Reasons - NAK, ARTIFEX

heaven defines every reason, the reason i sing

heaven defies every reason, the reason is me

the reason i live is the reason you smile

hope comes now

heaven defines every reason, the reason i sing

hope comes after

heaven defies every reason, the reason is me

hope comes now

the reason i live is the reason you smile

life that is bigger than the scope of the chapters

hope comes now

heaven defines every reason, the reason i sing

hope comes after

heaven defies every reason, the reason is me

hope comes now

the reason i live is the reason you smile

toss everything i thought into the fire

you never know worth until you lose it

lost in the fields of desire

i wouldn’t recognize it if i used it

you traded your sorrow for dancing

silenced your sickness with praises

you spoke to your own diagnosis

and told that the god that you serve overcame it

you smile where you lie, i stood there lying to myself

when i told you of hope a peace

the role that i play is to cope with your pain

but i broke and your faith only spoke into me

the pride that i hide isn’t close to release

the song that i sing is like a stone to the sea

sink.

falling to the bottom of the floor

like the heart that i carried when i walked through your door

peace: let it come back to me

i let it go to embrace my ambition

let the sun crash through me

because the darkness displaces my vision

death: but you never feared that

you opened up the word and you made it clear that

this planet isn’t home and you just walking along

the conviction is real, it was never near slack

so ‘cut me some'

with a blade and compulsion, sabre to supplement

swing to the chest for a segment of flesh

as i sing with a scream by the sting of the gauntlet

'cut me some'

maybe pain and the suffering, vein for the puncturing

strain of your sickness could help me to place in perspective the things i’ve

forgotten

now i know that

hope comes now

heaven defines every reason, the reason i sing

hope comes after

heaven defies every reason, the reason is me

hope comes now

the reason i live is the reason you smile

life that is bigger than the scope of the chapters

hope comes now

heaven defines every reason, the reason i sing

hope comes after

heaven defies every reason, the reason is me

hope comes now

the reason i live is the reason you smile

help me to place in perspective the things i’ve forgotten

i struggle to muster the hope i profess in attempts to encourage these strangers

the irony settles when tables are turned in their favor like vinyl and fader

i feel like a hypocrite living in sin

when i tell em' that he’s bigger and he’s greater

than sickness and labor in silence i cry

as i’m living in fear and i hate it

how can i comfort the one nearing death?

a man so afraid with the fear in his breath

assimilated fortress, devil and his horseman

have raided the tiers and the strength he possessed

strain on the chest.

i can’t show anyone

no, and i can’t show you

you live as the fluids infuse

you live with results and the news

you live though your time’s running out

and you still live life to the full

dying, but life only starts when it ends

and you smile and you laugh like it’s true

god help me, forgive my forget

fill my cassette, new film and eject

fast forward, deliver me from rewind

god help me progress

now push ‘play,' the words that i speak aren’t fake

but the music of faith

the fuel of your pain and the hope that remained

only gave a nurse strength and the fear was replaced

therefore, to live now is christ

there is nothing but gain

i came to nurse you, but you took care of me

and for that, i’m reminded our hope is the same

hope comes now

heaven defines every reason, the reason i sing

hope comes after

heaven defies every reason, the reason is me

hope comes now

the reason i live is the reason you smile

life that is bigger than the scope of the chapters

hope comes now

heaven defines every reason, the reason i sing

hope comes after

heaven defies every reason, the reason is me

hope comes now

the reason i live is the reason you smile

help me to place in perspective the things i’ve forgotten