All lyrics written by Travis DeBlois

01. Voices

Intro:

Look at you...

Sometimes I hear different voices telling me what to do...

Verse 1:

Look at you lying there now, silent tongue tied on the ground,

there's no reason to complain, this ain't even real pain,

truly have no idea, you have nothing to fear, smile so you appear,

mild and docile, your trials aren't awful, quit trying to be coddled, they're dying alone out there,

so stop acting like you really know what it even means,

to drop down and fight, get through the throes from your pleading knees,

your mental state's nothing  to emulate if you envision your problems as heavyweight,

hesitate, take a break, 'til you can demonstrate,

that you can listen and you won't perpetuate

Chorus:

Voices inside speak through the night,

I can't decide which one is right,

voices inside, voices inside

Verse 2:

Your problems are valid and real, what's solemn will take time to heal,

envision and move towards the goal, you're livid but keep the control,

threads tied up from the start led you to where you are,

reach out for what is far,

breach all the boundaries, to keep you from drowning,

deplete all your doubting, be free of the handle bars,

but stop acting like you shouldn't feel all your natural pain,

and swap out the types of all the people who think it's a game,

you want nothing more than to beat it,

your feet want to move but you feel paraplegic,

and one thing that's true is that you'll never see it,

until you've gone through and you look back to greet it

(Chorus)

Spoken Word:

Low pitched voice:

You walk around acting like the problems of those around you don't exist.

It's as though you feel your pain is the only valuable phenomena in the universe.

You can't see, you can't fathom how insignificant yours are to those of so many more.

You don't deserve help. You don't deserve sympathy. Your pain is your own.

You must accept these feelings and feed from them.

Use them before they can use you.

And never, ever forget the truth of your worth.

High pitched voice:

Deep down you're a good person.

You understand the plight of others.

But that doesn't mean your imperfections aren't worth tending to.

The only way the world will improve is if everyone who's afraid to get help finds it.

And this includes the pain and darkness that's been shrouding yours.

Comparisons; they shouldn't be made to those who've undergone life

through a completely different set of circumstances.

Each and everyone has a unique set of boundaries. 

Boundaries. Boundaries well, boundaries in which we're caged.

(Instrumental section)

(Chorus x2)

(Instrumental section)

02. View

Verse 1:

Awoken - feeling petrified

hopeless - never satisfied 

broken - wasn't fortified

focus - hey you gotta try

atrocious - when it's simplified

 notice - too preoccupied

motives - were unjustified

keep the doses on the lower side

Chorus:

I'll  take a walk to change the view,

picture the life I never knew,

think back on every single word,

that led to where I'm going to

Verse 2:

Accepting this imperfect world,

yet I'm unsatisfied 'til I detect a perfect pearl, yo

I always picture what this life could be,

stunning paintings vibrant colors and it's nice to see, 

but I look back with fully opened eyes,

what if I switched a few decisions used my stolen time?

Kept to myself I didn't vote then saw the motion die,

always feeling like I never make the most of time,

all my silence, sometimes it affects me,

often indirectly, usually immensely,

plus I'm biased, certain things will tempt me,

I'll do what they're expecting, regret it when I'm venting,

when in a slump the things I choose I'm not proud of I know better,

afraid to jump, afraid to lose, afraid to love these aren't in my favor,

several different levels to it, this devil's got the temple ruined,

sometimes I just accept that there's no way I can perfect it

so I settle down and wrestle through it,

takes a few mistakes to view success,

to break the glue and make it through sucks less,

if you can figure out acceptance at an early stage,

I only wish that my perspective wasn't purely rage,

tried too hard to ride the middle,

'cause for me to guard one side ain't always simple,

I gotta face the fact that decisions were made,

embrace what happened it isn't gon' change,

every single thing I do has got me thinkin' twice,

I'm looking at the riddles and the clues but they're too imprecise,

been putting up with fickle points of view through my entire life,

just couldn't fathom picking between two and so I pay the price

(Chorus)

(Instrumental section)

(Chorus)

(Instrumental section)

03. Fly

Verse 1:

