LIVING SACRIFICE LYRICS

1. Screwtape

Just a fascination of what lies beyond
A life that’s free
Under mind responsibility
My greatness is wide
Love of self, the lie
Curse the scrutiny
Embrace the thought inside

I will, manipulate
You will capitulate
What you’ve given me is a path perverted
Adapted, disjointed philosophies

Emotional dependence
My grasp is relentless

Perfected in mind
Planted and instilled
This formation of a dark temptation
The ease of it all
Disease enthralled
This fantastic dream
Subject to a darker scheme

I will manipulate
You will capitulate
What you’ve given me is a path perverted
Adapted, disjointed philosophies

Emotional dependence
My grasp is relentless

Your love becomes inverted
A path becomes perverted
I watched them drown
Under a clear blue sky
Weighted with guilt
I watched them die

2. Ghost Thief

There is no cheat
It comes as the ghost thief
Quick and fleeting
There is no guarantee for tomorrow
We are not home
We are passing through
Try and hold on as we may
Matter will not sustain
I will proclaim
The end is not the end

Escape
It’s just a vapor
Escape
A temporal list
Escape – escape
There is a realm
Escape – escape
Where time does not exist

Contained in a whisper
This is all I see
This is just a dream
What is to be
Cannot resist
Nothing more
Nothing less
Nothing else
Nothing more
Nothing less
Nothing else
Will attest

Escape
It’s just a vapor
Escape
A temporal list
Escape – escape
There is a realm
Escape – escape
Where time does not exist

Escape
It’s just a vapor
Escape
Where time does not exist

3. The Reaping

A smile does the deal
No matter if it’s real
Insincere prayer
It will go nowhere

You pave the way
For that sorrowful day
Obtained all you want
A deathly law you sought
Forgotten covenant
Forgotten part of remnant
The words keep on changing
Double-minded rearranging
With a forked tongue
Shifting lines, your neck is hung
Oblivious to this life
God given, glorious heights
One kill does the deal
No matter if it’s real

You are reaping greed
You are reaping lust
Reaping covetous
Reaping apocalypse

You are reaping greed
You are reaping lust
Reaping covetous
Reaping apocalypse

You are reaping greed
You are reaping lust
Reaping covetous
Reaping apocalypse

You are reaping greed
You are reaping lust
Reaping covetous
Reaping, reaping, reaping apocalypse

4. Straw Man

I am not who you think I am
I am not who you think I am
I am not who you’ve made me to be, be, to be

My pedestal is decayed with sin
Collapsing all around me
With all your expectations
With all your preconceptions

The straw man
I am, not called to be
Your idea, of how you see me
I am, not called to be
Your idea, of how you see me

I am not, I am not
In a place to pretend
In a place to pretend
To be a fake version of a man

The straw man
I am, not called to be
Your idea, of how you see me
I am, not called to be
Your idea, of how you see me

I am, not called to be
Your idea, of how you see me
I am, not called to be
Your idea, of how you see me
Not called to be, of how you see, how you see me

5. Sudden

You were here, just a moment ago
I saw your face
I never thought I would know
The emptiness of this place
I never thought I could comprehend
Absence that dug so deep
I never expected to bury you incomplete

You were the one who comforted
You were the one who told me
You were the one who made me live
Gave me this gift

Broken, broken
These bonds and mortal coils
Never to return, never again
Broken, broken
These bonds and mortal coils
Never to return, never again

You have seen the ocean
And the promised land
Beyond sight and sound
Where mortal dreams command
Universe unfolded
Glorious heavens shown
So expansive
Deep truths become known

I will endeavor to see you again
In the world that lies beyond
I will endeavor to see you again
Beyond this veil of sight

Broken, broken
These bonds and mortal coils
Never to return, never again
Broken, broken
These bonds and mortal coils
Never to return

Never to return, never to return
Never to return, never again

6. Mask

Made yourself into more than a man
The anointed one by your own hand
Speech is perfect, masked vulgarity
Sight is straight, dark rigidity
All is copacetic
Projected, unaccepting

Everyone is hurt
Everyone is broken
Everyone is bleeding
Inside
I’ve lived enough to know
Everyone has suffered, suffered
Inside, inside

