The Aftermath

confined in great deceit but there is nothing you can do because i've realized one very simple thing you are wasting in a waking dream what have i done i'm turning into me because i'm trapped within the aftermath try to accept the past the end the triumph avoids us as it is destined trapped in the aftermath clutching to memories you've sacrificed all the thoughts existing in others you can't speak to the blind what is left here the defied look so weak so do i nothing's equal to the mind mystery of a time consequential villified disbelief in the mind make me evil

 

the never-ending fields of emptiness you seek to find your way and search for the end on the cold surfaces of dirt packed below you fail to grasp the past visions you behold the memories that haunt your past are still unfolding it never seems to end the year of affliction stains so deep to live through such despair when it's over strained existence i can't believe it's true the never-ending fields how are you gone, how can this be real? i witness the grace of destruction as it tears through my life distance of the rift that absorbs us chaos rains from the sky my name is cynical obsession i don't know who i am or why i am here you're just another desparation and your frustration's just eclipsing your fear you've got to change your direction they don't know who you are they won't know your name you've got to face the infection caught in the aftermath you won't have to change you have a chance to redeem it embrace the aftermath as you lose your life you're just a mask of your secrets in death bereft with an intangible time

 

The Silhouette

deceptive incision is all you speak is it illusion is it reaching for me? this hollow memory this distant face instilled you'll see when i look back it's like one long day it's over now i fade away the silhouette of the guilt is strained it's over now i break the frame fatal mistakes led to your dismissal from the maze you cannot turn away the time is moving forward you can never see the desparation all existence drift away today i left it all behind because i know now what i have to do to fix my mind tomorrow's not promised to a single one of us so now i'm letting you go to drop into darkness it's time to disregard and break the ending fight 'til the very end to one day chase the night again choices i hear the voices taught again and hinging in decent it's all painted against colors of the future sun so bright one glance through the windows of this place will take you from the day when you felt like everything was set in place change incisions in the frame when no one's left to blame and the face the place the time erased left with a silhouette

 

Fall

there could never be another way standing with the fading ancients falling yet again i feel the stormclouds washing over takes it all away with rain fading back to the failure that i breathe deep and out 'til i believe name of the chosen so relentless as it goes to believe this downfall in the end embrace the cost along the way the lifeless sufficed with a grave on the inside it's built for us you're soulless your life won't be saved and what's beautiful's built to fall still running down that path not paved to be the way you want the one that haunts you vacant and hollow the pain that you've swallowed torment so slow mindset corrodes mindset of hate fall before your empty grave the timeless confined by the day and you'll never see night again the stories you've left never change and what's beautiful's built to fall vacant silent dormant i can't see the truth in the way that we abuse ourselves just take me with you to the place in your dreams where you shield your eyes the light igniting i can't discern right from wrong another life it's been so long turbulent contortion isn't real covering another tragic memory revealed

 

Shadows of the Black Sky Portrait

i look deep and i see myself through the eyes of a scene re-created now to my eyes it's as good as real in the night see the branches swaying the night wind is piercing cold and through my pupils the story is told marvelling at the slight motions the burning light deciphers notions immerse yourself in the shadows black visions break me down and burn the pieces feel so lost you will never find painted things all i hear is the cold wet morning until the night is changing the light is blinding the deep unknown where i reach it's forming the sight is changing the plight is binding to feel the sentiment portrayed here you must give up your hope and embrace your fears what can you see? what can you breathe? just reach for it and claw to grasp it pull the portrait into your mind immersed within the confines of one time eliminate the trace exist in the design the bright essence flaws me the dark movement draws me in the shadowscape i try to pull away is this the answer?

 

What Brought Us to the High

waking to another dream broken soul in scenes within i scream in darkness echoes rampant drifting through the endless skies i just try to feel something that can be real cold serenity locks me away secrecy serenity digging deep within the confines of your lies you might find somewhere what brought us to the high the termination of the time beyond despair as the rain hits me like boiling sweat but there will never be another care i feel the warmth flow throughout purpose holds fast as it enacts your true arrival to decimate your instincts removing self from self so wise as darkness falls on you change in atmosphere shakes a quake beneath the ground betrayal by the bomb that speaks it leaves her on the ground changing the constant stakes this quake this rupture sound the red surrounds you feel so weak escape this dying town just give me one more answer to these never-ending questions just give me one more reason that i should care about the fear just tell me why i should care trudging toward the aftermath surprise arrives from the sea but you could never resist the tides and now you open your eyes sinking to despair it's just turning into hate heal the constant claws ripping in and tearing out my heart

