I emerge From the ashes of my past I am born anew Reminded of the life I desire I spread my wings and fly ever higher If mercy should have it I might yet see this world saved From the iron fist of greed and hate From subjective bias and premature rage But still hope comes hard to me For the trained eye can plainly see A world so bereft of forgiveness And people so empty and broken with ego relentless A growing beast inside, You feed it with habits in which you find pride And though your fate you can decide Behind the veil of persona you hide Watching Waiting Learning to hide your dreams and desires As your heart turns to stone You become so bitter and cold But do these people deserve to be saved, Or are we petty creatures to stuck in our ways to escape To evolve into something beyond these skin coffins we rot in forgotten in hate, Are we merely slaves to the whims of our nature, Self righteous and disregarding the future, Generations of children born into a worldwide Mass grave Tell me do you deserve to be saved Do you deserve to be saved Illuminate the path before me, Let me see if the destination is hellish or holy, Grant me the eyes to see, I wish to know what the future holds for me, Does it ever get better than this, Is there ever a time when I can exist, Without the threat of the world that won't permiss A creature with absolute wholesome bliss My soul will carry on beyond the entombment of this skin coffin I only hope that when I escape this misery can be forgotten We all have our crosses to bear, They grow heavier with time and cure us of our fear Of death of passing on to the next level to the great beyond For death is the final frontier, But of what lies beyond we instinctively fear But it could only be better than this, It can only get better than this, But you chain yourselves to this state of being By clinging to ego so naieve A species divided a world undecided With minds so sick and depraved Tell me, Do you deserve to be saved This skin coffin I emerge, From the ashes of my past I am born anew, Reminded of the life I desire, I spread my wings and fly ever higher, I embrace the beauty of this skin coffin, And I admit to myself that We are guilty as we are deranged Passing our hatred through every age, Making all the world a stage All who dare to make a change, Will inevitably be erased For no savior will stand in the sinners way Crucified for being a saint Tell me do you deserve to be saved

Behold my power The pen is rendered mightier than the sword My words will become soldiers To battle the laws of convention and end all misconception For I refuse to conform to a world that has always hated me, I refuse to be unheard and I refuse to remain asleep Can't you see, The world is pure in simplicity, But we have created complications, That only multiply through each generation, Mindlessly stirring the pot, In creating order we have created chaos, Masterful in ignorance, We deserve to plummet into the abyss Foolish men Forging their own master plan, Conceiving the end of our species for momentary gain in the absence of reason, Bound by chains we have created, Lost inside our own minds, We will come to discover, A fate so unforgiving we will plummet into the black abyss We will plummet, Into the black abyss Oh, these pitiful creatures, The grain shant be broken as long as the ignorant word is spoken, The pen is rendered mightier than the sword And as it was foretold, Oh these pitiful creatures, As long as ego enslaves the population lies you'll be sold Oh these pitiful creatures, So bathed in bewilderment of the wonders at their disposal, Fail to hear of my proposal, That we tear down the constructs that act as bars keeping us imprisoned in perpetual wars For isn't freedom worth fighting for Caught in the midst of perpetual war A society so broken and torn Disguising the wrath of power hungry warlords As patriotic endevours Kneel before the self proclaimed prophets Kneel before the sword The rambling Messiah Paints truth as the pariah The messenger the liar They lead you to the fire Mesmerized by fear, The masses to blind to see, The fool too deaf to hear, What is so plain and clear, This lie of a life, Passed down through generations it has become a knife, The endless strife, Ghostly apparitions haunt your vision forcing you into submission, Your merciless derision lacks precision and stems from your disposition, The coalition falsifies and denies your inquisition, Shamelessly and namelessly you blamelessly accept defeat Cower at your dictators feet Cower At your dictators feet Behold my power Your world's grown sour Asleep you remain as you abhor All progress and consequence you ignore The deaf shall hear my every word, The pen is rendered mightier than the sword The rambling Messiah Paints truth as the pariah The messenger the liar They lead you to the fire Mesmerized by fear, The masses to blind to see, The fool too deaf to hear, What is so plain and clear, This lie of a life, Passed down through generations it has become a knife, The endless strife, And so as the prophets have written These mindless slaves so comfortable In this hell so unbearable Caught in the midst of perpetual war, A society so broken and torn Is this the life you desire Or has our collective unintelligence lead us into fire

