Shaped By Fire (2019)

• Burn To Emerge
• Blinded
• Shaped By Fire
• Undertow
• Torn Between
• Gatekeeper
• The Wreckage
• My Own Grave
• Take What's Left
• Redefined
• Only After We've Fallen
• The Toll It Takes
• Re-Separation (Instrumental)
• Roots Below (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
• Destruction Or Strength (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
• My Own Grave (Re-interpretation) (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
• Redefined (Re-interpretation) (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track) 

Burn To Emerge lyrics - As I Lay Dying

Will I ever escape?

Can we ever change?

Will I ever escape?

Can we ever change?

Will I ever escape?

Can we ever change?

Blinded lyrics - As I Lay Dying

Have you ever been blinded by the pain?

Blinded, blinded by the pain

Unwilling to see, senseless

So blinded by selfishness

Only focusing on myself

And ignoring anyone else

Becoming driven by despair

Feeling trapped into a corner

Losing more and more of reality

Perceiving all the hurt only one-sidedly

Have you ever been blinded by the pain?

Losing yourself inside the heartache

Losing yourself

Feeling too powerless to change

Stuck and unable to escape

Incapable to see another way

I need someone to shake me... to wake me

I don't even need full clarity

Just to start the shift from blind to blurry

Have you ever been blinded by the pain?

Losing yourself inside the heartache

And does that mean we cannot change?

Or will we always be seen that way?

Will we always be seen that way?

And does that really mean we have not changed?

Or does it only mean

The truth is not in how we're seen?

But in the actions that we're now determined to take

Revealing the new path we chose to mend the heartache

Was it a pattern or a disastrous mistake?

Is the truth in what you see or what I say?

Have you ever been blinded by the pain?

Losing yourself inside the heartache

And does that mean we cannot change?

Or will we always be seen that way?

Be seen that way

Blinded by the...

Blinded by the pain

And does that really mean we have not changed?

Shaped By Fire lyrics - As I Lay Dying

The wise before me chose to refine themselves

Melt away their shortcomings by enduring trials

A process we will all undertake

Even if we try to prevent change

Face it before you are pulled in

Face it while it's still within

Like iron shaped by fire

We aren't born this way

Shaped by fire

We are reborn through pain

We aren't born

We aren't born this way

We are reborn

We are reborn through pain

Though I too have endured fire

I wasn't wise enough to ignite the flame myself

But carried enough fuel for a flicker to excel

Face it before you are pulled in

Face it while it's still within

Face it before you are pulled in

Face it while it's still within

Shaped by fire

We aren't born this way

Shaped by fire

We are reborn through pain

We aren't born

We aren't born this way

We shall reborn through pain

Shaped by fire

We aren't born this way

Shaped by fire

We are reborn through pain

Through pain

We shall reborn

We all reborn through pain

The time has come

To watch the fire grow

Find new things to throw in

Don't let the flames get low

I've grown used to the heat

That makes me reevaluate

What I carry with me

And what should be thrown away

Face it before you are pulled in

Face it while it's still within

Like iron shaped by fire

We aren't born this way

Shaped by fire

We are reborn through pain

We aren't born

We aren't born this way

We are reborn through pain

Shaped by fire

We aren't born this way

Shaped by fire

We are reborn through pain

We shall reborn

We all reborn through pain

Undertow lyrics - As I Lay Dying

The life that I sought was

Already like a jail

Long before I was ever bound

Wrapped up in chains

No one had built the bonds

Use to hold me captive

I had locked away myself

In a captain-less ship

Destined to destroy ashore

Destruction was my savior

Crushing, collapse, crashing

From the impact

I can't escape the undertow that's pulling me

But I keep fighting to get away

The undertow that's pulling me, pulling me

My control disappeared

'Cause it was never real

Aboard a ship with nowhere to go

Guided by lifelessness

A skeleton without a soul

Crushing

Collapse looming ahead

Crashing is imminent

From the impact

I can't escape the undertow that's pulling me

But I keep fighting to get away

The undertow that's pulling me, pulling me

I can't escape the undertow that's pulling me, pulling me

Though I found freedom when

I stopped fighting everyone else

And loosened up the anchor

That I had tied around myself

I let go of the chains! Chains!

