I await and fear the unknown
I await and fear the unknown
I await and fear the unknown
I await

I await and fear the unknown
I await for you to be

Unborn a seed, a life conceived awaiting
She'll meet our world pursuing harmony
But with her gaze, will she see someone prepared?
The die is cast
Pure blood hand unto me
She'll need a hand to grasp
Can I believe?
Father, be there

Deep down I tremble, at surface smile
Will I resemble what's left behind?
Sworn to protect now who grows inside
Be now my teacher, be now my guide
Fear the unknown

Serenity deceased by clouded reason
Will damaged ways pass on to who you'll be?
Stained in my mind, "will I feel nothing?" replays
Am I a fraud?
Rejected I would be
She needs my open arms
Can I believe?
Father, be there

Deep down I tremble, at surface smile
Will I resemble what's left behind?
Sworn to protect now who grows inside
Be now my teacher, be now my guide
Fear the unknown

My flesh and blood
Pull me out of this flood
For I will be there
I will be there

Deep down I tremble, at surface smile
Will I resemble what's left behind?
Sworn to protect now who grows inside
Be now my teacher, be now my guide

I await and fear the unknown
I await
I await and fear the unknown
The unknown
I will be there in the unknown

The tie that binds those of us who hide away
A veil we forge to keep all at bay
Behind the smiles hides this creeping deadly weight
I smile again

In its wake, a walking contradiction strays
Like clockwork, our faces bellow different tales
Covers judged, silent scream, salvation fails
Inside we scream

It's what we think and what we feel
In toils of despair
That drives us to reveal
The mask we wear

Troubled sleep, wandering mind to darker place
The swarm within feeds on the late hours, embraced
Hand in hand go the guilt and what dismays
I bury again

Fed the lives of how we think our lives should be
Consume their stories to feel whole, left solitary
Unseen foe, highlighted yet thought as weak
They never see

It's what we think and what we feel
In toils of despair
That drives us to reveal
The mask we wear
The mask we wear

Snap out of it you say
But the veil will stay

It's what we think and what we feel
In toils of despair
That drives us to reveal
The mask we wear

Monolith
Monolith
Monolith
Monolith

In my dreams it wanders
Silhouette of stone in earth be stood
As it creeps beyond us
Greet the form awake minds never would

Dark
Nameless and old
Void
Sinister and cold

Monolith
Release me from your hold
Its lurking goes untold
Monolith
Infecting day and night
It never leaves my sight

Praying for awakening
Lowered eyes devour perseverance
Spilling tales of anguish
Dismissing the weight of fear-filled words

Same sleep of torment
Crow falls to its death at evil's side
Paralysed to see thee
Monolith appear night after night

Dark
Nameless and old
Void
Sinister and cold

Monolith
Release me from your hold
Its lurking goes untold
Monolith
Infecting day and night
It never leaves my sight

Monolith
Monolith
Monolith
Monolith

It never leaves my sight

Once more a longer day
I recall the void remains
A void that forever stays
They say that time heals well
But a wound fixed open dwells
A wound that forever tells

Now the sorrow takes me
Will tomorrow save me
From the day burned in my mind?
How can I journey on when no road lies ahead?
How can I carry on when mortal coils shed?

In dreams return again
Rekindling of hope, my friend
But reality rears its head
Wish for the chance to say
Goodbye before away
Away before better days

Now the sorrow takes me
Will tomorrow save me
From the day burned in my mind?
How can I journey on when no road lies ahead?
How can I carry on when mortal coils shed?

All I see is your face beckoning
Face of old who we lost reveling
All I feel is the pain, harrowing
That day burned in mind
Take me back to the time you were here
Days of old we could all disappear
Tell me why you had to leave
When mortal coils shed

How can I journey on when no road lies ahead?
How can I carry on
When mortal coils shed?

When the sorrow takes me
Will tomorrow save me?
Darkened hold, restrain me
Will tomorrow save me
From the day burned in my mind?
That day burned in my mind

Wait while I tap a vein
A pint of my blood
Deal out the perfect poison
Victim return, back where you've stood
Sip it, taste it
Let it occupy and blind
Consuming of the fumes
You are mine

Confess to me a sin
Impress me with a lie
Exchange your world for the vice you tread
I'm grinning through sleepless eyes

Witch of the blood-letting
Forcing out your tears
Spitting out your tales of woe
On my weakened, deafened ears
The hour of bliss approaches
The night of the living dead
Empty-eyed staring
Make a fool then lay down your head

Confess to me a sin
Impress me with a lie
Exchange your world for a vice you tread
I'm grinning through sleepless eyes
Sleepless eyes
Sleepless eyes

Boarding up my kingdom
Leave all this behind
Spine stretched
Crawl back to the grind
Dusk walking
Into ashes of my home

Broken and silenced
Abandoned and cold
Commencing of the cleansing
The stealing of myself
Save a life, twist the knife
An enemy of my health

Confess to me a sin
Impress me with a lie
Exchange your world for a vice you tread
I'm grinning through sleepless eyes

End of the line now your true colours have been revealed
I always knew those shades were underneath and concealed
All it took for you was to accept responsibility
Where's your dignity?

