Pallbearer
Mind Burns Alive
1. Where the Light Fades
We are frozen here
Picking at wounds we will not let heal
Cannot face mistakes
Too many fears of what might be real
Something else to blame
Another day, still playing the clown
Cannot take the pain
Every day drawn a little further down
Ever in the shade
There is comfort here
It's been so long
Rather hide away
Than face the day
When things could change
Maybe we could fly
But we never learned
To grow our wings
Maybe heaven's waiting
But we will never know
From so far down
In the temple of twilight
The quiet home
Of temporary spaces
Where the light fades
And a stillness overtakes
I can hear a void calling me
From somewhere deep down below
Feel my head going under
Feel my head going under
Going under
Going under
2. Mind Burns Alive
A glaze of sweat and kerosene
Will glisten like the rain
I've pored across the burning thoughts
To find the only way
That I can let you know
A proclamation of the the pain
The searing brand inside my head
So firmly held in place
My mind has ignited
I can feel it burning down
Watch and wonder as the embers glow
If my flame can be put out
The graceful notes, the sacred smoke
Will soon perfume the air
I will run to you as final proof
How deeply that I care
To put every wrong to right
You need a sacrificial lamb
Shades of orange and red leaping out of my head
Encompass what I am
My mind has ignited
I can feel it burning down
Watch and wonder as the embers glow
If my flame has been put out
My mind has ignited
I can feel it burning down
Watch and wonder as the embers glow
If my flame has been put out
3. Signals
Something else inside
You're not there
Replaced your eyes
With empty glass spheres
Crooked, hungry urge
Needs to feed
Countless empty words
Fail to mask the constant need
Promised it's alright
When you disappeared into the night
Long time ago
They slipped their fingers in
Now in dark corners
You still fear wickedness
Demons in your head
With no defenses
Those you leave behind
Always suffer the consequences
You tell me you wanna run
Wanna free yourself from pain
But the demons haunting you
Hold you in this place
Glimpses of who you might be
Revealed through the haze
Contrast stark reality
Signals sent from the smoke of a life ablaze
Searching to find
Something to hold
A place to hide
In a world so cold
Looking for a way to survive
A way to survive
A way to survive
The weight of your life
You tell me you wanna run
Wanna free yourself from pain
But the demons haunting you
Hold you in this place
Glimpses of who you might be
Revealed through the haze
Contrast stark reality
Signals sent from the smoke of a life ablaze
4. Endless Place
Here I am
Alone and so confused
Imprisoned
Where walls whisper solitude
Unwinding corridors
No notion where they lead
Any beauty on the surface
Hiding leagues of rot beneath
If you could hear me
Would you sense how far I've gone astray?
A little every day
I would pay dearly
To find a pathway to escape
And leave this endless place
So here I am
Lost within the maze
Indecision
A trudge through countless days
Labyrinthine avenues
No notion where they lead
Whispers burning like a furnace
It brings me to my knees
If you would see me
Could you tell how far I've gone astray?
A little every day
I will pay dearly
To find a pathway to escape
And leave this endless place
In splintered waves
Perceptions break
My journey here has been erased
A coiled array
Of great dismay
A voice will guide and I obey
Silent, but for the sound
Of echoes of footsteps
Timelessly circling
This world inside my head
Glorious emptiness
Where shadows dance within
Solitary wanderer
Lost inside forever
5. Daybreak
I formed these callouses
To guard against the fears I find
Ones deeply hidden
In all those places that I shield inside
I've always felt alone
Inside a room with curtains drawn
With just a sliver
Of radiance from coming dawn
So let the record show
Should I ever lose control
Without sure footing
Along this path I chose
On the day I break
Just sweep the pieces all away
Let them scatter
I don't need an after
Adorned with callouses
Countless hours march in line
As they harden
Cracks surround where fears reside
Like a fabric wearing thin
The warp and weft of all I've dreamed
Is growing threadbare
It's plainly tearing at the seams
So let the record show
Should I ever lose control
Without sure footing
Along this path I chose
On the day I break
Just sweep the pieces all away
And let them scatter
I don't need an after
6. With Disease
Blighted realm lies through many doors
Buried deep in shadow
Rage and despair hangs in the air
Once burgeoning, now gone fallow
There are those, time and again
Who get lost somewhere within
Invaded by thoughts and led astray
Drawn into delusion
We tread upon departed dreams, lying deep under stones
Upon lives that were guided to extremes
By confusion that is ever found, by forlorn filled with need
In the end, did they feel justified in the words they believed?
Living disaster
With broken hands clawing
Betrayed by a madness
Upon a soul gnawing
Taking everything
Lives filled with empty pursuits
A fate that keeps us on our knees
My mind is empty, too
Fill it up with disease
With disease
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