Just let go of the chains!

I let go of the chains used to hold me in

My addictions!

Killing me from within

I can't escape the undertow that's pulling me

But I keep fighting to get away

The undertow that's pulling me, pulling me

I can't escape the undertow that's pulling me

But I keep fighting to get away

The undertow that's pulling me, pulling me

I can't escape the undertow that's pulling me

But I keep fighting to get away

The undertow that's pulling me, pulling me

Just let go of the chains! Chains!

I let go of the chains used to hold me in my addiction

Torn Between lyrics - As I Lay Dying

Pulled both ways but still suspended

The worst of each, reduced and blended

Still suspended

Suspended!

I thought I was stuck between two worlds

Because I was not willing to let go!

Recklessly pulled both ways

But somehow still suspended

The worst of each (the worst of each)

Reduced and blended (reduced and blended)

But as life unfolded I realized

The momentum to drift from side to side

Came from within, came from inside!

I feel torn between two hearts dying but

I'll trade them in for one (I'll trade them in for one)

Broken and exposed, collapsing

So why would I hold on? (So why would I hold on?)

One heart turned black (burned black)

The other blue and bruised

Arms breaking, arms breaking from the dreams

Dreams shattered, the dreams that I can't reach

There has to be, there has to be a choice I have not seen

I feel torn between two hearts dying but

I'll trade them in for one (I'll trade them in for one)

Broken and exposed, collapsing

So why would I hold on? (So why would I hold on?)

I feel torn between two hearts dying but

I'll trade them in for one (I'll trade them in for one)

One darkened over time burning away the shame

Erasing hidden insights I did not want to be seen

The other was beaten from being exposed

So it hurt less to never hold it close

I feel torn between two hearts dying but

I'll trade them in for one (I'll trade them in for one)

Broken and exposed, collapsing

So why would I hold on? (So why would I hold on?)

I feel torn between two hearts dying but

I'll trade them in for one (So why would I hold on?)

I'll trade them in for one!

Neither heart had the power to fill my veins

Or be the source of who I want to be

(Pulled both ways but still suspended...)

Gatekeeper lyrics - As I Lay Dying

You've lost touch!

You've lost touch with the outcasts

Have you forgotten your own past?

Have you forgotten that your house is made of glass? (Is made of glass?)

So while you're pointing your fingers

You are unable to use your hands to help with solving, solving real and present problems

'Cause we're appealing and you've become too perfect to understand

You're a gatekeeper

Blocking the entrance to nowhere

You're a gatekeeper

Trying to keep others in despair

Keep others in despair

I don't want you to get dirty reaching down to a lowly creature

I don't want you to show mercy and make me like you, self-righteous preacher

Did you think you were the only one

The only one who held the keys?

Did you hope that your judgement would

Spread just like a disease?

You're a gatekeeper

Blocking the entrance to nowhere

You're a gatekeeper

Trying to keep others in despair

The self importance of the moral elite

To think that their approval means anything

So eager to capitalize

Capitalize on other people's pain

But when the healing begins

So quick to turn away

Have you forgotten?

Have you forgotten your own past?

You're a gatekeeper

Blocking the entrance to nowhere

You're a gatekeeper

Keeping others in despair

The Wreckage lyrics - As I Lay Dying

(The wreckage seemed too great for me

I saw my dreams collapsing)

Collapsing!

But through debris of tragedy

Not one of us died fighting

The wreckage!

We somehow found a way through storming weather

Enduring skies turned gray when we all said never

The winds, the rain

Downpour needed to cultivate

We don't get to choose when it rains

We can fight or just get washed away

Will we be transformed or feel like we're drowning?

Drowning!

The wreckage!

So use the storms ahead to flood out shortcomings

And then use what is left to water what is worth planting

The winds, the rain

Downpour needed to cultivate

Debris, tragedy

But not one of us died...

But not one of us died fighting

We don't get to choose when it rains

We can fight or just get washed away

Will we be transformed or feel like we're drowning?

Will we fight or just get washed away?

And now the mountains that we face

Are starting to look more like hills

We rose to a higher plain so the whole horizon fell

It fell, the whole horizon fell

Through the debris of tragedy

Not one of us died fighting

Fighting!

