A Fearful Wonder
1. With Open Eyes
There’s so much you won’t let go
So gripped by the emptiness
You won’t show it but I know
You’ve sunken into distress
All that you refuse to face
Leaves you guarded and austere
Hiding an arcane disgrace
And living enslaved to fear
Don’t you want to feel a little more alive
And live with open eyes?
‘Cause if you can believe, you’ll find you’re just in time
To leave it all behind
You have carried endless war
Inside of your mind
Picture now an open door
And take back the time
Don’t you wanna feel a little more alive
And live with open eyes?
‘Cause if you can believe, you’ll find you’re just in time
To leave it all behind
With open eyes
Don’t you wanna feel a little more alive
And live with open eyes?
‘Cause if you can believe, you’ll find you’re just in time
To leave it all behind
2. Rooted In Thin Air
They said there was nothing out there
But what has always been
Worlds eternal that never did begin
An infinite regression
And quietly I've longed for something else
But where's the truth to tell
When someone's truth is false to someone else
And thoughts unwrite themselves?
I feel this mystery (It's so real to me)
Show me your reality
Beyond the lies they share,
They're rooted in thin air
Let me see the mystery
Around us everywhere
In thin air
They said you had come from somewhere else
Older than time itself
Worlds above us sent a message down
And somehow I never found out.
"Show me your reality
Let me see the mystery"
Show me your reality
Beyond the lies they share,
They're rooted in thin air
Let me see the mystery
Around us everywhere
In thin air
3. Steel
Light me in the forge and forge me in the light
Teach my soul to stand, my soul to stand and fight
(I) Steel myself to test the steel that’s burning bright
Teach my soul to stand, my soul to stand and fight
Oh my soul to stand and fight
Formless ore to brandished blade
A transformation wrought by pain
Born of hammer, born of flame
Born again with a new name
Arms made strong to bear the sword
Are first to bear the cross
Victory the true reward
Of those who learn from loss
Light me in the forge and forge me in the light
Teach my soul to stand, my soul to stand and fight
(I) Steel myself to test the steel that’s burning bright
Teach my soul to stand, my soul to stand and fight
Oh my soul to stand and fight
And all that burns away was never meant to stay
Scorched and tortured into shape
With every strike the hammer makes
A living weapon, loathe to fate
So stick me back into the blaze
Sharpen the edge of my defense
Scars will forget the blood they’ve bled
So bleed
Bleed
Light me in the forge and forge me in the light
Teach my soul to stand, my soul to stand and fight
(I) Steel myself to test the steel that’s burning bright
Teach my soul to stand, my soul to stand and fight
Oh my soul to stand and fight
4. Waveway
Love I need I give away
Love in vain – the price I pay
Love I need I give away
I’ve trained my heart for this mistake
So there’s a singer on the stereo
Who said he had a little love that he spread too thin
Now perfectly lonely is the song I know
Cause only I know how I’ve spread my sin
Indictment comes when I least expect
Rebuking this inclination
They wage their war with no respect
Make love – make war, these passions wreck
Until my heart learns to love right
I give the love I need away
Love I need I give away
Love in vain – the price I pay
Love I need I give away
I’ve trained my heart for this mistake
Evermore becoming fake
It’s a sin sick wish I make
One of many hearts I’ll break
I’ve trained my heart for this mistake
Awake before it so desires
My heart lights me with this dark fire
I make believe sincerity
If I can't think that I'm even worth saving
I will breed disregard
And so watch them wave as they fade (images all float away)
Misappropriated passion spawns bewilderment
Vanity presumed on its right time
And thought you were mine
Love I need I give away
Love in vain – the price I pay
Love I need I give away
I’ve trained my heart for this mistake
Evermore becoming fake
It’s a sin sick wish I make
One of many hearts I’ll break
I’ve trained my heart for this mistake
Regret knows my name,
Regret knows my face,
My hand,
Your heart torn through your ribcage
And through skin
I never meant for you to truly let me in.
