This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Inertia - Your great illusion
Inertia - Do you deny?
Here I stand on my own - Defeated?
Alone in my pain my remorse - Conceited?
Disowned from a world of dispassion
Incomplete in disbelief...
Do you feel the need to betray all
With your pathetic display?
No need to defend your disdain
Incomplete in disbelief...
In-between a bitter lie...
In defeat you relish the lie you conceived in time
Do you perceive everything you create will be believed?
Through it all you portray
A bittersweet display
Hidden from this world
You deny those beside you
Blinded by your pride you forget who held you so high
Years between - For what was it worth, if nothing else?
Do you feel the right to deprive those who carried you?
Never forget all that was given - Selflessly driven
Stay through pain your agony
Intoxicate the fear
Withstanding all between
Cut loose the ties in betrayal
Will you awake from your lies?
Decided by those you despise
Detest this grim reprise
Wipe clean your conscience - Fate will decide...
Fade - Memories fade in time, nothing but time
Fade - Memories cascade through it all the downfall, you deny your greatest flaw!
Who are you to use, to consume and abuse?
Censor and confuse, conceit and delude
Hidden from the truth you obsess and pursue
Nothing left to prove, everything to lose
Never to comply you confess your desire
Resist and deny, never to confide
Distort every lie to pervert and defile
Nothing left to lose, everything to prove
Silence bleeding fate deceiving
Lost belief in a world of delusion
Silence bleeding fate deceiving
Lost belief - This time you will see...
Inertia - Your great illusion
Inertia - Do you deny?
Inertia - Your great illusion
Inertia - Can you deny?
Inertia - This grand illusion
Inertia - This time your lies denied
Inertia - Do you deny?
Here I stand on my own - Defeated?
Alone in my pain my remorse - Conceited?
Disowned from a world of dispassion
Incomplete in disbelief...
Do you feel the need to betray all
With your pathetic display?
No need to defend your disdain
Incomplete in disbelief...
In-between a bitter lie...
In defeat you relish the lie you conceived in time
Do you perceive everything you create will be believed?
Through it all you portray
A bittersweet display
Hidden from this world
You deny those beside you
Blinded by your pride you forget who held you so high
Years between - For what was it worth, if nothing else?
Do you feel the right to deprive those who carried you?
Never forget all that was given - Selflessly driven
Stay through pain your agony
Intoxicate the fear
Withstanding all between
Cut loose the ties in betrayal
Will you awake from your lies?
Decided by those you despise
Detest this grim reprise
Wipe clean your conscience - Fate will decide...
Fade - Memories fade in time, nothing but time
Fade - Memories cascade through it all the downfall, you deny your greatest flaw!
Who are you to use, to consume and abuse?
Censor and confuse, conceit and delude
Hidden from the truth you obsess and pursue
Nothing left to prove, everything to lose
Never to comply you confess your desire
Resist and deny, never to confide
Distort every lie to pervert and defile
Nothing left to lose, everything to prove
Silence bleeding fate deceiving
Lost belief in a world of delusion
Silence bleeding fate deceiving
Lost belief - This time you will see...
Inertia - Your great illusion
Inertia - Do you deny?
Inertia - Your great illusion
Inertia - Can you deny?
Inertia - This grand illusion
Inertia - This time your lies denied
Lyrics submitted by sokorny
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