A Cold Open

Release Date: August 01, 2009
Label: Independent
Track Count: 7
Length: 35:36
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• Crooks and Cowards P.1 - 01 - [ No Lyrics ]
• Under the Lights - 02 - [ Lyrics + ]
  
  We are walking tall
  On sheets of thickest ice
  Our hope is breaking through
  And climbing in the sky
  
  We took
  A piece of the stone
  
  We're talking by the fire
  I barely keep it in
  It's a rage in quiet hours
  You say what could've been
  
  Can you see a way?
  I've got nothing left
  I wish i could change things
  
  It's the darkest of days
  
  I dare you to stop me
  There's nothing
  That you could say
  You can't take anything
  Away from me
  
  I'll be leaving soon
  Take my chances with stars
  Get the hell out of this place
  Trust me
  It's better off without me
  
  I'll be leaving soon
  Take my chances in the dark
  Say goodbye to my love
  Trust me
  She's better off without me
  
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• Aeris - 03 - [ Lyrics + ]
  
  Deep in your shadow
  Memory waits
  With all of it's scattered dreams
  To escape
  
  What did you expect
  A god to become
  This is not, this is not
  Your world
  
  This is a kind goodbye
  To a life of royal blood
  You were God
  But you're only a fool
  Down to the earth below
  Put your feet, put your feet
  On the ground
  
  We are one
  As we drink of the sun
  
  This is not your world
  This is not your world
  
  Goodbye to a life of royal blood
  You were God but you're only a fool
  Put your feet on the ground
  
  Sometimes death is the only way
  Of letting go of your world
  This is a sword to swallow
  But we can drink the sun
  
  Goodbye to your heart of stone
  Goodbye to your world
  
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• Empire Dissolving - 04 - [ Lyrics + ]
  
  It's quiet today
  I'm in a place between
  There's blood on your hands
  But you can't quite see
  
  In your reflections
  No thought can reach
  Your dying mind
  Voices fall on
  Your deaf ears
  
  The timing is off
  You're losing your influence
  
  Who can you trust
  In this time of ignorance
  I'm sick of
  Fighting this war
  With an enemy
  I can't quite see
  
  There is a point
  Where you can't take anymore
  No I won't, no I won't take anymore
  
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• The Pledge - 05 - [ Lyrics + ]
  
  I'm sorry for the wars I've waged
  I'm sorry for my jealous rage
  I was wrong
  
  I'm guilty for the things I've done
  I'm ashamed at the web I've spun
  You know I was wrong
  
  I sold you
  Before you were born
  You didn't have a chance
  
  It's a cold night
  But I'm warm inside
  No one can touch me
  In this house of mine
  
  I'm sorry that your vote was cast
  For dreams that would never pass
  Was I wrong?
  
  I sold you
  Before you were born
  You didn't have a chance
  I played you
  With strings on your heart
  I could never lose
  
  It's a cold night
  But i'm warm inside
  No on can touch me
  In this house of mine
  
  I'm sorry that you're overrun
  And I'm broken for the things to come
  I was wrong
  
  I'm torn for the ones you've lost
  But I can never understand the cost
  Cause I'm never wrong
  
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• Dressed in White - 06 - [ Lyrics + ]
  
  It was there all along
  Trouble taking it's time
  Breaking me down
  Into pieces of glass
  We'd lost the war
  Not sure what its for
  It's over
  
  Look at the sunlight
  It's breaking apart
  It's come to the end now
  We're going home
  
  We're finally alone
  At the end of the world
  We're breathing slowly
  Our last breath
  We've lost the war
  Not sure what it's for
  It's over
  
  Look at the sunlight
  It's breaking apart
  It's come to the end now
  We're going home
  Look at our shadows
  They're tearing apart
  I keep forgetting what's going on
  
  We're watching it burn
  Everything that we learned
  There's nothing to hold on to
  It's a beautiful storm
  That devours the thorns
  Twisting into our sides
  
  Time is a guage that's showing us
  It's never too late to pick things up
  Tear it down
  Your pride is a wall inside
  Dust, you're kicking it up, you're kicking it up
  
  We're watching it burn
  Everything that we learned
  There's nothing to hold on to
  It's a beautiful storm
  That devours the thorns
  Twisting into our sides
  
  Tear it down, tear it down
  
  [ Lyrics - ]
• Crooks and Cowards P.2 - 07 - [ Lyrics + ]
  
  It looked close enough
  It seemed real to us
  And they'd push and pull
  So we hold on tight
  To the things that get us by
  With the sun in our eyes
  They held it out before us
  And it looked close enough to touch
  
  Enough is not enough
  But we continue to buy it up
  This is not enoughv
  What they had offered us
  
  Our fire is failing
  I see it in our eyes
  The future uncertain
  Yet it comes with no surprise
  
  Still they push and pull
  We all just play the fool
  Until we push and pull
  I just want you to know I'm done
  
  It's a white hot light
  That we've been drowning in
  With such a long decline
  I'm still surprised you haven't realized
  We were so young when they sold us this life
  They're breaking you in, but I'm breaking out
  
  All of it lies
  All of it lies
  
  [ Lyrics - ]