From the recording The Rite
"'The Rite' is at once both a warning and a celebration. It is the breakdown of all that is untrue to bring forth the re-construction of all that is meant to be. Falsehoods are torn away, leaving Truth to emerge within us."
Adam Prezio: vocals, acoustic/electric/bass guitar, MIDI programming, recording and mix engineer
Cover art: Samuel Lehikoinen - www.samuellehikoinen.com
Lyrics
A cold wind blows
Prison walls around us are closing
Foreboding sequence
Enveloping hell
What could it be that’s deciding to tell?
It’s just something all are to go through
A sudden voice that’s revealing within us
Towards the meaning outside of ourself
To do away with the lies that we tell
It’s just something all are to go through
It’s just something all are to move through
We might
See now
When we are battered broken
The Rite
Is how
The Truth is ever spoken
How dark
To be
So in delusion from ourself
Is it a wonder
That there is a reason
For us to see that
The way of the world
Is not in comfort or ease to be learned?
It’s just something all are to go through
The greatest teacher,
Of wisdom and pain
When all deceivings
Are tumbling down
So all your weakness
Can fall to the ground
It’s just something all are to go through
To awaken anew
We might
See now
When we are battered broken
The Rite
Is how
The Truth is ever spoken
How dark
To be
So in delusion from ourself
We might
See now
When we are battered broken
The Rite
Is how
The Truth is ever spoken
The chance
We have
Release the shackles and our chains
And let your freedom begin
We might
See now
When we are battered broken
The Rite
Is how
The Truth is ever spoken
How dark
To be
So in delusion from ourself
We might
See now
When we are battered broken
The Rite
Is how
The Truth is ever spoken
Renounce
Your life
Into The Hands and fall into
All that you’re given here to do
Now