RAIJU LYRICS

1. Ronkonkoma

No truth can be lost forever.
Only concealed, one day to be revealed.
The tides of change, they wash away the unexplained
Filling empty hands with what remains.

Feel the weight lift away, as the lies evaporate.
No more pacified by the promised ever after.
We're here and now, the sun shines down
And exhumates, resurrecting from the underground.

Break with outdated tradition,
And reclaim your freedom.
Singing abnegation revelation.
Welcome the light.

Their past becomes their future.
We'll find our own way home,
On the path that knows
No hope in idolizing
Forms misleading in their deaf repose,
So we break away the thorns from rose.

(Rose) We are fed punishment always fearing for the
(End) So our lives, so confined, never speak with the divine.
One day, when their altars will fall and crumble to the
(Earth) a fallacy to burn
Endless returns.

Welcome the light.

No truth can be lost forever.
Only concealed, one day to be revealed.
The tides of change, they wash away
The unexplained, and what remains
Will fill their empty hands with fuller hearts and able brains.

Feel the weight lift away as the lies evaporate.
No more pacified by the promised ever after.
We're here and now, the sun shines down
And exhumates resurrecting from the underground.

Their past becomes their future.
We'll find our own way home,
On the path that knows.
No hope in idolizing.
Forms misleading in their deaf repose,
So we break away the thorns from rose.

Their past becomes their future.
We'll find our own way home.
On the path that knows.
Their past becomes their future.
We'll find our own way home
Find our own way home.

2. How Far We Fall

Heeding what the prodigal son would say.
I take what I want and I lay beyond what you're worth.
Not a man, but a god that's in the palace of satisfaction.
Speaking out from the side of my mouth when I let go, so let go.
I'd rather die than be barely alive.
You're gonna die livin' nine to five.

Feed the innocent to the fire
(one day they'll learn)
In this game where pawns all burn.
Take the birthright of my kin standing on the backs of mortals
(that'll make him proud)
(He returns).
He is silent, downcast, hollow. Not the path I sought to follow.
How far we fall
(Who are you?)

Won't you take it away.
This pride that remains.
I'll tell you everything.
This bridge isn't built to burn.
Every day, these questions evaded tell you everything
The lessons you've yet to learn.

Putting blade to back if I want to
(Et tu, Brute?)
When I see that you do not what you say.
What of your gold?
(I let it go)
What of your lies?
(I let it die)
Your dreams did not survive

Won't you take it away,
This pride that remains
I'll tell you everything
This bridge isn't built to burn
Every day, these questions evaded tell you everything .
I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything.

Heeding what the Prodigal Son would say.
I've run, I've lost, I've lived to pay the cost,
And my past shows me the madness in the future of your thoughts.
And now I see, the only remedy, turning doubt into belief,
To set my brother free
His blood is the key.

He is smiling, high and mighty, hand of iron, I cast to thee.
How far we fall.
(Who are you?)
Et, tu Brute? You are traitor, you are monster, I condemn thee.

(Fray your ties)

Hell awaits you.
Avarice.
Ignorance.

3. Silk & Gold

The answers live and die with me.
I found the key to a place kept far from prying eyes.
She emerges and she's beautiful, unknowable.
Liberate and follow where she leads.
Follow where she leads.

Lure me to the waterfall.
Show me things that I cannot unsee.
Letting go is impossible.
By silence of mind and the will to create,
As the goddess reminds that eternity waits

Why doesn't anybody listen,
When we already know.
Like children laughing at the boundaries.
We've got so far to go.

The truth might hurt, but wounds will heal.

Through the pain I heard her say,
Immortality is only fingertips away and I see,
That the stone beneath the waves,
Hides itself in doubt and whispers,
Showing me what hides behind the eye.

Why doesn't anybody listen when we already know.
Like children laughing at the boundaries,
We've got so far to go.

The truth might hurt, but wounds will heal.
The truth might hurt, but wounds will heal.

I follow her road, a path made of silk and gold.
I follow her road, I follow her road.

Stay with me. Stay with me, won't you stay with me?
Stay with me. Stay with me, won't you stay with me?

