The Human Abstract Album

Inching nearer each and every moment,
Feel the rhythm of our drums.
Searching, seeking
Forward thinking,
A dawning of mind that we create.
A border breaking for the taking,
Words that remind us to awake.

I don't need a bold commandment
I've got one of my own.
Stand alone.
Let's watch Babylon fall, our captivity.
Vices of the kingdom, exile in luxury.

You'll hear the darkest voice say
Bow before, crawl beneath,
Dance around my altar,
If you grovel long enough.
Someday I will let you be as pure.

I don't need a bold commandment
I've got one of my own.
Stand alone.
Let's watch Babylon fall, our captivity.
Vices of the kingdom, exile in luxury.

By burden of blood we saw reflections of who we are,
As the knowledge that burns in our hearts takes charge.

Blessings made at a house in the distance.
An unworthy authority looking to find a worthy culprit.
Accounting lost, stranded hindsight, words were not enough.
Repeat the cycle with devils in your veins.

More than simply shaken, a line divides.
Blood ties are forsaken, grudges still are found
In kindred we are bound.

By burden of blood we saw reflections of who we are,
As the knowledge that burns in our hearts takes charge.

So deep in our blood, ages come, ages go, never freed.
Never.
That's what you told me.
Time and again we have them down on their knees.
Beg for mercy, beg, time and again,
How many times will I be called to feel this rage?
How many times will I be taken to that place?
No peace of mind until the seas run dry.

By burden of blood we saw reflections of who we are,
As the knowledge that burns in our hearts takes charge.

Forced to inflict these scars, reflections of who we are.
A legacy carried on too long.

Hollow self indulgence leading the way
In the wake of intent that day
At the fault line, at the fault line we were
Searching for answers
Filthy crimes, power play
Grasping for our lessons overthrown

What you've gone and done now...

It's hard to get over
Events of the past have carried
A lasting grudge toward a pure heart
I'm calling out a false hero

Lay your plans,
I'll play Rome, false martyr, take a stand
Lay your plans.
With broken heart, I've finally become a man

Past the sights and the sound
Cloak and dagger are found
No wonder here, just an echo resounding

Hardship owns all that remains
Red queen, a fallen Knight on the way that day
At the fault line, at the fault line we were
Searching for answers
Filthy crimes, power play
Grasping for our lessons overthrown

Caught in the act, right in our midst,
A snake in the grass. No honor,
As night fell on my soul

Of all the times I've been disrespected,
You'd think it'd be no surprise.
Learning lessons, all the precious treasures
Take all that you've got.
I'll take your ready hand with a ready blade.
I'm dead set to make you lie in the bed you've made.

Paid in full, I'll take it from your pride,
I don't know just what you thought
But you've gone past the line, and you've got me wrong.

The time has come, your song has long been sung.
Brought down, you won't have long to go.
I'm not cutting a loss again.

An hourglass of sand and I'll be on time, inform the rest.
Run as fast as you can.
Hell's coming for you.
Try to strike and then slip away,
But I won't let you leave without feeling an equal pain.
You'll see, because I'll make you see.
Left in my council you'll know what it means to respect me.
Once I've caught you alone, I'll teach you all you need to know.
Pray, once I've caught you alone,
That I teach you all you need to know.

The time has come, your song has long been sung.
Brought down, you won't have long to go.
I'm not cutting a loss again.

Each of us has boundaries, everyone has got a breaking point.

I wish I held desire solely to right this wrong,
Take careful tones urging the dawn to come,
Make every word worth what it takes in turn,
But I can't go on with my faith interrupted.
How can I look the other way?
My faith interrupted.
You've shown me there is no other way out.

[No lyrics]

We shared a common trade of reasoning out the years
Of failed affections and faces to forget
You should have told me
That the ties that made it all worth the while
Were quickly becoming a race to the blame

I tried to gain the advantage over you
It's plain to see there's nothing I could do or say
I tried to gain the advantage over you
A sad parade with nothing left to lose or gain

I could feel it coming
Like a train wreck, rumbling off the tracks
With every ounce of strength
I strained to pay back that dirty money
And the fortune abstract, but there's no feeling left intact
For the victim is now a god,
Doling out judgment, strike with divining rod

I don't want to get involved, looks like you're doing fine
But when I lay up at night, I can feel your eyes
And I can see your eyes, and I go rushing in to a world inside
Where there's none in between, and nothing can be denied
Struck down and stripped of pride,
That I could forgive you for once in our lives
But I failed, and I don't know why, I'll never know why
I failed and I don't know why

I tried to gain the advantage over you
It's plain to see there's nothing I could do or say
I tried to gain the advantage over you
A sad parade with nothing left to lose or gain