So you are a master of your world But not your mind How long now has it been since you've truly let yourself decide Desolate from debt and deficiency Till the only thing you look forward to is sleep Cash your health in for dollars Jailed by greed hate fear and lethargy Turn brother against brother Divided by contest and conquered by consequence Victims of circumstance Captives of comfort Free to exist within your chains Imagined perfect worlds become more real than life could ever be The fog of man's machines Has eaten the clouds and dried the seas O if only thy father could see What has become of his clay made beast His image reflected in all of his forgotten children Left to fend for themselves in the industrial jungle For God doesn't speak he stammers and mumbles Lies You have all believed Can you not hear the deciets Can you not hear the tortured screams of those you've impeached Approaching a time when the wine turns to water And the smoke chokes the last of our kind The treasures we have lost we are doomed to never find Can you not hear their screams The treasures we have lost we will never find You can not kill the very hatred you have spawned You can never right this wrong Thus your lies come undone You can send me 'way from you but know my story's only just begun But was this truly your choice or has the manifest destiny of the founders of your nation locked you in hate and apathy For we are guilty of the crime of invention and have averted our eyes away from the gift of realization To protect our egos and to serve our desires The grip of judging eyes keep you attached to the device As the world around you slips into the night you hide behind a screen in fright Fearing change fearing the world outside your petty gates Fearing the revolution that calls your name Fearing death but living life in vain You speak of a new world you will create But does the fear and all the hate Not create a world forever stuck in place, The stagnant soulless gaze into the radiation maze, Life consumed by social isolation Misery and exploitation A cynics love of deprivation The Shepherd has led his sheep unto woe And uses them as fodder to silence his foes Bearing them with machines of death They quell all opposition and consume resources between bitter breaths A generation of addiction aficionados Bound by the chains of shallow pleasure A mindless voiceless thoughtless heartless soulless godless being in a stagnant world of loveless naught Seamlessly slipping into the void Seamlessly slipping into the void And so now, You’re rage has encompassed you, Hate shall guide you to commandeer, So profound The overwhelming darkness in you, You are the bloodthirsty savage that the world will learn to fear Opposition grows as the story unfolds The Kings and queens who stole your souls are brought to knees before their conquered throne The mask you've worn shall melt away revealing truth in disarray And you become the iron fisted dictator And you become another tyrant to be overthrown The machines of death are turned towards those who stole the weapon of word, As the sheep devour the Shepherd

I've got the cure for distraction It comes in a capsule For the small price of your soul We can make you the slave we need you to be And if you don't want it I'm sure we can find another sickness in you Cause a brain we can't diagnose Is a brain we can't control It's educational medication To fix the millennial generation Since it's harder to change the world than it is To take a pill and make you fit right in And if you don't want it We can make you need it I'm the guy with the latest and greatest in heinous pleasures and pains and chemicals to put in your brain To put in your vein The flight that never sustains I bring you the poison cup It's your choice to drink You tell me you like the taste of it As you slowly drift off to sleep I got blood on my hands I'm the slow death of choice I'm a peddler of illness, Leave you without a name devoid of a voice In the era of the DeGeneration I gather my wealth through devilish persuasion For I am the giver as I am the taker I introduce lost souls to their maker I am the illusionist I'll show you the sacred through sacrilege and vice, I'll teach you the new religion, I'm the millennial Christ