We don't get to choose when it rains

We can fight or just get washed away (away)

Will we be transformed or feel like we're drowning? (drowning)

We don't get to choose when it rains

We can fight or just get washed away (away)

Will we be transformed or feel like we're drowning? (feel like we're drowning)

The wreckage that once seemed insurmountable to me

Is now becoming a part of rebuilding

We somehow found a way through storming weather

Enduring skies turned gray when we all said never

So use the storms ahead to flood out shortcomings

And then use what is left to water what is worth planting

Deep roots that refuse...

Deep roots that refuse...

Deep roots that refuse...

Deep roots that refuse to break

Deep roots that refuse...

Deep roots that refuse to break

Deep roots that refuse to break...

My Own Grave lyrics - As I Lay Dying

The lies, the weight, deceit, decay

The lies, the weight

It's clear I lost my way

Deceit, decay

Decomposing

I thought I was an architect but I was just moving dirt

Stacking mud over malice covered-up forming nothing but a pile of hurt

I hadn’t been building (building)

The time was spent digging (digging)

Boring the barriers that kept others away (away)

The deeper the walls the less anyone could hear (hear me) fall

So now I know there is no one else to blame

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

Buried alive inside of my own grave

Inside of my own grave

Beneath my lies

Delusional enough to think I’d designed something great

Like a giant headstone inscribed to describe my shameful fate

I hadn't been building (building)

The time was spent digging (digging)

An ugly truth from which there was no way to escape (escape)

Nowhere left to hide and then finally forced to face what I'd become

Buried alive inside of my own grave (my grave)

And there's no one else to blame

Buried alive inside of my own grave (my grave)

What I'd become

Buried alive inside of my own grave

Beneath my pride crushing me

Beneath my lies collapsing

But we are still alive

We are still alive

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

Buried alive inside of my own grave

My own grave

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

The lies and the weight, I know I lost my way (my way)

What I'd become

Buried alive inside of my own grave (my grave)

And there's no one else to blame

Buried alive… buried alive

Finally forced to face what I'd become

What I'd become in my own grave (buried)

In my own grave (alive)

Take What's Left lyrics - As I Lay Dying

I took what you gave me, destroyed it all

I had to lose everything to know that I was wrong

And now I see what was true all along

A void in me now that everything is gone

(Now that everything is gone)

The emptiness can be a source of clarity

Taking away a way for us to hide

Always revealing

No choice but to rebuild

No voice, no peace, no love, no home

Nothing left to hold

Nothing left but hope

Take my broken frame

What still remains free from the chains (free from the chains)

Nothing left to hold, nothing left but hope

Like hunting for prey that we don't even need to track

So easy to follow what's next, we are left with only one path, one path

No choice but to rebuild

No voice, no peace, no love, no home

Nothing left but hope

Take my broken frame

What still remains free from the chains (free from the chains)

Take what's left in me, what's worth saving

No matter how much time it takes

From merely hope we are brought back to life

From broken bones we revive

Take what's left and create

Take what's left and then rebuild

(You had every reason to give up on me

But you stood and waited when everyone ran away)

I took your gifts, destroyed them all (destroyed them all)

And then lost everything to know that I was wrong (that I was wrong)

But you still carried me when you could barely walk (you could barely walk)

You reminded me, I was never too far gone

(Take what's left)

Take my broken frame

What still remains free from the chains (free from the chains)

Take what's left in me, what's worth saving

No matter how much time it takes

Take my broken frame

What still remains free from the chains (free from the chains)

Take what's left

Take what's left and rebuild

Redefined lyrics - As I Lay Dying

I refuse to let go of the memories

'Cause they've changed everything inside of me

If I could go back now to save myself at loss

Substanceless character brought back would be the cost (the cost)

Agony today

Is tomorrow's strength

So don't run away

'Cause misery is...

Evolving into something that we can't see

Evolving and becoming, transforming

So don't run away

The pain can never be erased

Remain and turn it into strength

Turn it into strength

What do we value in the midst of complacency?

