Darkness Divided

Origin: San Antonio, Texas, USA

Genres: Metalcore

Label: Victory Records

Members: 

Current:

Gerard Mora (Lead Vocals)
Sebastian Elizondo (Lead Guitar, Vocals, Rhythm Guitar)
Joseph Mora (Bass Guitar)
Hayden Allen (Drums)

Former:

Christopher James Mora (Lead Guitar)
Israel Hernandez (Drums)
Isaiah Alfonso (Drums)

EP:

Chronicles (2012)

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Studio Albums:

Written in Blood (2014)

1. Severance


[Instrumental]



2. The Shepherd's Hands


With teeth like daggers, the world will cut your throat
You are so fragile in your blood-stained coat
In weak wool shields you hide, leaving pain festered inside
And you still swallow your pride, make yourself alone

You run as fast as you can to escape the Shepherd’s hands
You run as fast as you can
Make yourself unknown

These strings like shackles perceived as heavy weight
As gravity tackles every mistake

Severance has made you cold
From everything you called your home
Your sedition fathered from emotion
Has kept you from the Shepherd’s hands

As you razed your ties, He stood with arms wide

You are not a stray
The kingdom follows wherever you stay
Dark wool won’t paint you black
Ignorance won’t forsake your path

It was carved in stone

Every time you lost your way
I promise you I called your name
And when you thought I left you behind
I was hoping I’d cross your mind

From the garden to the grave
I promise you I called you by name
You were born from fire that saved
The earth from the shadows of an empty grave

I have claimed the throne
Imago Dei, I’ve claimed the throne


3. A Well Run Dry


Creator of life

We were made to be fruitful
To sow life into the earth
To heal the blind, the lost, and the hurt

O deliverer, I want to see the world through your eyes
To be an oasis of love when the well runs dry
Creator of life, I want to see the world through your eyes
To be an oasis of love when the well runs dry

Prepare for the storm

When the world goes cold and death swallows the sky
Will your waters flow when the well runs dry?
When the mountains crumble and the seas open wide
Will we still stand with our hands held high?

Sin won't outweigh the cross
Death won't erase the crown
We will remember the cost that was paid in blood

Shape us with your hands that built the earth from grains of sand
Creator of life, renew the earth you came to save

Renew the earth

Death will come
Skies will fall
Spirit come fulfill us all

A time will come when oceans will turn to barren wasteland
Our God will come revealing glory with his hands

Living water flow


4. The Hands That Bled


They tell me divinity knows why my pain overflows
While my hands are scarred and my sins are buried below

O saving victim, I long to hear your voice
Speak the words
Are my prayers heard?
The hands that bled
My story was written in blood

Holes showed the price
It poured from your side
My salvation was written in blood

My story was written in blood with the words sent from above
My voice is hoarse, death is my discourse
Where does my help come from?

The holes in my hands are the remnants of your Holy Word
Poured from your side, my entire life was written before I was born

You claim I’ve never felt your pain
But every inch of me was blood-stained
I’ve wept, I died, I paid the price all so you can live this life


5. The Descent


[Instrumental]



6. Eternal Thirst


Spirit and truth point to You

The yearning desire to fulfill
A well run dry, no drops left to spill
Can hands shape meaning?
Why are our hearts still beating?
When purpose is fleeting, our fate becomes deceiving

Is life an eternal thirst?
Dunes of sand hide the mirage of worth

Satisfy my heart
My hands stretched higher and higher
Spirit and Truth point to You
Burn like fire, my desire

You are my desire

Holes in hearts long for more than just a person to fill our core

My soul has left me poor
A beggar, vacant and torn
Spirit and truth point to you,
God come and make me new

You make me new


7. Withering Kingdom


All life will lay its head where the dust will turn dead
Hearts pump what feeds the soul from the cup that makes us whole
Soak what earth sows as you accept struggles to grow
When the fabric of being fades, fate leads you to an earthly grave

Embrace the temporary
Human life is contradictory
To the never ending life that was purchased at Calvary

Take comfort in knowing precious earth is worth sowing
Blessed are those who seize the day
Because it will all soon fade away
This world will fade away

We will come to know this world is not our final destination
We weren’t meant to occupy thrones that were built on condemnation
To live life without meaning leaves a stain of deceiving,
Blood stained earth meant for more than hurt

Your life is the warm wind
The leaves crumble in the sin

All life will lay its head where the dust will turn dead
Hearts pump what feeds the soul

Make us whole


8. Remnants


Open the gates
I can't count all the times that emotion has left me blind
My clouded mind, my shots mistaken, about everything that is so blatant

I was sold for the weight of my sins
Sent to the world as a messenger
A descendant of perfect love
To separate the dark from above

We are what's left; the remnants of the chosen ones

Weary, my blood went cold as I searched for what would satisfy
Forgotten were the words You spoke, breathing in new life
My wicked soul turned like the restless sea
Upon your shore I live to be Your hands, Your feet
Everything I was created to be.

Your Justice sustains me,
Your life fulfills me, Oh God.

