
If music is A mirror revealing The depths of my heart Then I will write The darkest song For without Forgiveness My soul is lost All that is hope Within destruction Comes from you For I have fallen Fallen If music is A mirror revealing The depths of my heart Then I will write The darkest song For without Forgiveness My soul is lost All that is hope Within destruction Comes from you For I have fallen And there is nothing good Within me yet I've Been given life I will I will never Deserve For without Forgiveness Without forgiveness my soul is lost All that is hope Within destruction All that is hope -Forsaken.

How many years have we waited for a ship that never set sail? And how many days have we wasted chasing a love that was not our own? I sat ashore and watched as one hopeless wave crashed upon another while my thoughts ran to the hills my heart never reached the sea with only delusions of an endless journey I am left with an ocean between you and me Is this your salvation? Is this all you can give? I will not stand in reflection of someone else's dream The gate to my heart has been weld shut with the splendor of my aspirations closed in how many years have we waited for a ship that never set sail? And how many days have we wasted chasing a love that was not our own? Is this your salvation? Is this all you can give? I will not stand in reflection of someone else's dream -Within Destruction. This world was never worthy But how can I call it unfaithful Every promise was fulfilled As decay crawled from it's throat Like the dead rising from an open grave Lips of splendor and tongue of deceit All dying now as our fragile wrists hold only waste Like those gasping for their last breath We cannot hide there's nothing left If All my sorrow has led me here Then I would cry all of my tears To have this chance again And know there's more than this And know there's more than you Like those gasping for their last breath We cannot hide there's nothing left -An Ocean Between Us.
Remarkably, As I Lay Dying's members, who had previously sworn never to work with the singer again, reunited with him in 2018 and released Shaped. In 2014, the band split after vocalist Tim Lambesis was sentenced to prison for his role in a plot to kill his estranged wife. Their 2007 long-player, An Ocean Between Us, debuted at number eight on the Top 200. After initially emerging as a Christian guitar/drums/vocals trio (whose lyrics never reflected their beliefs) with their highly regarded, self-recorded full-length Beneath the Encasing of Ashes in 2001, they signed to Metal Blade and became a quintet whose brutal attack and meaty riffs drew legions of fans across the globe, making them a festival headliner. San Diego's As I Lay Dying are a metalcore band whose sound employs elements of melodic death, grindcore, and hooky classic metal.
