CALL TO PRESERVE LYRICS

1. Sinking Sun

We’ve come from isolation but we’re never alone.
When the sun sets on everything you know how will you
Know where to go?
I’ve spent my whole life running and now I’m left with
Nothing to show.
Now my life ahead looks nothing like how I thought it
Would.
I’m left behind.
I’m looking for a future that I can’t find.
Not who I thought I could be.
Being held back by my humanity and now my life ahead
Looks nothing like how I pictured it.
But somehow I know it’s always darkest before dawn so I
Look into the black and I keep walking on.
I know there’s more than what I can see.
Because sometimes you’re the only one searching for
What’s real.
There is another way than this.
There’s got to be another path than this.
Beyond what I see, beyond those darker days ahead of me.
But somehow I know it’s always darkest before dawn, so I
Look into the black and I keep walking on, because
Sometimes you’re the only one searching for what’s real.
Sometimes you’re the only one discontent with just living
By how you feel.

2. So Low

I can't see it your way
I will never see it your way

I've never wanted to dull the pain,
To stop thinking about today
The world may look safer to you
from the bottom of a bottle,
But I've never wanted to ever see it that way

Numbing the body, numbing the mind
It never solved a thing
Rather give up my comfort
Than my ability to think

The world may look safer to you
From the bottom of a bottle,
But I've never wanted to ever see it that way

It's easy to let go
When the world turns on you,
But you will never ever know
What you're able to do

'Cause with progress can only come pain,
So how will you ever learn from your mistakes?
So I can feel the chill in my bones
And I can feel the pain inside,
But at least, at least I know that I'm still alive

But at least I know that I'm still alive
I'm still alive

3. Vices

We were all born with vices
We've never had control
We've been locked in a battle off ill will and defeated
Soul

We are the eciled
Stuck in our own vices
We walk this desert without end
We are the exiled
Stuck in our own vices
No matter how much we plan,
We come up short

Why my best intentions could be so destructive
Or why my virtue has been drowned out by my own
Selfishness
How can I be so proud and still doubt myself?
How can I be so depressed from acting on my own will?
Because there's been something holding me back

Something keeping me from becoming the person I've
Needed to be
It took me so long to find out why everything
I put my hand to had become a testament to failure

We are the eciled
Stuck in our own vices
We walk this desert without end
We are the exiled
Stuck in our own vices
No matter how much we plan,
We come up short

How can I be so proud and still doubt myself?
How can I be so proud and still doubt myself?

4. Dear Galatia

[feat. Johnny Intravaia and Drew Russ of Seventh Star]

Where do you go from there?
Make your sacrifice to a dead altar
You've followed the letter,
and still don't have the answers

Standing empty after all the motions you've done
You've tried to make peace
But the guilt still weighs you down

You've got to let go
And accept there are things that you'll never know
Can't polish gold with filthy rags,
Filthy hearts and hands
Got to let go
'Cause you're worst always outweighs
The battles you've won
You're work, you're work here will never be down

But you keep yourself trapped
Look to tenet to make yourself intact,
So the cycle never ends
You've just got to let go

You can work for your salvation
But you'll never earn it
You've just got to be humble enough to accept it
You can search inside yourself,
but you'll never find it
You just got to be humble enough to accept it

5. From Isolation

I used to want you notice
The hidden messaged in my sigh
About loss and isolation
You could say it would be my goodbye
I'd sing a song of deep despair just to see if you would
Hear, but no such thing happened
No rescue would come back here

Maybe I'd just quit
And bury my head in the sand
Go out with the tide
And never come back

But at dawn,
I'm seeing now that broken hearts
Don't make you right,
And self pity is comforting,
But you'll let it swallow you alive

Though the pressure's on,
The broken are never on their own
We've come from isolation, but we're never alone
We are never alone

6. Hindsight

Hindsight isn't always 20/20
When you romanticize history
I've been filling in all the gaps
About how things used to be
I'm only better off
'Cause I prefer you the way I remember
I guess "us" sounds better in past tense
The present would never be better

Don't bother me with reality
Just leave me with my own memories
'Cause I know the past can't change,
But nothing ever stays the same

