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It´s Never Enough

The night closes in and you’re alone.
In the darkness your mind begins to see.
The deafening silence lays you bare.
You can’t run from who you’ll always be.
The thoughts flood in and the barriers break,
You’re sinking fast in the tide of dread,
You need to stop but it’s only the start,
Relive the rage of what was left unsaid.
The swords that shed your blood still sharp and gleaming,
Slice through the facade and leave you screaming,
The bullets that tore your flesh still flash like lightening,
Rip through the calm, ten times more frightening.

Chor:
It’s never enough, you can’t still the storm
You can’t soften the hate.
However hard you try the monster you deny
Has sealed your fate.
It’s never enough, you can’t cool the flames
You can’t soothe the fear,
No matter what you do the hopes that you pursue
Just disappear, just disappear.

The hours crawl by and you wish for death.
In the vacuum your heart begins to hear.
The cries of your buried emotion resound.
Your fate obliterates all that you hold dear.
The panic takes hold and your shields collapse,
You’re plunging deep into the endless abyss,
You need to be whole but you’ll only be half,
Be at last the person that you’ll always miss.
The swords that shed your blood still sharp and gleaming,
Slice through the facade and leave you screaming,
The bullets that tore your flesh still flash like lightening,
Rip through the calm, ten times more frightening.

Forever Out of Reach

You watch life from behind the glass,
You can see but you cannot touch,
You can hear, but the words don’t reach you,
You can’t feel, stasis has you in its clutch.
You’re like a machine in a sentient world,
You function insensible in your trance,
Processing concepts you can’t grasp,
Your humanity never had a chance.
They told you no one would ever love you,
And you tried hard to prove them wrong,
But you are who you are and in the end,
You trespassed on soil where you’ll never belong.

Chor:
What you need is forever out of reach,
You can no longer practice what they preach,
Smash the glass that isolates,
Crush the curse that violates.
The aberration is here to stay,
Imposing laws you can’t obey.
You’re moments away from losing your mind,
The hopes that died are the ties that bind.
There’s no way to cross the breach,
What you need is forever out of reach.

Drifting in silence where hells collide,
Explode into molten showers of pain,
On course to implode in timeless space,
You know that you'll never find heaven again.
Wandering the barren plains that wait
To suck you into their airless dusk,
Beyond the realm of any warmth and light,
Your body an empty, wasted husk.
You believed there could be some saving moment,
Just once, a redeeming, radiant song,
But you are who you are and in the end,
You trespassed on soil where you'll never belong.

No Thought

V1:
Decades ago the warnings began,
But nobody seemed to care.
Humans continued to ravage the Earth,
Creating this global nightmare.
Temperatures rising, forests in flames,
Floods sweep land that the sea now claims.
Storms now batter with pitiless force,
But the wealthy destroyers show no remorse.
Heatwaves stifle with relentless insistance,
But the stealthy wreckers can maintain their distance.

Chor:
Too much at stake and too little headway,
We keep getting closer to this self-induced doomsday.
Inaction pervades like an insidious illness
Politics enslaved by the will of big business.
It’s all about profit, whatever the cost,
No thought for the nature this planet has lost,
No thought for the suffering left to come,
No limit to the depths that greed will plumb.

V2:
The greatest threat to humanity looms,
But science has been ignored.
Greenwashing rather than meaningful change,
Political disaccord.

Melting ice caps, mass migration,
Wildlife fighting to find salvation,
Acid oceans, polluted air,
Natural disasters that wreak despair.
Inequality, hunger, disease,
Born of the days we failed to seize.

V3:
People unwilling to change their ways
Hear the message but refuse to learn,
Governments driven by money and power
Condemn this beautiful world to burn.

There Is No Love Here

Do you think that anything lasts forever?
That there’s someone who can bring you joy?
We’re all so twisted by our madness,
We only know how to destroy.
Do you believe the dreams they feed you?
That there’s someone who will make you complete?
We’re so tortured by our own demons,
The power of love is obsolete.
We hurt, we break, we devastate,
We crush, we take, we denigrate,
We lie, we attack and we accuse,
We kick, we scream and we abuse.

Chor:
There is no love here, there is no love here,
In each hopeless tear, there is no love here.
We create victims of our despair,
In our withered hearts love hasn’t a prayer,
We shatter lives in a single breath,
The human touch is the kiss of death.
In the name of love we unleash our hate,
With our warped affection we suffocate.

Do you think that anything cures the sickness?
That there’s someone who can bring you peace?
We’re so exhausted by our struggle,
To accept ourselves and find release.
Do you believe the myths they sell you?
That someone can raise your self-esteem?
We’re so infected by our anguish,
It’s war not love that reigns supreme.
We hurt, we break, we devastate,
We crush, we take, we denigrate,
We lie, we attack and we accuse,
We kick, we scream and we abuse.

The Time Is Up

You near the water's edge
To make the impossible choice:
The silence as all meaning drowns
Or the sound of the siren's voice.
In the distance flares a light
That captivates your gaze,
Searing the sunless shore
Where you wish away your days.
And your winter never ends,
You crave the warmth you never feel,
And the insidious dread descends,
Can you turn your nerves to steel?

Chor:
The time is up,
How're you gonna wrench free
Of the devil between you and the deep blue sea?
The time is up,
Now you have to decide
Between the stagnant sands
And the surging tide.

