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REDEMPTION LYRICS
"The Origins Of Ruin" (2007)
1. The Suffocating Silence
2. Bleed Me Dry
3. The Death Of Faith & Reason
4. Memory
5. The Origins Of Ruin
6. Man Of Glass
7. Blind My Eyes
8. Used To Be
9. Fall On You
10. Precious Things (TORI AMOS cover)
11. Love To Love (UFO cover)
1. The Suffocating Silence
Somethingâs going on here â the object is uncertain
But I can see the makings of a sinister design
The bristles of the tightening noose are scratching at my throat
And in Shadows, whispered voices plot to take from me whatâs mine
The tensionâs ever-mounting, and the damâs about to break
Somethingâs going wrong here â the lines have all been broken
In the shelter of our silence conflicts keep upon themselves
We both have our agendas, if only we would voice them
But the guilt between us widens as we keep them to ourselves
In the suffocating silence
attended by our dreams
this emptiness devours
In the darkness of desire
where nothingâs as it seems
our demons lie in wait
For you and me
Subconscious acts replace the spoken word and we express with cruelty what we neglect to say
And everybodyâs shouting, but no one can hear
and our desperate ringing fills my ears
And we all know that words can kill
but their absence is more lethal still
Somethingâs going on here⦠sinister design
The tensionâs ever mounting, the damâs about to break
Failing to discuss it could be our last mistake
2. Bleed Me Dry
Bind to me â keep me in the shadows of your life
Terrified â frightened I might step into the light
Drinking deep from wells of bitterness within your soul
Holding fast to self-deluding visions of control
Youâre convinced that when youâre done and the day is through
The applause was just for you
Paranoid â jealousy is all youâve come to know
Pettiness â make a friend into another foe
And now everything is done, and the day is through
Now thereâs no one left for you
Twist the blade inside of me and bleed me dry
âCause thereâs nothing you can say to me to make things how they used to be again
I have built a better life without your lies â and I will not be broken
I donât need your blessing now
I donât need your fantasies
All your fictions donât sustain me anymore
Breaking bonds, Iâm setting myself free
Blind to yourself and to see you pushed away
Empty-handed and alone now at the end of the day
All of your misguided claims are dead to me â did you think Iâd let
You dictated everything that I could be?
3. The Death Of Faith & Reason
Wipe out all the wonder from creation
Replace it all with fractals
And synthesize the beauty and design
Pulling wings off spiritual flies
So smug and oh so certain
That yours is the enlightened state of mind
Your soul will contemplate its emptiness
Mired in the figures and equations in your head
Embrace the black
Turn away from civilized society
Wrap yourself in ignorance
And force us to accept on pain of death
Marry myths with superstitious nonsense
And damn the nonbelievers
Salvationâs yours, to hell with all the rest
No absolutes are so self-evident
Twisted by your hate, the very word of God
And instrument of death
And who can say which to path to take?
Or bind anotherâs fate?
A billion-fold extremistsâ point of view create or hell
Each must be entitled to the conscience of the King
Thereâs nothing left to wait but for the tolling of the bell
4. Memory
I still remember the sound of your voice calling out my name
And I still remember my face examining itself, knowing things would never be the same
I still remember your smiling face across a crowded room
And I still remember, through the weathering of time, that first embrace that sealed our doom
Your eyes stare at me, from every storefront
And your voice calls to me from every restaurant
And your laughter pierces me as I stand beneath the open sky
And your absence murders me as I sleep perchance to die
Seems like to escape is what I ought to do
But every road I take brings me back to you
I am frozen in the moment
clinging to your memory
and I donât
Want the ignorance that a spotless mind would bring
but Iâm
Scared my dying breath may be your name
Itâs just like I sang to you â everyone knows that we live in a world
Where people give bad names to beautiful things
And if itâs really true that people should leave once theyâve
Got what they came for, I certainly hope that youâre holding it close to you now
I still remember the sunlight on your face that warm November day
And I still remember, my heartbeat quickened by desire, unaware of prices I would pay
I still remember the closing door the night we said goodbye, and I still
Remember losing you for good and knowing that a part of me had died
And I still pray that things will be alright
and I pray youâll think of me tonight
And I know somehow Iâll be alright and I hope that youâre the sameâ¦
5. The Origins Of Ruin
Hand on heart, head in hands
The light is fading now, it cannot pierce the darkness
Nothing left to build upon
Except the mounting fear that none of this was worth it
Hand on pen, pen to page
Focus though I may, my words have failed
Emptiness consuming me
The shadows of my broken hope play in the dying night
Tears in eyes, eyes wide open
Staring at the glass
The face I see knows everything
-words Iâve written
-letters never sent
â¦only signposts marking out
The origins of ruin
6. Man Of Glass
Look at me â deep into weathered eyes that have
Seen too much of the world and far too many
Failings in myself
Look at me â deep into bones of glass
Shards of mirrors reflecting all the dark events of my life
If something doesnât kill us, it just might make us stronger
But I donât think I can make myself
Hold on for too much longer
Look inside â deep in the heart of one who is close to losing faith
But praying that his faith will see him through
Look inside â deep in a mind reviewing unanswerable questions
About what lies ahead
Am I falling away from what really matters,
And teetering on the brink of disaster
At a moment in time if we turn the other way
A different path would lead us to another fate
7. Blind My Eyes
Can you see past this place
Where our failings took us unaware?
