Who will be the one to dig your grave Do you think about those who you bury? You go about life when surrounded by death The shock wears off, it’s just another body Death is an industry, death is routine Do you fear your own mortality? We all end up this way, no cause to maintain Do you feel out of place among the living? Bonedigger, bonedigger, bonedigger Who will be the one to dig your grave Go ahead and dig it yourself

This ghostly mist blankets vacant hillsides On edge or at peace, what should I be? The fog silhouettes loom above, guarding me Brittle frost clings to dying grass Creeping like moss over your stones Like the decay that claims flesh postmortem Ancient marks for forgotten life Are teeth jutting out from the earth’s maw Lost to time, worn inscriptions You never lived at all There is a day when we will join you The past swallows the years History falls into oblivion Let the inevitable soften your fears Caught up in our lives, the trivial struggles This brief gap of light between two eternities Every last creature succumbs to the mist Beneath the vacant hillsides dwells the sea of the dead

Master: It’s time for you to die It’s time for me to try (one last time) To explain what you’re doing wrong If you can manage to follow along Cause you keep getting on my nerves (on my nerves) Soon you’ll get what you deserve (what you deserve) I can’t help you anymore (anymore) Here’s my fists and there’s the door (there’s the door) Disciple: It’s time for me to die I think I know the reason why All I do is get in the way Even when I do what you say Master: I’m your life I’m your soul You are slipping Out of control Because I know it won’t be long Before you decide that I am wrong You’re losing respect for me Can’t you see, you’ll never be free Disciple: I think I know the reason why I think I know the reason why The reason why I’m sorry for going behind your back I’m sorry for the lies I’m sorry I never listen Forgive me one last time Master: You’ve let me, you’ve let me down You’ve let me, you’ve let me down You’ve let me, you’ve let me down You’d let me, you’d let me drown Disciple: I’m nothing without you You made me what I am It’s not your fault I’m not good enough It’s mine, like it always is My friends tell me you’re cruel But you do it all to make me clean I’m dirty and wretched I deserve everything I get Why can’t I do anything right I think I know the reason why Why are you never satisfied I think I know the reason why All the pain and the beatings My blood spattering the ground The hidden cuts where they’ll never see It’s worth it just to make you smile It’s the one thing I can do right I think I know the reason why The moments when you’re satisfied I think I know the reason why Master: You live to please me You need my love You need my shelter And God’s grace above You live to please me You need my love You need my shelter And God’s grace above

This one misstep may end my life No one’s around for miles I’m the tree falling in the forest My screams don’t make a sound Each attempt leaves me more broken Exhausted, injured, and desperate My hope dwindles and I ask myself Am I going to die here? Why was I so foolish? Why didn’t I think twice? Why didn’t I prepare for the worst? Now I must pay the price Panic seizes me and I tear at the walls Dirt beneath my nails Clawing my way from my own grave My final resting place Why didn’t I say where I was going? Why didn’t I bring a friend? I am trapped here all alone And alone I shall meet my end Panic seizes me and I tear at the walls Dirt beneath my nails Clawing my way from my own grave My final resting place If I can just find a way And think outside the box But night is falling, a chill’s in the air My fear is turning to despair I’ve no food or water Nothing for warmth Should I give up and accept That nature will run its course? Each attempt leaves me more broken Exhausted, injured, and desperate My hope dwindles and I ask myself Am I going to die here? Am I going to die here? Will they find my body? A feast for flies and maggots Flesh decayed into the dirt Is this where my bones will lie For all of eternity? Will my loved ones believe That I’ve abandoned them? Why was I so foolish? Why didn’t I think twice? Why didn’t I prepare for the worst? Now I must pay the price Why didn’t I say where I was going? Why didn’t I bring a friend? I am trapped here all alone And alone I shall meet my end Panic seizes me and I tear at the walls Dirt beneath my nails Clawing my way from my own grave My final resting place Am I going to die here? Will they find my body? Am I going to die here? I am going to die here

