The Fire Itself
Phinehas
Album • 2021
37 Tracks
Phinehas
Album • 2021
Your song was new when I sang The only reassurance I've had is pain Oh I remember the palms of your hands How they glowed from within Did my scars truly heal Or are they only hidden beneath my skin? My love unrequited because My trust remains to be given I was a king of earth But a king no more I was a king of earth When your voice shook the floor Accept that you suffer Let go of your throne Even when you are alone Beautiful vines On a crown that you mourn To find trust requires thorns Lead me to the water but all is unclear In new verses, I only hear what I want to hear The only reassurance I've had is pain The only reassurance I've had is pain Your song was new when I sang The only reassurance I've had is pain Pain Trust requires thorns I was a king of earth But a king no more I was a king of earth When your voice shook the floor Accept that you suffer Let go of your throne Even when you are alone Beautiful vines On a crown that you mourn To find trust requires thorns Accept that you suffer Let go of your throne Even when you are alone Beautiful vines On a crown that you mourn To find trust requires thorns
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026
Infinite in desolation held from eternity Into the wind ceaselessly Extinction tears at every facet of our being So holdfast, wounds belong to the living Wear them well and open A reminder of what was once broken Fight, until you can't stand up straight Every sunrise is your final day Every moment that life feels like hell Past the stones you tripped over and fell The worst of you refusing to let go Don't let it define you: the war you know Affliction and desperation a brand new low You're treading water to escape the undertow Everything exists to keep our lungs From breathing in and breathing out The war you know Every moment that life feels like hell Past the stones you tripped over and fell The worst of you refusing to let go Don't let it define you: the war you know Blood belongs to the living Shed for what you've spoken Steadfast in truth that you have hoped in Fight, until you can't stand up straight Every sunrise is your final day The war you know Every moment that life feels like hell Don't let it define you: the war you know Past the stones you tripped over and fell Don't let it define you: the war you know The worst of you refusing to let go Don't let it define you: the war you know Fight, until you can't stand up straight Every sunrise is your final day
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026
What is love without a cost? What is faith without loss? This is your price to pay You have something to give, not just to take I am not an instrument to be thoughtlessly played Nor a step for you to rest your feet I am not a precious stone to be stolen or sold away Nor to be used like a weapon in a vengeful scheme Love is more Whether these words will be scars Or written on your heart You have a choice to make Love is what is left over When being in love fadеs away This is your price to pay Faith is more than just leaving Whеn every second is spent in pain You have a choice I do not lift you up for you to condescend Nor do I promise you hurt will end I do not agree to vows if left at the alter Faith is more than a crutch for when you falter You have a choice to make Love is what is left over When being in love fades away This is your price to pay Faith is more than just leaving When every second is spent in pain You have a choice This is your price to pay You have something to give, not just to take Don't fear death Fear death not knowing true love Whether these words will be scars Or written on your heart You have a choice to make Love is what is left over When being in love fades away This is your price to pay Faith is more than just leaving When every second is spent in pain You have a choice to make Love is what is left over When being in love fades away This is your price to pay Faith is more than just leaving When every second is spent in pain You have a choice to make Don't fear death Fear death not knowing true love
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026
Whoa, shred I've been biting my tongue till it bleeds While you're building monuments of yourself to sell Go ahead make sure they're with you when you're buried So you can take it, take it with you to hell Oh what a day it will be When you're found a fraud Call it like it is, a spade's a spade They're not saints and you're no god Bury him deep Or another dollar for the holy coward Bury him deep Or another lie, they love the holy coward Wash away the stain, wash away your hate Where is your backbone, holy coward? Wash away the stain and erasе the name Wherе is your backbone, holy coward? A mouth always open wide like a leaking sewer drain A devil intent to divide, a family betrayed He pulled your strings And yet you still let him walk free He thinks he's king until We take him out back and throw him in a landfill Wash away the shame Remove the name from the headstone Nothing but a stain, you are no god Go Wash away the stain and erase the name Where is your backbone, holy coward? Bury him deep Or another dollar for the holy coward Bury him deep Or another lie, they love the holy coward Wash away the stain, wash away your hate Where is your backbone, holy coward? Wash away the stain and erase the name Where is your backbone, holy coward?
