What did your eyes see? 
Were they unfocused or just looking past
The shadows in the room 
Hovering over like an hourglass 

And No one dared to say what we all know now 
The legacy was ending, the castle was burning down 

But 
Between the gasps and rotten flesh we dared to pray to ask 

Could we go back to that kingdom 
That kingdom by the sea 
Where we all were still just children 
When you were still our king 
Could we have a moment with you 
Where we could be a memory 
Where one last time we could see you and we could still be seen

Annabel Lee is present
she's right by his side
that wind that blew only brought her in from the tide 
 Is this salvation, will it bring us to the Dawn?
Could that love that was love that was more than a love
Undo what the years had done? 

So between the gasps and rotten flesh we dared to pray to ask 

Could we go back to that kingdom 
That kingdom by the sea 
Where we all were still just children 
When you were still our king 
Could we have a moment with you 
Where we could be a memory 
Where one last time we could see you and we could still be seen 

All the things we thought we’d have the time to say 
And all the things we said every single day 
They couldn’t measure up they just seemed so crude 
So we all sat alone as together we battled solitude

You taught the Sun to shine 
Now we only own the night

Could we go back to that kingdom 
That kingdom by the sea 
Where we all were still children 
When you were still our king 
Could we have a moment with you 
Where we could be a memory 
Where one last time we could see you and we could  still be seen

Kingdom By The Sea

Restoration doesn't promise erasure 
What's past is gone regardless of closure
I've got a map to some buried treasure 
Something precious I thought I'd lock away forever 

Cross my heart I had hoped to die 
If it could bring you back to life 
Being the last man standing had me on my knees 
Praying to escape the cycle of reality 

With the fall comes death 
With the spring comes breath 
With the moon the grave
With the dawn we're saved
Sunrise, sunset, 
Alive, then death 
Sunrise, sunset, 
Alive, then death 

The tighter you hold the further we sink 
I'm fighting, I'm fighting, 
But my grip is failing me 
Gauntlets of loss, overwhelming cost
Meadows flooded with crosses across 
More candles lit with every  year 
Stumbling in shadows with the King of Fear 

With the fall comes death 
With the spring comes breath 
With the moon the grave
With the dawn we're saved
Sunrise, sunset, 
Alive, then death 
Sunrise, sunset, 
Alive, then death 

I've been raging against the dying of the light 
Swearing I won't go gently into that good night 
But what if I freely drown for you 
Will you dive and rise me up out of the blue?


With the fall comes death 
With the spring comes breath 
With the moon the grave
With the dawn we're saved
Sunrise, sunset, 
Alive, then death 
Sunrise, sunset, 
Alive, then death 


Sunrise, sunset, 
Alive, through death 
Sunrise, sunset, 
Alive, through death 

Post Tenebraux

What’s deeper than the depths?
Sabbath in eternal rest (eternal rest)
Where the blue fades into black
Where we suffer ego death (ego death)

Drown with us (drown with us)
Drown with us (drown with us)
Drown with us (drown with us)
To become, you must end (just end)

Now lay me down to the deep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I should drown before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take

Can a legacy be easy? (is it easy?)
Can the sea harrow Hades? (harrow Hades)
If I asphyxiate,
will I regenerate?
If I give up my breath,
Will my ego meet with death?

Drown with us (drown with us)
Drown with us (drown with us)
Drown with us (drown with us)
To become, you must end (just end)

Now lay me down to the deep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I should drown before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take

In the deep,
I’ll follow, I’ll follow
In the deep,
I’ll follow, I’ll follow

Is this how your lungs felt when they breathed their last?
Is this what your eyes saw when they looked past?
Drag me under, drown me in our legacy
set me free, set me free

Drown with us (drown with us)
Drown with us (drown with us)
Drown with us (drown with us)
To become, you must end (just end)

Now lay me down to the deep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I should drown before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take

Drown with us (drown with us)
Drown with us (drown with us)
Drown with us (drown with us)
To become, you must end (just end)
Drown with us (drown with us)
Drown with us (drown with us)
Drown with us (drown with us)

Ego Death

It wasn’t all at once that you were stolen away
A constant carving, a dull wretched pain
Unstoppable forces, but you wouldn’t yield
A storm on horizon, a fate that was sealed

Pieces of you, drifting away
Swells in the bay where we used to play
The longest goodbye of my whole life
Watching us fade, from your eyes

A stranger in your own kingdom 
Familiar faces or phantoms? 
Demented disease we couldn't fathom 
Not knowing a soul from Adam

Oh captain, my captain, rise up and hear the bells
oh captain, my captain , no one else can sail
oh captain, my captain , must we bring the dawn
oh captain, my captain , when its still warm in your arms

Pieces of you, drifting away
Swells in the bay where we used to play
The longest goodbye of my whole life
Watching us fade, from your eyes

(Verse 3)
We won the battles day by day 
but the war couldn't be escaped 
You were there for my first 
I'll be here for your last... 

(oh captain my captain.... 
oh captain my captain.... 
rise up!) 


