BENEDICTUM LYRICS

1. Dominion

[Music: Shrum/Wells/Pannone, Lyrics: Freeman]

I feel your indignation
Fueled with the combination
The darkest fascination
Staring down in consternation

Breaking down these chains of steel
No I will not come to heel
I see the implication
You can draw the correlation

I challenge your dominion
Over what I think and feel
I will not be broken on your WHEEL

We’ve come to the conclusion
You suffer from delusions
Scale the walls of your deceit
No I won’t concede defeat

I challenge your dominion
Over what I think and feel
I will not be broken on your WHEEL
Not willing to crawl on the ground
I will rise not be cast down
I will not be broken on your wheel

As long as I am breathing in
I vow to rise up again
Can you feel my frustration?
From this violation!

The Wheel
Why do they have to try and tear me down?
I will not be broken on your wheel

We’ve shattered your delusions
Now the circle is complete
I will not be broken on your wheel
I challenge your dominion over what I think and feel
I will not be broken on your wheel!

2. At The Gates

[Music: Wells/Shrum, Lyrics: Freeman]

When I did what I was told I thought I’d be
A better person than what I turned out to be
Sacrosanct in the sacred society
What’s working for you
Wasn’t working for me
Now I live each day as if it were my last
Learning lessons from the sins of futures past
Death rattle shaking there’s a knock at the door
Laid out on the floor

Now I wait, at the gate
Now I wait at the final gate

Tell me what my fate is as I stand at the gate?

You’re the rebel when you stood on mountains high
Sentimental now that it’s your time to die
In the middle of your precious plans and schemes
It’s looking to me
Like they don’t mean a thing
Never gave a thought of what you put them through
Never stopped to think the problem came from you
Grim reaper calling I think you know what he’s after
Hanging from the rafters

Now you wait
Moon is full, stars are bright, seems like the fates have aligned
Now you wait At the final gate
Sun is high, cloudless sky, looks like a good day to die

The walls are closing in don’t know where to begin
As I wait at the gate
The bell it tolls for me, tell me how this can be, as I wait, as I wait at the gate.

Now I wait at the gate
Now I wait at the final gate
Moon is full, stars are bright
Seems like the fates are aligned
Sun is high, cloudless sky
Looks like a good day to die
Hello your life is calling and now your skies are falling.

3. Seer

[Music: Wells, Lyrics: Freeman]

Caged inside you I see all
See through your subconscious walls
In the darkness there is light
A beacon shining in the night

Speak to me for I have seen
Signs of the impending storm

Talk to me, how shall I proceed?
What is this strange voice that softly warns?

I am the bastion
Created from pure light
I am the beacon shining in the night

I am the portal
The window to your soul
I am the essence that makes you whole

I am the seer
Open your eyes to see
I am the seer see me
Somehow you must believe

Cautiously, I start to perceive as all my senses work as one

They’re touching me, pulling me, calling me, begging me forth into the unknown

The staff of wisdom
Is held within my hands
These signs and visions
Will lead you to the Promised Land

Now let me show you
Forbidden shores
And let me take you
To Nevermore

I am the seer open your eyes to see
I am the seer see me
Somehow you must believe

May you listen to the voice - from the cradle to the grave
May you make that final choice - born of wisdom of the age
May you never slip and fall - beyond this world
May you answer to the call!

Into the darkness we must bring light and be as beacons shinning in the night
So let me lead you unto the shore, we are forever forevermore
I am the seer
Just look inside you’ll see me, somehow you must believe me, I am alive see me!

4. Grind It

[Music: Wells, Lyrics: Freeman]

Black is the night long is the day
Feelings inside slipping away
Raise my threshold for the pain
Object of my dark disdain

Grind it
Grind it

Kicked in the teeth by what lies beneath
I thought I was blind but now I see
You were leading me down such a primrose path
Don’t look back for the die is cast

Grind it
Grind it

Stabbed in the back by the knife you wield
You will never know just how it feels
Remember dark pretender
These are the terms of your surrender!