But in despair we beg for something, anything

Even our mistakes (even our mistakes)

Can have the power

To light the way (to light the way)

Like a glaring tower

The pain can never be erased

Remain and turn it into strength

From our failures we are refined (this perfect fight)

Replacing frailty

Allowing us to be

Be redefined

Healed scars can be stronger than skin

The wounds we have can be rewritten

Redefined

Redefined

Redefined

Agony today

Is tomorrow's strength

Redefined

So don't run away

The pain can never be erased

The pain can never be erased

Remain and turn it into strength

The pain can never be erased (never be erased)

Remain and turn it into strength (turn it into strength)

From our failures we are refined (this perfect fight)

Replacing frailty (pray your last day)

Allowing us to be

Be redefined (from our failures we're stronger in fight)

Replacing frailty

Allowing us to be

Be redefined

Don't run away (don't run away)

Misery's evolving

Only After We've Fallen lyrics - As I Lay Dying

The worst form of illness is one that goes undiagnosed

Subtle decay secretly spread, a cancer of the soul

A cancer! A cancer of the soul

We are all dying

Some of us just faster than our friends

But pointing to a greater fault won't cure what we have hidden (hidden!)

I used to be able to pretend but I can no longer hide from who I am

My deceit was displayed for all to see

The only thing that could have saved me

Only after we've fallen

Can we then find the cure?

Looking up from the bottom

When dust settles it's clear

(When the dust settles it's clear!)

It's so easy to believe that you are nothing like me

'Cause your deceit is lesser and yet to be seen

But does that change what you're hiding?

Only after we've fallen

Can we then find the cure?

Looking up from the bottom

When dust settles it's clear

Only after we've fallen

Can we then find the cure?

Looking up from the bottom

When dust settles it's clear

Only after we've fallen

Can we find the cure?

We are all dying!

A cancer of the soul

We are all dying!

A cancer of the soul

A heart that is bound by snakes

With a mind that's sprouting wings

A dangerous combination

That fails to address our infection

(Infection!)

My deceit was displayed for all to see

The only thing that could have saved me

Only after we've fallen

Can we then find the cure?

Looking up from the bottom

When dust settles it's clear

Only after we've fallen

Can we then find the cure?

Looking up from the bottom

When dust settles it's clear

Only after we've fallen (fallen!)

We are all dying (dying!)

But will we find the cure?

Only after we have fallen

Looking up from the bottom

It seems so clear

The Toll It Takes lyrics - As I Lay Dying

There's a sentence they gave me

Then one that remains unchanging

Like skin that's burnt by frost

It'll peel if I pull away

It hurts to hold or let go

As I'm trying to sustain

Like feeling hunger pangs and eating bone to stay alive

It tears me apart inside but it seems like the better way to get by

Like a broken hourglass they fell

Cutting sand through my fingers down the deepest well

I know the toll it takes

But I won't let you go

The past I can't replace

Is all that you'll ever know

There is no turning back

I can't fix what I broke

The past I can't replace

Is all that you'll ever know!

You're a part of me that I may never be able to repair

Like a lung that's collapsed

I'll always know that you're still there

Always surrounding my heart

Even if it rejects air

I know the toll it takes

But I won't let you go

The past I can't replace

Is all that you'll ever know

There is no turning back

I can't fix what I broke

The past I can't replace

Is all that you'll ever know!

The true sentence I still face

Is one I brought upon myself

Lost in a dark cell

They said it's easiest to just numb yourself and let go

But these open wounds will forever feel fresh

And I refuse to let them close yet

I know the toll it takes

But I won't let you go

The past I can't replace

Is all that you'll ever know

There is no turning back

I can't fix what I broke

The past I can't replace

Is all that you'll ever know!

I know the toll it takes

But I won't let you go

Re-Separation lyrics - As I Lay Dying

(Instrumental)

