1. Defending Desire In A Time of Great Despair lyrics - Societal torpor weighs us down. With a inclination to thrive (we are we) grasping at lucidity. If our collective collapse is imminent, we must harness that energy and channel it, Into tangible outpourings of sound and strength. For we are the dreamers of dreams. And we dream And we can dream Because dreams are free If tomorrow never comes, so be it We are living for today. We are living for each other. We are alive now, and that is the greatest gift. If our hearts are truly born to break. We can use those pieces to finish the puzzle and show the world just how unflinchingly beautiful the art of sentience can be when we work together. 2. A Not-So-Distant Perdition lyrics - It’s hard to rationalize hope in a world that takes for granted all human life. It’s an awful lot of baggage we hold as our hearts grow weary amongst the wolves.Find pleasure where you can, it’s fleeting. Don’t turn your back on truths unheeded. If you give into their “master plan” you’ll end up torn to shreds and eaten. You look but you will never find. Buoyancy beneath the slime Blistered hands from work unending. Digging deeper until the clock strikes you. Their standing orders have destroyed passion as that 80 hour work week runs you through. It’s become increasingly impossible to hold a smile as our backs break in their labor camps. A paltry sum of meager earnings and your children go to bed hungry once again. Forever more, you’re dead inside As the overlords snuff out the light 3. Heightened Senses, Deceptive Glances lyrics - She spoke of ghosts in hallways. Nightmarish visions of dead friends screaming. I’ll never know her pained red fingers. Self sacrifice on bloody bathroom mirrors. Let’s escape to that darkened theater. Hiding the light behind black tissue paper I am yours, I am yours, always and forever, I am yours I’ll make the messes, you’ll make me able. Please hold my heart until I unravel. It’s not so much the longing or the languid. As it is the abolition & calamity. That keeps us here, beneath the comfort. A blanket of darkness, without a whisper. We are ghosts, amongst the living after all. Formless shadows, they haunt the corners. A debt to winter keeps us uncovered. Of course words on stone could never alter. That frigid wind that chills us to our core. Collapsing under the weight of waiting You reassured me we’d be together again before too long. She spoke of ghosts in hallways. Nightmarish visions of dead friends screaming. I’ll never know her pained red fingers. Self sacrifice on bloody bathroom mirrors. Let’s escape to that darkened theater. Hiding the light behind black tissue paper I am yours, I am yours, always and forever, I am yours