A Broken Reflection lyrics - As I Lay Dying
A broken reflection
A picture means nothing
When the image in my head is all I see
A portrait of loathing
A painting of insecurity
I've burned the image a thousand times
To destroy the site of myself
But it left a branded mark behind
Reminding me I'm far from well
(Far from well)
Now I stand strong but fragile
Like clay pulled from the kiln
Face to face with what I fear
Reflection from a twisted mirror
Where every flaw is brought to light
And all that shines is left behind
A broken reflection
Engrained with permanence
Like a statue standing tall (standing tall)
But the frailty of a mere sketch
Constantly set to rise and fall
Depicting distortion
Seen through an old warped film
Now I stand strong but fragile
Like clay pulled from the kiln
Interpreting the madness
And cleansing the palette to bring
Bring me face to face with what I fear
Reflection from a twisted mirror
Where every flaw is brought to light
And all that shines is left behind
Will I ever be content with what I see?
(Will I ever be content with what I see?)
Or will my greatest oppressor (my greatest oppressor)
Always be me?
Shattered
Engrained with permanence
Like a statue standing tall
But the frailty of a sketch
Set to constantly rise and fall
Though charred by the demolition
A new image begins to appear
Just like the one I'd destroyed
Re-embraced by fear
Face to face with what I fear
Reflection from a twisted mirror
Where every flaw is brought to light
And all that shines is left behind
Reflection, reflection
Bring me back
Interpreting the madness
And cleansing the palette to bring
Bring me back from this hell
Shattered, shattered
Burden lyrics - As I Lay Dying
Release this burden
Burden
I'm far from perfect
But what I gave you was a gift
Expecting so little
I never cared if you came or left
Moving on
No one will ever live in our shoes and
No one will ever know the full truth so
I choose to let the music itself
Speak volumes about you
Nothing but deadweight
Seeing the world all expenses paid
And now I've carried the weight
I've carried the weight
Of your burden long enough
And I listened as you fabricate
Till the truth just fades away
But it's you that starts to fade
So caught in the past
A legacy you hardly built
While here in reality
I sadly witnessed your intellect wilt
You hardly wrote a note
Like a well dressed ghost
That learned to feed off us
As a virus to a host
And now I've carried the weight
Of your burden long enough
And I listened as you fabricate
Till the truth just fades away
But it's you that starts to fade
Fade away
Fade away
I've had this millstone around my neck
Long enough
Burden, deadweight, burden
It's become clear that you are just deadweight
That's been released to sink
Release
And now I've carried the weight
I've carried the weight
Of your burden long enough
And I listened as you fabricate
Till the truth just fades away
But it's you that starts to fade
It's become clear that you are just deadweight
That's been released to sink
Release
Burden, deadweight, burden
We Are The Dead lyrics - As I Lay Dying (feat. Alex Terrible & Tom Barber)
We are the dead
We are the outcast, exiled, rejects
We are the dead, dead, dead
But we are not alone
Closed in by walls of pain
Then told to rehabilitate
Bound by concrete with no outlet to recover
Fed nothing but trash then declared to be unhealthy
Stripped of all we had
Then told to find our way out of this hell ourselves
To function requires
Resistance
And to thrive requires total defiance
Total defiance
Locked away, buried underground
Still finding hope when we're beaten down
We are the dead
We are the outcast, exiled, rejects
We are the dead, dead, dead
But we are not alone
To function requires
Resistance
And to thrive requires
Total defiance
Total defiance
Though the design is for us to fall
Deeper into darkness and lose it all
There's a depth within humanity
That I never knew while I was free
Put in a shallow grave
With a number to replace our name
But no one checked if we're alive
So from a common burial we rise
Locked away, buried underground
Still finding hope when we're beaten down
We are the dead
We are the outcast, exiled
But we are not alone
Outcast, exiled
But we are not alone
Whitewashed Tomb lyrics - As I Lay Dying
Your illusion of kindness
The delusion that you've healed to move on
Virtue signaling your reasons
But avoidance is a symptom of the unresolved
Unresolved
Are you even aware of what is truly at play?
(Are you even aware)
Are you able to see (are you able to see)
The parts of you that wither away?
Can't you see, you're hiding from something
Avoiding the hurt
Avoiding the darkness of your heart
The story within is forgery
That does not match what those close to you see
But the story on the outside
Is painted elegantly so that you can hide
You're a whitewashed tomb
(A whitewashed tomb)
I'd never want to be like you
Can't you see, you're hiding from something
Avoiding the hurt
Avoiding the darkness of your heart
Silently waiting while slowly decaying
Uphold appearance while sorrow
Sorrow awaits
Sorrow awaits
Coward
You're a whitewashed tomb
Coward
I'd never want to be like you
Redemption will never look the way you want it to
And we will never be good enough to see your truth
But how could vibrant life fit within your view?
