Harboring Destruction

My Demise

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I finally give into my own demise now.

Smoke in lung, tongue in my cheek.

Is this who I will be?  Is it me or is this just a dream?

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On and on, predictable.  You were right.

I should abstain from the horror of knowing you.

You are my demise.

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The fault, it will lie within.

I’m broken from living in this dream.

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On and on, predictable.  You were right.

I should abstain from the horror of knowing you.

You are my demise.

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The pain brings me to my knees.

Lose everything.  I’ve found my worst nightmare.

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(I am not your slave,

I am not your whore,

I am not your son,

I am not your world)

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(I am not the way,

I am not the one,

I am not the way,

I am not the one.)

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Burn my demons.

Finally fucking free from the vice of my past life.

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Horror I can’t bear.  Follow them down into despair.

Or break away from all that scars.

You are my demise.

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Light will find a way into black hearts.

But you could never hide from the dark.

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Find the light inside that I try to hide.

I am not afraid of what this life brings.

On and on, forever my own demise.

Myocarditis

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Nostalgia falls on me.  Lost in the memories.

It was the time of our lives.

On the (on the) ship we’re in you have ( you have) given in.

As you (as you) walk the plank I’m going overboard.

Drowning in misery.  Your tears will make me sink,

as you slip through my fingers.

And now (and now) as you drift away (away) from your life,

soak in (soak in) all that you have crushed.

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Your hubris has sickened me.

The air around is thickening.

The wounds you made are visceral,

and you’re consumed by your chemicals.

Scream and shout when you say my name,

I know it’s part of your game.

You can blame, blame it all on me.

Whatever you need to help you sleep.

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You deserve the avalanche,

from everything you have discarded over your shoulder.

Tongue as (tongue as) sharp as the knife in (knife in) in my back.

Slide it (slide it) out bask in the void that is left.

You can’t fight your way out of all of the things that you’ve done.

The waves will salt your wounds and return the favor.

I can’t (I can’t) find the words that you (that you) want to hear

If  I did you’d be the first to know.

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Your hubris has sickened me.

The air around is thickening.

The wounds you made are visceral,

and you’re consumed by your chemicals.

Scream and shout when you say my name.

I know it’s part of your game.

You can blame, blame it all one.

 Whatever you need to help you sleep.

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Open your eyes, see all that you have crushed.

Look in your soul, see all you’ve lost.

I won’t be your fix anymore.

Believe it only get worse for you,

if your cursed ways leave you to bleed.

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(Die)

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See all that you have lost

Up In Arms

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The cowards of intent can revel in regret.

We won’t sit back when it happens.

No longer sustained by scraps that are left.

We’re coming to fight for what is ours.

And with the fear no longer a factor,

Our minds are free to Baker Act yours.

Take up in arms, defend what we have.

Because we are one.

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So take cover, shield from the fallout.

This isn’t over because we are not alone.

Being amid these challenges will only strengthen.

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So you can act invisible.

Berate who we are like we are less.

But when it’s time to face the music,

You are so secluded.

This resilient resistance is of our own militia.

Take up in arms, defend what we have.

Because we are one.

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So take cover, shield from the fallout.

This isn’t over because we are not alone.

Being amid these challenges will only strengthen us.

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The pursuit of what we want

Won’t falter because of you.

(Won’t falter because of you) (x2)

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Wage a war on the undone.

Despite our challenges we are one.

Wage a war to overcome.

Despite our challenges we are one. (x2)

Harboring

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Harboring everything that I hold dear in this life.

I will sacrifice to endure the pain of all he’s left,

In his wake. (Path of destruction)

This chaotic balance, corrupt in a way.

I would banish evil, he’d put the world in chains.

What would you do when your refuge crumbles?

Learn to cope or be stifled?

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The adaption of the disease they call love plagues my heart.

No one seems to know that they are not alone.

The burden of the broken is where I call home.

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Harboring everything.

When you’re pulled from the rubble I will steal your pain.

For inexorable interruption is coming, 

(Wrath of destruction.)

Resentment and hatred translate to decay.

I would banish evil, he’d put the world in chains.

What would you do when your refuge crumbles?

Learn to cope of be stifled?

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The adaption of the disease they call love plagues my heart.

No one seems to know that they are not alone.

The burden of the broken is where I call home.

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Beware of what precedes you when fault of man will show through.

Illusions of grandeur will contribute to your destruction.

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Lean on me or be vigilant.

He will prey on the weak and the sick. (x2)

Hollowed

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Loss dredges deeper in, revealing a weaker man.

I wish I could go back to when I was intact.

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Life can be ruse with all it takes from you

And I’d give it all up just to have you back here.

I would set a fire for miles in your honor if I knew

That you could watch this town burn. 

(We could watch it burn)

Leave an empty shell on top of hallowed ground,

It’s all (it’s all up in smoke) gone up in smoke.

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Vacancy takes it’s toll.  The years I’ve lost are adding up.

So forego your sympathy, because it means nothing.

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6ft under ground it’s hard to hear me out

And I’d dig it all up just to have you back here.

I’d set a fire to them all if I knew that you’d fall.

Being ‘em to this hell and watch it burn.

Leave their empty shells on top of hallowed ground,

It’s all (it’s all up in smoke) gone up in smoke.

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The end is near.

We all face it sooner of later.

The end has come for you.

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Slash and burn.

Fall Into Nothing

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When she raises up, slams down her glass…

And I know she’s coming back to my arms tonight.

When all else fails, tie her up.  She’s not going anywhere.

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Break into another heart, thoughts get led astray.

Tempted by the look in her eyes, I succumb to her.

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Am I the only one?

(am I, am I)

Are you the only one?

(are you, are you, are you)

Take me home, and when we’re all alone…

Take me in your arms.

