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Rising Visionary

by Crusade

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1.
What the hell is destiny Bleeding hearts and broken dreams Meaningless as anything Find it where you will Indecisive cataclysm Foundations made to break Only took my everything for The Savior then to say mistake No awakening You've forsaken my name The power to turn me cold (The power to make me whole) The will to break me I said you're not welcome here No saving a silent requiem No more coming back this time So long and have a good life Want to build my everything Will I really have to give it all Determination frozen, paralyzed If I broke your heart I swear I apologize Feeling shaken I thought I knew it to be But then I saw the side of you The one that I run from The ugly and cold Tell it all to me What could we have been Words are like a sheet Only paper thin Cuz I need more More strength inside My will aligned To more than a fleeting chance at my happiness I said you're not welcome here No saving a silent requiem No more coming back this time So long and have a good life Goodbye We failed our promise Let go and let it die
2.
Insatiable 06:32
These inner eyes reveal what's within Ambition I’m eager to tend Infatuation wins Without a pathway to an end Caught in between I’m blind yet I see The faces I’m leaving behind The tension pulls and winds Waiting for the right design Break the binds to my chamber Deaf to the voices that formed me Everyone is a stranger Their echoes dim and distorting I’ve seen the others turn their heads and rest their eyes But I’ll be more, show them more I’ve had a taste of what it takes to win the prize I’m reaching for I’m ready for what I’ll endure The ends justify more than I realized A small sacrifice Fragments life Consumed in the fire The conquest of mind Any barriers that remain will fall As I build this pathway unabated Compounding understanding, Funneling reason into the final pieces Demanding an image created. I feel it changing the way I talk The lengths to which I’ve gone can’t be overstated The vision taking shape it Begins to reveal its secrets. A facsimile of what I’ve been working toward. Inhumane. Obsessed. What it takes to reach the end Insane. Possessed. What it takes to reach the end I’ve seen the others turn their heads and rest their eyes But I’ll be more, show them more I’ve seen the future and now I will bide my time Waiting for them to perform what I’ve ensured Mastery of fate Moral compass fades Ravenous soul remains Devouring everything I’ve used so many lives To bring this dream to life I can’t stop now The end grows near My plans are sound My acts severe The hour is far too late The pieces fall into place Wanton disdain For all other fates As all my dreams begin to culminate Farewell to living any normal life I’ve found more Conquered more I got it all but I’ll still take another bite To fill my soul To fill my soul Blank skies ahead What else is left for these empty hands? Unequal trade My whole fucking life For one dream to end Nothing has changed What have I gained? The hunger remains Forced to turn my head Forced to turn and face the trail of ash I have lead
3.
No end You build your house of cards again Scared of the pain that waits outside your prison Afraid to say you do not understand it All you see is what you make All you know betrayed Circle of despair and hatred Take you to your grave Mouthing words but nothings coming out No more reason Trapped inside your comforting place Peaceful on the surface Truth will beckon you to your grave No end You build your house of cards again Scared of the pain that waits outside your prison Afraid to say you do not understand it All you see is what you make (What is right) Crack the mirror and play someone else (All this time) Can’t you try to save yourself (What is wrong) Scorched your friends then hide in a shell (Dissonance) Then you wonder why your hell Lives with you for life Your creation torments you Feel your mind ripped apart By the maggots you won't remove No end You build your house of cards again Scared of the pain that waits outside your prison Afraid to say you do not understand it All you see is what you make
4.
Vision 08:38
Breathe the chill of this desolate place where I reside Blankly stare repeating aphorisms slowly Life leaves with every sigh Know thy name Repeat again Called by shame Ignore my friend No escape from empty Come to me, come to me I am tired from all of these Fantasies, make believe You control and demean No releasing Never be, Never see Kill my dreams sadistically Bury me, bury me When I see it again, don't know if I can take it Uptight, pure white Expectation betrays my only remaining Birth rite, live life Can I live it again with death weighing down For visions you can trade the day Some sacrifices are mistakes Night time Resting still Heavy eyes Weigh down the will I know something's lurking Will never sleep, leave me in peace Oh watchful one Even in my deepest dreams, suppressing me Oh why What do you want from me My soul is screaming for why What do you want from me My mind was yours What did you leave of me My body writhing on the floor What did you give to me I gave you a reason to rise Your Enemy is your reason to live You restrain yourself to escape the inescapable Come to me, come to me I am tired from all of these Fantasies, make believe You control and demean No releasing Never be, Never see Kill my dreams sadistically Bury me, bury me When I see it again, don't know if I can take it You were always looking for a sign to live You reject me every time I give The time is wasting like your mind and soul I'll laugh each time you think you have control Come to me, come to me I am tired from all of these Fantasies, make believe You control and demean No releasing Never be, Never see Kill my dreams sadistically Bury me, bury me When I see it again, don't know if I can take it Death bearing soul You'll have to face me if want your control Welcome to the sunny side of life and behold It's wrestle with me or remain in the cold It's the only choice you have
