ADVENT LYRICS

1. Wind from the Valley

What is this pain
What is this suffering
Pain and suffering

A void, a darkness begins to take a hold of this soul
Deep in my chest
It knows me, but it's not the pain
It's not the suffering that scares me the most
It's just the cold
The emptiness, when there's nothing left
The days of solitude, they have beaten me down
Over and over, I have come to the end
I'm just waiting for a word from You
This brokenness I feel in this
It's just too much to bear
Tearing away the lost and forgotten dreams
That I once held
I've laid them all but down
To quit, the easy road, something I'll never know
The weight is too much
This mountains too high
The dark's closing in
But the fire inside is alive
Eternally the fire burns
A voice in the valley
Will you trust in me
When the world around you is dying
Inside, the spirit speaks
Setting fire to my weakness
The cold it burns away
A man, made new in his suffering
Pain, suffering
I can't see through this fog
I don't understand
Is this the end
Am I all alone
Pain, suffering
Forged in flames
Pain and suffering
Refined by pain
Forged in suffering
As wind blows from the valley
The fire inside still remains
The fire burns
Forged in suffering
As wind blows through the valley
The fire inside still remains

2. Weight of the World

Fighting to save our traditions.
Pointless endeavors and missions
Talk is all I hear.
Empty words.
From the heart to your mouth.
Impotent vision.
Throwing stones from cathedrals.
Empty pews.
Dead institutions.
Paying the fee
10 percent
Country club
Now you're in.
Bankrupt religion.
We do the same thing, every night, every day.
Nothing has changed, nothing has changed, nothing!

"A time will come, when silence is betrayal".
[MLK]

A time will come, when our voices will not be heard.
The years that we've chosen to say nothing, they'll return.
The guilt, the shame, the pain and the anger.

So, we break these chains.
Of religion, of useless tradition.
Moved to action – so we break these chains.
Of a system that has coaxed us to sleep.
Don't need religion – so we break these chains.
Religion has never set men free
Religious guilt dies with me

Weight of the world!
Chains falling down.
Weight of the world.
Chains falling down!

I won't be buried in chains.
I'm free from the shame
Religious guilt dies with me
Religious guilt dies…

Judge
Judge
Judge. Jury. Execute.

3. Shadow of Death

I saw the shadow.
I heard his voice whisper my name.
I felt the chill of reality
When your spirit went away.
I felt the tears running down my face.
I knew he smiled as I felt the sting
My mind raced as I heard his deceit
Death robbed your family today

I felt my stomach sink
The pain, the suffering
I felt the chill of mortality
As I watched your color fade
I closed my eyes and I saw your face.
I felt it burn into my memory
It's a picture I can never erase
Death took my father away

Life is short.
Death is coming
Life escapes.
But death comes hunting
Every man, born of flesh.
Will take with him, nothing
What he leaves, memories
That will be his legacy
Face the trials.
Face the pain.
Face the fears.
Your final breath, drawing near.

Death is a thief
Death steals for keeps.

Death is coming,
There is no escape.
But death is not your destiny.
Death is a thief, death steals for keeps.

Life is [4x]
Life is short.
Death comes hunting.

Some men die now, some men die later.
Some men live for reasons beneath them, some live for greater.
At the moment of my death
As I take my final breath
Fatality! Not a moment left... and I step into eternity.
Into eternity
Will I be afraid?

What will await me?
Will I see my father, my family?
This life I lead, will it matter at all?
Buried six feet deep, body wrapped in pall.

I feel the shadow
It's coming for me
Do I really believe...
Death is not the end.

4. BrickXBrick

Shot in the back, point black
We caused this pain and suffering
What happens
The streets are crowded
With those we've rejected and neglected
The demonstrations of frustration
Because of brutality
Your god: politics
Turning brother against his brother
Build up your wall of hate brick by brick
Turning sons against their fathers
It makes me sick to see us hate one another
Turning fathers against their sons
No love lost, just blood
Turning fathers against their sons
No love lost, just blood
No love lost
Just blood
Turning fathers against their sons
Crushing with weight, rooted in hate
Brick by brick
Brick by bloody brick
Crushing with weight, rooted in hate
Brick by brick
Crushing with weight, rooted in hate
Cities built with bloody bricks
How can I not call it out?
Chaos fills the streets
It makes us enemies
Blinded by politics
We eliminate what makes us unique
No one is listening
But everyone screams what they believe
It's institution versus humanity
Turning fathers
Turning fathers against their sons
We built this monstrosity, brick by brick
We built this brick by bloody brick







ADVENT LYRICS