Falls Of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future 1. Clarity Clinging to illusive notions Counting listless years you’ve lived through Attending your shame Fiction deceiving struggle Eyes condemn scrutiny Performance should dictate your life False community sustains you Frail belief in superstition sustains you Apothegm, in lieu of question, sustains you Cult apocrypha, heavy as mist, sustains you Wavering creed sealed in the coffin of a nation A spent imitation God's accomplice is reaction Imagined purpose feeds the aesthete A silent god's accomplice is reaction A last imagined purpose feeds the aesthete Foul sophistry No measure, no model, torn fabric of thought Shields the bare aberrant pith of demonstration Artistry and disregard as a form of refinement Nothing but forged simulacra of awareness Held in reverence God's accomplice is reaction Imagined purpose feeds the aesthete A silent god's accomplice is reaction A last imagined purpose feeds the aesthete Foul sophistry 2. Desert of Heart Savor the relief of sentence A careful appraisal of missteps toward fulfillment Hardship bears fragile gifts, penitence vindication Alibi for the failing of resolve Vain currency Stranger to empathy Derelict to society Mendicant Ruined Yearning for forgiveness Hopeless in the cold Desert stretching ghastly Circumscribing every wish to seek conference Hollowing new channels as a metaphor Buried last endeavor Under reticence and the strain of detachment Nursing frozen limbs as symbolism Stranger to empathy Derelict to society Mendicant Ruined Yearning for forgiveness Hopeless in the cold Disinherit what strength has been conjured And let emptiness bloom as a surrogate Stranger to empathy Derelict to society Mendicant Ruined Yearning for forgiveness Hopeless in the cold Rushing violently Precipitant to the answering Only a desert of heart starves forgiveness A desert of heart 3. Survival Poem Held without expression Multitudes lie fixed To the temperament of state Misrule shall be a weapon Transgression of the heart Lust for no allegiance Casting down tradition And the manacles of kin Misrule shall be a weapon Transgression of the body Misrule shall be a weapon Transgression of the mind Instruments of an unyielding form Circling in attitudes of coercion Robed in coward's vestiture Engine of a wanton regime Instruments of an unyielding form Circling in attitudes of coercion Robed in coward's vestiture Engine of a wanton regime [?] [4:20] Patience cannot be afforded Patience is death Strike while they're vulnerable, inconsonant Preoccupied with the frailty of excuse We'd die rather than witness Enemies burying our loved ones Our loved ones, our loved ones 4. Known World Narrows Waking in the dark Native hesitation Sword pierces armor Anemic culture of mist Flung to the ether Ages perceived as unblessing Scholars will grow blind In the blossoming of insight Reckoned losses mounting Treasured forms relinquish construct Scouring what archaic prose remains In volumes acclaimed Persist while the known world narrows Find courage, hold fast while the known world narrows Volunteer every ardent conclusion To be left dead to history Judgement's noose has been raised Turn away from the hex of illusion Scorching the atlas of the cursed Mocking their birthright Persist while the known world narrows Find courage, hold fast while the known world narrows Heritage abandoned at the gallows Persist while the known world narrows Lantern throwing its light upon the future Find courage, hold fast while the known world narrows Waking in the dark Native hesitation Sword pierces armor Anemic culture of mist Flung to the ether Grotesque pledge of convention Paints hideous dreams of object tomorrow Nauseous by the flash of illustration The world disappears 5. Daggers in Floodlight Solicit no enigma Offer canon meretricious A forked-tongue lexicon Consternation yields profit untarnished A populace clawing out the eyes of their sisters Sell pretext to the nation's forgotten Unreluctant to veil daggers behind relief, delusion of task Circumvention of imperative contract Tragic are the injuries we withstand Heads down in anguish oppressive May violent incitation appoint us Carry the torch, reclaim tomorrow Blanket of ashes masks the sun Every path eclipsed Every bolt locked Every advantage hanged The reflection withheld The nostalgia we're robbed of The enduring walls of restraint have dissolved May a desperate age grant us new life Fan the embers Feed the spirit Exile every hope of success 6. Poverty Hymn Shackled to misdirection Fingers contort, bent from despair Fallen victim to a calm, inauthentic and uneager Never again acquiescing Our blades invoke the sun Seeking heart or a bare throat to inaugurate Weapons born to caution the night Desperately hunt in the shadows of their pledge Shelter is myth Our blades invoke the sun Seeking heart or a bare throat to inaugurate Weapons born to caution the night Desperately hunt in the shadows of their plеdge Shelter is myth Keening voicе Singing hymns to the poverty of existence Cruelty is a gift from our masters Standing naked in the floodlights of transition Trying to stay warm Keening voice Singing hymns to the poverty of existence Cruelty is a gift from our masters Standing naked in the floodlights of transition Trying to stay warm A wound that cannot be reconciled Will swallow us Never take for granted what you have Crippled justice will be sacrificed as a lesson All compassion will be martyred Every flowering lost to time And a wound that cannot be reconciled Will swallow us Never take for granted what you have