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Arkaea - Years In The Darkness lyrics



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01. Locust

This Is your life
Worthless Denial across your face,
control feeble minds then destroy our race.
Helpless die for you in vain,
devour all our pride lead us to disgrace.

Wake up nation,
see the reason,
why we've become,
hates own victim.

If the answer is so clear then why are we so blind?
Escape from ourselves and leave it all behind.

Thoughtless trust into the lies,
resent what your told see the truth inside
senseless accusations rise
divide ourselves from what they call divine
This is your life
Don't be so blind
This is your life
Don't be so blind
wake up nation, see the reason, why we've become, hates own victim.

If the answer is so clear
Then why are we so blind?
Escape from ourselves and leave it all behind. [x2]

Take a look at what you believe in.
Take a chance and follow my reason
now we all unite in unison
I can't be stopped

If the answer is so clear
Then why are we so blind?
Escape from ourselves and leave it all behind. [x2]

Escape from ourselves, and leave it all behind. [x4]

02. Beneath The Shades Of Grey

Blood runs down my face as I hold back the tears,
tell me what the fuck am I doing here.
Denial sets in my mind as you choke.

Face down in the ashes of all my own fears,
felt enough pain for a thousand years,
unable to set myself free to save you.

Lost inside this world without you,
lost in this world,
lost inside this world without you.

As I'm calling out your name you slowly disappear.
It's never quite the same beneath the shades of grey.

Burning flesh awakens me now from this dream,
what I have dread became reality,
defiled and broke I begin to recall.

Trapped beneath the wreckage encaged in the steel,
with your only breath you reach out to me,
your eyes have given me more than you know.

Lost inside this world without you,
lost in this world,
lost inside this world without you.

As I'm calling out your name you slowly disappear.
It's never quite the same beneath the shades of grey.

I never thought,
this world could tear us both apart.
And now my heart's beneath the ground where you now lay.

I never knew you,
and all we needed was time.
I never knew you.

I never thought,
this world could tear us both apart.
And now my heart's beneath the ground where you now lay.

As I'm calling out your name you slowly disappear.
It's never quite the same beneath the shades of grey.

Beneath the shades of grey. [x4]

03. Years In the Darkness

A fallen angel wraps her wings around you,
you turn your back and ignore.
When karma returns to shatter your surroundings,
maybe you'll feel some remorse.

The silence and years and years in the darkness,
only deter you from the truth.
Vengeance dissolves in your weakness,
I'm here to show that you can choose.

Another victim cries upon your shoulder,
you laugh and turn them away.
The only reason I hold my tongue around you,
is that you'll regret this day.

The silence and years and years in the darkness,
only deter you from the truth.
Vengeance dissolves in your weakness,
I'm here to show that you can choose.

The silence and years and years in the darkness,
only for a chance at a new life.
Vengeance dissolves in your weakness,
only for a chance at another life.

Drown in regret take the fall,
burn the pictures engulf them all.
This life will carry on without you,
your path is chosen now its time to lose.

The silence and years and years in the darkness,
only deter you from the truth.
Vengeance dissolves in your weakness,
I'm here to show that you can choose.

The silence and years and years in the darkness,
only for a chance at a new life.
Vengeance dissolves in your weakness,
only for a chance at another life.

04. Gone Tomorrow

If only I could turn back time
I'd save you from this life that I call my own
It's forcing me to lose my control

I wanted you to know we won't see tomorrow
By the time you read this I'll be gone
To a place I know, far away from here
Live your life like I was never there

And if the answers are so clear
Why do I live in fear
Of the truth inside me
Forcing down my every weakness

I wanted you to know we won't see tomorrow
By the time you read this I'll be gone
To a place I know, far away from here
Live your life like I was never?
Like I was never there

Lies have torn our worlds so far apart
I'm drifting further from the start
Our lives will never be the same

I wanted you to know we won't see tomorrow
I wanted you to know we won't see tomorrow
By the time you read this I'll be gone
To a place I know, far away from here
Live your life like I was never there

I never wanted us to fall apart and end this way
But the world we live in tears apart the only thing we have

I wanted you to know we won't see tomorrow
(The only thing we have)
By the time you read this I'll be gone
To a place I know, far away from here
(The only thing we have)
Live your life like I was never there

05. Awakening

Dispose of the ashes that were left behind.
Awaken to a world where choice is to decide.
I'm falling through the ground where feeble minded lay.
Deception of the mind confused by what they say.