You can't stand the senseless grind
You can't take the endless wait.
You're through with the vapid routine
That our rigid lives dictate.
In the twilight reason snaps,
And crumbles into dust,
You're on the edge of losing it all,
And doing what you must.
You have to make the winter cease,
You have to feel the warmth you need,
You have to find that last release,
And make the flow of dread recede.

Rewind, Delete

You try to breathe but there's no air.
You search for hope but there's nothing there.
You feel the emptiness and it's eating you alive,
You just want peace but you're condemned to survive.
The fear runs deep and your blood runs cold,
You paid with your life when you broke the mould.
The scars that betray your soul are beyond all healing,
Your heart still beats but you're beyond all feeling.
Nothing on earth will make you whole,
You need to change what you can't control.

Chor:
Rewind, delete,
Destroy the bones that defeat
And betray,
Wipe the lie away.
Return, to ash,
You always knew that you'd crash
And burn,
And then fade to grey.

You want to scream but there's no sound.
You see no sense in the life you’ve found.
You needed love so much and it tore your heart in two,
It doesn't touch you now, you know you're only passing through.
The void reaches in and your words reach out,
Your flesh deceived your self but you had no doubt.
The scars that betray your soul are beyond all healing,
Your heart still beats but you're beyond all feeling.
Nothing on earth will make you whole,
You need to change what you can't control.

Delete, rewind,
Release, unbind,
Destroy, cremate,
Wipe away, eliminate.

Too Far Gone

V1:
When did you last feel alive?
When did you last wake?
How did you come this far,
Without seeing a dawn break?
How was your life force drowned
Without making a sound?
You’ve spent so very long in that inhuman place,
Yet there’s still so much that you cannot face,
And you lie motionless on a bed of nails,
Watching blind and impassive as your faith derails.
How did you expect to be heard
Without speaking a word?

Chor:
You’re running on empty and too far gone
Hiding behind an emotional shutdown,
The brakes are off and you have no control,
Tearing towards an unstoppable meltdown.
You’re too far gone and too far away
From anywhere you could start to heal,
Caged in your torment and too estranged
From anything that you used to feel.

V2:
When did you last make a stand?
When did you last care?
How did you get to the end,
Without starting from somewhere?
How did your courage crack
Without trying to fight back?
You’ve been stranded beneath a menacing sky
Since river of your inspiration ran dry,
And you’re paralysed by the stifling despair
That seeps through the fractures that you can’t repair,
How can you save your pride
Without turning the tide?

Masked

V1:
To this ailing world comes a deadly blow,
Dealt by man or nature? Guess we’ll never know.
While misery, death and fear roam free,
The prisoner becomes humanity.
Cities in silence, empty streets,
Lives on hold as the lies unfold,
Despair advances as hope retreats,
No healing dawn for those left to mourn.

Chor:
Masked faces, masked designs,
Masked truths to mask our minds,
Masked statistics, unmasked hate
The conquest of those who decide our fate.
Masked intentions, never revealed,
Leave us unarmed on this battlefield,
There’s no defense against unseen ire,
Nothing that masks the scars of fire.

V2:
In this stricken world where we must stand apart
Those we love may harbour the killer without heart,
While poverty, grief and unrest
bear down,
Political storms leave the people to drown.
Spirits broken, chances lost,
Freedom in chains as uncertainty reigns,
No way to assuage the savage cost,
The lives snuffed out, those left to go without.

As Dark as It Gets

You want no ties, they just hold you back,
Slow you down, throw you off track.
There are no more dreams, nothing left to achieve,
No more causes in which you believe.
You want no more pain, there's been so much,
You annihilate everything you touch.
There are no more roads you want to tread,
No more skins that you can shed.
You don't want to die, you want to never have been.
You don't want to forget, you want to never have seen.
So many silent wars that you waged and won,
The battles no one saw to mend the damage done.

Chor:
This is as dark as it gets,
The oblivion that never forgets.
This is the wilderness,
The pit that’s bottomless.
You’re diving through blackened, desolate skies,
Nothing beneath to break the fall,
Your spirit drains as you realise,
It’s the landscape of everything you recall.
This is as dark as it gets,
The oblivion that never forgets.

You don’t want to grow old, you never got to be young,
A struggle in vain, a hero left unsung.
No morning light can pierce the gloom,
Your tower of strength has become your tomb.
Ice to ice, dust to dust,
Your will of iron reduced to rust.
The truth hits home and you’re struck dumb,
You know that the worst is left to come.
You don't want to die, you want to never have been.
You don't want to forget, you want to never have seen.
So many silent wars that you waged and won,
The battles no one saw to mend the damage done.

Dementia

This is pain beyond pain,
This is the voiceless cry.
This is rage beyond rage
And you want to know why.

The present doesn’t exist,
All that’s left is the past.
Then even memory will fail
And death will laugh last.
The dementia devours,
The dagger twists in your heart,
Access denied,
You’re now in worlds apart.

This is pain beyond pain,
This is the voiceless cry.
This is rage beyond rage
And you want to know why.

Words left unsaid,
Now there’s no one to hear.
Wounds left unbound,
That never disappear.
There’s no way back,
From that surreal terrain,
That dazzling mind,
Will never shine again.

This is pain beyond pain,
This is the voiceless cry.
This is rage beyond rage
And you want to know why.
This is pain beyond pain,
This is rage beyond rage,
Our lives laid waste
By the scourge of age.