Little lights that line the stairs
Mark a path to the house on the hill
Little house on the other side of town
Stopping by for a visit unannounced

Terrified to speak
No one seems like me
They're all acting so differently

I think I'll just pretend
Like I'm one of them
Hate every single word I said

Street lights passing by on a night drive
Wanna take the highway or the back roads
Fireflies and the cicadas cry
Snowball fights in the summer time

They whisper as they speak 
The walls don't hide the scene
Everything is coming down around me

Beginning of the end
Some things never mend
What happens when you break instead of bend


Saudade

First song where I was actually trying to make a fully fleshed out track. 

You're peering through the filter
Made right in your eyes
You're breathing through the filter
Made pure for your mind

You're peering through the filter
Discolored by time
You're breathing through the filter
And leaving behind

You're peering in the filter 
To see how it stains
You're peeling back the filter
Understand it's ways

Dust off the lens
Watch how the light bends
Dust off the lens
Watch how the light bends

I watched it scatter 'round
As your lungs breathed it out
And as it floated down
No one dared make a sound

Through The Filter

I wrote the guitar for this in the stairwell of my friend's house while they were on vacation. I also screamed for the end chorus

It's monochromatic
And melodramatic
Psychosomatic
It's all up in your head

I live through the lens
And I live for the bends
And I live through the lens
And I live for the bends

Monochromatic
And melodramatic
Psychosomatic
It's all up in your head

And I live through the lens
And I live for the bends
And I live through the lens
And I live for the bends

You delude yourself into thinking
That you knew something I didn't
Well I suppose that it's easy to assume
And maybe you thought that you knew the whole truth

And I live through the lens
And I live for the bends
And I live through the lens
And I live for the bends

And I live through the lens
And I live for the bends
And I live through the lens
And I live for the bends



Monochromatic

Stole a line from a TV show


I watch the days go by, days go by
What does it mean
I sit and wonder why, wonder why
Is it me
If I could stop time, could stop time
I'd be free
Then I could decide, could decide
What to be

Could it be my present mind
That has left me behind
The ones who claim to know the way
Maybe they led me astray
Could it be something I missed
A reason why we exist
Maybe everybody lies
And nothing really satisfies

There was a time I believed, I believed
That they knew
Everything that they said, that they said
Was the truth
Then when I asked why, I asked why
It fell apart
Maybe I was right, I was right
From the start

Always told that we could be
Anything we ever dreamed
Now we're burned out and cold
Regretting all the time we sold
Moments wasted and gone
And all the times we were wrong
Though the path is never straight
Why does ours have so much pain

At least you're right where you wanna be
No matter if it's all in vain
I see you living like you're free
Nevermore pretending you're the same

Familiar


And now they're coming back for more
They're gonna even up the score
And now they're here to make you pay
There's nothing they wont say

Now it's bleeding out of you
Now it's bleeding out of you
What can I say or do
Now it's bleeding out of you

You try pushing them away
Just for one more day
But they never leave you alone
They follow where you go

Now it's bleeding out of you
Now it's bleeding out of you
What can I say or do
Now it's bleeding out of you

I've lost the way out
But I know the way down
Please don't follow me
It's not what it seems
It's been hidden from view 
Pass on occluded truth
Why did we believe
Something so obscene
Couldn't tell you why
We know it's all lies

Bleeding Out of You

Never Knew:

You never knew 
And now it's gonna rain on
You never knew
And now it's coming down on you
On you

Never had much of a choice at all
Time to learn how to break your fall
Tumble down so far below 
Farther down than many will know
Will know

You never knew 
And now it's gonna rain on
You never knew
And now it's coming down on you
On you

You have to figure it out all on your own
You know that it's not true, but you feel so alone
And no matter how much you gain
Was it worth all the heart-ache and pain
The pain


Never Knew

Lyrics:

It's been so long since I remembered you
It's been even longer since I even cared to
The scars you made on my mind fade away
The marks you left behind were never going to stay

I snuffed you out
I blotted you out
I cut you out
I left you never to be found

Snuffed Out

Lyrics:

Well I guess this is all I got
And honestly it's a bit less than I thought
I figured it would have been a little more grand
But the cards have been dealt and this is my hand

And there's nothing that we can do to change
Our collective and certain fate
The only method to rage against the grave
Is to remind ourselves not to wither away

Don't wither away, wither away
Don't wither away, wither away

Don't wither away
Don't wither away, wither away
(7x)

Wither Away

Lyrics:

I need a new obsession
Something to capture my attention
To reattach and occupy
All of the fragments of my mind

I live for obsession
For that moment of possesion
Need it to make me feel oh so real
To justify existance

Well this is my affliction
Empty without addiction
Only way to dress this wound
Is to be fully consumed

I live for obsession
For that moment of possesion
Need it to make me feel oh so real
To justify existance

Shapless 'til driven
Motion not given
I have no control
Of the stories that unfold

Spontaneous burning
Then the wheels start turning
And just like a flash
The brilliance passed

And now it's gone

I live for obsession
For that moment of possession
Need it to make me feel oh so real
To justify existence

Obsession

Lyrics:

There's something just across the road
But what though, I don't know
There's just over the crest
Did our best, nothing less
There's something just around the bend
To what end, what we said
There's something just beyond the trees
I can't see, is it me

Is it all a means to an end
Shall we do this 'til we're dead
For the moments in between
And the visions left unseen

There's something just across the road
But what though, I don't know
There's just over the crest
Did our best, nothing less
There's something just around the bend
To what end, what we said
There's something just beyond the trees
I can't see, is it me

Getting strung out on dreams
Without any plans or means
I don't mind my vices
Just so long as I'm undivided

Undivided (x4)

There's something just across the road
But what though, I don't know
There's just over the crest
Did our best, nothing less
There's something just around the bend
To what end, what we said
There's something just beyond the trees
I can't see, is it me

The Road

Lyrics:

I've been thinking I'm missing a part of me
And I wonder what part that could be
And I'm thinking of all I could've been
Ruminating on old forgotten sins

I can't remember from where I came
Everything feels the same

I've been thinking I'm missing a part of me
And I wonder what part that could be
And I'm thinking of all I could've been
Ruminating on old forgotten sins

I can't remember from where I came
Everything feels the same

And I, I don't think I'll ever find out
Well I don't think I'll ever find out
And I don't think I'll ever find out why

Why I can't remember from where I came
Everything feels the same

Ruminate

Lyrics:

Burned up, ground down
Into nothing
Scattered out in the trees

Burned up, ground down
Into nothing
Poured out into the sea

Nothing but faded memories
Nothing but distorted stories
Photos and broken dreams
Half-hearted plans and schemes

Burned up, ground down
Into nothing
Scattered out on the plains

Burned up, ground down
Into nothing
Poured out into the bay

Nothing but faded memories
Nothing but distorted stories
Photos and broken dreams
Half-hearted plans and schemes

Your memory is already slipping away
And maybe we're all better off this way
Remembering just brings back the pain
And maybe it's ok to fade into gray

Fade into gray(4x)

Distorted Stories

A conical protrusion of the skull located behind the ear.

Popular tracks by Mastoid Process