I will not revise (will not revise),
I will not confine (will not confine),
I am not the lie (am not the lie).
Rise above and take them with us.

Implant the new virus in those who will infect.
Denial shining through it's this you must neglect.
Divide from all the rest and choose what life to lead.
A damaged life reborn now its time to see.

I will not revise (will not revise),
I will not confine (will not confine),
I am not the lie (am not the lie).
Rise above and take them with us.

As the world falls down you will come with us.
We must all learn how to wake up and change this now.
As the world falls down you will come with us.
We must all learn how to wake up and change this now.

Entrust the hourglass and see what lies ahead.
We breed for the machine and serve until we're dead.
Apologize for what lives that have been taken.
Another paradox soon we will awaken.

I will not revise (will not revise),
I will not confine (will not confine),
I am not the lie (am not the lie).
Rise above and take them with us.

As the world falls down you will come with us.
We must all learn how to wake up and change this now.
As the world falls down you will come with us.
We must all learn how to wake up and change this now.

As the world falls down you will come with us.
We must all learn how to wake up and change this now.
As the world falls down you will come with us.
We must all learn how to wake up and change this now.

06. Black Ocean

Take control of all your fear,
don't let somebody else decide the way you should live your own life.
Sometimes we can be fooled,
sometimes we can be lured into a choice that we will all regret.
That we regret.

We'll never be the same again,
we're lost among our fear.
When there is nothing left to say,
we'll die another day.

Break away from all the hate,
I won't become your slave,
find someone else to dig you your own grave.
There's never time to waste,
there's always time to make a choice that we all know we'll not regret.
That we regret.

We'll never be the same again,
we're lost among our fear.
When there is nothing left to say,
we'll die another day.

We can't be confined inside a world like this.
We can't justify living our lives like this.
See this world face our demise.
See this world fall in our time.

We'll never be the same again,
we're lost among our fear.
When there is nothing left to say,
we'll die another day.

We'll never be the same again,
we're lost among our fear.
When there is nothing left to say,
we'll die another day.

07. Break The Silence

Born into a world of hatred and disease,
a new life create to breed for the machine.
Sacrifice yourself to gratify the urge,
realize we're just a number here to serve.

I'm reaching deeper, to find another way,
a search for purpose, for existence.

I see your eyes staring out at me,
I see your eyes lifeless just like me.

Visualize our future coming to an end,
paralyzed by what I've chosen to defend.
Cut the ties resent the life I've come to lead,
now it's time to break the silence over me.

I'm reaching deeper, to find another way,
a search for purpose, for existence.

I see your eyes staring out at me,
I see your eyes lifeless just like me.

Find truth inside you.
Take control of this hate burning inside.
Break the silence.

I see your eyes staring out at me,
I see your eyes lifeless just like me.

I see your eyes staring out at me,
I see your eyes lifeless just like me.

I break the silence,
realize what I've become.
I bleed forever regretting what I've done.

I break the silence,
realize what I've become.
I bleed forever regretting what I've done.

I see your eyes staring out at me,
I see your eyes lifeless just like me.

08. Lucid Dream

I can't explain why my whole world is feeling so far away.
My reflection, it seems so fake, when will the night seperate this day?

I can't ignore the place I live.
It feels so wrong.
They try to deceive us.
Wake up from this lucid dream.

I close my eyes but can't escape this feeling I have inside.
I walk alone dissecting life, wake up to discover a brand new lie.

I can't ignore the place I live.
It feels so wrong,
why can't I win?
We must be strong,
it tries to deceive us.
Wake up from this lucid dream.

We can't ignore the truth inside.
Staring back at me for a reason,
why do lies continue to come my way?
Force-fed the answers to trust in,
forget that believe in another life.

I can't ignore the place I live.
It feels so wrong,
why can't I win?
We must be strong,
it tries to deceive us.
Wake up from this lucid dream.

I can't ignore the place I live.
It feels so wrong,
why can't I win?
We must be strong,
it tries to deceive us.
Wake up from this lucid dream.

09. My Redemption

I'm searching deeper inside,
inside myself until I,
can find a place to rest my head.
If I surround myself with your negative self-respect,
I'll never get the chance to live.

Time for change,
deceptions killing me,
break the chains,
my redemption.

Take this life create another I choose to be what I admire,
this skin is growing old, is growing old.
Lack of pride and self destruction I push aside and feed production,
this truth that will be told, that will be told.

