Redefined lyrics - As I Lay Dying

I refuse to let go of the memories

'Cause they've changed everything inside of me

If I could go back now to save myself at loss

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

Agony today

Is tomorrow's strength

So don't run away

'Cause misery is...

Evolving into something that we can't see

Evolving and becoming, transforming

So don't run away

The pain can never be erased

Remain and turn it into strength

Turn it into strength

What do we value in the midst of complacency?

But in despair we beg for something, anything

Even our mistakes (even our mistakes)

Can have the power

To light the way (to light the way)

Like a glaring tower

The pain can never be erased

Remain and turn it into strength

From our failures we are refined (this perfect fight)

Replacing frailty

Allowing us to be

Be redefined

Healed scars can be stronger than skin

The wounds we have can be rewritten

Redefined

Redefined

Redefined

Agony today

Is tomorrow's strength

Redefined

So don't run away

The pain can never be erased

The pain can never be erased

Remain and turn it into strength

The pain can never be erased (never be erased)

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

From our failures we are refined (this perfect fight)

Replacing frailty (pray your last day)

Allowing us to be

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

Replacing frailty

Allowing us to be

Be redefined

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

Misery's evolving

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

The worst form of illness is one that goes undiagnosed

Subtle decay secretly spread, a cancer of the soul

A cancer! A cancer of the soul

We are all dying

Some of us just faster than our friends

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

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

My deceit was displayed for all to see

The only thing that could have saved me

Only after we've fallen

Can we then find the cure?

Looking up from the bottom

When dust settles it's clear

(When the dust settles it's clear!)

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

'Cause your deceit is lesser and yet to be seen

But does that change what you're hiding?

Only after we've fallen

Can we then find the cure?

Looking up from the bottom

When dust settles it's clear

Only after we've fallen

Can we then find the cure?

Looking up from the bottom

When dust settles it's clear

Only after we've fallen

Can we find the cure?

We are all dying!

A cancer of the soul

We are all dying!

A cancer of the soul

A heart that is bound by snakes

With a mind that's sprouting wings

A dangerous combination

That fails to address our infection

(Infection!)

My deceit was displayed for all to see

The only thing that could have saved me

Only after we've fallen

Can we then find the cure?

Looking up from the bottom

When dust settles it's clear

Only after we've fallen

Can we then find the cure?

Looking up from the bottom

When dust settles it's clear

Only after we've fallen (fallen!)

We are all dying (dying!)

But will we find the cure?

Only after we have fallen

Looking up from the bottom

It seems so clear

The Toll It Takes lyrics - As I Lay Dying

There's a sentence they gave me

Then one that remains unchanging

Like skin that's burnt by frost

It'll peel if I pull away

It hurts to hold or let go

As I'm trying to sustain

Like feeling hunger pangs and eating bone to stay alive

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

Like a broken hourglass they fell

Cutting sand through my fingers down the deepest well

I know the toll it takes

But I won't let you go

The past I can't replace

Is all that you'll ever know

There is no turning back

I can't fix what I broke

The past I can't replace

Is all that you'll ever know!

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

Like a lung that's collapsed

I'll always know that you're still there

Always surrounding my heart

Even if it rejects air

I know the toll it takes

But I won't let you go

The past I can't replace

Is all that you'll ever know

There is no turning back

I can't fix what I broke

The past I can't replace

Is all that you'll ever know!

The true sentence I still face

Is one I brought upon myself

Lost in a dark cell

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

But these open wounds will forever feel fresh

And I refuse to let them close yet

I know the toll it takes

But I won't let you go

The past I can't replace

Is all that you'll ever know

There is no turning back

I can't fix what I broke

The past I can't replace

Is all that you'll ever know!

I know the toll it takes

But I won't let you go

Re-Separation lyrics - As I Lay Dying

(Instrumental)

Roots Below lyrics - As I Lay Dying

All we can do is heal

Or let it destroy us

Some of our wounds

Come from those around us

While some are self inflicted

By thorns growing from within

But the story remains the same

Once we carry the hurt and shame

All we can do is heal

Or let it destroy us

Destroy us

The wounds that we're left with

We cannot control

The curse of the pain

Feels like all we know

Until we find the strength

Drawn from the roots below

In blackened soil new power grows

Grows

New power grows

Sentenced to a lesser life

For what we've been through

Or growing in ways that we

Never though possible before

Cutting off what can't survive

So we can let our weakness die

So we can let our weakness die

Die

The wounds that we're left with

We cannot control

The curse of the pain

Feels like all we know

Until we find the strength

Drawn from the roots below

In blackened soil new power grows

Regeneration comes after death

And virtue from rooting out damage

Cut off what can't survive

The wounds that we're left with

We cannot control

The curse of the pain

Feels like all we know

Until we find the strength

Drawn from the roots below

In blackened soil new power grows

Until we find the strength

Drawn from the roots below

In blackened soil new power grows

New power grows

Destruction Or Strength lyrics - As I Lay Dying

Whether locked up or on top of the world

I felt the same sense of unrest

Pursuing numbers, the approval of others

Outward illusions of success

Just an illusion (illusion)