Awoken by shivers Face buried in hands Black figures occupy my vision I retrace my steps Return to the joy that never was Drown the urge to end this lie of a life With the cold sting of the forgiving drink Drink from the fountain of youth Be made immortal Inch ever closer to the brink I have been blinded The chains that restrain me have become part of me Wash away the pain Drain the memories away The fountain is infinite It's waters taste divine Don't shine your light on me I wish to remain asleep It is bliss to me Let the ears of the world be deaf to me May all my peers be bereft of me Reject the world that has rejected me For to be conceived is to be unfree I pray the fountain never run dry Whatever the cost I shall stay by its side And pray that the sickness never subsides Pray for the phantoms that haunt me every night to remain in the corner of my eye As the cold sting fades with time More immersed in the fountain dead but still alive This life will never be what I thought it would be What was promised for me All the empty words of empty people in an empty world They mean nothing and they always have and they always will All that matters is the cheap thrills All that matters is the joy that kills I have sold my soul, To the life giving death, To forget the sorrow that hides behind every breath I have sacrificed myself to the fountain I lie to myself that I'm not addicted Confined within myself my truth remains restricted I live I lie With these tired eyes I see though I am blind Without the will to rewind I pray the fountain never run dry I pray that the sickness never subsides As the cold sting fades with time Dead but still alive Immersed in the fountain I reclaim my youth through a slow death I sacrifice my body for my ego Lies become my shibboleth The chains that restrain me have become part of me, Wash away the pain, Drain the memories away The fountain of youth has drained me of life The fountain of youth has swallowed me whole, The fountain of youth has stained my mind The fountain of youth has drowned my soul

Do you dream of me as I've dreamt of you before The mud has risen over our eyes And I don't see you anymore Do you see my hands reaching out for you Can you feel my gaze piercing through The mud The endless mud Is it still not enough for you I find my escape from the mud But I still see you there I take your hand but you resist my grasp I find your fingers, They become interlocked with mine Your electric pulse syncs with mine, As our two lives intertwine I think Believe me I tried I felt you start to move free from the mud I felt you move towards me Only to sink once again So I slide back under Into the mud with you For I wasn't strong enough to save you so instead I will suffer with you Back into the mud with hands still clasped Your sins I shall suffer for Though I know you are there, I don't see you anymore

And so it was, This denial of guilt, You cling to like a lover, You turn and blame the other, You turn against your brother, It feels like a knife, Jammed within your ribs, To admit your own faults, To admit that you were wrong, You were to blame all along, And until then the world will spin without you, And until then they’ll hate everything about you, And until then the black cloud hangs around you, You dare not approach the mirror, For you hate what you see, You cannot face yourself, You wish to be someone else, To feel something you’ve never felt, There came a time, When you could no longer point, To the others in your world, Your finger is no sword, You are only as strong as your word, Aggressive ghosts playing chords you can’t remember, Singing words that echo unto forever, Bringing discordant melodies tales of December, Pages bound by lies burn in the embers, The lies are truths written by your descenders, But now you are alone with no defender, And though you’ve had your revenge your anger still remains, Regardless of your actions you are saddled with the hellish rage, Until the rage turns into hate turns into pain that you can no longer take, And you do what you do for your own sake, The world will know, The things that they have done, Through the taking of your own life, Your battle is surely won, A mother is now without a son, And so it was, As it has always been, Your rage and abhorrence was the forger of your end, Was the author of your destruction, Aggressive ghosts playing chords you can’t remember, Singing words that echo unto forever, Bringing dissonant melodies tales of December,

So I wear the darkness, Like a badge of honor, For the light is arduous to find and I lack the strength to bother, Careless voices shout to the sky as the poison makes them stronger, The poison turns a man into a monster, And so I hide away, For I know they won’t see my veiled soul, I know it, I know, And so I hide within my misery, I wish that somebody could see, This jester's mask I wear is slowly killing me This rudimentary world of pristine obscenity, Lies told through bared teeth to conceal the rage and grief, And so I pray, But the prayers are left unanswered, I pray only that someone might look upon me and be enamoured, How long can this pain exist before reaching the surface of my skin, Like a spiteful cyst, Like a cancer refusing to desist, But out of all this pain I’ve never known one like the one you left for me, As you let the currents of time take me away, And what did you gain, What did you take away, When you left me here to decay and you had nothing to say? Has my loneliness led me astray, Is this suffering my destiny, Now that my heart has turned to stone, You’d never know, So many years ago, I was beloved by the masses for being the fool, Sat upon my cretin’s throne, Now I reap what I have sewn, Before I fade away, And become an epitaph upon a stone, I’ve forgotten how warm the cold can be, I’ve forgotten how welcoming a goodbye is so bittersweet, And so I sing from my heart unto my lips, The silent sting of solemn bliss, I sing, From my heart unto my lips, I descend to the hell of my own mind, I’ve become enslaved by this cage, By which I’m defined, I descend to the hell of my own mind, Was I born only for tears, Am I merely a slave to my fears, Through time lost through countless years, Is this living? Should I have ever even been here? Should I just fucking end it? Where is the light at the end, Where is the prize for the tears in my eyes, Where can I go to find peace, Where do the monsters stop shouting, When do the memories cease, When does it not all seem so bleak, God just take me away, The pain only ever sustains, Is this all that I am? Is this all I was destined to be? Why was I born with this curse of a world around me? I reap what I have sewn, Before I fade away, Into the void alone, I’ve forgotten how warm the cold can be, I’ve forgotten how welcoming a goodbye is, So bittersweet, As the demons sing to me, The lullaby of the damned, Bringing me to sleep, (just fucking do it) Do it you fucking coward, (do it) Join us and quell your misery, (fucking do it) This is your destiny, This is all you were meant to see, Join us in the vaccuum of death, (join us) Fucking do it, (just end it) No more strife, No more thoughts, No more curse, No more