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We fall into nothing, the guilt starts to eat away.

Drunk on lust, lost in her stare. We’re not going anywhere.

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Cut into the part I hate, use and throw away.

Pulled in by her nails in my back. Slide under her skin.

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Am I the only one?

(am I, am I)

Are you the only one?

(are you, are you, are you)

Take me home, and when we’re all alone…

Take me in your arms.

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Fall into nothing again.

Familiar place we’ve  come to hate.

Your exhale fills my lungs as we fall.

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Fall into my heart. x4

Our time has come for us to…

Our time has come for us to go home.

Time has come fur us to go home.

Out time has come now.

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Am I the only one?

(am I, am I)

Are you the only one?

(are you, are you, are you)

Take me home, and when we’re all alone…

Take me in your arms.

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And I slowly walk away, feeling so unfulfilled.

And I know what comes next.

And I know that it’s the end.

Indifference

Paralyzing destiny, buried alive by all your dreams.

With all your plans collecting dust, who will pick them up?

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Break free (break free), rise from the depths.

Break free (break free), or suffer the consequence.

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You’re sedentarily your own enemy and poisoned by the stay of mediocrity.

You’ve given up on your will to survive and I can tell by the look in your eyes.

An abyss that’s so empty. Abandon all your apathy.

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You’re missing our and might as well be six feet underground.

You should hold the funeral for your complacency.

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Break free (break free), rise from the depths.

Break free (break free), or suffer the consequence.

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You’re sedentarily your own enemy and poisoned by the stay of mediocrity.

You’ve given up on your will to survive and I can tell by the look in your eyes.

An abyss that’s so empty. Abandon all your apathy.

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You owe you everything that you can.

You owe me nothing but a reason to believe.

That I can trust in you to break through the surface.

Claw, kick and fight your way through all of the pressure.

 

Stay true to who you really are.

Try not to fall apart at the first sign of resistance.

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Unearth yourself, brush off the dirt that is your denial.

To over come the obstacles you need to face yourself.

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Break free (Break free), rise from the depths.

Break free (Break free), awaken to your existence.

Lifeless

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You lack moral stature. Blissful ignorant.

Wake o’ somnambulist. What’s your catalyst?

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Time to inoculate, inject with honesty.

Create a tragedy, we’ll drink the Nepenthe.

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We know that your effort often falls too short.

Unfazed by your downfall, you’re lost it all.

Cave into what ails you. Self-obsessive fortitude.

Join us in your quest to oppress.

I am the lifeless, welcome to lifelessness.

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Your wounds unsutured and you’re so cavalier. 

A sad story, when will it ever end?

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And I hope it’s not too late for you to find your way

back to reality and end your suffering.

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We know that your effort often falls too short.

Unfazed by your downfall, you’ve lost it all.

Cave into what ails you. Self-obsessive fortitude.

Join us in your quest to oppress.

I am the lifeless, welcome to lifelessness now.

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And when the endgame arrives you’ll be all alone.

No one there to be your victim anymore.

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Time to inoculate, inject with honesty.

And I hope it’s not too late for you to find your way back.

Enrapture

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Drifting aimlessly centered by your gravity.

In the way you move, your trails can intoxicate.

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So many words in this world,

and yet you can leave me speechless.

If this is just a dream, it’s a lucid one.

So please don’t (so please don’t) ever wake me up.

My life now unfettered, this is reality…enrapture me.

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A force so immeasurable and indefinite.

I’m assured you’re all that’s here, in my atmosphere.

Captured in a cerebral plunge, falling into you.

A descent into ethereal symmetry.

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So many words in this world,

and yet you can leave me speechless.

If this is just a dream, it’s a lucid one.

So please don’t (so please don’t) ever wake me up.

My life now unfettered, this is reality…enrapture me.

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Lives intertwined, rotating, radiant. (On our own axis)

And no matter the tempest, we seek to be refined.

A slave to an immense impulse with a stellar aim.

Transcend into this cosmic unity.

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So many words in this world,

and yet you can leave me speechless.

If this is just a dream, it’s a lucid one.

So please don’t (so please don’t) ever wake me up.

My life now unfettered, this is reality…enrapture me.

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You captivate I gravitate to you, to you, to you. (x2)

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You captivate,  I gravitate. I am nothing without you. (x3)

Destruction

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Detriment in favor of the aggressor.

Again I will be unscathed, again my ways unchanged.

All in my path, in danger of the…

Miserable masochist, littered with entropy.

Plagued by ignorance, therein lies my solace.

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The guilty will run from me.

(As I consume their dreams)

Can’t hide from what you owe me.

(When I reduce your means)

So where’s your laws?

(When I commit my crimes)

So where’s your lines?

(When it all falls down)

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You’ve mistaken me for a friend.

I breathe in the darkness, I exhale only penance.

You’ve mistaken situations.

I breathe in the darkness, I exhale only penance.

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The guilty will run from me.

(As I consume their dreams)

Can’t hide from what you owe me.

(When I reduce your means)

So where’s your laws?

(When I commit my crimes)

So where’s your lines?

(When it all falls down)

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Opportunist preying on your apparent failures.

You’re just a pawn in a game that you can not win.

Under fire, in danger of the…

Strikes and shrapnel from which there’s no escape.

I will leave you broken…

Lost in my own microcosm.

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The guilty will run from me.

(As I consume their dreams)

Can’t hide from what you owe me.

(When I reduce your means)

So where’s your laws?

(When I commit my crimes)

So where’s your lines?

(When it all falls down)

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You’ve mistaken me for a friend.

I breathe in the darkness, I exhale only penance.

You’ve mistaken situations.

I breathe in the darkness, I exhale only penance.

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