Agonizing silence surrounds us as the tensions escalate Waiting for a signal as we call on the fallen Crooked figure taking shape To fear or to embrace Torn by shameful cowardice Unwelcome return Malicious scars emerge Fractures through the mirror run Madness takes us one by one Traverse the darkness A reckoned force to harness Can't rebuild from guilt Erase this stagnant catharsis Stare in the abyss Searching for an existence in the wreckage As the pendulum swings My weak concentration's faltering now my Final flare of hope's a fading gleam and I See a thousand words as they all collide But no combination ever feels right Cut deep taking parts of me As my memories wither and die Wither and die Unwelcome return Malicious scars emerge Fractures through the mirror run Madness takes us one by one Traverse the darkness A reckoned force to harness Can't rebuild from guilt Erase this stagnant catharsis Stare in the abyss Searching for an existence in the wreckage As the pendulum swings He is seated at the precipice of evil As the flames devour those with weakened judgment Concealed in the scrolls of the king Insatiably tearing into the sutures deconstruction Upon the throne of flaming light, we are cursed to indelibility Erupt from the fissure of the disseminating decay Traverse the darkness A reckoned force to harness Can't rebuild from guilt Erase this stagnant catharsis Stare in the abyss Searching for an existence in the wreckage As the pendulum swings