LONG SINCE
I’m -Here in  the wreckage
Of what I thought I knew
Held by the refuse
Of what I hoped was true
Throwing out excuses
They are no friend to me
 I have become
What I always feared  I’d be

Long since I’ve been written out
Long since withered
The fool in a deck long since burned
Long since dead
I have been numbed and bleed out
Long since withered
Past out in heart shattered laps
Long since murdered

Six feet below
Uunder layers of  Shrouded cloth
Am I so fooled to think
My innocents may not be lost

Long since I’ ve been  all drained out
Long since withered
The faith in my skin long erased
Long since dead
I have been wrecked and withdrawn
Long since withered
Cast out  in times endless grasp
Long since murdered


I have become,
I have become,
I have become
Undone -x4

I have wasted
So many precious years
I’m tired of crying
Such pitiful anxious tears

Long since I’ve been written out,
Long since withered
The fool in a deck long since burned,
Long since dead
I have been numbed and bleed out
Long since withered
Past out in heart shattered laps
Long since murdered


I have become
I have become
I have become
Undone -x4



NO ONE CAME
Stripped of their pride,
They’ve been swept out by the rain
Family’s scattered wide, 
Out across a flooded plain
The poor left for dead,
Only echoes of their names
Like lions they defended,
What little that remained

And no one came
And no one came

To save them
To save them
(Obliterate, wipe clean, never mind,
drown encapsulate and shroud)
 
Driven out to walk,
Roads littered with the dead
In the water bodies rot,
Every child ripped from their beds
On a journey far from home,
They know they must  be strong
With nothing  left to hold,
Just the clothes that they have on

Still no one came
Still no one came

To Hold them
To hold them
(Obliterate, wipe clean, never mind,
drown ,encapsulate and shroud)

The nation held its breath
How could this be correct
No one came to save them
As they tried to survive
The nation watched them die
Right in front of their very eyes
No one came to save them
As they tried to stay alive

Still no one came
As  they were swept away

From their homes
From their homes
 (Obliterate, wipe clean, never mind,
drown, encapsulate and shroud)

The nation held its breath
How could this be correct
No one came to save them
As they tried to survive
The nation watched them die
Right in front of their very eyes
No one came to save them
As they tried to stay alive
No one came……………..


MARY
Mary Don’t forget to breath
Mary its okay to bleed
Mary  rest your  soul  child
Mary let atlas do his job for a while

Your mothers gone away 
She didn’t say goodbye
Leaving you alone again
Her wrists bleeding out her life

You pretend this is not happening
 If  you can close your eyes tight enough
It might just be a dream
And there has been no tragedy

 Oh lay your burden down- x4

Mary don’t forget to grieve
Mary its okay to scream
Mary let  your anger flow
Mary this weight is not yours alone
 
You hold up everything
The Miles of blood and pain
Clinging to unanswered questions
Hoping someone can explain

I don’t know what I can say
To make this nightmare go  away
She left you quickly in the night
There’s nothing that will make this right

 So lay your burden down- x4

A piece of you has gone
You don’t have to act so fucking strong
She left you softly without a word
Its time to fall and feel the hurt

 Oh lay your burden down- x4


BETRAYER 
Killing yourself off keeping my eyes covered
Is this how you feel loved when I ‘m a sucker
How dare you make me a believer

I thought you  were dead, you are a betrayer
You made me cry, you mother fucker
Some messed up cruel joke you heartless monster

{Chorus}
I hate I ever care for you
I hate you for what you have done
I hate  I ever trusted you
I hate you used me for your fun


Killing yourself off ..keeping my eyes covered
Is this how you feel loved when I ‘m a sucker
How dare you make me a believer

You make me sick you  are a  betrayer
You made me care you mother fucker
How could you do this you heartless monster

{Chorus}

Betrayer  you’re a heartless monster
Betrayeryou’re a heartless monster

I thought you were dead then you show up
Like nothings happened
Are you happy that your false death
Got the desired reaction.
You prayed on what little faith
I had left in human compassion
Does it prove to you
That someone cared for you
-In your twisted perception

I thought you  were dead, you are a betrayer
You made me cry , you mother fucker
Some messed up cruel joke you  heartless monster

