Dark Tranquillity Moment 1. Phantom Days It doesn't make it any less real Once you feel it Rage with the fire of insight These are the days that Favors the emotional, an amplified belief When effective and unbiased I want my eyes to be It might be lost and gone to memory belong It doesn't make it any less real Once you feel it Rage with the fire of insight These are the phantom days Behind thе reason once we nullify intеnt Ignorance be just when defeatist minds prevail In dreams they slip away yet this feeling lingers on It doesn't make it any less real Once you feel it Rage with the fire of insight These are the phantom days What remains of indecision determined by resolve Vicariously through others I see what I can be It might be lost and gone to memory belong It doesn't make it any less real Once you feel it Rage with the fire of insight These are the phantom days 2. Transient To a fleeting wealth of knowledge We stand now idly by As it crashes and burns far from our grasp The ages-old dichotomy Between knowledge and belief One priori judgement at a time In judgement defined In our lifestyle, apathy So incapable In only observation and reaction We free ourselves of history In opinion and false deception What feats of our imagining We now fail at the hands of our non-control Confirmation biases Let me go, let me go We now fail at the hands of our non-control Resistant, transient Let me go, let me go Fall to the depths of desire's reach At the hands of our own device Understanding kept at arm's length With opinions close to the chest Hurtful, cold, beyond reproach Resisting to be called One form of denial at a time Through judgement defined In our lawless ignorance So untouchable No liberation or deduction We feed into the narrative In speculation and reification You gather up the fallacies We now fail at the hands of our non-control Confirmation biases Let me go, let me go We now fail at the hands of our non-control Resistant, transient Let me go, let me go, let me go One hit and you walk away Irredeemable In only observation and reaction We free ourselves of history In opinion and false deception What feats of our imagining We now fail at the hands of our non-control Confirmation biases Let me go, let me go We now fail at the hands of our non-control Resistant, transient Let me go, let me go, let me go 3. Identical to None You've got to resist Take it in through osmosis The narrowing ideas That nestle in your mind The gradual absorption Of tension built through time Distorted false depictions Can't stand the test of life I see a dissonant figure Rise up What are you in the eyes of strangers You are identical to none Why this disparity of thoughts When you are identical to none They want to see it burn Not deal the final hand The cleansing ash of others denied Is on your breath What should have been said What should have been done forgotten What should have been said What should have been done denied denied I see a dissonant figure Rise up What are you in the eyes of strangers You are identical to none Why this disparity of thoughts When you are identical to none Borne out of frustration Of never being seen The dissonant rise Why this disparity of thoughts When you are Identical to none What should have been said What should have been done forgotten forgotten What should have been said What should have been done denied denied What should have been said What should have been done forgotten forgotten What should have been said What should have been done denied denied What are you in the eyes of strangers You are identical to none Why this disparity of thoughts When you are identical to none 4. The Dark Unbroken As the night is closing in Unresolved and undefined Denies the need and challenges necessity Deprivation in a chaos of words The hours break the sinews of resistance The endline blurs Where the impossible and outsized Never learn to coexist Not for meaning Not for need Not for want alone Not for want alone Not for meaning Not for need Not for want alone How can we silence what is never said How can we scream away the noise It's burning from the inside out The restless tries not to remember This useless insight that sheds more light on the pain Must remain in the unbroken dark In stages of infinite time It lies and it waits The nerve endings touch The surface of my dreams And what seems like life Stretches out eternally I took on too much The hours fled And I was left here Stranded in doubt Not for meaning Not for need Not for want alone Not for want alone Not for meaning Not for need Not for want alone How can we kill what is never given How can we scream away the night It's burning from the inside out The restless tries not to remember This useless insight that sheds more light on the pain Must remain in the unbroken dark Not for meaning Not for need Not for want alone How can we silence what is never said How can we scream away the noise It burns on the inside As I try to not remember These endless, useless insights Not for meaning Not for need Not for want alone How can we keep what is never spoken Here in the unbroken dark 5. Remain in the Unknown In the flicker of a light In a shadow on the wall In the reassuring voice Of apophenia, my friend I hear signals in the static I see distant figures calling And I know it's not to be Yet let there be revelation I see movement in every color I see patterns, I see forms There is a way to feel affirmed A way to know for certain Where answers to our questions Remain in the unknown There is a way to feel A way to know Where meaning and logic Remain in the unknown Apophenia, my friend In ripples across the water Our seething minds embrace The false positive of comfort To register as nothing Nothing but willed illusion I know just what this is But please, let it be a revelation I see movement in every color I see patterns, I see forms There is a way to feel affirmed A way to know for certain Where answers to our questions Remain in the unknown There is a way to feel A way to know Where meaning and logic Remain in the unknown With