Keep an albatross as a pet,

let it hang around my neck,

and right before it's time to die,

I spread it's wings and let it fly,

let it guide me overhead,

I'm holding tightly to it's legs,

this albatross can't let it go,

lest it release me on it's own

Chorus:

Fly now, and turn my back to what I can't face

Fly now, I could stare it down but instead I waste,

I'm out of new ideas too many old mistakes,

Time out, let's stop it here and I'll fly away

Verse 2:

And now I'm starin' at the moment of truth,

and I'm just hopin' I choose,

the right decision but I'm torn and feelin' broken in two,

I'm losing focus I'm strewn,

confused and frozen and blue,

there's a division I don't know which side is going to lose,

on one hand I know I should face the music,

but somehow what is right seems so elusive,

I'm waking up at night quite far from lucid,

ignoring my own fight it's self abusive,

for a minute it's clear, I get the hell out of here,

I'll run away to make all of the obstacles disappear,

I'll stay hidden but aware, 'til it's safe to reappear,

return with a clean slate and hope no one remembers my fear,

while the forest stays green the clouds will often turn to gray,

so I guess that means the evil things don't tend to stay,

but even if it seems that skies have cured the disarray,

nothing can redeem the impact of a fall from grace 

(Chorus)

04. Urgency

Verse 1:

Runnin' out of time, runnin' out my mind,

buzzing past the signs jumping over mines,

cutting through the lines but I'm still confined,

suddenly I find that nothing is fine,

every day the madness grows in size, deeper hole,

how do we survive this? Improvise keep control,

but within this climate how can I sleep at all?

I don't have the time to rest my eyes, dream of goals,

I don't wanna pray to pantheon,

I don't wanna stay as a damn peon,

and look if so many agree then we can't be wrong,

but still we'll never play like we're champions,

'cause no matter where we go or how fast we run,

we can never scare them off or out blast their guns,

so the patterns that we know are forecasted suns,

while forever is on hold let's harass the scum

Pre-Chorus:

Do I go?

Where do I go? (x7)

Chorus:

There's an urgency that's in the air,

a race with time but there's no time to spare,

open my eyes and I can see it's glare,

I see it's glare

Verse 2:

I'm looking at the state of all that surrounds and I found,

a similar trait with burial grounds 'cause we're bound,

to end up with fate the same as them while we go south,

the path through the gate to hell and shakedown the devil's crown,

evil is upon us it wants us to take the lower road,

leaving us dishonest the bottom upon the totem pole,

leaves falling in Autumn the rotting of our total control,

peace just never taught us the power to beat our closest foes,

all this made me stop and think about the ways,

that we follow the top and rarely question things,

it made me wanna drop my life and run away,

and urgency that propped me up and made me scream, now,

I'm feeling like I wanna board a jet or hop a train, vow,

to never let anyone ever get to me again, how,

can I escape all these impending threats and thoughts of pain? Plow,

right through is what I'll try 'til I reset the years of vain

(Pre-Chorus)

(Chorus)

Bridge:

Everything is fine,

I'm told but those who say this line,

have sold their souls and time,

the flames engulf the signs,

I see it burn from miles away,

I turn and find a way,

to get the hell from here and stay

(Chorus x2)

05. Denial

Verse 1:

It's a fake! It's a fake!

It just seems so out of place,

don't mistake, don't mistake it for truth incarnate,

what they make, what they make, in their cauldron of hate,

is a serum they inject you with so you accept a snake in your midst,

and they miss, that what they do is a trick,

they believe it fully and that fact's as scary as it's sick,

'cause they're slick, and they pick, out ingredients so quick,

that you never see what they are planning 'til it's in the mix,

oh they try to deny and they do it all the time,

so much that even they're convinced that what they're telling you ain't lies,

because they're sly, can't be pried apart no one sees inside,

but evidence it would suggest that these are people who stand by,

and just watch as you cough from the illness that they brought,

 and if you inconvenience them they offer nothing but a scoff,

they won't stop 'til they're caught, and I hope you never cross 'em,

'cause they're so convincing always needing someone to feed off of, ugh

Chorus:

