The Powerless Rise
As I Lay Dying
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Beyond Our Suffering
02 : 49
2
Anodyne Sea
04 : 34
3
Without Conclusion
03 : 15
4
Parallels
04 : 57
5
The Plague
03 : 42
6
Anger and Apathy
04 : 25
7
Condemned
02 : 49
8
Upside Down Kingdom
04 : 00
9
Vacancy
04 : 26
10
The Only Constant Is Change
04 : 07
11
The Blinding of False Light
05 : 10
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Track Lyrics
Beyond Our Suffering Lyrics
[Intro]
What we see now is only a fraction
[Verse 1]
Bound to learn the hard way (Hard way)
This is the human condition
There is nothing that can be said
To stop us from making mistakes
When I look to myself
As a source of ending pain
No matter how many times
Before I've failed
[Chorus]
It seems our problems
Solve themselves
When we look beyond us
To those truly in hell
[Verse 2]
The more I focus on myself
Then the more helpless that I become
So why not erase this point of view?
My suffering is trivial
Beyond our suffering
Compared to those
Who know real agony
[Refrain]
It seems our problems
Solve themselves
When we look beyond us
To those truly in hell
[Chorus]
It seems our problems solve themselves
When we look beyond our suffering
It seems our problems solve themselves
When we look beyond our suffering
[Post-Chorus]
Go
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
My trials seem insignificant now
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Why won't we look beyond us?
Why won't we look beyond our despair?
It seems our problems solve themselves
When we look to those truly in hell
[Post-Verse]
Go
[Outro]
Personal redemption
Cannot change the world
Unless we lay down our lives
For those who still suffer
Anodyne Sea Lyrics
[Verse 1: Tim Lambesis]
None of this matters
None of these words
Common and silent
We will die in this world
We've only spoken
To those who agree
And without them, we've fallen
On deaf ears
[Pre-Chorus 1: Tim Lambesis]
Stand on conviction
And you will walk alone
[Pre-Chorus 2: Tim Lambesis]
For once, I have stood (I have stood)
No one will know
But alone, I was born
And alone, we must go
[Chorus: Josh Gilbert, Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
In my convictions
I've found my own grave
But amongst the dead, we all
Fade away
[Verse 2: Tim Lambesis]
Yet solitude is better than a life
Not worthy of reaction
There is nothing to lose (Nothing)
So, we stand alone or join those
Who follow in misery
[Chorus: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
In my convictions
I've found my own grave
But amongst the dead, we all
Fade away
In my convictions
I've found my own grave
But amongst the dead, we all
Fade away
Fade away...
[Bridge: Tim Lambesis]
Stand on conviction
And you'll walk alone
A voice is only a noise
Without someone to hear
And without a crowd to feed
That noise grows silent
[Refrain: Tim Lambesis]
For once, I have stood
No one will know
But alone, I was born
And alone, we must go
[Bridge: Tim Lambesis]
Fading back
Into an anodyne sea
To drown with all
Who've gone before me
[Pre-Chorus: Tim Lambesis]
We must go
[Chorus: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
In my convictions
I've found my own grave (My own grave)
But amongst the dead, we all
Fade away
In my convictions (Convictions)
I've found my own grave
But amongst the dead, we all
Fade away
[Outro: Tim Lambesis]
Stand on conviction
And you'll walk alone, yeah
Fading back
Into an anodyne sea
To drown with all
Who've gone before me
Fading back... fading
Fading back
Into an anodyne sea
Fading back... fading
Fading back... fading away
Without Conclusion Lyrics
[Verse 1]
If we chase acclaim in search for
Search for stature
Then our status becomes
A vacuum draining
Opulence is a myth
For there is no final rest
Change in circumstance only delays
The inescapable fact that we are downcast
[Guitar Solo]
[Refrain]
In looking to the end
We've lost sight of where to begin
[Verse 2]
Hope lies not in reaching
Reaching the end
If the journey itself is enough
To bring fulfillment
[Chorus]
Without conclusion
This song will end
Without conclusion
There is no final rest
Without conclusion
Shred
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
We are void of purpose
Before we start
For in chasing our destination
The present state is sacrificed, sacrificed
In looking to, in looking to the end
We have lost sight of where to begin
We've lost
We have lost sight of where to begin
[Chorus]
Without conclusion
This song will end
Without conclusion
There is no final rest
Without conclusion
This song will end
Without conclusion
There is no final rest
[Outro]
Without conclusion
This song will end
Without conclusion
Parallels Lyrics
[Verse 1: Tim Lambesis]
We are all comatose
We are overfed and under
Undernourished
Yearning for something more
Never starving
Yet never quite satisfied
Carnal but without
Useful flesh or mind
[Refrain: Tim Lambesis]
I am a walking contradiction
That's found consistency
Consuming everything
All without producing sustenance
[Verse 2: Tim Lambesis]
In the parallels, we struggle
Struggle to upkeep
There is a better way
For us to be set free
From all it is we crave
There must be more to life
Than to simply stay alive
To simply stay alive
[Chorus: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
We are not the same
As I hope to show
There is a better way
If we just let go
We are not
We are not the same
We are not
We are not the same
Let go
[Verse 3: Tim Lambesis]
In the tension between
Devouring want or simple need
It's clear the only lines
Between the ones we preserve
[Chorus: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
We are not the same
As I hope to show
There is a better way
If we just let go
We are not
We are not the same
We are not
We are not the same
Let go
[Refrain: Tim Lambesis]
We are not the same
[Bridge: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
And in the parallels
We struggle to upkeep
There's a better way for us to be
For us to be set free
And in the parallels (Parallels)
We struggle to upkeep (Struggle to upkeep)
There's a better way for us to be
For us to be set free
[Guitar Solo]
Yeah!
