PHINEHAS LYRICS

1. Dead Choir

Dead choir
The moment i heard your footsteps shake upon the ground
It betrayed every hint of truth that fumbled out your mouth
The song you sang moved mountains silenced by fear
The unnerving complacency you wash down with your years

Dead choir
Does it help you sleep at night
Dead choir
To judge those you’ve put out of sight
You’re no man of faith
You are incapable of change
And you’ve never been awake

Sing me a song not with empty words
But with feet that follow
Sing me a song so sweet to hear
But long since forgotten
Grace come my way
How can you love a god that you cannot see
When you hate your fellow man standing in front of me
When will you remember that love first made you sing
The words that jumped off the pages to comfort suffering

Dead choir
You think you’re serving someone else
Dead choir
But you’re only fooling yourself
You’re no man of faith
You’re a liar and a fake
You refuse to ever change
Without grace we would all be dead
We would all be dead
We would all be dead

Sing me a song not with empty words
But with feet that follow
Awaken a verse
Oh grace, come my way

Sing me a song not with empty words
But with feet that follow
Sing me a song so sweet to hear
But long since forgotten
Grace come my way

2. White Livered

[feat. Dominic Dickinson]

I trusted you with my life and you made it my hell

I would carve away at your skin to peel back your face
Searching for who you used to be if I knew it wasn’t a waste

I trusted you with my life and you made it my hell
To the cold blooded deceiver
What do you have to say for yourself
To the cold blooded deceiver
I trusted you with my life and you made it my hell

Too white livered to even offer explanation
Betrayer and a thief
Too white livered to even offer explanation
You smeared poison in our sheets

Lying while lying in a wedding bed
You brought this into our home you played your games with my head
Deeper trace the wound across my neck
Deeper I was a promise you never kept

I trusted you with my life and you made it my hell
To the cold blooded deceiver
What do you have to say for yourself
To the cold blooded deceiver
I trusted you with my life and you made it my hell

Your skin is a casket because the man I once knew died
Next time you look in a mirror I hope your eyes go blind
I hope your eyes go blind
Next time you look in a mirror I hope your eyes go blind
I hope your eyes go blind

3. Truth Be Told

Teach me how to be brave in my last day
You grew up in a broken home and your mother said the porch was your bed
Manipulating your father into confinement
Just so they could cut the hairs from your head
They tried to steal your strength and beauty away
Forcing betrayal of a man i barely knew
Abandoned and thrown between white walls
But they could never, they will never break you
When they put the gun to your head
An angel stood between you and the trigger
When they said your breath was worth nothing
You made them listen to the voice of a leader
Teach me how to be brave in my last day
You awoke to empty hands so you worked them to the barest of bones
You were found knocked out with blood on the floor
But they could never, they will never break you

When they put the gun to your head
An angel stood between you and the trigger
When they said your breath was worth nothing
You made them listen to the voice of a leader
Teach me how to be brave even in my dying day
The truth could never be taken from your lips
The shortness of breath you were clutching your chest
The world went black but for only a moment
You opened your eyes and they locked to mine
Never afraid you were never broken
I see now as you’re reaching out you never let a second pass away
Unbreakable reflection of grace teach me how to be brave in my last day

Teach me how to be brave in my last day
Teach me how to be brave in my last day
Teach me how to be brave in my last day

4. Non

[Instrumental]

5. Forever West

Forever west follow the sunset
Leave the past in the darkness behind you
Forever west don’t let the sun set
Don’t look back never look back

If you should find yourself all alone
Remembering the cold the night air brought
Its sting like salt biting the knives in our backs
We were waiting for a glint of light preceding dawn
When the hills bled paint like fire on the horizon
Upon a golden canvas sky

Forever west follow the sunset
Leave the past in the darkness behind you
Forever west don’t let the sun set
Don’t look back never look back

If you should find yourself alone
My stars will point you back to me
You’ll have to fight through the night for what’s at stake
You’ll have to fight through the night until morning breaks
Fight through the night

The shadows grew as the light fell dim
To remind me of my struggle within
A contrast sharp enough to pierce my heart
But I’ll run until my legs go numb
Away, away from the dark
(Forever west follow the sunset)

Forever west follow the sunset
Leave the past in the darkness behind you
Forever west don’t let the sun set
Don’t look back never look back

Forever west follow the sunset
Forever west
Forever, forever, forever, forever

You’ll have to fight through the night
You’ll have to fight through the night

6. Tetelestai

Oh how i long to see the end of every ending
To breathe before my last and begin beginning
Would you catch the wind with your arm
Or lift my oceans with a heave
All hell sound your sirens
Hold your breath for three words conceived:
It is finished
Walking down the streets i watch you turn your face from me
They ripped the skin from my back dissecting eternity
You clothed me in darkness given a rose but wearing the thorns instead
My last breath
I watch god hang his robes over the sun
To hide a child becoming corruption
Clean hands
Eternity nailed to a tree how tired you must have been
Clean hands
From a garden to misery bearing the weight of men
Yet you raise yourself higher to take your last breath
Demons pause with terror
I am blood enough to never run dry still you despise me
Sinking the spear in my side when you hung beside me on that day
Cursing at the wind will not stop the message i send

Clean hands
Eternity nailed to a tree how tired You must have been
Clean hands
From a garden to misery bearing the weight of men
Yet You raise yourself higher to take Your last breath

Bear witness once and for all
It is finished

Would you catch the wind with your arm
Or lift my oceans with a heave
All hell sound your sirens
Hold your breath for three words conceived

7. Coup De Grâce

Dead end - prove yourself

Motives lost in translation to nullification
You lied your way into fame
Scheming and slaying were perks for the taking
Stars in your eyes but you were playing a game

