Myth Of Logic – Surrounded By Ghosts
- Here (6:18)
- The Stone House (5:25)
- Born To The Sky (7:09)
- Scars Lament (6:26)
- Hollow Body (4:14)
- Strange & Beautiful (5:35)
- Live The Sound (3:50)
- Crucible (12:00)
- Surrounded By Ghosts (8:12)
Surrounded by ghosts
Here
Here is where I begin
Somewhere toward the end
Nothing is faded
All is the light
Here is where I begin
I must begin again
No way to know the end
Closing the book
Without marking the chapter
I must begin again
At the end
Suddenly someone is there
Growing a threatening stare
Drawing a sword from nowhere
Moving to strike from thin air
In my heart
I know the weight
I feel their hate
I’ll be the one
Handling fate
No one can help me in here
Beating back engines of fear
All goes red
Blades flashing back
Blindly attack
I must become
Stronger than that
Echoes of promises heard
Empty for want of a word
I must begin to mend
Starting again at the end
With a mind to remind myself
Marking off time
I must begin again
At the end
Fewer ahead
And much farther behind
Here I begin again
At the end
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I seem to be nowhere
Closer to here than there
Hope springs eternal
From all that is lost
I can’t begin again
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The Stone House
I seem to know this house of stone
She led me here to stand alone
The ones I see not flesh or bone
The faces here reflect my own
The room upstairs – my world of dreams
Surrounded now – forgotten scenes
The world inside that upstairs room
A magical place I left too soon
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So come along – I’m here to guide
It feels unreal – the life inside
The voices here don’t know my song
The time is now to move along
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Born To The Sky
Born to the sky
Living to fly
Living to try
Born to the sky
Living to fly
Flying to find out
Frozen
Don’t know where to begin
Getting warmer
Spreading wings in the light
Whispers
Concealed in the wind
Growing stronger
Calling soldiers to fight
Fly to the end of the line
Higher than archangels can find
Rising above even Heaven’s design
Blind in the blink of an eye
Dying to be born to the sky
Leaving behind what the devil may find
Reach out
For invisible strings
No controlling
Only dreaming in flight
Soaring
Conceived in a storm
Fed by lightning
Held by thunder at night
Fly to the end of the line
Higher than archangels can find
Rising above even Heaven’s design
Blind in the blink of an eye
Dying to be born to the sky
Leaving behind what the devil may find
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Standing
In the castles of cloud
Asking questions
Of the darkest unknown
Sunrise
When seen from behind
Shines more brightly
And the answer is shown
Fly to the end of the line
Higher than archangels can find
Rising above even Heaven’s design
Blind in the blink of an eye
Dying to be born to the sky
Leaving behind what the devil may find
Fight for the right to defy
Dreaming to be born to the sky
Never to find what we’re leaving behind
No falling down once you’ve made up your mind
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Scars Lament
If I’m honest I’ll admit that I’m a knife
And lament the scars I’m leaving in this life
Though I never meant to cut the ones I stained
In the act of passing through they bled the same
How do I heal?
Scars go deeper than this
Caught in the wheel
I’m keeping the wounded near me
If I said that I was sorry for my sins
Would there be a way for healing to begin?
If you let me make a key out of this knife
And lament the scars I’m leaving in this life
How do I heal?
Scars go deeper than this
Cut by the wheel
I’m keeping the wounded near me
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How do I heal?
Scars go deeper than this
Caught in the wheel
I’m keeping the wounded near me
How do I feel?
There’s no hiding from this
Live by the steel
I’m mending the ending carefully
c 2022 Firewall Music Ltd. (ASCAP)
Hollow Body
The secret lies in silence
And learning to be still
In turning down the volume
The space begins to fill
The wounded part I carved away
Has left me feeling stronger
And nothing can reach me in here
The wounded heart I tried to save
Won’t haunt me any longer
HOLLOW BODY
The truth lies in the violence
And hidden there until
In pulling back the curtain
The space begins to fill
The one revealing secrets
Isn’t speaking anymore
And nothing can teach me to fear
The Darkness had descended
Long before I could not see
The curtain never ending
Was closing in on me
HOLLOW BODY
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The End was in the margins
Holding hands with Time
Plotting out her anguish
And knitting it with mine
The Phantoms lost and angry
And hiding from their pain
The Curtain they are closing
Will never part again
The first of it’s kind
The last plane out
The one that you know
The end of an error
The rest of the best
The web we untangled
The ties that we bind with
The weight of the ashes
The love that she gave us
The circle unbroken
The square root of evil
The only survivor
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Strange & Beautiful
Strange and beautiful
Haunted and wonderful
Hidden from sight
By the veil of the night
Silver in my veins
Molten by her touch
Wishing that she
Was here reaching for me
And so it begins
Kisses of lavender wind
Shadows of sorrow
Now running for cover
And I won’t need to cast them again
She is strange and beautiful
Relentless and perpetual
If I outran my fear
Would she follow me here?
Illusion and miracle
Wounded and invulnerable
Why shouldn’t there be
Someone trapped besides me?
