City of the Snares

Follow me to solace and safety
Over the tar-blackened river and past the gleaming yellow eyes
I hope I’m right this time
I can’t lose any more of you tonight

They’re trusting me to lead them, but they don’t know
I’m just running from my fear
Are they catching on yet?
Let’s change our course
I’m putting all that I’ve got into my last resort


Can I count on you to make it work?
Peril and Risk prowling around every corner
Sudden death rushing at us from behind the clouds
Danger and threat stalking weary stragglers
Keeping us on the very tips of our toenails

The enemy has been on our scent for days,
Only miles away from revenge they crave
There has got to be a way
To cover our tracks
Or what happens when we stop running?
I can’t be too panicked to protect
Tell me, when we opened your eyes
Did we kill you or save your life?

I thought we’d never break away
From the city of the snares, always fighting to forget,
Choking out their memories
I was almost intimidated by their sleek exteriors
But the truth’s they were baited with the best
They claimed they had no choices left
What value does gilded, useless armour have

When you finally need to fight?
Stop with this show,
And repeat the pathetic blind surrender.
We may be outnumbered;
We’re not oblivious, we are not cowards
Like every one of them
So why am I still plagued
With apprehension, hopelessness, guilt and shame?
In spite of myself, I wonder Regretfully,
when we opened your eyes,
Did we save your life?
How the hell did any of us survive?
Peril and Risk dominating the night
Sudden death rushing at us from behind the clouds
Danger and threat stalking weary stragglers
Keeping us on the very tips of our toenails


When the casualties outweigh survivors,
Is that when I’ll know I’ve been defeated?
While the passive deny, we act on acceptance
Did we save you or did we kill you?

The dread and turmoil now behind us
An uncertain leader, we’re just fortunate
To have gotten through it all
We’re chasing utopia at the top of the world
I can see it now—home.
We’re almost there

Like Every Song´s Our Last

Tonight was just another night of monotonous fear

Broken only by feeble thoughts of empty reassurance
It came like a bittersweet blow to your dull reality
A vision to scare the idleness from your hands

Did you leave behind a legacy?
Did you leave behind a single thing
Of real value
To those around you?
Well, did you love hard enough
When you were going to live forever?
Are you wasting time being afraid of letting go?
Of causing pain?
Are you wasting time being afraid of being afraid?

The present world Drifts before my eyes like a fading memory
I feel like I’m grasping desperately for something
That disappeared before I had a chance to need it
And then—the vision to change my life on its last night

Well, what if you knew it to be true?
Now tonight is not just another night,
But your last one here on earth
And by tomorrow, you’ll be gone
Along with all your good intentions
And urgent procrastinations

Well, what if you knew it to be true?
Would you finally find your courage
And say what needed to be said?
In a lifetime,
Can you say everything you want to say?
Are you going to die
Knowing you never apologized?

What will your last words be?
And who will be the one to hear them?
What will be the mark you leave?
And will it mean a single fucking thing?

Tonight’s my final night
And I’m playing every song like it’s my last
Tonight’s my final night
And I’m singing every song like it’s my last

Fear Of Heights

At times, when my mind wanders with my feet,

My thoughts reach their destination before my body
Like a recurring dream,
I find myself traveling to lands I thought beyond my reach
So new and different from my actual hideaway
And before I return to that same familiar gate
Words come together magnetically,
Clearing way through the mess of obscurity
The knot of doubts restraining me
They form perfect letters to you in my imagination
And, when finally confessed, grant my release

Bodies bare of pretence, timid and undressed
Do you mean to win me with these praises and offences?
Why ignore me if you profess to adore me?
I didn’t think you could stand the sight of me
At least you spoke honestly; my refusal was based on damaged pride,
Not an aversion to your advances

Obsessed with visions of the world, of night in distant places
What lies outside of constancy? Outside of these fences?
Passing the blurry lights, it’s not my eyes,
It’s the world that’s unfocused, distracted
I’m well acquainted with your inelegance and vice
You’re still more graceful than the night
That falls in each city with a sprawling indelicacy
I’m straying further from home
From my safe routine; and you’re trying to find your own
Can you blame me for inexperience? Just listen; it’s all the same

Bodies bare of pretence, timid and undressed
Do you mean to win me with these praises and offences?
Why ignore me if you profess to adore me?

Somehow I’ve been lifted high above the tops of trees,
From this frightening height,
The buildings seem to be flattened in the streets
I tell myself, “Don’t look down,
There’s no way to plummet charmingly”
And when I do I know you’ll say “What a pity,
She’s just not what I expected her to be.”
But I can’t let my fear of heights get the best of me
As my mind and body journey together in a parallel reality
I realize that if I’m falling, at least I’m free
I never want my feet to take me home

Like Every Song's Our Last

Tonight was just another night of monotonous fear
(Esta noche era sólo otra noche de monótono miedo)
Broken only by feeble thoughts of empty reassurance
(Rota solo por pensamientos débiles de confianza vacía)
It came like a bittersweet blow to your dull reality
(Llegó como un golpe amargo a tu aburrida realidad)
A vision to scare the idleness from your hands
(Una visión para asustar a la ociosidad de sus manos)

Did you leave behind a legacy?
(¿Has dejado un legado?)
Did you leave behind a single thing
(dejaste detrás una sola cosa)
Of real value
(de valor real)
To those around you?
(Para los que te rodean)
Well, did you love hard enough
(Bueno, te quería lo suficiente)
When you were going to live forever?
(Cuando se va a vivir para siempre?)
Are you wasting time being afraid of letting go?
(¿Estás perdiendo el tiempo de tener miedo de dejarlo ir?)
Of causing pain?
(Por el dolor que causa)
Are you wasting time being afraid of being afraid?
(¿Estás perdiendo tiempo de tener miedo teniendo miedo?)

The present world drifts before my eyes like a fading memory
(Las derivas del mundo actual ante mis ojos como un recuerdo que se desvanece)
I feel like I’m grasping desperately for something
(Siento como si estuviera sosteniendo desesperadamente algo)
That disappeared before I had a chance to need it
(Que desapareció antes de que tuviera la oportunidad de necesitarlo)
And then—the vision to change my life on its last night
(Y entonces la visión de cambiar mi vida en su última noche)

Well, what if you knew it to be true?
(Bueno, ¿y si sabía que para ser verdad?)
Now tonight is not just another night,
(Ahora esta noche no es más que otra noche,)
But your last one here on earth
(Sin embargo, su último aquí en la tierra)
And by tomorrow, you’ll be gone
(Y para mañana, se le ha ido)
Along with all your good intentions
(Junto con todas sus buenas intenciones)
And urgent procrastinations
(Y dilaciones urgentes)

Well, what if you knew it to be true?
(Bueno, ¿y si sabía que para ser verdad?)
Would you finally find your courage
(¿Podrías finalmente encontrar el coraje)
And say what needed to be said?
(Y decir lo que había que decir?)
In a lifetime,
(En toda una vida,)
Can you say everything you want to say?
(¿Puedes decir todo lo que quieras decir?)
Are you going to die
(¿Te vas a morir)
Knowing you never apologized?
(Sabiendo que nunca se disculpó?)

What will your last words be?
(¿Cuáles serán sus últimas palabras?)
And who will be the one to hear them?
(¿Y quiénes serán los únicos que los oyesen?)
What will be the mark you leave?
(¿Cuál será la marca de su salida?)
And will it mean a single fucking thing?
(Y significara una sola mierda?)

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*Tonight’s my final night
(Esta noche es mi última noche)
*And I’m playing every song like it’s my last
(Y estoy tocando cada canción como si fuera la última)