You make me sick you are a  betrayer
You made me care you mother fucker
How could you do this …you heartless monster

{Chorus}

Betrayeryou’re a heartless monster 
Betrayer you’re a heartless monster


ALL I FEAR
This love, it  has been jaded,
It seems that nothing ever stays the same
This love, it has been traded,
I’ve done everything to turn the page

This love, it has been traded,
And I’ve done everything  just to turn the page

It feels so strange, on this side of the line
No matter what’s rearranged you’re always
You’re always in my mind
It  feels so strange, on this side of the line
No matter how things change I still see you
I see you in the signs

Sideways of heaven we drank sweet tears
Of moans and whisperings
My heart is punctured steel
Debris, from all I fear

And its killing me -x8

This love has not been patient
It will not hold out against the pain

Suffocating in these tears.
I walked through silence ringing
Ground glass of countless mirrors
Bloodied by my  fear

And its killing me -x8

It feels so strange, on this side of the line
No matter what’s rearranged you’re always
You’re always in my mind
It  feels so strange, on this side of the line
No matter how things change I still see you
I see you in the signs

This love it has been faded,
I can find no comfort here ...


IN THE INK
The touch, so soft and holding
In horizons waning breath
Tides dark inside the heart and telling
Of storms to come, the wave is rising.

The wave is rising….rising

The earth, Waits alive feigning sleep
The earth , turbulent underneath
The earth, hold is silent deep
Its sinking in the ink

Mars looks upon this danger mounting
An  orange eye in a pitch sky
Like cloth blacker than sack, waves crashing
Air salt and thick, all life is drowning

The wave is rising….rising

The earth, sand on souls lost feet
The earth, lit in phosphorous  blink
The earth  filled with deadly drink
Its sinking in the ink

Rising, Rising

The earth, Waits alive feigning sleep
The earth , turbulent underneath
The earth, hold is silent deep
Its sinking in the ink

Sand on souls lost feet
Lit in phosphorous blink
Filled with the deadliest drink
Its sinking in the ink….


TRAGIC WAR
I  will walk away
Cuz you don’t care anymore
That the anger  you spew
Its driving me,  its driving me though  the floor

I watch you battle your self
Your own worst enemy
In the  chaos you’ve created
So very carefully

I  will walk away
I don’t cares anymore
Don’t let me keep you
From your from  your tragic war

The Insanity that plagues the soul
Gravity’s feeling
That tumbles oh it tumbles and it roles
Dragging you down
Like black strap molasses in the veins
Wish I could see you
Through rose colored glass that hides the stains.

Safe inside  your own personal hell
Where no one can touch you
Chained within  a dark emotional cell
Driving away
All the people who care cant you see
Their trying to reach you
As you sit secure in  your misery

I will  walk away
I, I can’t  take it anymore
I refuse to be dragged down with you
By your  by your tragic war...


CLOSER
I am ripping at the seams
For the truth I cannot seem to reach
Scorching sand, blackens my eyes
Hiding the way, it stings me with its lies

Lies  with its lies

On this faithless shore
Searching  for the cracks in the door
Crowded thoughts  in my twisting mind
Getting caught in my own search to find

The truth ...
To  find  the truth
To find  the truth
  
Closer, Closer
Closer to the truth

On the edge of  sense
I drop the stone, break the surface,
So I might see the ripples in the pool
They extend  out  closer too
 
The truth...
Closer to The truth
Closer to  The truth

Closer,Closer
Closer to the truth...


WITHOUT IT
Your lover, your hate,
Your pain, your destruction

It made love to your body
It tricked you to believe
It was needed to survive
To excuse the wounds that bleed

Your lover, your hate,
Your pain, your destruction

What you gonna do, without it
What you gonna do, without it
What you gonna do, without it
What you gonna do…

Mesmerized inside
The raging thrill
It Weaved behind
Carved out its spell
Look at yourself
From far removed 
the graying of your skin
Inside out it swallows you 

What you gonna do, without it
What you gonna do, without it
What you gonna do, without it
What you gonna do…

Your lover, your hate
Your pain , your destruction