- Artifice
LOOK AT ME. I AM THE QUINTESSENTIAL BELIEVER. I AM GOD’S GIFT TO MAN. I AM A SHINING EXAMPLE. I AM THE PERFECT SON. SO LOOK AT ME.
I CAN ONLY DREAM TO BE ALL YOU SEE IN ME.
I AM TRULY A BROKEN MAN – LOST AND SLOWLY LOSING HOPE AS I LEAD MY BEST FRIENDS TO SIN. I AM A LIE. I’M LIVING A LIE.
AND ALL THAT’S SHINING THROUGH IS MY INCOMPETENCE. I HAVE FAILED. I AM THIS CLOSE TO GIVING IT ALL UP. I SWEAR TO GOD, I’M NOT MAKING THIS UP. JUST GIVE ME YOUR ATTENTION. GOD, WHY WON’T YOU LISTEN? WON’T YOU LISTEN?
DESOLATION – I’VE LIVED HERE FAR TOO LONG, I KNOW.
I HAVE FAILED. AND STILL, YOU CARE FOR ME. STILL, YOU LOVE ME. STILL, GOD, YOU LOVE ME.
- Caesura
Grant me words to speak
feel my ears with your melody
Led me to a higher place
I need your spirit to pour out over me
i surrender my will
take over me
how could i say everything that is on my heart
i pray just to feel your embrace
- Charlatan
So just put on your mask-
The veil of your faltering persona.
I can see straight through your lies.
What's done untruthfully is done in vain.
Choose a side.
Fall in line,
And don't forget
What you've held to be the truth all along.
- Devotion
Grant me words to speak
Fill my ears with Your melody
Lead me to a higher place
I need Your spirit to pour out over me
I surrender my will- take over me
How could I say
Everything that is on my heart
- Faithful and Just
Time has slipped away
My soul cries for peace, for understanding
In this moment, I hear no voice
No revelation finds me
No answers to quench my thirst
Left here to die alone
No answers have quenched my thirst
- Fool's Gold
The choice is always bigger when put into retrospect
As well as the pain of regret
Double standard now defines my life
Stripped down and abandoned
Every afterthought was just a feeble attempt
To justify why I never tried
Why did I (why did I) never try?
- Force Fed
Do you remember what it was like to feel alone?
Dragging me through hell at my weakest hour
Bury me alive and walk over my grave like I'm nothing
Like I'm nothing
Tell me, tell me how you really feel
Tell me all the things you've done because you were force fed
It's your choice to lose your state of mind
- Inquisitor
I’VE COME FROM ROAMING THE EARTH. I HAVE KILLED. I HAVE SOUGHT AND DESTROYED. I AM THE ONE WHO THE STRONGEST OF MEN FEAR. TREMBLE NOW AS I PLOT YOUR DEMISE. DOES YOUR SERVANT FEAR YOU FOR NOTHING? HAVE YOU NOT BLESSED THE WORK OF HIS HANDS? MARK MY WORDS – ONCE I’M THROUGH, HIS DEVOTION WILL SINK LIKE THE SAND. AM I ANYTHING MORE TO YOU THAN EASY PREY? WAS MY BIRTH THE START OF NOTHING MORE THAN YOUR HEARTLESS, HELLISH GAME? MAY THOSE WHO CURSE DAYS CURSE THAT DAY. I WILL BE THE ONE REJOICING WHEN I REACH MY GRAVE. WHO ARE YOU TO OBSCURE MY PLANS? BRACE YOURSELF LIKE A MAN. NOW I WILL QUESTION YOU, AND YOU SHALL ANSWER ME. NOW ANSWER ME.
YOU – TELL ME, WHERE WER YOU WHEN THE FOUNDATIONS WERE LAID? WHO MARKED OFF ITS DIMENSIONS?
SURELY YOU KNOW. I AM HE. KNOW THAT I AM HE. I AM UNWORTHY. HOW CAN I REPLY TO YOU? NOW I PRAISE YOU FOR OPENING MY EYES TO SEE YOU ARE TRULY ALL I NEED.