Pieces of you, drifting away
Swells in the bay where we used to play
The longest goodbye of my whole life
Watching us fade, from your eyes

Pieces of you, lighting the bay
Still feeling you where we used to play
The longest goodbye of my whole life
Watching us fade, from your eyes

(The longest goodbye of my whole life
Watching us fade, from your eyes)

Oh Captain

Didn't know today would be liturgical 
Scary how we become so surgical 
You call him, I'll call her 
We'll spread the fire of the word 

How did it happen how do you know 
Now he won't suffer, he had to go
Silver lining cliches 
Just have to have something to say 

Dragging that tired knife against my skin 
Let the bloodletting begin 
You leave me like the life from my veins 
Your closed eyes ravaging my brain
Dragging that tired knife against my skin 
Let the bloodletting begin 
You leave me like the life from my veins 
Your closed eyes ravaging my brain

Orphan no more 
I hope you had the welcome you deserved 
Finally feeling your mother's warmth
A lifetime of a heavenly mind on earth

Not a word for five long years 
Yet suddenly I wish you were here
Why can I so easily walk away 
Unless we'll never be face to face

Dragging that tired knife against my skin 
Let the bloodletting begin 
You leave me like the life from my veins 
Your closed eyes ravaging my brain
Dragging that tired knife against my skin 
Let the bloodletting begin 
You leave me like the life from my veins 
Your closed eyes ravaging my brain

Best of times, worst of times  
Out of sight, out of mind 
I lost you in the day to day
Following shadows on the interface 

Connected but losing connection 
Can't bare the sight of infection 
But no one deserves to go alone 
Absent from the death bed but present at the funeral 

(instrumental break)

Why do we look for the living among the dead
That we wrote off long before their end 

(instrumental break)

Dragging that tired knife against my skin 
Let the bloodletting begin 
You leave me like the life from my veins 
Your closed eyes ravaging my brain

Dragging that tired knife against my skin 
Let the bloodletting begin 
You leave me like the life from my veins 
Your closed eyes ravaging my brain

(You leave me like the life from my veins 
Your closed eyes ravaging my brain)

Bloodletting

I wanna stage a heist 
Yeah, gunning for the heights
I wanna roll the dice 
Yeah,  chance overcoming Providence
I wanna stage a heist!

Do you know the way? 
A prisoner with no escape
I've got no one to blame, 
But you're coming with me anyway

I wanna stage a heist 
yeah,  gunning for the heights
I wanna roll the dice 
yeah,  chance overcoming Providence
Wishing you 
From the ocean to 
Eleven eleven
And right back to me

Should be a full eight hours to nab you from your tower
I took a few bad falls, but you're falling harder now
For my sake 
Won't you be more than a keepsake ?

I wanna stage a heist 
Yeah,  gunning for the heights
I wanna roll the dice 
Yeah,  chance overcoming Providence
Wishing you 
From the ocean to 
Eleven eleven
And right back to me

Finite movements vs. the infinite
Dream-time longings against common sense
Life finds a way to shove Death in our face

I wanna stage a heist  yeah,  gunning for the heights
I wanna roll the dice  yeah,  chance overcoming Providence
Wishing you from the ocean to eleven eleven and right back to me

I wanna stage a heist 
Wishing you from the ocean to eleven eleven and right back to me

HEIST!

Pens resist wordsmiths who worship anything but hardship 
Ink blots react enacting paths of glass and artifacts 

Reverse the cracks bring it back  to pier contact 
When nothing lacked , we laughed, and entered contract 

Now paper bleeds beneath the mast 
Holy paths take me back 

No mourning sky could rival one bright as you 
The shoreline declines when you fall out of view 
In times of strife I tend to lose my hue 
But I'm always pulled back home to you my Constant blue

Sea legs gave way to the land 
In the wind we swayed, a gentle dance 
Crossing bridges over the abyss
Staging schemes you couldn’t miss 

The night was bright with you as the light 
Wrong or right I was paying the price 
With all my might to make you mine 

No mourning sky could rival one bright as you 
The shoreline declines when you fall out of view 
In times of strife I tend to lose my hue 
But I'm always pulled back home to you my Constant blue

Envy of the seraphs 
Cultic til my death 
Angel in the commons 
Life giver and then my rest 

(a love that was love that was more than a love
a love that was love that was more than a love
a love that was love that was more than a love
a love that was love that was more than a love)

Sink into me
I'll sink into you 

(instrumental break)

No mourning sky could rival one bright as you 
The shoreline declines when you fall out of view 
In times of strife I tend to lose my hue 
But I'm always pulled back home to you 

No mourning sky could rival one bright as you 
The shoreline declines when you fall out of view 
In times of strife I tend to lose my hue 
But I'm always pulled back home to you my Constant blue

Constant Blue

Presence made entirely of absence
Hollow fractures haunting every line
Laments carved through my most cherished
Spread over everything as my sky

Like dawn on Halifax shores
Baptized in ashes of yours
Consuming flame of our would-be home
Severing bone of bone

End of the line for our legacy
Baby out with bathwater lost to the sea
Millstone tightening round my neck
Yet you’ve kept her from me

