01 - SEVERANCE

Listening to everything your ears can bring and mind decipher
Every glance and each advance the vast expanse diminishing
Ponder your own relevance, intelligence, your very being
Contemplate validity in eternity with open eyes

I want to feel winds of red upon my face and
I want to see halos draped across the sky and
I want to know a thousand ways to bridge the gap and
I want to be all knowing

I'd self-relieve quite readily the sanctity of ignorance and
Now and then refute the Zen that harness men so readily
Take today, I'll find my way to yesterday or our tomorrow
Take the now, the knowing how, the won't allow, take everything

I want to feel warmth of suns upon my face and
I want to see cities stretched across the sky and
I want to know a thousand years beyond my ending 
I want to be all knowing

I want to feel, I want to see, I want to know, I want to be

Break the chain, swallow depiction, spectral allure preying upon your reverence
Relinquish your god, bury your cradle; anaesthetize the ghosts and lies controlling, feeding, masking the you

Bury the past; bury the future, stasis of mind fraying combined progression
But you're not in control, not of your future, not your past, not your hate, not me
'Cause I'll find truth in me



02 - ALONE

A stark figure stands alone amid open wounds and fractures
Ruins long since overgrown with vines of tales we've shared

Our mutuality, strained by careless infractions
A once brilliant odyssey, abridged forevermore 
The foul stench of apathy, of humbled expectations
A quiet calm spills over on me. No longer will dependence govern fortunes told

There's no way that I will disappoint me here, but I'm alone

So I'll shed addictions to my brother, dependencies let slip away
Embrace the long and lonely winter, and thrive throughout the dark decay
Transcend these fears of bitter whispers. Find solace in the uncontrolled
And rise above distracted anger. With or without your lending hand I will not fold

There's no way that I will disappoint me here, but I'm alone
There's no way that I'll betray my trust in me, but I'm alone

If I had bended or broken
I might have folded back inside.
I could have ended up withered.
If I'd accepted your tokens,
Or foolishly feigned contentment,
I might have ended life bitter.
But I grew so tired of wading
Through countless waves of delusion
In the wake of fear

In solitude, satiety
But the night deprives in kind
The ideal that only dawn will find
And the hopes of a little child still pervade my mind

There's no way that I will disappoint me here, but I'm alone



03 - REMNANTS

There's an impending anonymity that stalks us while we sleep 
A haunting abject isolation
A deafening ambiguity in the company we keep
A wanting sense of certainty in everything we thought we knew
Is our time over
Have we come to 

A time when
Faceless names that breed in shadows raise their seething eyes
Nameless face of cold defiance speaks its souless lies
When bated breath and trembling fingers rip our worthless lives away

There's a crippling clutch, an addiction that grips us deep inside
For tethered wounds and lacerations 
A rippling touch, an affliction, eclipsed the changing tide
Forever tainting the memory of everything that we've been through
Is our time over
Have we come to

A time when
Faceless names that breed in shadows raise their seething eyes and the
Nameless face of cold defiance speaks its souless lies
When bated breath and trembling hands conceal the light of day
And waste our worthless lives away

We're but a lonely few
But we'll keep on drifting.

when
Faceless names that breed in shadows raise their seething eyes and the
Nameless face of cold defiance speaks its souless lies
When bated breath and trembling hands conceal the light of day
And waste our worthless lives away



04 - THE PARADIGM

I walk with my eyes closed, exposed fear and insecurities forbade
I'm a loving father, a caring child, and a martyr in the making
A fear of rejection, and a lack of reflection have left realities betrayed
On disciples' vines, ripe for the taking

I'd give anything to rid the world of all your lies
I'd sell my soul to bleed repentance from your veins. 

Another year older
One more mindless grievance for all the pain I'm told was you
Have faith. A better day is breaking

I'm a typical earthling, a disparaging paradigm, both fault and virtue.
I'm a feeble resistance to everything nature's wrath has thrown my way. 
I'm an antagonistic, selfish social misfit bent on hating.
I'm a typical earthling.

Shape the illiterate worldview into policies of rancor, doubt, and fear
Secular fervor, racial fire, and solipsistic branding 
I've a bitter affection for the wayward direction of truth. I'm but a simple financier
But I'll be the last crusader standing

'Cause I'd give anything to cleanse the earth of all your lies
I'd sell my stocks to bleed redemption from your chains

I'm a typical earthling, a disparaging paradigm, both fault and virtue
I'm a feeble resistance to everything nature's wrath has thrown my way. 
I'm an antagonistic, selfish social misfit bent on hating. 
I'm a typical earthling.

Follow, concede; face it, you're no more human than divine
Swallowed, feeding, embrace it; your world is leaving you behind 
Be saved, be freed, belong, because between reality and time
Your faith will fade away

I'd give anything to free the world from all your lies
Farewell to every shred of promise that remains

I'm a typical earthling, a disparaging paradigm, both fault and virtue.
I'm a feeble resistance to everything nature's wrath has thrown my way. 
I'm an antagonistic, selfish social misfit bent on hating. 
I'm a typical earthling.