Grind it
I’ve got to grind it out
Grind it
I’ve got to grind it out

5. Prodigal Son

[Music; Wells, Lyrics: Freeman/De La Cruz]

Caught up in the violence
Cloaked in silent secrecy
You are a taker, but life is not your own you see
In anger you’ve blundered, torn your soul asunder
Burning the bridge as you run you’re the prodigal son

You are a cyclone blowing but it’s you that you’re destroying
Dreams and wishes fade away you’ve sold your soul for one more day.
Acting without reason but all things have their season
You are headed for disaster now decide who’ll be your master

Tumbling down blind is your fight
Your mind like your heart and your fists are clenched tight
Weaving a web of such extremes
As you shout in the dark there’s no one to hear as you scream

Prodigal son
What have you done?
Prodigal Son
Prodigal run!

Acting without conscience this could be your last chance
Break the shackles turn it over, soon your life is over
It’s over, it’s over, over!

Tumbling down blind is your flight
Your mind like your heart and your fists are clenched tight
Weaving a web of such extremes
As you shout in the dark there’s no one to hear as you scream

Prodigal son
What have you done?
Prodigal Son
Prodigal run
Your time is running out!

You cannot deny, your truth is a lie
But remember this, descend the abyss

Will you come back to me?
Will you come back to me my son, from yourself you can’t run
You cry in the dark and I hear you scream.

Prodigal son
What have you done? Come back to me!
Prodigal son what have you done?
Can’t hide from destiny
Prodigal son
Your time is running out!
Prodigal son what have you done?

6. The Shadowlands

[Music: Wells, Lyrics: Freeman]

Seek find enter my tortured mind
Investigate all out war awaits
Roaring seething tearing down heavens above
Writhing heeding the call to horse!

Waging war in the Shadowlands
As I cry out I bring down the rain
Acts of war in the Shadowlands
Harbinger of destruction and pain

Love hate
They often compensate for me
Fear blinds it is the enemy mine
Piercing screams they echo inside my head
Penetrate that dark façade
Straight through you

Waging war in the Shadowlands
As I cry out I bring down the rain
Acts of war in the Shadowlands
Harbinger of destruction and pain
We atone in the Shadowlands
Wielding weapons of conscious control
Art of war in the Shadowlands
As we march through the bone yard of souls

No light at the window
As we fall from a false state of grace
Tread lightly as I go
And now escape

No light from the window
No warmth from the heat of the day
Tread lightly as I go
Beyond the lines I break

Depression came
But hope remained
Forge the path that brings peace at last

Waging war in the Shadowlands
As I cry out I bring down the rain
Acts of war in the Shadowlands
Harbinger of destruction and pain

My sword unsheathed as I face a known enemy
No fear as I see unleashed the madness in me

7. Beautiful Pain

8. Dark Heart

[Music: Wells, Lyrics: Freeman]

Darkest horizon, suffer in silence, trapped and ashamed and contained by my beautiful pain
Barbed just like wire, thwarted desire, surging within me until I shall loose all control
From the depth of my soul

And it shall come to pass,
Cloaked in the veil that remains
As tattered as my past
The tapestry of life is stained
By my beautiful pain

I remain in my darkness in chains

Alabaster cold and lifeless inside I remain
Courting disaster servant and master, hunter and hunted consumed I devour my prey
The thrill of the chase

Dark Heart
And it shall come to pass
Cloaked in the veil that remains
As shattered as my past
The tapestry of life is stained
I remain in my darkness in chains

Round and around circulating my woe
When will it end nobody knows

Dark heart
Dark heart
Set me free
Dark heart
I remain
A prisoner in chains

9. Bang

[Music: Freeman/Wells/Shrum, Lyrics: Freeman]

They cut us down and they showed us no mercy
We made it out on a wing and a prayer
Sometimes I think that this world wants to hurt me
But if I’m going down it’s with my fist in the air

Millions of people are feeling unworthy, shuffling round feeling empty in side
It’s time to rise we won’t let them define us
Just give em one finger way up high

They tore us down for no reason but like the phoenix we rise
This is out time it’s our season our anger is on the rise I said
Bang
Release that primal rage like animals in a cage
And free yourself
Bang your head with me!
With fists up in the air, the horns now if you dare
Our time has come
Let me feel your rage!

They shut us out for no reason
But with our fists in the air
We’re not just one we’re a legion
One mission is crystal clear

Bang!
Release that primal rage like animals in a cage
And free yourself, let them feel your pain
With fists up in the air the horns now if you dare
Our time has come
Let me feel your rage!