Acting so in de-denial, in de-denial, in de-denial,

will we grow from these lifestyles that we revile? Happy and smile,

take the reigns, and steer the ship,

away from here or face the trial,

lie and feign we'll fall and slip,

so see and hear we're in denial,

take the reigns and steer the ship,

away from here or face the trial,

dum, da-dum, da-dum

Verse 2:

A, and I wanna take a little bit of B,

and I wanna take a little bit of C,

and I'm gonna take a little bit for free,

and I'm gonna use it all to create me

for all my public personas,

if I'm tipsy off of 3, 4 Coronas,

and surrounded by some people I don't know well,

like the time I was alone in Arizona, yea I'm,

an amalgamation of what I've heard and seen I'm placing the,

privacy of me at lengths above the reality I'm making up,

alright I admit it isn't right,

denied it for a minute 'til I hit it with the light,

but psych, I might, do it still despite,

the fraudulence I litter I permit it every night, night

(Chorus)

Bridge:

What's the difference between us if we both fake to gain favor of everyone?

intentions are pointless fluff when lying is the destination of the bus,

it's manipulation of the people we know now tell me who can they trust?

keeping solemn secrets shoved away hidden from all the ones who need our love (x2)

(Chorus)

06. The Road Ahead

(Instrumental)

07. Solemn

Verse 1:

Holdin' out just a bit more,

close the fourth and the fifth door,

locking mechanisms armed,

blocking pessimism's charm,

'cause out there, oh out there?

That's where the idealism's stripped bare,

and I swear, yeah I swear,

they wouldn't care if I keeled over right here,

as long as I played the part,

their pawn in this game of art,

it's never too late to start,

if you can sedate your heart,

toss your morals to the side,

just this one time and just this next time,

until you realize that,

your values have changed with your deeds,

you're southbound on a train full of thieves

Chorus:

Hidden is a solemn plea,

take it away or take me,

narrow visions ego's vast,

this unbalancing contrast

(Instrumental section)

Verse 2:

Atop of the pyramid there's a big disparity,

all the way up here amid these people you'll find clarity,

see how they've dispirited the many and so casually,

prevented and inhibited the bottom from prosperity,

megalomaniacs create insomniacs among us who,

can't find peace because our struggle fills the pockets of the few,

always draining, cracking those who seem to lack their stunted views,

never cease to give them trouble like a rocket with no fuse,

the contrast grows more black and white,

shades of gray are few and light,

forced to play their games despite,

what they say and how they fight,

opinions sway like wings in flight,

molded clay with phrases trite,

with their fake and toothless bite,

madness they chose to incite,

 no regard for those,

who walk among the wreckage wearing charred up clothes,

don't even give a second thought to scars or hopes,

despite how much they beckon they discard, dispose

(Instrumental section)

(Chorus x2)

Verse 3:

Present President settin' devilish precedents,

'cause he ain't being questioned and he ain't being arrested when,

his peons do requests for him,

schemes at his behest for him,

treated like the best of them,

even as he molested it,

infected it, dressed it with his confession of negligence,

pressed on like excellence is the prize for his pestilence,

evidence it was effortless in abundance with references,

but succumbing it wasn't coming his freedom was left to us,

agreement from all but one on the team of the scorpion,

they're no leaders they're corporate thugs,

and elitists who hold the gun,

defeat us absorb the sun,

repeat it 'til war is won,

demeaning the real meaning of freedom 'cause all but one,

special person a king of treason won't see his demons,

no lessons learned there's no bringing lesions upon his legions,

will of the people was set in steel you wouldn't kneel,

all of your evil the threats you spiel, they couldn't heal,

nation faced with a racist relations grew impatient,

'til they divided us riled us up and got us chasin',

after sensations that should have faded but got us facin',

a redo of the entirety of the generations,

that came before us ignoring all of the former warnings,

call it the spawning a brand new dawn of a sordid morning,

where if it's boring I feel led on and softly cautious,

curious off of the fact I don't feel awfully nauseous

(Chorus)

08. 5 Stages

Verse 1:

