Hear me now Bearing down upon a path we choose Chosen from the start living different rules Existence something to cherish true Will not succumb to doubts that I hold onto Release the fear

I was born as a bastard
No father, no master
A shadow in silence
Left searching for answers

Put up for adoption
And left with no option
Another kid fostered
To fester forgotten

Take a look into these desperate eyes
As they’re cast into the wretched hive

Sweet caress
Grazes my skin
It's loveless
These hooks sink in
Behind an angel's disguise
An insect preys
Mandibles cut like a knife
The reckoning

Forming clouds
Their shadow shrouds
Louder the tattered wings they sound
Descending

Down, they com

Sweet caress Grazes my skin It's loveless These hooks sink in Behind an angel's disguise An insect preys Mandibles cut like a knife The reckoning Forming clouds Their shadow shrouds Louder

And with this now we die Standing at the edge of the world Uncertainty calling as the page unfurls Fortune, heaven or hell Shedding my body of this mortal shell Black steel and iron A lion heart

And with this now we die
Standing at the edge of the world
Uncertainty calling as the page unfurls
Fortune, heaven or hell
Shedding my body of this mortal shell
Black steel and iron
A lion heart is forged from these bones
Fear not, the discontent you hide
Awake fr

I see the sun begin to rise And I'm blinded too I've seen the world through jaded eyes That I'm crying through I've watch the darkness hypnotize And can't fight it Hold On I'm falling Can't b

This ends now
And i don't care about last year
Won't be afraid of what the future holds can't fear
Want not the past and the safety it brings
It doesn't mean anything
We've come too far
There's no going back now
Bring on the future with an open embrace
Memories i