INVENT, ANIMATE LYRICS

1. Dark

Peer into my eyes
Eclipsed lenses reflect the distance
Between you and me
We are further than we seem
Hold my breath, my fingertips graze your palms
But the warmth is gone
Left to stumble in the dark
I blinked and part of me was gone
Hope goes up in smoke
Vapor dissipates

I lost my shadow
I feel you slipping away, but I need you to stay
You contour the source to black out the light
My shadow

For the sake of life, I cross the line
To look back at the day
I left myself behind, self-separated from soul
I lost my shadow
Black out

Dancing shapes against the wall
The somber melody inside
Sings in black and white
The glow flickers out, glimmer into night

I lost my shadow
Black out the light
Hollow, cold
Self from soul
Self-separated from soul

I lost my shadow
Black out the light
Hollow and cold
Self from soul
I lost my shadow
Black out the light
Hollow and cold
Self from soul

For the sake of life, I cross the line
To look back at the day
I left myself behind, self-separated from soul
I lost my shadow, shadow

I lost my shadow
Black out the light
Hollow and cold
Self from soul

2. Cloud Cascade

Your cloud hovers over me
Oceans of grey
Blanket the flashing light
Drawing the curtains closed
I forge a shelter yet it drenches me
Torrential downpour endlessly

Casting a shade on purity
Forging a shelter, it drenches me
So tell me, do you believe
Do you believe you can love me?

Stargazing under the darkness of my roof
The clouds blot out the pale moonlight
"As surely as the sun rises"
Says the cloud to her moon

I know it wasn't good for me
The way the rain showered me lonely
Did you believe
You could love me?

The heavens break
Cloud cascade
Quench the torch on my own skin
So I can stand in her storm
Tide shifting, earth shakes
Crashing from the weight of gravity

Casting a shade on purity
Forging a shelter, it drenches me
So tell me, do you believe?
Do you believe you can love me?

Water stands on my skin
Runs my blood cold, yet I will never hide

Stargazing under the darkness of my roof
The clouds blot out the pale moonlight
"As surely as the sun rises"
Your cloud hovers over me
Drawing the curtains closed

3. Reflection Room

The end and now

Without my eyes
Staring fierce into the blackened sky
Vibrating skin, caused by my boiling veins
Just seal the air out

Sinking up and slowly floating down
As I gaze upon the pillars wilting at my feet

Speaking in silence
Falling asleep into
Still quiet space
Pray that I wake again

Why am I killing myself?
All of me is not for you to take
For you to take

A fraction in time
We are so lost between the end and now
A broken sliver, shards of mirror crafted collectively
Endless river, the flow of eternity
Face to face, staring at my gaze in the water
Once a ripple, now quiet and still

Speak in silence, fall asleep
Into quiet, pray I wake
Speak in silence, fall asleep
Into quiet, pray I wake
Speaking in silence, falling asleep into
Stay quiet [?], pray that I wake again

My hollow self is nothing less than a pawn in this game
No time for rest when time is everything
As I'm waking up
I'm traveling on borrowed time
There I am bound, a fraction in time
A fraction in time, the end and now

4. Hollow Light

I've been waiting far too long
For the flowers to bloom
Scared to have these fingers pried open
Afraid I'm falling away from you

Dusk falls, surrounding
Am I in love with the fear of losing everything?
Am I in love with the feeling?
There's something in the way you follow, something in the way in you follow
Dusk falls, surrounding
Closed eyes plead to deaf ears

Plead to deaf ears

Dust dancing
Floating between windows
And the light on my skin, suspended in a sunbeam
Waiting while the darkness seeps through

So I turn to you and ask instead
Is it alright if I sleep?
Can I climb into the safety of my sheets?
The only place I can close my eyes
The silent unrest
I'll trade peace for oblivion
And calm my mind
But I won't sleep tonight

Dusk falls, surrounding
Am I in love with the fear of losing everything?
Am I in love with the feeling?
There's something in the way you follow, something in the way in you follow
Dusk falls, surrounding
Closed eyes plead to deaf ears

