Lyrics

A collection of original lyrics exploring narrative themes across multiple albums.

Original lyrics written across multiple studio albums, including 32 songs recorded on four full-length projects with Split the Abyss.

These Terrible Depths

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Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Temple.

A lyric piece exploring psychological descent, confinement, and eerie, deep-sea dread—drawing influence from Lovecraft’s tale The Temple.

Scales and Blindfolds

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Inspired by The Innocent Man by John Grisham

A song centered on themes of justice, wrongful conviction, and the weight of truth, shaped by real-life cases explored in The Innocent Man.

The Doomscroll

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Inspired by the modern behavior of endlessly scrolling social media feeds.

A modern, charged lyric exploring anxiety, digital overload, and the emotional collapse triggered by nonstop doomscrolling.

Crawling into Armageddon

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Inspired by the game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

A heavy, apocalyptic lyric drawing from the emotional stakes and moral conflict of Metal Gear Solid 3, blending chaos, tension, and survival.

Absentee Enemy

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Based on the game Spec Ops: The Line

This song addresses the repercussions unspeakable acts of inhumanity can have on the human psyche.

River Marne

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Inspired by what is referred to as the 1st battle of the Marne in the summer of 1914. It was the first major engagement of the first world war, and its ramifications would affect the western theater of the
war for the remainder of the conflict