Roots Below lyrics - As I Lay Dying

All we can do is heal

Or let it destroy us

Some of our wounds

Come from those around us

While some are self inflicted

By thorns growing from within

But the story remains the same

Once we carry the hurt and shame

All we can do is heal

Or let it destroy us

Destroy us

The wounds that we're left with

We cannot control

The curse of the pain

Feels like all we know

Until we find the strength

Drawn from the roots below

In blackened soil new power grows

Grows

New power grows

Sentenced to a lesser life

For what we've been through

Or growing in ways that we

Never though possible before

Cutting off what can't survive

So we can let our weakness die

So we can let our weakness die

Die

The wounds that we're left with

We cannot control

The curse of the pain

Feels like all we know

Until we find the strength

Drawn from the roots below

In blackened soil new power grows

Regeneration comes after death

And virtue from rooting out damage

Cut off what can't survive

The wounds that we're left with

We cannot control

The curse of the pain

Feels like all we know

Until we find the strength

Drawn from the roots below

In blackened soil new power grows

Until we find the strength

Drawn from the roots below

In blackened soil new power grows

New power grows

Destruction Or Strength lyrics - As I Lay Dying

Whether locked up or on top of the world

I felt the same sense of unrest

Pursuing numbers, the approval of others

Outward illusions of success

Just an illusion (illusion)

An illusion masking restlessness

All ending in a downward spiral

Rock bottom is all relative

Some people lose their homes

And others lose their heart

The sad truth is I lost them both

'Cause I perilously chose

To compromise my soul

I could not see past all the distraction

(Distraction, destruction)

Until everything to hide behind

Until everything to hide behind was gone

Now that everything is gone

I'm free, free to see without distraction

There's nowhere left to hide

As I face what is inside

What is inside

Now changing like the tide

Devoid of peace but now finding

What brings serenity

And what can be centering

But it's not the things it used to be

Because they have been taken

And cannot be retrieved

Now that everything to hide behind

(Distraction, destruction)

Until everything to hide behind was gone

Now that everything is gone

I'm free, free to see without distraction

There's nowhere left to hide

As I face what is inside

What is inside

What is left

(What is left)

When you take it all away

(When you take it all away)

A battle between desolation and sorrow

Leaving behind destruction or strength

Destruction or strength

Destruction or strength

Destruction or strength

Whether locked up or on top of the world

I felt the same sense of unrest

But now it's gone

Now that everything is gone

I'm free, free to see without distraction

There is nowhere left to hide

As I face what is inside

What is inside

Whether locked up or on top of the world

I felt the same sense of unrest

But now it's gone (What is inside)

Just an illusion (illusion)

An illusion masking restlessness

My Own Grave (Re-interpretation) lyrics - As I Lay Dying

The lies, the weight

It's clear I lost my way

Deceit, decay

Decomposing

I thought I was an architect but I was just moving dirt

Stacking mud over malice covered-up forming nothing but a pile of hurt

I hadn't been building (building)

The time was spent digging (digging)

Boring the barriers that kept others away (away)

The deeper the walls the less anyone could hear (hear me) fall

So now I know there is no one else to blame

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

Buried alive inside of my own grave

Inside of my own grave

Beneath my lies

Delusional enough to think I'd designed something great

Like a giant headstone inscribed to describe my shameful fate

I hadn't been building (building)

The time was spent digging (digging)

An ugly fate from which there was no way to escape (escape)

Nowhere left to hide and then finally forced to face what I'd become

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

Buried alive inside of my own grave

What I'd become

Buried alive inside of my own grave

We are still alive

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

Buried alive inside of my own grave

My own grave

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

The lies and the weight, I know I lost my way (my way)

What I'd become

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

Buried alive... buried alive

Finally forced to face what I had become

Redefined (Re-interpretation) lyrics - As I Lay Dying

I refuse to let go of the memories

I refuse to let go of the memories

If I could go back now to save myself at loss

Substanceless character brought back would be the cost

Agony today

Is tomorrow's strength

So don't run away

'Cause misery is...

Evolving into something that we can't see

Evolving and becoming, transforming

The pain can never be erased

Remain and turn it into strength

Turn it into strength

What do we value in the midst of complacency?

But in despair we beg for something, anything

Even our mistakes (even our mistakes)

Can have the power

To light the way (to light the way)

Like a glaring tower

The pain can never be erased

Remain and turn it into strength

From our failures we are refined (this perfect fight)

Replacing frailty

Allowing us to be

Be redefined

Healed scars can be stronger than skin

The wounds we have can be rewritten

Redefined

Redefined

Agony today

Is tomorrow's strength

Redefined

The pain can never be erased

Redefined

Remain and turn it into strength

The pain can never be erased (never be erased)

From our failures we are refined (this perfect fight)

Replacing frailty (pray your last day)