Plead to deaf ears

5. Shapeshifter

[feat. Garrett Russell]

[Marcus Vik:]
Shapeshifter, an everchanging hue
Chromatic variance I can see right through
Sharpen your senses, blend with the backdrop
That obscures you, concealed by fear
Hiding in plain sight
I can't replace you, I never meant to
I regret to say you were one of a kind
Understand we share a bond that was left behind

Shapeshifter, no color looks like you, world turning grey
All you want is something new
Shapeshifter, your color's burning out
I watched you fade away into decay

[Garrett Russell:]
We stared at the sun
Gazed into the haze until the colors faded into a shade of delusion
Drifting away, you traded doubt for fate, a sorry soul at stake
You've become another shapeshifter
I knew you by distance
You showed me there's no love like loss
Count the seconds, recall the memories
Spindles descending from the calloused hands of time
You showed me there's no love like loss

[Marcus Vik:]
I regret to say you were one of a kind
Understand we share a bond that was left behind
Brothers who loved one another
We had a lot to lose, it shouldn't have been you

Shapeshifter, no color looks like you, world turning grey
All you want is something new
Shapeshifter, your color's burning out
I watched you fade away like you never wanted dark

6. Heaven, Alone

[Instrumental]

7. Monarch

The monarch of silence condescends to speak
Foreign and familiar eyes meet through a temple haze
Surrounded by smoke that consumes a cloud of confidence
Witness to the purity of penance
Before the bond that holds us together
No more space between death and woefully unclean

The guilt and the shame, can you take it all away?
As soon as I graze you, it's over for me
The guilt and the shame, can you take it all away?
Afraid to embrace if for once you could keep me safe
Afraid to embrace

Will you go away? Restore my grace
Will you be waiting? I have no intention to stay

For the first time, you met me where I stand
Wrapped me in drapes of your immortal embrace to cover who I think I am
Tremble
All questions erased
No more space between death and a sealed fate
A forbidden gaze
Unraveled at the sound of the throne room-shaking

The guilt and the shame
As soon as I graze you, it's over for me
The guilt and the shame, can you take it all away?
Afraid to embrace if for once you could keep me safe

All this time I was afraid of dying alone
My first breath extended in the palm of your hand
My final belongs to you, it was yours when we began

8. Fireside

Run into the dark, keep my two worlds apart
Choke out the light, extinguish what burns in me
Hold my breath, feel the hole inside my chest
Bleed out your life so I can breathe

I wake up shaking cold
Always alone, warmth is a home
I can't find my way back to
I was at home with you
But I traded it for a shiver
But I traded it for a shiver
I traded it all

Violent winter, frigid weather
Heartbeat darker, spirit severed
Keep me close, my soul is fading
Keep me close, I hope you're waiting for me

Violent winter, frigid weather
Heartbeat darker, spirit severed
Burn me to ashes, burn me to ashes
I need to feel the flame
Burn me to ashes, burn me to ashes
There is no warmth without you

I wake up shaking cold
Always alone, warmth is a home
I can't find my way back to
I was at home with you
But I traded it for a shiver
But I traded it for a shiver
I traded it all

9. Secret Sun

Words fall short to make blood run red
The blank page and the heart that beats dead
Resuscitating useless dead ends
Letters from a prison cell bleed black
Darkness illustrated, empty inside

Could I have stretched my hand to pull you back?
Could I have spoken a word to dry your tears at last?
Slip through my fingers, orphaned from home
I am truly alone

Are there ears to hear me
Crying out in the dark?
Is there a hand to pull me
Out of the sea, the sea of sorrow?

Flatlines draw an attempt to color us right back together
Nooses tying up loose ends like stories that were never penned
Resuscitating useless dead ends
Bleed Black

My heart has hardened to stone
I believe I am truly alone

Could I have stretched my hand to pull you back?
Could I have spoken a word to dry your tears at last?
Slip through my fingers, orphaned from home
I am truly alone

Are there ears to hear me
Crying out in the dark?
Is there a hand to pull me
Out of the sea, the sea of sorrow?
Are there ears to hear me
Crying out in the dark?
Is there a hand to pull me
Out of the sea, the sea of sorrow?

