WOVENWAR LYRICS

1. Foreword

We aren't born, we aren't born with hatred, judgement or prejudices
They are woven, they're woven in the influences we let upon us
We aren't born [4x]

2. All Rise

Oh you feel the hunters gaze
A shadow even in the dark of night
Scheming your early grave

He's going to leave you dead or dying
Draining all the blood he craves
You never thought you'd be meat for the market
What'd you expect when you sold your name

You have the chance to rise again
To cast the light that hides within
You have the chance to be a man
To rise again [2x]
You have the chance to be a man
So cast the light that hides within

Oh when courage takes its hold
You face down all the would be masters
And break the ties that bind your goals

This is going to be the moment
Your blood wakes and fills your veins
Stand tall with your strength defy them
Become your own fate

You have the chance to rise again
To cast the light that hides within
You have the chance to be a man
To rise again [2x]
You have the chance to be a man
So cast the light that hides within

Who stands the storm and faces
The horrors that darkness breeds
Who will take the life they're given
And cast light for all to see

Who stands the storm if not the brave?
What's built from cowards that we praise?
Who stands the storm if not the brave? [2x]

You have the chance to rise again
To cast the light that hides within
You have the chance to be a man
To rise again [2x]
You have the chance to be a man
So cast the light that hides within

3. Death To Rights

I watch the wonder creeping over all the walls we've made
A tragic sly cascade
And I watch it flood away from any candle's flame
With wick entwined of late

Can't keep a fire in rain

And the worst of it all is that you know me
And you know that I will fall for it every time
When we collide it's death to rights

Sooner or later we will find new winds to carry home the hearts we've turned to stone
And I pray they're strong enough to weather gems from cindered coal that you have left to smoke

Burned out before the stoke [2x]

And the worst of it all is that you know me
And you know that I will fall for it every time
When we collide it's death to rights

How many will we leave wondering?

It's starts we never finish
And ends we never start
How many lives will break upon our callous hearts?
Will break upon our callous hearts

And the worst of it all is that you know me
And you know that I will fall for it every time
When we collide
Fall for it every time
When we collide it's death to rights

4. Tempest

I'm watching them all fly by
Reaching the greatest heights in my dreams find
I'm needing first a leap to climb

I await the day the stars won't seem so far away and greet a sun the darkened clouds have kept at bay
But until then, until then

My wings they unfold in a storming gale
The tempest calls for my flight to fail
When gravity beckons with its hold
In spite of all the horizon sends wind to take me home

I'll build my throne from broken bones
Defeats I've known and deeds I left untold
My story I s the storm

I await the day the stars won't seem so far away and greet a sun the darkened clouds have kept at bay
But until then, until then

My wings they unfold in a storming gale
The tempest calls for my flight to fail
When gravity beckons with its hold
In spite of all the horizon sends wind to take me home

I've seen them shine, seen the rise and fall
Yet kept my course and fared through it all, yet through it all, it all

I've seen them shine, seen them rise and fall
Yet kept my course and fared through it all
[2x]

My wings they unfold in a storming gale
The tempest calls for my flight to fail
When gravity beckons with its hold
In spite of all the horizon sends wind to take me home, the horizon sends wind to take me home

5. The Mason

No thought is given to the consequences
Just the need to see what might become
It's like we need to sabotage all of the love in our lives
To prove control is so far from undone

And I, I have caved in, again
But I, I'm building from the wreckage

We bend, we break, we're forced to heal
The toll it takes in time revealed

A truth is shown to usher in deliverance
For the weight of the past I can't tow
But like the river where the soul is shaped and withers my home
To a place I barely know

We bend, we break, we're forced to heal
The toll it takes in time revealed
The trial awakes and then creates or tears us down
We bend, we break, we learn to heal
Failings I claim for mason hands to shape
So strike away the grip of past mistakes

And I, I have caved in, again
But I, I have caved in again but

We bend, we break, we're forced to heal
The toll it takes in time revealed
The trial awakes and then creates or tears us down
We bend, we break, we learn to heal
Failings I claim for mason hands to shape
So strike away the grip of past mistakes [2x]

6. Moving Up

Words that carry me through the length of silences between every day and night
They echo and they slight
Just melodies for any and everyone

So who hears your secret song that warrants its saving?

