
The journey begins as we drift apart...

The time has come – we die again
What we possess will be our decline
It hides with me as I toss the key
How great thou art!
How great thou art!

2. The Acting Parts

Walking through the shallow-filled escape
As we have seen it many times before
Right on towards the resolution
We fall within the tides of evolution
To mock the tyrants – it's the essence of man
and to conquer it within our hands
Right on towards the resolution
We fall within the tides of evolution

We await the day
For another time where we can fall in line

We are the ones who are in control
It's the reality within the role
All these faces like you've never seen
The acting parts within you and me
Now we are waiting for the sign
It's the truth within the line
All these faces like you've never seen
The acting parts within you and me

Narrow minded – the feverish stance
The pseudo-blind romance
Holding on in desperation
We fall within the halls of desolation
Deviate the means until the end
Reverse the sequence and take a stand
Holding on in desperation
We fall within the halls of desolation

The lucid design of a dying race
Tell me where you stand in this great big space
Scripted and obscure with words unbound
Within these words the secrets shall be found

Defy the darkness here
Defy the darkness as it draws near

The struggle now unfolds as the millions in death await
Let's break the silence

We are the ones who are in control
It's the reality within the role
All these faces like you've never seen
The acting parts within you and me
Now we are waiting for the sign
It's the truth within the line
All these faces like you've never seen
The acting parts within you and me

We await the day

The acting parts within you and me

3. Embraced By Misery

You think you know me
When I don't even know who I am
And what more do you want from me
When I've given you everything
But you don't need me...
I need you

You see it all so clear
You see the end draw near
You've seen this all before
and you want it to come to an end
Gun in my hand
I tired to understand
Let me die alone by my own hands

Deeper and deeper we shall go
Into the well of darkness
And in time of need there you'll find me
Embraced by misery

You bring me down to my knees
You bring me sorrow where joy should be
Please bring me light
bring me hope
or just bring me death
Now I'm on the edge
The bring of what used to be
I close my eyes and visualize,
the happiest of suicides

You think you know me
You think you know who I am
Why do you do the things you do
...when it just tears me apart
what more do you want from me
When I've given you everything
Why do you do the things you do
...when it just tears me apart

This is it... the end of my life

This goddamns witch of euphoria
This whore of mine
Contorting all my morality
This shapeless form must die
This inner strength and insanity
The origin of sin
Deny me of my philosophy
And I'll show you what I have in store for you

Now I'm on the edge
The bring of what used to be
I close my eyes and visualize
The happiest of suicides

4. Dead Light, Dead Night

Hear me now and die with me later.....
There is no truth but the end of forever
To solemnly swear to have and to hold
and until tomorrow, the word shall bleed old
(As the heart now grows cold)
For I am one and one in you
An eternity begotten from the earth anew
You sow the seeds, I reap the harvest
and rape the sanctity's gaze

Awakened from this sleepless night without a soul to bear
Please tell me how the story ends before I lose it all...make it disappear
Tranquility and futility, two words stifled in stability
Oh how I am praying for that day.....will the nightmare ever end?

Dead Light, Dead Night
Impurity and spiritual bliss
in heaven's chambers by a mere mortal kiss
Dead Light, Dead Night
Loathe me and love me, love me and leave me
As you fall from grace your lord is with thee

I was not trying to make it different
I just wanted control
Don't even try to make me believe
The pain will go right through you

Deterioration, elimination –-– of our destination
Inferior will in a virtual thrill –-– as time stands still
No, I won't let you in
Meet me at the turning point as there's no turning back
The silence is deafening.....go in for the kill

Dead Light, Dead Night
Impurity and spiritual bliss
in heaven's chambers by a mere mortal kiss
Dead Light, Dead Night
Loathe me and love me, love me and leave me
As you fall from grace your lord is with thee

I was not trying to make it different
I just wanted control
Don't even try to make me believe
The pain will go right through you

5. Into The Everblack

I've seen a side of life that's been
So jaded – but it's all I really know
Transforming lies into the truth
Delusions of something that I could never be
So many years have passed since then
Those years are lost...
A timeless journey so it seemed
Precious memories abstract in symmetry
I found my throught it none the less
It's a shame that I never passed your test
We'll see the future side by side
Some will triumph
While others just fall behind

I'm killing myslef just to be
A part of this world – to be free
I've had enought it's just no use
You could never love me...
even with time

Divine tragedy
Perpetual hate-fueled iniquity

Who's to say that there's nothing left for me now?
Who's to say that someday I'll find my way?
Where's the love that you promised?
Or was it only, only in my dreams?
Just give up, we've fucked up
Now there's nothing we can do to save ourselves!

We've seen a side of life that's been so twisted
– so goddamn bitter cold
Our fragile lives have turned to dust
Time has brought us to our own fatal end

6. Standing In The Shadows

Gone from me my last hope of sanity
Deprived of a conscience to set me free
A reality that goes with a grin
To break these chains would be a sin

For this disease consumes my sould
and the cycle continues again and again
Take me higher just fade away
hang my head and wait for a new day
See through my eyes where misfortune lies
And everything else that you despise
Enshroud myself in misery
This cursed veil of depravity

In the dawn of my dreams I can hear the horrid screams
When confronting my fears I hear them call
Calling me forth to the fall,
the fall of a new day that's gone
This was not meant to be,
hear me after!

Standing in the Shadows for a lifetime alone...
you fade away!

Enter a world so divine
Consume all that is thine
Inside these walls of disdain
Your soul, in peril – in vain!

I've found a way to numb the pain
To kll the light and breathe new life
To close my eyes and sleep forevermore
Standing in the shadows of suicide...
as you fade away!