DIVIDED BY LIGHT

LYRICS

 

Pulse

 

There’s a place we go

When we abandon hope

Lit by rows of cold fluorescent glow

Lifeless angels fly

Under a starless sky

Blinding lights collide and sirens cry

 

Pulsing

 

And as we wander through these streets

It seems impossible to tell

If we are dead or we’re alive

We hover somewhere in between

The scenes of heaven and of hell

Within the limbo of our minds

 

But if we could see

Beyond the veil of lies

We would see with more than merely eyes

That although we breathe

Although our hearts may beat

We are only here until they cease

 

Pulsing

 

 

 

Transience

 

Within an instant it was gone

A flash of violence in the fog

And though it seemed so very long

My life had only just begun

 

The broken glass across the pavement

Reflected blue and crimson light

The last person that I knew

Was someone who tried to

Awake me by flashing their brights

 

I never saw the concrete wall

I never heard the crashing steel

And never knew that I would fall

Asleep forever at the wheel

 

I feel my consciousness escaping

As memories flash before my eyes

But I can’t bear the thought

That my body will rot

And I’m holding on tightly to life

 

Time, it seems, slips away from me

 

What will become of the wanting and fearing

When we become one with the void

What will become of the longing and tears when

We see these illusions destroyed

 

Time, it seems, slips away from me

Slithering with its tail between its teeth

 

What will become of the wanting and fearing

When we become one with the void

What will become of the longing and tears when

We see these illusions destroyed

 

Time, it seems, slips away

And all I thought I was has turned to ashes and decay

I have no choice but to accept the light that guides me far away

 

 

 

City of Light

 

We silently pass between walls made of glass

Where gluttony has become standard

For each of us fears we should not interfere

With halos obscuring the moonlight

 

We’re blinding our eyes in the light

Colliding like flies in the night

 

The river of rain flowing into the drain

Is cold as the faces reflected

For each of us worships an altar of glass

Which endlessly feeds our obsessions

 

We’re blinding our eyes in the light

Colliding like flies in the night

We consume and divide until nothing’s alive

And fly hypnotized in the light

 

In this light we are reborn

 

We’re blinding our eyes in the light

Colliding like flies in the night

We consume and divide until nothing’s alive

And fly hypnotized in the light

 

We are drawn to the flame

But it’s only in vain

The fire ignites us in flight

Parasites in a city of light

 

 

 

Shapeshifter

 

This is not my voice

It’s a recording

I’m not a silhouette

I am a shadow

The lyrics that you hear

Are only phantoms

They manifest in air

Then they dissolve

 

As we walk these endless streets of ours alone

Always clinging to something out of fear of the unknown

It appears that nothing here is as it seems

But we search for an honest word within a waking dream

 

Although it may appear

The sky is falling

The window of your fear

Distorts the view

The faces that you see

Are fractured reflections

And everything they seem

A swarm of lies

 

As we walk these endless streets of ours alone

Always clinging to something out of fear of the unknown

It appears that nothing here is as it seems

But we search for an honest word within a waking dream

 

When I’ve tried to show you something real

You’ve compared it to your own ideal

Now my broken mirror is reflecting all the serpents in the garden I’ve grown

 

As we walk these endless streets of ours alone

Never knowing ourselves except the faces that we show each other’s eye

We are fated to reprise

Our delusion, fraud, and lies

Tracing our own fading footprints in the snow

 

 

 

Eye of Providence

 

A programmed handshake

A plastic smile

As sharp as a blade

I have a lot of myself invested

In the investments I have made

 

As I’ve grown older

My disposition has become much colder

My gears and wires have begun to moulder

I’ve lost count of the knives between my shoulders

 

In this profession

We feign religion

Whenever it sells

There’s no belief in a higher power

No power higher than ourselves

 

We only follow the eye of providence upon the dollar

And hide the evidence that we are hollow

Behind an arrogance that never falters

 

There’s nothing here for you in this place

There’s nothing here but the empty chase

Of the empty lies in our empty eyes

And the emptiness we call our lives

 

We once had feelings

Beyond the avarice and constant wanting

Beyond the loneliness and fear of dying

That feeds our emptiness and constant lying

 

There’s nothing here for us in this place

There’s nothing here but the empty chase

Of the empty lies in our empty eyes

And the emptiness we call our lives

 

 

 

Hypnagog

 

Beyond the open door

Ascending slowly to the second floor

The sound of creaking stairs

A frightened glance assumes there’s nothing there

 

Behind the wall of sleep

You’ve sown the seeds that I’m prepared to reap

The dreams within your head

As restless as the eyes beneath your bed

 

Wrath burning within

The death angel ascends

An eye for an eye

The spiral never ends

 

 

 

Illumination

 

I have walked your endless halls

I have crawled your endless walls

Through these endless cracks I fall

 

We can’t turn back time

We can’t turn back time

Winding the Rolex back and running from the hourglass and scythe

Won’t turn back time

 

Someday your all-seeing eye

Will slither out and liquefy

 

We can’t turn back time

We can’t turn back time

Stabbing your brother in the back to drain the power from his spine

Won’t turn back time

 

We can’t turn back time

We can’t turn back time

You may believe you are the sons of God but everything you try

Won’t turn back time

 

 

 

Hall of Shadows

 

Enter the place where no light penetrates

And your virtues dissolve into dust

Where purest intentions are burned at the altar of lust

 

You only escape by continuing through

Viewing reflections of all you believe to be true

 

This is the hall where the ceilings and walls

Close upon you until you’re confined

You pass over fragments of glass that collapse with each stride

 

Behind every door, lying dead on the floor

Is a corpse from a previous life

That, once you have faced, you can never erase or deny

 

 You only escape by continuing through

Viewing the shadows of what you believe to be true

 

All that we believe is a fallacy

Endlessly we cling to a fantasy

Spiraling through the black infinity

 

There is nowhere we can run

There is nowhere we can hide

We cannot evade our shadows, our reflections, or our minds

 

But before we turn to ash

Before all is said and done

May we find the understanding that the fragments once were one

 

 

 

Judas

 

I still remember when I first looked into your eyes

I needed someone I could trust

And in which I could confide

When all around me it appeared that there was darkness without light

You shone so very bright

 

Still, I found a way to hang you out to dry

Everything I promised you became a lie

Nothing I can do will ever turn back time

Those days are gone forever

 

There’s no use dwelling on the past when the past is through

But I have lost my sense of self

For thirty silver and a noose

And if I thought I could forgive myself for what I did to you

I don’t know what I’d choose

 

I have tried to pick up all the broken shards

But they cut my hands and fall into the dark

I’ve accepted that the edges are too sharp

Some things just break forever

 

I tried to save you but could not

I tried to save you but I could not find the words to convince them they were wrong

And now you’re gone forever

 

I tried to save you but could not

I tried to save you but my hands were tied and I couldn’t save you with my love

And now you’re gone forever

 

I tried to save you but could not

And my betrayal was the last thing that you saw

As I watched your eyelids close one final time

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