Pressure
Pressure is all we've got

The less you know the more you strain to reach out to see in the balance there's nothing free
It took the best of them down with a single blow

Brace yourself for the challenge ahead,
Don't waste your breath on what you know
Brace yourself for the challenge ahead, you've got to pace yourself the last to go

I journeyed to the edge of all my tears and counted every night I fought alone/bartered
I pray that you could feel like I do, never to remain a martyr

The less you know, you're getting shadowed by vanity
Somehow rage becomes clarity
You'll find it deep in my family

It took the best of us down
I journeyed to the edge of all my tears and counted every night I fought alone/bartered
I pray that you could feel like I do, never to endure a heart of stone


All of your enemies are out to change you
The greatest weapon of etiquette
I traded serentiy, to realize the struggle of knowing what I could get
I took part in a dream where nobody told me where to go or who to be

It opened my eyes
Never will I know of peace again

It opened my eyes
Never will I know of peace again

It opened my eyes
Never will I know, never will I know
Never will I know, never will I know

It opened my eyes
Never will I know of peace again

Pressure is building to no end
Pressure is all we've got

Pressure is all we've got
This won't end in failure

Don't fight it, look at it, another setback to slow you
Another day in vain, passing on, move along
Another dream is gone
You see that's how it goes in the game
We play, only to learn and train for our next mistake
To heal and break, growing strong in the wake

Seems like in no one I can rely
Don't you tell me I won't survive
Thousands tell you that you won't survive
I'll survive
I'll survive

I've become my fears...you want my surrender?
You'll find no surrender here

Just loss and gain, look around

Losses impossible
You've got to pay the cost impossible
To make the impossible possible
You can't just throw it away
Fading one day to the next

Tamed by a siren song, tempted to belong
To an ordinary life...ask yourself why

Don't you let them pave your way, don't you play their game
Don't you pray for rain, look inside

Don't you let them pave your way, don't you play their game
Don't you pray for rain, look inside

At what you'll find it's all in your mind

Regain an honor disappearing
It's a power, a birthright disappearing, it's a call to save what remains

Fools regret until they die
Forgive yourself
Fools regret until they die
Forgive yourself back to life
Forgive yourself back to life
Forgive yourself back to life

I'm not ashamed to say I take pleasure in burning all of my epitaphs
Turning the sands of time into glass

Push through here and beyond
Endure every trial, breaking in from the outside
Back to the struggle to then find strength in a starting over
I vowed not to spend my life comforted by enclosure

Better to cry out in pain than be uninvolved
Silent and lame to the life that beckons us

Sirens calling me over the hills and trails
There to wander so restlessly, bold and tireless
Seeking to broaden the lines dividing identity

Push through here and beyond
Endure every trial, breaking in from the outside
Back to the struggle to then find strength in a starting over
I vowed not to spend my life comforted by enclosure

Better to cry out in pain than be uninvolved
Silent and lame to the life that beckons us

The task at hand
To unleash the bondage
Of endless lives, pressures, actions, questions
Answers giving birth to questions
Unfolding like the petals of a lotus
Eternal longing until we die no more

Because you never hold on to the spoils you've won
All your triumphs in vain if you can't embrace a change
All the paths I've been down, I still have never found
Something lasting through the years
But all these worthless fears that mean nothing
Compare your life, your loves
To the vastness of the endless stars above

Standing, strong and tall.
Outside hear their call.

Tear down the wall, upper echelon, blackest of them all.
Tear down the wall, Sold us into sorrow.

Don't pity our cause, for the laws you've disowned.
Pagan prophecy has come to be.
Thrown molotovs mark the fall of a throne.
And dead philosophy, we're not to be owned.

Paid slaves heed to the masters voice,
The scales offset without a choice.
Debts of the spirit.

Tear down the wall, upper echelon, blackest of them all.
Tear down the wall, Sold us into sorrow.
Tear down the wall, You love to watch the weaker ones crawl

No chance of your own conscience turning the tide.

[No lyrics]

A story without a name.
A desert journey that we became.
Another test of our power overcoming on a black day.
Appalling how they're running for the honor like a campaign.
To rise against the leaders of a phony dead scene in a magazine.
I always figured there was something more.

Gone, so many friends and lovers.
So far, nothing to show in turn.

They'll take it all back, all those empty words.
I'll show the dregs where all their slander has led,
if it takes my whole life, for all the tears that I have shed
They'll take it back, I'm making a pact.
They'll take it back, I'm making a promise.
I'm eager to the task, exposing all who wear a mask.

It must be done.

The storm yet to come binds us as one.
Through it all, loneliness and adversity,
Failure and injustices only guide us on our way.
So pry, you won't be finding a faker,
Nor will an opportune moment arise.

Gone, so many friends and lovers.
So far, nothing to show in turn.