 

Red Moon Rise

the red moon is rising and it never seems to end my blood's still flowing it's not easy to see you descend the red moon is rising and it brings a disastrous toll the sun sets but never lets the past to be lost in my soul still blind to the worst within you fading back from the emptiness a red essence makes me justify to conceal your fate i feel the phantom's fingers it still takes me makes me realize that i walk through the never and i walk through the land and i walk through that empty place you can't understand i walk through the never i walk through the land i feel the phantom's fingers i see the red moon rise you cross it once but you may never cross again the river's pact that you're betraying from within red sky over timeless mourning the red moonlight's path is intersecting with the throne see the red moon rise again 'til it all burns down it still breaks me straining through my life a red essence makes me realize the red moon's arrival turning back another night the claws that hide in the moonlight are tearing at my mind the dark fears of ever-lasting guilt time and time again the etchings carved and charred inside destined exception

 

Negative Zero

disconnect from the avalanche crashing ...silence... waiting for the day and you will never feel safe here until your life has faded away i find myself in the misery zone instincts of a suffering call withstand the breaking core one more time and i doubt that you could see my face why does it have to end like this? how can you reach to my dark place when you were never around? it confines hold the knife into me when all your hope feels washed away you reach negative zero this illusion is becoming strange you count the growing ways that the rage controls you when all your hope feels washed away you've reached negative zero disillusion is becoming strange you count the growing ways that the rage controls you pulled from below just where will this plight take me? i'll never know the right fate that might mistake me i'm made of fear when every last breath avoids me i'll disappear i tell myself i tell myself again

 

BloodshedRedemption

the virtuous defied days of what you fail to no avail i move on no innocent ending the vilest i've confessed soul-the basis undefined and still alive haunted by this vision from my past the frames of gray i feel the pain it's taking me over take away the symbols of your fields of gray the symbols bearing formal exhibition at the strike dead end tides are turning fire-the next revenge until you've been sufficed with bloodshed and redemption doused in vengeance feel the blood fall through my fingers taking taking break away from care a waking stare-it validates return to burn these phantoms from distant seas i'm back to redeem i see the blood and hate runs through these burning veins drenched in regret no questioning the death quest of fate red dead revenge and it's over

 

Normalcy

so why am i here? disaster sequence it still feels like i see the sorrow in you it makes me realize that i'm doomed prestigious glass will fill this room as i shatter each piece i shake regret it consumes me from the inside to look back at all of those days is this the end? the final visions? from here my perspective is so clear the world in my hand is revolving i can't effect this impending; resolving why did i turn around and try to tell someone else how to feel? are these minute distortions to the normal mind even real? is that one shape unlike the others in any way? are illusions taking hold? is this just normalcy? i cannot try to break what is in tact such normalcy just fades in the face of the fact that i feel my body slipping away into the background-dissipate realization into realist basis of this creation lost in the rift and what's out i cannot try to break what is in tact such normalcy just fades in the face of the fact that i feel my body slipping away into the background dissipate the manifestation into realist basis of this creation is this really human? is it something in the fold of this timeless feeling? the escape route into my soul stasis of replacement is fact do we have our true intentions in tact? no.

 

From Beyond

did it end or just begin-the memory you're trapped within? the changing you can't separate.. so silent you can't break away endure another tragedy am i bereft or just betrayed? another moral from the start brought to the truth and ripped apart in the grip of reality so sudden such finality the shattered remnants of your time 'til death the threads of fate defied you've tried to break them for so long now you're already so far gone and i'm still here just waiting for morning light to dawn but i know that it's hopeless i've lived in darkness my whole life in death you might know what it's like this sorrow has a vicious bite i've tried to tell you but you're far-gone waiting for morning light to dawn this memory is never gone from beyond it's thrown away and left behind and now foretold disastrous signs have grown into a frenzied beast captive in torment and released face the troubled skies death's in view drift in a gray fate lost in truth my failing judgment guides me through fail to find the way left and doomed failed on my own volition echoes of what you said to me will be forever silent you can't break away you can't face this day it's all destined the question's confession

 

 

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