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