HAKEN LYRICS

1. Prosthetic

Sleep deprived
Another chalk line marks the walls
Form restored, unbroken
Altered blood work awakening

Tame the storm electric
Prosthetic thoughts
They can't contain them
Why incite the trauma
Magnetic north of the borderline?

I don't wanna talk about it anymore
So sick of these questions, I've heard them before
I don't know what it is you want to hear
The more I stare, the less becomes clear

Eye for an eye, life for a life

Fight or flight? Nil by mouth
Morphine fuels my apathy
I recall the Rorschach
But you forget the heart remembers

I don't wanna talk about it anymore
So sick of these questions, I've heard them before
I don't know what it is you want to hear
The more I stare, the less becomes clear

I don't wanna talk about it anymore
So sick of these questions, I've heard them before
I don't know what it is you want to hear
The more I stare, the less becomes clear
I don't wanna talk about it anymore
So sick of these questions, I've heard them all before
I don't know what it is you want to hear
The more I stare, the less becomes clear

Eye for an eye, life for a-

2. Invasion

One, one less, one less life
One less life for us to live
Holding, holding on
Holding on to something real
If these, if these walls
If these walls could talk to me
What if all these eyes only saw what they believed?

Two heavy, heavy hearts
Heavy hearts refuse to beat
When my, when my words
When my words fall on deaf ears
If your, if your soul
If your soul could cry for me
What if all we give is all we ever get to keep?

When we left behind the friends we made along the way;
Why is it we never learn from all the mistakes we ever made?

One, one last, one last chance
One last chance to disappear
Calling, calling out
Calling out for someone real
If this, if this god
If this god could pray to me
What if where we're lost is where we are meant to be?

Too, too much, much too young
Much too young and gone too soon
Letting, letting go
Latching on to something new
If this, if this breath
If this breath's the last I breathe
What if all of my sins are still addicted to me?

When?
When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we're never learning from all the mistakes we ever made?
How is there one unconditional love when you've taken my will to breathe?
Losing our sense of direction has led us to where we all need to be

One, one less, one less life
One less life for us to live
One last, one last chance
One last chance to disappear
One less, one less life
One less life for us to live
One last, one last chance
One last chance to end this

When?
When did we give up believing in beautiful minds that begin to fail?
How is there always a different path waiting for every road we stray?
When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we're never learning from all the mistakes we ever made?

When?
When did we give up believing in beautiful minds that begin to fail?
How is there always a different path waiting for every road we stray?
When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we're never learning from all the mistakes we ever made?

3. Carousel

I've been holding on too tight to let you go
Now I'm sinking in the mire
Wish we could go back to how it was
But we're too close to the wire

Cross the line on my horizon
Sapiens pervade like a virus
Finding solace in isolation
If the wolf cries "boy", keep calm, carry on

Dead among the living, nothing to believe in
Making sinners of saints
All the fears unfaced
Swarming all around me like ants
As the flame is prised away from the moth
Stronger in their numbers turning on each other
Is this out of our hands?

Holding on too tight to let you go
I'm sinking in the mire
Wish we could go back to how it was
But we're too close to the wire

If I give them an inch, they take a mile
Does love have to be tough, cruel to be kind?

Think of all the people you have turned your back on
Do you mourn the lost souls from your pale high horse?

I've been holding on too tight to let you go
I'm sinking in the mire
Wish we could go back to how it was
But we're too close to the wire

Fly without fear of landing
Welcome into the fold
Not all who wander shall be lost
Surrounded yet somewhat lonely
The carousel claims its toll
Paying a price, not counting costs

What if the weight is lifted
When we are all renewed?
When will the penny ever drop?
Who will our burdens carry?
Who will not shed a tear
If our pulse should ever stop?

Hold on tight and never let me go
Take me back to how it was before
Hell knows I was holier than thou
But heavy is the head that wears the crown

4. The Strain

I bit my tongue for far too long
Salt hits the wound
I'm dormant but the night is young
No punishment deserves this crime
Patience can wait
The last thing on your side is time

Temptation reminds me
My weakness defines me

You lend an ear, I chew it off
You disappear to see how quickly we move on
To cut you slack is to concede
I'd face the facts but I don't believe a thing I read

The monster inside me ascending the ivory
Temptation reminds me my weakness is defining me

Maybe I'll never find my voice
Could I ever change a thing?
When will my signal turn to noise
From a whisper to a scream?

When did we make our peace, violence?
Grounds will bleed for those who heed silence
How can truth set me free when we're still pretending?
All I need is to be heard when you're talking over me

Maybe I'll never find my voice
Could I ever change a thing?
When will my signal turn to noise
From a whisper to a scream?