You’ve stolen her from me

Couldn’t bury you six feet deep
So I carried you deep with me
A cargo hold of TNT
With a spark to bleed the casualties

Couldn't bury you
So I carried You
Couldn't bury you 
So I carried you

Like dawn on Halifax shores
Baptized in ashes of yours
Consuming flame of our would-be home
Severing bone of bone

Never held you
Never heard your voice
When I call your name
It only echoes in the void

(Drown With Us)

But if you aren’t now
Maybe you never were
I mistook my beloved
For a cloud of dirt

Drown with us

Couldn’t bury you six feet deep
So I carried you deep with me
A cargo hold of TNT
With a spark to bleed the casualties

Couldn't bury you
So I carried You
Couldn't bury you 
So I carried you

Like dawn on Halifax shores
Baptized in ashes of yours
Consuming flame of our would-be home
Severing  bone of bone

Drown with us ( Drown with us)
Drown with us, (Drown with us)
Drown with us, (Drown with us)
Drown with us 


Halifax

I thought I found God deep in the sea
But I was just lost in my thoughts, trapped in my sleep
And I dreamed a dream I thought I could touch
I painted a scene where you were with us

I thought I’d see heaven, when I’d see your eyes
Finding forgiveness, as you breathed in life
I thought your hands would be mine to hold
And I would be yours and you’d be my own

But now,
I’m alone in my birthright, I live in the depths
The currents are crushing, I’m losing my breath
It’s burying me, I can’t see the light
To the waves I succumb, as you pull the tide

Deeper and deeper, you pull me under
Deeper and deeper, you watch me sink
Deeper and deeper, you pull me under
Deeper and deeper, you watch me sink

There is a hell, I’ve seen her face
It was bruised, it was faded, and it bore my name
There is a heaven, it hangs in the sky
It’s shaped like a crescent and haunts me at night

I’m alone in my birthright, I live in the depths
The currents are crushing, I’m losing my breath
It’s burying me, I can’t see the light
To the waves I succumb, as you pull the tide

Deeper and deeper, you pull me under
Deeper and deeper, you watch me sink
Deeper and deeper, you pull me under
Deeper and deeper, you watch me sink

There is a heaven, but it’s out of reach
It now serves the purpose to keep me asleep
There is a hell, signified in my head
It’s where you keep dying but I’m never dead

Deeper and deeper, you pull me under
Deeper and deeper, you watch me sink
Deeper and deeper, you pull me under
Just hold on

Anamoon II

Careful what you pray for 
When you wish against a star 
Light takes time to travel 
Roaming off sacred hearts

Partial reflections from a crescent 
Waxing Evermore by the second 
Feelings misdirected 
Seeking acceptance from what was rejected 

Broken rosaries have your fingerprints 
No Christ but the cross exists 
Absent from the instruments 
Lacking from certificates
I'll keep you hidden 

An ever present past 
A vessel of wrath I can’t sail back 
A duchess that could touch us 
Footprints that could hunt us 

Fronts heavy like the waves 
Hidden as not to be saved 
If there’s no original sin 
Why need salvation

Broken rosaries have your fingerprints 
No Christ but the cross exists 
Absent from the instruments 
Lacking from certificates
I'll keep you hidden 

It’s not that you were loved and lost 
I knew the stakes I knew the cost 
I just didn’t know it would take loss
To know love 

A vessel of wrath I can’t sail back 

Broken rosaries have your fingerprints 
No Christ but the cross exists 
Absent from the instruments 
Lacking from certificates

Broken rosaries have your fingerprints 
No Christ but the cross exists 
Absent from the instruments 
Lacking from certificates
I'll keep you hidden

No choice but to keep you hidden 


Vessel II

I guess the boughs not broken 
A past I've learned to accept 
I guess I'm getting better 
Overexposure had it's hand in that
 
Creation over chaos  
Like Firmament spans the sea
I'm not the author or perfector 
Certain in uncertainty  

I'm writing down the names of all those lost at sea 
On Hallowed Tides I'm haunting your memory
I'm black and blue but wading in the wake 
I'm holding fast to hope for dawn to break 

I'm collecting letters
Of all your eulogies
I read them in the silence 
and feel you close to me

They say he's the savior 
Of the living not the dead
So who should i pray for 
When I'm all that's left

I'm writing down the names of all those lost at sea 
On Hallowed Tides I'm haunting your memory
I'm black and blue but wading in the wake 
I'm holding fast to hope for dawn to break 

Could we start a new legacy 
Where sons could cast nets in calm seas?
Could fathers lay in still waters 
and peacefully drown with their daughters?

I'm writing down the names of all those lost at sea 
On Hallowed Tides you're haunting my memory
I'm black and blue but wading in the wake 
I'm holding fast to hope for dawn to break 

I'm writing down the names of all those lost at sea 
On Hallowed Tides you're haunting my memory
I'm black and blue but wading in the wake 
I'm holding fast to hope for dawn to break 

Hallowed Tides II

HALLOWTIDE

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