Shaped by Fire
As I Lay Dying
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Burn to Emerge
00 : 52
2
Blinded
03 : 22
3
Shaped by Fire
03 : 38
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Undertow
03 : 57
5
Torn Between
04 : 01
6
Gatekeeper
03 : 24
7
The Wreckage
04 : 42
8
My Own Grave
04 : 13
9
Take What’s Left
04 : 13
10
Redefined
04 : 15
11
Only After We’ve Fallen
03 : 28
12
The Toll It Takes
03 : 56
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Track Lyrics
Undertow Lyrics
[Intro: Tim Lambesis]
The life that I sought was already like a jail
Long before I was ever bound
[Verse 1: Tim Lambesis]
Wrapped up in chains
No one had built the bonds
Used to hold me captive
I had locked away myself in a captain-less ship
Destined to destroy ashore
Destruction was my savior
Crushing, collapse
Crashing from the impact
[Chorus 1: Josh Gilbert, Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
I can't escape the undertow that's pulling me
But I keep fighting to get away
The undertow that's pulling me, pulling me
[Post-Chorus: Tim Lambesis]
My control disappeared
'Cause it was never real
[Verse 2: Tim Lambesis]
Aboard a ship with nowhere to go
Guided by lifelessness, a skeleton without a soul
Crushing, collapse, looming ahead
Crashing is imminent from the impact
[Chorus 2: Josh Gilbert, Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
I can't escape the undertow that's pulling me
But I keep fighting to get away
The undertow that's pulling me, pulling me
I can't escape the undertow that's pulling me, pulling me
[Bridge: Tim Lambesis]
Though I found freedom when
I stopped fighting everyone else
And loosened up the anchor
That I had tied around myself
I let go of the chains, chains
Just let go of the chains
I let go of the chains used to hold me in
My addictions killing me from within
[Chorus 3: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
I can't escape the undertow that's pulling me
But I keep fighting to get away
The undertow that's pulling me, pulling me
I can't escape the undertow that's pulling me (Pulling me)
But I keep fighting to get away
The undertow that's pulling me, pulling me
[Outro: Tim Lambesis]
Just let go of the chains, chains
I let go of the chains
Used to hold me in my addiction
Torn Between Lyrics
[Intro: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
Pulled both ways but still suspended
The worst of each, reduced and blended
Still suspended, suspended
[Verse 1: Tim Lambesis & Josh Gilbert]
I thought I was stuck between two worlds
Because I was not willing to let go
Recklessly pulled both ways
But somehow still suspended
The worst of each (the worst of each)
Reduced and blended (reduced and blended)
But as life unfolded, I realized
The momentum to drift from side to side
Came from within, came from inside
[Chorus 1: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
I feel torn between two hearts dying
But I'll trade them in for one (I'll trade them for one)
Broken and exposed, collapsing
So why would I hold on? (So why would I hold on?)
[Verse 2: Tim Lambesis]
One heart turned black
The other blue and bruised
Arms breaking, arms breaking
From the dreams
Dreams shattered
The dreams that I can't reach
There has to be
There has to be a choice I have not seen
[Chorus: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
I feel torn between two hearts dying
But I'll trade them in for one (I'll trade them for one)
Broken and exposed, collapsing
So why would I hold on? (So why would I hold on?)
I feel torn between two hearts dying
But I'll trade them in for one (I'll trade them for one)
[Bridge: Tim Lambesis]
One darkened over time
Burning away the shame
Erasing hidden insights
I did not want to be seen
The other was beaten
From being exposed
So it hurt less
To never hold it close
[Chorus: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
I feel torn between two hearts dying
But I'll trade them in for one (I'll trade them for one)
Broken and exposed, collapsing
So why would I hold on? (So why would I hold on?)
I feel torn between two hearts dying
But I'll trade them in for one
So why would I hold on?
I'll trade them in for one
[Outro: Tim Lambesis & Josh Gilbert]
Neither heart had power to fill my veins
Or be the source of who I want to be
Pulled both ways but still suspended
The Wreckage Lyrics
[Intro: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
The wreckage seemed too great for me
I saw my dreams collapsing, collapsing
But through debris, the tragedy
Not one of us died fighting
The wreckage
[Verse 1: Tim Lambesis]
We somehow found a way
Through storming weather
Enduring skies turned grey
When we all said "never"
[Pre-Chorus: Tim Lambesis]
The winds, the rain
Downpour needed to cultivate
[Chorus: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
We don't get to choose when it rains
We can fight or just get washed away
Will we be transformed or
Feel like we're drowning, drowning?
The wreckage
[Verse 2: Tim Lambesis]
So, use the storms ahead
To flood out shortcomings
And then use what is left
To water what is worth planting
[Pre-Chorus: Tim Lambesis]
The winds, the rain
Downpour needed to cultivate
Debris, tragedy
But not one of us died...
But not one of us died fighting
[Chorus: Josh Gilbert, Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
We don't get to choose when it rains
We can fight or just get washed away
Will we be transformed or
Feel like we're drowning?
[Bridge: Tim Lambesis]
Will we fight or just get washed away?
And now the mountains that we face
Are starting to look more like hills
We rose to a higher plain
So the whole horizon fell
It fell, the whole horizon fell
[Interlude: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
Through the debris of tragedy
Not one of us died fighting, fighting
[Chorus: Josh Gilbert, Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
We don't get to choose when it rains
We can fight or just get washed away
Will we be transformed or
Feel like we're drowning?
We don't get to choose when it rains
We can fight or just get washed away
Will we be transformed or
Feel like we're drowning?