Showing me what hides behind the eye,
Memory of all my former lives.
Showing me what hides behind the eye,
Deity hiding within mind.

4. The Hive

Dear love,
There's something too dear for us to sacrifice.
I know the price for such egregious cries,
But my mindset's failed to accept these lies.
We've bowed to unholy men, now they hear me as they kneel.
One hand wondering why, the other one sailing ships to the sky.
Breeding out. God, why even try?
The world is blind to your deafening cries.

Our thoughts were picked from a hive.
Another free thought left out to die.
Rip off the veils and open your eyes.
We've sent our children off to a lie.
Strangers return to see what I've wrote.
I'll plead out with every tear down my throat.
Are we the outcasts of society?
Or are there others who think like me?
Remembering it's only skin...
They break through the clouds
Flee with me, insanity is staying here on your damn knees.
Psycho-cybernetic lies, we're all gonna die!
(I'm down here)
Pay no mind! Not this time.
Your world will now accept the line.
I revoke, through cannon smoke.
The ends are justified.
I'm through giving up, through giving up,
I'll never give up again.
These memories of you die with me.
Impossible is just a word small men throw around.
Who find it easier to live in a world that they've been given,
Than to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact, it's an option.
Look it straight in the eye. Grab it. Now we must decide,
Do we have the strength and the bravery of society to release this demon trapped in me?
We haven't begun to understand.
Like cybernetic beings torn worlds away.
Let's open up design and misery.
Show me what's there to become one.
Illuminate your room just like the sun.
Love, have we forgotten that his eyes are kin?
From nowhere to now here
I am only justifying lies
For I am, that I am.
We have never witnessed my life
Idle hands, devil's land.
Ego so embarrassed by death.
Death and life are undone by tongue.

5. Fractured Light

Just fractured light (spilling off our carousels).
Allows us to trust each others' spines (Animus Divine).
Still bundled up (cutting down through the coats of rust).
Yet lost in the limestone, I silhouetted out these notes.

Descending to these eyes I've known.
As I grow old, asking time what will they show.
This saline has refused to meld with sound.
So when it's safe and sound, I'll see you both in the ground.

Be sure to stoke the flames,
And scribble out their pathetic childish useless names.

Descending to these eyes I've known.
As I grow old, asking time what will they show.
This saline has refused to meld with sound.
So when it's safe and sound, I'll see you both in the ground.

6. Away With Words

I have never had my way
Away with words.
Now I remember days where I just felt insane
And loved the pain.
You're wasting eternity believing the worst in me.
While the march of the days takes you farther away.
Listen to me.

Light floods, see again the sun.
Light floods, bitterness undone.
Grand designs release me from the mire.
Let forgiveness guide us to the shore

Away with words.
What we define loses its worth.
Away with words.
Old thoughts confine us.
Away with words.
Death of desire is rebirth.
Away with words.
Make peace with her

Way down. Way down here….

The balance can end the tragedy.
The poison will pass without harm
(You'll see).

(Minds to grow)
Grow fallow fields once more.
Grow fallow fields once more.
Let the march of days take you far away,
And the balance restore your harmony.
An eternity spent in tragedy.
Let the balance restore this memory.

7. Incorruptible

Numb, twilight promenade
Stumble in the rain
Pitying the roll of the die I've thrown.
On my own.
On my own.

This night, so silent, I fill with arias,
To mourn the death of honor and damn the murderers.
I know your bargain
I don't accept the terms.
(Walk away)

Strangle the sacred.
All your crimes have gone unpunished and I am the exile.
Made unclean by what I've seen
Now who can purify me?

Gone - all the innocence I protected.
Mendacious viruses have killed them in their home.
And I chase away the memory
One drink at a time, it’s alright
In righteous rebellion it's always just one drink at a time.

Fight for the futile.
I can't tell myself the lies I'd need to walk a step with you.
I don't need your bribes, I'll just keep what is mine.
Just keep pretending that your choices here will come with no consequence.

I played the fool, obeyed the rules.
The theft of everything ensued.
And once again, see empty hands
The price I pay for following my conscience

Heed the quiet heart,
And refuse to concede
To the den of thieves,
Before they drag me under.

