Take heed of the coming annihilation Will the choice be to bear it and run? Vacuous self absorbed vacillations Make this psyche drown in the sun (There was a ) Fear fed populace of powerless voyeurs Machines on the march for willful deceit step one, step two, step into the nightmare take up mask blood spills in the streets it is a long hard road out of here they say but that has no direction, no punitive weight fashioning a noose out of curious rope, better the demon you chase than the devil you know We learn to lean on the kindness of strangers on the shoulders of giants, we stand to bear witness I will leave a dissonant vacuum a shadow of me a taste of bitterness So I will leave A dissonant vacuum A shadow of me A taste of bitterness I'm failing again Giving in to desire Don't let me win Spit out my bitterness Trace me a victimless virtue's path I spin a tale of selfish desire Hell in reflection of curious taste Waste in deflection of furious ire It is a long hard road out of here they all say I have no direction or punitive weight Trusting in a lie we all want to taste Created a future that we will not embrace Despite my restlessness and despair I'm fashioning a noose made of curious rope Spilling my guts to choke off my air Better the demon you choose than the devil you know I will leave A dissonant vacuum A shadow of me A taste of bitterness I'm failing again & Giving in to desire Don't let me win Spit out my bitterness We learn to lean on the kindness of strangers on the shoulders of giants, we stand to bear witness I will leave a dissonant vacuum a shadow of me a taste of bitterness

Slam against the apex once again we hit the wall glassy skies that hold us down set the limit, freedom falls come to measure fear in breath, in sweats in swaths of angel's down soft to touch and slick with blood razor lips don't pass a sound build a lie and they will come build it high as we play dumb catch a brick in mouths of division bare your teeth and shriek the call It matters what you say Hell, high water, come what may We cannot stop the tide You'll go to hell and back to see Respite passing by the weak We cannot do the same Past tragician's future bleak You'll go to hell and back to see It matters what you say Hell, high water, come what may We just can'tt stop the tide You'll go to hell and back Hell and back with me A thousand paths we walk silent sirens in the sea A million miles away From the cold hard truth of reality Seven billion minds They shut right down and cease to be It's not the hell we chose it's just apathy Apathy/apathy/apathy Scarlet letters under pen denial of the self Our last life was where we spent our lost time inhaling hell bled for guesses at the method now we grasp at straws alone fearful masses build those fences wall us in to die at home build a lie and they will come build it high as we play dumb catch a brick in mouths of division bare your teeth and shriek the call taste the heat and salivate waste your breath on wishful thinking cannot admit what we did and walk away from what we saw A thousand paths we walk silent sirens in the sea A million miles away From the cold hard truth of reality Seven billion minds They shut right down and cease to be It's not the hell we chose it's just apathy It matters what you say Hell, high water, come what may We cannot stop the tide You'll go to hell and back to see Respite passing by the weak We cannot do the same A thousand paths we walk silent sirens in the sea A million miles away From the cold hard truth of reality Seven billion minds They shut right down and cease to be It's not the hell we chose it's just apathy

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you let me, let me taste fear fear iIm only spreading the greed greed is god to those who will not hear here i am and I do not aim to please displeasure is the currency of revolution no solution for a social disease ease into the arms of destruction spin the chamber for a fiction so you can be free when you're the last one standing in a world out of time where you can pick your poison you will always choose mine give me life take me home let me sooth like fire give me purpose take me home let me soothe you like fire did Rome you let me hell hath no fury at all no claws no traps and no deceit lucky me that fire was already set heavy hearts seeking chemical dependencies I am promise I can plead for your release be the morning be the night be what you seek ease into the arms of destruction spin the chamber for a ficiton and you will be free you're the last one standing in a world out of time where you can buy into the burden you will always choose mine give me purpose/take me home/let me soothe/like fire give me purpose take me home let me soothe you like fire did Rome