VISCERA LYRICS

1. Delilah

My pulse shall race
My vision now distorted
Her halo wreathed in fire
As I feel her heat upon me
Her skin is flame
Radiating through the vortex
I know not my own mind

It's in our nature
Conceal the scars of failure
Wallow in the realms of agony
All you have
All you are is suffering

Now burn into me with eyes of fire
Delilah
Know that I would kill to lie beside her
Delilah

She manifests on every face I see
Her essence lingers in the air I breathe
She is the bringer of the rains
A living hurricane
That courses through my veins

Kneel at her altar
My penitence now rewarded
How I yearn to be inside her
To feel our flesh contorting
As she devours me
She sees beneath my skin
I know not my own mind

It's in our nature
Conceal the scars of failure
Wallow in the realms of agony
All you have
All you are is suffering

Now burn into me with eyes of fire
Delilah
Know that I would kill to lie beside her
Delilah

I can no longer see
The man I used to be
The darkest secrets of my life
They now belong to her
I know not my own mind

The world bears down on me
I try to bear the weight
I lay down at your feet
My life is yours to redeem

2. Immersed in Ire

[feat. Ben Mason]

There is something to be said about resilience
The more it hurts, the greater the resistance
But I can't shake the fear in my subconscious
Everything you are is toxic, I close my eyes
I dread the torment of the war yet to come, I'm paralyzed
Visions of demons tearing down the walls around my heart (Run)
There's no place better for these things that I hide
Than in the darkest reaches of my fragile mind

And when the nightmares return
You will have nowhere to run

Ire

Black void, you're singing to me, it's so easy
Hypnotize me as you render my mind weak
Suffering in an anchored state, regression
Pulling me into depression, I close my eyes
A flame chain on my lungs, it burns me from the inside
I'm paralyzed
My eyes fade into the blistering fire (Run)
A haze I forever desire
Mind abort me from this callous husk

I'm sick of lying awake at night, seething
Made my home in a world of collisions
All the things that I feared came to being
A victim of my own visions

The taste was sweet and the route was certain
Now it's treacherous and twisted
There is no real course of action now to take
But forget you were there, forget you existed

You fucking fail me

Ire
Bearing down on me
Ire
End this misery

And when the nightmares return
You will have nowhere to run

Ire

And now it's finally done
You're aren't a friend of mine, no friend to anyone
This has taken too much, more than I can allow
It's hard to feel elation with all that weight on your brow
And now you're finally done
A danger to yourself, a ticking time bomb
It's no surprise your life is fucking heading south
It's hard to smell the roses with all that shit in your mouth

3. Lamb to the Slaughter

An endless cycle of perpetual decay
A waking nightmare that will never cease to end
Forever spiraling into your darkest days
Now drink to misery, your never-ending thirst
Betrayal won't be forgiven
This is hell we live in

Disintegration of love and nature
A flagrant violation, ashamed
This heart is rusting, a hateful creature
Thrown into chaos, betrayed

We abandon the light
Paralyzed by the horror
Now the blind lead the blind
Like the lamb to the slaughter

One taste of power and you'll savor the game
And you'll deny your heart to justify the pain
A hatred so misplaced, a mask to hide your face
I'll cry for you no more behind the iron doors

Red soil
Betrayal won't be forgiven
Red soil
This is hell we live in
Sins of the father, gift to the son
One day you'll return, I will wait

We abandon the light
Paralyzed by the horror
Now the blind lead the blind
Like the lamb to the slaughter
We abandon the light
Paralyzed by the horror
Now the blind lead the blind
Like the lamb to the slaughter

4. Carpe Noctem

A state of inner rage
No signs of finishing
When all the years of ardor grind a will diminishing
The many moments of elation fading from your sight
The clarity of isolation truly terrifies

Every empire falls in the end
It's just a matter of when
Every empire falls in the end
We are marked for death

Carpe Noctem
Seize the night
Carpe Noctem
While you still can
Count your blessings, not your curses, I heard someone say
But we had each other
More than we have today
Carpe Noctem
Seize the night
Carpe Noctem
While you still can
What is for you won't go by you, I heard someone say
But we had it all
To throw it all away

Weary eyes never lie
Reflecting suffering
As lengthy shadows grow around an aura withering
The years were never kind but now they are bereft of light
The memories of ecstasy no longer in your mind

If this is what the price is
I will gladly pay it
If this is how you feel
Then go ahead and say it
I'd savor victory but I don't like the taste
Playing with precious time I can't afford to waste

Carpe Noctem
Seize the night
Carpe Noctem
While you still can
Count your blessings, not your curses, I heard someone say
But we had each other
More than we have today
Carpe Noctem
Seize the night
Carpe Noctem
While you still can
What is for you won't go by you, I heard someone say
But we had it all
To throw it all away

