1. |
Witness The Shedding
03:44
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Caught in this ruthless cycle
Treading a treacherous path
On
It goes on
As we thirst for change
The dearth goes on and on
(On and on)
On
It goes on
All the holes get deeper
Still they continue to...
Dig on
They paint the streets crimson and lead
Pave it with the underprivileged
Adorn it with hearts of grief and dread
Drenched in floods of “change”
By the same old whores
Donning different masks
In their ivory towers of indifference
‘Cause power heeds only wealth’s commands
Our voices - just chatter
We watch them rise
Hope welling from our eyes
Discounting all the cries
How many times before
And how many times more
Must we fall prey to this design?
They rise
Only to crush every fiber of our dreams anew
Rights denied
They want us deaf and blind and numb and mute
To perpetuate the abuse
So when blood flows far from where we stand
It is of no consequence
Until all that is wrong becomes ignorable
Or better yet - worthy of support
We watch them rise
Pride gushing from inside
Reaching feverish highs
How many times before
And how many times more
Must we fall prey to this design?
We’ve seen this all before
The deplorable
But we chose to turn our heads
Until the knock is on our door
With all that we’ve ignored
What makes you think you can’t be next?
Trapped in this ruthless cycle
On this familiar path
Where we lie still and unquestioning
As we get trampled on
By the chosen gods
Still we watch them rise
Faith swaying our minds
Letting reason die
How many times before
And how many times more
Must we fall prey to this design?
We’ve seen this all before
It goes on and on
We’ve been through this before
It goes on and on
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2. |
Joy Unknowable
04:10
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Why do I feel like I'm being dragged and drowned
That I should have wings but instead I have this world weighing me down
I've always followed my own path
I make do with what I find
But why am I still in a place where I want to be farthest away from
Where every hope-filled start of a different day
Quickly succumbs to the same decay
It's getting harder to see the beauty in this existence
When everything I long for can't be found
It drags me further and further down
I don't want to feel this way anymore
I don't want to be this way anymore
But I can't help it, I can't help it
To deny what I feel inside would be to add another lie
In a lifetime of lies and denial
Hollow smiles and empty laughter
Can no longer mask the void that has been pulling me under
All I want is to stand firm in spite of it all
But how could I when there's no solid ground to stand on
Still, I try, but I fall, I try and I fail
(Will) I always live life on my knees
One with dirt and defeat
I don't want to be this way anymore
I don't want to feel this way anymore
I don't want to live this way anymore
I don't want to feel this way anymore
'Cause sometimes I feel that life doesn't want me around anymore
That my presence here has long ran its course
When almost every battle is lost
When I need a welcoming hand, opportunity shuts its doors
I'm slowly drifting towards dejection's all too familiar shore
I don't want this negativity inside me
I tried to disown it but the burden's truly mine to carry
I know now that I have to embrace it to fight it
Before it weakens me completely, overwhelms me
And becomes everything that I am
I don't want to feel this way anymore
I don't want to be this way anymore
I don't want to feel this hurt anymore
I don't want to live like this
I don't want to be this way anymore
I don't want to feel this ache anymore
I don't want to be this way anymore
I don't want to feel anymore
All I really want is to find true joy in this life
In a world where everything revolves around how much you have
And what you are is what you can show for it
The material, the artificial, the inconsequential
Which only serves to magnify the hole where my heart used to reside
As all life ends in the saddest of ways
I know mine will be the same
But when time finally takes away my need for air
I want these questions to remain
Am I wrong to ever feel this way?
Am I wrong to ever feel this way?
Am I wrong to ever feel this way?
Am I wrong to ever feel this way?
Am I wrong to ever feel?
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3. |
Continuance
04:02
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As we make our way
Towards another day
All the lost, hopeless, desperate, and aggrieved
We're caught in this mess
We know nothing, so we guess
While feigning comprehension like the rest
As if no one could tell
Behind the masks we wear
Each of us is going through some kind of hell
With no more lies to sell
And a truth we can't dispel
This place is but a lonely crowded cell
And how we lose our way
In trying to find a better place
But all the searches seem to be in vain
Are we only here to bear the pain?
We're all caught in this mess
We know nothing, so we guess
Still feigning comprehension like the rest
As if no one could tell
With no more lies to sell
There is no one here not experiencing hell
Just trying to find our way
In this truth-forbidding place
Where all the searches seem to be in vain
It seems we are only here to bear the pain
Of another day
Ah yes, another day
Why am I feeling nothing but the strain
Of living another day
Ah yes, another day
I would rather not feel anything
Ever again
As we lose our way
In this love-forsaken place
Where all the searches seem to be in vain
Are we only here to bear the pain?