I am the remnant of the chosen one.
We are the remnants of the chosen ones

I lift my hands to the Heavens, from where Your grace descends
Open the gates and let us in

I am a wounded vessel counted among the wicked
My soul was lost in the ways of man
My heart found rest in the palm of your hand

We are what’s left


9. The Will Of Man


Your nature will not overcome you
My soul willed but my flesh can’t comprehend

In Your image, I pursued, to reach my end, fulfill my nous
Imperfection’s a fatal excuse to why I can’t seek Truth
I tried to use these filthy hands
I lied and claimed I’d understand
A crippled white flag waving in the winds of pride and shame
Never to succeed, I am a victim
You are the victor

I have been consumed
I refuse to walk down a path of destruction
Show me your will for me, God

I place it all in Your hands
Show me your Will for me
I place it all in your hands, it’s up to You my friend

Your nature will not overcome you

The failure of man is to not try
But to give in when left behind

I did this all
I did this all for you

Your white flagged waved while you were in my hands
All while I paved your plans
All I ask of you is for you to listen to me
And to keep moving when you're done bleeding

Be a man


10. Interlude


[Instrumental]



11. Divine Mercy


Eternal rest lies at your feet

In your steps we follow, driven by the thirst for a drop
When our chests feel hollow, greed persuades vision to stop

I am an orphan
I am a slave

I am an orphan to the earth
A slave to mortal man
Who defines my worth as I search for the works of your hands?

O rescuer, have mercy
Eternal rest lies at your feet

This is my story written in the blood of Christ
This is your glory
You are the author of life
O safe haven, oh how we long for hands
For the sake of us undeserving
Have mercy on us

Remain in me as I remain in You

I am a traveler lost at sea
Longing for the shore
That grace that sets us free when we have fallen weak

For the sake of His sorrowful passion
Have mercy on us and on the whole world

We call you Father
We call you God
You are the potter
You are the saving God
We call you Jesus
The King of Kings
You are Redeemer
You've set us free

Darkness Divided (2016)

1 The Point of No Return

Accomplishing what’s necessary,
To answer for morality,
Your forgiving nature seems to favor my side,
When I don’t question what’s intended what else could be mine?
To love in infancy,
Ignorance is ecstasy,
To trust and not to see,

Chorus:
Could you open my mind,
Revealing what’s inside?
Denying everything you left behind,
Fear won’t contain,
The others stray.

Destiny decorates my hand,
Decaying the worry of man,
To love in infancy,
Ignorance is ecstasy,

Chorus

Control decays,
As your years fade.

Following carefully to your end.

To love in infancy,
Ignorance is ecstasy,
You see me with eyes of envy,
You will know veracity,
To trust and not to see.

Fear won’t contain,
The others stray.
Control decays,
As your years fade.

2. Back Breaker

Restore.
Simplicity of the innocent,
Something taken for granted,
Follow reason to find the end,
Until there's no more times to lend,

Push, push, push until your worn,
Pull the rope until it's torn,

What you have is more than what you conjugate,

Chorus:
I will not remove,
The essence of my morality,
Forsaking, my misdeeds,
For the need, to believe,

But now I stood tired and hungry,
Looking at my past unloving,
How did I forget my direction,
Guided by misguided affection,

Everything has felt the same,
Faults initiate my blame,
Time to revive,
Time to restore.

Chorus

Grab hold of moments worth remembering,
While the beat in your heart is still pumping,
This is something resonating in me,
Now that I have returned and I am starting to see.

3. A Life That Binds

I’ve been walking the line,
Following a life that binds,
You taught me freedom comes,
When you release conviction,
Commands to live a life,
Never learning what’s inside,
I’ve been saved by birthright.

Chorus:
Quit pretending,
To understand me,
Doubt has consumed me,
I can’t escape it.

I’ve been walking the line,
Following a life that binds,
You taught me freedom comes,
When you release conviction,
Commands to live a life,
Never learning what’s inside,
I’ve been saved by birthright.

Chorus

I am starting to question why,
They say believe just because they know it’s right,
Pick up your head and don’t bother asking why,
I will not be convinced this time.
Give me a chance to question what is right,
Will blind obedience accommodate,
A soul that never knew the gates?
I’ve been saved by birthright.

Chorus

4. Wake Of The End

My heart breaks in the wake of the end,
The decay of flesh with no time to lend,
Years of endless trying,
Years of tithing for what’s worthless,
With no purpose.

Chorus:
Where will I go,
When there’s no hope at all,
And I am numb to breathing?

I look around at the world,
Conflicted by what I see,
Everything I lived for,
Is failing to birth growth,
Spinning to death,
I see him wait,
With his scythe at his side,
Spinning to death,
Relief will rise at it kills me,
Chorus

Where do I go when there’s no hope?
Where do we go?
Where do I go when I am numb?
Where do we go?

5. Misery

I've seen things,
I thought I could only dream,
I've read the book,
But I'm surrounded by misery.
Imperfect, yet inspired,
Life in the cracks,
Contradicting humanity.