[Verse 3: Tim Lambesis]
The wreckage that once seemed
Insurmountable to me
Is now becoming
A part of rebuilding
We somehow found a way
Through storming weather
Enduring skies turned grey
When we all said "never"
So, use the storms ahead
To flood out shortcomings
And then use what is left
To water what is worth planting
[Outro: Tim Lambesis]
Deep roots that refuse... deep roots that refuse...
Deep roots that refuse... that refuse to break
Deep roots that refuse... refuse to break
Deep roots that refuse to break
My Own Grave Lyrics
[Intro: Tim Lambesis]
The lies, the weight
Deceit, decay
The lies, the weight
It's clear I lost my way
Deceit, decay
Decomposing
[Verse 1: Tim Lambesis & Josh Gilbert]
I thought I was an architect
But I was just moving dirt
Stacking mud over malice, covered-up forming
Nothing but a pile of hurt
I hadn't been building (Building)
The time was spent digging (Digging)
Boring the barriers that kept others away (Away)
The deeper the walls, the less anyone could hear, (Hear me) fall
[Pre-Chorus: Tim Lambesis]
So now I know
There is no one else to blame
[Chorus 1: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
Buried alive inside of my own grave
And there's no one else to blame
Buried alive inside of my own grave
Inside of my own grave
[Verse 2: Tim Lambesis & Josh Gilbert]
Beneath my lies
Delusional enough to think
I'd designed something great
Like a giant headstone inscribed
To describe my shameful fate
I hadn't been building (Building)
The time was spent digging (Digging)
An ugly truth from which there was no way to escape (Escape)
Nowhere left to hide and then finally forced to face what I'd become
[Chorus 2: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
Buried alive inside of my own grave (My grave)
And there's no one else to blame
Buried alive inside of my own grave (My grave)
What I'd become
Buried alive inside of my own grave
[Post-Chorus: Tim Lambesis]
Beneath my pride crushing me
Beneath my lies collapsing
But we are still alive
We are still alive
[Bridge: Josh Gilbert, Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
Buried alive inside of my own grave
And there's no one else to blame
Buried alive inside of my own grave
My own grave
[Chorus 3: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
Buried alive inside of my own grave
And there's no one else to blame
The lies and the weight, I know I lost my way (My way)
What I'd become
Buried alive inside of my own grave (My grave)
And there's no one else to blame
Buried alive, buried alive
[Outro: Tim Lambesis]
Finally forced to face what I'd become
What I'd become in my own grave (Buried)
In my own grave (Alive)
Take What’s Left Lyrics
[Intro: Tim Lambesis]
I took what you gave me, destroyed it all
I  had to lose everything to know that I was wrong
And  now I see what was true all along
A void in me now that everything is gone
Now that everything is gone
[Verse 1: Tim Lambesis]
The  emptiness can be a source of clarity
Taking  away a way for us to hide
Always revealing
No  choice but to rebuild
No voice, no peace, no love, no home
Nothing left to hold, nothing left but hope
[Chorus 1: Josh Gilbert, Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
Take my broken frame
What  still remains free from the chains
Free from the chains
[Verse 2: Tim Lambesis]
Nothing left to hold, nothing left but hope
Like hunting for prey
That we don't even need to track
So easy to follow what's next
We are left with only one path, one path
No choice but to rebuild
No voice, no peace, no love, no home
Nothing left but hope
[Chorus 2: Josh Gilbert, Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
Take my broken frame
What still remains free from the chains
Free from the chains
Take what's left in me, what's worth saving
No matter how much time it takes
[Bridge: Tim Lambesis]
From merely hope, we are brought back to life
From broken bones, we revive
Take what's left and create
Take what's left and then rebuild
[Interlude: Tim Lambesis]
You had every reason
To give up on me
But you stood and waited
When everyone ran away
[Verse 3: Tim Lambesis]
I took your gifts, destroyed them all
And then lost everything to know that I was wrong
But you still carried me when you could barely walk
You reminded me I was never too far gone
[Chorus 3: Josh Gilbert, Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
Take my broken frame
What still remains free from the chains
Free from the chains
Take what's left in me, what's worth saving
No matter how much time it takes
Take my broken frame
What still remains free from the chains
Free from the chains
[Outro: Tim Lambesis]
Take what's left
Take what's left and rebuild
Redefined Lyrics
[Intro: Tim Lambesis]
I refuse to let go of the memories
'Cause they've changed everything inside of me
[Verse 1: Tim Lambesis & Jake Luhrs, both]
If I could go back now to save myself the loss
Substance-less character brought back would be the cost
Agony today is tomorrow's strength
So don't run away 'cause misery is...
Evolving into something that we can't see
Evolving and becoming, transforming
So don't run away
[Chorus 1: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, Tim Lambesis]
The pain can never be erased
Remain and turn it into strength, turn it into strength
[Verse 2: Tim Lambesis & Jake Luhrs]
What do we value in the midst of complacency?
But in despair, we beg for something, anything
Even our mistakes (even our mistakes) can have the power
To light the way (to light the way) like a glaring tower
[Chorus 2: Josh Gilbert, Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
The pain can never be erased
Remain and turn it into strength
From our failures, we are refined
Replacing frailty, allowing us to be redefined
[Bridge: Tim Lambesis]
Healed scars can be stronger than skin
The wounds we have can be rewritten
Redefined, redefined, redefined
Agony today is tomorrow's strength...
Redefined
So don't run away
[Guitar Solo]
[Interlude: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis]
The pain can never be erased
[Chorus: Josh Gilbert & Tim Lambesis, both]
The pain can never be erased
Remain and turn it into strength
The pain can never be erased
Remain and turn it into strength
From our failures, we are refined
Replacing frailty, allowing us to be redefined
From our failures we are refined
Replacing frailty, allowing us to be redefined
[Outro: Tim Lambesis]
Don't run away
Misery's evolving