To the dark To the fall Crawl to the life you shouldn't know You should never come this way To test the hands of fate You don't belong here Peel back
When all is lost to you inside When all the darkness takes the light The ritual warning has begun And now you tear away from everyone Disconnected so
days gone by I remember summer days We were young and unafraid With innocence we'd glide beneath the stars It seems so long ago Beyond the life that I now know Alter Bridge
A tireless stream of indifference flows through veins 'till the river runs dry I no longer care, i have all but disposed of dreams that i once held inside
And you say this ain't living You say you can't go on You only take as you're given And now your hope is all but gone Though you lost your way (Now is
I cast a line when I saw you were drowning Still you turn your back on me Pulled you from the fire when you were burning Still you never could believe
Oooooo. Another river runs against the grain Another is born Each filled with anguish Deep within he?s dying every day To find his way He is lost So consumed
Ahhhhh... I have played the part I have all but lost my soul And I have sacrificed for what it?s worth I just don?t know In the silence of the heart There
When all the lights have faded The encore's come and gone And I can't take this no more Well I can't keep pretending I just can't play the part I need
How many times have you cut only to feel the pain? How many days have you run only to crawl? How many nights did you scream only to scream in vain? How
They say you are right I hope that I'm wrong I know that you tried But still it is gone Just don't you lose hope I swear I never dream that we're alone
Sitting alone in the cold of the night You're trying to find what you need to survive You're so afraid You can't go on Left in the silence that tears
[US Bonus Track] Hope [echos] The only thing that we have left to hold [echos] In a world gone mad there?s nowhere left to go [echos] Where nothing lasts
A trail of tears beyond redemption Just a word and nothing more no more I must reveal I am falling To the dark I now am born So if you hear this cry
I know you feel it tonight She?s a million miles from the life Never to return She left it all behind If only I could have known The things she held
I tear on the leash That keeps me contained and controlled Let me go I want to break free And bite my way out of this hole One last hope To rise and
I say hey throw away the veil of weakness And I mean no life beneath us and they will be shamed I say hey I won't be held down any longer By your disgrace
Close your eyes, And just hear me sing, One last long goodbye, One last song before you spread your wings. There's so much left to say, And before this