And so it begins
Kisses of lavender wind
Shadows of sorrow
Now running for cover
And I won’t need to hide there again
I feel strange and beautiful
Spectre and spectacle
Changes of mind
Somehow fading behind me
Touched and untouchable
Nothing is impossible
Losing my hold
On the things I’ve been told
And so it goes on
Waiting in blindness for dawn
Shouldn’t there be
Someone looking for me?
I don’t think I’ll run from this one
I won’t need to run from this one
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Live The Sound
I’m ready – Ready for the war
Waiting like a weapon
I’m screaming – screaming at the door
Wailing like a dragon
Always marched without a drum
Always knew what I’d begun
Always needed you to get left behind
I live the sound
The roar of desperation
The cut of something found
I left the ground
The heartbeat breaks the anvil
The wreckage they surround
I’m holding – Holding my despair
Moving from the outside
No dreaming – Dreaming of the dark
Burning from the inside
Never needed to know why
Never needed to comply
Never needed you to make up my mind
I live the sound
The doorway to ascension
Is still for me to find
I left the ground
For living in deception
Has made me change my mind
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I’m hearing – Hearing all the sounds
They are here to guide me
I’m learning – the weapon I have found
Must become The Key
Even soldiers must decide
Someone loses when they die
The door was always here for me to find
I will leave The Key behind
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Crucible
Fired by the light of disillusion
The Crucible waits for me
A vessel of mending to alter my ending
The pathway to set me free
Fed by the heat of absolution
The weight of my fate is sealed
Guided by voices whispering choices
The doorway has been revealed
I can’t go on not being the man I’ve become
No where to run – not seeing the sky for the sun
Held in the grip of resignation
I am here to remake my sword
Unlocking the gates of possible fates
A future I’m moving toward
I am the one who let my designs come undone
The End has begun returning to where I come from
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Forged in the fires of retribution
The steel knows it’s meant to be
Crimson and glowing – molten and flowing
The answer is plain to me
The blade has become The Key
The answer is known
To the one who left us here alone
The timing is wrong
For the lost who could not move along
Nothing to it – See your way
And then move on
It’s okay – You can do it
There’s a way to move on
If I’d only known
It was always here
I could not be shown
How to live with fear
In starting out there
And ending up here
If I’d only known
It was always here
It was always here
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Surrounded By Ghosts
Sitting alone in that dark place
Collecting the unanswered calls
Another few lines on that strange face
And staring down cracks in the walls
But this time that I’m wasting
Doesn’t belong in my head
And this wine that I’m tasting
Won’t help me to rise from the dead
Sleeping in shadows that need me
Knee deep in yesterday’s rain
Chains on my heart haven’t freed me
Existing just outside the frame
But the torch I’ve been holding
Is burning the shape that I’m in
And the flame that is scolding
Seems a bit close to the skin
Standing alone in this dark place
No longer surrounded by ghosts
The hand that I hold wears a new face
The one that I needed the most
But it’s time that I’m leaving
The last of my phantoms have gone
And the ones that I’m grieving
Won’t leave me alone for too long
I’m standing alone in this lost place
The one that I made for myself
I’m learning to live with my true face
The one with new stories to tell
I’m tired of holding me down here
I’ve fashioned a way to get free
I’m letting myself let it go now
And forgiving for giving the key
To me
c2022 Firewall Music Ltd. (ASCAP)
Myth Of Logic – Pictures From A Previous Dream
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Hypogeum 10:05
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All Our Yesterdays 10:18
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Parallax Error 06:48
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Schizophonia 08:20
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Broken 06:28
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The Lazarus Hex 06:53
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Pentimento 11:13
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If
If I’m Here, then it’s clear
Something is missing inside
Hurt that is learning to hide
In the sound underground
The Gallery hidden from view
Is waiting to wonder anew
Still and silent
Fire is feeding my hell
Faith is healing my shell
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Hypogeum
Down here the maze is without end
Stone breaks a promise to pretend
Left here to face what they may bring
Kept here in service to the king
All the bodies they buried
Stir where they lay
Showing each other the way
Live for today
And fight for tomorrow
Down here the night does not prevail
No soul is left to live the tale
Darkened now the lights that never shone
Struck down in anger they never made it home
All the torches they carried
Burn anyway
Showing each other the way
Live for today
And fight for tomorrow
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If I see through my fear
The face of my savior is clear
Painted to match what I feel
Angry and violent
The phantoms are rising unseen
Fate will not intervene
Down here the heart denies it’s pain
Bleeding near the rush to be insane
Held here suspended in the dark
Hope waits for someone to reignite the spark
All the torches they carried
Burn anyway
Showing each other the way
Live for today
And fight for tomorrow
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All Our Yesterdays
The hate that we cling to for safety
Is dragging us down to the drain
No one is listening lately
Aimlessly shouting in vain
Descended from there into madness
Sowing the seeds of demise
Pretended the end isn’t chaos
Becoming the ones we despise
Endlessly filling the green in our eyes
Praying for time – See how it flies
Speeding to some destination
