Citadel

Intro:
What holds me here?
A thousand fears
Creating controlling the chaos
These all seeing eyes surrounding me
Projecting with nothing behind them
I need to begin again
Emerge from this tomb
To feel again
Emerge from this tomb
To feel again
Searching for you to feel again

Verse:
Familiarity breeds contempt
The righted wrong keeps me from feeling
Cast aside, knocked down as the voice echoes fade
This mental construct has disappeared

Why can't I just be?
What bars me from the outside?
This fear it conquers, it divides
A freedom that gives us permission to die

Faces long gone
Memories rotting away as time marches on
Gripping tight with weakened hands what's left of the nothing that surrounded me all of these years

Chorus:
Wide awake
Searching in darkness
For something else besides this
Past the stare
Outside and beyond
These walls a brightness
Is there someone else there?

Verse:
Feed this contempt
Time marches on
Sealing my fate as it closes in
Sealing my fate as it closes in
Abandoned experience
Population controlled
What's left for the taking
Empty of all life
As the disconnection takes its toll
What's left for the taking
Empty of all life
As the disconnection takes its toll

Chorus:
Wide awake
Searching in darkness
For something else besides this
Past the stare
Outside and beyond
These walls a brightness
Is there someone else there?

Worn down from complacency
No choice now but to tear it all down
Self condemnation formed the cage I was sheltered in
The safety that I'd never known

What holds me here
A thousand fears
Creating controlling the chaos
I need to begin again
Emerge from this tomb
To feel again

These all seeing eyes
Surrounding me, surrounding you
Just one way mirrors projecting
With nothing behind them

Bridge:
Now I see the emptiness outside
Doorways ajar
Not a soul to speak, not a breath to save
Their walls grandiose and tall
Just like the ones that held me in
Missed my chance
What do they hold now?
Where have they gone?

Outro:
In this frame jubilation
In this frame begins life
In this frame contemplation
In this frame sacrifice

In this frame we renew
In this frame we mean to
In this frame separation
In this frame you and I

In this frame