Don't look back
Or blame it on your guiding hands
As you feel the rising wind on your face
Telling stories
Of what could have been

In which no comfort is to be found
But doubt and despair
This dead-end road
Has become your home

No healing your ailing heart
Only footsteps on rainy streets
You cannot let go of these strains
As they've made you who you are

As they've made us who we are

We are gathering regrets day by day
We're growing weaker by the minute
The downpour drenching us to the bone
Giving us our share of loneliness

Am I atoning for my mistakes?
Or was it a twist of fate?
My trust has long become resentment
You see my face beset by pain

The aching written into
My skin in furrows
The aching written into
Our skin in furrows

You turn away your head
In silent reconciliation
Unable to fathom this burden of grief
While I ponder if it's worth to go on
Walking past doors long closed

We are gathering regrets day by day
We're growing weaker by the minute
The downpour drenching us to the bone
Giving us our share of loneliness

Hence our paths
Have crossed and shall now diverge again
We are one in the same in this plight struck world
Crestfallen and deprived of hope we wander
Into a darker tomorrow
Will there be a silver lining?

We are gathering regrets day by day
We're growing weaker by the minute
The downpour drenching us to the bone
Giving us our share of loneliness

The Earth is trembling beneath my feet
The remainder of all organic life
Is a putrid, pulsating mess
Meeting its own end

The All-Mother's eyes are weeping
Quivering as she pines away in regret
The Earth is trembling
Beneath my feet

Time has come to undo this mortal coil
So I lie down and become one with the soil

Bear witness to this last
Great transmigration
For we will soon all vanish
Into eternity
This is final

Gaia arise

Life itself is destined to fail
Self-awareness, a curse by design
Mind and soul entwined by a frail body bound
Trapped in rejection of one another

So every last glimpse of light starts to fade now
The repulsion is released to cease at last
And to the dust we came from
We will return

Bear witness to this last
Great transmigration
For we will soon all vanish
Into eternity
This is final

Embrace the collapse
Embrace the collapse

Gaia demise

In times of silent prosperity
Doubt may grow the most

As the intrepid soul
Challenges the constancy
Tip the balance
And it may shatter the equilibrium
Towering above
These industrial landscapes

A lifetime of impressions
All to be lost in indifference
I beheld the flare stacks with
Their flaming heads

For the world will not find its end
In an instantaneous flash
But with whimpering decay
It will have to suffice
And so do I

The gallows frame
Edged against the grim sky
In a continuous display
Of monotony
Numb me, alienate me, leave me
In spatial disarray

This alienation
Causes disorientation
So as you hear my voice
For the last time
You shall always remember
That I once lived here

Where the sun
Shines through the smoky alleys
Upon only those
Who pierce the state of trust
When its foundation's very fabric
Is eroded rapidly

The gallows frame
Edged against the grim sky
In a continuous display
Of monotony
Numb me, alienate me, leave me
In spatial disarray

Leave me
At the wayside
Down here in the gutter
So leave me
Out here in the cold
Face down in the dirt

Leave me
At the wayside
Down here in the gutter
So leave me
Out here in the cold
Face down in the dirt

Yeah

Leave me
At the wayside
Down here in the gutter
So leave me
Out here in the cold
Face down in the dirt

Leave me
At the wayside
Down here in the gutter
So leave me
Out here in the cold
Face down in the dirt

Make no mistake
This is just a desire for unity
Born of loss
For an antithesis
To the fragmentation of character
By modern life
This is nothing more
But a limitless need
Which has to be provided for

We're holistic by design
This everlasting unrest
Built into our marrow
There will not be resurgence of empathy
Only illusions of solidarity

A mere dire set of values
Set outside our egotistic view
Centered onto our finitude of life
Out of an inert anxiety

Without an iota of meaning
We're forging bonds that do not belong
Within the margin of error
Inherent to all of man

So I see compassion die
In the eyes of those around me
As insanity turns to reason
And reason turns to fear

It all comes to a close
As we relinquish all of our values
Leaving us in isolation
Craving to break out
Immolating our idle souls
Hence were keeping ourselves company
With acts of moral affectation

Atomistic by design
We do not relate to others
All are suffering from an anomie of emotion
Soon to peak in divergence

Mutual benefit driving us to compromise
Only feigning our interest
We're trying to keep in touch
By hypocrisy, failing miserably

Without an iota of meaning
We're forging bonds that do not belong
Within the margin of error
Inherent to all of man

So I see compassion die
In the eyes of those around me
As insanity turns to reason
And reason turns to fear

And so we're trying to patch up
What little is left of integrity
Yet again failing so miserably

Without an iota of meaning
We're forging bonds that do not belong
Within the margin of error
Inherent to all of man

So I see compassion die
In the eyes of those around us
As insanity turns to reason
And reason turns to fear

To be alive is to be awake
And I've barely opened my eyes
Now torn from existence at the yore of my day
So many stories left to tell

I erupted into life against all odds
Yet the thirst for it I could not quench
My desires, they brought me out here
To do nothing more but to witness the end

So scatter my ashes
Across the wildest of oceans
For I was to see it all
Having been born with zero temperance