An illusion masking restlessness

All ending in a downward spiral

Rock bottom is all relative

Some people lose their homes

And others lose their heart

The sad truth is I lost them both

'Cause I perilously chose

To compromise my soul

I could not see past all the distraction

(Distraction, destruction)

Until everything to hide behind

Until everything to hide behind was gone

Now that everything is gone

I'm free, free to see without distraction

There's nowhere left to hide

As I face what is inside

What is inside

Now changing like the tide

Devoid of peace but now finding

What brings serenity

And what can be centering

But it's not the things it used to be

Because they have been taken

And cannot be retrieved

Now that everything to hide behind

(Distraction, destruction)

Until everything to hide behind was gone

Now that everything is gone

I'm free, free to see without distraction

There's nowhere left to hide

As I face what is inside

What is inside

What is left

(What is left)

When you take it all away

(When you take it all away)

A battle between desolation and sorrow

Leaving behind destruction or strength

Destruction or strength

Destruction or strength

Destruction or strength

Whether locked up or on top of the world

I felt the same sense of unrest

But now it's gone

Now that everything is gone

I'm free, free to see without distraction

There is nowhere left to hide

As I face what is inside

What is inside

Whether locked up or on top of the world

I felt the same sense of unrest

But now it's gone (What is inside)

Just an illusion (illusion)

An illusion masking restlessness

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

The lies, the weight

It's clear I lost my way

Deceit, decay

Decomposing

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

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

I hadn't been building (building)

The time was spent digging (digging)

Boring the barriers that kept others away (away)

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

So now I know there is no one else to blame

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

Buried alive inside of my own grave

Inside of my own grave

Beneath my lies

Delusional enough to think I'd designed something great

Like a giant headstone inscribed to describe my shameful fate

I hadn't been building (building)

The time was spent digging (digging)

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

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

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

Buried alive inside of my own grave

What I'd become

Buried alive inside of my own grave

We are still alive

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

Buried alive inside of my own grave

My own grave

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

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

What I'd become

Buried alive inside of my own grave

And there's no one else to blame

Buried alive... buried alive

Finally forced to face what I had become

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

I refuse to let go of the memories

I refuse to let go of the memories

If I could go back now to save myself at loss

Substanceless character brought back would be the cost

Agony today

Is tomorrow's strength

So don't run away

'Cause misery is...

Evolving into something that we can't see

Evolving and becoming, transforming

The pain can never be erased

Remain and turn it into strength

Turn it into strength

What do we value in the midst of complacency?

But in despair we beg for something, anything

Even our mistakes (even our mistakes)

Can have the power

To light the way (to light the way)

Like a glaring tower

The pain can never be erased

Remain and turn it into strength

From our failures we are refined (this perfect fight)

Replacing frailty

Allowing us to be

Be redefined

Healed scars can be stronger than skin

The wounds we have can be rewritten

Redefined

Redefined

Agony today

Is tomorrow's strength

Redefined

The pain can never be erased

Redefined

Remain and turn it into strength

The pain can never be erased (never be erased)

From our failures we are refined (this perfect fight)

Replacing frailty (pray your last day)

Allowing us to be

Be redefined

(From our failures we're stronger in fight)

Replacing frailty

Allowing us to be

Be redefined

Redefined

Redefined

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

Misery's evolving

"Awakened" (2012)

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

Cauterize lyrics - as i lay dying

The truth of my heart

Is like a repressed tale

A censored and silenced story

Repression or restraint

It is a delicate balance

Between bleeding out what will make me drown

And closing in what I cannot afford to spill

Either way,

I must cauterize,

Cauterize the open wound

I'm caught between the feeling

Of being pulled apart

Or stuffed into a cell [x2]

And if these are the only options

This will be always be hell

Never ending

Though I still may be breathing

There is no quality of life

So I choose to risk it all for you

For you to be by my side

I'm caught between the feeling

Of being pulled apart

Or stuffed into a cell [x2]

A crowd is easy to deceive

But now I am a patient on the table

I'll give you the knife

Cut away as you see fit

Just promise me the patience

To wait for me to heal

I'm caught between the feeling

Of being pulled apart

Or stuffed into a cell [x3]