Dark Tranquillity Atoma 1. Encircled I see myself In the bodies being carried out I see myself in you When safety falls again It broke something essential Like nothing ever would A promise to give A promise to hold This is not what I want to hear right now But our time is running out So far removed from what you need to know Words too hard to handle Our time is running out We're by demons encircled Eroding away at reason The bile of insecurity This fear devoid of nuance And fact resistant belief I hold together what I can I hold together what I know This is not what I want to hear right now But our time is running out So far removed from what you need to know Words too hard to handle Our time is running out We're by demons encircled These are just symptoms of experience and life I wish I could postpone It eats at our logic Like nothing ever should It claws at our humanity So that nothing can remain This is the currency of faith And we are coming up short The reality of failure Now upon us This is not what I want to hear right now But our time is running out So far removed from what you need to know Words too hard to handle Our time is running out By demons encircled 2. Atoma I will not play along With things I find unfair I will not mount defences Against unjust attacks This land was never given We built this on our own It is sanity dependent Whether we rise or fall Whether we rise or we fall One for the night One for uncontrol Hold your feet to the ground To the end of our time for the rest of our lives Hold your head up high To the end of our time for the rest of our lives Secretly I hope That nothing ever comes of this And you are not alone In wanting to come back To a place where it won't matter Just what side you're on It's when our lives are branded What's underneath will overcome What's underneath will overcome One for the night one for the uncontrol Hold your feet to the ground To the end of our time for the rest of our lives Hold your head up high To the end of our time for the rest of our lives Now it's time to stand up tall One for the night One for the uncontrol Hold your feet to the ground To the end of our time for the rest of our lives Hold your head up high To the end of our time for the rest of our lives 3. Forward Momentum We worry about echoes While we are being held back By the speed of light This is the time of no regret in a forward momentum race We leave in our wake What is broken, forgotten and old I squint my eyes As if to make my sight extended a little further This is the time of no regret in a forward momentum race We leave in our wake what is broken and forgotten The dream is nothing yet it drives us to the end These words that force our hand Hold on In fear of true deception Our lives are being brought back down This is the time of no regret in a forward momentum race We leave in our wake what is broken and forgotten 4. Neutrality Much like the tension built between force and will Stray voltage wanders from neutral to earth Lest we forget to forgive the signals get crossed These two grounded objects on the opposite side of Right or wrong where empathy was once Is not the end – this is the reasoning I call you out so take it once and for all The weight of the world on you I call you out to claim neutrality We failed our own reality on reality's terms The less we know the more we forge What suits our single-minded goals It all comes down to this A reverse polarity In opposites we see what unity must be Forever taking down the man-made walls of strife Forever taking them down I call you out so take it once and for all The weight of the world on you I call you out to be accountable today tomorrow I call you out There's nothing like the friction sound The slow burn of prolonged frustration Wearing down the jagged edges To fit within the margins The fires spread throughout the night It must now go down to where it can begin Inside and out I call you I call you out so take it once and for all The weight of the world on you I call you out to claim neutrality I call you out to be accountable today tomorrow 5. Force Of Hand This is not a failure This is not an end These are just symptoms Of a trajectory descent Further down the line you hide from the memories of unresolved The struggle is lost All this time of knowing Letting piece by piece slip away Cause when they're all against you You fail Don't you force my hand Don't you force me When the silence has spoken in this imminent storm Taken to the nth degree where failure forms Spiraling deception Left the mindless drifting away Cause when they're out to get you You fail Don't you force my hand Don't you force me All this time ends in nothing These walls of doubt built into our minds All this time signifying something A victim without circumstance All this time of knowing Letting piece by piece slip away Cause when they're all against you You fail Don't you force my hand Don't you force me 6. Faithless By Default To ends unknown By means unworthy To answer wishes Long dead and gone Old empty promises A just reward for the blind Belief makes work for idle minds We lost our way The only dream that matters Is the one you wake up from Go Onward to the singularity Whatever they say Whatever they do just go Turn on this unentity Whatever they say Whatever they do just go We are faithless by default I call for a world where we are nothing More than the sum of what we know Are we to be held hostage By our tolerance for the intolerant Then we've lost our way To hope is to surrender In this series of defeats Go Onward to the singularity Whatever they say Whatever they do just go Turn on this unentity Whatever they say Whatever they do just go We are faithless by default We’ve lost our way A pain far too familiar Denounce your savage self Go Onward to the singularity Whatever they say Whatever they do just go Turn on this unentity Whatever they say Whatever they do just go We are faithless by default 7. The Pitiless Right now – right here We stand alone Against pitiless indifference We stand alone Forever confounded by the broadening margins Taken out of context and in to denial Give in to ignorance and the world responds in kind Put an end to the search and nullify this sense of life Alone in silence Yes I am frightened and so are you Against pitiless indifference We stand alone Against the ever-coming night So we step back to reveal a new perspective When the allure of our gift has worn off Not the least bit curious when giant steps are made No going back Our time is running out Alone in silence Yes I am frightened and so are you Against pitiless indifference We stand alone Must we resort to "the end of all inquiry" For