Encased in fools gold but full of doom
I know who sits behind the curtain now
My mirror image
Can't you see, you're hiding from something
Avoiding the hurt
Avoiding the darkness, the darkness of your heart
Darkness of your heart
Sorrow awaits
A whitewashed tomb
Through Storms Ahead lyrics - As I Lay Dying
Without direction
Impact was imminent
Without direction
Calamity was only a matter of time
Without direction
I boarded the ship I built
And locked myself in it
Then cut the line to sail
Through storms ahead
Such arrogance to complain
As it sunk and no one came
Callously trying to explain
How everyone else is to blame
I had to be set free
On open and turbulent seas
Wondering if anything
Was looking over me
Without direction
Calamity was only a matter of time
I'd given up on searching
There was no way out for me
I'd given up searching
When the walls came crashing down
There was no way for me
When the floods took everything
I'd given up, I'd given in
Surrendered, then hope broke in
Then hope broke in
Preparing me to swim
Through storms ahead
Past numbing emptiness
Back to feeling once again
Through mending and agony
Into turmoil needed to see
My whole life rearranged
And beauty born from disarray
I'd given up on searching
There was no way out for me
I'd given up searching
When the walls came crashing down
There was no way for me
When the floods took everything
I'd given up, I'd given in
Surrendered, then hope broke in
My soul was spilled out of me
Into a refining sea
Through storms ahead
Through storms ahead
Without direction
Impact was imminent
Without direction
Calamity was only a matter of time
I'd given up on searching
I'd given up on searching
There was no way out for me
I'd given up searching
When the walls came crashing down
There was no way for me
When the floods took everything
I'd given up, I'd given in
Surrendered, then hope broke in
Then hope broke in
Then hope broke in
Through storms ahead
Through storms ahead
The Void Within lyrics - As I Lay Dying
It moves through your eyes
It moves through your eyes
It pumps through my heart
The void within
It flows through our veins
It flows through our veins
But it tears us apart
It tears us apart
We all wanna believe
That our suffering means something
But we're scared to release
And live another way
'Cause pain's the only thing
That's always been with me
And peace is the only thing
That I have never seen
I wanna feel again
To fill the void within
I wanna feel again
It calls my name
Steady till I give in
To fill the void within
So far away
Still crave the same
I wanna feel again
Destroy the void within
Hear it in my voice
See it in my skin
Feel all the choices
That I have lived
The mistakes I've made
The weight carried
I had given up, betrayed
My hopes and dreams
I wanna feel again
It calls my name
Steady till I give in
To fill the void within
So far away
Still crave the same
I wanna feel again
Destroy the void within
I didn't believe
My life meant anything
As I fought to be free
From this disease
It was love that put me back
On my feet
Now I face the wake of anguish
That was left behind
The aftermath of a warpath
A buried mountain of regret for me to
Mine
The aftermath of a warpath
It moves through your eyes
It pumps through my heart
It flows through our veins
But it tears us apart
Strength To Survive lyrics - As I Lay Dying
I see the pain you're drowning in
I want more than anything
To rescue you as you're sinking
But you are forgetting
You were already swimming
Long before I was ever around
You've tread these waters many times before
And always ended up on shore
Now you've somehow started to believe
(Your false belief)
That I'm your only hope of not drowning
Drowning
I see the pain you're drowning in
But I can't reach you
I can't save you
I feel the weight that makes you sink
But I can't reach you
Without being pulled in
Drowning
Think back to a time before you felt lost
Think back to a time it wasn't just us
Now you've somehow started to believe
(Your false belief)
That I'm your only hope of not drowning
Drowning
I see the pain you're drowning in
But I can't reach you
I can't save you
I feel the weight that makes you sink
But I can't reach you
Without being pulled in
I have nothing but false hope to give
Drowning
You had power then and you still do now
Without chasing a savior who will never be found
I want more than anything
To rescue you as you sink
But now you're starting to see
That you never needed me
I'm not the one, who will save you
I wish I could but I, am drowning too
We're strong enough as soon as we believe
We are the ones who choose our destiny
Sinking, fading, drowning
I see the pain you're drowning in
But I can't reach you
I can't save you
I feel the weight that makes you sink
But I can't reach you
Without being pulled in
I see fear in your eyes
(Despair, dismay, and doubt)
Find your strength to survive
Strength inside without being pulled in
I am not the one who will save you
I wish I could, but I'm drowning too
Gears That Never Stop lyrics - As I Lay Dying
Gears that never stop
Gears that never stop turning