Bang your head with me!
Kicked down for no Godly reason
They treated us with disdain
We are not silent we’re screaming
We shall not be contained!

Bang
Release that primal rage
Like animals in a cage
And free yourself
Bang your head with me!
With fists up in the air
The horns now if you dare
Our time has come
Let me feel your rage!
You were meant to be free
So shout it out with me
Our time has come
Show them we remain with fists up in the air the horns now if you dare
Our time has come let me feel your rage!

10. Loud Silence

[Music:Morgan/Wells, Lyrics: Freeman]

Here I go again
Let the games begin
I can’t seem to see the forest for the trees
As it slips away no more words to say
The illusion of we
Can no longer be

One life given selflessly
One breath drawn in ecstasy

Loud silence
Victim of no words, love lies on the floor
Loud silence
Speaks to me, every word you didn’t say is
Screaming unspoken

In a gilded cage
While my youth it fades
As a captive I breathe
Will I ever be free?

And these wounds I feel
Will they ever heal?
What have I sacrificed
For an easier life?

One tear in an endless sea
Cold fear of what’s unknown to me
One life given selflessly
One breath drawn in ecstasy

Loud silence
Victim of no words, love lies on the floor
Loud silence
Speaks to me, every word you didn’t say is
Screaming unspoken

One tear in an endless sea
Cold fear of what’s unknown to me
One life given selflessly
One breath drawn in ecstasy

Loud silence
Victim of no words, love lies on the floor
Loud silence
Speaks to me every word you didn’t say is
Screaming unspoken
Loud, no, give me strength just to walk out the door
Every single word

11. Epsilon

[Music: Shrum/Wells/Pannone/Diaz, Lyrics: Freeman]

I’m starved from the light I stumble in the dark
Tormented by the things that I am not
Reaching for some meaning to it all
Storming the citadel I try to breach the walls of Epsilon

Eyes that cannot see
We are to believe

Breaking my will I forge the bond
It brings us back to Epsilon
The moon and sun and I are one
I long to touch the face of God
Raging within me like a tide, a sacred place within my mind
Please take me back unto the time when we were so much closer to divine

Meeting resistance close the window to the self
Closing the vision that you’re really someone else
Blowing like the wind as it passes through my hands
Longing for the breath of life as it slips away like sand

Try to harness the will and then
False reality rears again
Metaphysical contraband
There are things I can’t understand

Breaking my will I forge the bond
It brings it back to Epsilon
The moon and sun and I are one
I long to touch the face of God
Raging within me like a tide, a sacred place within my mind
Please take me back unto the time when we were so much closer to divine

Epsilon
Riding on the waves quantum time
Epsilon
There is no tranquility to find
Epsilon
Reaching for the far beyond
Epsilon
Where we touch the very face of God

Breaking my will I forge the bond
It brings us back to Epsilon
The moon and sun and I are one
I long to touch the face of God
Raging like the ocean tide, the safest place within my mind
Please take me back unto the time when we were so much closer to divine

12. Sanctuary

[Bonus Track]

[Music: Wells/Pilson, Lyrics: Freeman]

So blind my eyes,
I cannot see
My mind aflame
Insanity

I used to stand out in the rain just to hide my tears
Condition hopeless driven by one hundred fears

Can you feel it, feel it touching you?
Can you hear it, what must I do?

Sanctuary can be found
There is silence from the sound
Of all the voices in your head
That lead you straight to the path of death

So sick at heart
My broken mind
Grateful am I to find a path my soul can climb
They told me that I could be free, free to believe
In a power much greater than I could ever be

Sanctuary can be found
There is silence from the sound
Of all the voices in your head
That led you to the path of death
Sanctuary can be found
There is silence from the sound
Just lift your eyes to the stars above and keep me safe in your arms of love

Now the scales fall from my eyes
As I finally realize
Now my mind is open wide
From yourself you cannot hide

Sanctuary can be found
There is silence from the sound
Of all the voices in your head
That lead you straight to the path of death
Sanctuary can be found
There is silence from the sound
Just lift your eyes to the stars above and keep me safe in your arms of love

13. Overture / The Temples Of Syrinx

[Bonus Track]








BENEDICTUM LYRICS