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