Lyrics

THE ORACLE: WHAT WAS, IS AND COULD HAVE BEEN

 

This World in Flames
All Else Fails

How will you survive in this World in Flames?
Collapse all that remains.

This world in flames,
This emptiness is here to stay.
To stay.
The city sleeps.
Desolation pulls me to my knees on these darkened streets.

Suffer so,
Your world blown away.
Who are you to say I am not the same?
I am not ashamed?
I am not ashamed.

How will you survive in this World in Flames?
Collapse all that remains.

I think I died in chains.
My soul ripped from my body in a terrible rain,
And now I know it comes back to you.
And now I know we’ll make it through.

This world gone mad,
All I need to know, can we bring it the fuck back?

Suffer so,
Your world blown away.
Who are you to say I am not the same?
I am not ashamed?
Ashamed.

We will not accept defeat this time.
We will not accept defeat this time.

And we won’t be there to catch you when you fall,
It’s not okay this time.
And we won’t spend eternity alone.
For all I’ve done,
This is retribution.

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The Twilight of Mankind
All Else Fails

We walk in the wind and silence.
Hand in hand down the streets alone.
The screens are dead but the print remains;
Death is coming to our home.
Doors are barred and the windows bare,
And all that I can taste is this terrible fear.
Not of the fire in the sky or the end of days.
The blue eyes I adore turn grey.

Hide the kids underground.
Hopeless,
They burn in each other’s arms.
There is no light,
No sound.

Close your eyes.
Our world burns in the night.

I can’t stand the thought of your face twisted by the pain of being lost in the fire.
One pill and your mind goes quiet in the night.
A preferable demise.

Midnight mass in ashen gowns.
Lost souls,
The fate of our world unfolds.
The winter comes,
A poison shroud.

Close your eyes.
Our world burns in the night.
The stars yearn for silence,
So they wait,
And lament the twilight of mankind.

As I lay you down to sleep our home becomes your silent tomb.
This day and evermore your lifeless form will never leave this room.
This molten valley brings a peace I have never known.
The end will never come too soon.

On the day I died,
Death fell like rain.
And man was forgotten in sand and time.
Close your eyes.
Our world burns in the night.
The stars yearn for silence,
So they wait,
And lament the twilight of mankind.
The twilight of mankind.

I’ll see you on the other side.

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This Burden of Life
All Else Fails

No anti-venom here will help the sting,
My pulse is still recovering from the atrophy,
I lust for your neglect but now it feels sinful to crave your touch,
So delinquent temptress you’ll no longer leave me hanging,
Unless it’s what you want.

I’ll save my last breath for the crux.

Be it known, the miles of wounds you couldn’t clean never held me back,
Breed lies, breathe shame, inhale everything and run.

Our past like leaves in the wind,
Blown away and never seen again,
Questions with no answers grappling in the dark,
I will not accept this fate.

Chorus:

I can’t let go,
This burden of life never ending,
Time stands still,
Forever hereafter pretending,
Life goes on.

Cold fingers I warm for the last time to you,
Your pallor’s now a striking blue and it leaves me torn,
I never thought I’d have another chance to say hello or to hear you speechless, or breathless…
I don’t care.
Your faded eyes of clouded glass,
Your empty gaze describes our past,
Moments in time, could never last, never last, could never fucking last.

The days are empty, the nights are cold, but I can’t see it any other way.
When every shadow every random sound
There’s a piece of me that’s lost, never to be found
Your past is ash in the wind,
Burned away and never seen again,
Questions with no answers grappling in the dark,
I will not accept this fate.

Chorus:

I can’t let go, this burden of life never-ending
Time stands still forever here after pretending
Life goes on
With or without you the seasons remain
Life goes on

I know we all feel this emptiness,
All eyes overcoming,
I see you now turn to embers,
We are overwhelmed.
I know we died alone…. Died alone.

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Fallen
All Else Fails

This time your cries betrayed by lying eyes.
This enemy, it leaves nothing.

To be the one that you desire,
To be the one that you need.
The affliction claims the liar.

Years of friendship up in flames.
Requiem for this; the death of my dreams.

How beautiful she looks as she walks away from me.
I watch her leaving,
So pretty in regret.

To be the one that I desire,
Like a self inflicted disease.
Like a lamb lead to the slaughter,
Subdued by apathy.

Years of friendship up in flames.
Requiem for this; the death of my dreams.
Stick the needle into your soul.
Your life is gone,
You’ve lost all control.

I’m waiting to be set free.
From the ashes of the fallen amends.
I’m waiting to be free.

Winter brings the snow,
Softly swirling as the pain eats me alive,
Leaving nothing.
The cold has brought upon the fall of our paradise.
It’s killing you,
One breath at a time.

I waited for you,
But you left me all alone.
What’s left for me to live for?
I search within my broken soul.