When did we ever have a choice?
Could we never change a thing?
Maybe I'll only strain my voice
With a whisper to a scream?

5. Canary Yellow

Looking through your window to an empty room
Hours passing by, the hands don't move
A plastic life built just for you
Fears of wasted years fall into view

This mannequin aims to please
Traded ambitions for a nuclear family
Never fleeing from the nest
Eat, sleep, repeat to begin
To begin again

Break your silence
With these eyes
Blindly you follow
This perfect lie

Canary yellow luminates the grid
And the heat causes our skin to drip
The end game is all the same for you and me
An equinox the eyes, the eyes will never meet

You try to save the world
When it's you that needs help
Strive to win their hearts
When it's mine that needs love

You renounce the throne
Born to die alone
You can mend your broken crown
Too proud to fix yourself

Tryin' to save the world
When it's you that needs help
Strive to win their hearts
When it's mine that needs love
With a call to arms
'Til death do us part

Break your silence
With these eyes
Blindly you follow
This perfect lie

You try to save the world
When it's you that needs help
Strive to win their hearts
When it's mine that needs love

You renounce the throne
Born to die alone
You can mend your broken crown
Too proud to fix yourself

Tryin' to save the world (Save the world)
When it's you that needs help (You need help)
Strive to win their hearts (Win my heart back)
When it's mine that needs love
With a call to arms
'Til death do us part

6. Messiah Complex I: Ivory Tower

Shameless, skying above
Preying on the nameless, jury and judge
Everything they had was never enough
Spirit me away

Crawling under my skin
Spiraling through my head
Taste my own medicine
Drunk on the power
Rid this pestilence from within
A prayer for the innocent
Talk me down from the ledge of my ivory tower

Struggle to be in the now
When life's too much to swallow
It spits me right out
But I cling on
Reaping seeds I dare to sow
For all the lives I ever stole
And now I must repel the host
Forever I'll be spirited away

Crawling under my skin
Spiraling through my head
Taste my own medicine
Drunk on the power
Rid this pestilence from within
A prayer for the innocent
Talk me down from the ledge of my ivory tower

Where I end you begin
When I fall you will stand

7. Messiah Complex II: A Glutton for Punishment

Greed and guile
Color my life with aurus rose
Temper my yearning

Abdicate the throne, majesty!
Gold topples the crown
Blood festers the ground

Hell on Earth
My blessing and my curse
How did I fail my holy grail?
Taper my hunger

With your compound eyes
Parasites leeched upon the guilt
And a call to arms
Paradise led me down a path to the core

Fail. Try. Fall. Rise.

Scars run deep
Tormenting me with her reptilian glare
How is she forsaking me when my devil may care?

With your compound eyes
Parasites echo through the walls
And a call to arms
Paradise, breathe me in, I'm dead to the world

8. Messiah Complex III: Marigold

Ashes in the sky
Garden of delights
Screams have turned to sighs
Deserting their eyes

Wisdom in the crowd
Signals turn to sound
Abdicate the crown
Muzzle to the mouth

A shiver shoots through the spine
She whispers goodnight
Fallen sons and daughters
How does one forgive himself?

Careful what you wish for, Marigold
Relentless grief that haunts my days will never be gone
Tell me what you died for
Did you ever imagine we'd reawaken the monster
At the end of days that cease to begin

9. Messiah Complex IV: The Sect

Riches back to rags
Clutching to the past
Straying from the path
Gutter from the stars

If humility comes to humble me
In my time of need, will I be free?

Ostracized by the power of the masses
I was compromised when the treasure made a fool of me

Hypnotized by the hunter
Midas touch with a sleight of hand
I'm criticized for the slander
Repentance heal my broken wing

Riches back to rags
Clutching to the past
Straying from the path
Gutter from the stars

If humility comes to humble me
In my time of need, will I be redeemed?

10. Messiah Complex V: Ectobius Rex

Putrefied by the masses
We fall to rise through the suffering
Reign of fire, spread the ashes
Your victor cries, "Hail to the King!"

Crawl out of my skin
A cell keeps dividing
Memories of electricity
Rid this plague within
The veil finally lifts
Jumping from my tower of ivory

Crawl out of my skin
A cell keeps dividing
Memories of electricity
Rid this plague within
The veil finally lifts
Jumping from my tower of ivory

11. Only Stars

Here I lay
Far from grace
I'll remember the pretenders
Save your tears
As I'm summoned hither
One last breath, I wither
No remorse, no redemption
Only stars form the heavens
No more gods yield before us
All is clear as I end







HAKEN LYRICS