These are the darkest of times   Where acceptance and love are cast aside for Bitter judgement   By broken spirits vomiting curses   To raise one self to greater heights   Relish in the mockeries that you've cast to your brother   And gauge the cost of your respect   By the weight of a black heart   This selfishness will lay you in your casket.   Scourge my back with your forked tongue   But the venom will only reach the surface   I won't be ruined by your hatred,   Love accomplishes so much more   With every gash I gain I'll know your suffering    With broken thoughts And dagger eyes   What do you gain? When judging others by their struggles, only bringing more shame   What do you gain? As deny the truth and cast down the hopeless ones   What do you gain? When you butcher flesh that's been tortured and beaten   What do you gain? Tell me what do you gain   When all you'll gain is a hardened heart, all you'll gain is a blackened heart   These are the darkest of times   Where acceptance and love are cast aside for   Bitter judgement by broken spirits vomiting curses   To raise one self to greater heights   Clinch harder on the trigger   You're so quick to shed obscenities   Your throat is the open grave   Exposing your many casualties.   Fuelled by animosity, will your deeds get any better? NO   How much longer will you bring me down?   Until you lift me up?   But you'll only lift me up so I'll reach the noose