Allowing us to be

Be redefined

(From our failures we're stronger in fight)

Replacing frailty

Allowing us to be

Be redefined

Redefined

Redefined

Don't run away (don't run away)

Misery's evolving

"Awakened" (2012)

• Cauterize lyrics - as i lay dying
• A Greater Foundation lyrics - as i lay dying
• Resilience lyrics - as i lay dying
• Wasted Words lyrics - as i lay dying
• Whispering Silence lyrics - as i lay dying
• Overcome lyrics - as i lay dying
• No Lungs To Breathe lyrics - as i lay dying
• Defender lyrics - as i lay dying
• My Only Home lyrics - as i lay dying
• Tear Out My Eyes lyrics - As i lay dying
• Unwound lyrics - As i lay dying
• A Greater Foundation (Extended Demo Version) lyrics - As i lay dying

Cauterize lyrics - as i lay dying

The truth of my heart

Is like a repressed tale

A censored and silenced story

Repression or restraint

It is a delicate balance

Between bleeding out what will make me drown

And closing in what I cannot afford to spill

Either way,

I must cauterize,

Cauterize the open wound

I'm caught between the feeling

Of being pulled apart

Or stuffed into a cell [x2]

And if these are the only options

This will be always be hell

Never ending

Though I still may be breathing

There is no quality of life

So I choose to risk it all for you

For you to be by my side

I'm caught between the feeling

Of being pulled apart

Or stuffed into a cell [x2]

A crowd is easy to deceive

But now I am a patient on the table

I'll give you the knife

Cut away as you see fit

Just promise me the patience

To wait for me to heal

I'm caught between the feeling

Of being pulled apart

Or stuffed into a cell [x3]

A Greater Foundation lyrics - as i lay dying

Reality no longer battles perception. 

This letter's written to no one. 

Sincere, 

I sought your truth and divine purpose through myths of revelation. 

Guidance all wrapped up in a paper box, 

supported only so long, as my mind was the enemy. 

I could not in conscience hold on. 

AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart. 

STAND FAST and press on, 

TRIUMPH AWAITS

AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart. 

STAND FAST and press on, 

TRIUMPH AWAITS us

The powerful constant that I had once leaned on is no longer there (no longer) 

You call this shameful disbelief, 

a process like losing my closest friend. 

AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart. 

STAND FAST and press on, 

TRIUMPH AWAITS

AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart. 

STAND FAST and press on, 

TRIUMPH AWAITS us

Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives fall apart, 

before we can rebuild them again - a greater foundation. 

I wish there was another way, but no amount of devotion can fix this. 

Triumph awaits! [x5]

Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives fall apart, 

before we can rebuild them again - a greater foundation.

Resilience lyrics - as i lay dying

Your resilience inspires me

Facing tragedies I will never face

Your presence is humbling

To think of all that you have overcome

It took such little pain

For our lives to coalesce

Finding what I could've found in no one else

You bring me through the darkness of myself

And show me that frailty can be turned to strength

Suffering

Persistence

Such sorrow

Yet resilience

From the outside I've deceived the world

With false bravery

Yet you have taught me so much more

Much more than I can ever teach

And someday you might

Need someone to lean on

I can only hope that I'll have gained the courage

To be there for you in whatever you face

You bring me trough (you bring me through)

The darkness of myself

And show me that frailty (can be turned)

Can be turned to strength

Suffering

Persistence

Such sorrow

Yet resilience

At times I'm carried on the shoulders of a child

I find power in your firm fallibility

My source of hope is seeing that weak prevail

And I'm better able to live because you're alive

I could not imagine a world without you

Where I looked you in the eyes and left you to die

Suffering

Persistence

Such sorrow

Yet resilience

Wasted Words lyrics - as i lay dying

There are days when sorrow seems never-ending,

Like the countless roads upon which I've driven

The price of attachment in pursuit of dreams

That I so often can't seem to remember

Yet there are days when beauty cannot be contained

It even crawls out from under ordinary things

A foreigner,

No place to go

Holding on,

Making the most,

Of what little time I have

All the wasted words I said,

In all the cities that I left,

The last act of our precious play,

Must not close with regret

I will not leave wishing I had done things differently

The moments I treasure are seldom the ones

That I planned for

And if I knew where pain hid,

I might still let it go,

So when the audience has run toward the latest drift,

It will be my time to face the life that I have set,

A foreigner in my own home,

Holding on,

No place to go

All the wasted words I said,

In all the cities that I left,

The last act of our precious play,

Must not close with regret (regret)

