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A LEGEND FALLS LYRICS
"Chaos Becomes Us" (2003)
1. Post-Mortem Pre-Ævum
2. The Voice Inside
3. The Lesser of Evil
4. Elegy to Empathy
5. And as the Sun Stills...
6. Never
7. Sullen
8. Chaos Becomes Us
9. Abhorrent Ascent
10. Requiem for the Masses
1. Post-Mortem Pre-Ævum
Hold on to the time you have.
Uncertainty holds the key to its vitality
and the unrest that follows it will bring your downfall.
You never know what you have 'til it's gone.
It's fading.
To watch it die is the hardest reality
and the burden left behind will never fade.
This light draws closer and beckons for you.
In death we see the weakening of our lives.
The ones we ignore are largely our own.
Take hold of the ones you have.
Soon we'll all be gone.
So goes this never-ending circle.
So goes the time.
This numbness inside my mind
uncovers thoughts on being alive.
To dream's to live and in waking we're born.
Is this life? Is this life?
Holding on to a crumbling world
and fearing what you may never know.
But no one knows except those who've passed
before and so we linger to endure the pain of life.
Why live for nothingness?
No one knows.
This world's a casket.
Watch me as I rise.
Relinquishing my time.
I rise.
2. The Voice Inside
This casing constrains me, kills the essence inside.
This careless, hardened world can't sustain this anymore.
Don't count on me.
Don't count on…Don't count on me.
Ceaseless lies.
(reason) True life dies.
(genocide) Parasite
(living your life off the lives of) all you find
(gotta find a way to break away)
Your progress is killing me, is limiting my abilities.
I pity you for the day you'll see the fiction of your life.
You borrow all that you know.
On your own we'll see how far you go.
I see the fear in your eyes.
I hear your cry.
Don't count on me.
Don't count on…Don't count on me.
A part of you dies
(just let it go) behind the guise.
(it's not a part of you anymore) Strive to be free
(No need to waste your time) let passion rise.
(it's already gone) Procession's calling.
Find your place in the crowd.
Now is the time for moving on.
Now is the time.
A new age dawns.
Look deep inside.
Find who you are.
Swallow your pride to heal the scars.
No. Break away.
Strive to be free and live your life.
3. The Lesser of Evil
Could I over come this all?
It comes over me and I suffocate.
A dream too late for me.
Loss of control will take its toll.
I’m losing time.
His will is to be mine.
Don’t you know you never can win?
What’s yours is mine and I’ll control everything.
It’s been too long since you took a stand for yourself.
I’ll bet you’ve forgotten how.
I’m so much stronger now.
So let me introduce myself to myself.
I hate you.
And all I want is to let go be free.
It comes to be that denial is my mask.
Disbelief helps me hide the truth
and as I sit alone
with all these things I’ve shown,
these things I never knew.
This greed and hate and lust in myself.
Feel the flow of fearful hate breeding your existence.
Separate from fact.
I’ll embrace you.
Let it take its reign.
I’m inside you.
Fear no more.
I’m not running away.
Come to grips with new truth and see.
I am you.
Whatever gives you power will only kill me.
4. Elegy to Empathy
The daylight fades.
I close my eyes.
This pains me more than you will know
I hold it inside.
This is the end of me.
I’ve become all I can bear to be.
This is that which I can’t undo.
From me to you.
From me to you.
I’m sorry.
All empathy.
This is that which I can’t undo.
This is my apology to you.
Your silence takes me whole.
I’m standing alone.
This is the end of me.
I’ve become all I can bear to be.
This is that which I can’t undo.
This is my apology to you.
I’ll break my word as you broke my heart.
I apologize for being everything you never wanted me to be
and so I stand here and scream
at those who made me be
for allowing me to live this fate.
This is my elegy.
He was a good man.
He was a simple quiet man.
He always kept to himself.
He always kept to himself.
Well he was a good man.
So much to understand.
He always kept to himself.
