Shaped By Fire (2019)




















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

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)




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