You Haven't Earned It Assemblage 23

haven't earned it You haven't walked long enough in these shoes You don't deserve it You haven't nearly paid your dues But you haven't earned it You haven't walked long enough in these shoes You don't

Tried Assemblage 23

the things I'd done I tried to no avail To keep my eyes from growing pale But my vision came too late And my belief started to abate Like a tide recedes from rocky shores I drew back no matter how much you

Let The Wind Erase Me Assemblage 23

take me Away from all of this Let the winds erase me Like the memory of a kiss Let these waters take me Away from all of this I need a respite from this noise The distant roar of static oceans Give me a haven

Tragic Figure Assemblage 23

Once you had it all And threw it all away Day became your night Night became your day Did it ever rain When the skies were clear? Does it help explain How your turned up here?

Never Forgive Assemblage 23

It never felt so real Never so visceral But now it's all too clear And all too typical You're left with nothing And it's all your fault Relations cease And emotions halt Did you think the things you said

Consequence Assemblage 23

Mere apologies won't undo what you've done The echoes linger on, the backlash has begun Feigned indifference, your least convincing mask But deep down inside, its forgivness that you ask When hurt and

Maps Of Reality Assemblage 23

reality Are tearing us apart Fan the flames of fallacy And watch the truth depart Belief is what you make of it A creation of your own If the outcome is unfit Let your conscience take the blow It's everybody

Old Assemblage 23

When I grow old And my memory Leads me deep into the fog where it abandons me Will you remind me Of who I used to be When I was younger?

I Am The Rain Assemblage 23

Too eager to appease The cure is the disease And it's only growing worse Day by day, it takes its hold Divides its cells a thousandfold And makes your blindness seem perverse Out of sight and out of mind

Human Assemblage 23

Ignore the writing on the wall It just decorates A place that I have lived so long Delusion's vast estates There's nothing sinister at all Gnawing at my soul But these confessions that I give Help me feel

Purgatory Assemblage 23

"So here I stand Completely alone My skin absorbs the rain Helpless to control Pieces within the whole I can feel it starting again A sudden descent I never meant To manifest itself Caught unaware In frozen

Coward Assemblage 23

Coward Why are you frightened? So quiet I can barely hear your lies Coward Was it too hard for you To simply tell the truth?

Longevity Assemblage 23

"I forgive your weakness In light of all this bleakness You were merely human Destined to be ruined Startled as your brevity Turned to my longevity I can't follow your steps Can't go the places you went

Lullaby Assemblage 23

May you find solace in the gentle arms of sleep Despite the wolves outside your door In time you will see them all as harmless And their idle threats easy to ignore And if ever fate should choose to smite

Pages Assemblage 23

I read your mind But it wasn't a very interesting read The plot was contrived And the characters were too consumed by need Page by page Enduring each predictable turn The paper dissolves beneath my fingers

Fallen Down Assemblage 23

"I've seen this face before It somehow looks familiar Tattered and weatherworn A sad, pathetic creature And once you stood so strong Your eyes alight with promise You vowed to carry on A heart once beat

Opened Assemblage 23

knew was misconception But all of that's about to change I opened my eyes today The world looks so bright and strange Now I see with clarity I won't be your casualty Trust is merely for convenience Does it

Binary Assemblage 23

All hail the death of compromise CHORUS The world isn't rendered in black and white Other shades lie between Don't view the world with binary eyes We are human, not machine Eliminate the critical When it

Decades V2 Assemblage 23

Time is like a serpant That devours its own tail The coils grow ever-tighter With each moment it inhales A forboding sense of deja v That cannot be ignored Its hard to help but feel Weve seen and done

Cocoon Assemblage 23

Even though I know it's only chemical These peaks and valleys are beginning to take their toll Trying to convince myself that all it takes is time But the most derisive voice I hear is mine It opens all

Awake Assemblage 23

destination to welcome me This road is just an endless loop Every time I close my eyes The noise inside me amplifies I can't escape I relive every moment of the day Every misstep I have made Finds a way it

Darker Assemblage 23

its feet are the souls of the dead Tearing the fractured divisions apart The tandem destruction of brothers in arms Crying for reason with none to be found Engulfed by the ominous, deafening sound Has it

Divide Assemblage 23

Whispers and cries with no reply It's quiet here within these boundaries And thoughts collect like pools of light My eyes divide the sky As sirens sound in heaven My will brings down the moon And shatters it

Disappoint Assemblage 23

To sit and talk with you For one last time Did I disappoint you?