Never being there for those who need you to be around
Always promising the world but you're nowhere to be found
Neglecting all the souls you swear you'd never let down
Remove your crown

Out of sight
Out of mind
Out of sight
Out of mind
Out of sight
Out of mind

Only thinking of yourself, selfishness a breeze
You're a coward, wasted hours on your hollow schemes
A delusion grasping through the years

Hold your tongue, all it spouts is an excuse, frustrate
In good time your name will not be known to them, they won't relate
Disappointment is all you're able to create
Too little too late

Out of sight
Out of mind

Out of sight
Out of mind

Out of sight
Out of mind
Out of sight
Out of mind
Out of sight
Out of mind

Inside of me, will always be
The urge to not be seen
Hiding the face I can't embrace
Crowding my world with falsity
Distorting portraits with ease
Warped entity, identity
Is what they see what I believe?
Or am I lying to myself
Filling my head with disease?

I fall apart
At mirror's speech
Speak not of my demons
Skin, bone, and teeth

Dysmorphia lingers enthroned
Forever clutching flaws I carved unto the stone
Fallacious frame always to blame
True image evades, portray me not
Reading the room for defamation, fear of plot
I catch a face, credence erased
Is what they see what I believe?
Or am I lying to myself
Filling my head with disease?

I fall apart
At mirror's speech
Speak not of my demons
Skin, bone, and teeth
Seams torn apart
At mirror's speech
Speak to me of reasons
To seek to look at me

All my life
Always longing for
Unaltered echoes in the glass
Peace of mind
In pieces on the floor
Shards tell of the same old past
Eisoptrophobia

I fall apart
At mirror's speech
Speak not of my demons
Skin, bone, and teeth
Seams torn apart
At mirror's speech
Speak to me of reasons
To seek to look at me

Do you see what I see?
Spouting hypocrisy
Your voice, your rules, they contradict your words
My mind, confused, to this you always return

Trapped in corrosive views
Ignoring the lies you choose
Preaching avoidance flows
While traveling banished roads

Reap what you sow
Reap what you sow
Conviction crumbling
Through life you're stumbling
Imposed beliefs and your toxicity
Denial to the news of your complicity
Trapped in corrosive views
Ignoring the lies you choose
Preaching avoidance flows
While traveling banished roads
It's time to reap

Reap what you sow
Reap what you sow

Trapped in corrosive views
Ignoring the lies you choose
Preaching avoidance flows
While traveling banished roads

Reap what you sow
Reap what you sow
Reap what you sow

Old soul enters house of mental demise
Splitting from the young soul with whom they're defined
Paranoia, fear of pain, theft of what they adore
Becoming before

No control over body or emotions, helpless
They see the dead roam before us speaking comfort, depress
Bygone memories, names on tip of the tongue
Reverting to young

Day by day chapters wilt to dust
Play along with their tales, entrust
Unseen

Out of nowhere, life grinds to a halt
Gone are the days of new memories
Who will care for the deluded ones?
Living conclusion, condemned
The beginning of the end

Communication breaks down, mania running wild
Hysteria through cries from the mind of a child
Living death lingers in the halls
Familiar face never calls

Fleeting glimpse of what's left of the person we seek
Grief spills from the window of the soul to the cheek
Hallucinations, newborn cradled tight but a doll
Final night in these walls

Day by day chapters wilt to dust
Play along with their tales, entrust
Unseen

Out of nowhere, life grinds to a halt
Gone are the days of new memories
Who will care for the deluded ones?
Living conclusion, condemned
The beginning of the end

The path I have chosen
Pursuing a light out of reach
Responsibilities frozen
Empty words I have preached

Illusions I preserve
To continue in this world
Set the stage to speak the page
But the thorn in my side turns

Strive to be
Even through adversity
Obstacles I have to climb
Searching for the balance of time

Guilt when I'm away
Guilt when I'm home
What's desired, unreal
The life of those who roam
Dedication, sacrifice
It's all taking its toll
It's not what it used to be
Have to justify this road

Strive to be
Even through adversity
Obstacles I have to climb
Searching for the balance of time

Balance of time
I'm losing my mind
Unable to breathe
The world I cannot leave

Balance of time

Strive to be
Even through adversity
Obstacles I have to climb
Searching for the balance of time