As I Lay Dying Echoes
[Intro: Chris Clancy & Tim Lambesis]
Buried by the thoughts, I'm bleeding
Forged in fire but now I'm seeing
How it's haunting me
How it's haunting me
[Verse 1: Tim Lambesis]
Haunted by the price I pay
For passion and impulsivity
But as the blindness fades away
The greatest pain is if I choose to stay
[Bridge: Tim Lambesis]
A shell of skin around a mind
That's spiralin' in a decline
'Cause you're dead inside
[Verse 2: Tim Lambesis]
Why would I choose to chase a ghost
When all I would gain is just more loss?
And how could I seek to find my soul
As I kill myself to make you whole?
Why would I sacrifice my only life when
You won't try to simply even take a look inside?
[Pre-Chorus: Tim Lambesis]
I watched your body stay yet your heart disappear
Like mourning your dеath while you're still herе
[Chorus 1: Chris Clancy & Tim Lambesis]
Hearing echoes, hearing echoes calling (echoes calling me)
(Echoes are calling me)
This is haunting how it's crushing me (it's crushing me)
It's crushing me
[Verse 3: Tim Lambesis]
I wish there was another way
But hope cannot save us
The good moments were never gold
Just pyrite giving false hope as we grow old
[Chorus 2: Chris Clancy & Tim Lambesis, both]
Hearing echoes, hearing echoes calling (echoes calling)
(Echoes are calling me)
This is haunting how it's crushing me
(How it's crushing me)
Now I'm buried by the thoughts, I'm bleeding
Forged in fire but not defeated
I struggle on, I can't let go
[Breakdown: Tim Lambesis]
Let go to become
Who I always should have been
Become the architect
What I was born to build
Become the architect
Of what I was born to build
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge: Chris Clancy]
Buried by the thoughts, I'm bleeding
Forged in fire but not defeated
I struggle on, I can't let go
[Chorus 3: Chris Clancy & Tim Lambesis, both]
Hearing echoes, hearing echoes calling (echoes calling)
(Echoes are calling me)
This is haunting how it's crushing me
(How it's crushing me)
Now I'm buried by the thoughts, I'm bleeding
Forged in fire but not defeated
I struggle on, I can't let go
I struggle on, but now let go
(Buried by the thoughts, I'm bleeding)
I can't let go
(Forged in fire but not defeated)
I struggle on, the echoes call
[Post-Chorus: Tim Lambesis]
They call until I let go
No longer haunted
[Outro: Tim Lambesis]
Become the architect (the architect)
Of what I was born to build