- It's Been a Pleasure
Your wrong is right
Your faults are none
You'd swear 'til the end
Your wrong is right
Your faults are none
Open your eyes, my friend
It's the last thing that I wanna hear
- Moths and Rust
stand up. don't trip up now. just see this through. hold firm your grasp. you will put through.
your scars have been erased. have you not yet learned? salvations has never been based on works.
now's not the time - now's not the place for this. you're in way too deep to care for what you've missed.
fix your gaze on what's ahead. the path that tempts your foot to stray from this place brings death.
it will tear your beating heart from chest. it will find your darkest thoughts. for moths and rust.
would you damn your soul? so take your life back. take the reings and never let them go.
just find your place. where's your straits? where has it gone? find the courage that was yours the day
that you gave up. i want you to mean so much more to me - just like the day i gave up.
- Overlord
I'll grab the world by the throat,
Conquer, destroy, divide
My only master is time
Disguised from beginning to end
Confidence in consequence
Rationale ascends and from the depths of dust I've watched us spring
And I pursue the power calling me
- Pandemica
A new light that guides my way
A new path beneath my feet
Breaking through the stone where roots are showing, a tree is growing
There is no "one way"
No need to follow suit.
Every stage has its purpose
Every branch will bear its fruit
Can you see earth's on its deathbed?
- Paper World
(Chorus x2)
We fall apart, to get back up
We learn the rules to just get by, that's not enough
Performing broken
Performing broken
(Verse)
This is why you will never decide the place to take our sold
- Paradigm
Clouds of indifference
Have filled the dark sky that is your mind
It’s time to man up and decide
It’s nothing less than do or die
"We’ve won! We’ve won!"
The demons and devils alike
They fix their eyes with malicious intent
- Pedestal
For the very first time
Take a bow before them all
Show them what greatness is
How great you are
For the very last time
Take a bow before them all
Show them what greatness is
How great you are
- Prism
I see the world in every shade
I know exactly who you are and who you need me to be
But is it all for one, or one against all?
Always forsaking the past and fearing what lies ahead
And this pursuit of certainty has only ended in rivalry
Lives engulfed by the friction, united only by division
"Now we have the light"
- Succubus
MY PURPOSE IS JUST TO SERVE. MAY NEITHER SPIRIT NOR LIFE HINDER ME FROM MY ONLY GOAL – TO DEAL MY MASTER’S WRATH. SLIDING MY WAY IN, STAYING INCONSPICUOUS, I’VE BUILT UP TRUST – GAINED INFLUENCE OVER THIS MIND. NOW THAT I’VE LOST ALL CONTROL, REASON HAS LOST ITS FOOTHOLD, AND I’M ALONE. AND YOUR BODY’S WARMTH – IT NEVER FELT SO COLD, HERE IN THE SILENCE ONLY DENYING WHAT WE BOTH KNOW. NOW SOAK UP THE PLEASURE. NOW PARTAKE IN THE INDULGENCE. NOW SOAK UP THE PLEASURE. IT’S ABOUT THE TIME THAT YOU GET YOURS. DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF. KEEP IT UNDER WRAPS IF YOU MUST, BUT WE BOTH KNOW YOU CAN’T DENY WHAT’S WELLING UP IN YOU. IT’S WELLING UP IN YOU. I CAN’T HEAR YOUR VOICE AMONG THE CHAOS. I WANT TO BE SET FREE; ALL I’M LACKING IS THE NEED. AND I JUST CANNOT HELP BUT FEELING I’M BETTER OFF ALONE. I’M BETTER OFF ON MY OWN. LOOK HOW ! I’VE TURNED YOU AGAINST EVERYTHING THAT YOU KNEW. I’LL BE BACK SOON ENOUGH. THIS IS ONLY THE START. I’M NOT DONE.