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The House at the End of the World
All Else Fails
Music and Lyrics by Barrett Klesko

There’s a house at the end of the world that she knows,
That she calls home.
It may be beautiful, but it’s so empty.
And when the walls fall,
When the walls fall we are all lost to the darkness below.
The spirits that haunt us devour our souls.
Our lies forgotten.

This world all blown apart.
Just stay away.

So give yourself over and over again,
These monsters walk with you so walk hand in hand.
But you doubt her word, so walk along again.

Yellow eyes see back through time.
The Flesh is weak and now, to war again.

This world all blown apart.
Just stay away.

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Monster Eats the Pilot
All Else Fails

Breathe.
Just Breathe.

Now is the time to try yourselves in the courts of fools and gods.
Facts irrelevant,
Intent malevolent.
And your naked truth masked by your cause.

To purify their heathen ways.
With shining eyes we storm the gates.
With grim resolve unwavering,
We bring the fall.
And not one questioning their fates.

Is this what you wanted to be,
A black mark on our history?
So lie to yourself,
So lie to the world about how we need to
Save us from ourselves and for god.
A chance to repent,
But you’ve lost your way and the price has been our misery.

This is your last goodbye.
In love and death tonight.
Your blood is on the hands of those who think that they are right.

Your false sense of self,
It gives you purpose,
It gives you relief.
Your false sense of worth,
It gives you power over any who defy your beliefs.

Is this what you wanted to be,
A black mark on our history?
So lie to yourself,
So lie to the world about how we need to
Save us from ourselves and for god.
A chance to repent,
But you’ve lost your way and the price has been our misery.

The end of your world.
The raping of eden.
These corrupted souls,
They spread through creation to damn all before them.

Time stands still.
Frozen before me a crossroads of fates design.

Is this what you wanted to be,
A shell of a man, so empty inside,
So consumed by his hate.
Save us from ourselves and for god.
Instead you’ve become a monster devoid of regret.

Is this what you wanted to be,
A black mark on our history?
So lie to yourself,
So lie to the world about how we need to
Save us from ourselves and for god.
A chance to repent your sins,
But you’ve lost your way and the price has been our misery.

This our misery.

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Rebirth
All Else Fails

Cities are abandoned now,
Dead shrines in the crumbling ground.
Then out to the country spread,
But the death of the world could not be fled.

This is a cold and lifeless world that we race toward.

We’ll hide from the winter,
We’ll curse at the sun.
But then when the lights go out we will finally see how bad it’s become.

We’re all waiting for the rain,
But it won’t come.
We had our chances in days gone by,
But now they’re gone.

Some say our world will end in fire,
Others claim it ends in ice.
From what I have tasted of desire,
I’ll hold with those who favour fire.
Midnight but a memory.

Much of the world now is just too cold.
The last leaves fall and our fates unfold.
Then to the east as the sea swept in,
The fires burned to let the plague being.

This is a cold and lifeless existence,
That we race toward.

Life extinguished in the cradle of rebirth.

Some say our world will end in fire,
Others claim it ends in ice.
From what I have tasted of desire,
I’ll hold with those who favour fire.
But if I had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate,
To say destruction by ice is great,
And certainly it would suffice.
Midnight but a memory.

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Obsidian Walls
All Else Fails

I’ve always sensed the malice behind your eyes,
Converting those impaired by their own denial,
You call yourself a holy-man I call you a wretch.
You’re like the black plague on our city streets,
Your callousness overbears the empty and weak,
Brainwashing tap-rooted to all who obsess.

FIGHT for your master Faith…
OR DIE in charred disgrace.

Chorus:

Black mounds exhale, obsidian walls closing in, we’re drugged in sacred sleep, thus the flock sees red and the march begins.
Lovers inhale, the pleading hearts beg for their sins, we’ll drag the ocean’s deep, and exploit what’s left of a soul within.

Seventeen rosaries won’t cure your head of pain,
Asthmatic, our lives are reduced to soot,
Poised on a frozen lake, hands tied in front, mouth shut, with cracks heard underfoot,
We all keep reaching for a piece of the sky,
And through a dimming, hopeless eye shines a glimmer of hope, a crack in the night,
but you’re choked by guilt, a tourniquet necktie.

Chorus:

…what’s left of a soul within.  Let the march begin.

INTERLUDE

Chorus X2
… to an empty death, let the march begin.

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ROBOTS!!! KOLTG!
All Else Fails

Robots! They are kind of like the government.
They are a deadly and powerful group
Small humanoids with very good mechanical abilities.
They create big ass fighting vehicles
Morons, intelligent, also can be compared to the elves in Lord of the rings
The Lord of the Rings?
The Lord of the Rings
Robots! They are kind of like the government.
Robots! They are Robots!

Chorus:

They are kind of like the government!
Chip war every certain time of the day
In the game an all out war breaks
Chip war every certain time of the day
In the game an all out war breaks

Robots! They are kind of like the government!
They are a deadly and powerful group
Small humanoids with very good mechanical abilities.
They create big ass fighting vehicles

Chorus

Chip war
Chip war
Robots
Like the government