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Absence
04:40
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I sleep these days away to find an answer in my dreams.
Only to wake and realize Ive been stumbling aimlessly.
No directions, no roads.
Take my heart and make it your compass.
Help me to find my home again.
Guide me forever into your light.
Show me the way, and I will follow.
You've called to lend me your hand,
In search of exemption.
From everything I am.
I've been given this offering,
Only to feel abandoned and hopeless.
Caged inside this body,
Ive been trapped in my own mind.
So is this what you call living?
Freedom is nothing more than a word.
I was born only to die.
My soul was never meant to be heard.
You stand there watching me burn.
I'll long for the day of your suffering,
So that these tables can finally be turned.
Now you will burn
Now say that you will still guide me.
Your grip is fading, but I am moving forward.
The voices inside of my head,
Begging to be heard.
Will I ever learn to listen?
No thanks to you.
Taken by your storm,
I am the negative one.
Drifting from your floods,
I am forever lost.
Forgotten along the way;
To travel this path on my own.
Ill move on without you,
And find what I seek alone.
I've been given this offering,
Only to feel abandoned and hopeless.
Caged inside this body,
Ive been trapped in my own mind.
For once in life,
I found serenity.
I am not what you say you'd hoped for.
And I am forever lost.
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2. |
West Ave.
03:34
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You taught me everything.
12 years of age without your guidance,
God knows how long without your face.
I wont forget the day you left me stranded.
A call I would have never imagined,
The drive home never knowing what happened.
Walking through the door, to broken souls.
Looking into their eyes I saw their sadness.
I thought I’d feel this numb forever.
But we were weak together, when we only needed each other.
A family in itself, is what kept us going.
We reclaim the days you took,
As we rebuild the home you broke.
Knowing now that time is not my keeper.
I miss the numbness time could bring,
Before you were stripped away from me.
I kept my fear of faith inside, but only failed to get by.
I stand on the edge of what I thought was desperation.
Clinging onto sanity, in hopes of respiration.
Breathe in, breathe out.
You’ll make it through this.
He’ll be home soon enough.
What I’d do to see your face, and that alone would make me smile.
But these dreams will stay dreams, and you'll still live in denial.
Just know, were still strong.
Father and son, an unbreakable bond.
We’ll stand as one.
We’ll stand as one.
I miss the numbness time could bring,
Before you were stripped away from me.
I kept my fear of faith inside, but only failed to get by.
Look at the man I’ve become.
Is this what you wanted?
I am your son.
I am your son.
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3. |
Biweekly
03:27
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These roads tie, as dreams die.
I saw nothing,
So I refuse to believe in myself.
Struggling to open up my eyes.
Slaving for what will never last,
I can barely stand all of their faces.
But do you feel the same?
Ive been lying about being okay.
This isn't how I imagined things.
Because times have changed,
I feel like Im throwing my youth away.
The worst part is knowing that it will never end.
Once you're used and abused, the cog still turns.
You're nothing but a number on a sheet.
Another gear in the machine,
Just another mouth to feed.
They'll tell you to be grateful,
Just for waking up today.
They have their reasons to smile,
Knowing you'd die just for their pay.
Unsympathetic and full of rage.
Clenching my teeth until they break.
Writing the same old stories,
And the ink is running dry.
Well this is my life.
This is where I draw the line.
No more will I keep hurting.
Ill be known as the one that stopped the cog from turning.
This is who I am.
Not just another face they'll forget.
This is no longer about survival,
But what we must do to break the cycle.
Break the cycles.
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4. |
Grace
04:03
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Standing on the same surface,
Opposed by how this world sits.
Emeralds outlined by black rings.
Impassive, though they had seemed.
Illumination had been far gone under.
I was hopeless, yet kept onward.
Without choice I am to fight,
The shadows that left me belligerent.
In search of your light,
She surfaces earth's brim.
Vivid is her countenance.
I reach towards the horizons,
Forests harrow within her presence.
Mother, please breathe life into me.
Look to the sky,
An ever growing wonder.
Mysterious, as the way you gaze.
You are the evergreen.
Reach down and grasp the clouds,
Calm me with your breeze.
Seasons Change,
We change with them.
Day by day,
Our time runs out.
Without this soil, we are nothing.
Without her grace, we fall apart.
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5. |
Dissimulate
03:42
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Break through the thoughts of insanity.
Kill off the feelings you cannot hide.
Deny all the lies you’ve made.
For far too long I have kept this all inside my mind,
And I refuse to hold this back.
Forced only to remember,
I am revisiting my memories.
I am reliving all these tragedies.
Now that we stand face to face,
Can you still see through these eyes?
Barricaded and sheltered by all that we despise.
I've found a way past these walls that you have so strongly exaggerated.
By means of destruction against the barriers in my mind, that I have fabricated.
All that I have left is a prayer.
Too useless to love,
Too stubborn to care.
I refuse to breathe a name that wont seem save me.
Ill kneel when I see you,
But you were never there.
You were never there.
I may not be what I used to,
But you had never known.
They'll never find the answer thats been hidden for so long.
Creating the perfect escape from all that we know;
A paradise.
Bring me back to better times,
Before my past knew me;
When I had only known my present.
Time had yet to exist,
The earth would stand still.
And I could breathe easily.
Disguised and unseen,
Forgotten are my memories.
Outlived, are my tragedies.
And without aspiration,
These ruins they show nothing.
Forget my name.
Break and see through insanity;
The thoughts and the feelings you try to hide.
This is all that I have left, contemporary proof that this is my end.
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6. |
Called Comfort
03:47
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You were my brother,
After all I had told you.
It mattered little to you.
Then it broke apart,
Like a kingdom ravaged by its people.
The fire spread and left the wicked powerless.
But now this dark cloud hangs above.
No matter how I rest my head,
I am shaken by thunder.
All I can do now is wait for rain.
We found each other in the perfect moments.
Yearning for something to put us back together.
But when our jobs were done,
We exchanged a sour embrace, and just walked away.
But maybe in the years to come,
Our time will be less invested,
And our paths will cross again.
We'll remember the way we used to laugh and make things right;
The way they were when we were friends.
We age and unravel.
The work we put in comes undone.
Love can only do so much when it's just a memory.
And we're left in silence to do its justice.
It's only in endings that we find the beauty in life.
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Champ Commack, New York
5 Piece Melodic Metalcore band from Commack, NY
Third EP "Trustless" out now
2012- Post Hardcore
2014- Hardcore
2016- Melodic Metalcore
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