Silence Assemblage 23

"I want you to know the thoughts My mind contains I want you to feel the rage Pulse through my veins I want you to see the anger In my eyes I want you to feel fear For your own life I want to see the tears

Raw Assemblage 23

I'm running scared with no direction Dark The only thing that's real It's all that I can feel And every single nerve is screaming Wait For sleep that never comes My imagination runs Out of reach and it

Sorry Assemblage 23

I'm sorry I can't bleed for you The way you want me to To throw myself against the rocks The way I used to do I'm sorry that I can't prolong The pain I've been put through I'm sorry, yes I'm sorry So sorry

Blindhammer Assemblage 23

guide us No catalyst for change We are too young to know better But frailty comes with age So we run towards Armageddon While our legs still have the strength And like a blind hammer That destroys what it

King Of Insects Assemblage 23

Words come easy Behind a screen When there's no interface to face To be seen King of insects You eat your own Atop an anthill You call your throne Kingdom of one So unaware As one-by-one your subjects

Ground Assemblage 23

Be still Though chaos reigns around you now Only so much rain can fall at once Breathe in And let the air envelope you And slow and sure serenity will come Close your eyes Try to breathe Feel the ground

Regret Assemblage 23

"Some time ago I checked my conscience And found it wasn't all that clean A trail of people I had hurt A sea of sins left unredeemed CH Regret is a dull and rusted blade That covers me with scars that

Light Assemblage 23

barren void that's featureless No sight or sound can penetrate at all Though silent storms may try to tear me down When dusk descends, I'll still be standing tall To the ones who want me on my knees You

Surface Assemblage 23

in a cage An explosion without a sound Drawn in By the deafening din Crumbling into dust Look down Watching me drown Choking on my disgust And when I surface again I will not breathe the same air as you

Infinite Assemblage 23

giants Whose shadows stretch for miles CH Staggering and infinite And full of ageless grace The universe seemed limitless Without any time Without any place Staggering and infinite The beauty of it

Bi-Polar Assemblage 23

time on a grander and grander scale My life is worthless and so am I I hate my life I want to die The epiphany that came to fall Finally helped me reconcile What I felt wasn't joy at all All this time it

House on Fire Assemblage 23

nothing else left Nothing else left to blame Emerging from the wreckage Of a life that once was Confounded by the damage My own psyche does I bear the scars Of an insufferable will And the tyrannical reign It

Damaged Assemblage 23

suffer is holy I'll take my share of the pain I can swim through this sadness If there's something to gain I can reach for the surface And try to pull myself free But the last thing I want is To drag you

Skyquake Assemblage 23

Too busy thinking of excuses For a practice we can not defend Collapsing under its own weight The sky burns out As we kiss oblivion Upon its toothy mouth Your well being does not concern us Any worries you

Sun Assemblage 23

had been Forced to forget the things I've seen Mowing down Rows and rows Like waves of flesh, blood, and bone Staring blank Into space No sign of life on my face Empty man With a gun What on earth have you

Madman's Dream Assemblage 23

I saw cities swallowed by the oceanI saw children crying in the streetsHundreds stranded on the overpassBodies rotting in the brutal heatCries for help fell on deaf ears5 days passed and no one cam...

Truth Assemblage 23

The truth is like a dancer with shattered limbsWhat once stood proud and graceful is languishingAnd the midday sun beats down from above like a giant fistThat evaporates the veracity from within ou...

Crush Assemblage 23

In dying light, the day is fadingDefeated eyes regard the sunThat sinks behind the broad horizonUntil the two melt into oneBeneath the gravity of failurePinned to the unforgiving earthBargains we m...

Ghosts Assemblage 23

A thousand footsteps without directionAdrift like snowfall from winter skiesAimless parades of burning ambivalenceSelling false hope in certainty's guiseLiving and breathing in sorrow's colossusThe...

Anthem Assemblage 23

"We are born of stoneAnd etched by windCast aside to live or dieWe are the pawns in our own gameLike refugeesOf silent warsWe step on ever-shifting groundPromoting what we undermineFor countless da...

7 Days Assemblage 23

Seven daysI'll never leave this house againSeven daysI'll never leave this house againSeven daysI'll never leave this room againSeven daysI'll never leave this room againSeven daysI'll never leave ...

Drive Assemblage 23

"When chaos reigns without a purposeWhen the swell of sound becomes too muchCrushed between the cogs that work usWhen I feel I'm slowly losing touchSometimes I drive to run from all my demonsSometi...

Document Assemblage 23

"In stillnessA silent weightPausing as the minutes each evaporateA desireTo leave a scarTo raise a voice from within the darkDecayingCascadingExistence falls apartAround meWithin meSo I must leave ...

Naked Assemblage 23

Awake, aware, aloneLost and far from homeI walk without these wallsSo there is less to fallI am nakedI have nothing leftMy bones are picked cleanAnd riddled with regretsNothing can touch meI've not...

Haven 넬 (Nell)

Don t cry over me. I know it s a dark cave and even though it s far from heaven Maybe this could be my haven. Don t cry over me.

At 23 Donots

m waiting(at 23) Reach out for something sedating(to set me free) At 9 in the morning everything？s still out of tune Teenage dreams at 23 will drop dead in the afternoon Breathe out while I？