ISA LYRICS

1. [dusk]

2. Stage I - Descent

I lay my head to rest
But my troubled mind won't let me be
My demons awaken when the lights go dim

I seek solace in sleep, but toss and turn

Sleep, dream...

My conscience is restless
I must soon release it
The weight of the world has become
Too much of a burden to bear

Slowly drifting, the world slowly drifts awayf

3. Stage II - Fear

Faces, faces, everywhere I turn
Faces I've seen, bridges I've burned
Wanting, pleading, I can't overcome
The pressure is rising but it's too late to wake up
Stuck in the dream
So I run

I'm running away from my problems,
Running away from my failures
Chasing me, racing me, I can't escape
Nothing can save me now

They chase me endlessly, relentlessly
They keep on haunting me, they keep taunting me
"We want your body, we want your soul
We're gonna catch you, we won't let you go"

The world around me, only darkness
Evil surrounds me in this place

Twisted trees, they tangle and trip me
Crimson rivers, flowing and dripping
Like blood from an alien wound
Lifeblood from an alien wound

What do they want from me
Why are they here?

Friends morph into monsters
Inhuman limbs and beastly features
Stuck in the dream
I see no escape

Clawing at my soul, these ghosts they won't let go

I'm running away from my problems,
Running away from my failures
Chasing me, racing me, I can't escape
Nothing can save me now

A cave, a cove, a safe zone
Maybe if I hide, they will leave me alone

4. Stage III - Heathens

Catch my breath
Take a breather

No more fear
No more panic
Sleep on
Dream on

My sleeping body stirs
My roaming conscience blurs
A pair of eyes, gleaming in the darkness
They blink and look deep into my soul
The creature stirs, its steps are cautious

Slowly emerging, it reveals itself to me
And we dance

We raise up our arms, and we open our souls,
Heads tossed back and skin aglow.

The creature danced, it danced with me,
A heathen's dance for none to see

We dance and we dance until the room grows bright
With the energy we release from our souls
No shame, no fear, we do as we like,
A heathen's dance until the death bell tolls.

5. Stage IV - Evil

A swirling black cloud of bits of burned souls descends,
Obscuring the light that we made
The cave, the cove, is suddenly cold,
My heathen friend vanished, only I remain
But the dance must go on

I'm being watched by a beast so black,
The cavern light seems to be sucked into its scaly back
Like a black hole of wicked souls

It feeds on the ghostly flesh
Of the recently deceased
Ripping, tearing, gorging itself on memories
And it feeds

Slowly the beast turns to me (don't look)
Blood dripping from his jagged teeth (nowhere to hide)
He lets out an evil scream (don't look)
And he throws himself at me (nowhere to hide)

I run past forests of evil, fields of fear
I'd rather be anywhere other than here
The rising sun beckons me onwards,
Illuminating the landscape before me

I look back and see his eyes,
Hungry and visceral,
But the sun offers me some hope

Banishing demons back to their holes
Back to their darkness, the sun brings hope
In the sunlight, I will be saved.

6. Stage V - Reflection

7. Stage VI - Lust

What have we done?
I look around at the mess of the world
All that the light touches is in bloody pieces

The scent awakens within me
A lust, a hunger, a need to feed
The beast is me

I follow my nose
The shadow of a palace grows
Opulent, it gleams before me
I follow my nose
The odor of this pallid fortress
Reeks of a privileged purgatory

What have they done?
"We need this war," he said
"They need to see our strength"

So emboldened, I lust for another
To feast of their flesh
To paint with their blood
For they comprise my kin's opposite: the other
They are the other and I'm seeing red

8. Stage VII - Freedom

I am waiting for a chance to prove myself
I am not what I've been told to be
My blood lust fades
I become me

What I am is unconstrained by convention
Fuck convention

I am free to change my form
(spread my wings)

I spread my wings and leap into the sky

Soaring above the mountaintops
I fly into the clouds

The clouds are drowning me

9. Stage VIII - Ocean

I find myself floating alone on an ocean of clouds
Wondering how I got here

Adrift on this ocean
I search for the shore
I search for a sign
That I'm not alone

There's no sign of life for miles
As far as my eyes can see
Gently undulating, riding the waves
A distant shoreline drawing me in
to crash upon the rocks, breaking with the waves

A storm is rising in the sky

As the cliffs and stones approach
My breathing quickens

I choke, coughing

Will I be smashed upon the shore
Like so many before me?
Will my body be discovered
Before it rots away?

10. Stage IX - Recursion

I emerge from my body
Lying crumpled on the shore
Buffeted by the waves
Abandoned and forlorn
This vantage point is one I've never had before

Floating ever upwards, I watch the land recede

I am but a speck, indiscernible, invisible

The air grows thin
I've never been so high
Our globe's blue glow fades into starlight

I turn up and beyond
The heavens beckon

I am but a speck, indiscernible, invisible

Slowly drifting, the world slowly drifts
The world slowly drifts away

Is this the end? To dissolve into nothing?

My body stirs
My spirit rises

Wake me up

11. [dawn]

ISA LYRICS