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OBSIDIAN REIGN LYRICS
"Conviction" (2004 EP)
1. Better Off Dead
2. Beneath the Ruins
3. Another Day's Mourning
4. From Within
5. Pathogenesis
1. Better Off Dead
Trapped down, spiraled through the past
In time to see that it won't last
Train of thought clouding my desire
To feel the burn without touching the fire
Watch it go (far behind)
Through the past
I'll find a way
To put you in my past
But you don't know what I've been through
You see the pain stare back at you
Just in case you don't seem to mind
I'll be here doing more than fine
Sitting back I retrace my steps
And realize there's nothing left
Thinking about what you once said
Made me feel better off dead
Speak the truth no matter where it lie
I close my eyes to see the world pass me by
Can't explain this feeling deceit
When I see you follow my own retreat
Passed out, drunken with despair
I shatter glass but you don't seem to care
Will this horror escape my peaceful mind
Before I leave these feelings far behind
2. Beneath the Ruins
Propaganda building, in the corner of my mind
The image of knowing what to feel, makes me feel confined
WAIT FOR ME!
Jagged edge of your skin is tearing out my heart
trapped inside you inner self, I can't tear it apart
No I can't tear it apart
I can't tear it apart
I can't tear it apart
I want to rip it apart
WAIT FOR ME!
Trusting all I have, is all I need to know
The shocking ways of wisdom spread and believing all I show
3. Another Day's Mourning
Awakened by nightmares that she was only a dream
Another day's mourning is what awaits me
Recollections overthrow my peace
Isolated within this agony
As she died in my embrace
My tears kissed her lips
Surrendered to eternity in my arms
And my tears they fall still
Touching her hand, I watch her eyes in expectation
Wondering if she will open them to me
This is a world her eyes no longer can envision
Nevermore will she open them to see
The heartache of time moving ever onward
Unrelenting clock governs passing days
But as seasons keep changing, my sight grows clear
As each day passes, she grows ever near
The moon now hangs longer in the sky
As frozen nights caress the earth below
A lover and friend that I have lost
Lies buried deep beneath the snow
12 months have passed through the hourglass
While the sands of sorrow wept
Though her body was stifled in a silent tomb
Afterlife is never truly death
On the eve to the day she left
She now returns to me
Her portrait smiles from beside our bed
As her soul has been released
Enframed visage wears the knowing face of wisdom
As she conveys to me the secret truths of death
Lurid beauty; my beloved angel beckons
Whispering with tenderness
4. From Within
Looking back and I don't like it
I Watch the way you live and I can't fight it
Can you see me staring back on the life that you once lived?
The winds flow with the seasons without a trace of weather
My eyes go blind with the sight of it
With the thought of it
With the sense of it
I'll be the question to your answers when you fall
From within
Chalked up with pain and I can feel the rage inside
Will it stay or go if I chose to fight
How do you sleep at night, knowing all that you've lost?
Can't imagine the pain and I can't believe the lies
My eyes go blind with the sight of it
With the thought of it
With the sense of it
I'll be the question to your answers when you fall
Can't change the past that I've made
Can't look back in time and feel it's the same
How do I know what I feel is right when I'm strangled with fear
My eyes go blind with the sight of it
With the sight of it
With the sight of it
My eyes go blind with the sight of it
With the sight of it
From within
5. Pathogenesis
Guarded secrets stained with blood
Obscene experimentation
Under the guise of medical science
Research paid in lives
Ingested. Injected. Exposed.
Infected. Innocent. Depredated.
Government policy policing unwilling subjects
Perfidious leaders betraying their oaths to serve
The public; case studies in biological suffering
Evolutionary revolution
Vivisection of sedated victims
Prone to pain but unable to cry out
Merciless doctors consternate their patients
With no true enemies; our neighbours become the mice
Waging a silent war; threatened by peace
Strengthening national security
Who will protect us from ourselves
Genetic manipulation through pathogeny
Altering our species
Modified for superiority
Through trial and error, failure can't be avoided
Justifiable losses in the quest for knowledge
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