LETTERS FROM THE COLONY LYRICS

1. Galax

Abandoned places, deserted by
Nefarious somnambulists who wandered off to die

To be ahead in this rat race
Coerce the wheel to spin
Years spent, pain swallowed
But you will will never win

Monotonous, repetitive and unfulfilling
Still we solider on

We shall kneel
Up to a point where it's painful to stand
Shake hands, smile and surrender your dreams

Years are spent
Hell-bent on plotting perfect escapes
From the grind of every day
Of certain death
Laments of my dying breath

Rewind, replay the beginning
I want to be remembered
To know that I have mattered

Enslaved and fettered to our grief
We built this prison of belief
Somnambulists with dreams of being free
Ball and chain, unnerving pain that robs us of sleep

2. Erasing Contrast

Grain and static
Systematic is our corruption
Want nothing, have nothing, take nothing, none

Kill the broadcast
Erase the contrast of all that we're told we could be
See nothing, hear nothing, be nothing, none

Rise, disciples
Stripped of title

Rise

Rotting the minds of the powerless ones
Rank with the spirit, the father, the son

Rise

Gradually eating away at my mind
There is nothing left
See nothing, hear nothing, none
Followers, leaders, we will all burn
There is nothing left
Want nothing, take nothing, none

3. The Final Warning

All the eloquent ways to express this
Disregarded with intent to upset
Words that were never meant to levitate
But to fill us with a palatable hate
To fill us with wrath

We feed on it
We will never have enough
A common enemy
Painted targets on their backs
Pointed fingers
Whet your appetite

We thought we were holy
That incitement can't touch us
It's what the past has shown us
We shall reminisce no more

Greet the new world
Burn at the stake
And your mistake
Was being born into the wrong
Gender/religion/color/generation
And now we're torn as to what truly matters
Between our rightfulness and greed

Feed us
We are starved
Give us a casteless soul
To taunt until the weak and trembling
Flame of life is extinguished

This is the grim world we made together
This is the cold hell we will rule forever
This is pain incarnated before us
This is the final warning

We're bracing for
A cold and bitter end

4. This Creature Will Haunt Us Forever

5. Cataclysm

We lost our focus, our meaning and our cause
The storms of revolution abate to a zephyr
A gentle wind that fills the drained lungs
Of the coward posing as a martyr

Blind our eyes
We forged a god
To forgive our lies
We shall not stand in reverence
Face of reason
Writhing, withering as embers rise to light our path

This creature will haunt us forever
This feeling of drowning is terror

This is the cataclysm
An unbecoming torrent of emotions
Surging, streaming, pouring
All hope is lost
Sound the alarm

Grief and sorrow, bone and marrow
Our flesh is aching for reprieve
For absolution
Light and shadow, hell and hallow
Our eyes are longing to be deceived
For remission

Savage is our ways
Counted are our days
As cowards are stripped of their masks

Sonorous cataclysm
Mellifluous end of the world
We have failed
We shall burn

6. Terminus

Grinding away without reprieve
Reason is lost to apathy
Rusted cogs of the machinery
Fueled by our dreams of anarchy

Visions they are ephemeral
Voices too weak to end it all
Hands are turning, this day is old
Waiting for what tomorrow holds

Clockwork

With nothing moving forward
We find comfort in circles

I am oil
I am the fire
Incandescence
I am the ocean
I am the the lungs
Effervescence
I am clockwork
I am the final hour

Grinding away without reprieve
Until the hours interweave
Counting down to terminus
There is nothing here for us

7. Glass Palaces

Chauvinistic naivety
We're too blind to see that
Every stone cast
Is another crack in the glass

I'm bracing for the collapse
For the shards to fall
They will rain down and pierce us like daggers
While we stand idle

The shame of our mothers
Inherited in defiance
The sins of our fathers
Passed on down
And carried like torches
This is all we know

We've left a trail of carnage
We've leveled mountains, parted seas
Capricious dominance
Our iridescent eyes will bleed
When we learn
That we are far from omnipotent

Palaces made of glass
Stones lay them to rest
Kingdoms of tree and grass
Bide time and sharpen the axe

8. Sunwise

This abyss we walked deasil around
Sunwise to the deafening sound
Of truth wreaking havoc inside
Our young and fragile minds

You're falling faster in spite
Our years so tender bright
Pulled ever faster towards
Ruin and demise

Render our world
A bitter place
And show us that
We were always
Circling the abyss

Unveiling itself in thaw
This weathered dystopia
Rational thinking is just
Obsolete and reason for disgust

We are
Always
Circling
The abyss

This is the murder of truth
This is our wasted youth
This is as fatal as be
This is a cold and fair retribution

The faults lay bare when winter leaves
Our hopes were clouded and naive
Minds numb, our hearts marmoreal
As we face the ruin of us all

Unveiling itself in thaw
This weathered dystopia
Rational thinking is just
Obsolete and reason for disgust

We are
Always
Circling
The abyss

In every sense of the word
We were always circling the abyss
Sunwise toward our demise
We were always circling the abyss

9. Vignette

I feel a tempest stirring
A wind of ineffable strength
Raze our weathered cities
Fill the sails of alteration
Feed the fires that engulf us
Violent waves are set in motion

(What are we but mere reflections of each other
Reincarnated over and over
With the same sins, same mistakes
History repeating itself
A loop, a spiral
Each time we die
And each time we shall die
For the matter that makes us is borrowed)

Grass will grow where concrete rifts
A glorious hierarchy shift
Blue and orange, skies will glow
As all we know is overthrown

Our leaders washed away in the undertow
Our ideals are dead and buried in the undergrowth
Reincarnated, over and over, same sins, same mistakes
This shall be their final death
This shall be their final death







LETTERS FROM THE COLONY LYRICS