All the wasted words

Some days the line between peace and pain

Seems more like a blur,

But I know with certainty,

I can't leave wishing,

I cannot leave

I can't leave wishing,

I'd done things differently

All the wasted words I said,

In all the cities that I left,

The last act of our precious play,

Must not close with regret (regret)

All the wasted,

Wasted words

Whispering Silence lyrics - as i lay dying

Each little piece begins to stack up

Now suffering under the weight of my choices

And I hardly recognise myself

Somewhere along the line

There stopped being lines at all

(whispering silence)

Whispering silence

The subtle contradiction

Compromise creeps in

Forgetting who I once was

Slowly changing

Who I once was

Each moment seemed so small

When looked at by itself

But it adds up

And it has torn me down

All lines are gone

(whispering silence)

Whispering silence

The subtle contradiction

Compromise creeps in

Forgetting who I once was

Slowly changing

Who I once was

So close to the truth

But still impossible

It was never one thing

And too many to try to add up

Fueled by faint deception

Conflict without acknowledging opposition

All because I had taken pride in my hidden lies

Whispering silence

The subtle contradiction

Compromise creeps in

Forgetting who I once was

Slowly changing

Who I once was

It was never one thing

And too many to try to add up

All because I had taken pride in my hidden lies

Overcome lyrics - as i lay dying

All these moments of pain

Must add up to something,

Our bodies have been trained to keep it all in,

But our hearts, still hold on

Some say to release it, forget about your past,

Instead we count the cost, it's part of us

That doesn't mean that we cannot move on,

It's just a memory of what we were once were

No matter what it is we've faced

It's now part of us (part of us)

We can overcome

Why rid of fuel that can make us stronger

When properly put behind us (put behind us)

And in the same way that

Everything good in life can be taken away

So can all this pain

No matter what it is we've faced

It's now part of us (part of us)

No matter what we've faced in this life

We can overcome

Trying to forget is a burden we can never bear,

When facing trials openly,

There's nothing left to hide,

New paths of strength come alive

No matter what it is we've faced

It's now part of us (part of us)

No matter what we've faced in this life

We can overcome

We can overcome

No Lungs To Breathe lyrics - as i lay dying

I fought who I am inside

Until I wanted, I wanted to die

Instead of finding balance I found hatred

Consumed by failures and ignoring my own strengths

Pushed out sea without learning to swim

Or stranded in the desert with no lungs to breathe

With no lungs to breathe

I had almost lost everything

How can I be expected to readily be content

With a view of life that has rejected

The basis of what has helped me to survive?

And replaced them with precepts

Rather than instruction

Full rule is an illusion (illusion)

All I can do contain selfishness

And unveil what little power we may have

With no lungs to breathe

I had almost lost everything (everything)

Tearing away my flesh before taking

The time to understand it

A miracle may not be the answer

(tearing away my flesh)

When anchoring first on what I have

(before taking the time to understand it)

The ability to change

Like being stranded in the desert

With no lungs to breathe

With no lungs to breathe

I had almost lost everything (everything)

Defender lyrics - as i lay dying

Fighting so hard to be heard

Yet having nothing to say

You talk about changing masses

But forget those close to you

Most of us have given up

On these words that all sound the same

But I am still willing to believe

If you have done all that you can

You can justify almost anything

If you are willing to be loud enough

But once you've spent everything

To change the world around you

Even if your voice is taken away

Such actions will still inspire

Most of us have given up

On these words that all sound the same

But I am still willing to believe

If you have done all that you can

Drained

Spent

Determined

Intent

Now you've earned the right to be heard

We've been deceived by elegant speech

Whose only concern is mere distraction

Defender

Drained

Spent

Determined

Intent

Now you've earned the right to be heard

I will follow to the grave

A man who's willing to die

Most of us have given up

On these words that all sound the same

But I am stilling willing to believe

If you have done al that you can

I am willing to die

Defender

My Only Home lyrics - as i lay dying

Like a swarm of flies colliding with a moving windshield

So are our lives on this never-ending road

I have left behind my mark only to be later washed away

And was consumed with the allure despite the inevitable decay

When did the road that I'm on become my only home?

