"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

Paralyzed lyrics - As I Lay Dying

What is certain I have ignored

I have spent most of my life

Trying to complicate everything that I believe

So that while paralyzed

In thought I will always have an alibi

Just another excuse (just another excuse)

To hesitate (to hesitate)

Delaying true progress with passivity

The answers that I've found

Are all the same

They uncover questions

That still remain

The answers that I've found

Are all the same

They uncover questions

That still remain

What is certain I have ignored

And what I know is simple

If I am honest with myself

My soul is broken yet easily fixed

And what I know is simple

I must die if I truly want to live

The answers that I've found

Are all the same

They uncover questions

That still remain

The answers that I've found

Are all the same

They uncover questions

That still remain

The greatest of us have become the least

I must be reborn to revive a heart that hardly beats

Keeping alive this hollow frame

I must be reborn

I must be reborn

From Shapeless To Breakable lyrics - As I lay dying

If I have been kept alive for one reason,

It's to declare that apart from you I can do nothing

Though discouraged by my failure

I remember who I used to be

Like a murderer transformed into a pretty thief

I have so far, so far left to go

From shapeless to breakable I have involved

My transgressions are evident to all who know me

Like porcelain carried through a Downtown street

At any moment I might break

From shapeless to breakable I have involved

I could say a thousand more apologies

But to prove that I have truly changed

Only time will tell.

From shapeless to breakable I have involved

Moving Forward lyrics - As I Lay Dying

We're born helpless but guided by humanity

What was compassion

Soon controls the way we think

Familiarity has left me desensitized

And inanity keeps deception disguised

We are lost but keep moving forward

To find the truth we must turn around

History reveals an inviting sense of compromise

Our customs destroyed what was once unique

Traditions started with useful intention

Now subjugate those too numb to question

We are lost but keep moving forward

To find the truth we must turn around

I desire to wake from this sedation and begin to separate

The truth from tradition

We are lost but keep moving forward

To find the truth we must turn around

War Ensemble lyrics - As i lay dying

(originally by Slayer)

Propaganda death ensemble

Burial to be

Corpses rotting through the night

In blood laced misery

Scorched earth the policy

The reason for the siege

The pendulum it shaves the blade

The strafing air blood raid

Infiltration push reserves

Encircle the front lines

Supreme art of strategy

Playing on the minds

Bombard till submission

Take all to their graves

Indication of triumph

The number that are dead

Sport the war, war support

The sport is war, total war

When victory's really massacre

The final swing is not a drill

It's how many people I can kill

Sport the war, war support

The sport is war, total war

When victory's really survival

The final swing is not a drill

It's how many people I can kill

Be dead friend from above

When darkness falls

Descend into my sights

Your fallen walls

Spearhead break through the lines

Flanked all around

Soldiers of attraction

Forward their ground

Regime prophetic age

Old in its time

Flowing veins run on through

Deep in the Rhine

Center of the web

All battles scored

What is our war crimes

(Era forever more...war)

Propaganda war ensemble

Burial to be

Bones shining in the night

In blood laced misery

Campaign of elimination

Twisted psychology

When victory is to survive

And death is defeat

Sport the war, war support

The sport is war, total war

When the end is a slaughter

The final swing is not a drill

It's how many people I can kill

Hellion lyrics - As i lay dying

Hell hound!

Hot leather on your legs,

They're smoking power kegs

Your ranting on means

It's hell bound!

And you're the one they claim

Is going down in flames

You're acting in Hades grave

Hellion! The devil's hellion in town

Hellion! We'll never have to die!

Well, child,

You're sweating and you're stoned

They've got to knock you down

Makes you crazy all night!

You're in never ending pain

And drink the devil's rain

You're screaming out your name

Hellion! The devil's hellion in town

Hellion! We'll never have to die!

The Gods you worship are steel

At the altar of rock and roll

You kneel,

A slave who forever rocks

His tail in the devil's locks

A slave like the bloody exile

Hellion! The devil's hellion in town

Hellion! We'll never have to die!

Electric Eye lyrics - As i lay dying

(originally by Judas Priest)

Up here in space

I'm looking down on you.

My lasers trace

Everything you do.

You think you've private lives

Think nothing of the kind.

There is no true escape

I'm watching all the time.

I'm made of metal

My circuits gleam.

I am perpetual

I keep the country clean.

I'm elected electric spy

I protected electric eye.

Always in focus

You can't feel my stare.

I zoom into you

You don't know I'm there.

I take a pride in probing all your secret moves

My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove.