Blind to a treacherous bend
Anger consuming perfection
Never a thought to the end
Sparks of life that want to flow through us
Are waiting to be welcomed in
The last light that gathered around us
Seeking somewhere to begin
Endlessly feeding the greed in our lives
Playing the line – Kiss it goodbye
We have betrayed
All our yesterdays
And discovered a grave new world
We could have stayed
All was washed away
By forgetting the songs we heard
Of those days
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Divisions that hide our horizons
Can only be seen from on high
The world falls apart as it rises
No gravity there to defy
Ascended from hell into hopeless
We carried the dust of our lives
Suspended the rest of our progress
And sold off the true compromise
Anxiously searching for truth in the skies
Playing for time – Living the lies
We have betrayed
All our yesterdays
And discovered a grave new world
We could have stayed
All was washed away
By forgetting the songs we heard
Of those days
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Parallax Error
Looking over shoulders
The past becomes a judge
The way ahead is clouded
Behind us not so much
Distance measured by grief
Feelings do not align
We assign the divine to the absent
We are faced with the evidence
Of things unseen
Life is not a mistake
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Schizophonia
Experience – Perception
Seventh sense – Deception
Future tense – Cannot become
Recording and deleting at once
The crest of the waveform
That crashes and flows
Learning to be there
Searching for somewhere
Modulate – Not quite blending
Hesitate – Not worth mending
Inner voice – Can’t duplicate
Straining to extract too late
The last of the white noise
That rises and slows
Wanting to live there
Echo to nowhere
If it sings to you, it’s music
And nothing else is there to hear
If it speaks to you, it’s magic
And nothing needs to disappear
Children of Harmony
Filter and grow
Reaching for some way
Nearing the last day
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Random thoughts to organize
Holding up the final sound
Never seem to realize
The answer is the fate we’ve found
Breathing the real air
And knowing it sees
My face in the trees
Time to release
If it sings to you, it’s music
And nothing else is there to hear
If it speaks to you, it’s magic
And nothing needs to disappear
Children of Harmony
Filter and grow
Reaching for some way
Nearing the last day
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Broken
If I could hide myself
Behind the face I wear
Praying for no one to find me here
Don’t make me wash out the stain
If I could find myself
With no allegiance to swear
Waiting for Eden to reappear
Don’t make me hurt you again
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Something that was made to be endless
Nothing that was meant to be hopeless
Became that way
If I could see myself
As almost anyone else
The weight of the war will not disappear
No one can carry my chain
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Somewhere at the end I feel helpless
Nowhere to pretend this is madness
To live this way
Breaking the word never known
That someone tried to silence
It’s already spoken
Wounded where scars never show
Evil came to bend me
I’m already broken
And out in the open
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If I could be like them
The ones we don’t understand
Knowing that no one will help us here
The way to continue is plain
If I could help myself
Would I give me a hand?
Waiting for reason to disappear
Don’t make me love you again
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Breaking the word never known
That someone tried to silence
It’s already spoken
Wounded where scars never show
Evil came to bend me
I’m already broken
And out in the open
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The Lazarus Hex
They believed him a gentle man
With a smile and a guiding hand
Too blind to know that they were blind
Living for the shadows in his mind
Feeding the monster all of the time
Holding the demons down
In the black light dimension he found
Too proud to care about the price
Nothing here could satisfy his vice
Burning alive under the ice
No embers alive
No cowards survive here
Imprisoned against their will
The phantoms that fell
Invited to dwell here
Resisting their tormentor still
The righteous move in for the kill
She believed him a gentle man
And she smiled as she took his hand
Too young to know he was insane
The monster didn’t even know her name
Pleading for time struck down the same
She whispered the words
Destroying the doorway
Aware of the price to her soul
The spirits that heard
Would judge him their own way
And take back the lives that he stole
The inferno would spit him back whole
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He isn’t reborn
He’s not resurrected
He never had left this place
The ones that he knew
Had never suspected
The beast that was wearing his face
His secret is known
He’s stranded forever
And no one remembers his name
The spell that she cast
Would cost her forever
But he would be paying the same
A pawn in the damnation game
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The Sum Of What’s Missing Inside
I keep in my heart
Some of what’s missing inside me
Practice the art
Silently solving the pain
She added the dawn
And subtracted the dark
Dividing me from
That which I did not need
And washing the wounds
While I bleed
I’m still living behind
No comfort to find
What’s missed inside
Arrived at the sum
That’s missed inside
I carry the one
Who’s missed inside
In solitude
Something I said to myself
Wondering why
Hard as I try
No equation can find the remainder
Inside
She comforts me
Even though eyes cannot see her
Something I save
To convince me I’m brave
No ascension can help me to save her
I’ll carry the one
I stared at the shade
Questioning the answers
The light she made
Gives me nowhere to hide
Equations divide
What’s missed inside
Cross the grandest divide
I’ll carry the one
Who’s missed inside
I carry the one
Who’s missed inside
Arrived at the sum
That’s missed inside
I carry the one
Who’s missed inside
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