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Definement

by Aesthetic Empathy

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1.
Awaken In lifetime embedded My time is stolen away This story is wicked Grown in delusion of a madman's dream of peace Hear me Well, this time our own path is found and lost Crouching the walls of a life I've been part of Pointlessly rising for the one last shiver that will cover the grave There's no mind Nothing, nothing to guide the way to escape a lepering domain Look at what we are What we have never been Look just what we are What we hold up high One for intolerance One for the greed to flow A roaming wonder This light I've been given will not die in my hands The legacy of savage tribes will not kill what's left inside me Will not hold my lifetime Once a paradise in the arms of the weak I see now polluted with the hands of freaks But where I should see compelling and compassionate frames I've only managed to grasp the hidden snake beneath Let me out to find my way There is no saving here Let me out to find my way There is no justice here Beyond past Beyond lies In my light I will rise
2.
With the capacity that's left For a blink it turns into a monument To represent all the strength of a mortal morphology Left on a cross-plane It shapes every end of a soul that's encouraged To mend what is broken A wonder in the realm of all the worthless Aproved by the hearts and the conscience of the few The gleam of all candles in the night The dream of our souls that shine like they are new Untainted meadows in the land of blight In our eyes dark winds blow Just one last step and I'll take no more But in our hearts the restless glow The will of men to walk without a hope Therein lie possibilities of men Nothing to constrain your own freedom Therein lie the mechanics of will Nothing to constrain your own freedom To embrace uncertainties of a game as a test for your determinant To resume to the order of a shell Like sleep after a long walk through chaos We breathe in shreds of apathy But to a new world we're destined to be singing In our eyes dark winds blow Just one last step and I'll take no more But in our hearts the restless glow The will of men to walk without a hope But with dreams, resolve and patience I shall see change with the work of my hands For I shall still breathe when the chains of my dreams Fade away eventually
3.
Was there ever an incarnate that has not yearned for a change? Was there an eye open or do we meet the standards? Have you ever faced clear all the dreams in your hands? Have you ever asked questions about the hands that feed you? (To see If we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind Not accept things as they are But to understand it, to go into it, to examine it Give you heart and your mind with everything that you have to find out A way of living differently But that depends on you and not somebody else) Layers, fill our truth in layers for the martyrs to come Mankind assumed their lifes of being shepherds For the less evolved on the curiosity path Deny the referent laws Obey to apstractions so you could know That we're still close to nothing On our way to nothing As we're waiting for our youth Alone and afraid All dreams stay untold Respect the future as unknown As we're waiting for our youth Defined but deranged All dreams stay untold With all our mentors gone (There's no leader, there's no master, no saviour You yourself are the teacher and the pupil You are the master, you are the guru, you are the leader You are everything) We have our own liberty to abhore the paradox standing In front of our creativity In the core of our rights Make us Grasp our freedom? Make a perfect image! Long for the strings placed upon your will And a new start falling into your purpose Make it strong enough Engage in a game stating us the same As examples for the newborn shouting „why?“ Deny the referent laws Obey to apstractions so you could know That still distance means darkness All the way to darkness Progression with no meaning When the time is up! Prepare your lessons All what's learned but never believed When the outer planes always show the difference Of the true essence of existence
4.
Dualism 04:32
Child: I remember beauty and a world of worthy Goals that meant all you are I remember sunrays so honest on my face And all the love in my arms Smiles, I kept them with me The trust in all the good of this world Friends, they walk within me Old man, look at what you've lost I shall deny you With a piece of love I shall deny you With a piece of hope I shall deny you With honesty on my face I shall deny you With truth tagged on my name I shall deny you With care burned on my hands I shall deny you With sympathy in my eyes I shall deny you For the open arms I stay I will remain against the fear to trust in the memory Of hands spread to embrace my whole being with warmth For a world of mine I will stay denying All that you are For a life of trying I will teach denying Of all that you are Old Cynic: I remember rain with all the shame And mocking laughter at me I remember betrayal and all the sails Burned on mantrusting seas I shall deny you With a piece of flesh I shall deny you With a piece of hate I shall deny you With lies told to my face I shall deny you With contempt on my name I shall deny you With lust burned on their hands I shall deny you With apathy in their eyes I shall deny you I'm a tired man of moving mountains So a child could pretend that all is well I'm a tired man of taking judgement For the trust of a child's imagination I seek loss of memory of men and their humble ways For the broken arms I stay 'till the end of days Me: Be silent Both of you know nothing I'm here to teach peace between you two I need you both so I could seek perfection I need you both so I could feel complete
