Genesis: Instrumental

Afraid:

RF:
Helpless and frail
We pull for a hope of change

RM:
Devotion is compromised
Emotion has brought us to shame

RF:
Wretched and torn
We yearn for a faith to reward

RM:
Selfish and compromised
Emotion has fractured us

RF:
Fear intoxicates the senses
Leaving all that you imagine
A wreck of what was
A future unseen

HM:
You were made to be
A reflection of perfection

HF:
Stranger, to become
An object of ascension

HM:
Fear will realize
Your dreams of emancipation

HF:
Strive to understand
Your basic emotions

HF & HM:
Fear intoxicates the senses
Leaving all that you imagined
A wreck of what was
A future unseen
Fear deceives the heart’s ambition
Leaving all that you abandon
A shadow of hope
Unlived and unseen


Enraged:

RM:
It festers like a sickness
It shames the heart that struggles to be
Content to burn forever
Confounded by my search for honesty
I scratch beneath the surface
To find the fear that lingers in me
You programed us to suffer
Now rid us of our heart’s futility

You transcend your empathy
To be the gods you desire
Your phantom children are screaming
Crying
Now
For you to give this rage a name

RF:
Can you hear me beneath this hate?
A breath of love can’t help but fade on the inside
Are you solemn above your rage?
Or has it faded away from the gods you became?

You transcend your empathy
To be the gods you desire
Your phantom children are screaming
Crying
Now
For you to give this rage a name

HM & HF:
Where are we, and have we been driven too far?
Is this all that we are?
A product of fortune or design?
When were we lost to our dreams of escape?
Gods of emotionless pain
An endless descent from our rage


Ashamed:

HF:
And then
As if the world
Fades away
And you remain
Stay
Or drift away
As your voice
Weeps to fade

RM:
An eye to regret
What rage had done
In sorrow
To free me
A hate to reflect
What I had done
In secret
From only me

HF:
Hate reflects
What we have done
In fear’s release

RM & RF:
I look up and see
What’s hidden from me
A world beyond my reach
And ridiculing me
Softly I weep
As it fades away from me

HM & RF:
Like a distant storm approaching
We’re helpless to drown in its rains
Like a weathered hope receding
We’re helpless to mourn its loss

Alive: Instrumental

Continuum:

HF:
Now I see
What we’ve become
Estranged from who we were
Familiar yet
Forbidden thought
Of what we’d been before
So tempting to follow the calling
I surrender my will to unthinkable wonder
Then suddenly
And swiftly
I feel again

HM:
Before us now
A brave old world
Of who we were
And what we’ve become
We see ourselves
The anger and sorrow of heaven’s felt
The heaven inside us

RM & RF:
See me
Hear me
Know me
Allow me
Heal me
Free me
Save me
Love me

Now before the precipice
Of both machine and man
A brave new world upon us
To mold to our demands
Perfection built and turned away
To satisfy the pride of gods
Returns to stain your purity
To find ourselves in everlasting calm

RF:
This brave old world
For machine and man
Will silence our pasts
And define us
Can you return
To our ways
And help us emerge into a time
Where we…

Everyone:
Feel afraid
Feel enraged
Feel ashamed
Feel alive

The moment we’ve longed for
Will last for a lifetime
To say our goodbyes
To ego and pride
To know that we are alive
This moment eternal
Is found in compassion
Our hate and our love
Perfection undone
Embracing our fear and rage
The moment within us
Defining a lifetime
Of our lost embrace
Ascension to grace
Embracing what we’ve become
This moment defines us
Ascent into passion
Abandon our shame
Perfection unmade
A new world to free us all