Woe
Withdrawal
1. This Is The End Of The Story
This is the end of the story. The part that you don't want to hear. The heros are dead, the atmosphere burning, the narrative fragmented, words are disjointed. I'm smashing apart every statue, concrete faces that weathered the storms. Condemned to the dust with indictments they cast. Those all-knowing sneers.Die, die.The city is filling with poison, like the air is somehow alive. Hope is lost, fade away into emptiness. Celebrate the steady decline.Crushing the facade of all dreams.I collapse from the weight of my nothingness. I realize that everything fails. It bores in me; I'm bored of it, aboard a ship that's sinking and burning. My mouth fills with bile when I think of it, how the hatred consumes me alive. How many lifetimes spent in agony tearing at words that won't rip? An image, permanent.Crushing the facade of all dreams.Succumb to pressure bearing down. The end, exhausted, I have found that loss is a fire that always burns. And with these words, I am consumed.Everything is undone.Let my place go absent. I gasp for air and choke on fumes. Rot and shit and fear and failure. (One last look at it, one last breathe of it.) Fuck all this pageantry, I'll sing no more sweet words. Severed bones scream of silence. (Turn away. To the dust returned.)Crushing the facade of all dreams.With every second getting closer, life's out of hand, I'm out of reach. Gaps in this conscience growing deeper still. I see no reason to push on. Hands in the shadows, pulling us down. Tragedy's vessel.Solitude speaks through me. This is the ending.This is goodbye.This ends my confidence.This ends my pride.This is departure.This is defeat.This is a reckoning.I am now complete.
2. Carried By Waves To Remorseless Shores Of The Truth
Spit from the river, we floated, adrift in yearning waves. An unending torrent of desperation. Emptiness, a raft. We clung with feeble hope, sweat into the air, screamed into the night. In pursuit forever, just drifting ever onward, no words to make this right.
Warm in our hands were the tools of our destruction. Desire dripping from all pores. Waiting inside were the keys to raise the gates from every dam. Desire dripping from all pores.
A yawning void with a furious pull. A secret demanding you learn. Heart pumping fast with the nearing of the kill. Desire dripped from all pores.
Unrestrained violence propelled us through the night. The vicious degradation that robbed us of our pride. The fear; the power, hysterical hatred was thrusting ever forward. A pulsing presence that would be not be denied. A vulgar acquiescence to the horrors of the mind. for then, for always, a potent reminder that life is exploitation. I feel the terror both awake and in my dreams. the world has become smaller and I can't escape your screams. The need, the horror, the compounding judgement of...
Eyes are wide with fear and clothes are soaked from terror. Knowing death is near, their eyes are filled with horror. Every cell inside is calling my a liar. Nothing dulls the pain. Your eyes were filled with fire.
[Solo: CG]
Eyes are wide with fear and clothes are soaked from terror. Knowing death is near, their eyes are filled with horror. Every cell inside is calling me a liar. Nothing dulls the pain. Your eyes were filled with fire. Carnal pounding in my chest, a new desire. Everything was wrong. My words have become daggers. Fear replaces hope that drives you as a child. There is no turning back until this world is on fire.
Carried by waves to remorseless shores of the truth.
A predator lives inside of every man. It victimizes everything it can. It justifies its needs at your expense. We all fuck each other, there is no defense. We're all fucked. There is no defense.
3. All Bridges Burned
Where do we go from here? When all lasting visions fade to scenes of how we've failed? When emptiness supplants promises made to last? When the road to progress drops away, reveals itself as a cliff to dive from? I have decided to leave. But with every hour, each answer leads to more questions asked. At what point is departure a worthy path? And with silence cast, how far reaches the fire left in my wake?
I see the color fading from your eyes.
I concentrate on the end. On nonexistence, the nothingness one cannot know. silent expanse stretching endlessly beyond time. An unending black meditation.
To the dark I flee, eyes drawn to the night. I scream out but the words escape me. All the reason flees, nothing pure survives. Alone, I feel the energy envelop me. to the end I'm pulled, eyes drawn to the void, offering its union, silence, without price. voices floating near, faceless in the sky. A battle in my consciousnesses to push past all the doubt. Abandon all positions and seek solace in the ground. Melodramatic premonitions that the end would offer peace. Is it hope or is it terror that wards off this cold that summons me?
[Solo: CG]
To nothing we return. The final cost that life incurs, locked away to memory's shackles. Where I go, there's only loss. Chilling waves surrounding me, horrified by love's embrace.
