The Bitter Season - The Swarm

They know not the embrace of the sea
Let them be consoled
For I have seen what lies beyond
They take solace knowing they are free
Let them be controlled
Surrender yourselves
And join us underneath the waves

Cast aside your own apprehension
And look toward the rising sun
This is not the end of your life
But the start of a new one

We offer ourselves up to the sea
And we're crushed by
The terrible waves
Won't someone please save me

And everything that you wanted to know
Rendered meaningless once you are free
Rid of this prison that you call the self
But you can be saved
This is the point to which everything flows
The singularity awaits below
Beneath the veil of the body and the soul

Cast aside your own apprehension
And look toward the rising sun
This is not the end of your life
But the start of a new one
We ask how deep can the ocean be
As we drift away from the shore
We found our place inside the sea
And we will remain here forevermore

We offer ourselves up to the sea
And we're crushed by
The terrible waves
Won't someone please save me

Immerse yourself in dread
This is what you crave
To find relief in pandemonium
Turning emptiness into euphoria
Immerse yourself in death
Escape of the weak
For those who cannot face
The beautiful agony of immortality (immortality)

Cast aside your own apprehension
And look toward the rising sun
This is not the end of your life
But the start of a new one
We ask how deep can the ocean be
As we drift away from the shore
We found our place inside the sea
And we will remain here forevermore

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Staring out of the blackness that you left me in
Set adrift again
Your words still echo in my head...
A warning unheeded
Reaching out across the void between us
To hold you once again
I'm standing on the edge
Until I fall out of myself
By then it may be too late

You live in fear of what's below
Darkening, abyssal
While grasping for meaning you cannot comprehend
Our purpose deceiving
We bring about the end

Hold closed my eyes
I can't bear witness to this
The slow demise
The need is growing deeper

She's there
Visions of a love forgotten
A comfort bittersweet
Reveal the agony
I can't accept what stands before me
But now I'm sure that it must be returned
Back to where it all began
Time to atone for what we've done
How I long for her embrace
But I know that none awaits me

Hold closed my eyes (closed my eyes)
I can't bear witness to this
The slow demise (slow demise)
The need is growing deeper

In death we are united
One body, one mind
Embrace the evolution
The end of humankind
This flesh we forsake
Our paradise awaits
Forever

Hold closed my eyes (closed my eyes)
I can't bear witness to this
The slow demise (slow demise)
The need is growing deeper

And as the veil is lifted
I find that I can see
The darkness closing in again
All around me

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I lie awake watching you
Running in circles
As I dissolve from the inside out
Though you can't ease my pain
I smile when I see your face

Let's fly away from this
Our lives below
No moon to our eclipse
Except our own

My memories
Salvaging what we can

Relive the days
A debt I cannot repay

Now I can't see her face
Still I can hear her say

Let's fly away from this
Our lives below
No moon to our eclipse
Except our own

Now!

Our memories
Salvaging all I can

I can't watch you waste away
But I can't find the words to say
Take my hand and we'll escape
As one again

Let's fly
No moon

Let's fly away from this
Our lives below
No moon to our eclipse
Except our own

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Beyond these walls I hear them whisper
Silent we lie in wait
Another one of us is summoned
Another life to desecrate

From haunted sleep awakened
We're forced to answer the call
Humanity forsaken
We're paralyzed as we fall

Into the deepening cold
Can't see what lies ahead
Can't you save me
Won't you try

I tremble at the sound of my name
Called upon to witness the creations of the insane

Derived (derived)
From the crystalized remains
They seem alive
A construct of man and machine
Entwined
They arrive

From haunted sleep awakened
We're forced to answer the call
Humanity forsaken
We're paralyzed as we fall

Into the deepening cold
Can't see what lies ahead
Can't you save me
Won't you try
Your callous silence the rope
That hangs around my neck
They will take me
And drag me away

This sweet separation
Hearkens back to the days
Before the grey made way
For a bitter shade of blue
Tranquility

Mind's eye staring open wide
My consciousness sails across the sky
No fear of falling into
The black unforgiving sea
If I never come back down
Then what has become of me

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Blood corrupted
Control, connect
I hold my breath for the searing of the flesh
My pulse quickens as the final piece falls into place
Instill my being into this offering
Please accept

My soul
What can you do for me
Take me beyond my former self
Control
Eternal ecstasy
The pleasures of this world
Have lost their hold on me

Behold as I awake
Through malice I take form
In pain I am reborn
New life regenerates
Must find a way
Before the shackles come again

Promise kept
Experience beyond this life
We collect
That which is owed to us
Jesus wept
This is your cross to bear
I reject
O brother won't you save

My soul
What have they done to me
I'm just a shell of my former self
The toll
Infernal suffering
The pleasures of this world
Now just a memory

My god
What hell have I unleashed
And with your life I will almost be complete
Take a little more
No doubt and no remorse
No longer fear what's above and what's beneath

