ENCEPHALON LYRICS

1. Rise

I WILL RISE

Drug me up and crucify me, I want to feel nothing but your betrayal
Nail me down and medicate what I'd assassinate if I weren't so frail

What is another black hole to a dead sky's stars?
What is a fresh wound to a body so full of scars?

Bleed me out and purify me, I'm in need of cleansing of what I've failed
Sail me down the ocean's face so I confront my fate in a ghost storm's gale

[Chorus:]
I WILL RISE
I will FIND... ROOM to GROW
Or a PLACE to DIE

It's decay in their eyes… widow black, withered white
I hope they see the price of deceit
Rot away in my mind… don't look back, don't deny
We all have what you've called demons

[Chorus:]
I WILL RISE
I will FIND... ROOM to GROW
Or a PLACE to DIE

2. The Transhuman Condition

The setting sun… may soon go down
And some may fret… but I don't

THIRD… EYE - EMERGES
To OPEN… WIDE - ACROSS MANKIND
HIVE… MIND - AWAKE
A new DAWN of COMPLEXITY comes

And some say storms… will pierce the sky
Before our time… to move off

TO… KNOW… the DEPTHS of INFINITY
IS TO KNOW that EVERYTHING…. that COULD BE
Has BEEN and FOREVER WILL BE

[Chorus:]
A CHANGE must COME… to form NEW LIFE
As EGOS fall… and CELLS DIVIDE
DON'T hold your breath… and close your eyes
You'll be left crawling... UN-EVOLVED INSIDE

THIRD… EYE - EMERGES
To OPEN… WIDE - ACROSS MANKIND
HIVE… MIND - AWAKE
A new DAWN of COMPLEXITY comes

[Chorus:]
A CHANGE must COME… to form NEW LIFE
As EGOS fall… and CELLS DIVIDE
DON'T hold your breath… and close your eyes
You'll be left crawling... UN-EVOLVED INSIDE

3. Daylight

Time after time… we've given up our home
And stepped into a void… of nothing we know

Why do we search for shelter… when all we do is run?
Cast a curse on the saviours… oh what have we become?
I follow… just to get where you have come
I couldn't make it… your peace where I found none

[Chorus:]
Mistook the calling of daylight for morning sun
And stayed too long as the daze of our mourning began

Time after time… we've loosened our hold
We traced every line… and feared what we wrote

And ALL we've DONE
To STOP this WAR
MIGHT have MATTERED
To a GOD WORTH FIGHTING FOR

[Chorus:]
Mistook the calling of daylight for morning sun
And stayed too long as the daze of our mourning began

4. Garden

I'll just wait for the day when I can see what it will take
To feel, and look the other way.
I know I will never be the one to pull you from the womb,
The haven built to nurture you
Through nights in my darling garden of decay and contempt.
Where I can only grow inwards, nourished by the defeat,
Watered by several tears and rooted in my fears.
Its secondary, its sedimentary.

(Its secondary, its sedimentary...)

I gave you warning… to close your eyes,
But with a new morning… you were blind.

Left the wounded open wide.
You're alive.

So just wait for the day when you can see what it will take
To heal, and bleed white anyways.
You know that I have never been the one to rise past salted wounds,
The hatred build to nurture you
To light my scarring garden of decay and contempt… ablaze.
You only show the truth that I could never face,
Blinded by severed tears and deafened by my fears.
Its secondary, a cemetery.

It's sedimentary

Thought you died… with the tide,
The ghost storm swept from the other side.
Burn the roots… salt the soil,
Forget this garden that I spoil.
Though I tried… got denied.
Left the wounded open wide.
You're alive.
You're alive.
You're alive.

I gave you warning… to close your eyes,
But with a new morning… you were blind.

5. The Killing Horizon

There was a time I'd suck all the poison from your throat.

Does it really end here?
You haven't seen shit
And you're already blind.

Twisted sunrise turns everything faint to coax you from your black hole.

Come… come alive… in light… before my eyes - but dead in my mind.
Come… come alive… in light… before my eyes - but dead in my mind.

So just let it end here… in this light.
With your claws sunk in tight to any other black-mailed knight in shattered armor. Kissed black by a poison tongue.
As you snap… and you curl, I know it wouldn't be right
Not to fight you… and to see you… devour… us tonight.

No warning sign.
No Morning light on this horizon.

Come… come alive… in light… before my eyes - but dead in my mind.
Come… come alive… in light… before my eyes - but dead in my mind.

6. Mariana's Trench

Conditions remain… required to exit from this existence.
Although a solution seems impossible, I dread to fall into the cycle.

Attrition attained… desire to plunge further in the sea of humanity… is no longer persistent or possible. I long for a time when nothing seemed impossible.

This is not a welcoming.
From the underworld to the overground
I belong… anywhere… but here.
The mask has fused to my face, I have become my disguise
And all I despise.

As I plunge deeper still into this social abyss,
All I'm taught, all I retain
Reminds me of how much I've changed.

Deeper, further, I watched rebel lungs explode inside.

Deeper still the sockets rupture.
On they plunge and disintegrate.
Become nothing, become nothing, become nothing,
Become nothing more… than desensitized drops in an immeasurable ocean.

7. Drop Dead

[Chorus:]
Drop dead, leave the life that you're living behind
Was it all that kind?
Drop dead, leave the life that you're living behind
(Drop dead drop dead drop)
I'm beginning to get the picture… buried under misunderstanding
I'm beginning to find the answer… I've been asking… all this time

Life didn't let you… pass your time… the way most others do
Mother… did they let you know your daughter's dying?
As they watched you blow your mind
You seem fine

[Chorus:]
Drop dead, leave the life that you're living behind
Was it all that kind?
Drop dead, leave the life that you're living behind
(Drop dead drop dead drop)
I'm beginning to get the picture… buried under misunderstanding
I'm beginning to find the answer… I've been asking… all this time

I couldn't let you… into my life

There's no time for another… disaster
Destined epic… to switch us from fall into careening… out of line
Daughter… did they let you know you're catatonic?
And the moods you show have been programmed… into your mind?