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The Innocent 04:34
Follow their guiding light The hub of the wheel What a cancer upon the rightness line Within the cycle of birth will they join the path of the wicked With this little try I will light up the tower To grief upon this star Thus enchanted with the sun it contemplates Through the mist and the scars To redeem their innocence For they learned to remind (When the worlds fall face down) All the blind (When the worlds fall face down) Of the colors (When the words throw their gown) All the lies (When the words throw their gown) Of the truth For it shines pure Monumenting the steps of the little one With the altruism of a God they will learn With the source finally revealed to their conscience They will be freed from the hypocrisy of a failing course As knowledge in their hands realigns Lead them to the sun into forever Lead them shining star to the end Stand still with the judgement before your feet Hold the torch to assign immortality Armed with the empathy recollect the souls alike your own You will succeed without the lord of mercy
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One morning leave behind all that we know Reflecting all leafs falling away from a tree martyrised When despair is still unable to hold our hands as we were hers Randomed and thrown by wills of someone elses wisdom We'll be watching and waiting for the years to mend all wounds we spent to roam I'll be choosing and giving for the eminence of a tear marking your name I've let them bear, Redeemer The rest of a childhood shade They're save lying within you, they're made lying within you I hope You'll share even hopeless, hold When I fall stay tied In grip with a shade you will fly Tell me a fairy tale when the reasons die Made of Silence The halfmoon now smiles and sings along To dance through endless nights with me Well'be humming and shaping all the words to curse all the worlds I'll be choosing and giving for the eminence of our dreams waiting to flame I've let them bear, Redeemer The rest of a childhood shade They're save lying within you, they're made lying within you When time stands and somewhere winds breeze through nights And stars shine bright Then I'll promise you a handful of love In your eyes the halfmoon now smiles
7.
Such burdens are heavy as stone A grip makes cold the air A momentum of the worlds to hold What makes sure gold is there? Forever in the flow A moment to inhale A piece of unique warmth What makes sure peace is there? Redeeming? Or leaving? A sweetness so deceiving So it holds me back It's so natural Rip off the gift and live in peace It stabs me in the back It's commonsense to all Give up your youth but grow with ease I'm spinning again around the edge I'm spinning again around the edge A remarking instinct Cursing the strength of knowledge in me A mocking skill The ignorance is bliss for the tired in me Deviant needs to grasp No thoughts. No faith. No answers. No questions. Remind me to Just give up the throne of madness I bend with shoulders sore Weak Reasons eat its flowers grown Weak Faith bends before reason A Harmony like never before I revoke this middle way (Define me) It's definement that still defines you Never the opposite There is never reason enough but you (Define me) To choose right Here comes the groveling wind of encouragment Such a strong embodyment of a way Purpose, so close to have Knowledge, in a blink to have But reason with the morning left My faith laughs within the doubts to break It should be easy To understand this world
8.
This grudge will lend us the grief we miss since the day the world moved on I've seen the darkness but more I fear the emptyness we call our own Is this faith restored or blinded to calm? The pillars of balance that shape rightess and rightfull its cause To hold on We are still passengers Still pawns in an endless game To the tyranouss star we'll cry to see redemption Life is kept too leashed and I will pray For answers, for solemn meanings that justify These question, reasons we found and lost at once Trust or deceive when my body is reshaped again To eternal and cold This quest, silence is greeted with Its echoes yelling denial In times they called His name Bearers of fire have changed Every light that brightens our day Was food for our hearts How many times do we alterate The meaning of faith The grudging belief So we could understand Are we what you change in your appendix? All the things burned and percieved Will we seek when the depths will cover us? When all just blurs to nothing? It would be easy to bear when we would bear What we truly are Lead my eyes to eternal accept All the things just to be