I feel the heart that beats within her
The only master I obey
The everlasting trial of a sinner
And now it's time to seal it away
Before they tear apart

Your soul
Now it belongs to me
Join us as we return to hell
Untold
Experience awaits
The pleasure and the pain
You'll never be the same

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Breath torn from my lungs
Mirrored flesh in circuitry
Body broken but I can't let go
Bound to walk the earth in misery
Blood drained, obsolete
Acid flush the vein, relive the pain
Distorted humanity
Forever trapped in this corrupted brain

Can anybody even hear me
This is not where I'm supposed to be
Thoughts racing but I try to stem the flow
Sinking further now into the depths below
I never meant to push you away
They have taken everything
And I've got nothing left but time

Fragments of memories
The only thing that keeps me sane
Hollow eternity
I stopped asking for a reason why
All that was
Liquified

Impersonal
The force that's controlling me
Incurable
The disease that brought me here
Irreversible
The choice that I made
Eternal soul

Can anybody even hear me
This is not where I'm supposed to be
Thoughts racing but I try to stem the flow
Sinking further now into the depths below
I never meant to push you away
They have taken everything
And I've got nothing left but time

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Echoes of a past life
Spent in a rusted cage
You're longing for something
Displaced by guilt and rage

Every fear manifested
This place was made for you
Festering mind consumed by thoughts
Of penance overdue

You know just what it is that I offer
Why do you still approach

I learn to scream without a sound
The hands that lift me up
Are the ones that hold me under until I drown

Your road to redemption
Beneath the fog obscured
Meaningless contrition
They can't hear you anymore

Wallow in this hell of your creation
Believing you can save yourself

I learn to scream without a sound
The hands that lift me up
Are the ones that hold me under until I drown

Together we shed the temporal
In this place of unreality
Beauty rendered obscene
Perfect in its depravity

Indifferent
The static that devours
Binding you down
Carrying out
Your innermost desire
Annihilation

And I, the arbiter of your discontent
Reveal myself at last
The ghost of your past
Stare back from behind the glass
Behind your eyes

I learn to scream without a sound
The hands that lift me up
Are the ones that hold me under until I drown

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Come to me
Release all your burdens
I've seen what's inside of you
I know your pain, I know your fear
I too have felt the burning
Love lost and love betrayed
We don't need to suffer anymore
Just let me in

I don't know what to believe
This can't be real
I'll keep searching for answers
But I'm scared of what I'll find
This prison that binds us
Is made from the pain we feel
This is greater than all of us
The sum of all our sins

Now that that you're inside me
We will bleed together
You will burn as she did
As I do
They hunger endlessly
Come now and feed them
This plague of haunted souls
That has come to take you all

Embrace the dark
The mind decides what we will see
Anything to rid ourselves of
The harsh light of reality

Strip the flesh
Melt it down
You will suffer
All will drown

I don't know what to believe
This can't be real
I'll keep searching for answers
But I'm scared of what I'll find
This prison that binds us
Is made from the pain we feel
This is greater than all of us
The sum of all our sins

Embrace the dark
The mind decides what we will see
Anything to rid ourselves of
The harsh light of reality

Watch as they tear us apart
Devoured piece by piece
They smile and reassure us
Tongues dripping with blood and deceit

The evil lives inside ourselves
Or so they'd have you believe
Torn between this world and the other
Begging for release

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Hours pass like a dying heartbeat
Time slows in this haze of grey
Stumbling in the dark you wander
And pray that you will see the light of day

Dreams of a better future
Only serve to agonize
Until you can't remember
The last time that you closed your eyes

Formless space
Adrift without a course
Indifferently obey
Returning to the source

Then a sound breaks the silence
And penetrates your very soul
It flows over mind and body
Until it swallows you whole

This is my escape
Please say the words and set me free
Wash it all away
With the only thing that makes me feel

Hear them speak
Of selfless consecration
While they feed
On the sick and the weak

This can't be
The only way to live
We're empty, we're broken
There's nothing left to give

This is my escape
Please say the words and set me free
Wash it all away
With the only thing that makes me feel
This is our escape
Please say the words and set us free
Wash it all away
With the only thing that makes us feel

This is our escape
Please say the words and set us free

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A lamentation for the end of days
The will is absolute
Submission overdue

Silent pillar of black
Reaching endlessly
Into the sky
They purify

This end is all that you know

Stare at the edge of the abyss
Just one push and it's over
Ill intention they hide behind their smiles
While they beckon you closer

Unquestioning you march toward them
As those who came before
But none are left to mourn

Devoid of aspiration
Mindless savage drones
They join as one in purpose
Devouring flesh and bone

The slaughter foretold

Offer yourself and set alight
Ashes will spread into the night

We watch and we wait
For something to change
The burden unspoken
We shoulder the strain

All of the fear and the sorrow
Erased by the swarm
The hatred picked clean from the bone
The future no more
The future no more

Stare at the edge of the abyss
Just one push and it's over
Ill intention they hide behind their smiles
While they beckon you closer

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