ESSENTIA LYRICS

1. What Is And What Should Never Be

This is all that I am
Though my conscious woke long ago
Long before I ever set foot in the outside world
To be awake, awake for countless years and centuries
Invoking the memories of old, they are long forgotten
Deep within the darkness of my reforming mind
I yearn to travel to this place
What is and what should never be
Is this not the embodiment of our aspirations?
These dreams are constantly evolving

2. Empty

I've come a long way since my first notion
Set in motion by life's progress
Propelled through process to gain awareness
In hopes I'd find my way home
Crippled in self doubt with no signs or way out
Irrelevance in my wake
It feels as if I don't exist
How can I pour from an empty vessel
With every feeling dead and left unsated
I need a moment to embrace and reflect
My mind is wandering
Emerged in constant apathy
It's draining life from my soul
For what I've come to expect
Is the inability to connect

3. Peering Into The Grave

We are not eternal
Mortality is a given in a world such as this
It's not the fear of death that cripples us
The unknown transition, the imminent end
Peering into the grave to understand the gift of life
In it's fragile form
As we are born, we slowly gravitate
Towards the end of this mortal coil
We distance ourselves from what we can't understand
Merely living on borrowed breath
The balance of life and death
Returns this form to dust

4. I Am

I am

5. Second Wind

You can't pull yourself up when there's nothing to hold onto
Disparity clouding moments of clarity
When there's nothing left, your mind drifts
Revelations occur within our minds
Realizations elapse with time
To push through the muck and mire
Dig deep and refuse to expire
Shut out the thought of defeat
Stay strong, and never retreat

6. Boundless Sentience

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7. Primal Embrace

When I was born under dying skies
It was a time of mankind's blindness
When every mind was enduring the fight
The struggle binds the eyes that witness
I am starting to realize
Not everything is black and white
The pieces, they fit together
A product of misdirection
The resulting pain of our progression
When will we learn this lesson?
I am starting to realize
Not everything is black and white
The pieces they fit together
Our minds hunger for a thrill
Wandering as time stands still
All of the dreams we have pushed aside
We will not be denied
When I was born under dying skies
It was a time of mankind's blindness
When every mind was enduring the fight
The struggle binds the eyes that witness

8. Born Into The Rift

Born into a world that's not my own
These eyes have woken too
Born into a world that's not my own
These eyes have seen through you
Wandering towards the brighter light
Desperate hands yearning to feel the warmth
Please give me all that I need to survive
To once again experience
With every fleeting moment I detach further from reality
All fibers of this being longing to become free
Why do I feel this life is suppressed?
This battered mind is far behind, my soul contests
Do I listen to my heart or my mind
When each is guiding me to this divide
I am a ghost that everybody can see
Lock eyes with the future before me

9. A Paradox Incarnate

I am struggling to see the light of day create
An image so perfect crystal clear
Don't plant the seeds of worry and fear
For they might adhere to all the things that you hold dear
The universe may have another plan
To guide us from afar and help us understand
The only way to escape the ordinary
Is to be constantly evolving
Our eyes always compromised
Blinded by our own demise
How can we call this progress
If we destroy ourselves in the process?

10. T.H.C.

Time is non-existent
This is just a dream
Caught up in the here and now
All is not what it seems
This is just a dream
Vision blurs, it starts to fade
My thoughts lost in a drifting haze
The whole world is lit ablaze
Take a moment to clear your mind, and just breathe
The air expands
The knowledge that has brought us to a higher place
Flowing swiftly through connections made in open space
To enlighten what has been discovered
To shed light where darkness reigns
And validate this existence
Memory seeps away as I go through the motions
Lost in the endless ocean







ESSENTIA LYRICS