05 - WITH YOU

The pain of twisted narcisitic abhorence for failure
Breathes a sigh, a cold fruition of my ways
Among these facile misconceptions, thirsts for rapturous delight
Dulcet tones, trivial words, and warm displays

And here I dwell in dark recesses, in this brooding state enslaved, 
Begrudging innocence from my decrepit cell. 
Lure the detriment within, entice vexation, tempt denial
And spurn the fleeting peace of mind I knew so well

And no, reflection never counts for nothing.
But my analytic mind won't let me be. 
And I'd do anything to hold you while you're sleeping

When I'm with you all these fears I've fashioned fade away
When I'm with you everything is so much clearer
When I'm with you the nights hold no more shadow than the day
When I'm with you

Can I consume a clearer state amid this pall of clouded senses, 
Literarily extract the vestal seed
And exorcise these fiendish lesions, fraternize a lucid space
Revere the face of simple grace and not the deed.

And I know reflection never counts for nothing
But my analytic mind won't set me free.
And I'd die for you to hold me while I'm sleeping

I'd pushed dependence away, I'd found control
I was the eye of conviction, I was whole
Moulting fears of rejection, my hands grew still
Set my sights on direction and aspired to will
Woeful thoughts left behind me, a stayed disdain
I buried cold dereliction, I could feel again
Watched my apathy crumble like a friend betrayed
Exiled penance forever, I'd never fade.

I'd washed pretense from mentation, I'd found my door
I'd rid myself of confusion, suffered doubt no more
And at the road's intersection, with my head held high
I bred my own resurection, bid myself goodbye
I shed morose lamentations for discarded skin 
Childhood dreams of perfection, of finding peace within
And as these petty delusions slipped from sight and mind
I found myself quite contented.

But you drove for miles to spend one night then home again. You whispered in my ear. 
Forever danced upon your lips, your fingers nestled in my hair. 
Your thighs and eyes my drowning fate as I immersed myself within 
The sweet perfection of your gaze, the warm affection of your skin.
She played when all had slipped away, pursued before she saw the flame. 
She waited patiently for me when no one else would do the same. 
She mourned at every parting word and brushed afflicted fears aside.
She took my soul into her keeping.

I'll miss her for all she gave to me
I'll feel her and all she helped me see
I'll miss her, but I'm living strange
I loved her, but things change



06 - A CLEANSING BREATH

A lonely chill descends and caresses the autumn morning lightly
The ground grows cold and damp and an aroma of change pervades the air
The shroud of gloom extends to envelope the glow, once shone so brightly, 
In darkness breeds the self-aware

A cleansing breath to wash all the pain from the throat of nostalgic yearning
A cleansing breath to clear all the thoughts from the mind that dwells in vain
A cleansing breath to dry all the tears from the face of the young still learning
And let renewal come again

All daylight concealed
In blackness revealed
Clear as the stars
When the moon's right

With eyes left behind
Depart from the blind
Peer through the scars 

At long lost subtleties, forgotten virtues,
distant and wonderous failings, hallowed 
these treasures buried, for me.



07 - INSURGENT FEW

If you'd put your ear to the ground, the world is sighing
Every breath is laboured and oh so loud
I've become immune to the sound of the masses crying,
With prophetic illusion I face the crowd

I've forgotten my place in the game, how it feels to live life so confined
Whisper softly to fuel the decay of the violence in your vernal, plastic minds
Wash my hands of the burdens of fame and the healing lease on life you crave 
And watch you fall farther behind.

I'll sell my cane to fictile breeds of adherents
Fertile fields of jaded souls and malcontents
A want-not, taste-not, feel-not, fear-not ignorance to
To the insurgent few.

I can feed you relief from the days when the real alights upon your smile
A mellisonant escape from the pain of the silence, the essence of denial 
Close your eyes, let it all slip away, as the feel of peace flows through your veins
And rest your weary souls a while.



08 - REMNANTS (KIYOMI MUTATION)

There's an impending anonymity that stalks us while we sleep 
A haunting abject isolation
A deafening ambiguity in the company we keep
A wanting sense of certainty in everything we thought we knew 

There's a crippling clutch, an addiction that grips us deep inside 
For tethered wounds and lacerations 
A rippling touch, an affliction, eclipsed the changing tide 
Forever tainting the memory of everything that we've been through
Is our time over
Have we come to

A time when
Faceless names that breed in shadows raise their seething eyes
Nameless face of cold defiance speaks its souless lies
When bated breath and trembling fingers rip our worthless lives away

Is our time over
Have we come to

A time when
Faceless names that breed in shadows raise their seething eyes
Nameless face of cold defiance speaks its souless lies
When bated breath and trembling hands conceal the light of day
And waste our worthless lives away

We're but a lonely few
But we'll keep on drifting.



