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