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Rising

by Orenthal

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1.
Priorities 02:43
All that we were Has since been replaced By empty remains Left in desolate space This is the end of an era The end of a slow degeneration now What your priorities lack is the skin off your back and the fire in your eyes Conviction is not for the weak I assumed that your word you could keep But your constant regret of a life without depth has you swallowing your pride All that we had Discarded with haste The remnants you left Have degraded to waste This is the end of an era The end of a slow degeneration now What your priorities lack is the skin off your back and the fire in your eyes Conviction is not for the weak I assumed that your word you could keep But your constant regret of a life without depth has you swallowing your pride And with the turn of a page Disappointment fades from my memory As this chapter unfolds wisdom rather than gold Will be treasured again This is the end of an era The end of a slow degeneration now What your priorities lack is the skin off your back and the fire in your eyes Conviction is not for the weak I assumed that your word you could keep But your constant regret of a life without depth has you swallowing your pride
2.
Prison walls Flesh colored Barred windows lay in ocular comfort Pulse countdown keep the fear alive A crescendo of a searing ebb and flow The fluctuating tide burns an imprint and symptoms grow Sickness It's all in your head What's split behind my eyes remains unrectified and strewn about instead Weakness It's all in your head Encased inside a world resting on a fractured foundation Scatter plot point of existence Self-medication and your new prescription A tangled dance of crooked romance between brain and body With an audience silently sighing why Sickness It's all in your head What's split behind my eyes remains unrectified and strewn about instead Weakness It's all in your head Encased inside a world resting on a fractured foundation Suffer Silence Sequence Seats to witness Sickness It's all in your head What's split behind my eyes remains unrectified and strewn about instead Weakness You're not right in the head Encased inside a world resting on a fractured foundation
3.
Bruxism 02:36
Ugly stare Please at least have the decency not to twist the knife I was contorted clawing grasping not anymore Yea no one's hands are clean and I'm well aware of the stains on mine So I'll grit my teeth until my mouth is sore You look but don't see You hear but don't listen And now I find myself so frustrated Screaming at the walls and tearing my face from my skull And now I find myself so fucking jaded Screaming at the walls in hopes anyone can hear at all Sometimes holding on does more damage than letting go Well i've got nothing left to say and nothing left to show I'll be smoothing out my skewed perspective Cause I have found myself so frustrated Screaming at the walls and tearing my face from my skull And I have found myself so fucking jaded Screaming at the walls in hopes anyone can hear at all But i'm not afraid anymore I'm not afraid anymore
4.
Clear Skies 03:06
Prophet of peace Catalyst of war Heaven sent speech Enslaved greed whore Angels and devils are one in the same Angels and devils Heaviest anguish promises avoidance of pain A goal so distant when you're on your knees begging for strength Like the punch line of a bad joke everyone gets but you terrifying example of metaphors misconstrued Heavenly father where have you been I'm left unanswered Heavenly father what have you done We're left unanswered I don't remember the first time But this is sure to be my last I can't contain my disdain For those following the path What they call righteousness Just look at how the money's spent You can still be heaven sent Just as long as you repent Heavenly father where have you been I'm left unanswered Heavenly father what have you done We're left unanswered Left Unanswered
5.
Isolate 03:38
I will live and die in a city you call mine Beneath a canopy of oil slick skies and teardrop streetlights Mired in the disconnect the emptiness of the streets When the belly distends it will all begin to tear at the seams With our heads down Streaked-mirror sidewalks reflect the lives we've lead Suffocating small talk speaks of pride painted with the blood we've never bled We are the faceless the beige the ignored Shattering the weight we refuse to carry anymore We are the abused the forgotten the observers from the shore Of a sea disillusioned and destroyed by its own accord An eye that beholds a beauty so discreet manifests itself as a strength you could never perceive And With our heads down Streaked-mirror sidewalks reflect the lives we've lead Suffocating small talk speaks of pride painted with the blood we've never bled
6.
Epic Fail 03:02
Hindsight is 20/20 But I can't change mistakes I've made I lick my wounds and hope that soon My life will fall into place Destroying expectations Kind of always been my thing Reinvention takes its toll Just not on me 'cause I'll never change At some point in my life Chasing my dreams turned into being a failure Well that's alright 'cause I like it that way I guess I must have missed the day When I lost the reigns and my social status changed Now I long for yesterday Can't you see it in my face Oh how I long for yesterday Hit the road bridge the gap But everything was lost along the way To keep my sanity I sacrificed and now I'm behind And headed nowhere fast At some point in my life Chasing my dreams turned into being a failure Well that's alright 'cause I like it that way I guess I must have missed the day When I lost the reigns and my social status changed Now I long for yesterday
7.
When it bleeds it's like a busted pipe Flooding the structure Burying good intentions alive There's no hands from sky Soapbox of lies No ticking of the clock stations Or false prophet eyes Who will save us this time It's not a gun or a badge It's the rotten crop from the seeds we plant Can we change It's not a word or an act It's the rotten crop from the seeds we plant Can we change Bite your tongue Frayed and numb Can we change Shred your tongue Safe and dumb We must change Is this all we've been reduced to Have we all begun to cherish hate A public affliction with a simple cure While our passive faces watch it permeate Is this all we've been reduced to
8.
Slack jaw lap up the toxic waste Spewed by translucent suited pigs Now let your satellite voice be heard Where I've been choking on the smoke And blinded by the mirrors that show Such failures overlooked by our glutton egos Latch on bite down And find you're all gums now Kick and scream at Voice filtered and force fed Mind twines twisted by The Babylon you're letting rise Mind twines twisted by The Babylon you're letting Rise attention appetite Don't compromise you've got it all figured out Except that you're part of the problem now They would sell you your own skin Just to stack up a dime Misfire your attacks so that you can Regurgitate your feast of lies You're part of the problem You're part of the problem now Rise attention appetite Don't compromise we've got it all figured out Except that we're part of the problem now They would sell you your own skin Just to stack up a dime Misfire your attacks just so that you can Regurgitate your feast of lies
9.
Wolf in sheeps clothing Fangs dripping With the blood of a life learning self loathing Now you find your wallet thin torn and fucked But it's time to pay up Wolf in sheeps clothing Claws wrapped With the flesh of a life you considered nothing Now you find your wallet thin torn and fucked But it's time to pay up The wheel will turn and the circle will come full When you find yourself the sheep in a den full of wolves
10.
To live To die To learn To fight So many nights searching mirrors to find 10000 lives as backwards as the reflection in sight While tracing lines in the ceiling to make some picture worth believing And so I'm fucking fed up trying to talk about it What am I doing with this life Is there a reason I confine the thoughts inside my head Internalized but forever lost on them Isolate Medicate Fail and grind your teeth Prioritize for a god Until a wolf is what you meet Someone always says It could always be worse So i sifted through the ashes of relative perspective but I still can't find anything secure And this void may destroy me but it won't be on my knees It won't be on my knees What am I doing with this life Is there a reason I confine the thoughts inside my head Internalized but forever lost on them Another night in search of answers to life in search of reasons for strife Maybe I'll find them this time

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released October 17, 2015

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