CARCER CITY LYRICS

1. Introduction

[Instrumental]

2. Lifeless, Awaken

This is my right, this is my time tonight.
Into the night I will ride.
One Life. One chance to prove.
Decide - no more sacrifice.
I will live my life this way, forever.
Don’t look away from me ‘cause I have the answer.
Open your eyes. See these walls you’ve built?
They are not real. They don’t exist - so walk away from them.
And i’ll show you a life worth living.
The door is open now.
Walk through it with me.
This is your right, this is your time tonight.
Into the night you must ride.
One Life. One chance to prove.
Decide - no more sacrifice.
You’ve kept yourself locked inside,
When all along you had the key.
What are you searching for when you have everything you need?
Years on end you’ve let this slip by.
But it’s not too late to say…
No not this time.
I won’t let this slip by.
This world is mine and this is my time.
And you can’t change this.
'Cause i'd rather take my one chance and know I didn't make it than never know anything at all.
I remember everything I lost just to live this moment and it was all worth it.
It was all worth it.
Years on end you’ve let this slip you by,
But not this time. Open your eyes.
And tell me - what are you searching for?
'Cause it's now or never.

3. The Constant Struggle

Welcome to the real world.
I remember when life was so simple.
At what point was the blindfold stolen?
Innocence, Stolen,
Welcome to the real world…
…and the sky falls down in pieces,
the shattered remains of a world we used to know.
Wake up.
Everything I love is fading when every step has a price.
Everything you know is changing.
Now you’re on your own.
I feel like the tight-rope walker, keeping the balance - but for how much longer?
I still can’t see the other side.
I never thought I’d find myself like this
I can almost taste the failure on my lips.
Everything I love is fading when every step has a price.
Everything you know is changing.
Now you’re on your own.
You’re on your fucking own.
Sometimes I feel like giving up,
Let the waters over take us.
And I will be forgotten,
Return to nothing…
…but I’ve come too far to let that happen.
Now I’m the spirit of the lost and the broken.
The constant struggle of this life I have chosen.
No hand to guide me, no light in the darkness,
Scared to death but never hopeless.
Push on.
I must push on.
We’re the spirits of the lost and the broken,
Scared to death but never hopeless.
I’ve lost count of the days, I’ve lost count of the miles I’ve walked this path unpaved.
How much further until the end?
I’ve lost count of the days, I’ve lost count of the miles.
With the world on my shoulders,
I find my fortitude, my composure,
In the hopes that my dreams may come closer,
I won’t stop until this is over.
Push on, push on.
I won’t stop until this is over.

4. Distance

So I came back, one last time, and it was like fate stared me in the eye and told me -
"It’s your turn to cross that line".
And all the frustration died.
And inside I only found the heartache was true.
And from this we cannot run.
I cannot run, I can’t run, I can’t run.
I cannot run any more.
And yet I still feel the pull.
Like a moth towards the light.
I still fell to you.
Everyday and every night and every moment you haunted me.
You haunted me.
Now you decorate my life with little reminders that whisper to me -
"You’ll never be the same after this".
Everywhere I’d go the siren sung me home.
The siren sings me home.
But I came back one last time and it was like fate stared me in the eye and told me -
"It’s your turn to cross that line".
And keeping my distance from you was the hardest thing to do.
But we cannot deny, the heartache was true.
I cannot run, I can’t run, I can’t run.
I’ve crossed that line.
These heartstrings pull me to you.
This time I must fight this.
(And all the frustration died,
I took the last look and realised,
Just how much has changed since those two years ago…)
And in this moment I made my peace.

5. Ghosts, Pt. I (The Figure Brushed In White)

Pale eyes and a figure brushed in white. Blue Iris.
In a distant crowd we remain, motionless.
And this world won’t change for us.
Maybe I was just young. Maybe I was just a fool.

6. Ghosts, Pt. II (The Seraph Garden)

[Instrumental]

7. Ghosts, Pt. III (The Messenger)

I watched the sunset behind burning buildings,
blue roses apon her deathbed.
I watched the garden we lay in wither and die.
I felt the hour hand pulling the boy out of me.
Yet still he wonders “angel, who pulled the wings from your back?”.
The messenger comes, holds me and whispers:
"i will show you what you have become.
tonight, i will show you how to live again…
for we are not the love you seek, we are merely her ghosts -
and if you stay here you will receive the same fate.
but do not fear, in the fields of elysium we will walk together
like ghosts, in this place we’ll stay young forever.
there’s no saving us. there’s no saving those who don’t want to be saved.
so walk with me tonight and i will show you the way, i’ll show you how to live again… tonight.”
I could ask the same questions a thousand times and still never have any answers.
I could walk this circle forever but it would change nothing.
it would change nothing.

