"The Black Rainbow"

You were all that we needed
To believe in our doubt
The hurt we allowed
We had sworn to believe them
And scattered across our memories found

You were all that we needed
To believe in our doubt
The worst I'm afraid
The hurt we allowed
We defined the lines and crossed
Into a great unknown to read all
The words we left out

In all, we all,
are truly afraid
In all, we are,
of the one thing we can't be
In all, we all,
are truly afraid
Wishing one day we could be strong

It's over, it's over
It's all coming apart
While you were sleeping, we were stealing your heart
It's over, it's over
It's all coming apart
Now I never let this go... I sang
It's over, it's over
It's all coming apart
While you were sleeping, we were stealing your heart
It's over, it's over
Coming apart
Now I never let this go... I sang
It's over, it's over
(Coming apart, coming apart)
While you were sleeping, we were stealing your heart
It's over, it's over
(Coming apart, coming apart)
Now I never let this go... I sang
It's over, it's over
Coming apart, I know, I know, you know, you know
It's over, it's over
Coming apart (it's over, it's over)

"Chamberlain (Demo)"

Worlds are burning out to the endless shame of this mistaken way
We wither on and on in this game we play
Go ring on the bells of war and head straight into the lion's cage
You went and told your secrets here

So you can take to the grave
cause there is no stopping me, so long
Lungs hang in this dead man's curtain
Believe in me cause I won't believe in this

The end is now starting
oh, so please just take your seat
and live your last moments waving goodbye, desperately
Having a nice day while we're
swinging from gallows perched atop
Fool sit still, watch them, please take your number

Spill on through killing fields, the blood of desperate men can change
The thirst of a boy who breathes again

So you can take to the grave
but there is no stopping me
Lungs hang in this dead man's curtain
Believe in me cause I have been holding you back

The end is now starting
oh, so please just take your seat
and live your last moments waving goodbye, desperately
Having a nice day while we're
swinging from gallows perched atop
Fool sit still, watch them, please take your number

There is no room for words against them now
Cause you're my guiding light, they couldn't make a sound
Is there a way to say, to incriminate, oh, listen to me
Oh, well baby, open that door

So you can take to the grave
cause there is no stopping me, so long
Lungs hang in this dead man's curtain
Believe in me as I won't believe in this

The end is now starting
oh, so please just take your seat
and live your last moments waving goodbye, desperately
Having a nice day while we're
swinging from gallows perched atop
Fool sit still, watch them, please take your number

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Halle--

"The Lost Shepherd (Demo)"

Heaven saves me a place at the window
I'm on my march to the end of me
I've buried cold within this heart
I lost the cure, the plague, the start
Oh, my lover I ache (I can't stand much)

I've done all of these things for you
Stain my soul to bleed with you
(Help us, help us, someone. Help us, help us)

Now wallow with sick and disease
To measure out a man I know I can't be
Go learn your turn and swallow a shepherd if they follow
Please grieve them as they grave goodbye

Here is my blood cause you will use up no other
I've hollowed this heart to hide you within (I can't stand much)

I'm so sick of these things I do
We're so... we're so... I blame you
(Help us, help us, someone. Help us, help us)

Now wallow with sick and disease
To measure out a man I know I can't be
Go learn your turn and swallow a shepherd if they follow
Please grieve them as they grave goodbye

You didn't, you could but there's nothing left oh no more after all
Shame you, you know that the secrets kept would one day kill us all.

