salvation

we're the young ones, the unloved ones
wide eyed and guilty
we're not as we appear
look and you will find
everything to lose, nothing to fear

our stomachs are growling
and we'll soon turn on you
our faces are weathered
from singing the blues

raised on morals long since lost
never looking back on those we've crossed
sleeping with demons night after night
too tired and weary to put up a fight

i ask no forgiveness
i need no salvation

poison

raise our glasses
raise our hopes
three cheers to us
propose a toast
say all the things we don't mean
forget all the things that come between

fade to black
take it all back
confess my sins
do it again

empty our glasses
lose our hopes
turn our backs
pull the ropes
scream and scream all in vain
poison myself to forget the pain

confess my sins
do it again

faithless

these hands aren't fit for prayer
thanks to all they've done
they've committed every sin under the sun
i've found no blessings
only hell and turmoil

i've never been overcome by anything
but apathy and indifference
no words escape seeking forgiveness

no remorse, no lament
hellbound and smiling
up all night with demons to fight
enemy of mankind

circles

the eyes have it
witnessing their fair share
of all the horrors
that i call my own
taking it in
casting judgement on me
heavy breath
heads hung low
bestow my fate upon me

they turn their backs
cold shoulders facing me
my eyes don't have it
the white light expanding
a deep voice booming
i've been denied

row the river
take me home
here i'm welcome
i've ran this circle nine times over

now raise your glasses
lock the doors
we're never leaving

if you stutter, don't speak

weakness will not be tolerated
it's only a dead end path
you've got to grow up now, son
it's gonna be a long one

a lifetime of disgust
through the eyes of a child
safe among the shadows
below the vultures, among the snakes
beside the devil himself

you'll bear the brunt of my fists
so long as they grace my arms
you'll know hatred
so long as i have a tongue

beware of what i'm capable of
no rest will find me
this i can promise

solstice

the memories displayed in the rearview
in perfect 20/20 like hindsight always is
i've cut my teeth on sharper things
and you went dull a long time ago
you're the one who chooses to fail
over and over and over again,
but those reoccurring themes
won't be killing me

clenched fists just like you
follow your veins like an avenue
black lung just like you
from all the mistakes that you never knew

a spitting image in the mirror
yet quite the opposite to the eye
i refuse to let this be the end of the line
you wasted a lifetime for a few minutes
and i have only just begun to lay waste
to those i love and everything i know

the sun is blinding
the horizon is fading
the solstice has commenced

hated

in the latest hours that try my soul
no companion anywhere in sight
nightmares projected like the posters on the walls
awake to find there's no escape at all

isolated, desecrated
such a vile creature have i become
nothing sacred, violated
cast me out where i belong

lost among the desperate
there's no hope of finding my way out
the hopeless ones, the faithless sons
from bastard fathers and wasted mothers

nothing is sacred
the unholy are calling my name
i'll take my spot with the unlucky ones,
with the other hated of the world

feeding frenzy

on the edge of the sand
the tides are rising
i'd just as soon let them swallow me whole
wash away this body and free this soul

burn the carcass and scatter the ashes
make me as one

blow me to the mountain tops
carry me out to sea
sink me in the deepest valleys
throw me down the steepest cliffs
burn me in the dryest deserts
drown me in the darkest ocean

call the sharks
it's a feeding frenzy
make me as one