I have dreams of a future brighter than the past
Faith sustain me
Take away my fear
Hope reclaim me
Wipe these sins away
Love renew me
Give me strength to cross the gap between
Denial and the truth that burns so bright
It blinds my eyes
I have been to a darker place
Than I had thought Iâd ever go
Your voice calling out to me
And now I know
I can dream of a future brighter than the past
8. Used To Be
I donât know how to finish whatâs begun
Or how long I might wonder if itâs done
Windows open when the doors are all closed
But if you step through them, you might forget the way back home
I was drawn, I was taken over Rubicons
All the while never realized I was gone
Windows opened when the doors were all closed
I stepped through and now I forget the way back home
Someone introduce me to the man I used to be
I can feel him struggling deep inside of me
I swear if it takes me until my dying day
That somehow I will find my way again
I have faltered, I have sacrificed, everything I once held dear
Windows opened when the doors were all closed
I stepped through them and lost my way
Somehow I know Iâll be back again â I know I can save myself
I will find Iâm back again
the man I used to be
I will
Find Iâm reconciled with what Iâve hoped to be
Iâll build a bridge to what Iâve lost and I will find my way
Back home again
9. Fall On You
Thereâll come a time when love outlasts my insecurities
And Iâll be unafraid that youâre not here with me
I hold on
And I face another day
I hold on urgently to you
I let go
And my fears begin to fade
and now with pride we watch you make your way
Clouds overhead
lightning strikes and the thunder roars and I can only hope
Iâve given you some shelter
you know itâs a stormful world and rain will fall on you
Run faster now
donât look back âtill youâre far away
the hands that
Harm will try to drag you into shadow
you know itâs a sunless world and darkness falls on you
Itâs getting close to midnight and soon youâll have to leave the haven of our comforting arms
I can feel you searching in the darkness and I hear you calling out my name
Search yourself for the part of me still with you
My presence there will never fade
Walls tumble down
you can hide but you know theyâll find you, and I canât be
There every moment for protection
you know itâs a hostile world and hate may follow you
Outcomes an never be certain, but life is a
Chance that you take, and all that I
Can do is help you brace for it
Light overhead
storm clouds part and the darkness fades and in the stillness of a
New dawn youâre still standing
you know itâs a frightening world and itâs a confusing
World, but you know that I have to believe you will find the goodness in it
with your heart
And soul as compass I will pray you find your way and that happiness will follow close behind⦠and peace will fall on you
10. Precious Things (TORI AMOS cover)
So I ran faster
But you caught me here
Yes my loyalties turned
Like my ankle
In the seventh grade
Running after Billy
Running after the rain
These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things let them break
Their hold over me
He said you're really an ugly girl
But I like the way you play
And I died
But I thanked him
Can you believe that
Sick, sick, holding on to his picture
Dressing up every day
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys
Those Christian boys
So you can made me cum
That doesn't make you Jesus
I remember
Yes in my peach party dress
No one dared
No one cared
To tell me where the pretty girls are
Those demigods
With their nine-inch nails
And little fascist panties
Tucked inside the heart
Of ever nice girl
These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break
Let them wash away
11. Love To Love (UFO cover)
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