The Southern Fold

Hold Back the Sun

Cold iron lives in your stare, it's un-nerving
the way that you hold fear and mystery.
Sparing the truth with a cup of His blood and
the lie that you've sowed deep in misery.

So hold back the sun
let the rain fall down
dim the light shining love
in divinity.

Those darkened, dead eyes from the one who would rise
from His death and sell me my reckoning.
That ice-cold, bloody Heavenly glory,
that hell bend salvation delivering.

Blood of Life

Red river flowing with the blood of life,
flowing with the dreams and the love that dies,
the innocents and meek who inherit the earth
in the shallow graves and the blood red dirt.

Let it flow...
don't you pay no mind,
just wash in the blood
of a screaming child.
Red river flowing on...

Red river flowing with the blood of the lamb
flowing in the seas and running on the land
blowing in the skies and rolling in the sand
a generation cries in the devil's own hands.

Red river flowing with the struggle and greed,
the power in the hands of the few that lead
driven by desire in spite of the need,
raping the earth with an evil seed.

Let it grow...
don't you pay no mind,
just wash in the blood
of a screaming child.
Red river flowing on...

Save Your Soul

The fire below, it's flames burn high
as the angels fall with the demon's rise.
Who'll set you free?
Who'll take you home, unchain your heart
and save your soul?

Oh, what you need, you don't want.
All the things you crave ain't what you've got.
You'll never feel self-satisfied
until you burn deep in that pyre.

See the day begin that's ending soon
as you stand to face your impending doom.
Will the wrath of God come down hard and cold?
Are you going up above or down below?

All the open graves and the ladder to climb,
all this world of plagues and the lake of fire,
nothing that you've seen could ever be compared
to the burning rain of your judgement day.

Sunday Best

Lay me down to go alone,
sleeping in the wind,
free of breath and still and pale,
stone cold as sin.

Dress me in my Sunday best,
laid in lace and pine.
Send me to this empty space
and lose me in the fire.

Oh, the night is dark and long,
no sun will ever shine,
no bird will sing, no bell will ring,
no heart's desire.
Flowing on the air not breathed
to be slowly, slowly gone.
No faith in love below or above,
life undone.

Comb my hair and wash my soul,
bathe me in good grace.
Forgive me all I've sinned and wronged,
severed and embraced.

Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost (Not Taken in Vain)

Wasting all the life that's left,
waking up to sad regret
and you sell your soul into the wind.

Did you lose your faith in God in-jokes,
in Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost 
and the love you placed your hope into?

My advice was cruel and hard to sell,
on deaf and blinded ears it fell,
oh, how love is wasted on the youth.

The twist was sharp and hidden well
in a fond farewell and final ending
we danced a merry dance with you.

Turning on the life you'd played,
Standing on the past you'd made,
Fading out to black and save the best
for what you never knew.

Paler than the moon that shines,
more lonely than the wind that whines so cold
and holds my heart so low. 

Wading through a stream of tears
heavy guilt and distant years
now here's to a sad story untold.

All my words come softly falling 
on my page as in a daydream
my would is deep and wound so tight.

Set Yourself on Fire with Love

Wake up to what you want escaping from,
no one else home, got nowhere to belong.
You're so alone, buried deep below.
Yea, you feel like a sun burning cold.

Wait by the window for your Saviour's face,
your faith in love left without a trace.
Now you're let go, left behind, betrayed.
You just feed on that lie.

Set Yourself on Fire with Love.

There's so much life left beyond the night
but you can't see any morning light
now there's nobody left to make you smile,
you just cry, 
you just cry.

Where did the love go when it left your heart?
Where did belief go when you needed a start?
Now there's no prayer to help you feel alive,
you just die,
you just die.

Dead (Un)forgiven

Walking down, 

Walking down the outside,

You know you feel just like a child,

Young and naive, wild and free

With hopeful, visionary eyes.

You see the lights are on but no one's home.

You've got the right to remain wrong.

Walking down,

Walking down the inside,

You know you feel just like a slave,

Held your breath for all this life and never

Felt betrayed by the way

You're kept behind the lines,

You're in a cage of your place and of your time.

I'm praying for all the souls,

All the lost in their living.

I'm praying for all the souls,

All the dead (un)forgiven.

I'm praying it is no lie,

For the truth and the answer.

I'm praying for all the souls,

They don't know what they're missing.

Somebody will be broken-hearted for me.

I'm praying,

I'm praying.

Walking out,

Out into the open,

You know you feel just like a fake.

Buried deep,

Underneath the weight,

You pray to God that you don't break.

You get along on pills and alcohol,

You get along, be it right or wrong.

Mercy & Sin

Obey your rules and turn your pages,

Betray your dreams and waste them 

Praying for  love and mercy within,

Inheriting a world of dust and sin.

Oh, my God don't answer to me,

Oh, the angels don't answer to me,

Oh, the devil's don't answer to me ,

They tear at my heart and bring me to my knees.

All my prayers are spoken in vain,

All my prayers are offered in vain,

All my prayers are begging in vain

To go in love and heal the broken heart.

Crawl in line as long as you can,

To plant a kiss on your God's righteous hand.

Bless your love, your soul and your faith

Commanded by love and deep dark hate.

No one is My Name 

Hail tomorrow's broken spirit,

Feel this shiver, black and frozen 

Take this madness, empty promise,

Sad betrayals of dead men singing.

Oh, no one is my name.

Turn your cheek and pass love over,

Start to ending, for the better.

Frail yet willing, open hearted,

Still believing, ever needing.

Oh, no one is my name,

I fall and bleed at your altar,

No one is my name.

Silent speaker, sad pretender,

Easy sinner, shackled dreamer,

Drained of colour, covered over,

Faded, murdered, unknown soldier.

Oh, no one is my name,

Buried deep down in nowhere,

Noone is my name.

The Devil in Me

Well I'm not walking alone,

I got a dear friend right behind.

I got a mark on my soul,

I got the poison in my mind.

Well I've been such a short time

Getting myself to here.

I've got nothing to lose 

Except my whole life and fear.

Well the devil in me

Stole my soul, broke away my heart.

I've got him running in my veins,

I've got that demon in my blood.

I take a look in the mirror 

But I don't recognize my face.

I don't like what I see,

I see a shameful, broken disgrace.

Now I've got nothing in mind

But to feed the hunger inside.

I'm gonna lay me to waste

I'm gonna lay my weary bones to die.

Bible Fear 

My love's gonna be my saviour,

My love's gonna free my soul 

My heart's gonna keep on beating.

Hold out through the guilt and fearing.

Hold out for your lost love 

Cold water, faith, believing…

Wait up for what your keeping,

Wait up for your lost love.

Break chains with your crucifixion.

Hold on to the way you're paving,

Break free from the grave of souls.

Be safe in the glow of Eden.

Be safe in the glow of Heaven.

In the glow of Heaven.

God is a Ghost 

Days getting shorter,

The nights creeping in.

The light in the window 

Is weakened and dim.

But your spirit continues though 

Withered and worn,

With a soul full of loving

And a heart full of gold.

And people, they strive

Though the way is hard and long.

They hold their heads high

Though forsaken and wronged.

Through the coldest of winters

And the darkest of nights,

With a soul full of living 

And a heart full of life.

And sometimes I wonder 

If God is a Ghost,

If angels live least

And devils live most.

When the pure-hearted truth

Gets cut down by the blade

Of a soul full of dying

And a heart full of hate.