"Riverstyx" Death Is A Business Not Infinite (2019) LYRICS: Once upon a time we would walk ‘cross that bridge Hand in hand so far from sorrow's fringe When my hours in the daylight I searched for your smile Through the night I would stay just to hear your voice Memories of you bringing me joy seem unreal now As if only fantasy in my head but I– Know I lived in the walls of my dream ‘Til they came crashing down, the nightmare revealed... You just raped me and left me for dead You stabbed me in the heart To your delusions you made me a slave In bondage I'm still chained Convinced me I was the one to blame I cut my own hands just to make you whole You buried my love you shut yourself away I filled this emptiness to the brim with hate You tricked me again and again with your crap as I fell for the traps that you laid Was my trust nothing to you? There's nothing to say or to do to convince me that you ever cared about me Don't keep me waiting for you Always in my mind's eye there was no one but you Tell me what did you do that shook me to the bone Time spent with you only timeless time away it was endless And each day we built with the dust of our hope I thought our blind charade would go on ‘Til I caught a glimpse of the wreck just beyond You just raped me and left me for dead You stabbed me in the heart To your delusions you made me a slave In bondage I'm still chained Convinced me I was the one to blame I cut my own hands just to make you whole You buried my love you shut yourself away I filled this emptiness to the brim with hate You took and you stole and you thieved and you cheated and lied as I gave and I gave Wish you'd stop smiling at me Pretending it's all in the past or it's venial, trivial, circumstantial Why can't you see what you did? What you did to me? Late at night in this silence I turn to her so desperately Forgetting all our fires and the burns they left on me It slips our minds, we smile and nod, but it’s lurking underneath Wake up the next day and find myself in the blasted heath Better leave those wounds as all unopened scars Never more a word lest I let you wreck it all I’ve built a world so strong without you, why let you in, see it all collapse And now when I think about that bridge, I pray today won’t be your—

"New Love Song" Death Is A Business Not Infinite (2019) LYRICS: You ever felt so pure? You ever felt so sure? You knew not what this was in the beginning But ever since then your head has been spinning Each and every day you're reminded why you Keep on finding more reasons to try to Hold on tight Make wrong right And stay until she smiles You scream you cry you wish you'd die But all that if you put aside Is a drop of fleeting misery in the ocean of eternity Of love which flows when in your eyes, the sign which only God divine Could have put to send word of the cosmos all contained within your heart I would never let the dreams slip By like water in my hand And we can build Hatch a life If miles keep us apart Just look up to the stars But tell me will this life of ours not end in anything but hurt Tell me is this promise made between us not just hollow words Broken skin anxious train rides spiral down a dirty hole But hold on baby otherwise, the light fades and it slowly dies You promised the future But the future’s insecure And can something be so pure? Can you ever be so sure? I need no hope I have no fear If you and I believe

"Familiar Streets" Death Is A Business Not Infinite (2019) LYRICS: You walk down the road That used to lead home An empty house on a lonely street Stinking, soured memories If you enter there now, only dust you will find But the paradise of youth I do see in my mind A childhood whiled away–I rushed through it all It's scrawled on a white barren wall My manhood was a childhood dream Tell me manhood's not all that it seems And now the family I wanted to leave far behind Is scattered like dust drifting farther with time And I wish the night would come swallow me whole So I can't see the paths that I'd worn to the ground Though this block where I grew up still looks much the same It can’t hide the home crumbling further each day The ghosts of this old town are stalking me The ancient gnarled trees they talk to me Abandoned yards overgrown with weeds On the ruins of our old lives they slowly feed Where is my hometown when they all have fled And the streets the people I once loved no longer tread When our footprints by the lakefront are forever gone And the doors I’m racing towards they won’t stay open long I look through the window where the sun used to shine On the family, now a lifetime gone, that sat in this room The walls were stripped bare, there was nothing left behind And one of our number, I won't see very soon Drive into the sunset, return to exile Where the faces are faceless, and nobody knows your name We used to walk miles ‘cross town Now those miles are too far for a drive You used to be a stone’s throw away I’ll see you maybe next holiday And so the friendships we made We have left in the snow Where they lie in the dirt Like a fossil of old So I journey on and drag myself away I could travel and see all the wonders of the world But there'll never be anything in all that I see That'll rob me of breath like these familiar streets

"A Mother's Touch" Death Is A Business Not Infinite (2019) LYRICS: Do you remember the last words we shared When you told me not to be worried or scared? What did I miss and what did you hide What did you lock in a box inside? And could I have helped and could you be stopped From ending your life right in the flash of a gun! You stole yourself away from me Refused me the chance to rescue you Nineteen years worth of memories You ruined, destroyed, you tore to shreds Then left sprawled out on the bathroom tile The door frame marked with red stains and black tape I pray that they’d let me relive that minute I’d break down the door, knock your hand aside Need a second of hesitation Need a second thought for this decision How can I find peace when you Left me broken pieces Now but for a dusty picture I see your face in half-formed dreams Never speak your name, so let this music be the air you breathe Take me back to a time To the bedroom walls plastered in white Where we drew monkeys and aliens and spaceships Then we invented some card games on old paper scraps Then one day we found ourselves miles apart Our friends occupied what once were our late nights Where we once shared a room you just kept the door locked And all I wish now is that I would have knocked Then Christmas came, you laughed, you joked But you betrayed no emotion Played your part with resolve So determined in waging this Silent, secret war with yourself Why did you carry on this fight all alone? Did you really think we had given up on you? And now it’s too late for an offer of help The help for which you never bothered to ask You stupid—worthless—vile—piece of shit—you never gave a fuck How could you have looked me in the Eye and not have told me it would Be the last time I would ever See you before you were lowered into the ground Blur your mind Obscure the world And feed you the drugs To cleanse the pain You can’t hide it Now you’re coming down Crashing down and down We crossed paths in a dream I saw you walk towards me And then I reached right out to grab you But you vanished through the door I’m chasing glimpses of you I’ve forgotten where you’ve been But before long I realize you’re dead Impossible images of you Burned into my eyes You’re a walking ghost You’re an apparition I couldn’t shake if I tried I know this vision can’t be real But I wish to God that it were I pray you will return in dream And I will not cry anymore But somewhere that park still rings with your voice Somewhere your footsteps still part the dust Somewhere your cigarette still burns away And somewhere your motorcycle tears through the night Blur my mind Obscure my world And feed me the drugs To cleanse my pain I can’t hide it Now I’m coming down Crashing down and down Didn’t meet our expectations Couldn’t withstand all our pressures Called yourself a disappointment But maybe it was us who were a disappointment to you So now you’ve made your escape from this world In search of some silence away from this noise There’s no more a moment for you to waste In pursuit of happiness you never knew And which one of us was the one to blame? Or did the culprit die when you blasted a hole in your skull! Which is the greater selfishness Your wish to die or my wish that you’d live Were you wrong to think you were cursed from the start? Am I wrong to ask why you wasted this gift? And whose decision is this to make? Who can say this was all a mistake? Pointless to ask now so all that we’re left Is a hope this melody bring you to life! I look through the window where the sun used to shine On a family now a lifetime gone who sat in this room The walls were stripped bare there was nothing left behind And you are the one I won’t see very soon