8. Mistakes I Have To Live With

I awake to the weight of regret leaning on me.
And there's no escaping it this time.
There's nowhere to run and hide.
There's nowhere to run.
There's nowhere to hide.
This battle's on the inside.

Its so fucked up.
'Cause my reflection he looks at me, tells me I'm not the man I ought to be.
Help me now, 'cause every day is a battle.

Yeah, legs can take you anywhere...
Except for far from yourself.
Legs can take you anywhere except for far from your selfishness,
That cost the best of you,
Cuts me clean in two.

The hardest battle I ever fought was with myself.

Come on and show me what you got.

My reflection he looks at me, tells me I'm not the man I ought to be.
Help me now, 'cause every day is a battle.

Fuck it.

This time, there's nowhere to run.
There's nowhere to hide.
No, this time there's nowhere to run.
There's nowhere to hide.
This time.

So this is it. I'm writing off everything.
You know I hate you for what you did.
I wish I could forget what you did.
But only one of us can live.
And the gun is in your hands.
This is death as an act of creation.

So this is it. I'm writing off everything.
I let him die and I don't feel bad about it.
So this is it. I'm writing off everything.
This is death as an act of creation.

These are mistakes I have to live with.

9. The Road Journals

I’ve been searching all my life
For the right time, for a reason to leave it all behind.
No, I’m not afraid to die.
I’m afraid of never being truly alive.
Of never leaving my mark in time.
I’ve been searching my life.
I am the wanderer, the lost boy
And I want to live forever.
Destiny, talk to me, tell me I’m on the right path.
Show me the way.
This could be it - this could be everything you ever wanted.
I am the lost boy and I’ve found a way to live forever.
Don’t look for me ‘cause I’m already gone.
I’ve been searching all my life
But tonight I found you.
Out here on the road.
Out here on the road I found
A reason to leave it all behind.
A reason to do this for the rest of my life.
Don’t look for me ‘cause I’m already gone,
I was the lost boy but now I am found.
I was the lost boy but now I am found.

10. Disaronno Lips

No sleep ‘til sunrise tonight,
I’ll be out on the town forgetting all about it,
Forgetting everything.
Glass half empty or glass half full,
You’ve got nothing to lose when you’ve lost it all.
So here’s to nothing, bottoms up let’s all get fucked,
'Cause i've got nothing left to lose tonight.
I’ve got nothing left to lose.
No sleep ‘til sunrise tonight,
I’ll be out on the town forgetting all about it,
Forgetting everything.
Disaronno lips and sunset eyes, baby let’s dance all night,
'Cause i'm not going home 'til the morning light.
Oh I tried so hard to make this right,
But not even the strongest hands can turn back the clock.
I’m not saying I didn’t care, but it’s too fucked up and you don’t give a fuck.
Only when you’ve lost everything are you free to do anything.
So fuck it all ‘cause I don’t give a fuck anymore,
Fuck it all ‘cause I don’t give a fuck anymore.
Fuck everything.
Bottoms up, let’s get fucked.

11. Eyes For The Blind, Ears For The Deaf

I can’t turn a blind eye to the things I have seen.
A heartless empire built on power and greed.
Money and religion all parts of the same machine.
Oh there’s a difference between the truth and what we’re led to believe,
I beg of you - look further and see.
The storm is getting closer.
Ignorance will be the death of us all.
Wake the fuck up now, we’re running out of time.
If only we had eyes for the blind, ears for the deaf.
To take off the mask, expose the greatest of thefts.
Oh it makes me sick.
When did freedom become a dictatorship?
Tell us only the secrets you want to be told,
Tell us everything is under control.
perhaps a little too much - enslaving all of us.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
There is no messiah, no hero. (stop waiting.)
The answer is in all of us, the answer is in you.

12. 05.35

[Instrumental]

13. If We Make It Home

They say in this city you'll never walk alone.
A thousand miles away I still hear her call.
Come back. Come back to me and breathe slow again.
A thousand miles away I still hear her call.

Wherever we go she waits for us,
To come back and fill the spaces,
Slip into the shapes we've made and left.
She flows in my blood.
She's the air to my lungs.

On every nameless face,
On every street corner,
I see a part of me,
My entire history.
Every victory and every mistake,
Every smile and every heartbreak,
She was watching over me.

They say in this city you'll never walk alone.
A thousand miles away I still hear her call.
Come back. Come back and breathe again.

How I long for the sound of waves on the shore.
The sight of the crown on the riverside.
Cutting lines in the sky.

(If we make it home tonight,
I think I could cure this, I think I could do this all again.
If we make it home tonight...)

Come back to me, Come back to me.
And breathe slow again.
Come back to me, Come back to me.
And you'll never walk alone.

When I see the birds on the horizon.
Her voice resounds inside my head:
"Welcome Home"





CARCER CITY LYRICS