- The Antagonist
Malice found its home in your words
Empty dialogue with no present or eternal worth
It's so easy to stir up hatred and meaningless disputes among those that you love
Control your tongue
Did you really think
This was your only option- speaking without discretion
I hope this will be
- The Awakening
FATE HAS OFFERED THIS TO ME. I NEVER CHOSE THIS LIFE. DESTINY CHOSE ME. I HAVE GIVEN MY LIFE AWAY TO FOLLOW YOU INTO THE DARKNESS. COULD THIS TRULY BE THE END? IS THIS EVIL’S BANE? I’LL SERVE IF ONLY FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. SEVEN YEARS I HAVE WAITED IN HIDING. NOW IS THE TIME. AWAKEN AND FULFILL YOUR DESTINY. NOW IS THE TIME. FULFILL YOUR DESTINY. I’LL LET NOTHING STAND IN MY WAY. AND TO THOSE WHO STAND IN MY WAY, I WILL CUT OUT THE HEARTS OF THE WICKED. I WILL FIGHT THROUGH ALL TRACES OF THE ADVERSARY. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE ME. TIME IS MY LAST HOPE. COULD IT BE THAT ALL I’VE WORKED FOR WAS FOR NAUGHT? I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO SEE THIS THROUGH, CAUSE I’VE BECOME TIME’S LAST HOPE. SEVEN YEARS I HAVE WAITED IN HIDING. HOW IS THE TIME. AWAKEN AND FULFILL YOUR DESTINY. YOU HAVE BEEN GIFTED WITH COURAGE. FULFILL YOUR DESTINY. LED TO THE GATES OF THE SA! CRED REALM, THE KING OF THIEVES HAS COME. HE HAS CORRUPTED THAT WHICH WE STAND ON – THE VERY GROUND. HE’S CORRUPTED THE VERY GROUND. I WON’T STAND FOR THIS. GIVE ME ONE REASON TO DOUBY MYSELF. GIVE ME ONE REASON. YOU WILL BE SEALED AWAY.
- The Pessimist
What good does it do to hate everything in your sight?
I know your past-
Full of darkness and deceit.
Can you not look back and find one time worth reminiscing?
Nothing ends well this way.
There is so much more for you to hold;
- The Wide, The Narrow
This is a tragedy if I've ever seen one
You've become a captive with your loaded gun
I've seen this before
I know how this ends
Pull the trigger once again
Following the crowd, it seems
Is your new profession
- Vindicator's Carousel
Rinse and repeat.
The thought sickens my insides.
Solace never came so easy.
This carousel you ride won't last forever.
So I'll beg you and I'll plead,
Get off while you're only bleeding.
Justify everything you do.
- What Never Changes
ONWARD! STEP UP AND MOVE THE SIEGES FORWARD. WE’VE HEARD THE CRIES OF THE INNOCENT. ONWARD, TO WAR! YOU WON’T FACE THIS ALONE. SEARCHING; FOLLOWING WHAT’S IN SIGHT. EMPOWERED BY FAITHFULNESS, WE’LL SEE THIS THROUGH. BUT WILL YOU? HERE LIE THE FALLEN – THOSE WHO COULDN’T STAND UP STRONG. WE’LL SEE THIS THROUGH. NOW, THE HUNTED HAVE BECOME THE HUNTERS. RUSH THE GATES WITH A VENGEANCE – THE LIKES OF WHICH THEY’VE NEVER SEEN. WE ARE THE HUNTERS. LET’S GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT – THE BLOODBATH OF THE CENTURY. WE’LL FIGHT TO DEATH OR VICTORY. HERE LIE THE FALLEN – THOSE WHO WOULDN’T STAND UP STRONG. WE’LL SEE THIS THROUGH. I KNOW THAT THERE IS NO CLEAR END IN SIGHT. STILL, PERSEVERANCE IS YOUR ONLY OPTION. SEE THE BODIES OF THE WEAK PILING UP AROUND YOU. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST – IT’S COMPLETELY UP TO YOU. IT ALL COMES DOWN TO YOU.! IT’S COMPLETELY UP TO YOU AND YOU ALONE. THE BATTLE IS YOURS IF YOU’LL JUST TAKE IT. THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS – SO GET UP AND READY YOURSELF FOR WAR. IT ALL COMES DOWN TO YOU. STARING DEATH IN THE FACE, WILL YOU BACK OUT NOW? WILL YOU FOLD? WILL YOU TAKE THE COWARD’S WAY OUT? THE NIGHT – IT GROWS DARKER STILL. NOW, FINALLY, IT ALL COMES DOWN TO YOU. ONWARD. YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN ALONE. WE ARE SEARCHING. FOLLOWING WHAT’S IN SIGHT. WE ARE EMPOWERED BY FAITHFULNESS. WE’LL SEE THIS THROUGH, SO WILL YOU?