[Chorus: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
We are not the same
As I hope to show
There is a better way
If we just let go
We are not
We are not the same
We are not
We are not the same
Let go
[Outro: Tim Lambesis, Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
We are not the same
Upside Down Kingdom Lyrics
[Verse 1: Tim Lambesis]
Many choose to find their hope
In the thoughts of afterlife
When there is none to be found
Right here before we die
So, I understand
The feeling of helplessness
When we are just taught to wait here
Wait here for death
[Pre-Chorus 1: Tim Lambesis]
Wait here for death
Wait for this suffering to end
Wait here for death (wait here for death)
Wait for this suffering to end
[Pre-Chorus 2: Tim Lambesis]
We are not forgotten
For a kingdom is offered
Beyond that of golden streets
We can represent now
What will one day
Be complete
[Chorus 1: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
Simplicity is not a curse
Where strength is humbled
And the powerless rise
(And the powerless rise)
This is a kingdom
Born upside down
This is a kingdom
Where the broken are crowned
[Post-Chorus 1: Tim Lambesis]
Wait here for death
Wait here for death
The "blessings" of excess
Are only a burden on us
[Bridge: Tim Lambesis]
It is a broken system
Where we just wait for death
It is a broken system
Where suffering can never end
[Chorus 2: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
Simplicity is not a curse
Where strength is humbled
And the powerless rise
(And the powerless rise)
This is a kingdom
Born upside down
This is a kingdom
Where the broken are crowned
[Post-Chorus 2: Josh Gilbert]
The broken are crowned
[Outro: Tim Lambesis]
If helplessness is our system
Then we're better off upside down
Vacancy Lyrics
[Intro: Tim Lambesis]
We live in slavery
To a past we cannot escape
And I say it's worth it
To just start again
Again
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 1: Tim Lambesis]
We've focused so long
On ideals of freedom
That it is this very belief
That oppresses us
We all want to be free
Yet we find ways to forfeit liberty
To our own impulses
To our own consumption
[Pre-Chorus 1: Tim Lambesis]
So, I say it's worth it
To build a new foundation
A new foundation, a new foundation
A new foundation
It's a past we cannot escape
[Chorus 1: Josh Gilbert, Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
This vacancy
Will take everything
This world can offer
But what is control
Once we have let go
Of all we suffer?
[Post-Chorus: Tim Lambesis]
...Once we've let go
[Verse 2: Tim Lambesis]
When we've awakened
To admit we are all enslaved
Then there is freedom
In our choice to disobey
[Pre-Chorus 2: Tim Lambesis]
Our creeds have become
A justification (Justification)
To live the way that some see fit (Justification)
And no one is more hopeless
Than those blinded by the scales
Of content
[Chorus 2: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
This vacancy
Will take everything
This world can offer
But what is control (What is control)
Once we have let go (We have let go)
Of all we suffer?
[Bridge: Tim Lambesis]
We live in slavery
To a past we cannot escape
So, I say it's worth it
To just start again
[Refrain: Tim Lambesis]
We've let go
We've let go
We've let go
Yeah!
[Chorus 3: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
This vacancy
Will take everything
This world can offer
But what is control (What is control)
Once we have let go (We have let go)
Of all we suffer?
[Post-Chorus: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
We can't escape
We can't escape
We can't escape
We can't escape
[Outro: Tim Lambesis]
So, I say it's worth it
To start again
The Only Constant Is Change Lyrics
[Intro]
The only constant is change
The only constant is change, go
[Verse 1]
The human heart
Is born without legs
Sliding back and forth
And never once does it truly rest
Unless accompanied by death
Sliding back and forth
[Verse 2]
Even the strongest remnants of history
They have begun to crumble
Against time
Sliding back and forth
[Chorus 1]
The only constant is change
Nothing remains the same
The only constant is change
There's only growth or decay
[Verse 3]
Let's go
Unvarying scenes
Only found in pictures
Can never breathe life
For nowhere else
Does level ground exist
Unless it has been captured
By a flash of steady light
Sliding back and forth (Back and forth)
[Chorus 2]
The only constant is change
Uncertainty awaits
The only constant is change
There's only growth or decay
Or decay
The only constant is change
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Bridge]
There is nothing that stays the same
From the foundation of our lives
There is nothing that stays the same
There is nothing to erase time
[Chorus 1]
The only constant is change
Nothing remains the same
The only constant is change
There's only growth or decay
[Outro]
The only constant is change (Change)
The only constant is change