As you gaze into the abyss Can you feel it stare back into you Hearing but failing to listen Just as you always do With the weight of the world rested on our shoulders We have grown weak and our bones have grown frail Can you look in the eye of the angel inside and tell him you have failed You let the demons of the darkest corners of your soul Take complete tyrannical control Stand up tall to be broken down like the disease you are Witness the resurrection of regret from behind your wall You can taste the foul stench A decrepit mess A shameful pitiful life spent With nothing left to show for it But an empty heart and an unloving soul Victimized lives led by shallow lies Can you see the sun rise From behind the walls you've built around you All once good has been denied Leaving those outside to live a happier life without you Never shall this skin feel the warmth of the sun again Nor the chilled breeze of winter Isolated and hollow I wash my hands of the burden And rid my curse This world is my casket This life is my imprisonment From cradle to the grave Till death do thee away Nothing more than a slave As you gaze into the abyss Can you feel it stare back into you Hearing but failing to listen Just as you always do Living in fear and feeding the lie Deny to calm your conscience Deny to purify Never shall this skin feel the warmth of the sun again Nor the chilled breeze of winter isolated and hollow I wash my hands of the burden And rid my curse Be wary of those who surround you They feed off your pain And will only exist to bury you So they can forget you Sacrifice for the maggots is all the world sees fit for you And how dare you expect any different In this world we fight for our own interest Maintaining selflessness is self destructive We by nature are blind to consequence Barely maintaining consciousness In this monotonous metropolis We can only learn in subsequence The provenance of somnolence Just leave me in my tomb of solemn solace This world is my casket This life is my imprisonment From cradle to the grave Till death do thee away Nothing more than a slave

Why Why did it have to be this way Why was I born into this fragile shell Why did I inherit my own seat in hell What did they do to me What have I done to myself What has been done to this world I long for the purity of my youth But find only solemn defeat Beneath the illusion I wear I beg for the merciful dark To consume my soul To empty this shell To be free of the burden Be free of life Be free of these thoughts in my head Face buried in the pillow As laughter seeps into the room I can only offer my tears in return And gaze into the abyss For it has gazed deeply into me Leaving me frightened prepared for defeat But still unprepared for this world I was given I can no longer stand on my own two feet Cast aside all that claim to care For none of you knew how to help me I was all alone then as I'm all alone now Scared of life scared of death Death Cast aside all who claim to care, For none of you knew how to help me I was all alone then as I'm all alone now Scared of life Death Dear god Give me death Please have mercy Death Silence Give me death Please just end it God God There's nothing to stay here to see, I will never escape from mistakes for they make up my being I carry the guilt to the grave a timid and tortured and foolish young boy made obscene By an infernal world with a cynical god Happiness worn as a facade Still I hear laughter All I hear is laughter God just let it be done Let me descend to hell for it is better than earth At least in hell there is no lie of hope There is only outward pain Instead of inward Release me from the grip of this life But you won't I'll simply release myself Take this blanket under which I hide Wrap it round my throat to silence my cries Tighter Tighter Tighter Tighter Leave my eyes devoid of light