Lyrics:

I stumbled once, I lost my way
The job was gone, the rent to pay
I cursed the weight, I cursed the fall
But something waited through it all

The doors I knocked on never stayed
The friends I trusted turned away
Each failure felt like rusted chains
Yet led me out into the rain

The turn in the road I thought was the end
Became the start of a fire within
What I called ruin was clearing ground
A place for the life I finally found

The heartbreak that I thought would stay
Brought strangers near along the way
The silence that I feared as loss
Became the bridge I had to cross

The turn in the road I thought was the end
Became the start of a fire within
What I called ruin was clearing ground
A place for the life I finally found

The broken glass beneath my feet
Became a map, became the street
I walked through pain, I walked through night
And still the morning brought me light

The turn in the road I thought was the end
Became the start of a fire within
What I called ruin was clearing ground
A place for the life I finally found

I finally found… I finally found.

At Road's Turn

Lyrics:

I searched the heavens for a sign
A lantern lost, a spark divine
I traced the echoes in the stone
But none could reach, none could stand

A river split, a hidden stream
A garden waiting in the dream
A thousand masks dissolved to clay
The truth beneath would not decay

I am the fire, I am the flame
No need for shadows to know my name
The love I sought was sown in stone
A mirror of stars, a heart of my own

The branches broke, the roots held fast
The storm had passed, the night at last
A secret path the silence showed
The seed was mine, the self I owed

I am the fire, I am the flame
No need for shadows to know my name
The love I sought was sown in stone
A mirror of stars, a heart of my own

No crown above, no voice to bind
The constellation lives inside
Through shifting tides, through skies unknown
I found the world that was my own

I am the fire, I am the flame
No need for shadows to know my name
The love I sought was sown in stone
A mirror of stars, a heart of my own

The Hollow

Lyrics:

A single light adrift in black
I feel its gaze, I can’t turn back
It sways within an endless sea
It breathes in silence, waits for me

A thousand suns behind its teeth
Worlds collapse, their fire beneath
It hums a song no tongue can say
It draws the living worlds away

Lantern in the void, it beckons near
A maw beyond the edge of fear
I see the lure, I know the snare
Yet still I crawl, yet still I stare

Its hunger draped in radiant flame
A crown of ash, an unmarked name
The closer I am pulled inside
The less of me is left to hide

Lantern in the void, it beckons near
A maw beyond the edge of fear
I see the lure, I know the snare
Yet still I crawl, yet still I stare

Lantern in the void, it beckons near
A maw beyond the edge of fear
I see the lure, I know the snare
Yet still I crawl, yet still I stare

It does not see, it does not feel
It is the wound that will not heal
A mouth that births the stars anew
And I am nothing passing through

It does not see, it does not feel
It is the wound that will not heal
A mouth that births the stars anew
And I am nothing passing through

Lantern in the void, it beckons near
A maw beyond the edge of fear
I see the lure, I know the snare
Yet still I crawl...

Lantern in the void, it beckons near
A maw beyond the edge of fear
I see the lure, I know the snare
And still I go, still I despair

Lantern in the Void

Lyrics:

숨죽인 채, 넌 다가와 (silent breath, you crept so near)
달콤한 말, 속삭였나 (whispered lies I longed to hear)
I should have known, behind those eyes
The serpent waits, the mask of guise

하얀 미소 속의 칼
거짓은 길게 자라나
Your fangs were sharp, your venom sweet
You kissed my hand, you bared your teeth

Now I see you, viper’s crown
독이 번져 (poison’s found)
I wear the scar, but not the shame
You strike in shadows, I call your name

검은 비늘 빛에 젖어
숨은 독은 더 짙어져
You thought me blind, you thought me still
But snakes forget: I bite to kill

Now I see you, viper’s crown
독이 번져, pulling down
I wear the scar, but not the shame
You strike in shadows, I call your name

넌 나를 삼키려 했어
But venom burns back through the soul
The fangs you bared now pierce your skin
The serpent chokes on all its sins

Now I see you, viper’s crown
독이 번져, pulling down
I wear the scar, but not the shame
You strike in shadows—
I end the game.

Viper's Crown

Lyrics:

Within my chamber, silken, fine
A silent encounter, your eyes on mine
Thought yourself better, dripping vain
Myself your hatred, my opiate, your pain

The paths were chosen, tried, true
They caged you in, my prison, you
To walk a line, to reject thought
I'll seize what's mine, a life I sought

Do not guide this blackest sheep
I'm not so fragile, and far from weak
A fire rages behind my eyes
The fury burning, where ego dies
You see my hunger, fear its depths
I'll see it sated, nothing less

The path I've walked, these seeds I've sown
The burning footsteps, they're all my own
The mirror shatters, the pieces fall
Each shattered edge reflects it all

The path I've walked, these seeds I've sown
The burning footsteps, they're all my own
The mirror shatters, the pieces fall
Each shattered edge reflects it all

The path I've walked, these seeds I've sown
The burning footsteps, they're all my own
The mirror shatters, the pieces fall
Each shattered edge reflects it all

Do not guide this blackest sheep
I'm not so fragile, and far from weak
A fire rages behind my eyes
The fury burning, where ego dies
You see my hunger, fear its depths
I'll see it sated, nothing less

Each new temptation, a faded line
Vanishing doubt, ecstasy mine
A loss in vapor, this clouded haze
The endless chase that fills my days

The path I've walked, these seeds I've sown
The burning footsteps, they're all my own
A fire rages behind my eyes
The fury burning, where ego dies
You see my hunger, fear its depths
I'll see it sated, nothing less
And nothing left…

And nothing left...