I wallow through sick and disease
To measure out a man I know I can't be
Go learn your turn and swallow a shepherd if they follow
Please grieve them as they graze goodbye

Now wallow with sick and disease
To measure out a man I know I can't be
Go learn your turn and swallow a shepherd if they follow
Please grieve them as they grave goodbye

"Hush"

Is there something I can do?
Given mistakes I caught you through
There's no limit to this,
just give us what we need

Should you stagger, should you fall
Remember this and remember them all
Your wretched design
and this is all your fault

They're going to press you
to leave now, we'll look through
and find you're no better when you left to go

Cause' there's just no one in this word like you, my darling dear
Can I go living on this life without you?
Let this be my dying wish, please give me more than this
You hurt so, please, I paid my price, my penance

Hush
There is no love or just
Enough to murder us
I am your ghost

Disturbed, you ponder these tainted dreams
No questions unanswered, your future sings
There are limits to love, now learn to fear it sting

You will shatter, you will fall,
lending help as your world dissolves
you can push on these walls
but help wont hear your call

They're going to press you to leave now
We'll look through
and find you're no better when you left to go

Cause' there's just no one in this word like you, my darling dear
Can I go living on this life without you?
Let this be my dying wish, please give me more than this
You hurt so, please, I paid my price, my penance

Hush
There is no love or just
enough to murder us
I am your ghost

"No matter what you tell yourself, ladies and gentlemen,
there is no end to the rainbow,
no greater good or purpose that you or I serve on this surface.
There is one thing that we can all look forward to doing, certainly, and that's dying.
Why waste your time wondering who you are
when there are plenty of things you aren't?
Let's give our evils a rest and put our hearts to work shall we?"

Cause' there's just no one in this word like you, my darling dear
Can I go living on this life without you?
Let this be my dying wish, please give me more than this
You hurt so, please, I paid my price, my penance

There's just no one in this word like you, my darling dear
Can I go living on this life without you?
Let this be my dying wish, please give me more than this
You hurt so, please, I paid my price, my penance

Hush
There is no love or just
enough to murder us
I am your ghost

The Afterman: Ascension (2012)



The Hollow
Key Entity Extraction I: Domino The Destitute
The Afterman
Mothers Of Men
Goodnight, Fair Lady
Key Entity Extraction II: Holly Wood The Cracked
Key Entity Extraction III: Vic The Butcher
Key Entity Extraction IV: Evagria The Faithful
Subtraction
The Homecoming[Bonus Track]

"The Hollow"

All-Mother, are you awake?
I am always awake, what do you require of me?
You'll stay with me, won't you?
I'll be there every step of the way...

"Key Entity Extraction I: Domino The Destitute"

La la la, la la la la [x4]

If you had the courage to stop me from turning
Into what would be the worst in everybody's eyes
Hey, I'm no angel, or the devil of your conscience
To tell you who to be. Good, bad, ugly or otherwise
If you had good common sense, your choices would be gleaming flawless
I want no part in this self-deprecating, worthless, chemistry

We made our beds to lie in them proud, proud of our great mistakes
This warring knife, the flash of its blade, turn about-face

I implore you, brother
Don't walk away, don't walk away from me
'Cause this is our war

Oh, you think they have it all while you were left with nothing
Oh, oh, you've taken the fall for them to walk all over
You made your bed, so soft and comforting
These dreams await the grey good morning

We made our beds to lie in them proud, proud of our great mistakes
This warring knife, the flash of its blade, turn about-face

I implore you, brother
Don't walk away, don't walk away from me
'Cause this is our war

Oh, we've got you by the throat
Oh!
All you wanna be...

Welcome all to the everlasting all time low
Please put your hands together
For the ever-failing one man show:
Domino!

Ladies
And broken gentlemen,
The undisputed champ
Of misery
-
Oh and in this corner
We find his challenger
The pride of utopia
The greatest thing ever

Oh, oh oh oh oh Ohh oh oh oh
Ha ha haha hahahaha
[x2]

If you could recall one moment of your past with the fire to be
That made you the man we've come to love, all of the above

This disaster rise our steps to you
A thousand lies
You tell yourself
That no one ever loved you right
Ooh, but I would do anything for you
The question fits the question mark
Your signals crossed, your message lost!
Haha!

[announcer part]

La la la, la la la la! [x4]

This wall won't hold forever
Your time has come, it's now or never

We made our beds to lie in them proud, proud of our great mistakes
This warring knife, the flash of its blade, turn about-face

I implore you, brother
Don't walk away, don't walk away from me
'Cause' this is our war

One by one, we are together, we fall together!
One by one, we are together, we fall together!

