Beyond the Embrace

e, now it's time to sell my soul
And sleepwalk to an early grave

Fleshengine breakdown
Fleshengine breakdown give me what I need

Will I see the light and spot the error of my ways
Will I see the light and purify my poison veins
Not tonight that's for god damn sure

Now that all is said and done
I'm burnin' bridges one by one
Ironically brought to an end at the hand of my one true friend
That sorry bastard never sleeps

Fleshengine breakdown
Fleshengine breakdown

Will I see the light and spot the error of my ways
Will I see the light and purify my poison veins
Will I see the light and spot the error of my ways
Will I see the light and do it all just one more time?


2. Plague

Arise, arise and face the day head on, these shattered wings still trying to heal
So I slip into another skin, erasing forward progression, and stumbling
across these boundaries again
Am I me or has he been dissolved?
Infected with the world's disease still singing to the insect song
So I endure at what a cost, put a price on my sanity, so hard to find body
and mind, both of which consumed by slow decay

What I need is so elusive
Antidote for the incurable
Living in fear of what the future brings

Inject it into my life--the cure for this heartache
Inject it into my life--a moment of clarity
Inject it into my life--the reason to live one more day, 'cause my will is
fading

Can you feel it?
As the day now turns to night, I can feel my wounds begin to mend
I must preserve my strength, 'cause with the dawn they come again

So I slip into another skin, erasing forward progression, and stumbling on
these boundaries again
Am I me or has he been dissolved like the sun in my night, vicious circles
burning up inside
Feel the pressure of falling apart

What I need is so elusive
Antidote for the incurable
Living in fear of what the future brings

Inject it into my life--the cure for this heartache
Inject it into my life--a moment of clarity
Inject it into my life--the reason to live one more day, 'cause my will is
fading.


3. My Fall

So I travel on this road of emptiness another day
As I hold these dust cloud dreams an instant fore they're blown away
Could it be all this life's for is suffering?
'Cause the sea is deep and I'm drowning in all the tragedies

So I bleed maybe once or twice to rid the seeds from my veins
The seeds that harvest the pain, all the pain of my darkest days
And I've waited long enough for these things to change
So I'll have no regrets before I take the blade

As I lay down for the last time and leave all emotions behind
Thinking not of the ones I'm leaving
Just the hurt and the pain inside

Oh the wait is over, letting go tonight
The end of life is calling, echoing my fall from grace
But I fear what lies ahead as my heart stops beating
The change of life after death.


4. ...Of Every Strain

Why can't I feel the life that I breathe?
Why am I so consumed?
Despair the face of every strain my thoughts are weak and torn

Reap what you have sewn
The flame that burns my heart is blown

I wear a face that hides my pain amidst my world of anger
How much longer can I remain, behind this mask of the damned
As I walk along this bacchanal of sin
It allows the darkness of my soul to fester within

Reap what you have sewn
My faith in life is gone

This world prepares a feverfeast that feeds the beast
Governed by the wayward souls of forgotten worlds
My world prepares a feverveast that feeds the beast
Spoken by the wayward souls, their forgotten words

I bide my time awaiting one final chance to reflect on the past
Of this disease I call my life

As I walk along this bacchanal of sin
It allows the darkness of my soul to fester within

Reap what you have sewn, my faith in life is gone

This world prepares a feverfeast that feeds the beast
Governed by the wayward souls of forgotten worlds
My world prepares a feverveast that feeds the beast
Spoken by the wayward souls, their forgotten words.


5. Redeemer

I reflect the light, I'm that god damn noose so warm and tight
I'm buried in a gallery of failures
I'm the fluid in your veins
The black star in your blood red sky
And I'm stricken with a mouthful of poison

I am one with misery
Is someone out there 'cause this life is killing me

So I try to see the light
With my demons begging me to die
How can I trust the light?

