Forever lost
In a temporal storm
as 10,000 men 
die by my hands

This artificial calm
and this winters night
Reflections without remorse

Go, circle and conspire
You were once men
So afraid to die
Never fear the end

Once again, questioning
Surrendered to the hate you feel
(Surrendering to the pain)
Leave your faith far behind
Surrendered to the hate

Once again, questioning
Surrendered to the hate you feel
(Embracing the agony)
Leave your faith far behind
Surrendered to the hate


Go, circle and conspire
As cities burn
Returning to our past lives
of dust and stone

The path
Choosing to avoid it
Your destiny
A cancerous bygone

Dust and Stones

My Dhalla
Forgive me
I must be long overdue for this

Delusion
Controls me
Now I have nothing but regrets

But it's over now
I've fought many battles to get here

Constantly plagued by the memories
I'm shaking
Grasping my only escape now
No longer afraid of the remedy
I lay down
So to leave the world my thrones

This nightmare
is over
My Dhalla
It's colder
This weight on
my shoulders

My reflection on their eyes
is not who I am now

Thrones

Let the judgments come.

Followers of where the light meets the shadow
A guiding trail for my wretched blackened heart
I found what connects us
This journey, this mission
Like poison to cure the sickness

Let the judgments come
No longer am I afraid
Let them come
We all die the same

Twenty four years
as silence recalls
forever, endeavor
we are alone

Twenty more years
and we finally fall
remember the end
and feel at home

I blame this on myself
How could I let it survive?
Daggers in my hands
A mental override

I was just too young
I didn't have it in myself
to change my life


I'm alive and I want to savor the moment
What a lie!
You're the same as you always were
I tried to be what you always wanted
You deny
You're a shadow, soulless, always afraid

Poison to Cure the Sickness

The pieces scatter
such distance in between
a life so tattered
from senses bound
No, I am the one
who promises harmony
only to break you
and let you drown

I am your angel 
through darkness and decay
I will find you
And take you in
I'll be the one
to guide you 
through the animus
Just take my hand

We're searching through the maw
to save you from it all over again
Yet down this wicked path
is a heart that cannot last
through another sin

So cold and unforgiving
but I know you will be dead
May you reap the reaction
as the toxin meets the red

(I am your angel)
The silence will destroy you
but breathe into you life
(I will watch you drown)
Your family surrounds you
as you reject your plight

You succumb to the animus

So cold and unforgiving
but I know you will be dead
Time to reap the reaction
as the toxin meets the red

The Animus

Tragedy At Heart

How could you…
How could I…
How could anyone sacrifice
Every breath
Every step
now given up for mine

I live it over and over (x2)

Was this why I met you?
Was this meant to be since I was born?

Yet I awaken
to the sound of 
your whispers once more

Can I feel you now?
Can I reach out and find you there?
I wait for the moment
Just to hear your voice
calming my mind

So cold was the rain
Tension in the air
Silent, as I called out
Your name in despair

It's said that tomorrow
is promised to no one
but angels

So long ago
I still hold
onto that night when you’re hands went cold
Anesthetized
Pills, frost and ice
preserve that night in my mind


Was this why I met you?
So that dead-end dreams turn you to stone?

Yet I awaken
from my opiate dream 
all alone

Angels

We’ve been set free
from our industrial gluttony
Trapped in a programmed reality

But what’s the cost
Of so much lost
in this technologic holocaust

We always knew
this wouldn't last forever
Grief transends our might
No, this could not last
Yet we feel alive in this

Can we save ourselves from this man-made damnation, damnation?
Can we escape from this virtual cage of our creation, creation?

We gave it all we had
and yet here we are at 
at the end
Drifting on
Cold Europan oceans
Eternally, in a dream...

This marks
the coming of the storm
Surviving as orbs
of pure energy
The sea shall rise
as our cells
return to the sun


As we run from this castration of our nation
We will survive from our self-preservation

Are you aware that you’re dead?
You killed yourselves when you left
Mass suicide as you search for something
Mass genocide and your lives mean nothing
...Nothing.

Can you hear me cry out
as I drift through space
Say “I love you”
as I fade away

Europa

Tragedy at Heart

This Wicked Path

Orchestral Progressive Metal

Dark Laboratory is an online Orchestral Progressive Metal project started in 2011 by Joey Celski from Plymouth, MI.

Joey Celski
Writer/Programmer/Vocals

Bella Mental
Vocals

Martin Trapecar
Guitar

Tom Williams
Composer/Synthesizer

Andrew Humphrey
Bassist



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