[Chorus:]
Drop dead, leave the life that you're living behind
Was it all that kind?
Drop dead, leave the life that you're living behind
(Drop dead drop dead drop)
I'm beginning to get the picture… buried under misunderstanding
I'm beginning to find the answer… I've been asking… all this time

8. Scar On Scar On Scar

What a wish, what a shift, what a twist of fate. All we waste, all we break, did we agitate… all we have, all we know, underneath our feet? Choke it down, spit it up - a spoiled piece of meat… is getting harder… and harder to identify. Crooked cooking, no one's looking
up the alibi. What a wish, don't you wish it was as simple as… an answerless question no one needs to ever ask?

If all you do… this time around… come back to you
Always, but often in disguise.
And all you do… to those around… would scar you too
Are you planning to survive?

9. A Lifetime Of Puppetry

So goes the quest
From furthest east to farthest west
To live a life you could call blessed
But underneath what you'd suggest… is not as divine

High as the wind may blow
Low as the deepest undertow
I tried to uncover you
Now I discover that you are a LIGHT… that LIVES in SHADES
You shine so bright… as color fades… out of this life
So just tonight, please shed some light… on a lie so black that you call white

High as the wind may blow
Low as the deepest undertow
I tried to uncover you
Now I discover that you are ALIVE

There's no time to sleep
I can't count another sheep that WASTES its POTENTIAL
WAITING on… a fucking MIRACLE

I won't close my eyes
I WON'T LIVE a LIFE of FEAR for FUTURE PUNISHMENT
I will CAST my OWN JUDGMENT

There's NO TIME to SLEEP
I CAN'T COUNT another SHEEP that WASTES its POTENTIAL
WAITING ON… a FUCKING MIRACLE

Burn among the trees… i find room to breath.
Drawing my conclusions free from foreign illusions

If I look back, I still see a lifetime of puppetry
Hollow dolls who fail to see whose hands their strings do lead
Lead us from explanation
Deliver us from an equation
That will cut us free
THAT WILL CUT US FREE

I won't close my eyes
I WON'T LIVE a LIFE of FEAR for FUTURE PUNISHMENT
I will CAST my JUDGMENT

There's NO TIME to SLEEP
I CAN'T COUNT another SHEEP that WASTES its POTENTIAL
WAITING ON… a FUCKING MIRACLE

10. Human Shield

Once I tried to integrate and modernize.
Learnt my lines, knew my crimes, cut my ties.
Survival was not a priority.

(Survival… was not a priority)

Did not take me long to realize… I can't take all of your sides.
Summoned as a single wound bleeds
More sharks than I could ever feed.

Just then I knew… that nothing I do… will ever change you.

Sets of extroverted eyes… cutting me back down to size.
Social-life-support failing.
Regenerate another shell to replicate all of this pain.

Just then I knew… that nothing I do… will ever change you.

A human shield…
A human shield...

I never listen to intention, just the sound of the bodies… falling.

Last time when the shadows surrounded the light
I had to shoot through… my human shield.

Just then I knew… that nothing I do… will ever change you.
When will you see… that none of this is me?
It's never easy.

11. Face First

Commit yourself… submit to intimacy
To your true self, to the one you forget every time.

If you MUST be VILIFIED…
To be PURIFIED
You'll be JUSTIFIED…
ON the INSIDE
FINALLY… ALIVE

I… don't know destination… I just wait to find you there
You just hide behind a stare
I… don't know condemnation… I just love to take your blame
Take pleasure in the price I pay
No I don't know where I begin and you end
So follow this vein to the heart that bleeds between us all

Commit yourself… submit to intimacy
(Say what you've been told and taught and forced while you complain)
To your true self, to the one you forget every time.

You MUST be VILIFIED… to be PURIFIED
You'll be JUSTIFIED… ON the INSIDE
FINALLY… ALIVE

I… see endless complication
And limitless frustration… caused… by everything perceived as flaws
All I… know is domination
The effortless equation used… to ever feel a thing from you
No I don't feel as if we're still ascending
Fall back down face first and meet the ending

Fall back down face first and fall back down face first and fall back down face first And fall back down face first

I… never believed… that the door would close on me
As you leave… would I fall back down to my knees?
Say what you've been told and taught and forced… while you complain
Say what you've been told and (say what)

Commit yourself… submit to intimacy
To your true self, to the one you forget every time.

You MUST be VILIFIED…
To be PURIFIED
You'll be JUSTIFIED…
ON the INSIDE
FINALLY… ALIVE

12. Past The Grave

When you get… what you gave for answers
You'll regret… trying to face your selfish ways.
What you said… to shift the blame from your head
Will not disguise… the fault you wreak of.

They follow you down
They follow you down past the grave.
I just hit the ground… I just didn't fall in place.
They wont make a sound
They don't make a sound because of faith,
You're breaking it down… with every change you don't make.

By muting the blind… and blinding the deaf, you've forced them to trust.
They march in your lines… 'till I can't control or conceal my disgust.
So I walk away… taking no part in this parade
But its your nerve to say… I'm not doing what I know to be right.

They follow you down
They follow you down past the grave.
I just hit the ground… I just didn't fall in place.
They wont make a sound
They don't make a sound because of faith,
You're breaking it down… with every change you don't make.







ENCEPHALON LYRICS