Fallen Down Assemblage 23

time, another place You're not who you used to be And I wonder why I knew you once When you were young Before you knew What you'd become But that was then And this is now You've lost your way You've fallen

Purgatory Assemblage 23

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 air By visions sent in stealth How far I've fallen

Blindhammer Assemblage 23

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 can't see Tear down

Cocoon Assemblage 23

their toll Trying to convince myself that all it takes is time But the most derisive voice I hear is mine It opens all the scars on me It leaves me shaken in my belief It takes my hand just to drag me down

Never Forgive Assemblage 23

I won't waste my time You can suffer alone Crying your shrill litany In endless drones Rain down tears of regret You haven't seen the worst of it yet Your name a foul epithet Never forgive, never forget

Disappoint Assemblage 23

Just one more time For the sake of sanity Tell me why Explain the gravity That drove you to this That brought you to this place That pushed you down Into the soil's embrace Give me the chance I was denied

Divide Assemblage 23

filling the landscape 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

I Am The Rain Assemblage 23

sight and out of mind Are deadly traits when they're combined But it's easier that way Sit and watch the world go by While all the problems multiply With nothing left to do but pray I am the rain Falling down

Damaged Assemblage 23

I am merely the product Of the life that I've lived An amalgam of sorrows And the wisdom they give But the weight has grown heavy And its dragging me down It's so hard not to sink now But I don't want

Decades V2 Assemblage 23

Arrogance & avarice Distort our field of view A re-run culture takes your past And sells it back to you Decades pass and years go by Days dissolve into the ether Condense like clouds And come raining back down

Regret Assemblage 23

pain I've caused So I resolved to make amends To heal the damage I had done But I could never stop the torrent Of those regrets still yet to come (CH) This bitter sadness overwhelms me And mires me down

Opened Assemblage 23

world looks so bright and strange Now I see with clarity I won't be your casualty Release the hunger deep inside you You're burning bridges left and right I won't allow you to tread upon me I won't go down

Raw Assemblage 23

bleeding CHORUS When reality returns And I've finally broken free I'll stand up and face the world That once abandoned me The flow Of panic in my veins Anxiety constrains Every move and I am slowly sinking Down

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

Sorry Assemblage 23

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 But not as sorry as you CHORUS You wear your misery like a crown You're only happy when you're down

Ground Assemblage 23

envelope you And slow and sure serenity will come Close your eyes Try to breathe Feel the ground Beneath your feet It's still there The world still turns Around Stand up Though circumstance has knocked you down

Truth Assemblage 23

The truth is like a dancer with shattered limbs What once stood proud and graceful is languishing And the midday sun beats down from above like a giant fist That evaporates the veracity from within our

Light Assemblage 23

I stand in a 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

Anthem Assemblage 23

Constructed from our shame and guilt The flags we wave Are set afire To warm the bones of infant dreams Even as our present is set ablaze The tinderbox We sit upon Decays in churning mists of fog And crumbles down

Surface Assemblage 23

Fall, seize I am merely debris Scattered along the ground False rage A man in a cage An explosion without a sound Drawn in By the deafening din Crumbling into dust Look down Watching me drown Choking on

Pages Assemblage 23

me all I need to know about you Edit and revise Until your conscience was cleared I tried to read the words that were true But the ink had smeared Distorted prose Penetrating layer by layer Scrawled down

Sun Assemblage 23

cruel trial To find out Who they can push the farthest I turn my eyes up to the sun And stare ahead as if there's none Mere cinders where my eyes had been Forced to forget the things I've seen Mowing down

Naked Assemblage 23

Bombarded by brutal events Like the rays of a sun Knocked to my knees By the waves that continued to come Each time I rise to my feet I am knocked to the ground But I am an element Nothing can break me down

Bi-Polar Assemblage 23

I haven't felt so alive in years The sun is shining down on me My eyes are welling up with tears Tears of joy, tears of ecstasy Emotions I once kept concealed Now flow freely like a river Life's great

House on Fire Assemblage 23

refuge in a house on fire I took shelter in a wall of flame I built a prison in my own subconscious There's nothing else left Nothing else left to blame I woke up In a column of ash While the world came down

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...

