COUNTERPARTS LYRICS

1. 07/26/2020

[Instrumental]

2. Whispers Of Your Death

Begging from the floor as you stare in the face of starvation
Sacrifice myself to secure your safety

I choked on the taste of tears 'til both of my eyes ran dry
Refusing to believe false prophets that claimed you would not survive

It's hard to breathe without you sleeping on my chest
Sick and withering from the whispers of your death
Forever your saviour, as much as you are mine
And for that I promise to protect you until the day I die

Clinging to what little you had come with
Until my fingernails scratched through to bone
Collapsing in arms of uncertainty
Knowing I could never let you go

Tearing out what's left of my insides
To spare you from your sickness
I promise to protect you until the day I die
Make your cancer mine

Make your cancer mine

It's hard to breathe without you sleeping on my chest
Sick and withering from the whispers of your death
Forever your saviour, as much as you are mine
And for that I promise to protect you until the day I die

Make your cancer mine

Make your cancer mine

3. Bound To The Burn

Replace me with a pawn
A victim unaware
The shepherd appointed to a corpse
(Bound to the burn)

Bound to the burn
Collected from my cross
Before my breathing stops
A testament to routine sacrifice

A casket calls my name
Cast from my constraint
My final fleeting flame
Will remain asleep
While my airways fill with smoke
How I long to watch the curtains close

Bound to the burn
My calling compromised
Bound to the burn
My dedication dies

Bound to the burn
Let me leave
I've given enough

Replace me with a pawn
A victim unaware
The shepherd appointed to a corpse
(Bound to the burn)

A casket calls my name
Cast from my constraint
My final fleeting flame
Will remain asleep
While my airways fill with smoke
How I long to watch the curtains close
I say, while my airways fill with smoke
How I long to watch the curtains close

Let me leave
I've given enough

4. Unwavering Vow

Beneath my bared teeth
Lives the unwavering vow
To be the reason that the ones who love you mourn (Mourn)
Revel in relief, redemption reassured
When not even your ghost
Will be left to take your place on Earth

In dreams I watched you die
Now I can't wait to close my eyes
Encased within your grave
Deservingly enslaved where no echo will emerge
Former prey decides your fate
Crying out to a world
That couldn't hear your final words

If I could, I'd murder you myself
Murder you myself

Penance will persuade me
To venture from vengeance
And repress the hunger in me for revenge
Caress of consequence assures my innocence
Your self-inflicted suffering will satisfy my thirst

In dreams I watched you die
Now I can't wait to close my eyes
Encased within your grave
Deservingly enslaved where no echo will emerge
Former prey decides your fate
Crying out to a world
That couldn't hear your final words

In dreams, in dreams I watched you die
Now I can't wait, I can't wait to close my eyes
In dreams I watched you die
Now I can't wait
Now I can't wait to close my eyes

Murder you myself
In dreams I watched you die
Now I can't wait to close my eyes

Murder you myself
Murder you myself
In dreams I watched you die
Now I can't wait to close my (Eyes)

5. A Eulogy For Those Still Here

I offered you my wings (I offered you my wings)
In hopes you would take flight (In hopes you would take flight)
Salvaging the skin of open arms
Grieving though you haven't left my side

Deception will eclipse our sinking sun
Likening our form to silhouettes
While the light between us dims

Praying I could pull you out of hell
Though you grew dependent on its warmth
As you gathered bones from helping hands
In search of sedation: salvation sacrificed
Replaced by the breath of strangled throats

I offered you my wings (I offered you my wings)
In hopes you would take flight (In hopes you would take flight)
Salvaging the skin of open arms
Grieving though you haven't left my side

A mutual disease in different forms
Nourishing the need to escape
From the curse of consciousness

Imprisoned by fixation, I understand your pain
Surrendering to my own source of slow death
Praying I could pull you out of Hell

(A eulogy for those still here
A eulogy for those still here)

Grieving (Praying I could pull you out of Hell)
Though you haven't left my side
Knowing (Though you grew dependent on its warmth)
That one day, you'll disappear

Grieving
Grieving though you haven't left my side
Knowing
Knowing that one day, you'll disappear

Grieving
Grieving though you haven't left my side
As I write a eulogy for those still here

A eulogy for those still here
A eulogy for those still here

6. Skin Beneath A Scar

I fall before your eyes like rain

The skin beneath a scar
The hurt I've left behind
The skin beneath a scar
The hurt I couldn't hide

I fall before your eyes like rain
Drawn towards the sky, I'm saved

Forgotten like the skin beneath a scar
Hollowed by the hurt I've left behind
Forgotten like the skin beneath a scar
Hollowed by the hurt I couldn't hide

I fall before your eyes like rain
Drawn towards the sky, I'm saved
My sanctuary seized by flames
I have no way to leave but I can't stay

7. Sworn To Silence

Sworn to silence
Not another sterile sound
Will escape from my jaw
Sworn to silence
Pry open my mouth
Pulling teeth to place within your palms