Your version of our time
The way I kept you down
And how moving on is moving up
So burdened and resigned
Your light was fading out
Easier in than out of...

Here we go again
The call rings out and finds me answering
An air I loathe to hear with meanings left unclear
Just melodies for any and everyone

So who hears your secret song that warrants its saving?

Your version of our time
The way I kept you down
And how moving on is moving up
So burdened and resigned
Your light was fading out
Easier in than out of, easier in than out of...

So reckless with my weakness
Now guarded with your secrets

So reckless with my weakness, I'm not falling again
Now guarded with your secrets, I'm not falling again

Your version of our time
The way I kept you down
And how moving on is moving up
So burdened and resigned
Your light was fading out
Easier in than out of...

Your version of our time
The way I kept you down
And how moving on is moving up
So burdened and resigned
Your light was fading out
Easier in than out of, easier in than out of...

So who hears your secret song that warrant its saving?

7. Sight Of Shore

Wish I could be the pen that writes the end you'll know
Or be the ink that will dry over the lines you stole
Wish I could sew the rope they'll wrap around your throat
Or be the push that will pull you off your throne

Wish I didn't care
Wish I knew if there's a place I can go inside me
To drown the vengeance I'm owed
Or will it burn?
Or will I burn away?

Wish I could be the knife that cuts the ties you hold
Wish I could be the flame consuming all you love
Wish I could tie the weight before the plank is strolled
And I could watch as you sink in sight of shore

(Wish I knew) if there's a place I can go inside me
To drown the vengeance I'm owed
Or will it burn?
Or will I burn away?

Wish I didn't care
Wish I knew if... when the smoke has cleared
Wish I didn't care
Wish I knew if...

...If there's a place I can go inside me
To drown the vengeance I'm owed
Or will it burn?
Or will I burn away?
[2x]

8. Father / Son

We aren't sons of our fathers sins
We don't inherit iniquities
We aren't heirs to thrones of greed
We don't wear the gold they've thieved and schemed

You don't choose your name
Just what you leave in your wake
We are born, all of us, innocent
We don't wear the wounds of a dying man

No ties no allegiance to majesties
No veil to blind your reasoning
No script rehearsed in all you speak
Own your words in the voice you sing

You don't choose your name
Just what you leave in your wake
We are born, all of us, innocent
We don't wear the wounds of a dying man

Oooooh

No cause to fight for buried kings
Let be what legions they've conceived
No oaths to swear or give repeat
All words are yours to ink and sing [2x]

You don't choose your name
Just what you leave in your wake

9. Profane

I'm not the one you've read about
I'm not your sanctuary seat
I'm not the one they've told you about
I've never claimed to be of your belief

Yet the claims keep coming
The elaborate stories
When you dig up dirt it's your hands to be cleaned

And you are filthy from the grave you dig

I am a calloused hand from gripping the rock
I am short a feathered wing for the flock
But I'm not weathered from your weightless voices bearing witness

I am not a hallow sound or a glorifying light of deeds
And I am not a conscience found reciting lines down on my knees

And there's no mistaking all of you who fake it
When you dig up dirt it's your hands to be cleaned

And you are filthy from the grave you dig

I am a calloused hand from gripping the rock
I am short a feathered wing for the flock
But I'm not weathered from your weightless voices bearing witness

I am a calloused hand from gripping the rock
I am short a feathered wing for the flock
But I'm not weathered from your weightless voices bearing witness, your weightless voices bearing witness

Can we not [7x]
Divide?

I am not a barricade
I'm just a different way to think
So make no mistake
I'm not your profane

I am a calloused hand from gripping the rock
I am short a feathered wing for the flock
But I'm not weathered from your weightless voices bearing witness

I am a calloused hand from gripping the rock
I am short a feathered wing for the flock
But I'm not weathered from your weightless voices bearing witness, your weightless voices bearing witness

10. Archers

We spent a decade building a band of brothers to the bone, and it showed
From the reef's kiss calling to the resistance rise we wrote
We walked through fire blind
The march echoes for all time

But now the seasons changing
The turning tide
I've raised my sail to coming storm or calm alike

We honed a humble phalanx to raze the arrogance in foes, and it showed
We found a fraud in a Bishop, and built a nation of flawed sons
We walked through fire blind
The march echoes for all time