Defendant: Before you condemn me Your Honor, you must understand That since I was young I was different from the others I’ve never felt real human connection I don’t think I ever could People are just tools to me I use them to get what I want And what I wanted Was to feel something Your pain and disgust Come so naturally to you I hide my true self Just to survive I just wanted to feel something Anything at all The Gallery: You took a life, the ultimate sin And now you’ll pay the price Defendant: I can’t get my thrills from slasher flicks Nor from joyrides or drugs When I watched the light leave her eyes It was like setting her soul free And I felt something And I’d do it again I held life and death in my hands So sentence me, if you must If it means I’m done living this lie The Gallery: No one to say goodbye No friends or family Alone you lived Alone you die We’d wish you to spend The rest of your life in regret But you can’t even feel it You’re barely human She was a toy to you Discarded once broken A life snuffed out For a moment’s thrill At least we can take solace In your punishment You will never be able To kill again Defendant: What I wanted Was to feel something Your pain and disgust Come so naturally to you I hide my true self to survive I just wanted to feel something Anything at all

Our puny minds can’t comprehend The sheer amount of suffering Can you imagine just a thousand lives Their experiences erased One death, a tragedy A million, a statistic It’s cause we’re removed Not cause we’re sadistic We’ll use grains of rice To help you visualize The evils we do When we can’t realize How many lives have you truly touched The smallest fraction of those who’ve died Systematic deaths as if at a slaughterhouse To say nothing of their pain before One death, a tragedy A million, a statistic It’s cause we’re removed Not cause we’re sadistic We’ll use grains of sand To help you realize The evils we do When we can’t visualize Nuclear codes kept in a human heart Force your leaders to kill with bare hands To truly understand the consequence of war To rethink the disconnect of mass death Those on the ground just follow orders Submit to authority blindly Could we find a way to make it personal? Could we rehumanize? Our minds have not evolved To make decisions like these So it’s easy to slaughter millions Just to prove a point Those on the ground just follow orders Submit to authority blindly Could we find a way to make it personal? Could we rehumanize? Our minds have not evolved To make decisions like these So it’s easy to slaughter millions Just to prove a point One death, a tragedy A million, a statistic It’s cause we’re removed Not cause we’re sadistic We’ll use grains of rice To help you visualize The evils we do When we can’t realize One death, a tragedy A million, a statistic It’s cause we’re removed Not cause we’re sadistic We’ll use grains of sand To help you realize The evils we do When we can’t visualize

Your life has been frozen Caught in suspended animation Your things untouched As if waiting for your return All is just as you left it But for the layer of dust A snapshot of your life But for the dust in your room I held you in my arms the day you were born I watched you grow into a child and become yourself Into the brilliant young woman you were With a bright future and a world of possibilities But how things can change in the blink of an eye And my life bookends yours A normal day turned to tragedy Your future ripped away I see you in all your favorite things And how they remind me of you I see you in my dreams Don’t let me forget you But how things can change in the blink of an eye And my life bookends yours A normal day turned to tragedy Your future ripped away The bed still unmade A book on your desk I will leave it all untouched I could never erase you Sometimes it still slips my mind I expect you to be there But when I open your door Your life is covered in dust That’s why I leave your room just as it was Even if I forget everything else I still have this snapshot of your life Covered by the dust in your room Covered by the dust in your room But how things can change in the blink of an eye And my life bookends yours A normal day turned to tragedy Your future ripped away

My days slip by and there’s nothing I care to do about it Hours of indecision all feel the same This world teems with possibility but I’m trapped Within the wastes of my own mind You refuse to cooperate and you stagnate You demand action and then you shut down Where’s the impetus you promise Where’s the inspiration you tease Allow me to finish what I start Allow me to seek a drive Break this rhythm of inertia Demolish this cycle of longing I am waiting for something but I don’t know what As soon as it comes, it will end I return to my days as usual And I spend them waiting again I fall into a sleep that fails to break A haze of unknowing that drains my being I throw my life away, directionless Can’t you let me live out my purpose?