5.
Codename It 05:05
Let us play the game Russian roulette of liars Any word you say Will be repaid with fire Feigning for the fame All the words will divide us Keep ourselves in chains Wrought from anger and mire Despising our own Different names Yet all the same Will our sins be paid through blood and rage Talk to me Please help me know I’m sane Please help me know it will change Buried too deep to dig out from the layers of lies What’s right What’s wrong We feed the beast again and again This night drowns out color Drones serve one another It feeds the beast again and again and again and again and again Different names Yet all the same Break me make me obey Defiance is my pain Different shades of the grey that entwines us All afraid from the game that divides us All I crave is somewhere safe Surrendered my will to the giants Now I’ve become that which I hate Matured to a shell of a natural fake My will is not my own Adrift is now my home I’m moored to the everchanging right and wrong They said I’m not welcome here Render their disgraces and all them faceless I gave up my identity All that I believed Just to be depleted Eaten, spit out, cheated Broken, mangled Empty mannequin you made Effigy’s aflame Now the beast has been sated Til it feeds again And the next one is fated This night neverending Consumes us all Doesn’t matter how you try Nothing in it will survive
6.
Go Full Epic 08:57
(Instrumental)
7.
Watching the waves escape to find their ending Standing above in expectation Fighting the horror to acquaint with them Passionate lights I've lit from precious moments Only to dwindle to a headstone How do the moments make you more a man Life escapes before you know Tell me what I have to show My name is unknown What good are deeds when in the end you're alone I gave all I am No parades and no symphonies To see a smile was worth the while for me I healed souls that bleed I fought all my days While my comrades had fame Contribution with no credit to my name Well we all die the same Why am I crying Would it only take a taste The music from below screams it's too late I lived a million lives and still don't know me This worthless prophet tells his fables How does living make you more of a man I've seen time Have I wasted mine What’s worth mean before I die? Days slipped away Would fame have been a mistake Surreal regret as I feel my conscience fading I'm too numb to keep on waiting Would fame have been a mistake Given all to others only to be broken down Anxiety grinding me Doubled over hiding The sorrow seethes consuming me Feed my self-deriding Knock me out, put me to sleep No more pull tonight End this Twisted inside by the choice We decide All our lives Why not end repetition Imagine a world With no imagining Pain is volition Seeking the void So I avoid Every fucking decision The Final Decision to take me away Take me to my grave Pain slips away When you suddenly kill your mistakes My deeds were a lie My meaning for dying, my willing to die Why breathe air when the river's below My last decision All the the lights casting shadows that grow Light creates my flight Flying, I'm falling What rush from the last of air Hear all them calling The famed and broken Beggars and heirs Freed from my ground Terminal velocity is loud Now my body and soul have found common ground Given all away Would fame have been a mistake Surreal regret as I feel my conscience fading Not much longer to be waiting This may have been a mistake Done with serving others only to be broken Smashing into the void Embrace the water's silence Making my Final Choice My peaceful sleep in violence Feeling my lungs await their final ending Questioning all my expectation my pain Fought for the horror breathing water cold All of my life I fought to keep them living Only to bite the bullet by my envy I'm trading nothing for my nothingness I made a mistake One of a million The drowning makes me shake I love and I hate them I'm doubting why I came I came here to leave them Someone knows my name But the wrong ones proclaimed it Why am I dying I've only needed peace and reason The music of life cries The water pulls me in But my life has just began I see now the depths of pain I know now someone knows my name Claw for life as I feel my conscience fading There's no time to keep on waiting Pain slips away When I breathe life once again A real regret to deny those I was saving All my life is meant for saving Resting upon the shore I clear my lungs of anger Open my eyes to more Than living as a stranger

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released April 16, 2021

Personnel
Mike Kupris - Guitar / vocals on tracks 3 and 4
Jesse Peck - Keyboard
Steve Casto - Bass
Ryan Metroka - Drums

Guests
Jeremiah Richey - Vocals on tracks 1 and 7
King Downs - Vocals on tracks 1, 3, 4, and 7
Jesse Brock - Vocals on track 2
Aly Dellinger - Vocals on track 2
Anthony Vincent - Vocals on track 5
Chase McCutcheon - Guitar on track 2
Joey Frevola - Guitar on tracks 3, 4, and 6
Zach Patton - Guitar on track 6
Maggie Chafee - Cello on track 7

Mixed and Mastered by Chris Baldani at Cloverland Sound
Recorded at various home studios across the US
Artwork by Ronny Kaczor

Special thanks to fans and patrons of the Become the Knight Youtube channel for making this project and album a reality. It would not have happened without you.

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