But now the seasons changing
The turning tide
I've raised my sail to coming storm or calm alike
And though my vessels lone-manned with brazen broken hull
The waves will never take an armored archer core, an armored archer core

A means to believe
A reverie I couldn't reach
Never made a difference to me

Go on, our brother
You've only just begun
Live long with honor
From our fire you are born

But now the seasons changing
The turning tide
I've raised my sail to coming storm or calm alike
And though my vessels lone-manned with brazen broken hull
The waves will never take an armored archer core

But now the seasons changing
The turning tide [2x]
I've raised my sail to coming storm or calm alike, storm or calm alike, storm or calm alike

11. Ruined Ends

A simple thing
A silver gilded link we long to make
To forge our chains and hope they hold the weight
Of a sworn vow to never let down
To never separate

Or so we say

No heart in our words
No faith to be nurtured
Makes fools of us all
Defaces our nature
Creating a cancer consuming what was loved alive, loved alive, loved alive

A simple taste
"It doesn't mean a thing to me" they say
Just another drink or two to numb the pain
Of a torn vow, to never let down
To never separate

No heart in our words
No faith to be nurtured
Makes fools of us all
Defaces our nature
Creating a cancer consuming what was loved alive, loved alive, loved alive

Surrendered in ruined ends

Or so we say

No heart in our words
No faith to be nurtured
Makes fools of us all
Defaces our...

No heart in our words
No faith to be nurtured
Makes fools of us all
Defaces our nature
Creating a cancer consuming what was loved alive, loved alive, loved alive, loved alive, loved alive

12. Identity

All your merits worth showing are in the weight of a palm
From the hand you've been holding and what's left to pass on

Just as you are there's little offered at all
So fasten tight to your gripping

Pinned to a sleeve
Posing for all to see
With no mark to call your own
Nothing is yours, yours to leave
Beyond who you please

What copels you is gleaming from the glare of a crown
When you cling to lights beaming
It always keeps what you have to shine down

Just as you are there's little offered at all
So fasten tight to your gripping

Pinned to a sleeve
Posing for all to see
With no mark to call your own
Nothing is yours, yours to leave
Beyond who you please

The faithless will always forget, a heartbeat for wants in their head
Forlorn wit needs never met
The blame's on us who'd woven the thread

Pinned to a sleeve
Posing for all to see
With no mark to call your own
Nothing is yours, yours to leave
But if you pin to belief
Own an identity and a mark to call your own
Something that's yours could be seized
Beyond who you please

13. Matter Of Time

Pull back the curtain
The one behind it has a different face
The inner workings, the gears are turning at a different pace

Time will change us all

The more that you question
The more the answers aren't what you want to hear

We fight to conceal the truth, but it's all a matter of time, of time
The years wasted, persuaded to smile when it feels so wrong inside, inside

Honesty or deception?
You can only hide it for so long
But we choose to be silent; stick to the story

We fight to conceal the truth, but it's all a matter of time, of time
The years wasted, persuaded to smile when it feels so wrong inside, inside

How can we let ourselves continue this routine?
The artificial beat of a heart that's long since ceased
[2x]

We fight to conceal the truth, but it's all a matter of time, of time
The years wasted, persuaded to smile when it feels so wrong inside, inside, inside

We fight to conceal the truth, but it's all a matter of time

14. Prophets

There's a height I couldn't reach
Though I bought the wings to carry me
There's a feeling never found
Though I bought the words to bring it out
But then maybe I was better naive
Maybe I was better when I couldn't see
I felt the water over me
A cold and lonely welcoming
Not a sign they said I'd find, nor the warmth of the sire's hand in mine
But then maybe I was better naive
Maybe I was better when I couldn't see

I have seen a friend-turned-martyr bleed
And for what?
For what a stranger taught to us?
With no authority to speak?

It's always the loudest who voice only their ignorance [2x]
With no authority to speak?

The rock should be an anchor for the weak
Not this
This unfulfilling
This subtle guilting
A prophet of sympathy...

With no authority to speak

It's always the loudest who voice only their ignorance [2x]
With no authority to speak?
And no sense in reasoning

Maybe I was better naive
Maybe I was better when I couldn't see

15. Onward

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WOVENWAR LYRICS