Why’d you keep to yourself?
This is my elegy.
5. And as the Sun Stills...
I watch my words to conceal the feelings I hide.
The myth of honour dies.
Your deceit betrays my trust
So as my guard slips will you be waiting?
Knife in hand I lie bleeding below.
Every step you take is to empower yourself.
(childish)
(ignorance)
We struggle to achieve a life for ourselves.
Not a thought to the lives that slip away .
And as the sun stills we see that we’ve achieved.
Nothing at all.
The vision’s darkening.
The dream is gone.
Beware the falling.
You won’t see it coming on.
6. Never
For each moment we question being
They question it ten fold
Wondering if they’ll ever be able to reclaim
What it was they once had
Or if there’s a chance that they could ever be Themselves again.
Their worlds will never be the same.
Feeling worthless and living in pain.
I can feel you slipping away into a state of unending dismay
And still you let it take you away from it all.
I have been a witness to your unease.
A fear of confrontation
But your battered silence speaks louder than words can.
Let forth another silent scream and fade away.
Don’t get lost in it.
It makes me sick to think it.
The degradation of self inside.
Your life is the loss you’ll…the loss you’ll suffer in time.
A wasted voice is a terrible waste of life
And as you sit in your darkened corner sheltering yourself
From the only ones who can help you
I can’t help but question.
Who’s going to mourn for you
When no one notices your gone?
Speak to me.
It’s your last chance to be free.
Lay still and take it.
This life forsakern is taken from us all.
Your devotion to fidelity will only force you to crawl.
You don’t have to bleed for it.
Bleed to be alive.
7. Sullen
I’m not and will never be the son
I’m supposed to be.
Nevermore will I trust in self empowerment.
I’m falling apart inside.
In darkness I’m happy.
Nothing bothers me inside.
It’s just me and infinity spending days locked inside for eternity.
And so what if I’m stuck in my head
Watching, sullen, my soul implode.
Spinning in circles.
This razor by my side.
In time, this is how you see I envision me
But do not feel the need to cry.
And so what if I’m stuck in my head
Watching, sullen, my soul implode.
This is not the last time…
This is not the last time you’ll see me standing here.
And so what if I’m stuck inside my head?
I’ll still be here tomorrow.
You can’t hold me down.
8. Chaos Becomes Us
Patience is no longer a virtue when the complacent have turned.
Repetition will only take you so far,
will only force you to grow blinder in a world that’s already lost its vision.
Where docility leads the people speak aloud and take a stand for yourself.
The strongest weapon we have is division.
Truth lurks in shadows is often ignored.
Indolence our defect and recurrence is our reward.
Everyone…Everyone is a victim
So why wait for the struggle to come to you?
The sickness grows stronger the fix still unheard.
A troubled sub-conscience brings forth depraved words.
Please don’t wait.
Why be contented?
To destroy, to neglect, to enrich false life.
To let live, to watch die, to deceive the mind.
No…No one can force you to change it
To face it, to give ‘til the complacent have turned.
9. Abhorrent Ascent
Coincidence has brought us to this drudgery
Has brought us from uncertainty.
The light is a veil I expect to fade away.
Why? Do I really deserve this?
It’s constant, consuming, presuming it’s my fate.
Observing, minds turning as I display my hate.
Restraint. This force around me, my being, my entity.
Why? What could come of this?
It’s constant, consuming, presuming it’s my fate.
Observing, minds turning as I display my hate.
Your sheltered view empowers the trepid with the means to elevate.
Did you think I couldn’t feel sorrow?
Or that I’d just let it go?
I felt it build up inside of me.
My puerility drowned below.
Why’d you give up on me?
Was I not worth it?
Or’d you just never feel the need to care? Desolation becomes a part of us all.
In the shadows of despair and I will never be a part of you.
Hate to be gracious but your disbelief made me who I am today.
You let my mind decay.
Shut me out.
10. Requiem for the Masses
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