I won't accept it, no exceptions,

my perception of this isn't right and yet I still reject it,

refuse to face it, never take it, won't embrace it,

doing what I need to do to stay complacent,

it's a joke and it's a farce, and it won't fall apart,

never broken hit restart,

full of hope I see a spark, I will cope, never spar,

words were spoken from the heart,

and when you said to me that all of this would not resolve,

said "you are dead to me" and never pick up for my calls,

said all your energy is crushed and that we don't evolve,

but the good memories have got me thinking this is false,

I'm convinced that you'll come around again,

I won't listen to all the words you said,

I'll dismiss them and I will make them bend,

keep persisting until we make amends

Chrorus:

You can never prove it,

this is an illusion,

raging at the thought of,

this when it's brought up,

trade for a reversal,

I'm runnin' round in circles,

dwell until it's over,

see like I'm sober now

Verse 2:

My throat is hoarse and I resort to force,

at night I scream and toss, my temper feeling short and I know why,

many tantrums storm and go by,

oh why, did you do this to me you're so high,

on top of your pedestal, make me feel minuscule,

so I swore and I dueled, couldn't kneel with this mood,

stomp the floor, throw a stool, punching steel, like a fool,

I ignore the pain and choose what is more real this anger proves that,

this endless fury, it can't mend be buried, I'm defensive, blurry and trapped,

what I pretend won't hurt me, it will end and burn me, standing breathless, worried I snap,

with a senseless yearning, to defend my wording, after restless hurting attacks,

acting reckless squirming, disrespectful, working through this hectic world I'm off track

(Chorus)

Spoken Word:

I swear to you, upon a million graves I promise,

there is nothing I won't do. If we turn back the hands of time,

and go back to the way things were, I will give everything in exchange.

I can do good. I can be great. And I will win back what once was. 

Here I will wait.

Don't close the gate.

It's a mistake.

It's feeling faint. 

Don't close the gate.

Verse 3:

Grief is on my side, got nowhere to hide, stranded, blind,

emptiness arrives and it takes me, takes me,

Keeping it inside, it's unfair, unkind, stand aside,

happiness it's time for the fading sun.

Every time I tried to undo my crimes, you denied,

left me out to dry couldn't shake ya, shake ya,

buried me alive, I was clueless, tied to your lies,

pressing me 'til I had to break this run.

I'm drowned in this thing, I resort to instincts,

all the sounds are empty, cannot thwart this sentence,

when I'm out I'm pretending, my reality's bending,

the brutality's fending off vitality from me,

alone and so cold, defenseless, controlled,

atonement on hold, I'm in this choke hold,

light is drawn away from close,

monotone and monochrome,

try to cope but it grows old,

fighting omens and old foes

(Chorus x2)

Outro Vocals:

In time I wake, accept the fate,

live with it and carry on,

what's done has passed,

this future's vast,

it can't be changed so carry on (x2)

09. Elemental

Verse 1:

Look across the meadow the trees are burning they're falling down,

ocean's getting bled oh they're screaming making appalling sounds,

those who hold the power can't see or hear they're ignoring truth,

letting it devour we bleed and stare at the forming youth,

(Instrumental break)

Our voices of oppression, of opposition engulfed in it,

this fire's their confession, our problems are just insults to them,

they're liars and progression is halted as a result of this,

they're high on their obsession to hold us down with repulsiveness

1st Chorus:

Violence, do we need to picture you?

Signs are burning all around our view,

how can we control what's coming next?

Bow down, living life in cold sweats

Verse 2:

They wanna watch as those who cannot pay burn,

gonna shift the focus and they'll take turns,

wanna talk to us like we cannot read,

gonna use a bluff like we cannot see,

everything that you're doin', the scale of importance,

you've been acting clueless, you've failed your supporters,

the signs we can see them, they're caught up in flames,

designed to defeat us, we fought all the games,

we foresee the stones crumbling down,

we don't need your throne or your crown,

keep your greed it won't be around,

see the seed that goes in the ground,

priming to fight so don't get so comfortable,

lightning that might control the growth of the fumes,

blind to the plight of those who grow under you,

trying to shed light expose and show others truth

(1st Chorus)

(Instrumental section)

2nd Chorus:

