The black and cold reminds me
Of all the distance we have crossed
And if your darkness blinds me
I could never be more lost

But I'm not the one who seeks your protection
I'm not the one to share the disguise
And I'm not the one that reeks of rejection
I'm not the one to tear the same way twice

(Chorus-

You push from the inside
Smothered
You push from the inside out
Smothered) [X2]

Here all your walls surround me
They're closing in they blocked my sight
The violence around me
Found me when I could not fight

But I'm not the one to take your direction
I'm not the one who wears the disguise
And I'm not the one to share your reflection
I'm not the one you break the same way twice

(Chorus)

I will never win
I will never win with you (X2)

I read you
I fear you round up
No more than you know

I hate you
I still do
Everytime you let me go...

(Chorus)

I will never win
I will never win with you (X2)

SMOTHERED!

I'M SMOTHERED!

::END::

No more
No more are the days that I will
Fear for I have found a strength that
None can match and I'll push forward

Never has the blood in my veins
Flowed so fiercely as when I feel this around me
I am whole

[Chorus:]
I'm not alone with the touch of your hand I am whole again
I'm not alone with the touch of your hand I am whole again

Now I feel the passion burning
This what drives me further
Strengthens my resolve to push me further

[Spoken:] AND I BELIEVE I, AM, ALONE-

[Chorus]

Give me hot steel, go

[Solo]

No more are the days that I will
Fear for I have found a strength that
None can match and I'll push further

Now I feel the passion burning
This what drives me further
Strengthens my resolve to push me further

[Chorus]

The knowledge that seeking the favor of another
Means the murder of self.
This is the resolution
The end of all progress
The death of evolution
It bleeds all life away.
Silence speeds the path to the streams of solace that run so few and narrow.
Brooks that babble the sounds of torture.
You will one day rise
To flood the banks of the chosen.
This is the art of ruin.
This is the resolution
The end of all progress
The death of evolution
It bleeds all life away.
I will show you all that I have mastered
Fear. Pain. Hatred. Power.
This is the art of ruin.