Who would even need to see?
Who would even seem to care?
What you see is shallow
Who would even need to see?
Who would even seem to care?
There is no room, no room for despair

That mask is so deceptive
Despite this life
Try and hide, try and hide
From down low, so much darkness
Casts a shadow on your broken halo
I’ve lived enough to know
So much darkness
Seeds are sown

Everyone is hurt
Everyone is broken
Everyone is bleeding
Inside
I’ve lived enough to know
Everyone has suffered, suffered
Inside, inside

Who would even need to see?
Who would even seem to care?
What you see is shallow
Who would even need to see?
Who would even seem to care?
There is no room, no room for despair

Everyone is hurt
Everyone is broken
Everyone is bleeding
Inside
I’ve lived enough to know
Everyone has suffered, suffered
Inside, inside

7. American Made

Abundance and wealth
Prosperous lethargy
Faith is fragile
It stays in its infancy
Provision is expected
With no stretch of circumstances
My weapon of choice is to ignore your voice

Scorch the earth
Orphaned and desolate
Lack is consuming all
Laceration
In progression
Maimed and broken
Other lives unspoken

Contrast with my everything
When I have it all
I don’t need anything
I took it all in the fall
I don’t need love
Don’t need peace
Only the hypnosis of
I don’t need love
I don’t need peace
Just an affluent fleece
Abundance and wealth
And the internal strife
Abundance and wealth
And the insipid life

?

This bitter pill is no easy kill
I am fine, look what I possess
That is my self worth
Is it meaningless?
I exchange the truth for a lie
Every day I live
That is my self worth
Is it meaningless?

Scorch the earth
Orphaned and desolate
Lack is consuming all
Laceration
In progression
Maimed and broken
Other lives unspoken

Out of sight and out of mind
Languish in another kind
Who is to say we should pray?
The death of all humanity
Null and void with no action
The thing provides my satisfaction
A bill of goods has been sold
The American dream takes its toll

Insipid life of nothing
Humanistic
Insipid life of nothing
This is my American dream

8. Before

I am a fraud without you
I am a lie without you
On my own I fend for myself
No consideration of anything else

I am drawn, I am

This is my skeleton
This is my skin
I will remove this disguise
I will remove this mask you met me in
The day we met I wanted nothing
A selfish being, blind and seething
Compelled, I am drawn to you
By God, I am saved by you
You pierced this conscious
You broke this shell
You planted conviction
Where there was only hell

Compelled, I am drawn
By God, I am

This is my skeleton
This is my skin
I will remove this disguise
I will remove this mask you met me in

9. Your War

Constrain, restrict, politic, dismiss
Constrain, restrict, politic, of sin
Laws that dismiss
Laws that remit
Utilize societal ties
The war is now us versus them

Power – control
This is not my war
Against flesh and blood
This is not my war
Against flesh and blood

Hatred, contention, selfish ambition
Hatred, contention, strive for position
Strive for authority
Envy and jealousy
Marginalize a man
Your war is now us versus them

Power – control
This is not my war
Against flesh and blood
This is not my war
Against flesh and blood

This is not my war
Against flesh and blood
This is not my war
Against flesh and blood

10. Despair

I am not the standard
No rule to be upheld
This was a set up
All intended to fail
Betrayed
Could not face the truth
Crushed innocence
Despised by this youth
Crushed innocence, despised

Failure is my companion
Mortal laws at play
Nothing in this union
Nothing but decay
What can be rebuilt
No way to break free
Every option of guilt
Submerged under this sea

Give unto me your sorrow
There is no way to break free
Give unto me your malice
Dark insecurity

Submerged under a mountain of loss
Figment of the psyche
The loss of what may be
Time may heal all wounds
Not when it reappears
Not when the scab is ripped open
Not when life is broken
No cross have I hung
No one I have healed
No wounds have I bled
That fate was sealed

Give unto me your sorrow
There is no way to break free
Give unto me your malice
Dark insecurity

I have taken
I have taken, your despair
I have taken
I have taken, your despair







LIVING SACRIFICE LYRICS