MY SILENT WAKE LYRICS

1. Of Fury

Then we crafted beauty
Our transcendent art
Until the hands of fury
Tore our work apart

We're the music playing
In a distant room
From another lifetime
Echoes of the tomb

They will come for you
Mindless destruction
Split your world in two
In the name of some god

Your genius unruly
You could turn the times around
Simple men of fury
Will bury you and your theories underground

Hear the children playing
In a distant room
Casualties of conflict
Damned within the womb

They will come for you
Mindless destruction
Split your world in two
In the name of some fool

For these destructive ways
There is no defense
Intolerance born of ignorance
So much damage done

Shattered bloody pieces
Lying on the ground
Bodies of the innocent
Scattered all around

All their futures lost to violence
Hatred so ingrained
In the end what has been gained?
For nothing will survive

Shattered bloody pieces
Littered on the ground
Bodies of the innocent
Scattered all around

They will come for you
Mindless destruction
Split your world in two
In the name of some god

They will come for you
Mindless destruction
Split your world in two
In the name of some tyrant

2. Highwire

Purveyor of imperfection
Let the healer bring disease
Preacher of confusion
Thomas doubts to our beliefs

While a face from the past
With no warning recast
Brings the once beating heart to life
I want to be me and somebody else
Cut me in two in the darkness at night

Piss on the bonfire
Grease on the highwire
Why in the world did you have to come here?

You're a fly in the ointment
Let the healer bring disease
Imperfection
Doubts to our beliefs

To your fanatic I am your heretic
Empty handed now unknowing
As you labour with your burdens
Asking why you feel so alone
Question all you think is true
Never lose that part of you

A face from the past
Brings the once beating heart to life
I want to be me and somebody else
Cut me in two in the darkness at night

You're a fly in the ointment
Let the healer bring disease

3. Now It Destroys

This love was dangerous
And now it destroys
Brings us down to our knees
Such foolishness our sorrow breeds
So tired of all the pain coiling up inside
Lead me here
This is where I hide

Dragging through all our failures
All our regrets
Yearning to feel the love and innocence
Lost to neglect

To any other wraith no longer I belong
What's loved is broken
Words can never be unspoken
So tired of all the pain coiling up inside
Leave me here
To rise again in my time

Entrenched in all my failure
All of my shame
I don't need you
I don't need anyone
To share the pain

Face another day
Face a new nightmare

Open your eyes
Once you're aware

Finding reasons
Finding truth
All you need right now is precious solitude

No fight goes on forevermore
You had the one you think you battle for

Perfect love let disappear
Was it ever real?
Can it ever reappear?

Now it destroys

4. Black Oil

Losing my mind
Black oil on blue sea
Lost little child
But nobody knew me
Carnival ride
Spinning alone in the darkness
Far from the crime
Yet still I would confess

Love me so deep
Then bury me deeper
Put me to sleep
Like arms of the reaper
I am your child
You are my keeper
I'm so afraid
Now you cannot be here

Mindless
Existence
Turned from flesh to stone
No resistance
Engraved with bitter loss
Burning bridges crossed
Future yet unknown
Crippling fear of dying alone

And as you clean my wings
You will see that the damage is already done
In my eyes, in my skin
See the sickness that can't be undone
Feel it seeping deeper within
To the heart of all I have become
As the journey begins
Through the valleys that banish the sun

5. And So It Comes To An End

From the distant waters
Her siren's song came
Now their hell, then your heaven
As you whispered her name

This moment changes everything
Nothing will ever be the same again

And in your faces
Joy has drained from your eyes
The dream, the journey is over
Can you rebuild the empty shell of your lives?

This fleeting moment in time

When you come to your senses
There is nothing left to look upon
Finality the bitter pill
And the clocks keep ticking on

Another midlife crisis
Trust slipping away
Does it seem worth the price now
In this cold light of day?

This moment changes everything
Nothing will ever be the same again
This night rearranges everything
No words to defend
And so it goes
And so it comes to an end

Fleeting moment in time.

6. The Innocent

Thieves of innocence
Cursed be your birth
The world forever blackened by you
Tell me please, where is your worth?
Cast your shadow
Upon the meek
You have power now
Inside you know that you are weak

Destroyers of innocence
Cursed be your birth
The world forever blackened by you
Tell me please, where is your worth?
Cast your shadow
Your foul disease
You manipulate
Insidiously preying upon the weak

Alone in your captivity
Now stripped of your authority
Inflicting no more your savagery
On the lives of those we try to protect

How can a man sink down to this?
Lower himself fully into the abyss
In your shadow
Twisted and bleak
Wake up and see
The destruction you wreak

Now the world
Has become a greyer place
With one more scar upon its face
You take what's good and in its place
Leave the lasting legacy of your disgrace

What have you done to the innocent children?
You selfish bastards, your deeds have ruined them
How can they ever be free from this?
Innocence gone, and childhood forever missed

Alone in your captivity
Bars of steel and bitter regret
Inflicting no more of your savagery
On the lives of those we try to protect

7. The Empty Unknown

I need to redeem myself
Need to release my tortured mind
You know this wasn't my choice
The words are mine in another man's voice

Darkness came down upon me
Sickness tore right through me
Pressure, the depth of that misery
Felt just like suffocation

You can look anywhere for answers
I looked for too many answers in you
This fool thought it lasted forever
Trying so hard not to witness the truth

Lost to supplication
Forever beyond the pale
Tribulation, sorrow and pain
Burning deep within my veins

All we have is ourselves now and we are alone
All we hear is the silence, the empty unknown
We kept turning the key but this wasn't our home
Looking up at the skies when the follows had flown

This is not me
This is not my voice
You look at me with tears in your eyes
Believe me now
This was not my choice
Wait long enough and everything dies

Love lost and found
And lost and found
Moving forward then turned around
Feeling alive then feeling alone in this garden of thorns and neglect
Gaining our strength and losing ground

I need to redeem myself
Need to release my mind from this
I will live on in hope of something better than this
Until I breathe my dying breath

8. Chaos Enfolds Me

Turn me around
The world spins above me
I'm falling down and the chaos enfolds me
Where are we now
And where are we going?
Lost to these dreams
Growing and growing

Time to move on
Time to retreat
Turn back the clock
Did we ever meet?

Turn back the clock

This is never going to work
Stand well back and look away
This is always going to hurt like nothing else
Watching all we built burning away

Lift the lid and look inside
Into the darkness we have found
All is given then denied
All our ships have run aground

Turn back the clock

This is never going to work
Stand well back and look away
This is always going to hurt like nothing else
Watching all we built burning away

Could this have been an illusion from the start?
We trusted in this and we ripped it apart
And I knew you once like the back of my hand
Separation so final
Never part of the plan







MY SILENT WAKE LYRICS