I can't comprehend,
This twisted reality,
There has to be,
Substance in inconsistency,
Weaving time and reality,
Is faith the only thing holding up my belief?
In the darkness my eyes show me,
There is so much more that I can't see,
How defined can I be?
My fate is dependence fueled by needs,

Who will you help?
When the whole world bleeds,
How will you help?
When your whole world bleeds.

Oh Misery, why have you left me questioning,
My existence,
Father will You come and show us,
How to live again?

My lack of vitality,
Affirms my humanity,
I boast not of my sufficiency,
But to demand of Your authority,

Is this the point for everything that I'm feeling,
Is compassion supposed to drive my yearning?
The love You put on my heart,
Wasn't just mine from the start,
We were cut from the vine,
Pruned to be Your congregation.

Chorus

Every inch of my being questions,
How to repay,
The agony the laceration,
That cured my Misery.
My Misery.

6. Deceiver

Your heirs are full of lies,
Just when my soul,
Longs for more,
The world evens the score,
I want to admit that Your words are true,
But Your children slander all that You do.

How can You let them control,
What they refuse to uphold,
You claim to conquer the dead,
But it’s the living that I dread.

Breeding disaster,
To please their master.

Chorus:
Deceiver,
You left Your mark,
Lost souls embracing the dark.
Believer,
Where is your heart?
Lost souls embracing the dark.

Judgment and condemnation,
Setting wars between the nations,
Death reigns in Your name,
How can I believe this is how it should be?

How can You let them control,
What they refuse to uphold,
You claim to conquer the dead,
But it’s the living that I dread.
I am a victim of Your purging,
You sent Your sheep to bury me.

Chorus

As the sickness sinks in,
Where is Your plan?

7. From Dust To Stone

Gaps filled with trusting,
A mind with no holes,
A heart engulfing,
The depths of my soul,
I searched the world that gave me no gifts,
I walked to the very end of my bliss,

And even vacancy denies my name,
My name,
And decency begins to fade away,
Away

Chorus:
Every essence of my being,
Leaves me questioning,
Who I’m meant to be,
Who I’m meant to be.

Corrupted society,
Breeding false propriety,
Popularity breeds promiscuity,
I can’t buy back ignorance that I lack.

And even vacancy denies my name,
My name,
And decency begins to fade away,
Away

Chorus

Teach me to be a man,
Who doesn’t need to understand,
Every fabric of my being,
Is this what it’s like,
To end uncertainty,
Is this how it feels?
Chorus

8. The Answer

I am weak,
Omni potency,
A dream, unachieved by mankind’s means,
The essence of your consistency,
Hold you from what you’ll achieve.
I’m not the answer to earth’s urgencies,

You can’t pray to me,
You can’t pray to me.
I am not the answer,

Chorus:
You are what I cannot be,
The answer to everything,
All that I need,

I am weak,
My infatuation,
Started at creation,
Soon after I was lost in the separation,
When I was the mirror of desperation.

You are what I cannot be.

Chorus:

The only thing,
I could possibly need,
Is more,
The only hands,
That could hold up my feet,
Are Yours

Chorus

9. Deliverance

I lived under the tree of life,
Feeding off whatever is left,
After the kings have feast,
Ignoring my every need.
The first will be the last,
But this strain will break my back,
The strings I pull are getting shorter,
And the flame is getting warmer.

What if You’re nothing,
And I’ve been deceived by trusting,

Chorus:
Show me to believe,
Because life will claim,
All that I’ve ever known.

Everyday I’ve raised the sword,
To separate everything you left ignored.
With the words in my hand,
And the faith in my heart,
I’ve seen the sword rip existence apart.
Judgment burns you left and right,
Don’t you dare cross to my side,
Rumors cripple the image,
You create,

Chorus

What if You’re nothing,
And I’ve been deceived by trusting,

But what if I’m wrong?
I can’t conceive a world without You in it,
I can’t believe there was a time,
That You did not exist to me,
As my spine bends back,
And I’m about to break,
There You stand with my feet misplaced.

Chorus

10. Mirror Of Death

As my blood drips from my heavy heart,
I yearn for that second start.
The seasons are unchanging,
How can it be?

Chorus:
Now I cannot see,
Cannot feel anything, anymore,
Now I’ve lost it all.
Oh how can it be?
How can I see anything, anymore,
At the end of it all?

Please forgive my undiscerning,
Questioning my yearning,
I was the transgressor,
Please hold me together,

Chorus

11. The End Of It All

Break down the abode,
And with the flames let my name go,
Deteriorate what I’ve lived with,
The ground is all that is left to believe in,
Tremors shake and collapse my home,
An earthquake from a burning dome,
The core of my existence,
Engulfs everything I’ve built on it,
Is this the end of it all?

Chorus:
If this is temporary,
Will You show me what lasts,
From ashes I cry out,
Is this the end of it all?

Creeping lies and ill promise,
Crumble the world upon us,
Deceiving nature drives the herd,
Misunderstanding the word,
False lies and unjust doctrine,
Prosperity forgotten.

Flames burn all that I know,
Is this the end of it all?

Chorus

Hold fast to what is left,
The only thing I hold close,
Life fades away,
Life fades to grey,

Chorus

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