Cinder

Lyrics:

Faces in the dark, they call my name
Say they know me, to end this game
The more that things are sinking in
The more I abhor this newfound skin

These sins I’ve committed weren’t meant to be
How I had forgotten, the gallows for me
They speak in whispers, tell me it’s okay
How can I be, what can I say?

I see right through their smiling guise,
They speak no truth, tell only lies
These bloody hands are bound with lead
How can it be inside my head?

I close my mind, I cut them off
They ask me how I got so soft
I cannot answer, I never will
But in my mind the cracks do spill

I see right through their smiling guise,
They speak no truth, tell only lies
These bloody hands are bound with lead
How can it be inside my head?

They say they love me, hold me tight
This form of mine does not feel right
I see them cry, are those real tears?
How I’ve been gone, for months, for years

I see right through their smiling guise,
They speak no truth, tell only lies
These bloody hands are bound with lead
They wish me healed or wish me dead


Fracture

Lyrics:

My origins though they be cold,
They did not wait 'til I was old,
Your feelings toward me on your sleeve,
You wished me absent, wish I’d leave

A hollow heart seeking warmth,
Yet all I found was fear and scorn.
You wish me trampled, feelings low,
You did not care as long as I’d go.

And yet you blame me for my skin,
It birthed a hatred I feel within
My rage is channeled through my blade,
A monster whispered, a monster made

And yet you blame me for my skin,
It birthed a hatred I feel within
My rage is channeled through my blade,
A monster whispered, a monster made

My rage contained, an endless boil,
To find my place, an endless toil
And yet I knew just who to blame,
The absent father that bore my name

And yet you blame me for my skin,
It birthed a hatred I feel within
My rage is channeled through my blade,
A monster whispered, a monster made

I begin my search, spanned far and wide,
The tears I held in were never cried
Your absence gave me my endless scar
And in my heartbeat, there’s only war.

And yet you blame me for my skin,
It birthed a hatred I feel within
My rage is channeled through my blade,
A monster whispered, a monster made


Monster Made

resignation

Lyrics:

I’m scared to tell you, I want this to end
What you might do, a wound that won’t mend
What you might say, could be the one
The final thing that makes me done.

I want to reach, to grasp your hand
What you might say, I cannot stand
To end the doubt, to give certainty
That in your heart, there’s no love for me

These feelings within, break me again and again
I can’t stand any more, I want them to end
It calls to me, my friend the blade
And telling you this, the last mistake to be made

The child within wants to run to your arms,
This power of yours, the greatest of harms
I’ve given everything from this empty well
This way I’ve lived, my personal hell

Hold me close, tell me it’s alright
That alone could make me face this fight
But then I must tell you, my greatest of fears
That you’ll lose the message, my voice crushed by tears

These feelings within, break me again and again
I can’t stand any more, I want them to end
It calls to me, my friend the blade
And telling you this, the last mistake to be made

Hold me close, tell me it’s alright
That alone could make me face this fight
But then I must tell you, my greatest of fears
That you’ll lose the message, my voice crushed by tears

These feelings within, break me again and again
I can’t stand any more, I want them to end
It calls to me, my friend the blade
And telling you this, the last mistake to be made

Don’t let me fall…

Please… stay.


Confession

Lyrics:

They pressed the cinders with their heel
The last red glow refused to heal
Smoke was silence in my lungs
They ground the sparks, they bit my tongue

I swallowed embers, choking heat
The taste of iron, dust, defeat
Each shout was buried, starved of air
A blackened scar, but nothing there

Stamping out the flame inside
Ash is all I’ve left to hide
Skin is pale, my breath expires
A body cold, without the fire

The coals collapsed beneath their weight
The hands that smothered sealed my fate
No blaze to guard, no light to see
Just hollow smoke consuming me

Stamping out the flame inside
Ash is all I’ve left to hide
Skin is pale, my breath expires
A body cold, without the fire

Burnt tongue, cracked teeth, choking haze
I begged for flame, they gave me graves
The smoke has filled my ribs, my veins
No anger left, no self remains

Stamping out the flame inside
Ash is all I’ve left to hide
Skin is pale, my breath expires
A body cold, without the fire

Ash Without Flame

Atlas I.

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