Tear into my throat and gather for yourself
The final act of charity I wasn't fit to give
Forced remembrance will pour out of my head
And evaporate before it hits the ground

Using knives to rewrite my last rites

Sworn to silence
Not another sterile sound
Will escape from my jaw
Sworn to silence
Pry open my mouth
Pulling teeth to place within your palms

Drain the blood I couldn't retain
Drain my blood to purge you of pain
Drain the blood, vacant and vain

Tear into my throat and gather for yourself
A scripture insincere, unfit to preach in faith
Forced remembrance will pour out of my head
Devoid of the nourishment you need

Using knives to rewrite my last rites
Using knives to rewrite my last rites

Sworn to silence
Not another sterile sound
Will escape from my jaw
Sworn to silence
Pry open my mouth
Pulling teeth to place within your palms

Drain the blood (Drain the blood)
I couldn't retain (I couldn't retain)
Drain the blood to purge you of pain

8. What Mirrors Might Reflect

No amount of love will free me from my flaws
Perfection fits its noose around my neck

Shed the failing shell as I await my end
Pursuing decaying foundation
Longing to withdraw inherited excess
To recreate the form from which I came

No amount of love will free me from my flaws
Perfection fits its noose around my neck
No amount of love will free me from my flaws
Or shield me from what mirrors might reflect

Dissection of self: I ache to be anyone else
Dissection of self: I ache to be anyone else

A veil of confidence, torn and transparent
Revealing the bitter taste of truth

Carried in the wind, harvested organs
Will revise a mold that went unmatched

I ache to be anyone else

No amount of love will free me from my flaws
Perfection fits its noose around my neck
No amount of love will free me from my flaws
Or shield me from what mirrors might reflect

Dragging my face through broken glass
I see no god in me

I see no god in me
Dragging my face through broken glass
I see no god in me
I see no god in me

9. Soil II

The soil is the last thing that we ingest
We watch our ashes scatter

The soil (You are your)
Is the last thing (Memorial)
That we ingest (Find your mark)
We watch our ashes scatter (And make it)

Tragedy unearthed
As apparitions swarm
Following a fading set of steps

Anatomy advanced
Our history transformed
Heartless as we try
To permit the healing process

The soil is the last thing that we ingest
We watch our ashes scatter
The soil is the last thing that we ingest
We watch our ashes scatter

The rats we have hand-fed
Spread our contagion
The ones we love
Will let us down

10. Flesh To Fill Your Wounds

I'm running out of flesh to fill your wounds
Why did you bring me back to life
When I don't deserve to be alive?

Adapted to the absence of a love that has forgotten I exist
We sleep on beds of nails
But no amount of pain
Could resurrect the dead

Bury me (Bury me)
In the skin you swore you'd save
Until I needed shelter

Drowning me (Drowning me)
In the blood you swore we shared
Until my limbs grew numb

Beggar

I felt your pulse fall out of sync with mine
Abandonment is all I've ever known
Severed hands couldn't force my heart to beat
And even when you're with me, I'm alone

Bury me (Bury me)
In the skin you swore you'd save
Until I needed shelter

Blinding me with images you swore I'd never see
Until my conscience fades

I felt your pulse fall out of sync with mine
Abandonment is all I've ever known
Severed hands couldn't force my heart to beat
And even when you're with me, I'm alone

I'm running out of flesh to fill your wounds
Why did you bring me back to life
When I don't deserve to be alive?

Beggar
I'm running out of flesh to fill your wounds
Beggar
I'm running out of flesh to fill your wounds

Why did you bring me back to life?
I don't deserve to be alive

11. A Mass Grave Of Saints

I carve "goodbye"
With a fallen angel's spine
And watch the coffins close
Wishing one were mine

My sentiments unsung

Lips sewn shut, halo deformed
A keepsake of shadows dissolved without light (Light)
Buried alive (Buried alive)
My spirit in dirt

Wear my mark on your skin
Eyes roll back, torn between Heaven and Earth
My spirit in dirt
Buried alive

I carve "goodbye"
With a fallen angel's spine
And watch the coffins close
Wishing one were mine

I carve "goodbye"
With a fallen angel's spine
And watch the coffins close
Wishing one were mine

Torn between Heaven and Earth
Shower my spirit in dirt
Torn between Heaven and Earth
Shower my spirit in dirt

A requiem, a sermon spoken in tongues
Forgiveness forged
My sentiments unsung

I carve "goodbye"
With a fallen angel's spine
And watch the coffins close
Wishing one were mine

I carve "goodbye"
With a fallen angel's spine
And watch the coffins close
Wishing one were mine

A prayer unheard
I'll find my place
In a mass grave of saints

A prayer unheard
I'll find my place
In a mass grave of saints

A mass grave of saints

I watch the coffins close
Wishing one were mine
Backwards in both wrists
I carve "goodbye"

Backwards in both wrists
I carve "goodbye"







COUNTERPARTS LYRICS