As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security lyrics
Tracks 01. Meaning In Tragedy
02. Confined 03. Losing Sight 04. The Darkest Nights 05. Empty Hearts 06. Reflection 07. Repeating Yesterday 08. Through Struggle 09. The Truth Of My Perception 10. Control Is Dead 11. Morning Waits 12. Illusions 01. Meaning In Tragedy Music by As I Lay Dying Lyrics by Tim Lambesis
I have traveled so far to find so little
Meaning in tragedy or tragedy In the search for meaning Dark clouds have lead me here Confined freedom Guides us to security What if everything I have been taught is a lie And all of my teachers Have been wrong this whole time Compelling us to fight The battles they would not They have already won And we have already lost If we do not learn from their mistakes We have already lost We have already lost If we do not learn to change 02. Confined Music by As I Lay Dying Lyrics by Tim Lambesis
That night that I never came home
Wandering souls captured my thoughts Emptiness filled my mind Urgency spoke her lies In the confines of these grey walls I watched them move together Taking me places I cannot remember We have been poured out Into a loveless bride How quickly I forget That this is meaningless How quickly I forget That this is meaningless In a world passing through my fingers I still chase the wind How quickly I forget That this is meaningless How quickly I forget That this is meaningless What have I learned from yesterday? What have I learned from yesterday? 03. Losing Sight Music by As I Lay Dying Lyrics by Tim Lambesis
Can...
Can we die to live another day? How could we lose sight Of what matters most? Trying to love What cannot love us back All we have is not worth living for If we do not know when to let go What is life? That we cling to it so tight Afraid that it will take from us These fading sentiments Can we die Can we die to live another day? Can we die to live another day? Can we die to live another day? What is life That we cling to it so tight? Afraid that it will take from us These fading sentiments How could we lose sight Of what matters most? Trying to love What cannot love us back All we have is not worth living for If we do not know when to let go How could we lose sight Of what matters most? Trying to love What cannot love us back All we have is not worth living for If we do not know when to let go 04. The Darkest Nights Music by As I Lay Dying Lyrics by Tim Lambesis
For so long I have felt alone
Content to live with unrest Longing faded into countless nights That buried my weary heart But you brought an end To this dead hour And meaning to a calloused life Held in your arms But too far from my heart Held in your arms But too far from my heart These thoughts will carry me Through the darkest nights While your eyes rest in These thoughts will carry me Through the darkest nights While your eyes rest in mine I remember the way you looked at me And the way you drew Drew me close With one deep sigh Scattering pieces of my My restless mind Forgetting all that we have left behind We have left behind We have left behind We have left behind These thoughts will carry me Through the darkest nights While your eyes rest in These thoughts will carry me Through the darkest nights While your eyes rest in mine 05. Empty Hearts Music by As I Lay Dying Lyrics by Tim Lambesis
I've watched them build
Upon these empty hearts I've watched them build Upon these empty hearts False hopes of lossless paradise Gathering together The dead hearts beat as one Stillborn comfort feeding lies Through answers of self denial Divided between a dissolute self And the sorrow of sincere devotion Devotion What is it that you find peace in now? Where is your hope in this dark night? What is it that you find peace in now? Where is your hope in this dark night? 06. Reflection Music by As I Lay Dying Lyrics by Tim Lambesis
I laid the night before me
Unraveled the tangles of my heart All I felt was stale hollow air These streams of uncertainty They are collapsing upon my mind Upon my mind Torrents fill my veins until I burst With mistaken guilt and shame My battered bones Try to keep fighting Against the endless ocean of self defeat As time goes on Some months are yet to pass As time goes on Some months are yet to pass As time goes on Some months are yet to pass Are yet to pass Let's go Puddles of ink Surround this tired chair All of my sorrow has been spilled Into my reflection Reflection 07. Repeating Yesterday Music by As I Lay Dying Lyrics by Tim Lambesis
This is what I am
This is what I have become Repeating yesterday Drain me of my very essence To form again what lasts This is what I am This is what I have become Repeating yesterday Drain me of my very essence This is what I am This is what I have become What is love without What is love without sacrifice My tears hold no weight If my commitment is only failure Each day I I am Repeating yesterday Each day I am born again to be A child in the eyes of love Repeating yesterday Repeating Drain me of my very essence To form again To form again what lasts To form again To form again what lasts This is what I am This is what I have become What is love without What is love without 08. Through Struggle Music by As I Lay Dying Lyrics by Tim Lambesis
Only through struggle have I found rest
With a piece of me taken away I begin to understand Hollow out this machine like chest With its gears that turn to make me feel And assembled thoughts that fade away Only through struggle have I found rest Only through struggle have I found rest Remove from me This deception that I called love That I called love With its gears that turn to make me feel And assembled thoughts that fade away Remove from me This deception that I called love That I called love Only through struggle have I found rest With a piece of me taken away I begin to understand I begin to understand I begin to understand Love 09. The Truth Of My Perception Music by As I Lay Dying Lyrics by Tim Lambesis
White shutters enclose
The boundaries of my heart I hold my breath Till the steady beating is shut out In silence I wait for what is real For I know the truth of my perceptions Nothing in life matters more More than you Matters more More than you When first feelings fade I will still be here I hold my breath Till the steady beating is shut out Beating is For I know the truth of my perceptions Nothing in life matters more More than you Matters more More than you When first feelings fade I will still be here 10. Control Is Dead Music by As I Lay Dying Lyrics by Tim Lambesis
Control is dead in this blind world
For we do what we hate Split from inside Betrayed by emotion Emotion We must look past What is in front of us Shadows are security They have become the solace Of my looking glass heart In search for certainty I no longer need control Take me through the fire Refine what is yours Take me through the fire Refine what is yours It is time to overcome this We must look past What is in front of us It is time to overcome this We must look past What is in front of us 11. Morning Waits Music by As I Lay Dying Lyrics by Tim Lambesis
All along it was me who changed
Morning now waits for me All along it was me Morning now waits Morning now waits for me What I have to gain does not matter If what I give is all to you If what I give is all to you I have seen the stars fall And the sun rise again But you are yet to change You are all that is You are all that is worth You are all that is worth living for What I have to gain does not matter If what I give is all to you If what I give is all to you All along it is was It is was me who changed 12. Illusions Music by As I Lay Dying Lyrics by Tim Lambesis
How could I ever go back...
Back to the life Where I live amongst the dead How could I go back To live amongst the dead Those who have forgotten how to feel And have become slaves to memory And wishful thinking But your love has set me free As you've awakened every star That has been sleeping In the constellation of my soul How could I go back How could I go back To live amongst the dead Amongst the dead How could I go back To live amongst the dead Those who imprisoned beauty I never want to leave your arms So I wait in hope of your embrace For your embrace I wait for your embrace I wait for your embrace Illusions of what I thought was love Illusions of what I thought was love Now I have clear sight To see I've left nothing behind |