When did this become the one place I truly know? (I truly know)

A journey making us like weeds

Where the wind steals our splendour

But spreads it to the distant fields

Despite our fragile imperfections

Yet shaking walls and wearing wheels

Can never capture my heart the way you do

When did the road that I'm on become my only home?

When did this become the one place I truly know? (I truly know)

I am missing what makes me whole

Tear Out My Eyes lyrics - As i lay dying

The storm is coming and I have no choice

To accept nature or lose my voice

Shall I scream and plead for nothing

Or build a roof over my head?

I mourn the days that I wasted

Trying to change what has been set

Fighting against myself

Before I tear, tear out my eyes

I'll just admit they're part of me

I've labelled enemies who do not hate me

And then claimed friends who could care less

All an unnecessary struggle

So now I truly know what it means to repent

Changing everything

Before I tear, tear out my eyes

I'll just admit they're part of me

(they're part of me)

Instead of fighting against myself

I will open my eyes

To find who needs me

I am awakened

I am awakened

Unwound lyrics - As i lay dying

I see no reason to try and be what I am not

If simple honesty moves me, then why should I care?

Others may think I lost my poetic way (I've lost my way)

But I'd rather make my point without confusion

I have failed those who I love the most

And in the process become aware

I have accepted there is so much that I don't know

I have accepted my limitations

It is that knowledge that opens the door

For greater understanding

Perspective on what is still untold

I have accepted there is so much that I don't know

I have accepted my limitations

I have accepted there is so much that I'll never know

I have accepted my limitations

Sorting out my thoughts, that is why I write

Though I reveal my weakness surrendering is remedy

These songs have helped me though my greatest pain

Unwound within me the disorder of my life

I now see things for how they are

Even if that is a harsh reality

I have accepted there is so much that I don't know

I have accepted my limitations

I have accepted there is so much that I'll never know

I have accepted my limitations

A Greater Foundation (Extended Demo Version) lyrics - As i lay dying

Reality no longer battles perception.

This letter's written to no one.

Sincere,

I sought your truth and divine purpose through myths of revelation.

Guidance all wrapped up in a paper box,

Supported only so long, as my mind was the enemy.

Until I could not in good conscience hold on.

You call this shameful disbelief,

A process like losing my closest friend.

AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart.

STAND FAST and press on,

TRIUMPH AWAITS

AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart.

STAND FAST and press on,

TRIUMPH AWAITS us

The powerful constant that I had once leaned on is no longer there (no longer)

But no matter how sincere my devotion

The pieces never fit.

AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart.

STAND FAST and press on,

TRIUMPH AWAITS

AS WE face distress WE MUST not lose heart.

STAND FAST and press on,

TRIUMPH AWAITS us

Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives fall apart,

Before we can rebuild them again - a greater foundation.

(We watch our whole lives)

Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives

(Fall apart)

Before we can rebuild them again

(We build them again)

A greater foundation

I wish there was another way,

No amount of devotion can fix this,

Triumph awaits! [x5]

Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives fall apart,

Before we can rebuild them again - a greater foundation.

(We watch our whole lives)

Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives

(Fall apart)

Before we can rebuild them again

(We build them again)

A greater foundation

"Decas" (2011)

• Paralyzed lyrics - As I Lay Dying
• From Shapeless To Breakable lyrics - As I lay dying
• Moving Forward lyrics - As I Lay Dying
• War Ensemble lyrics - As i lay dying
• Hellion lyrics - As i lay dying
• Electric Eye lyrics - As i lay dying
• Coffee Mug lyrics - As i lay dying
• Beneath The Encasing Of Ashes (Re-Recorded Medley) lyrics - As i lay dying
• The Blinding Of False Light (Innerpartysystem Remix) lyrics - As i lay dying
• Wrath Upon Ourselves (Ben Weinman Remix) lyrics - As i lay dying
• Confined (Kelly "Carnage" Cairns Remix) lyrics - As i lay dying
• Elegy (Big Chocolate Remix) lyrics - As I Lay Dying