I'm breaking through this weakness that lies behind my secret, to find the
truth inside my head.
If I divide myself from this fear that's holding me down, I'd finally get the
chance to live.

Time for change,
deceptions killing me,
break the chains,
my redemption.

Take this life create another I choose to be what I admire,
this skin is growing old, is growing old.
Lack of pride and self destruction I push aside and feed production,
this truth that will be told, that will be told.

Take this life you lead far away from me I will not be controlled.

Take this life create another I choose to be what I admire,
this skin is growing old, is growing old.
Lack of pride and self destruction I push aside and feed production,
this truth that will be told, that will be told.

Choose your fate, reach for salvation.
Choose your fate, reach for salvation.
My redemption!

10. War Within

Never thought it'd be this way,
all your intentions were here to stay.
Never thought it'd end like this,
my desolation is far from bliss.

So far away but I can still remember everything we had.
If I could change this life I'd give it all up just to have this back.

Never waste the time we have,
we must remember where we belong.
Never turn your back on this,
our absolution must now exist.

So far away but I can still remember everything we had.
If I could change this life I'd give it all up just to have this back.
Just to have this back.

Death will find us all (death will find us all),
it doesn't matter who you are (no matter who you are).
And when the time has come (when your time has come),
you'll remember what you've lost (remember what you've lost).

We must live and learn.
Take back this war within me,
take back this world around me.

Death will find us all (death will find us all),
it doesn't matter who you are (no matter who you are).
And when the time has come (when your time has come),
you'll remember what you've lost (remember what you've lost).

So far away but I can still remember everything we had.
If I could change this life I'd give it all up just to have this back.

So far away, so far away but I can still remember everything we had.
So far away, so far away but I can still remember everything we had.

11. The World As One

As we speak another life is laid to waste,
another victim of disgrace,
is taken by the human race.

We are the ones holding the gun.
We are lost helping the cause.

If we stand alone,
then our world is lost.
If we join as one,
we can't be stopped.
We can't be stopped.
The world as

One man can't decide the fate of our demise,
decide who lives and who will die,
decide the fate of all mankind.

We are the ones holding the gun.
We are lost helping the cause.

If we stand alone,
then our world is lost.
If we join as one,
we can't be stopped.

Take your last breath as you look to the sky,
life as we know it will crumble now say goodbye.
Say goodbye.

Take your last breath as you look to the sky,
life as we know it will crumble now say goodbye.
If our ways don't change this world can't prevail,
man must become one together we will not fail.

If we stand alone,
then our world is lost.
If we join as one,
we can't be stopped.

If we stand alone (if we stand alone),
then our world is lost (then our world is lost).
If we join as one (if we join as one),
we can't be stopped.
We can't be stopped.
The world as one.

12. Rise Today

Another promise taken from under me,
this broken trust decays what we used to be.
Why defend lies when you're clearly the only one to blame?

I'm not this way.
Don't tell me who I have to be.
I can't be changed.
Take back what life I used to lead.

Now I see it's gone too far,
a traitor from the start.
Take your lies and hold them in your heart.

I've got something to say,
I will rise today,
now it's time to take this life back.
I've got something to prove,
I will cut the noose,
now it's time to take this life back.

Another reason thrown in my face again,
you're breaking every bond that we used to have.
Why trust in lies and pretend you're something that you're not?

I'm not this way.
Don't tell me who I have to be.
I can't be changed.
Take back what life I used to lead.

Now I see it's gone too far,
a traitor from the start.
Take your lies and hold them in your heart.

I've got something to say,
I will rise today,
now it's time to take this life back.
I've got something to prove,
I will cut the noose,
now it's time to take this life back.

I will break away. [x4]

You will never touch me.
You will never change me.
You will never stop me.
You will never kill me.

Now I see it's gone too far,
a traitor from the start.
Take your lies and hold them in your heart.

I've got something to say,
I will rise today,
now it's time to take this life back.
I've got something to prove,
I will cut the noose,
now it's time to take this life back.

I've got something to say,
I will rise today,
now it's time to take this life back.
I've got something to prove,
I will cut the noose,
now it's time to take this life back.

Take this life back.
You're all dead to me.

13. Away From The Sun

I've fallen away from the sun,
so far away from everyone.

Why must we fight to all survive?
Why must we cry to feel alive?

I've fallen away from the world,
so far away I cant be cured.

Why must we fight to all survive?
Why must we cry to feel alive?
Why must we fight to all survive?
Why must we cry to feel alive?