this to make sense? This to make sense Right here – right now We stand alone Give up and recount them The days of your life Where truth was of essence And time was alive That is no incentive To give in to the absurd Reality and construct Live forever to oppose Forever opposed Alone in silence Yes I am frightened and so are you Against pitiless indifference We stand alone 8. Our Proof Of Life At a certain point it happens Life becomes too real And nothing can hold back What is about to be I don't know How close we need to get To blind out the surroundings And focus on the real I know you're gone But this reality Is crashing down on me Crashing down To defeat all purpose I know you're gone I'm just not ready I'm just not done I am ever In resistant disbelief When raw emotion gets in The way of our thoughts and words We pass so far beyond our breaking point I don't know how far we need to be From all that we don't want to see To regain perspective I know you’re gone But this reality Is crashing down on me Crashing down To defeat all purpose I know you’re gone I'm just not ready I'm just not done I am ever In resistant disbelief I know Yet I fail to find purpose and form I know But the truth just makes it harder I know you’re gone But this reality is crashing down on me Crashing down To defeat all purpose I know you’re gone I'm just not ready I'm just not done I am ever In resistant disbelief 9. Clearing Skies Our backs can never carry These atrocities around So we focus on what's safely within reach To market our concerns Inside this time and place There is nothing more you can be to me Bring out your fear Bring out your death Bring out your pain For now we lie to ourselves to live Sorrow will find you You're the only one who knows things I never say And nothing can be done Til skies are clear again These are things we never talk about So hear me out this time I know one day this sorrow will find you Let your heroes burn their crowns You're better than this I know This world can change the best of us Sometimes for the worst Sometimes for the ones we try to hold The ones we hold on to Bring out your fear Bring out your death for now we lie to ourselves to live sorrow will find you you're the only one who knows things I never say and nothing can be done til skies are clear again these are things we never talk about so hear me out this time I know one day this sorrow will find you 10. When The World Screams Let the weakness set in This world I know Days cannot hold me I blur in between Never fully engaged The mind races between words As far as I can get Away from it all When indecision ends can life begin again I am silence When the world screams out I am escape when you reach out to me I am panic I am fear behind these walls that protect me I am failure and resistance I am lost where I belong I am silence when the world screams My insecurity extends To others talking about themselves Fed with this poison of Self righteous false confidence It's in their eyes It's in our lives Set to the tune of darkness This is one to hold I cannot stop insanity From chasing down my thoughts Linger in the mind For what now seems indefinite time My mind is holding me down When indecision ends can life begin again I am silence When the world screams out I am escape when you reach out to me I am panic I am fear behind these walls that protect me I am failure and resistance I am lost where I belong I am silence when the world screams 11. Merciless Fate What if that image was taken In an instant erased from the world What if the truth is too far And your reality can't cope with the distance In the abstract a mind never challenged Is the bearer of merciless fate All you can feel Is the loss of who you are By force or by fire / flame All you will know Is the void of emptiness By force or the flame 'Til reason prevails When the doubt starts to creep in your mind And subverts the true cause of your ways You must remain a witness of merciless fate All you can feel Is the loss of who you are By force or by fire / flame All you will know Is the void of emptiness By force or the flame All that you see is a darkness From the outside looking in All you can sense is surface tension From a distance grasping at straws All you can feel Is the loss of who you are It's not about you All you will know Is the void of emptiness By force or the flame This merciless fate 12. Caves And Embers Despite what is out there burning Our faces remain intact We hear the screaming of the voiceless Yet we are numb to the pain of others We filter out the light It never penetrates our blinding screens We can take a stand But in the end it all means nothing We rage out but we are wasting away From the roots below To the boundless stars above We are nothing at all What separates us from the others A difference in choices made We take an insignificant stance What would we do in an opinion vacuum When left unaccountable So here we are far from the world Just wasting away Doing nothing being nothing We are the favoured design And we're wasting away From the caves and embers To the heart of the beyond We are nothing at all Here we are doing nothing Being nothing We are wasting away From the roots below To the boundless stars above We are nothing at all Wasting away 13. The Absolute [Bonus Track]In every hour every day This chosen solitude is gone The pressure coursing Through your every nerve Will rise and fade away There's madness to this method Conformity now on display When confidence become the enemy In time our questions lose their meaning Wish it away and it comes back to you somehow A loneliness denied Our shallow pool of wisdom Reflects upon our innocent face Between attacks of pure anxiety You see humanity slip away You force the lie to be an absolute To where there will be no return There is a face on the surface I don't ever want to see There is a light above the water That is not supposed to be If there is truth in this resistance I don't ever want to know 14. Time Out Of Place [Bonus Track]It gets ahead of us Blind ambition meets our desperation It gets ahead of us It leads a charge to where we should not go It makes no sense to me Our willingness to hold on to belief It got away from us The thought of understanding what's around Have we gone too far this time? To argue from authority in this case It just got away I feel we've lost our place in time It's getting closer now The fear that we have held off for so long It's getting closer now To where we know there can be no return It makes no sense to me What has been set in motion here today It makes no sense anymore Was it too little, too late Or too much too fast? This time we've gone too far