Now my brother
Don't be afraid
We are together, we fall together!

Brother!
We are together! We fall together!

"The Afterman"

She gave her heart to a falling star
When news filtered through of his tragedy all the walls went up
Around a world she declines
As the tears from her eyes fall
No one understands, and no one will
All she has lost

If he's not here, then where?
If he's not here, then where?
If he's not here then where?
If he's not here then where?

When she found it there in the cold, blue glare
The words distressed and unfamiliar where the feelings seared

An emptiness had hung, and in her chest, she clenched
Reality settled as the memories raced while on the screen he lived

She teared; "Your selfishness has robbed you of the man you could've been
I wouldn't change a thing about you. I love you dearly, my friend"

If he's not here then where?
If he's not here then where?

My love, Been searching for my Afterman

If he's not here then where?
If he's not here then where?

My love, Been searching for my Afterman

"Mothers Of Men"

In this space where nothing will seem too right
Our voice unheard in this quiet fight
This march we lead will breed our song
To them we're nothing, to them we're pawns
Oh, a desperate play to feel like we belong

Now as we take up into these streets
Remember, I depend on you as much as you on me
Don't try to fake it, let's not pretend
We made you mothers, we made you men
We made you mothers, we made you men

Oh, it's no surprise nobody listens anymore
To what we're saying, to what was said
And in your absence we promised you
Oh, we'll behave, oh, we'll behave
So just keep running, everything will look better once you look away
Oh, I agree, cause' what's the difference?
Oh, is there a difference we make?

Your day will come

The rain starts dancing across our backs
These ardent words seize this heart attack
Belief still strong, we can make this change
The stage is set to occupy the brain
The stage is, we made this, we made this, WE MADE IT

Oh, it's no surprise nobody listens anymore
To what we're saying, to what was said
And in your absence we promised you
Oh, we'll behave, oh, we'll behave
So just keep running, everything will look better once you look away
Oh, I agree, cause' what's the difference?
Oh, is there a difference we make?

Between the dapper villain in a Sunday serial at the podium,
Or another cog in the wheel, just another cog in the wheel
They're both capable of making life hard,
But no bandage can mend all these parts
So why do I give?

Between, between, between
Between, between, between
Between the dream, the dream

Oh, it's no surprise nobody listens anymore
To what we're saying, to what was said
And in your absence we promised you
Oh, we'll behave, oh, we'll behave
So just keep running, everything will look better once you look away
Oh, I agree, cause' what's the difference?
Oh, what's the difference?

Of making life hard,
But no bandage can mend all these parts
So why do I live with this?
No difference...

Goodnight...

"Goodnight, Fair Lady"

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen
I have a story to tell you, of one's slow decline
When a girl yanked on the strings to break this man's heart

Oh lord I think I deserve a little better than this
I think I've earned it
So I'll just keep humming this song and hope you follow

Turn me over, roll me 'round
To find the truth that I don't want found
Oh, don't believe everything you hear
I'm the snake waiting for you, dear
And eventually you'll come to me
I know you will

Oh, I know you will

You're lipstick crazy, I'll make my pass
The drink turns over, the glass smashed
And with a kindness and my smarts I replaced your pleasure
With a friend at the bottom

Turn me over, roll me 'round
To find the truth that I don't want found
Oh, don't believe everything you hear
I'm the snake waiting for you, dear
And eventually you'll come to me
I know you will

Oh, it's my fate to be your biggest mistake
Oh, I tell you all you want to hear until you sleep
I know you will

Oh, goodnight
Oh, goodnight, fair lady

Oh, turn me over, roll me 'round
To find the truth that I don't want found
Oh, don't believe everything you hear
I'm the snake waiting for you, dear
And eventually you'll come to me
And eventually you'll come to me

Oh, we can agree to disagree
Well maybe that was you, then, and now this is me
Eventually you'll come to me, baby
I know you will

Caution, second entity identified...