The Void

I am the one – That you long to deceive
You are the ones – This nothingness bleeds
Guarded by your silence – I have felt the spoken word
Sowing innocent violence – Will you eat what you have served

I hear you calling out – Where the lost cannot be found
Playing with forbidden doubts – I have long betrayed your crown
Now that you are naked – The distance fades between us
The kingdoms long been forsaken – Betrayed by your fucking lust

We are the beggars – Begging for the tease
Forever begging – Begging baby please

I taught the truth –
I lived the lie –
You seen the proof –
You heard me hide –
I bought her truth –
I sold her lies –
My life’s the proof –
Is it time to hide –
Your life’s the truth –
When you can’t hide –

What I refuse to be – Keeps right on pursuing me
Faceless in the past – I realize that nobody is free
Are you alive – Have you crucified the creed
Will we survive – This repetition of human history

Down on my hands – My hands and knees
You’re not as good – As you first seemed
I feel the scars – So that eye can see
You turned me in – To make-believe
Now I’m defined – Down on my knees

We are the beggars – Shipwrecked by the seas
Forever begging – Begging baby please

I taught the truth –
I lived the lie –
You seen the proof –
You heard me hide –
I bought her truth –
I sold her lies –
My life’s the proof –
It’s time to hide –
Your life’s the truth –
When you can’t hide –

The taste of honey – Is what you promised me
Now that I’m blind – I cut so eye can see
I am your dirty scar – You are my wretched crown
Raised to the stars – So we can burn ourselves back down

How long ’til ignorance – Is no longer an excuse
How long ’til we silence – The voice that we refuse

I love the pain –
In faking real –
I am alive –
But for the kill –
That’s why you see –
What I can’t feel –

The truth is veiled –
But it’s not hidden –
The light has failed –
Are we forbidden –

I am the truth –
I am the lie –
You heard the proof –
You seen me hide –
I stole the truth –
I sold the lies –
My life’s the proof –
But you still hide –

Your love is only make-believe
Why am I  begging – For a taste of your disease
Did I really want – To see what you believe
That’s why I’m begging – Begging begging please

I feed the hole – Becoming one with the void
I devour what is whole – I was sent to destroy
Call me what you will – There is no escaping this
The prophecies fulfilled – I am bliss you ignorance

How distant the taste of days divine
Your bitter end will pass with age old wine
Forging simple truths in the riddled rhyme
How much longer ’til it becomes your time

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The Looking Glass

The truth can be found
But it’s muffled by sounds
Which prick and then pound
Upon the illest of grounds

Look past the lies
And step outside
Architects of why
rEvolutionaries of try

All that I see — Not all that I believe
All that I perceive — Not all that I believe
With many words — Comes much deception
With fewer words — More honest reflection

I’ve seen the truth
Held by disguise
And looked past the lies
That society denies

In the silence of mornings night
Veils are pierced by the light
The state of denial
No inches — No mile
In the silence of a fleeing night
Veils will be torn by mornings light

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wHoly Truths

The pretentious reflection
Of a soulless deception
Find the truth in our lost and found
Leave the rest to settle without sound

Half truths are whole lies
Hidden behind an honest disguise
Can you read between the lines
You gotta shed the naked lies

Wide asleep I’m barely living
The ethos of a nation
Barely awake I’m never giving
The echos of desperation

How do you heal — When you don’t feel sick
Invisibly we’ve killed — Without lifting a stick

Sticks and stones
Amount to broken bones
Words like knives
Tuck the truth behind lies

The paradigm is shifting
To settle all the sifting
The paradigm is shifting
Gonna settle all the sifting

I’ve looked at the picture of my own decay
And registered the Richter at the point where I lay
You’ve sown the pain of your own demise
I’m watching you fall will I see you rise

With literal eyes can you pierce the disguise
With spiritual eyes can we shed the naked lies
Find the truth — It’s buried in the past
Then rid yourself of the promises
They were born to never last

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