EMERGENCE LYRICS

1. Recursion (In)

2. Scarred

Your stolen innocence lost beyond recovery
A cold ambivalence desecrates that memory
A warped reality an expectation spurned
Lost in banality
And paradise burned

Scars cross your tender flesh
Your world is torn apart
A black malaise
no words of praise
can sooth your aching heart
Lost an weary stained and dreary
Still your life goes on
Cold and Jaded joys have faded
Soon they will be gone

Clinging to sanity the walls are closing in
Trapped in venality the cycle starts again
Seeking security an expectation spurned
I mourned your purity
And paradise burned

Scars cross your tender flesh
Your world is torn apart
A black malaise
no words of praise
can sooth your aching heart
Lost an weary stained and dreary
Still your life goes on
Cold and Jaded joys have faded
Soon they will be gone

3. Demagog

Like a spider spinning webs in your fetid hole
You measure discontent with envy
Darkness eats your soul
You hatch your sordid little plots
Every convert plays a part
Your hateful faction grows
Then crumbles as the center falls apart

Run for higher ground
your back against the wall
And watch your henchmen gather round
As they rally to your call
You unleash them on the world
Like a wild savage horde
And with their battle flags unfurled
They clamor as their victims are ignored

Like a self-made petty god in your secret shrine
Your hounds lay curled up on your feet
Waiting for a sign
Blaming others for your faults
Bilging with your secret hate
Your faithful turn away
You see at last but now it is too late

4. Blue Muse

I can see you now
You're looking far away
I wonder if you're dreaming of
A happy future day
Your body poised and still
Your face composed serene
The moving forms around you
Seem like actors in a scene

Now you lie alone at night
Won't you call my name
I can tell you don't feel right
Won't you call my name
When you break down and weep
Do you call my name
Just before you go to sleep
Do you call my name

I reach to touch your face
Your skin is smooth and cool
You forbear with dignity
While I feel like a fool
You look into my eyes
I see your thoughts collide
The only indication of
What's going on inside

Now you lie alone at night
Won't you call my name
I can tell you don't feel right
Won't you call my name
When you break down and weep
Do you call my name
Just before you go to sleep
Do you call my name

A disconcerting feeling
Has struck me once again
A hollow sort of sickness
That consumes me from within
I search your face for feeling
The slightest little sign
A crack in the facade that shows
That underneath, you're mine
[Repeat refrain]

5. The Tower

Loveless, soul-less robots made out of skin
Manicure, accessorize, cover up the sewage within
Twisted, tainted, always at odds
Silicone idols to disposable gods
You turn every good thing into a sin

Build your tower out of stone, live within until it falls
Then crouched in darkness all alone
Come tumbling down like plastic dolls
Hide the signs of suffering, embrace your mediocrity
Like mindless zombies shuffling
You imitate reality

Haunted, sleepless meat-puppet without a will
Sanguine, yet your peace of mind comes in a pill
Torpid, tranquil, hopeful and vain
Undersexed, overfed and living in pain
The less you know of yourself the more you can kill

Build your tower out of twigs, live within until it falls
Then like those silly play-time pigs
Come tumbling down like plastic dolls
Hide the signs of suffering, embrace your mediocrity
Like mindless zombies shuffling you imitate reality
Build your tower out of stone, live within until it falls
Then crouched in darkness all alone
Come tumbling down like plastic dolls
Hide the signs of suffering, embrace your mediocrity
Like mindless zombies shuffling
You imitate reality

6. Human Anthem

Pacing in a gilded cage
Youthful lust turns to rage
You turn your fear into a need
Scratch your sores until they bleed
Take solace in a stranger's bed
You find no love but pain instead
Within your mind an awful din
The world grows smaller as the walls start closing in

Stigmatic mentors love to grind
Shards of hate into your mind
As distances grow longer
You leave familiar dreams behind
So trenchant in your slow decay
Deteriorating everyday
The whispers in your head insist
There's got to be another way

Enamored of a golden cross
Immerse yourself to conceal your loss
An edifice with marble walls
You'll find no peace within its halls
Weeping icons with stony eyes
In mute reprisal bear your lies
A swelling void consumes your soul
With each concession you dig yourself a deeper hole