Electric eye, in the sky

Feel my stare, always there

's nothing you can do about it.

Develop and expose

I feed upon your every thought

And so my power grows.

Protected. Detective. Electric eye.

Coffee Mug lyrics - As i lay dying

Mug mug mug

Coffee mug

Gonna clear away the haze

Liquid proof

That i can win this race

Coffee mug

The grip that keeps me tall

My inter-link

Keeps me questing all

I don't need no booze or drugs

I just chug-a-lug-o my coffee mug

And i don't need your kiss and hug

I just chug-a-lug-o my coffee mug

They haven't banned

My liquid drug of choice

There's too many hooked

And they've got too much voice

So for the moment

We're all pretty good to go

With 98 cups

With 98 more to go

I don't need no booze or drugs

I just chug-a-lug-o my coffee mug

And i don't need your kiss and hug

I just chug-a-lug-o my coffee mug

Here a bean, there a bean

Everywhere a mean mean

Bean chug - a - lug - o - my

Coffee - mug, mug, mug, mug

Beneath The Encasing Of Ashes (Re-Recorded Medley) lyrics - As i lay dying

Emptiness running through me

Taking all that I am

Reach inside of me

Far beneath the encasing of ashes

Bleeding red

Still showing signs of life

Leaving me this blinding mask

Grasping for the wind

Everything I've done

Everything I've gained

It all means nothing

A mere breath has passed away

Sadness I embrace

Left with empty promises

Spent of all my strength

Relying on Yours

I look at myself and see the scars

That are brought to me by this life

Then I ask myself

Is this all that this world has to give

Through this pain I refine

Tearing me from within

Screaming to be released but held fast by Your love

I have become a sacrifice

I have become a sacrifice (A sacrifice)

In need of you (In need of you)

In need of you

The Blinding Of False Light (Innerpartysystem Remix) lyrics - As i lay dying

I see now, I see through the veil of expectation.

I see now, I see that conformity is betrayal.

Betrayal of those who are forgotten, yet vision alone furthers our blame.

Unless followed by transformation, it is pointless to be given sight.

Without the hope of our reaction, we overlook the purpose of our eyes.

Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny, released from the blinding of false light.

(blinding of false light)

Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny. In weakness we are freed.

I see now, I see that conformity is betrayal.

With empty eyes I've looked ahead (ahead), with clarity I now look back.

Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny, released from the blinding of false light.

(blinding of false light).

Now is our chance (our chance) to breathe without, without tyranny.

In weakness we are freed. Yeah!

I admit my failure. Opacity has dulled my senses.

Conformity (conformity) controlled by lifeless vices. Oh! Yeah!

Covetousness (covetousness) disguised as ambition.

But now it ends. [x4]

Not with defeat but determination. We are freed. Yeah!

Now is our chance to breathe without tyranny, released from the blinding of false (false) light (light).

Now is our chance. [x2]

In weakness we are freed.

Wrath Upon Ourselves (Ben Weinman Remix) lyrics - As i lay dying

I can only imagine that wrath is being held out

So there will be time for us to be redeemed

But surely wrath is not being held out

So that we may redeem ourselves

For I've seen the madness

Of those who died trying

But is regret only a word that the living possess?

I long to see their faces

Regardless of the decay

For in the eyes of the deceased...

We would see hope in our last day

Inside this dying world

For there is still beauty

Inside this dying world

For what good is there holding off wrath

If we are determined

To bring wrath upon ourselves

Confined (Kelly "Carnage" Cairns Remix) lyrics - As i lay dying

That night I never came home.

Wandering souls captured my thoughts..

Emptiness filled my mind.

Urgency spoke her lies.

In the confines of these grey walls.

I watched them move together.

Taking me places I cannot remember (remember).

We have been poured out...

Into a loveless bride..

How quickly I forget...

That this is meaningless.

How quickly I forget...

That this is meaningless.

In a world passing through my fingers.

I still chase the wind.

How quickly I forget...

That this is meaningless

How quickly I forget...

That this is meaningless

what have I learned from yesterday?

what have I learned from yesterday?

Elegy (Big Chocolate Remix) lyrics - As I Lay Dying

[to Stephanie for undying friendship]

did you ever see me

or could you even see at all

I looked at your cold white face

so still, so empty

yet I knew you were at rest

much more comforted than I

what else could I find to replace who you were

it was the carefree unrestricted love that you

[Chorus]

never meant to give

you never had the choice,

it was your innocence

it was part of who you were

it was the comfort of a friend