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...

Old Assemblage 23

When I grow oldAnd my memoryLeads me deep into the fog where it abandons meWill you remind meOf who I used to beWhen I was younger?When I am oldAnd the hands of timeHave ravaged all the remnants of...

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...

Binary Assemblage 23

Monochromatic reasoningA divide and conquer legacyDissect and over-simplifyAll hail the death of compromiseCHORUSThe world isn't rendered in black and whiteOther shades lie betweenDon't view the wo...

Coward Assemblage 23

CowardWhy are you frightened?So quietI can barely hear your liesCowardWas it too hard for youTo simply tell the truth?You are despisedCowardYour mask is fadingYour weakness showingYour fatal flawCo...

Skyquake Assemblage 23

The morning broke in eerie silenceThe ground beneath us cracked and dryToo self absorbed to even noticeThe cracks that formed up in the skyTwistingTurningFreezingBurningTearingFusingLucidConfusingF...

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 ...

Maps Of Reality Assemblage 23

I suppose in your mind you believe you were rightThat the matter doesn't rest heavy on your shouldersBut be careful of the ones you wish to indictBlame is merely in the eye of the beholderPerhaps t...

Lullaby Assemblage 23

May you find solace in the gentle arms of sleepDespite the wolves outside your doorIn time you will see them all as harmlessAnd their idle threats easy to ignoreAnd if ever fate should choose to sm...

Tried Assemblage 23

I tried, I failed to believeIn the reward I would receiveIf only heaven's distant sunWould burn away all the things I'd doneI tried to no availTo keep my eyes from growing paleBut my vision came to...

Longevity Assemblage 23

"I forgive your weaknessIn light of all this bleaknessYou were merely humanDestined to be ruinedStartled as your brevityTurned to my longevityI can't follow your stepsCan't go the places you wentI ...

Silence Assemblage 23

"I want you to know the thoughtsMy mind containsI want you to feel the ragePulse through my veinsI want you to see the angerIn my eyesI want you to feel fearFor your own lifeI want to see the tears...

Awake Assemblage 23

I am lostThe footprints that I left have disappearedFor now, I am driving blindAccelerateWithout a destination to welcome meThis road is just an endless loopEvery time I close my eyesThe noise insi...

King Of Insects Assemblage 23

Words come easyBehind a screenWhen there's no interface to faceTo be seenKing of insectsYou eat your ownAtop an anthillYou call your throneKingdom of oneSo unawareAs one-by-one your subjectsVanish ...

Let The Wind Erase Me Assemblage 23

Attenuate the light of daySo I can see the lines and detailsAnd not the hazy, plastic blurThat floods my eyes 'til I can't seeLet the winds erase meLike the memory of a kissLet these waters take me...

Darker Assemblage 23

The world is asleep with its head in its handsUnable to meet such disparate demandsCries of frustration resound in its headAnd strewn at its feet are the souls of the deadTearing the fractured divi...

Tragic Figure Assemblage 23

Once you had it allAnd 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? Peel away the layers W...

Human Assemblage 23

There have been times throughout my lifeWhen I fell so farI thought I'd never stand againI watched my dreams departThese aberrations had their placeIn the grand designBut it's unnatural to feelSo b...

Infinite Assemblage 23

"Like a grain of sand Swallowed by the desertLike a drop of rain That falls from darkened clouds I am overwhelmed I stand here awed and humbled At the feet of giants Whose shadows stretch for miles...

You Haven't Earned It Assemblage 23

You crave attentionAs if it's due to youYou want permissionTo behave as badly as you doYou want respect butYou don't act respectableYou want fame to fill the voidWhere you once had a soulBut you ha...

23 Reneé Rapp

It's my Jordan year And I thought this shit would look good on me But I just feel weird And I still can't fly Thought I'd be ahead But I'm down by five I'm on fight or flight And I still can't fly Everything

23 Shakira

knew we had something From the moment I met you I knew we had something No one thought it could be true Hey do you believe Do you believe in destiny 'Cause I do as I did then When you were only 23