Fata Morgana

Inquisition lingers overhead
Maleficent minds prod my sanity
Lethe's rapids capsize the wayward vessel
No coastline menagerie in sight
In the still a ship appears
A distant reverie long forgot
My arms and legs stretch
Prepared to battle the riptides
The sun and moon exchange places twice
Upon the third twilight I arrive
There is no ship here
Just more of the vast sea
What was it I thought I saw?
Salvation? A second chance?
I saw what I wanted to see
Nonexistent opportunity
Did I waste my time swimming?
Did I do right to seize the moment?
It's all just an illusion
And like fools, we chase the bait

In Sorte Diaboli

Shade is just a lie
Heat penetrates skin
Blistering sun rises
Once again inopportune
Shadows crowd the soul
Cackling cacophony
Demons converse with skeletons
The dark lord lurks
Grim is the procession
Late is hour eleven
Hellfire is awaiting
The soul is lost
Mouths are open
No words are spoken
World turns once more
Judgment is here
Was this just a dream?
Wondering under the shade
Gaze upon the earth
Gaze upon hell
There is no refuge
Satan walks among us
Maybe he's one of us
Maybe us all

De Profundis

Bleeding out the day
We all bleed the same
Try to deny it
The dragon flies above
Scorching my beloved
I keep dying

Don't tempt me further
I can't light this candle anymore
My face is immolated
All of this is unrelated
God, I'm so frustrated
Won't you come and snuff this hatred?

Brother, ball and chain
Sister, forgotten my name
I'm torn apart
Mother, gone away
Father, hell awaits
Dead in my heart

Out of the depths
Out of the depths I tremble, crying out
But tears don't fall so easy from these eyes
Out of control
Out of control I tear my insides out
In hope some day my soul is pacified

Sacrifice

Death reigns inside my veins
I scatter ashes where I roam
Firelight inside these eyes
This world will never be my home

You can collect all you want
You can reject all you don't
You can pretend you're someone
It doesn't matter
Cuz at the end of the day
You're gonna die anyway
You might think you can be saved
But you won't

Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice
You're in such a hurry to expire
No sacrifice

Scorched earth is my rebirth
And like a phoenix I will rise
Carry the winds of change
While you await your home's demise

You know you saw it coming
You didn't change anything
You hate the doom that it brings
But you have earned it
You're only given one life
If you're not living it right
You better change it because
You can't return it

Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice
You're in such a hurry to expire
No sacrifice
Too lazy to make life better
You just roll the dice
Hell bent on your own pleasure
Nothing comes without sacrifice

You can't have it all
Sometimes you have to choose
Life is a gom jabbar
You've got so much to prove
So put your hand in the box
Don't be afraid of the pain
Fear is the mindkiller
But you can come away unscathed

Cancer

I. Diligo

I used to think you were the

Answer - I had so many questions in my life
I thought you came to help but now I know that you were just a
Cancer - you were malignant while I was benign
But now I cut you out - that's right, I cut you out

I opened my soul up to you
You took it all in - you found a good use
I made myself vulnerable
You wasted no time becoming a black hole
I tried to cope with what you were for so long
I tried to justify all of your wrongs
I thought that I was gonna be the one
But it's hard to be the one when there's hundreds in the waiting

Pain - this could kill me
Open heart surgery
I thought you loved me
I thought wrong

I gave you more than I could give
I thought you would be my reason to live
I etched your name upon my heart
You never loved me - you lied from the start
I backed away and you pulled me back in
You kept the world shielded from your sins
You hide behind a thousand masks within
But I saw through your lies, and like a fool I waited

Name - i.am. poison
My heart was beaten
You thought you could use me
You thought wrong

II. Abyssus

Abandon all hope, ye who enter in
The ice queen's lair a treacherous disguise
No peace outside if nothing is within
With red lips she is sealing my demise

The boundless acts of selfishness and sin
So many were deceived by all the lies
I justified her every foolish action
I could not see past the burns in my eyes

Piteous loathing to make me feel sorrow
I comfort you to sleep, I stayed awake
And when I finally rested to tomorrow
I'd already been bitten by the snake

You make your life seem like a saddened story
Passive aggressive, begging to be saved
You fooled so many as you stole their glory
And I was such a foolish willing slave

My soul burns alive
I am not alive
You were just a lie
You destroyed my life

III. Libertas

My eyes are open
How did I get in this cage?
I don't deserve this
I'll cast aside the chains
My heart is beating
I can't deny the pain
This time I'm leaving
I'm ready to live again

One last token of my good will
Shatter your fortress, expose your ill
You said you wanted to be free
Who better to do that than me?

I will carry the burden of an enemy
I will carry the burden of truth
I will cast out the burden of misery
I do not belong to you

We're free
So let it be
Finally free
Let it be

Freedom

Universe

You could just be my universe
and I could be okay with that.
I'll give you all the space you want,
just please remember where I am.
I do not share the common fears
of all the ones you've known before.
I do not fear most anything.
I will protect. I will provide.
I'm not scared of what's possible;
most of my fears reside among
others. I can't control your fate
nor do I truly want to try.
I just want you to know my fear
is that you'll live life without love
like mine.

Warden

It is hard to break out of a cage
unless you understand the mechanism
that confines you. Unless you know how you
ended up inside in the first place.
Oh, fear is no different. We committed
a crime against ourselves, yes. So what do we do?
We find our suspect inside our heart and
incarcerate them. Guilty until proven innocent,
that's our way of justice.
No clemency. No conjugal visit. Just isolation.
No warden dangling a key, snoring so we can
plot a great escape, no.
The key was always in our pockets.
We are the only residents.
The door was always unlocked.
We're here because we fear
freedom.

The sunlight burns my eyes. Such a heavy weight.
I will fear freedom no more.




"So crawl across this desert heat and become tragic with me. And now that we are not alone, you know that we could never be." - quoted from Safe Haven, written by Andrew Schwab