On and off flicker the shadows of people all around me
Illuminated by the street lights on the verge of dying
This air is damp with the smell of rubber and I am trying
To make sense of when noise and silence became the same thing
Apparently
I am ever-changing
Just like the stars you see
Always shifting northeast
The moths gather near
Thinking there's nothing to fear
Then the fire appears
Burning till nothing's left
A train ride with no clear end in sight
The evening view at the end of this life
If there is one thing I am yearning for
Is the bleak other side of this world
The summer garden is all littered with bones
Dates piling up on corpses left alone
I'm fighting the urge to destroy it all
Singing until I spit up blood
The notes of disease will become my muse
The cold wind from the mountains I will use
To weave a melody that'll desecrate
All the flowers that dare to bloom
Condemning this town when they were the first to point the finger
Just like children not realizing that their power was so meager
Believing that the spirits of gods would even want to linger
In the dirt that constantly is trampled on by sinners
I got involved
For no reason at all
My words hit a wall
Guess it's my fatal flaw
Too late to shut it out
The afterlife I doubt
Will save me from the flames
Burning till nothing's left
A fine line draws between beasts and men
Swarming flies are indiscriminate
Is our only purpose to replicate
Ourselves not seeing that it's too late?
A highway hotel sets the final stage
Twilight sets the mood of this cruel play
The dawn greets me with a pathetic stutter
Is this really how it's going to end?
I swallow it all down only to then choke
Life burns to ashes in a cloud of smoke
The scene is painted to look like winter
So we should let this final scene unfold
The only sensation I can feel now is my body strapped to the back of a truck
Time moves in years as I wait for the end with no destination
At the intersection it occurred
Flipped over and over
Blood everywhere
From the window I heard the crackling of life burning
Speed and friction
Igniting fatal sparks
Speed and friction
Set fire to my insides
A steam whistle signals my departure
I feel my blood escaping farther and farther
Why does it feel like when I finally draw close
It all easily dances out of my grasp?
My shout of irritation fills my ears
Fracturing the scenery smeared with tears
A small piece pierces the ground before me
There's a shipwreck in February
Speed and friction
Set fire to my insides
Condemning this town when they were the first to point the finger
Just like children not realizing that their power was so meager
Believing that the spirits of gods would even want to linger
In the dirt that constantly is trampled on by sinners
I got involved
For no reason at all
My words hit a wall
Guess it's my fatal flaw
Too late to shut it out
The afterlife I doubt
Will save me from the flames
Burning till nothing's left
A fine line draws between beasts and men
Swarming flies are indiscriminate
Is our only purpose to replicate
Ourselves not seeing that it's too late?
A highway hotel sets the final stage
Twilight sets the mood of this cruel play
The dawn greets me with a pathetic stutter
Is this really how it's going to end?
I swallow it all down only to then choke
Life burns to ashes in a cloud of smoke
The scene is painted to look like winter
So we should let this final scene unfold
The only sensation I can feel now is my body strapped to the back of a truck
Time moves in years as I wait for the end with no destination
At the intersection it occurred
Flipped over and over
Blood everywhere
From the window I heard the crackling of life burning
Speed and friction
Igniting fatal sparks
Speed and friction
Set fire to my insides
A steam whistle signals my departure
I feel my blood escaping farther and farther
Why does it feel like when I finally draw close
It all easily dances out of my grasp?
My shout of irritation fills my ears
Fracturing the scenery smeared with tears
A small piece pierces the ground before me
There's a shipwreck in February
Speed and friction
Set fire to my insides
