Can I speak freely to you and say
where did I lose myself?
Am I paying your price, recompense?

And for so long you sat on a throne of certainty.
I can almost reach out and touch you,
a life so familiar, now a memory.
A wave came down and washed the grains away.

Choices you may have made then hold me hostage.
I won’t be a hostage.

I burn those thoughts away,
BURN A-WAY.

I cast those doubts aside,
CAST A-SIDE.

Today I stand my ground,
STAND MY GROUND.

My strength will see me through,
SEE ME THROUGH.

Henceforth I take this vow to release the pattern 
of self-destruction.
I see a way out of your tangled web to stake a claim 
on this life.

I won’t be held down by your shadow.
The imprint on my mind will remain forever.
But I will wash away with the tide,
embrace the uncertainty of direction.

I burn those thoughts away,
BURN A-WAY.

I cast those doubts aside,
CAST A-SIDE.

Today I stand my ground,
because I have glimpsed the light that fell on my future

My strength will see me through,
till my dying day when all you’ll be is a fracture

So as I set sail on severed seas,
I stop asking why you came after me.

Release the Pattern

You’ll never see the outcome of your penance.
Yet you subscribe to his menace.
Hailed as the world wide saviour.
Died for those who sinned. 

Unencumbered by his majesty,
I watch from the gates as you prostrate yourself for him.

Words spill from your foaming mouth.
Dedicate your life to his dogma, no questions asked.

I have never felt so far away, FAR AWAY
I have only sought to live for now, LIVE FOR NOW
You preach his words from lips so sore, LIPS SO SORE
But shield your eyes from something more, SOMETHING MORE

When was this creed born in you?
And where do you think it leads to?

Supposition claims your mind,
leads you down the river of time unfulfilled.

How can I ever feel the way you do?
When all you say smells of superstition.

I have never felt so far away, FAR AWAY
I have only sought to live for now, LIVE FOR NOW
You preach his words from lips so sore, LIPS SO SORE
But shield your eyes from something more, SOMETHING MORE 
Do we ever have to know the truth, KNOW THE TRUTH
Do we always have to fight the wars, FIGHT THE WARS
There is a truth we’ll never know, NEVER KNOW
Is it wrong to assume we’re all alone, ALL ALONE

Stars shine down, time escapes.
When will you look beyond your own fear
and accept all you are.

ALL YOU ARE

I’ll never see your hallowed plains,
maybe I’m walking with cloven hoof or speaking in tongues.

Misbeliever

Was it something I said, slurring words of contempt?
Was it something I did, nothing I ever meant.

So this is the theatre of war,
a battle ground so close to my heart,
yet you hide inside like the coward you are.

Sending out your lesions, 
to cut message pathways.
How long have you been in here?
Surreptitiously plotting your point of attack.

Was it something I said, slurring words of contempt?
Was it something I did, nothing I ever meant.

I thought we were on the same team.
Up to now we had shared a mutual union.
Unbeknownst to me those nascent feelings,
were the beginning of your rebellion.

The reason will never be revealed.
That is something I have to now accept.
  
Inflamed, diffuse my senses.
Scarred, fray my nerves.
Numb, feel the consequences.

Take a look to my left,
glance I’m seeing double.
You give yourself away.

Inflamed, diffuse my senses.
Scarred, fray my nerves.
Numb, feel the consequences.

Fight your futile war.
I am not resigned to,
your attritional law. 

The reason will never be revealed.
That is something I have to now accept.
         
But don’t think I will ever accept what you have done to me.
So believe me when I say I’m coming after you with all my strength.

Was it something I said, slurring words of contempt?
Was it something I did, nothing I ever meant.


This is Warfare

Mistaken Identity

Past Lives Lived

Make What's Yours

Can I retrace all of my steps
To the point where I think...
I think I took a wrong turn, somewhere back there 
Will I choose the same path?

And so I move 
Under moonlit skies up above 

How did I end up
Trapped with no turning back...
Turning back time won't save me, time marches on
Ahead lies my salvation 

And so I move
Under moonlit skies up above 
Hoping to find 
A route up to ground safe under foot

Stars burn bright
Burning shins scrape past the memories of yesterday

Blood runs cold
Running through my mind, mistakes I may have made

But finally I'm starting to understand 
That the path that lies ahead is up to me
Free to make and learn from all of my mistakes
Step by step I forge a path that knows no end

It knows no end

Death will take me
Take my time to achieve...
To achieve all that I have planned, it's time to change
Finally, I understand

A Path Unworn

Bloody But Unbowed - the second EP from UK hardcore outfit Landis

Landis (UK)