No, I did not let myself be forced into submission
Always with hungry heart and open mind
But I would do it yet again
Yeah, and go out with a grin on my face

My friends carry me to the pyre
This bonfire lit only for me
I have come to terms with the world
To be able to see the curtains fall

Celebrate the infinite passion
By which this fate was set in motion
Once kindled by discontent
And my feet start moving on their own

So scatter my ashes
Throughout the lushest of forests
For I was to see it all
Having been born with zero temperance

So scatter my ashes
Atop the highest of mountains
For I was to see it all
Having been born with zero temperance

Of what magnitude
Is this complexion of life?
Lying awake
At the mercy of our
Train of thought
So we cover up our vices
And in a lack for grit
Try to outlive this weakness

Take these words
And make sense of them if you will
'Cause I am just too tired
To care any longer
Yet I can feel
That there is just no end to this
In the circle of self-deception

As we spend our waking years
With a restless search
For a higher meaning
I defy
For I can't take all these empty words
And empty gestures anymore

What fortitude
Is there to be found in giving up?
Nothing leads us
To a change in scope
There is no change of motivation
And so we anxiously
Welcome our demise

As we spend our waking years
With a restless search
For a higher meaning
I defy
For I can't take all these empty words
And empty gestures anymore

No, but I will not be
Subject to these desires
For there cannot be
Only darker times ahead

As we spend our waking years
With a restless search
For a higher meaning
I defy
For I can't take all these empty words
And empty gestures anymore

Hence we realize life has ran
Past our aspirations
Still fostering our fear of loss
Still fostering all of our dreams

So in the scarlet of morning skies
In the shimmering of the pond's ice
And in the puddles on the sunken road
We wait for someone truthful to despise

Something wild opened its eyes
So in the trunks of trees
In the shadows of the leaves
And in the bottom of the well
In the twilight of the eves
Something evanescent began to breathe

We keep perdition at bay
For it forces our hand in anger
Whispering death
(Whispering death)
To all living things

So in the murmur of the river
In the coming of each cold shiver
And with the fall of a single drop of rain
We wait for someone who shall our spirit deliver
Only to see it wither

So at the foot of greenish hill
In the hollows of the abandoned mill
And in the gust over wavy grass
In each stroke of the quill
I begin to find my vivacious will

We keep perdition at bay
For it forces our hand in anger
Whispering death
(Whispering death)
To all living things

Experience the throes of passion
As he is the adversary
Who seeks virtue in determination
Henceforth I serve thee no more
Soon to depart from this life
Whispering death
To all living things

Snow falling on shore pines
The world all covered in white
So peaceful, so serene
The foothills are lying right before me

Frozen breath burning on my cheeks
While I behold
The wintry landscape
Stretching out as far as the eye can see

All the sounds are muted
Only a crane's call drawing near
Inhaling forts of frosty air
Footprints are all I leave behind

Standing alone
Against the elements
Under the dancing lights
This flight shall teach me
My place in the universe
For in awe and wonder
We all must thrive
We all must thrive

Survival, a matter of instinct
Every movement now essential
To challenge the dreadful cold
In these parts

Bewilderment within me starts to arise
I can feel the numbness
Creeping into my fingers
The freezing grip of winter tightens
Still striding upward
Clouds are all I leave below
I tread past blue ponds and steaming rivers
The mountain will wait for me
The mountain will wait for me

Standing alone
Against the elements
Under the dancing lights
This flight shall teach me
My place in the universe
For in awe and wonder
We all must thrive
We all must thrive

Sinking deeper
The strength leaves my limbs
So I lay myself down to rest
At what seems like the top of the world
To watch the moon
Set upon the farthest reach

In the beginning
There was a simple deed to be done
To expand
This narrow idea of a world
My past self
Now nothing but a memory
Looking ahead
I see a face gleaming in content

During a brief moment
Suspended in white light
In my mortal fear I created
This shadow my likeness
Fueling me, haunting me
Propelling me forward

And so I shaped a goal
To achieve in a single stroke of a brush
Painting a complete
Picture of my future
This specter now and then following me
Trailing me behind

I'm chasing a mirage
Glimmering in the distance
Thinking about all the intersections crossed
All those that are yet to come

I detrude myself yet another time
Only to take the next step
Did I take a wrong turn?
Do I fall short in the end?

But did I take a wrong turn?
Do I fall short in the end?

During a brief moment
Suspended in white light
In my mortal fear I created
This shadow my likeness
Fueling me, haunting me
Propelling me forward

Driving me to desperate measures
My likeness won't let me rest
The shadow again
Is closing in on me

The momentum shifts
In favor of greater meaning
Something genuine forms
Into the purpose I need to live

During a brief moment
Suspended in white light
In my mortal fear I created
This shadow my likeness
Fueling me, haunting me
Propelling me forward

"In the beginning
There was a simple deed to be done
To expand
This narrow idea of a world
So in a brief moment
Suspended in white light
In my mortal fear
I created this shadow my likeness
Fueling me, haunting me
Propelling me forward
So something genuine formed
Into the purpose I need to live"