We were all given the gift of flight
With a paralyzing fear of heights
We have all been given this gift of flight
With a paralyzing fear of heights
In a world that is nothing but cruel
You have to go through all the filth to last a day
The world is nothing but cruel
You have to go through all the filth to last a day
Oh sacred breath of life
Why is every chance to live you denied?
Oh sacred breath of life
Is it easier to leave you behind?
Than try to find our way
In this love-forsaken place
Were all the searches fruitless and vain?
Are we only here to bear this pain?
Over and over again
Until it all finally ends
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4. |
Swing
04:02
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Just when I felt I couldn't go on
That all the reasons have all gone
You became one
When I knew there wasn't any sense
To breathe a life so meaningless
You gave it worth
When I thought I've reached the end
You gave me the will to start again...and to mend
You give me something worth living for
You showed me a world still worth fighting for
When life just makes it unbearable
'Cause of you, I trudge on
When all that faith did was blind my eyes
I couldn't see past everyone's disguise
You gave me truth
When all the hurt would not subside
I felt I've died far too many times
You made me new
When I thought I've reached the end
You gave me the will to live again...and just mend
You give me something worth living for
You showed me a world still worth fighting for
When life just makes it unbearable
I will trudge on
Alone again
I know I'll never be alone again
Know that you'll never be alone again
I know I'll never be alone again
No, you'll never be alone
You are how I get through my bleakest days
You are why I get through my bleakest days
You are how I get through my bleakest days
You are why I get through the bleakest
In all this darkness
You, here, light my way
Everyday
You give me something worth living for
You showed me a world still worth fighting for
When life just makes it unbearable
You give me something worth living for
And much more
So much more
In a place of heartache and not much more
You are the reason I hang on
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5. |
Erase The Day
04:11
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Inconceivable
This can't be happening
My world shook
The nightmare crushing every blissful dream
When I saw what remained
I could not even bear to imagine the fear you must have felt
When it all fell and I was not there
I wish I could have been there with you
‘Cause there’s no one more precious and pure
Each smile can drown my heart with joy
The contentment I feel just watching you grow
And now you are there
In uncertainty's fold
Without my hand to hold
Without my hand to hold
I would have dried every tear
Assured you that there's nothing to fear
‘Cause I'm here
And I will never leave your side
But I have to contend with the fact that I am helpless outside
When I saw what remained
I could not even bear to imagine the fear you must have felt
When it all fell and I was not there
I wish I could have been there
I would have gladly taken your place
Erase this ordeal
Obliterate any trace of today
But I can’t
I’m still here
Waiting for you to be safely in my arms
Unharmed
For however long it takes
I will call your name
Hoping my voice makes you less afraid
‘Cause I'm here
Still here
I'm not leaving
I’m not leaving you
Then they brought you out
Breathless and limp
That’s when the heavens sent
Its cruelest shards to my heart, through my skin
How am I supposed to accept this?
How am I supposed to get through this?
How am I supposed to carry on?
Carry on, knowing...
I will never see you smile again
I will never hear you laugh again
Never feel your touch again
I will never be with you again
Did you even hear me before you left?
Now that you are gone
Somehow life still spins on
But only because it has to...
Life only goes on because it has to
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6. |
Transience
03:09
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All we are is what we are
And we're barely
Hanging on this fleeting line
Like fumbling puppets of time
Grabbing everything as fast as we can
In an attempt to make things better
Helplessly feeble minds with futile tasks
To find happiness within this mortal grasp
So sure we've found it in every feeling of gain
Only to watch it all dissipate
When beauty starts to fade
When youth turns to gray
When strength begins to wane
When all the gods have failed
When all the glory turns to shame
When values are sent to the grave
This life is meaningless and grey
When even love turns to disdain
When everyone just goes away
And even love turns to disdain
When everyone just goes away
Until we feel nothing but the drain
By hanging on this fleeting line
Us - fumbling puppets of time
Still clutching whatever we can
Desperate to make things better
Hopelessly feeble minds and such joyless hearts
Maybe real happiness was not meant for us
Triviality embraced to numb the hurt
For what’s been missing
We hold on to what we can
But everything will still be nothing in the end
When the bitter wind is done blowing our sandcastles clear
When the bitter wind is done blowing our sandcastles clear
We hold on as tightly as we can
But everything still turns to nothing in the end
When the bitter wind is done blowing our sandcastles clear
When the bitter wind is done blowing our sandcastles clear
We hold on to what we can
But everything becomes nothing in the end
When the bitter wind is done blowing our sandcastles clear
When the bitter wind is done blowing our sandcastles clear
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7. |
Vessel
04:17
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In a world that is becoming much too dark
Where each silver lining has all been blocked
By the blackest clouds of each passing day
Unfeeling - has it always been the usual way?