09 - WITH YOU (DIMINISHED MIX)

The pain of twisted narcisitic abhorence for failure
Breathes a sigh, a cold fruition of my ways
Among these facile misconceptions, thirsts for rapturous delight
Dulcet tones, trivial words, and warm displays

And here I dwell in dark recesses, in this brooding state enslaved, 
Begrudging innocence from my decrepit cell. 
Lure the detriment within, entice vexation, tempt denial
And spurn the fleeting peace of mind I knew so well

And no, reflection never counts for nothing.
But my analytic mind won't let me be. 
And I'd do anything to hold you while you're sleeping

When I'm with you all these fears I've fashioned fade away
When I'm with you everything is so much clearer
When I'm with you the nights hold no more shadow than the day
When I'm with you

Can I consume a clearer state amid this pall of clouded senses, 
Literarily extract the vestal seed
And exorcise these fiendish lesions, fraternize a lucid space
Revere the face of simple grace and not the deed.

And I know reflection never counts for nothing
But my analytic mind won't set me free.
And I'd die for you to hold me while I'm sleeping

I'd pushed dependence away, I'd found control
I was the eye of conviction, I was whole
Moulting fears of rejection, my hands grew still
Set my sights on direction and aspired to will
Woeful thoughts left behind me, a stayed disdain
I buried cold dereliction, I could feel again
Watched my apathy crumble like a friend betrayed
Exiled penance forever, I'd never fade.

I'd washed pretense from mentation, I'd found my door
I'd rid myself of confusion, suffered doubt no more
And at the road's intersection, with my head held high
I bred my own resurection, bid myself goodbye
I shed morose lamentations for discarded skin 
Childhood dreams of perfection, of finding peace within
And as these petty delusions slipped from sight and mind
I found myself quite contented.

But you drove for miles to spend one night then home again. You whispered in my ear. 
Forever danced upon your lips, your fingers nestled in my hair. 
Your thighs and eyes my drowning fate as I immersed myself within 
The sweet perfection of your gaze, the warm affection of your skin.
She played when all had slipped away, pursued before she saw the flame. 
She waited patiently for me when no one else would do the same. 
She mourned at every parting word and brushed afflicted fears aside.
She took my soul into her keeping.

I'll miss her for all she gave to me
I'll feel her and all she helped me see
I'll miss her, but I'm living strange
I loved her, but things change



10 - THE PARADIGM (GENOME'S BASE PAIR REMIX)

I walk with my eyes closed, exposed fear and insecurities forbade
I'm a loving father, a caring child, and a martyr in the making
A fear of rejection, and a lack of reflection have left realities betrayed
On disciples' vines, ripe for the taking

I'd give anything to rid the world of all your lies
I'd sell my soul to bleed repentance from your veins. 

Another year older, one more mindless grievance for all the pain I'm told was you.
Have faith. A better day is breaking;

I'm a typical earthling, a disparaging paradigm, both fault and virtue.
I'm a feeble resistance to everything nature's wrath has thrown my way. 
I'm an antagonistic, selfish social misfit bent on hating. 
I'm a typical earthling.

Shape the illiterate worldview into policies of rancor, doubt, and fear
Secular fervor, racial fire, and solipsistic branding 
I've a bitter affection for the wayward direction of truth. I'm but a simple financier
But I'll be the last crusader standing

'Cause I'd give anything to cleanse the earth of all your lies
I'd sell my stocks to bleed redemption from your chains

I'm a typical earthling, a disparaging paradigm, both fault and virtue
I'm a feeble resistance to everything nature's wrath has thrown my way. 
I'm an antagonistic, selfish social misfit bent on hating. 
I'm a typical earthling.

Follow, concede; face it, you're no more human than divine
Swallowed, feeding, embrace it; your world is leaving you behind 
Be saved, be freed, belong, because between reality and time
Your faith will fade away

I'd give anything to free the world from all your lies
Farewell to every shred of promise that remains

I'm a typical earthling, a disparaging paradigm, both fault and virtue.
I'm a feeble resistance to everything nature's wrath has thrown my way. 
I'm an antagonistic, selfish social misfit bent on hating. 
I'm a typical earthling.



11 - REMNANTS (PHIL ANDERSON REMIX)

There's an impending anonymity that stalks us while we sleep 
A haunting abject isolation
A deafening ambiguity in the company we keep
A wanting sense of certainty in everything we thought we knew 

There's a crippling clutch, an addiction that grips us deep inside 
For tethered wounds and lacerations 
A rippling touch, an affliction, eclipsed the changing tide 
Forever tainting the memory of everything that we've been through

Is our time over
Have we come to

A time when
Faceless names that breed in shadows raise their seething eyes
Nameless face of cold defiance speaks its souless lies
When bated breath and trembling fingers rip our worthless lives away

Is our time over
Have we come to

A time when
Faceless names that breed in shadows raise their seething eyes
Nameless face of cold defiance speaks its souless lies
When bated breath and trembling hands conceal the light of day
And waste our worthless lives away

We're but a lonely few
But we'll keep on drifting.

When
Faceless names that breed in shadows raise their seething eyes
Nameless face of cold defiance speaks its souless lies
When bated breath and trembling hands conceal the light of day
And waste our worthless lives away