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Shattered Red - Lines for the Living

complete lyrics

Track 1

“A World Inside”

Today is so long and cold, the harshest I’ve ever known.

I’m not sure what I can do, but I know that I can make it through.

My world inside this angers me

Yet gives me the strength I need

I want to live a simple life,

Just as I am.

Chorus:

In a picture perfect world,

Like one massive contrived mural.

Now I see, to the edge of this dismal place

Before i leave lost and erased.

It’s difficult to understand why I have to be this way.

Enough of me so how are you, will you ever make it through?

My world inside this angers me

Yet gives me the strength I need.

I want to live a simple life,

Just as I am.

Track 2

“Inside Out”

Days go by, I can still see the light.

A moment captured in the blink of my sight.

I know that this will be the end of me,

If I cannot control this twisting of reality. (Those days are gone)

Chorus:

Now I find myself, when I fade away.

My vocal cords bleed, from the inside out.

Now I know why, this purpose will save me.

You will never leave or watch me fade away.

Unraveling so fast from my escape

I told you this would be my last mistake.

This addiction has a hold on me.

I need your help. I need to just be by myself. (I swear these days are gone)

My nights are cold and embittered alone.

This addiction is dragging me so far down.

I need just something to change my ways.

Track 3

“Absinthe & Mortar”

So perfect, and brilliantly unstable as before.

This thought is driving me ill.

So what will come next, this was a perfect fit.

Chorus:
Will we rise up, and voice ourselves?

A damaged foundation will to destroy us. (we will rise up)

Dividing this empty mistake for us to invade,

the schizoid inside of us, ill.

So what will come next, this was a perfect fit.

Chorus

Track 4

“Who We Are”

Traveling, fighting for what we seek.

Ignorance strangles and makes us weak.

Searching we see only emptiness,

and still use our mind through our ignorance.

As we come we’ll fade away,

Always caring and suffering.

Chorus:

Who we are inside can only justify,

How we learn to live, and live another day…

Take away all the beliefs in life,

To open our heart and make this right.

The answer to life is inside us all,

A simple decision comes before the fall.

As we come we’ll fade away,

Track 5

“Lines for the Living”

Best be still, as you watch me detach myself.

Engulfed inside, I’m empty, blind I just want some help.

I know I try, so hard to forget.

Just let go with me, it’ll be our best day yet.

Chorus:

This is my nightmare awakening

It’s nothing comparing us to this tragedy.

Will you please take this further away from me,

This is the last memory I want to have.

Be careful as you walk these lines,

You may need space.

Upon your plate not okay,

I cannot bare this today.

I know I try so hard to forget.

Just let go with me, it’ll be our best day yet.

CHORUS

This is my own effect (you know that you’re not right)

Break free from yourself (cause this was me)

A night terror won’t tell a lie

So you can’t have an effect on me.

Hiding beneath the willows that weep for me

If you look with one eye, you’ll only see half the lie.

I know I try so hard to forget.

Just let go with me, it’ll be our best day yet.

Track 6

“Fragile”

Save the last day for a chance to witness,

What happens to the weak minded.

Be free in spirit take to the end.

I’ll start with my left, you start with ‘you’re right.’

Chorus:

This is why you pass me by,

You don’t know me anymore.

Watching my affirming cry.

I’m not ready for the consequence,

I just need to face reality

I’ll take it by confusion of the world.

This is my last chance to say goodbye.

Track 7

“Hour Glass”

I met a man who told me he could show me true reality.

but I would have to leave.

He took me to a ledge and pushed me off and said

goodbye for now,

I’ll see you again soon.

Chorus:

We were wronged, we were accused

in our own mind.

Beautiful, beautiful innocence,

in our hour glass.

He pulled me back and said

did you see god or did you see yourself, staring back?

I couldn’t move so I stood there

whispering over and again,

my time Is soon to come.

CHORUS

This is your own therapy, not for me.

This is your own therapy, now that I can sleep,

into my own self, when I find a way.

Cause I’ll find my way home, and I’ll do this not alone,

cause I’m desperate for you to unfold and make a new.

Cause I cannot take the pain any more,

I can never see was is in store for myself. You are so me.

You are free in your innocence. Cause you were…

We were wronged, we were accused in our own mind,

Beautiful, your shackled chains in our own mind.

Cause I’ll find my way home and I’ll do this not alone,

Cause I’m desperate for you to unfold and make a new out of me.

Track 9

“Thank the Gallows”

The sharpened meets the gallows,

As you stumble into your car.

So many faces places,

need a new beginning.

To feel, to scream

Chorus:

The days that you have now are numbered,

so will you ever find a home?

With nothing left to hold onto,

I am so sick of feeling numb. (murder)

Debauchery is soothing,

as the burning comes today.

So many faces places,

need a new beginning.

To feel, to scream.

Track 10

“At the Edge”

Watch me, as I crumble out of sight.

I will crash into a million pieces.

Break down the wall of fear,

that keeps me locked in here now.

Hold onto myself, when you cannot overcome.

Hold onto here we are,

We’re at the edge just one more time.

Chorus:

This is a lie (I cannot live inside)

This is a lie (I refuse to live in fear)

This is a lie (I cannot live inside)

This is a lie so just get out.

We will overtake our only mindless thoughts,

that harbor and only tear us apart inside.

Break down the wall of fear. That keeps me locked in here now.

Hold onto your friend when they cannot overcome.

Hold on here we are,

We’re at the edge just one more time.

CHORUS

Break down from your emptiness here.

Hold on and let go of your own fear.

Hold on here we are.

Were at the breaking point now is that split second,

Track 11

Brad’s Song

Will I give into this killing spree, (cast upon me)

I am already dead inside of me (cast upon me)

You push me again back into a wall,

Reject, ignore,

Just to watch me fall.

Chorus:

This is where my life will end,

My story will be told

For you now to understand,

The suffering shall unfold.

As we run on down the blood soaked halls, (cast upon me)

Will we be alive to watch them fall (cast upon me)

You push me again back into a wall,

Reject, ignore,

Just to watch me fall.

CHORUS

The blood runs cold, through my eyes.

I’m seventeen years old, why should I have to die?

What have I done,

My time has come.

Track 12

Fallen

Stripped of everything I’ve got,

Drained of everything I’ve had.

You crawled right back into my life,

And slowly took away from me.

Chorus:

I’ve fallen from your arms,

I’ve fallen from your grace.

I’ve fallen just too far to turn back again,

I’ve fallen from your loving arms.

You slowly took away from me,

All that’s meaningful and true.

I just could not believe that I,

Had let myself slip away from you again.

CHORUS

This world is falling down.

This world is falling down.

I found you once again,

You were always by my side.

How could I have been so blind, to see,

Our true love will last us for eternity.

CHORUS

Then I found you once again,

Track 13

Stars Ask Why

Someday, you might find a way,

To, stare at the world.

For us, they will roam,

But only in the bank of a faded memory.

Darkness has set its way,

Bogged down by its own haunted past.

For us, they will roam,

But only in the bank of a faded memory.

Chorus:

You found me here,

Alone and cold,

Now I’m sober

You found me here,

Now that I’m afraid.

Just set free.

The stars invade,

And ask yourself why?

The earth is on a collision course,

With my mind.

Someday soon you’ll be thanking me,

In this cold empty wasteland.

Someday soon, you will see the truth,

In the bank of a faded memory.

CHORUS

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