5. To The Wind
Throw it away to the wind and start again
We built a wall made out of words
To try to keep us safe
We built that wall into towers
With keepers at the gates
Now I want to find out what is real
Not just what they told me I should feel
I saw a light from the outside
A window opened wide
And if I don’t belong here in this place
Let the walls give way; they can’t keep me safe
And if the words are wrong, find out what’s fake
Throw it away to the wind and start again
Backspace on bricks around the frame
Remove the windowpanes
The wind could blow this house away
Erase the phrases out of place
My faith, my heart rose to the wind
And I don’t know where it will lead me
I don’t know where to begin
But I’ll take my chances just to find a firmer foundation
And if I don’t belong here in this place
Let the walls give way; they can’t keep me safe
And if the words are wrong, find out what’s fake
Throw it away to the wind and start again
Let the walls give way
Let the walls give way
Backspace what’s fake, throw it away
They can’t keep me safe
I’ll hold to my faith and find a new way
I’ll find a new way
And if I don’t belong here in this place
Let the walls give way; they can’t keep me safe
And if the words are wrong, find out what’s fake
Throw it away to the wind and start again
And if I don’t belong here in this place
Throw it away to the wind and start again
And if the words are wrong, find out what’s fake
Throw it away to the wind and start again
Throw it away to the wind and start again
6. Take The Sky
Taken hostage from skies where I once flew
My heart is chained and my wings removed
Tethered to the earth, taking undesired root
The heavy, fettered birth from seed to bitter fruit
For my wings I wait in the silence
Keeping my eyes trained on the horizon
When they bloom from me, I’ll fly away
I’ll take the sky, I’ll take the sky today
Sever the ties, the stitches that they used
To bind me down, to serve the ground
I’m ready now
For my wings to bloom
For my wings I wait in the silence
Keeping my eyes trained on the horizon
When they bloom from me, I’ll fly away
I’ll take the sky, I’ll take the sky today
Fly away
Run, and fall, and rise again
For no fall is ever the end
Lift me up to where I belong
Let the weak say “I am strong”
For my wings I wait in the silence
Keeping my eyes trained on the horizon
When they bloom from me, I’ll fly away
I’ll take the sky, I’ll take the sky today
No imprisonment to circumstance
Hope is endless
No destiny but liberty
Convalesce
Sever the ties, the stitches that they used
To bind me down, I’m ready now
To fly away
7. The Locust Season
Release the lamentation, the anguish in a burning lung
For all the devastation that’s only just begun
The mandibles of sorrow have come to drag away the world
The season of the locust, the sickly skyward swirl
So never let my spirit break; We will begin again
Never let my spirit break, and I’ll embrace the end
Never let my spirit break; We will begin again
Never let my spirit break, and I’ll embrace the end
Provoke the day of darkness; The ancient hand strikes the field
The army comes devouring, reversing Eden’s yield
So gather all the people whose hope has still survived
The day for dreams to come alive has arrived
So never let my spirit break; We will begin again
Never let my spirit break, and I’ll embrace the end
Never let my spirit break; We will begin again
Never let my spirit break, and I’ll embrace the end
When the world is wrapped in dread wonder
Brother, sister, just look up
Don’t be fearful when you hear the thunder
Blood and fire means it’s only just begun
As the sun goes dark it truly seems
That the whole world’s sight’s gone blind
But the sons and daughters dream their dreams
For they know that it is time
And the locust season sinks its teeth
Into every faithless mind
But the children dream their father’s dream
For they know that it is time
Never let my spirit break; We will begin again
Never let my spirit break, and I’ll embrace the end
Never let my spirit break; We will begin again
Never let my spirit break, and I’ll embrace the end
8. Nail
Don’t you know just what you’re made of?
Child I see you there
Regretting all you couldn’t be
A fearful wonder when you wake up
‘Cause you were unaware
That you have a destiny
Nail the lid shut on your past
The casket for your doubts
Who you're meant to be is yours for finding out
Don’t be satisfied with a compromise
When you realize that you’re worth so much more
Don’t be scared to try; raise your colours high
If you don’t then I’m afraid you’ll never know
You’re a child of eternity
Seen by Divine eyes
Bought by sacrifice
And led into the light
Nail your colours to the mast
And let the whole world know
You’re not scared to face the danger on your own
Don’t be satisfied with a compromise
When you realize that you’re worth so much more
Don’t be scared to try, raise your colours high
If you don’t then I’m afraid you’ll never know
Someday you will wake, and you won’t run away
Don’t be satisfied with a compromise
When you realize that you’re worth so much more
Don’t be scared to try, raise your colours high
If you don’t then I’m afraid you’ll never know
9. Burning In My Mind
Show me my hubris and my abuses
All my excuses become elusive
Another broken vow today
Another price I couldn’t pay
Another nail in hands that save
I let my promise break
Oh, it’s burning in my mind
How I can’t face all my mistakes or bring them to the light
No, I’m running out of time
And I can’t face my judgment day if I can’t make this right
My mind’s a ruthless internal Judas
This voice abuses, tells me I’m useless
Another hour wastes away
Another selfish word to say
Another nail in hands that save
I let my promise break
Oh, it’s burning in my mind
How I can’t face all my mistakes or bring them to the light
No, I’m running out of time
And I can’t face my judgment day if I can’t make this right
It’s time to go; terror grips my throat
Death calls, I know just why the bell tolls
I stand alone at the judgment throne
Guilt breaks these bones
There’s no way that I could atone
Oh, it’s burning in my mind
How I can’t face all my mistakes or bring them to the light
No, I’m running out of time
And I can’t face my judgment day if I can’t make this right
Oh, I can’t believe my eyes
But I’ve seen grace replace mistakes with perfect sacrifice
And though I fall a thousand times
I will remain to rise again and stand to face the light
10. Red Sky
Burning, oh the sky is burning
Holy red lights dazzling this judgment day
Yearning, I can feel the yearning
Of the lawless jaws that long to carry me away
Light, erase this age
Scarlet lights - the sky’s so blinding
I’m ready for the foe that finds me
Watching all the world unwinding now
Crumbling down
Scarlet lights - the end is nearing
See the signs that you’ve been fearing
Blood for a world running weary now
All around
Watching the world unravelling
The earth begins to sing itself to sleep
Slumber for this perishing age
But come and wake the graves
Empty graves, greet the morning
Come awake
O Behold!
The end inaugurates a new forever
Baptize it in blood
And let the world rise up in flames
Come hell and high Heaven
Let light erase this age
Erase this age
Scarlet lights - the sky’s so blinding
I’m ready for the foe that finds me
Watching all the world unwinding now
Crumbling down
Scarlet lights - the end is nearing
Open hearts no longer fearing
Blood for a world running weary now
All around
Look to the red skies