ParaLLeL, by ParaLLeL

ParaLLeL

by ParaLLeL

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1.	Walk Away 03:39	lyrics	buy track
Climbing to the highest point to see what’s left behind Feast your eyes upon the flaming wreckage out of mind Lay your claim unto the devastation come to pass And embrace the ruin of all you know Walk away, walk away Lick your wounds, leave the fray Walk away, walk away Let the ash cover everything and Let go, look to tomorrow Don’t stay, just turn and walk away Life collapses for the ones who can’t be made to leave For the people who will never doubt what they believe There’s no way to take them under chance’s broken wing And no way that they could ever question anything Walk away, walk away Let them be led astray Walk away, walk away Change your course, free yourself so you can Let go, look to tomorrow Don’t stay, just turn and walk away Seek out shelter from fallout Move on from all the bygones Let go, look to tomorrow Don’t stay, just turn and walk away
2.	Face to Face 03:34	lyrics	buy track
Barreling right past two hundred days of twiddling my thumbs Sitting for another week until another bombshell comes Hard to know what’s coming down the pike but I can speculate Things may just get better but for now things are not going great I’ve tried everything to keep myself entertained But I find myself always feeling drained Mostly I just waste my time on silly things Waiting for what Hell tomorrow brings Everything has to end Be it sickness or a deadly friend Everything in its place Till the day I meet you face to face Difficult to say that I remember how things used to be Every day the comforts of the past retreat away from me Trying to convince myself I’m finding productivity Occupying myself to the best of my ability I’ve been listening to everybody say That I’m squandering the time I have away Every now and then I try to disagree Then reality comes down on me Everything has to end Be it sickness or a deadly friend Everything in its place Till the day I meet you face to face Everything has to end Be it sickness or a deadly friend Everything in its place Till the day I meet you face to face
3.	Ride 04:03	lyrics	buy track
I know what I’ve forgotten What fell between the cracks In time I’ll recognize it And work to take it back For now I’ll keep on breathing And savor what I’ve got I’ll become without equal At being what I’m not I’ll welcome my mistakes I’ll hold my soul at stake I’ll watch my ego break But someday I will turn the tide Till then I will let it ride The quiet’s hard to come by When every face I’ve marred Has come to villainize me And left me cut and scarred If I could cloak my spirit And stow my mind away I’d bide my time and sweat it out To keep them all at bay I’ll welcome my mistakes I’ll hold my soul at stake I’ll watch my ego break But someday I will turn the tide Till then I will let it ride I’ll welcome my mistakes I’ll hold my soul at stake I’ll watch my ego break But someday I will turn the tide Till then I will let it ride
4.	Scapegoat 04:53	lyrics	buy track
If ever there had been a better way of handling The way that you berate the ones on whom you depend If you could meditate on the way you operate Identify the broken bonds that you could mend You’d find a clearer route instead of convolute And forge ahead towards a stronger being Employ some self-control, a more cohesive whole And keep from boiling over A contradiction within yourself And an affliction plaguing your health When you catastrophize, withdraw and agonize Over the things that you believe are done to you You end up losing sight and try to overwrite And you don’t realize these all are things that you do You couldn’t feel that shame, you’d just deny the blame And deprecate your fictional adversary And you would not allow the truth to breach your vow To always play the victim A contradiction within yourself And an affliction plaguing your health A contradiction within yourself And an affliction plaguing your health
5.	Parallel 03:58	lyrics	buy track
Fragile fragments of fractured figures Freely falling for the floor To the tune of a ticking timer Tracking trespass toward the door Come too late Cannot wait Mislocate Left to fate Rain keeps falling on the staircase Whether skies are blue or gray And the windows come off their hinges On a calm or stormy day Setting sight on a spell at seaside Stay and shed some stress and strain Near the noise of the knocking neighbors Never knowing peace again Undermined By the grind Disinclined Left behind Rain keeps falling on the staircase Whether skies are blue or gray And the windows come off their hinges On a calm or stormy day
6.	Betrayed 03:23	lyrics	buy track
Breaking off just a piece of the whole In the hopes of comprehending How the trials took their toll Seems like it’s all neverending Wading through a battled mind Under siege from every angle Straying from the hope you’d find If your thoughts weren’t so entangled I am the one that you betrayed Enslaved to all that you surveyed Growing from the dying roots Of a faith so unrequited Bearing but the rotting fruits Of a worship fully blighted Through the numbness that you feel Maybe you could gasp for air Were it not so absolute And you not so unprepared I am the one that you betrayed Enslaved to all that you surveyed Underneath the microscope Pointing out your every failing And despite a hundred ventures Still it’s all so unavailing Falling from the precipice To a fate as yet untold Nearing impact by the second Knowing not what you’ll behold Gnawing at elan abandoned Quelled by gravity I am the one that you betrayed Enslaved to all that you surveyed
7.	Making Way 04:21	lyrics	buy track
Sundown, sidewalk ending So sure the path is bending Back again To where it’s always been One soul skips a beat and Prepares to repeat it Circles back To where it felt the crack It’s all the same It’s just a different name Than yesterday Just making way Reach down, turn the pages Same play on different stages The role you know From another show Paired with another partner Who knows the lines by heart You read along But the timing’s wrong It’s all the same It’s just a different name Than yesterday Just making way Morning shines into your long jaded eyes Making believe that there’s some new surprise Or just a new disguise It’s all the same It’s just a different name Than yesterday Just making way Midday, path divided And nothing yet decided Toe the line Or deny the sign Is it predetermined Or just another term of Needless fights And the sleepless nights It’s all the same It’s just a different name Than yesterday Just making way
8.	At Ease 03:28	lyrics	buy track
When I awoke the pain was gone And in its stead a silence I wondered if I was mistaken Fooled into defiance Everything you forsake Flying from my mind For you to never find Everything that you say Swallowed by the breeze Another new disease And in the end I am at ease Caught in an unfamiliar peace That I could not explain And though I tried to summon rage I couldn’t bear to maintain Everything you forsake Flying from my mind For you to never find Everything that you say Swallowed by the breeze Another new disease And in the end I am at ease Everything you forsake Flying from my mind For you to never find Everything that you say Swallowed by the breeze Another new disease And in the end I am at ease
9.	Hold On 04:42	lyrics	buy track
Nights come, days go Like precious seconds Heartache, torment Upset the stillness It overwhelms Alienates Antagonizes Never abates When it seems endless Your faith is gone When you can’t bear it Just hold on Hopeless, helpless Buried and desperate Falling, failing Each tarnished moment Stand your ground Fight through the pain Don’t forfeit hope You must remain When it seems endless Your faith is gone When you can’t bear it Just hold on Someday your demons will vanish in air You have the strength to survive your despair When it seems endless Your faith is gone When you can’t bear it Just hold on
10.	Journey 04:03	lyrics	buy track
Every step away from sanctuary Sets a precedent for what will come to pass ‘Neath the scorching embrace of the sunlight Lies a path that never circles back again Endless seas of Dunes and valleys Sand and gravel Crumbling metal Search eternal For a signal Blindly feeling For some meaning Sweat is breaking Hands are shaking Tendons aching One lone voice among a thousand creatures Cries in anguish for a sage or teacher Wishing only for a safe oasis Haven from the desert’s vicious graces Traveling to meet the mountain’s apex Sand to ruin to snow to dwindling prospects Praying for some way to find this journey’s end