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026
Here lies fate Its name engraved in a gold headstone Once brilliant in shine Now dimly veiled in dust and bone Fate sang a siren song that it is enough Or was it something Just to curse in mourning failed love? Broken, but there must be more The pieces don't fit like they did before Who are you when your dream is dead? Was it worth your life to find nothing at the end? Remembеr all the blood you've bled Is it wastеd? Who are you when your dream is dead? Dream is dead There's a purpose for which you suffer This is not hope This is denial This is not hope This is denial A choice must be made To die alone or endure when love is taken away You are more than your failures' child So take the gun out of your mouth Does the question keep you up at night lying in your bed? Does it still haunt you? Who are you when your dream is dead? Who are you when your dream is dead? Was it worth your life to find nothing at the end? Remember all the blood you've bled Is it wasted? Who are you when your dream is dead? Does the question keep you up at night lying in your bed? Does it still haunt you? Who are you when your dream is dead? Dead It's losing everything That will teach you the worth of anything There is more blood to bleed ahead Who are you when your dream is dead?
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026
Pull me out of the water Pull me out of the sea Pull me out of the water Don't let the waves take me I walked on the surface, I was pulled beneath Pull me out of the water Pull me out of the sea Pull me out of the water Before nothing's left of me In all of this, I've only learned how to sink Your promise feels worthless A mere thread sent down It's not enough when you're drowning Waves raise their thunder I'm sent further underneath I'm not strong enough to calm the storm in me Pull me out of the water Pull me out of the sea Pull me out of the water Before nothing's left of me In all of this, I've only learned how to sink Your promise feels worthless A mere thread sent down It's not enough when you're drowning, oh Waves raise their thunder I'm sent further underneath I'm not strong enough to calm the storm in me I'm swimming like the stone in my heart Watching everything fall apart I don't want to drown alone I don't want to drown alone in my dark My lungs are filling till my chest wants to burst I tried to carry all of it but I'm at my worst I thought that I was strong enough to stay afloat But when the storm rolled in with a bitter wind, the waves broke I don't want to drown alone in my dark A free fall now into the grip of the void that crushes my ribs Your promise feels worthless A mere thread sent down (Thread sent down) It's not enough when you're drowning, oh Waves raise their thunder I'm sent further underneath I'm not strong enough to calm the storm in me All of the weight I carry inside Every dagger at once in my mind Pulled under screaming with the tide Left at the bottom, left behind In all of this, I have only learned how to sink I'm not strong enough to calm the storm in me
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026
Yeah I've betrayed myself for the last time No more scraps for the wolves of mankind Fragmented all pieces of me scattered in view Rearrange every lifeless limb to resemble you Disillusion hits like a brick to clouded glass I hope this skin will be my last Exile by excision, I see the best part of me Came out when I cut too deep Looking in the mirror, I don't see anything Anything that looks like me Sevеred by self-betrayal Evеry part I replace only adds to my hate Severed by self-betrayal But there's only so much that I can amputate I can't handle all the pressure Who am I with the best of me severed Who am I with the best of me severed Lost to obscurity by blending in Cut me out every detail I can't stomach outside Made to burn like kindling for a fire I hide Unclear notions and unclear image, is this me? Or who else could I be? Exile by excision, I see the best part of me Came out when I cut too deep Looking in the mirror, I don't see anything Anything that looks like me Severed by self-betrayal Every part I replace only adds to my hate Severed by self-betrayal But there's only so much that I can amputate Severed by self-betrayal Every part I replace only adds to my hate Severed by self-betrayal But there's only so much that I can amputate Who am I with the best of me severed? Who am I with the best of me severed? Lost to conformity severed by self-betrayal
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026
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Your song was new when I sang The only reassurance I've had is pain Oh I remember the palms of your hands How they glowed from within Did my scars truly heal Or are they only hidden beneath my skin? My love unrequited because My trust remains to be given I was a king of earth But a king no more I was a king of earth When your voice shook the floor Accept that you suffer Let go of your throne Even when you are alone Beautiful vines On a crown that you mourn To find trust requires thorns Lead me to the water but all is unclear In new verses, I only hear what I want to hear The only reassurance I've had is pain The only reassurance I've had is pain Your song was new when I sang The only reassurance I've had is pain Pain Trust requires thorns I was a king of earth But a king no more I was a king of earth When your voice shook the floor Accept that you suffer Let go of your throne Even when you are alone Beautiful vines On a crown that you mourn To find trust requires thorns Accept that you suffer Let go of your throne Even when you are alone Beautiful vines On a crown that you mourn To find trust requires thorns
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