Hear suspicion proving itself

Dead end - jester and faker
Before your maker, wish a truce between you two
Dead end - take a bow for your act
‘Cause the curtain will fall on your neck like a noose
(Yeah)

Hail marys aren’t enough
Your body’s ripe with rust
Hearing your scales scraping the ground
That disgusting and piercing sound

Hear suspicion proving itself

Fire - make sure to do your worst
Hail marys aren’t enough because you’ll still be cursed
Fire - make sure to do your worst
I hear suspicion proving itself

The curtain will fall on your neck like a noose
Fire - hail marys aren’t enough ‘cause you’ll still be cursed
Fire - make sure to do your worst
I hear suspicion proving itself

Dead end - jester and faker
Before your maker, wish a truce between you two
Dead end - the whole crowd will applaud
When the curtain falls on your neck like a noose

8. Omnis

[Instrumental]

9. Seven

I awoke in silence to broken glass
Blood stains the floor where I lay in separate halves
Trapped inside my mind my head welcomed the ground
Cursing in vain but my words offer no sound

I am lost in the spiral
My shame is stronger than desire for survival
An angel pushed me when I was pulling away
Despite my best attempts she decided to stay
Trapped in the cracks of an empty shell
On borrowed time that was spent in hell
The sum of all my fears strung out over seven long, long years

Drugs traverse my veins and leave me clutching the numb
My voice flies away further from my useless tongue
I sit quiet and still and hear worms eating the church
Maybe I believe them but I’m drunk from drinking my words

I am lost in the spiral
My shame is stronger than desire for survival
An angel pushed me when I was pulling away
Despite my best attempts she decided to stay
Trapped in the cracks of an empty shell
On borrowed time that was spent in hell
The sum of all my fears strung out over seven long, long years

Speak the words tonight, span the void inside
Let loose the words you’re free, come back, come back to me
Speak the words tonight, span the void inside
Let loose the words you’re free, come back, come back to me

Seven years without a voice seven months away from my side
Seven spirals into the void but it ends now, it ends tonight

I won’t drag you down anymore
I am more than dead weight floating adrift
But I could never feel it brush my lips
You ask me to span the void inside
But I believe my borrowed time’s run dry
I won’t drag your down anymore
Speak!

I wear my past as the scars on my feet
Seven years without a voice seven months away from my side
Seven spirals into the void but it ends now, it ends tonight
Seven years without a voice seven months away from my side
Seven spirals into the void but it ends now, it ends tonight

10. Iliaster (More Than Skin)

Fate: What mere men define as the end
Fate: What I’ve seen as just the beginning
I am more than just a man
I walk in promise as an eternal soul
I am not afraid to die

I may bleed but my soul is well
I may fall but I will live to tell
If you should strike me down I return tenfold
I may be dressed in skin but it’s only a threshold

Oh, I was called the moment that you opened my eyes
To bring retribution to those who would steal your lives

I tip the scale of the world (I tip the scale of the world)
With the weight of all compassion on my back
I tip the scale of the world (I tip the scale of the world)
But it’s my burden to bear (burden to bear)
If you should strike me down, I return tenfold
I may be dressed in skin but it’s only a threshold

I may bleed but my soul is well
I may fall but I will live to tell
If you should strike me down I return tenfold
I may be dressed in skin but it’s only a threshold

I tip the scale of the world
I am more than just a man

I was called the moment that you opened my eyes
To bring retribution to those who would steal your lives

11. Evening Gray and Morning Red

Wading in dark waters, a shovel at my side
Digging a grave for the depths to fill with defeat that I would hide
Hearing grace kiss the waves but afraid of the breakers roar
Who would set sail to hold a candle amidst a thunderstorm?

Like a hand grasping to sand I am filled and emptied constantly
How could I quiet the ocean that’s in front of me?
Toil and sweat and aspiration is but wringing rags into the deep
Tell me how I would ever stay the swarming seas

Am I chasing the wind?
Am I drowning in the shallow end?

Counting every step I take and boundaries you’ve assigned
But Davy Jones he beckons me back to die amongst the brine
Feet still sinking further, my body’s run a shore
Only in my nightmares have I seen this once before

Drowning in the shallow under the weight of the undertow
Drowning in the shallow under the weight of the undertow

Like a hand grasping to sand I am filled and emptied constantly
How could I quiet the ocean that’s in front of me?
Toil and sweat and aspiration is but wringing rags into the deep
Tell me how I would ever stay the swarming seas

Am I chasing the wind?
Am I drowning in the shallow end?
Am I chasing the wind?
Am I drowning in the shallow end?

12. Moriar

I fixed eyes upon dreaded waning of life
Until I felt forever enter void and thus divide
If I stand against my darkness not all of me will die

13. Till the End

Till the end

To those freedom ensnared
A dying breed to the true heir
Resurrect and testify
I was born to live free or die
Why consult the grave about the breathing
When I feel your heart still beating
It’s a counter intuitive love
You are not indentured servants to lust

This is not a prayer to be blessed
This is a prayer to be broken
I do not fear what they fear
Till the end I’m singing

From shadows valley low we march into the mend
Through hollows I won’t stop singing till the end
From shadows valley low we march into the mend
Through hollows I won’t stop singing till the end

You were writhing in shackles
Tripping on plot holes
I can hear your voice begin to shake
You were birthing in my dreams
Hell’s newborn nightmare asleep

From shadows valley low we march into the mend
Through hollows I won’t stop singing till the end
From shadows valley low we march into the mend
Through hollows I won’t stop singing till the end

To those freedom ensnared
A dying breed to the true heir
Resurrect and testify
I was born to live free or die

Till the end
Live free or die
Till the end
Live free or die
Till the end







PHINEHAS LYRICS