5. Affliction

I won't spend
Another day trying
To put the flames out on the bridges that you chose to set alight
I never wanted any of this
Exposed yourself as a liar
You balance on a precipice
Initiate the corruption
Poison the well ever so gradually
Slowly mutate the perception
Changing the way everyone looks at me
Is the life you really want to lead
I won't let you in

And now you slip away
A shallow penitence
Too little too late
You'll never know your worth
No more lies
A different side of you for everyone

There is love inside this broken heart
But these blood soaked hands are stained
They belong to the Devil

Affliction

I won't spend
Another day trying to put the flames out on the bridges
That you chose to set alight
I never wanted any of this
You made yourself a pariah
Now you're running from your memories
But run in which direction?
Reflecting hatred of the world on me
Antagonize an eruption
Here is the tyrant now for all to see
That's the reaction that you want from me
I won't let you win

All love is lost
And now you slip away

And now you slip away
A shallow penitence
Too little too late
You'll never know your worth
No more lies
A different side of you for everyone

There is love inside this broken heart
But these blood soaked hands are stained
They belong to the Devil

Affliction

6. Hammers and Nails

With a changing tide
A moment to reflect
A broken crown bearing down
Upon a weary head
Look in his eyes, you'll see
A lifetime of regret
The signs of stress
The emptiness
The lack of self-respect

With a treacherous kiss
Decimate what's left of a lifetime's legacy
As a silent poison works its way toward the heart
With the deepest malice
Pull the trigger on the gun that's known to never fail
Roles are clear and chosen
To be a hammer or a nail

Know what you are

Let the drowning man swim
This is a war that he will never win
But when the dust clears
There'll be nothing left for you to fuck with

Know what you are

And with a precious life
Desire to protect
A tired man broken down
Now full of fear and dread
And in his eyes he'll be
A shadow of himself
A broken tusk
A hollow husk
Crying out for death

With a treacherous kiss
Decimate what's left of a lifetime's legacy
As a silent poison works its way toward the heart
With the deepest malice
Pull the trigger on the gun that's known to never fail
Roles are clear and chosen
To be a hammer or a nail

Know what you are

Now let the drowning man swim
This is a war that he will never win
But when the dust clears
There'll be nothing left for you to fuck with

But now he's slowly sinking
Oh, now he's slowly sinking
Like an anchor to the depths
The drowning man

Know what you are

7. Lilith

[Instrumental]

8. Obsidian

Horror, cataclysmic self-infliction
Look upon the aftermath and cower in despair
Your words have become a weapon
Fabricating hell from heaven
Your moral compass is but one of contradiction
A snake can shed its skin but still remains a snake
A blackened seed planted so carelessly
The truth can be distorted but still remains the same
Everything about this is wrong

I found myself frantically searching
For something that was never there
With the rejection I was forced to react
So I never looked back, I'm counting on that
Your actions bring only dishonor
Your cowardice nothing but shame
The world in your hands, your head in the sand
I bury your love with your name

Obsidian tide, carry me away
Into the endless night
Obsidian tide, carry me away
Onto a better life
Obsidian tide

Horror, spreading lies and defecation
Your fragile wings were never meant to give you flight
Abuse and degradation, far beyond imagination
Now we've come undone, what have I become?

I'm dangerous

The very thing that stands to define a parasite
Is it's failure to survive without a host
The very life you had but never really chose to see
Is the thing your heart craves the most

Obsidian tide, carry me away
Into the endless night
Obsidian tide, carry me away
Onto a better life
Obsidian tide

9. Silentium

[feat. Ricky Lee Roper & Kyle Anderson]

Silence
Can have so much to say
No escape
When the truth is replaced by
Silence
It can be deafening
Words are twisted into shape
I'm afraid of

SILENCE

(When's the last time you felt good?)
(I don't remember. I just believe that somebody's been suffering years ago, they should take an OD and die. They may not want to take the OD but to get out of their misery they might. They fight it every night...)

And like a worm on my belly, I will crawl
Finding a family in the shadows on the wall

Bearing down upon you
Earth trembles under your feet
Eradication is complete

And we move on

And there's no peace for you
(A world of violence)
This is the path that we walk
And there's no sleep for you
(Suffer in silence)
This is the nightmare we are

Silence
It greets me every day
There's no escape
When the voices are replaced by
Silence
It can be threatening
When I think of time replaced
I'm afraid of

SILENCE

(It was 3:00 in the morning. I couldn't sleep. All the, same thoughts kept racing through my mind over and over and over again. I just wanted them to stop. Period. Then I thought, well, if I kill myself, I'll stop thinking...)

And like a worm on my belly, I will crawl
Finding a family in the shadows on the wall

Look what we were
What we did
Where the damage was done
Look what we had
What we lost
What we could have become

And like a worm on my belly, I will crawl
Finding a family in the shadows on the wall

And like a worm on my belly, I will crawl
Finding a family in the shadows on the wall

And we move on

And there's no peace for you
(A world of violence)
This is the path that we walk
And there's no sleep for you
(Suffer in silence)
This is the nightmare we are

SILENCE







VISCERA LYRICS