Automated but still alive
Alive and burning
Powered by a storm
That hardly calms before it reforms
Fixed in rotation
Fueled by worry and anticipation
Nowhere to take shelter in sight
Every window and door boarded tight
Like walking alone down a dark street
Not knowing what's about to be unleashed
At war with
Something in my head
A doubt I feel everyday
A glitch inside the machine
On and on and on repeating
Something in my head
A war I fight from within
Struggle goes on and on
All along the way
Under the gun yet restrained to a chair
Bleeding out trapped in an elevator
It feels like an impossible choice
Critically ill but I can't make a noise
Something in my head
A doubt I feel everyday
A glitch inside the machine
On and on and on repeating
Something in my head
A war I fight from within
Struggle goes on and on
All along the way
I close my eyes
I close my eyes
I close my eyes to reset
I close my eyes
I close my eyes
I close my eyes to reset
And change the nightmare
And change the nightmare that I am in
Thoughts like crashing waves
Crumbling over and over again
Gears that never stop
Gears that never stop turning
Gears that never stop
Gears that never stop turning
Gears that never stop turning
Automated but still alive and burning
Something in my head
A doubt I feel everyday
A glitch inside the machine
On and on and on repeating
Something in my head
A war I fight from within
Struggle goes on and on
All along the way
The gears that never stop
All along the way
The storm that never calms
The gears that never stop
The storm that never calms
The Cave We Fear To Enter lyrics - As I Lay Dying
Our secrets are what make us lonely
When no one else knows the weight we carry
All I see and all I know is pain
All I see and all I know is
All I see and all I know is pain
All I see and all I know is
Paralyzing fear prevents
Into the unknown we must step
The cave seems more like an abyss
But inside is everything we've missed
All our blindspots brought to light
And every demon we've tried to fight
What becomes of the pain
That dwells so deep it can't be seen
Who can show the path from shame
To make you believe
Believe you're not to blame
So once again we want to run away
Far from everything that we love
Safe from facing all we're carrying
The cave we fear to enter
All I see and all I know is pain
All I see and all I know is
Going further into the abyss
We uncover life's fullness
Recovering what dwells in the deep
The darkest corners no longer mystery
Uncharted, unexplored
Undiscovered, stranded in the void
What becomes of the pain
That dwells so deep it can't be seen
Who can show the path from shame
To make you believe
Believe you're not to blame
So once again we want to run away
Far from everything that we love
Safe from facing all we're carrying
The cave we fear to enter
Lay to rest the memories (memories)
That hold you down
Paralyzing fear prevents
Into the unknown we must step
The cave we fear to enter
No one else knows
Hidden like a ghost
Our past torments (our past torments)
Will bury us (will bury us)
So once again we want to run away
Far from everything that we love
Safe from facing all we're carrying
The cave we fear to enter
Lay to rest the memories (memories)
That hold you down
Lay to rest the memories
In the cave we fear to enter
All I see and all I know is pain
All I see and all I know is
All I see and all I know is pain
All I see and all I know is
Taken From Nothing lyrics - As I Lay Dying
If you can make it through this
If you can make it out alive
Then will you tell your story
Of how you have survived?
Former days now gone, lament
As you face these years of torment
Asked to demonstrate how you repent
While expectant eyes await intent on discontent
They turned their backs
(They turned their backs)
Then took your voice, dark horse
If you can make it through this
If you can make it out alive
Then will you tell your story?
Of how you were
Taken from nothing
Shown the world is far from merciful
Inhumane, but there is time to live again
To live again
Weighed down but now no longer falling
A heavy scarlet letter transformed into your calling
Your mentor was misery, dark horse
New power, destiny, dark horse
All the strength from the weight you carry, dark horse
Taken from nothing
Shown the world is far from merciful
Inhumane, but there is time to live again
There is time to live again
These vast plains we're in the middle of have an end
This damning desert was built with finite grains of sand
Rejected by the establishment
And given this unexpected gift
Your mind immortal, though your body in hell
But they won't be able, to keep you here
If you can make it through this
If you can make it out
Taken from nothing
Shown the world is far from merciful
Inhumane, but there is time
Taken from nothing
Shown the world is far from merciful
Inhumane, but there is time to live again
Live again
To live again
Your mentor was misery, dark horse
All the strength from the weight you carry, dark horse
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...
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