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Epiphany
06:00
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Looking inward for
A truth amidst the tales
Seeking meaning in
These words that always fail
Caught in the mire of
Forgetting what to say
Fear sought the overgrowth
Devestation paved a way
From climbing greater heights
To falling in despair
Drowning in delusions, never
Coming up for air
Be not afraid
Stand in the light
Do what they say
Repent your life
Change not a thing
Remit the time
Plot for revenge
Regress and hide
The hunt continues on
For prey that's never seen
Carve out a futile path
To things that will never be
How quickly you forget
The shaking of the world
How often I regret
What never seemed so sure
A frail hand stretched out
To touch the darkened skies
Before the clouds can part
Cementing new demise
Standing tall and waiting for
The word to be undone
Crawling in the darkness when
Truth blots out the sun
Sometimes you walk through fire
To remember how it burns
A body traced with scars
And still you never learn
Coming back from the depths
But yet forget to breathe
And now you start to see
Another black epiphany
Gazing out among the stars
But never see the light
A healing word he speaks
Ignore it out of spite
Ride the spiral down
The endless, sightless hole
Return with fragments of
What used to be a soul
Look into the glowing eyes
The monster knowing made
Paralyzed and swallowed by
A creature born to hate
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2. |
Two Steps Back
05:54
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All these days of sitting still
A ticking clock that turns the wheel
Moving on and moving past
One step gone and two steps back
Break my bones and burn my eyes
Forced to read between the lines
Try desperately to feel
Gone and nothing's real
All my fears meet face to face
Bide my time and run in place
Living in the wonder
One day into another
In time resent how long I mourned
Forget the scars and how they formed
Change becomes the same
Hiding from the pain
It's one step forward
Two steps back
Change is not the end
It's one small taste
That sets it off
Again
It's moving forward
Living in the past
Wishing I was dead
It's screaming at
The voices in
My head
Feeling like the day is won
Step outside, feel the sun
The hammer now descends
Sudden, vicious end
Climbing from a grave I made
Claiming what was never gave
Wanting something more
Worse off than before
With every step, peace draws near
Time ticks on, the dark comes clear
Calling to the light
Praying for the sight
But the venom seeps out from within
The tendrils dragging down again
Step back into Hell
The home you know so well
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3. |
Palaver
04:26
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I have seen this world
Through a thousand slamming doors
Locked behind myself
The next just like before
A conspiracy of one
Tear down control
A hidden master
For whom the bells not toll
I know by heart the words
Yet still I cannot speak
Fear that I'll show myself
A fool, so blind and weak
I know my heart is worse
Than words could ever say
Hiding in the deafened silence
Cowering away
A prison I've designed
With walls that none can see
To be free from all
This tyranny, timidity
The discourse ends the same
And never starts again
The fire dies and
Time will never mend
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4. |
Death By Daydream
05:46
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I've dug my grave
And booked my hearse
The Hell I make
It can't be worse
Than the one I live
I disappear
Into worlds
That can never be
I know that I'm
Killing me
Living through
The veil of dreams
Haunted by
These ghosts of me
Redundancy
A revenant
Of memory
A beast that screams
And never bleeds
There's no retreat
Fight I must
On this hill I die
More is less
Time will fly
And all was lies
And I resent
What never was
Words never spoke
While all alone
While laid unwoke
Waste away
As visions dance
That I once thought
Would come to pass
They never last
Marked for death
By a longing heart
Design the ways
I fall apart
I fall apart
So I'll die
Nothing said
Here alone
In my head
I will take
All the time
And embrace
All my lies
Spiral down
Light is gone
Truth is dead
Two is one
No escape
To remake
No return
The world burns
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Suffer days
Oh the days
Oh the millions of ways
Oh the inward facing hate
Crawling on
Through the dirt
Through all the blinding hurt
Ever buried in these words
Don the mask
Speak the lies
Hide all the fear inside
Know not how to make it right
Reaching out
Nothing there
No one left who would care
Nothing torn I can repair
Drown the flame
Still it burns
Still it's light goes unreturned
Some may never learn
Speak the truth
Hear it well
Bearing secrets you'll never tell
Despite the heights from which you fell
In these moments of redemption
I cannot shake the doubt
In these moments of reflection
I still can't find myself
No control
Nothing's real
Can't explain the way I feel
Holding on won't let me heal
I'm no good
Have no worth
Reminded that I don't deserve
Tried to steal, but didn't earn
Swallow whole
The agony
Swing around to apathy
Oh it's coming back to me
Not today
But in time
Maybe in another life
See you on the other side
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