nothing to break the illusion To break the spell Just knowing what this is not Is enough to dispell the doubting And give into delusion Let it be revelation It gives purpose to the mundane I see movement in every color I see patterns, I see forms There is a way to feel affirmed A way to know for certain Where answers to our questions Remain in the unknown There is a way to feel A way to know Where meaning and logic Remain in the unknown 6. Standstill Where are we now? Where are we going? To the ends of our worlds, if not further Where are we now? Where are we going? To the other side of right From wherever I am I call to you From wherever I am tonight We are strangers where we stand Do I have to be the one to let this go forever To see what lies unknown? I don't want to be the one to let this go forever We are what we can, we can only hope to forget This distance-created curse Of silence and waking nights I thought I could see an end To do whatever we can To raise the stakes To make everything count tonight We are strangers where we stand Do I have to be the one to let this go forever To see what lies unknown? I don't want to be the one to let this go forever So this is where we are tonight We're at a standstill till the end From wherever I am I call to you I call to you From wherever I am From whoever I am tonight We are strangers where we stand Do I have to be the one to let this go forever To see what lies unknown? I don't want to be the one to let this go forever So this is where we are tonight There is nowhere to go from here 7. Ego Deception Senses die in me To the point of resistance failure Numb to the noise and the self-defining Liberation of the ego deceived Liberation of the ego deceived With the self negated Taken to the core of Reaction formation Sublimation channeling Reaction formation Sublimation channeling Idealize the maker Move the application Above the form Till it brings you down I cannot feel your pain I cannot see your fear Though I can sense your anger now I'm just the one who wants Just the one who needs Locked in ego deception Hours die in me As deception powers to resist the known simplicity In the giving of what others could want Oblivious and headstrong Liberation lies within Oblivious to constructs coming down Deception formation Sublimation channeling Deception formation Sublimation channeling Reshaping of reality Reinforcing a lie On which it's built upon I cannot feel your pain I cannot see your fear Though I can sense your anger now I'm just the one who wants Just the one who needs Locked in ego deception Vilification of the unbeliever Strike fear in inquiry Justify the perceived intention Ego deception He cannot feel your pain And cannot see your fear Though he can sense your anger Just the one who wants Just the one who needs Locked in ego deception 8. A Drawn Out Exit So burn the trail and keep the flames alight Before the end appears inside the haze Bare the shadow cast from journey's end The final curtain falls, there's nothing there Without a trace We lie in wait again You lost the will to feel And take the highs and lows for granted Or am I wasting all my time when I know this is different? I know, I know, I know Far away and out of our reach Our broken ways abandoned long ago Freed inside the walls of your design Non-conforming, wavering alone A drawn out Exit from the norm You lost the will to feel And take the highs and lows for granted Is this wasted on the numb knowing this won't make a difference? I know, I know, I know Is there bliss in resisting The fortune of feelings we hold? The sharp edges that determine our shape The scars that now expose the pain Our broken bodies speak of triumph Our face reveals what should be known Yet, you burn the trail Burn You lost the will to feel And take the highs and lows for granted Or am I wasting all my time when I know this is different? I know, I know, I know 9. Eyes of the World Bring to an end This avoidance when you close your eyes What is now Had a beginning phase that came to pass Now the eyes of the world are upon you We all want to know Now the eyes of the world are upon you Will we ever see? I can feel it coming down As the walls give way and crumble I can feel it coming down And I will be watching You take the bait It pulls you in and takes you down And these days It seems we miss what lies between, the lies between We can sense the way they'll spin us They'll spin us round and round till we forget Till we forget Lead the fires to the core To the end now within reach, we must resist We must resist Now the eyes of the world are upon you We all want to know Now the eyes of the world are upon you Will we ever see? I can feel it coming down As the walls give way and crumble I can feel it coming down And I will be watching Yeah, I will be watching Now the eyes of the world are upon you Will we ever see? I can feel it coming down As the walls give way and crumble I can feel it coming down And I will be watching Yeah, I will be watching 10. Failstate Temper the burn With the death of a night, unending The voices fall again In judgement and scorn The sky disappears To fragment our blind perception Forge every waking thought And stoke our fears To the tune of the apocalypse To the tune of the apocalypse Brave the silent hours Resist the fail state There is death inside And nothing but failure And you will never know its name You will never know its name With a line descending As the voices call again The barriers appear To block out our baser instincts Force each and every thought To amplify fear To the tune of the apocalypse To the tune of the apocalypse Brave the silent hours Resist the fail state There is death inside And nothing but failure And you will never know its name You will never know its name The final set of fours Repeat the affirmation Face the indecision Resist the fail state To the tune of the apocalypse To the tune of the apocalypse Brave the silent hours Resist the fail state To the tune of the apocalypse To the tune of the apocalypse Brave the silent hours Resist the fail state