• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• In Absentia - Mars Volta
• In Absentia - Christian Death
• In Absentia - I Shalt Become
• In Absentia - Reign Supreme

There was once a boy
With knives stuck in his voice
All he wanted, all he wanted was a little affection
Until one day he came
To tempt his mother’s taste
All she wanted, all she wanted was to spread her
infection
Spit and spindle we refuse
Burning fumes of lucid youth to mend
Her broken thoughts
They’ve stolen all my love
Buried in absentia
Can you hear my vitreous heart
Breaking in absentia
Smokestacks burn
I won’t turn
I won’t ever let you go
They’ve stolen all my love
Yes, they’ve stolen all my love
He returns alone
Changes here nor there
Does he want some
Does he want a little insurrection?
Withhold my regrets
Insomnatic fate
Opt out of incision
Tear down the reason
I’ve just gotta get out of here
Spit and spindle we refuse
Burning fumes of lucid youth to mend
Her restless limbs
They’ve stolen all my love
Buried in absentia
Can you hear my vitreous heart
Breaking in absentia
Smokestacks burn
I won’t turn
I won’t ever let you go
They’ve stolen all my love
Yes, they’ve stolen all my love
Taken by the night
Dye the gates remembrance
Check the puzzle, does it fit
I am alpha and omega
And on the seventh day I rise
Past the pangs of my resistance
When the son gives up his throne
What becomes of this theft
Dasehra, make these shackles go away
Dasehra, make these shackles go away
Dasehra, won’t you help me stand my ground if I should
fall
Dasehra, as long as I am injured
Dasehra, as long as I remember
Dasehra, as long as I am injured

R. Williams
I have etched the scrolls into my skin
The hangman's noose, 13 lies which cross the barrier/burial
There is a sin not yet commited
O, he of sleepless flight - be merciful.
I have found myself lost amongst the shards
of a world reduced to shadow
Sentenced to a lifetime in this prison
Well, I should have taken this omen and ran
Abandoned myself to secret corners
Instead I turned to face the day
Treading through the storm of the horror
And decay
How could I be so blinded
Cut down and so misguided?
Caught in deception, in deception
O, he of splintered sight - be merciful
For I know not what I do
I walk the road that leads to an early grave
As tears stream down my rigid face
Well, I should keep one eye turned towards heaven
As I drag my body through the flames
Instead I turned to face the day
Fighting with the demons I have made
Spilled all my hope along the way
It falls out, it falls dead
Shattered fragments, endless waves
O, he of sleepless nights - be merciful
I have found myself lost amongst the shards
If only I had severed ties,
Ties that bind all my dreams to lies
I could have walked away from it all
I could have walked away from it all

As wound opens in flesh
...screams for glory...
Such spears pierce.
The rusted, poisoned shackles
Tie wrists to the eyes
A barbed wire noose
Bound to the soul

so far from where i should be
but this lonely road is all i know
a past and future without a present
i put my life on hold, see this through
and every breath i take
brings another dream to life
and every day that passes
i let it pass me by
i'm only halfway human
the rest of me is machine
i am reborn
i am reborn
every day that i wake to a foreign sun
and every night that "i still miss someone"
i am uncomfortable always
i'm not alone
a temporary home
nowhere to call my own
watch the world you love you by
and i can't help but wonder if it's getting better
and you can't help but make things
any fucking worse
i'm only halfway human
the rest of me is machine