At the bottom of their malice, sunk down by ill-won prize,
I'll become the thing that I despise.
If the odds are stacked against me, and I can only lose.
I'll still play my hand, best I can. My own man.
Head held high and incorruptible.
On my own.

8. Road Trip Dragon Adventure

Try to blot it out, in with the crowd,
Ink dry and the money down
But, fuck, what do I know?
Muting out the sound, and now I'm found,
Picked up what you're putting down.
How 'bout you?
Fill the cup when love is gone,
And commitment earns its name.
In the thick of it, and I'm sick of it.
Try to blot it out, I never found, this part of me.
Drowned in water,
Bound in sin.
Doubt he makes it.
Never swims.
On the rocks we
Wait for shore.
Glass half empty,
Drink some more.
Fill me up when love is gone, and commitment earns its name.
Where's the audience for the hobbyists?
Try to blot it out. I never found, this part of me
Drowned in water,
Bound in sin.
Doubt he makes it.
Never swims.
On the rocks we,
Wait for shore.
Glass half empty,
Drink some more.
When the weight of the deafening silence and promises break you in two,
Forward
When the fall guy's the person you need,
I could do great at that too.
Forward
We've been lying here, feeling, dying here.
Conversation is the missing chaser.
Feeling clouds appear
Happens every year
Drunken horses and painted pictures.
Forward…
We will rise.
With a glass half gone, I'm halfway gone.
Blotting out the sound,
And now I'm found.
Ink dry and the money down.
Blotting out the sound,
And now I'm found

9. Into The Breach

Just gimme the weapon.
Get out of the way.
I'll do it my-goddamned-self 'cause you're too scared to die today.
Cower in the corner
Your secret's safe with me.
You'll take the accolades when I vanquish the enemy.

I peel back the lines just one blow at a time.
Live the lie, when I die, steal my legacy.
I live on the front lines
Favored by angry gods.
Succeed me on the throne, your crown weighed down by albatross.
I'll face the nightmare.
Stay hid inside your dream.
So useless on the day of wrath and reckoning.

It is beyond comprehension.
Choosing security.
I'll trade my life for eternity

As they fear me, pushing through the pain and misery.
I have learned that outside your cage I'm free.
All you'll see in your reflection isn't true.
For you know that this greatness wasn't you.

Eight times fallen, nine times rise.
False glory fades as your soul begins to retrograde.
And on the deathbed, a spirit cannot rest,
That traded luxury for sins left unconfessed.

In war and peace we die
You chose the coward's life.
A soul dissatisfied
All cowards live this life.

It is beyond comprehension.
Choosing security.
I'll trade my life.
I'll trade my life for eternity

As they fear me, pushing through the pain and misery.
I have learned that outside your cage I'm free.
All you'll see in your reflection isn't true for you know that this greatness it wasn't you.

If you feel fear, then fear will feed
Ascendants arise in bravery.
'Cause if you fight, you'll never die.
I'm still alive.

10. Freak Show

In doubt, I succumb, failing life
Bound in weathered skin.
All the torment I've known, the crippling cold
To focus on a soon-entombed gaze.
The heart that was shared, was it ever really there?
Grows toxic with time.

I'm colorblind
But does the light truly shine?

Erased from life, it'll be too late to hear my cries
(love us)

Reaching in deeper than I have experienced,
Trying to let love
Forgive myself in all my irreverence
Trying to let love...

Hold on to hope.
It's alright, alone tonight.
Reside by candlelight (love us)

Reaching in deeper than I have experienced,
Trying to let love
Forgive myself in all my irreverence
Trying to let love...

My world's falling down.
Black out the sun.

Soon everyone will know
Welcome to the freak show.
Weighed down by thoughts of fear to fail.
I've been deceased before I let myself breathe.

I know it seems like a pitiful thing,
Still holding on by the skin of my teeth.
As it beckons, I can't deliver myself from my past.
Deliver myself from my past to save my pride
Or what is left.
I keep it all locked up inside.
Locked safely inside.
To save my pride
Or what is left
I keep it all
Locked
Safely inside.







RAIJU LYRICS