Leaden Legacy (”The Embrace that Smothers - Part I”)

[Verse 1]
I can't look behind because I'm living in the past (Sicut erat in principio)
Tears without emotion are filling up the unbridled hours (Et nunc et semper et insaecula saeculorum)

[Chorus]
We cannot be
What you expect from us
We cannot see through the glasses of despair
Evade the leaden legacy

[Post-Chorus]
Those who separate and join the opposite
Do not see that that will get them nowhere
Can't you understand it is a similar manipulation
Wake up and see the light

[Verse 2]
Doomed to wander in repressed emotions (Sicut erat in principio)
This imaginary refuge restrains me from awakening (Et nunc et semper et insaecula saeculorum)

[Chorus]
We cannot be
What you expect from us
We cannot see through the glasses of despair
Evade the leaden legacy

[Post-Chorus]
Those who separate and join the opposite
Do not see that that will get them nowhere
Can't you understand it is a similar manipulation
Wake up and see the light

Fear of penance
Doomed to sycophancy

[Instrumental Break]

Doomed to sycophancy...

[Chorus]
We cannot be
What you expect from us
We cannot see through the glasses of despair
Evade the leaden legacy

[Outro]
We cannot be
What you expect from us