When did it become so easy to dehumanize
To ignore the life in somebody else's eyes
And keep on going like there's nothing wrong
“The world revolves around me alone”
I wish I didn't have to see
What it has all come to now
'Cause I think that I can no longer take
What this place has become
I need some kind of vessel
Something to take me where everything is better
And pain is of another world
Will I catch a glimpse of heaven
Or is it just this constant hell?
I need some kind of vessel
To course hope in my heart again
I wish we didn't have to be
What has become of us now
'Cause I'm losing all my faith
That there are better days to come
I need some kind of vessel
Something to take me where everything is better
Where hate is but another word
Could there really be a heaven
Or is it just another lie they tell?
I need some kind of vessel
To take me far away from here
'Cause I'm sick and tired
I'm so sick and tired
I'm sick and tired
I'm so sick and tired
I'm sick and tired
I'm so sick and tired
I'm sick and tired of this world that I see
The sadness it brings
If this is all that there is
I don't want to be here
I need some kind of vessel
Something to take me away
From all this pain
From all this hate
From all this greed
From all this death
From all this grief
From all this guilt
From all that I feel
Take me away
Take me away
Take me away
Take me away
From all of this
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8. |
Subservience
05:05
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What we long for
What we crave for
What we thirst for
What we desire
What we hope for
What we dream of all our lives
What we pray for
Our real messiahs
There are no greater gods
Than the ones we believe
Than the gods who will feed our ambitions
When want becomes need
What we steal for
What we kill for
What gives less value to other lives
What we live for
What we are willing to die for
Why souls are sold for a price
The prize
'Cause there are no greater gods
Than the ones we believe
Than the gods who will feed our ambitions
When want becomes need
There are no greater gods
Than the ones we believe
Than the gods who will feed our ambitions
As want turns to need
And as the world turns
So too shall we yearn for more
And as our time burns
So too shall we yearn for more
Then more and more
'Cause we...
We want to rule
We want to own
So let it be known
That we...
We want it now
We want it all
We want everything
Live your lie for the gods
Live your life for the gods
Bow to the gods
Kneel to the gods
Worship the gods
Be consumed by the gods
Worship the gods
Bow to the gods
Kneel to the gods
Be consumed by the gods
Power is our god, and
Greed is our god, and
Fame is our god, and
Hate is our god
Power is our god
Greed is our god
Fame is our god
Hate is our god
And we serve them well
We serve them well
We serve them well
We serve them well
We serve them well
We serve them well
We serve them well
We serve...
'Cause there are no greater gods
Than the ones we believe
Than the gods who will feed our ambitions
As want becomes need
There are no greater gods
Than the ones we believe
Than the gods who will feed our ambitions
As want turns to need
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9. |
Past The Sisyphean
03:44
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Like the banished light
Of another bleak night
All the chaos gave in to the weight of my eyes
Suddenly I’m somewhere
That I’ve never been
Yet somehow certain this is where I belong
Where I find peace in everything
Away from the noise and the static of the real
And all the hurt that the heart is filled with
They are much too distant now to feel
Now that I’m here
Where everything collapses, not towards ruin
But to give way to something wholly beautiful
No pain, no hate, no greed, no grief, no enslaving need to be fulfilled
No, not here
Where I’m at peace with everything
No pointless repetitions of the real
And all the hurt that the heart is filled with
They are much too distant now to feel
I’m already here
Indescribable. Inexplicable. Never felt before. A completeness.
Indescribable. Inexplicable. Never felt before. This utter joy…
Of being able to stand without the fear of falling
Where I am able to breathe and know its meaning
Now that I’m rid of the burden of all my longing
I’m finally able to be what I can only dream of being
Brokenness unexisting
Everything, at last, is clear
That this is the only essence of living
I hope I never have to leave this plane again
Where I’m at peace with everything
Away from the losing battles of the real
And all the hurt that the heart is filled with
They are much too distant now to feel
I’m finally here
Not a tear
I am here
Just here
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