Come take all this hate, come and burn it away
Be the one that I crave, redeemer, be the one that could save

I'm the bastard in your cries, the one who's always crucified
All alone, so self destructive
An appetite that won't subside
Tragedies that multiply
And still feeding that goddamn addiction

I am one with misery
Someone be there, life is killing me

How can I be bound to this pain
How can I be bound to this fate
God damn you!! God damn you all!!!

Come take all this hate, come and burn it away
Be the one that I crave, redeemer, be the one that could save.


6. Insect Song

Can you taste it on your lips
The sweet mutation overflows
Ever wanting to be like them

Can you hear it in the air
The sound of progress and its whore
Infiltrating all we know
All we know...

The ants go marching one by one
To a grave as yet undug
A poison mind begets its host

Now he stands unbroken
The traveler sees his fate
And still he wants to be like them
...be like them

Waiting in line for the vaccination
Destination, annihilation
Foreclosure by the fever that brings
The truth behind the lyrics they sing

You're forced to be like them?!

Reencoding the DNA
A new species still unnamed
Distorted past gave birth to them

From here on out it's in our blood
And you know it won't be long
Before you hear the insect song!
...before you hear the insect song!

Waiting in line for the vaccination
Destination, annihilation
Foreclosure by the fever that brings
The truth behind the lyrics they sing.


7. Ashes

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8. Weak And The Wounded

Closed eyes that walk among us, building castles in the air
Lost in degeneration, absence in all you know
Shed skin to hide reflection leaving no trail behind
Neck deep in contradiction
Forked tongue behind the smile

Making its way in the dark
About to decide which way to go
A life of disdain, a world left unchanged
Condemned to swim against the grain
The sun sets on existence, as one drowns in the flow
The bending sea forever circles around us all

We've built a culture where ignorance is bliss
Brought unto this world human inflicted

Why should we fall to the masses each day?
Why did we come this far to just turn back anyway?
We're auditioning for our own demise, and immune to the screaming

So tie me up alone, far from the system hold
I feel no patience, I see no cure
Evolved in reverse
Rise, fall...it's your choice

How did it all come to this???
I want to know why...


9. Absent

I breathe the absence of life, in a part of every breath I take
Inhaling afterthoughts of ruin...and regret
So no hope remains as I take another glass of pain
And I swallow knowing things will stay the same
I see that everything has gone so wrong for me
And I wait and see if I can welcome back the light
I'm following the suffering
And the ones that never heal
They're a part of me and I can't just leave them behind

So I cry these acid tears, as I weep for those like me
The ones whose apathy, ahderes them to this fate
So I lie awake and the bottle always calls my name
With an offering that I cannot refuse
Who will come to taste the quality of despair
It's so sweet that I enjoy it time and time again
is it charity that calls to me selling fragments of her soul
Is a part of me foolish enough to indulge

When the time comes let the blow come quickly and the blood run red
I worry not 'cause I'm already dead

So I'll not speak my last words
For I've already said enough
Their painted on the walls
So will you bleed for me
And together we will cross the sea
Two for the ferryman to take our souls across
I see that everything has gone so wrong for me
And I wait to see if I can welcome back the light
Following the suffering for the best parts of my life
Now your rid of me
But I'm not the only one.


10. Within

Have you ever stopped to think
About these moments in between
Concerned not with life
While existence stands at the edge of a knife
We eat the lies, then drink and dance to the insect song
No promise of a better day as empty words get washed away

Can't stop the bleeding in my head
Can't stop the pain
Can't stop this world that we've deranged
Can't stop the burning from within

Ever stopped to think
Our one guarantee in life is death
Man made end in sight
Bite down, go without regrets

Can't stop the bleeding in my head
Can't stop the pain
Can't stop this world that we've deranged
Can't stop the burning from within

In a final moment, when a restless tide begins to turn
The ones will realize that the final lesson...can't be learned

Ever stopped to think
About these moments in between
Could you only make for one more
What the fuck would it be???

Can't stop the bleeding in my head
Can't stop the pain
Can't stop this world that we've deranged!!!