10. Eden

Floral field, you spoke my name
Emerging to the surface from a darkened strain
Swiftly floating up, separating from myself
Disconnected, drifting on my own
If I stop for a second, I can hear it say
"The light within was always bright in me"
Treading safely, resting closed away

Show me clarity, reveal
Moments that could heal the pain
Falling under what I feel
Embracing escape, never let it slip away

Taking over, you let it slip away
Falling under what I feel
Taking over
Maybe time will tell what's real in this

Never to enter the void again
So devouring
Can I tell if this is real or should I face reality?
Never cease to be
Something inside is rising, I feel it taking over me
A gentle breeze illuminates
"The light within was always bright in me"
Shine in the darkness when I can't see

Show me clarity, reveal
Moments that could heal the pain
Falling under what I feel
Embracing escape, never let it slip away

Taking over, you let it slip away
Falling under what I feel
Taking over, you let it slip away
Maybe time will tell what's real in this

11. Brightwing

Look into me, count what I've lost
Broken wings, weary with grief
The sum of all our costs
Broken wings with no light to cling to
Floating toward a ray of hope
Only this nocturnal lens to dream through

I found you in the dark
Nocturnal drift of a black heart
Filled with the blazing light
Burning bright, yet you always hide
Shine on me
In the warmth of the sunlight
Shine on me
Dare to leave the night

Force my rest, sleep under dust

Can I repair these wings?
Close the gaps that sting?
Should I prepare my tomb?
Is that enough for you?
Kiss the fire, the glowing coal against my lips
Let a dead man earn his rest
Sleep under the dust
You love to see me burn
Broken wings with no light to cling to
A moth in a world of butterflies
Floating toward a ray of hope
These hands have more to prove

I found you in the dark
Nocturnal drift of a black heart
Filled with the blazing light
Burning bright, yet you always hide
I found you in the dark
Shine on me
You love to see me burn
Shine on me
Sleep under dust

12. Halcyon

When memories are all that's left of me
Rooted like evergreens, let fate rain on me
In the bitter air changing seasons bring
To exist in rememberings, am I worth a memory?

Washing away in the endless sea
The spinning of threads in uncertain lengths, let fate rain on me
Pull me under to a world that's still
Drown me in the cold, dense rift slowly in a moonlit drift
Take me away, cast the world in stone
Slow the spinning sun

Try to stop the sand, but it only flows quicker
Pry the ticking hand just to try to remember
Did I use the time I had, or did I let the time use me?
All the days I can't get back, suspend me in time

When memories are all that's left of me
Rooted like evergreens, let fate rain on me
In the bitter air changing seasons bring
To exist in rememberings, am I worth a memory?

Wear me down
Cast the world in stone
Dancing in the dark
I'll stay here all alone
Wear me down
Cast the world in stone
Dancing in the dark
I'll stay here all alone

Take me away
Cast the world in stone, slow the spinning sun
Nothing is lost as long as it's remembered
I've lost myself, I've lost myself

13. Nova

It all felt so real
The flow of life that left
The world whispered your name
In colors so dull and expressionless
Was there anything?
Maybe I was trying to pretend
I wonder if you felt it all along
You saw the beginning to the end

You watch me drift away
Over and over again
I'm drowning in the rain, wither away
Bury the pain in the hopeless deep

Scorched beneath the skin
Leaving the surface to make amends
Buried in the pain again, but this time
It all felt so real
Find my way, see through the grey
In the hopeless deep

The quiet that used to put me to sleep
Seems so loud in this restless bleak

Watch me drift away painlessly
Is it selfish to say I don't deserve it?
The constant rain withers me
The fine line between giving up and letting go

You watch me drift away
Over and over again
I'm drowning in the rain over and over
[?] over and over again, bury the pain

The quiet that used to put me to sleep
Seems so loud in this restless bleak
Watch me drift away painlessly
Is it selfish to say I don't deserve it?





INVENT, ANIMATE LYRICS