7. Shameless

I’m just trying to better myself.
I’ll leave behind what I don’t need, but you’re so quick
To judge when I’ve tried to be accepting.
You think you know my thoughts, but you still think I’m
Looking down on you.
What else do you want me to do?
I don’t think I know what’s best for you.
This is my choice. Live what is right for me.
This is my voice. Living by what I say.
So much to say about the choices we make.
Always a problem with the words we say.
I’m not out to change who you are.
I’m just trying to live my life clean.
But you want to take something positive and turn it into
An argument.
We haven’t uttered a word, but already you’re head is
Turned.
I’ve got to do all I can to live a life that’s free of
Shame.
I’ll be held back by nothing.
Let nothing get in the way. My life. My choice. I’ll be
Held back by nothing.
My life. My choice. Let nothing get in the way.

8. Lincoln Street

Just give me a light for my path
Show me the parts of my heart only you can see
Just give me a light for my path
Show me what you see

I've been downtown for far to long
Living wih burn-outs in the filth of the city
Nothing to do, Nowhere to go
Finding out my lonely life isn't so perfect

But even though I don't see it,
You've carved a path in this grid of cobblestone
Even when I've blown my inheritance,
You have the gall to welcome me be back home

I've never been the best at listening
And I've been prone to wander
But even as I walk these streets,
You can still see, You can still see inside my heart

You know I've tried to live this life
With reckless abandon
So forgive these dirty hands,
But I've been digging through the grey

But even though I don't see it,
You've carved a path in this grid of cobblestone
Even when I've blown my inheritance,
You have the gall to welcome me be back home

Just give me a light for my path
Show me the parts of my heart only you can see
Just give me a light for my path
Show me, show me, show me what you see

Just give me a light for my path
Show me, show me, show me what you see
Just give me a light for my path
Show me, show me, show me what you see

9. Waiting For Dawn

Push through the night!

Running with all we've got through
Streets with self abandoned
Down highways waiting for dawn
Empty pockets, but we're not poor

Always looking for a brighter sky
Always praying for better times
Don't care about the pain
Don't care about the separation

Wanting to live, but I'm not afraid
We're not afraid to die

Shake off the snares from your mind
You've got to leave those old things behind

Till my candle burns out
When the suffering never seems to end
Before I'm dead, gone, and forgotten
I'm giving all I can

Till my candle burns out
When the suffering never seems to end
Before I'm dead, gone, and forgotten
I'm giving all I can

From the low times we push ahead
From the low times we push ahead

10. First Light

We live in darker times,
But a distant light still shines
This world wants to mold you
They want to suck you dry

But don't let them make you forget
That these times of uncertainty
Are coming to an end
You still carry the promise
That this light has no end

11. Hope For The Fallen

What have we become?
Another faceless generation.
Another victim found nameless. Born at the bottom without
A chance.
Let down by our own impulses.
Shut out by our own emotions.
Remnants left in ashes, but now is where it ends. Picked
Up. Picked up from this mess we’re in.
From misery. Hope for the fallen.
A way out for the ones who have spent their lives
Enslaved in chains. Up out of darkness.
Time to start again. So sick of being disconnected, but
Now’s where it ends.
Picked up. Picked up from this mess we’re in. From
Misery. Hope for the fallen.
A way out for the ones who have spent their lives
Enslaved in chains.
Picked up. Picked up from this mess we’re in.
From Misery. Hope for the fallen.
It’s time to leave this past. We have been set free.
We were restless minds paralyzed by own doubts, but now
We’re letting go and now we’re getting out.
We’re getting out.

12. Open Your Eyes

Look up and open your eyes
See everything you meant to be
Selling yourself short when there's only so far you can see
Though your body is broken,
Your soul remains intact
Finding wholeness in the places that you lack
Look up and see who you are has become so clear
Hold on, for the dawn is drawing near
Clouds of depression are fading away
For what was once dark is light again
Look up and open your eyes
See everything you meant to be
Selling yourself short
When there's only so far you can see
Though your body is broken,
Your soul remains intact
Finding wholeness in the places that you lack
Look up and see who you are has become so clear
Hold on, for the dawn is drawing near
Clouds of depression are fading away
For what was once dark is light again
Let go, let go, and open your eyes
Keep these words with you,
For I make all things new, all things new
Keep these words with you,
For I make all things new
Let go and open your eyes





CALL TO PRESERVE LYRICS