Keep it down you're making it hard to keep this money where I want it to go,

keep it down you're making it hard to keep the bloodiness from being a show,

keep it down you're standing in my way and I'm not gonna give you a choice,

keep it down you're standing in my way and I'm not gonna give you a voice

Verse 3:

Envision desolation fires burning all through the night,

and then all the desecration dire circumstances and fright,

humanity's aspirations dying in the blink of an eye,

the end's an accumulation prior actions led to this sight,

the situation's driving us to use all our might,

but there's a big limitation tying up our hands as we fight,

money is the temptation blinding them from seeing the light,

it's stalling the motivation prying them away from what's right,

corporations causing cataclysm through greed,

there is no time for patience pausing only leads to defeat,

thirst and starvation all throughout the famine they feast,

so now it's our nation falling underneath the stampede,

devastation is the only future we see,

and the lack of regulation has been slowly tripping our feet,

all our backs hold heavy weights 'cause we're hauling the guilt of their deeds,

they react with demonstrations of stonewalling no honesty

(2nd Chorus) 

Spoken Word:

Billions of lives impacted by the rising seas,

degradation of the coral reefs,

arctic summers completely ice free,

crops will burn from waves of heat,

flooding from precipitation,

habitats lost in natural deforestation,

fossil fuels from transportation,

conservatives unconcerned with conservation,

sacrificing facts to the detriment of our nation,

we need elevation

3rd Chorus:

It's getting hard to understand,

how people could bow to their demands,

seeing the truth as contraband,

when it's not convenient for their plans,

we're falling deep in this quicksand,

it feels out of reach, out of our hands,

continuous reaping of our land,

awaken from sleep I need to stand

Verse 4:

Taking it back (x8)

Years of the falling stone, (taking it back)

fear of what is unknown, (taking it back)

clearly they're in control, (taking it back)

cheering the fall of Rome, (taking it back)

we're fighting this alone, (taking it back)

there's not another home, (taking it back)

veering into the road, (taking it back)

tearing up what was sewn (taking it back)

(3rd Chorus)

(3rd Chorus and Verse 4 at the same time) (x2)

10. Rough Landing

(Instrumental)

11. Reason

Verse 1:

I see you running to me,

and I should run from you,

I've seen what you've done I've seen,

the misery you put me through,

but I stand still and stare,

right back in your eyes,

as we become a pair I prepare to make this compromise

Pre-Chorus:

All the days of anguish,

left me traces,

pieces to work with

Chorus:

Take you on? But is that what I want?

We've been through so much,

you've become my crutch,

and I ask without you who am I?

through torment you provide the reason for the fight

Verse 2:

I say I'm giving my all,

that I will stabilize,

but inside I just stall,

and try to keep you alive,

but something keeps holding me back,

from that final blow,

I get taken off track and then it's back to you I go

(Pre-Chorus)

(Chorus)

(Instrumental Section)

Verse 3:

Sacrifices take a toll,

that's why it's hard to stop when my vices take control,

things get so out of pocket how do I escape the low?

Picked up some glass and dropped it just to see it break I'm so -

out of new ideas the riverbed is dry,

try to fill it with some years that haven't yet gone by,

the mirror's eyes are full of tears and I just don't know why,

this life it's fears aren't always clear but is that by design?

Limitations spark the art,

my creations couldn't start,

if everything was perfect and I had all that I wanted so I guess I'll take the missing parts,

but how can I get better when,

I see the darkness as a friend?

The muse for all this music if I clear it out and lose it then what's there remaining in the end?

12. Distance 

Pre-Chorus:

Speak softly breathe the silence,

you can soothe this pain I've held,

pure understanding without words,

feeling everything I felt

Chorus:

Let's share this vibe,

your secrets wrapped in mine,

let's share our eyes,

while our thoughts rhyme

Verse:

Fallacies led to many regrets,

'til finally the things I need you showed and uncovered them,

finding me, the road to it was skewed and littered with traps,

you wrote the map so abstract,

it led to this fated pact

(Instrumental Section)

Timing it was off but it had to be,

climbing this mountain I see the rocks falling past my feet,

fighting this distance I keep my eyes focused on the peak,

go to sleep just to dream,

keep the water flowing in the stream

(Pre-Chorus)

(Chorus)