9.
One step at your cowardice source My eyes are shut Reflect but never exist Stand still, a ray of silence Wash away the obligations fed by a long starved guidance In your cries I still hear the depth of knowing To obey weights the same as a free willed choice I hold no grief for a world That fakes its smile to the burdens it holds I know what I found and it's spiritless All ages are pure at dawn for sure So hidden from eyes deep in the emptyness Enough for human hands to hold Well seen through all visions So bright is their wretched sore Free-market pigs in motion So long are the shadows where they cover Tainted were all blessings, indeed So you feel tempted by the lack of passion and the calm revieled In your ethics I still see a distant mourning That decisions are reflected by all the choices foreseen I hold no grief for a world That fakes its smile to the burdens it holds Lay down on the purest ground still your hearts and hands are filth Look down you self claimed preachers There's my loss but where's your beauty? There are no secrets to find I pray to no darkness nor light So I beg you just leave me behind one shelter I've called home One touch at the „never sinned“ You give birth to your opposite One touch at the „neversinned“ All the efforts and every cause One touch at the „never sinned“ Are just lost and forsaken
10.
The Mind. Perceive it as a tool. What you fear is the loss of self And the maker's breath that feeds your role (I see) Yet the „me“ will cloud itself And the taker's yell will scream „a fraud“ (I see) So you paint the images left But the painter's craft will not be bold (I see) For the shift that you suggest Is a theft itself and a play well known (Yes, I see) Undress your learning And take a treat into the unknown Explore all the layers Embrace all the frailty of thoughts And take a walk among the fools Who made all the tools Who left all the cues Who raised all disputes And learned how to unfold reality And catch a sight of all the players to come Names will change Doubts remain And they're holding your loose ends Names will change Fear remains And it's holding, it's holding All walls closing in Trains of the sleepless will ring Identities searching their king The masks that you're wearing to live Reject them To face them Learning the sense of the yearning Of minds that are turning The fear of returning To places that you purposely forget That hold the core of all your pain The truth of your name The rules of the game The means to the end To learn how to unfold reality And draw a line between salvation and want Just know I am a deception And yet you carry me And yet you carry me no matter where
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When you drift alongside the cliff When you smile in spite of the wind I see you and your mesmerizing wings When you land to rest on your leaf When you change directions to leave I dream you coming with the spring But you Fly away, You fly away These hands are not meant to catch you Fly away, You fly away Such beauty is not meant to love you When your colors flare in the lea When the flowers welcome your dream I feel you and the morning that you bring With the chaos as you still deflect When the winter backs with respect To hail you and the beauty that you sing When you sweep depressions away When you wake the trees to tell of the tale Of glory and the patterns of your strings I will breathe inside of your well Where you drink the waters to share all the wealth To my home where summer will begin Name what you want Don't leave this place Take all you want Don't leave this place Where laughter still reigns Where summer begins Where no autumn will paint Don't leave this place Where your spirits will rest Where all your mourning will end Where affection will mend Don't leave this place But in the morning you're gone You left this place

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„It's definement that shall define you. Never the opposite.“ The last tone is played, but the music has just begun. The tunes being our songs, the music... our lives. It has followed us through the years, all the ideas, the emotions, the always present intent to be, first of all, honest to ourselves and to every experience teaching us a most crucial thing... to see beauty in all things and to cherish it with all the love we could muster. Finally, it has caught up with us. It's birthname is „Definement“. Its parents are called „Aesthetic Empathy“. So in the end, there won't be any fancy statements except for the music that is embodying everything we have to say in a most natural way : through emotions. We are here. We are defined. As a band. As friends. As human beings.

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released January 20, 2011

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Aesthetic Empathy are a six-piece metalcore / alternative metal band formed in 2001 as one of the few new breed of metal bands on the regional metal scene. Our line-up includes two different style vocalists who create a unique atmosphere, making our sound very recognizable. ... more

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