Fiery skies

Distant worlds from a past life, they haunt me

Memories blurred from that time, still find me

A shell of myself just trying to survive

Fiery Skies celebrate tonight, but I'm locked up

Trapped inside of my own mind, I'm fucked up

Maybe it's time to leave it all behind, and change my state of mind

No longer feel the need to wear my armor, long the way that it's been

And now I begin to see in colors, more than I've ever seen 

On the outside

On the Outside

Never quite at home

Always you’re alone

Always on the outside

Riding out the storm

So where do we now start

Where do we begin

Never looking outside

Always looking in

Always on the outside

And never quite at home

Always on the outside

And every Christmas you’re alone

Waiting for the dawn

Family full of strangers

Barely holding on

Always on the outside

You know you must be strong

Always on the outside

And you’ll survive the storm

And always you’ll belong

Always you’ll belong

Always you’ll belong

Animam Nondum Efflavi (I Have Not Yet Exhaled My Spirit)

Animam Nondum Efflavi (I Have Not Yet Exhaled My Spirit)

[Latin original]:

animam nondum efflavi,
tametsi eam vulneravi;
parce mihi frater,
tam longe meo carne.

quando te deterrui
et quo furtim effugisti?
te quoniam necavi.

mortuis adiunxisti
vel phasmatibus perditis?
redde mihi vitam
quam in noctem abstractam.

[English]:

I have not yet exhaled (flared out) my spirit,
Though I have caused her harm (wounded her) ;
Forgive me, my brother,
So distant (remote) from my flesh.

When did I cause you to flee in terror,
and whither have you quietly (furtively) fled?
For I have murdered (killed) you.

Have you joined the company of [the] depraved phasms (spirits) ?
Return to me the life (vitality)
that was dragged off into the night.

Shane Joshua Thomas