Stigmatic mentors love to grind
Shards of hate into your mind
As distances grow longer
You leave familiar dreams behind
So trenchant in your slow decay
Deteriorating everyday
The whispers in your head insist
There's got to be another way
[Repeat]

7. Shahada

Kneel on sacred reeds and kiss the rising sun
A wild intemperate wind will rush
Among the works that you've begun
Set the skies aflame and dance within the fire
A sword, a word, a holy verse
The keys to all that you desire

Scorn to take the tainted cup
Life and light will wash away
Bear your tender spirit up
Hope and faith will wash away
Bury reason in the sand
Love and trust will wash away
Hide your face as they command
Heart and soul will wash away

Dine on brittle straws and bind your wounds with prayer
The promises of ancient prophets vanish in the desert air
Sow your fields with flesh put poison in your well
Entomb yourself while still alive condemn yourself to living hell

Scorn to take the tainted cup
Life and light will wash away
Bear your tender spirit up
Hope and faith will wash away
Bury reason in the sand
Love and trust will wash away
Hide your face as they command
Heart and soul will wash away

8. Ashes In Winter

Somewhere an infant cries / her parents do not stir
resting under leaden skies / I wonder who they were
The stolid minions come / They do as they were told
The streets are growing still / The flesh is growing cold
Another wretched day / Followed by sleepless night
I don't care what you say / You knew it wasn't right

Now all I know is winter
Without the scent of spring
Today is filled with sorrow
What will tomorrow bring
Do you remember winter
When ashes fell like snow
Now all I know is winter
Where did the summer go

The angry ones return / Like children sick with fear
So young but they will learn / The end is drawing near
The annex seems to shrink / The days blur into one
The sweat-soaked linens stink / I long to see the sun
Another wretched day / Followed by sleepless night
I don't care what you say / You knew it wasn't right

9. Blackened Earth

Another storm is rolling through
An olive branch just hit the ground
I'm not sure I know what to do
The Earth just screamed without a sound
An iron god unlocks his hoard
Men of the cloth take up the sword
Their zealous hatred makes a bid
Their bodies can't afford

Blackened earth and broken walls foretell a grisly scene
In my imagination they are fields of verdant green
The Chaos Wolf has had his way
A thousand victims every day
The sound of children crying makes me think
Is there another way?

The flame of anger burns at night
Just like a watch fire on the hill
The hero longs to pick a fight
At least there's one hole he can fill
Another martyr for the cause
A feral beast unsheathes its claws
Eviscerating hopes for peace
Without a moment's pause

(Will you follow? Or will you lead?)

10. The Vigil

The house is growing quiet, the vigil will begin
A nightly visitation will surely come again
And you must keep your silence, the walls are paper-thin
Oh yes, you must be silent, the walls are paper-thin
A light's on in the hallway, there's footsteps at the door
Your kind and cruel tormentor casts his shadow on the floor
And still you must be silent, for no-one will believe
Oh yes, you must be silent, good children don't deceive.

A heaving weight, stifling your cries
Penetrating pain, wetness on your thighs
And then he'll tell you: "My dear I truly love you."
He flinches when you ask him
why do you do the things you do,,,
you think he's on the level
When he says it is the Devil
Or perhaps it is the grain, (he will explain)
That makes him cause your pain

The house is growing quiet, the vigil will begin
In grim anticipation, of a parental sin
And still you must be silent, the walls are paper-thin
Oh yes, you must be silent, the walls are paper-thin
The footsteps in the hallway, they fill your heart with fear
Your nemesis is coming, you feel him drawing near
And still you keep you promise, a solemn spoken vow
A pact that you would sunder, if only you knew how

A heaving weight, stifling your cries
Penetrating pain, wetness on your thighs
And then he'll tell you: "My dear I truly love you."
He flinches when you ask him
why do you do the things you do,,,
you think he's on the level
When he says it is the Devil
Or perhaps it is the grain, (he will explain)
That makes him cause your pain
(Repeat)

11. Blue Muse (Razed In Black Remix)

12. Recursion (Out)

EMERGENCE LYRICS