VENERATE LYRICS
VENERATE LYRICS
01. THE ASSISTANT
The Assistant
Bedside bible
Collecting dust
Pulse is steady, sedated
The sun doesn’t exist inside this room
Faded oak chest
A still, silent witness
Envelope
Neat, sealed
Final rest
Heavy weighted words
Sleep like paperweights
On the tear-soaked pages
Sorrow and pain filled stench
Cadence steeped in apathy
Arrow tip sharp, deadly
One less in his quiver
He speaks only of love
Body descending
To the floor
The ravens begin to chant
The final moments of another broken man
A war we did not understand
The assistant leaves him breathless
Patient, serene
02. A WISE MAN
A Wise Man
Throwing the past off the cliff of regret
There’s only here and now that’s left
Releasing toxic hate that’s been harboring
It’s time to forgive & forget
Wasting the passage of time
on worthless endeavors of
just staying safe
Placing all your trust and your mind
in limiting beliefs that
keep things the same
I know it’s coming
There’s nowhere to hide
A wise man once said,
“You’re just going through the fire again.”
“You’ve hurt, you’ve bled”
“You’ll be better for it all in the end.”
Better for it all in the end
Refusing to take part of the life
Full of false promises of paradise
Sharpening the edge of the knife
Cutting through all that pulled me away
Taking back what I know is mine
It’s worthless to you but to me everything
Making a decision it’s time
I do this for you, I do this for me
I know it’s coming
There’s nowhere to hide
A wise man once said,
“You’re just going through the fire again.”
“You’ve hurt, you’ve bled”
“You’ll be better for it all in the end.”
Broken structures failed to hold fast
Onto the next step of the path
A wise man once said,
“You’re just going through the fire again.”
“You’ve hurt, you’ve bled”
“You’ll be better for it all in the end.”
03. SAY WHAT YOU MEAN
Say What You Mean
Say
I want to say I’m right
I want to win this
I want to hear it all
So don’t be useless or fight
So I will ask again
Under a fading light
Is there another me
Is there another side
And I
Have one more request
Don’t be so indecisive
Say
What you mean
Or don’t
Say
Anything at all
Say
What you mean
Or don’t
Say
Anything at all
I want to know I’m right
I want to own this
I need to have it all
Unless it’s useless to try
So I will ask again
During a lonely night
Is there another me
Is there another side
Well I
Have one more request
Don’t be so indecisive
Say
What you mean
Or don’t
Say
Anything at all
Say
What you mean
Or don’t
Say
Anything at all
Just say it
Just say it
Just say it
Just say
Say
What you mean
Or don’t
Say
Anything at all
Say
What you mean
Or don’t
Say
Anything at all
04. TRAINWRECK
Trainwreck
Could not move
As if I wanted to
Somewhere new
Surrounded by nothing I
See haunted eyes
Beyond the sad and tired
An empty prize
Nothing can inspire
My hands to want to
Push or pull
Grab or hold onto
Don’t give in
Isolated
Various
Overcomplications
Running ‘round in
Circles it seems in
Every thought I have
Falling sideways
To tell
The tail of
Crying for monsters
Ready for answers
I know it all can’t be healed
What is our threshold for pain
Soak up the hurt like it’s rain
Until it washes away again
What is our threshold for pain
Whatever it is we don’t deserve
Whatever it is we’ve hit the nerve
Whatever it is not the end of the road
Whatever it is don’t give up on hope
Watching everything you’ve put your
Heart and soul and time into
Quickly starts fading away
Realization that nothing you did
Really ever mattered
There’s nothing to do or say
But I have walked away with a
Perception of rights
That no longer will be denied
And I will rise again
After being beat bloodied and bruised
And falling onto the knife
You’re welcome to
Come and view
The newly cut diamond
You may not see what you like
You’re victim view
Is nothing new
Fear is still holding you captive
Stuck and paralyzed
Can you run?
Cannot Move
What is our threshold for pain
Soak up the hurt like it’s rain
Until it washes away again
What is our threshold for pain
Whatever it is we don’t deserve
Whatever it is we’ve hit the nerve
Whatever it is not the end of the road
Whatever it is don’t give up on hope
05. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
Ten Years Ago Today
All the letters I wrote
Pouring ink to the page
Never could say
It was always a joke
That I never felt a thing
Nerves always frayed
But now I see a different view
I see a different reflection
In the mirror (in the mirror)
The lens through which I saw before
Gave me a different perception
Now crystal clear (crystal clear)
I’m not blaming you
We make each other wicked
There’s no going back now
We call each other’s demons
Now you know
(we called them)
Now you know the reasons
Now you know
(we called them)
Why we had to let it go
I chose to blot out the sun
Eclipse it all through the day
Sedate and escape
If fully baring my soul
Can help to bring lasting change
I’m unafraid
But now I speak a different voice
I speak with different inflection
(What I hear (what I hear)
The voice through which I spoke before
Gave me so much deception
Now spoken clear (spoken clear)
I’m not blaming you
We make each other wicked
There’s no going back
We call each other’s demons
Now you know
(we called them)
Now you know the reasons
Now you know
(we called them)
Why we had to let it go
Face
Me now
Unspoken
No sound
Place
Me down
Go slowly
Go now
Words we said
Oaths are broken
And now
On those words
We’re choking
We’ll have to live
With what we said
Ten years ago today
I’m not blaming you
We make each other wicked
There’s no going back
We call each other’s demons
Now you know
Now you know the reasons
Now you know
Why we had to let it go
06. DRIFT
Drift
There’s no words left to say
The conversation is over
What if it was to come
What if it was the last ride
What if it was to come
What if it was the last time
What if it was to come
What if it was the last ride
What if it was to come
Would you wanna take a chance to stand aside
Now that my wings are burned
Now you wanna take my life
Now that my legs are broken
You’d walk me off a cliff to die
She calls, she cries
She hates me
When I call her on her fantasies
In a row of lies
The last one standing
Can see it all come crashing
Not easy to come down
When you’ve been high and hiding in the clouds
High on all your fits of sorrow
Why don’t you just fall the fuck down
I need more sun
To hide the shadows
Bury the pain that’s been eating me
She’s locked in nuetral
Moving nowhere fast
But moving swiftly
Last time I let her blame me
Broken down by all the insecurities
A piece of time
The clock moves south
Packaged pain is memory
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