Grey Skies Fallen The Many Sides of Truth 1. Ritual of the Exiter Meant to break the fall Wide-open surroundings Life has just begun So get to where you’re dying The endless sky The endless sky To waste away is one Way to tell the story Another part of life Take in full surroundings The endless sky The endless sky Sun peaks through The branches of the crystal wood Sight of the mind Lead me toward the blind But the darkness beyond the light You know what awaits you there No roads to see, a dam of despair A fracture behind the grave The cries I heard Never match the story Stand your ground Against the grain, toward the peak The end is near, the pieces in place To lead you toward your crypt No ground to run, no barriers in sight To rid you of your pain Now that I’m here, my visions are clear Upon twisting my arm, clearly the flesh decides My thoughts to the air, like tossing a stone This iron was forged beyond repair 2. Unroot Transparent Being 3. The Flame Burning brightly, stand beside me Behold the world This incarnation, it infects them One by one The plagues of old, horrors untold Replaced by modern men With genocide, amid their cries The screams for life So many before you have fallen before me What makes you so different than they were? Do tell me And why should I even care? It's your world that's beyond repair Chances were given and messages sent You chose to ignore them, your time is now spent Visions of life after death I assure you are just that And when it comes time to destroy you You'll learn the reason why I came to this place and why you all must Die by my hand, a cleansing of lands Plant the seed for those to Come take my hand Beside me you stand Observe as fate unveils her Plan to destroy you The ancients before knew Yet they left you to fend for yourselves From my being here, you must know you've failed To discern right from wrong, you've killed your world Raining down, what's left of the sky Liquified it drips to the ground 4. Of the Ancients Torn between two worlds He stands, his mind astray Others come offering easy ways To lead this man away Waiting for the sign A flame engulfs the sky Yet he lives and still he breathes As all the others die This man now stalks the land In search of another He must come to terms with A life that was snatched away Still the heavens burn And the world is cold and dead Seems we didn't learn From what the ancients said He's giving all he can A tired, broken man Always fighting to live Doing what he can Why have you left me as the only one? Crawling, clawing, a scavenger Fueled by the rays of the sun My planet, a corpse, its people just a memory Taken aback by the loss The complete and utter end Left there for all time He quickly realized Words of the ancients Showed them the way They threw them to the side Words of the ancients Spoken so long ago Ignored by them all Words of the ancients Still I remain, I wait for his return Man of fire, lord of dawn 5. Isolation Point 6. End of My Rope For the life of me, I can't recall Just when this life in me meant anything at all I feel this isolation Screaming, at the end of my rope I see the degradation Clinging, to the end of my rope Once again the last in line Burning, the end of my rope Who cares if I survive? I felt the same way, some time before Although this time, my feeling's pure Life is what I make it Come to my senses Before it's too late And hopefully some sanity returns It's real, this constant danger Nearing, the end of my rope The fear, looking over my shoulder Swinging, from the end of my rope I take the blade and hack away Slicing, at the end of my rope And as I fall I hope to see Another day, and this time it's all for me These things that I feel Are hard to keep down inside Try to determine the truth and the way All of us should try It's taking so long And I've got but one of these lives To live it so wrong Is to throw sand in the eyes 7. Winter Hand