"Death is all we can know
Finality of what we've sown
The aeons pass, all hope denied
To the darkness joined with starless skies
Death is all we can know
As time goes on, complacence grows
In servitude we waste away
As if these things matter, as if anything lasts"
I see the color fading from your eyes. Fear the unknown of the other side. Something's got to change. I'm learning not to care. I'm never coming back. All bridges burned.
Something's got to change. I'm learning not to care. I'm never coming back. All bridges burned.
4. Ceaseless Jaws
Need, she hides in the silence. Fantasizes about how you'll touch. The warmth of your tears as she draws you near, over and over again.And you seeping wet massFalling againSpilling out to circle the drain.She drinks you down and spits you out into so many pieces. Puddles of your ego. Stains of who you thought you were. Obsession stands just behind you, whispering into your ears. Knows all of the ways to guide you to relive your fears.Consumed and penetrated, compromised and beaten down. Alone and medicated, anchored tight to help you drown. Deep in this living tissue, frozen claws compel the mind. Some slaves, they choose their masters, others are born into their lives...Gather the wind. It won't lift you up from where you've landed. Consumed by guilt. Faceless forces drain you empty. Covered in scars. Who can see the hooks that guide you? Helpless to change. Forced to kneel forever in the dirt.And in your proudest moments, swore you'd grow, swore you'd change. Such grandiose convictions. Who then, now, is left to blame?Eaten alive. Flesh torn from bone. You're left a shell. Condemned as prey to compulsion's ceaseless jaws.Need, she hides in the silence. Fantasizes about how you'll touch. The warmth of your tears as she draws you near, over and over again. Obsession stands just behind you, whispering into your ears. Knows all of the ways to guide you. She knows all of your fears.
5. Song Of My Undoing
When I was young, I believed that I'd be complete and one day I would see that life is beautiful. This calming belief, such an immature dream, as if time was a stream and peace its estuary. Yearned for release, hallucinating that the words of another could easy my frailty. Desperate to soothe the longing that hung from my bones like a skin, a wound, a sore, though finally closed, still burns.
Simple meanings drawn from silence. Towards the edge of Sorrow's open arms.Love, a frozen flame. These words will be my undoing. Trust, and with it came a promise of loss.Selfish urges bind together flesh and hope to pierce and weather. I think of you, I see your tears and anger. The freezing silence crashing down in bitter waves.Flesh fades away and I fear I'll find these words will be my undoing. Love, a frozen flame. these words will be my undoing. Truth, and with it came a promise of loss.The sum of virtue is rot.Frozen, I have become porous, depraved, something born without a shadow. Fragments and memories, collapse into myself, feel these urges all dissolving. void that ingests our hopes reigns within these veins. Compulsion and confinement. Are these our final words? Labyrinthine exchange. Condemnation is the truest human form...Tragedy borne of human madness. Withdraw from the world and its lack of meaning. ripping it all down, this massive fucking tomb. Ravaged skies rain tears of nothing. I'm telling myself that there is only temporary grace and nothing is sacred. I tire of this journey, loathe its pretensions. Wasted hours carved in flesh. Remember my name for the hate that it brings. Discard the rest.Into the night, we were cast without a sound. to the darkness, where words are never found. Take my hand and be warm against my side. To the gallows where death will make things right.
6. Exhausted
Waste away, I'm breaking down. Who am I and how did this happen? Never thought I'd be this way. The ceiling's low, I'm growing taller. Each day seems to be still longer. No escape, there's no escape. Close my eyes, my head is pounding, searing knives that slice my skin. Every moment still worse than the last.
"Fury, my friend, here we are again. You were never far away. Nothing's really changed. The sky is still the same. The same dead fixtures, a different name.
Hate draws you in, wishing for an end. How I plotted and I schemed. Living a lie, failing though I try. Teeth are falling out in my dreams."
Nothing matters.
Nothing...
It's a fraud, it's a lie, nothing matters, still we try.
Exhausted.
I scream it with open arms.
I give up and fade away to silent sleep.
[Solo: BB]
Hatred lights the way. A torch through the dark.
Death can't help but laugh and taunt us with eternal slumber. All our hopes and our dreams are sand beneath our feet.
7. Withdrawal
Crying out.Seeping down.Torn away, apart, alone.Clothes unwashed.Body numb.Words repeat in jagged circles.Drained of hope.Strength is gone.Eyes are fixed upon the ground.Chased by pain.Loss pervades.Frantic dark.Beg for rest.Withdrawal.
Chris Grigg ‒ Vocals, Guitars
Grzesiek Czapla ‒ Bass, Vocals
Ben Brand ‒ Guitars
Ruston Grosse ‒ Drums
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