bird in a cage, lock it up and forget about
saving yourself, an excuse for your nihilism,
free from the bind
your existence is still a prison
bird in a cage, lock it up.
cross every threshold, i'll just stare down you won’t look away
I'll run at any second, break it down, fade away, repeat it.
I can’t swallow hope, retract my solace I can’t stand the fray
I’ll separate everything.
so I’m running to drown in something new.
This breath won’t start again.
I’m so damn sorry this was never,
(when its over now)
my plan
(nothings left for you here)
As the sun sets, your ember still burns
bite your tongue, make sure this is what you want. It’s over I’m over, the way that you lie straight through your teeth. I’m overcome, by the way you chose to speak. It’s over I’m over the words that will take a part of me, it’s the last time.
oh god, when its over nothings left for…
I can’t stand there knowing that you’ll still care,
please don’t stop me, my conscious still can't quel this storm,
Its over, talk to me
Why can't I break the cage? escape my heart
Ready set run away, oh my hollow chest. Oh don’t forsake me.
“Think of what we had, (will you follow me back to there?) look at what you caused, will you take it all back when I go?”
When I go, would you follow me back to the place that this all started? When I go, would you follow me back to the place that we once haunted?
(I never wanted to know, that I’ve been set up to fall)
Take back your safety, I don't deserve your grace.
Take back your safety, your embrace
Take back your safety, I don't deserve your grace
Please don't let me go
stay still, bird in a cage,
your so safe
stay still, bird in a cage in my heart.
brace the storm, within myself.
This wild 35-track all-metal benefit album features Mare Cognitum, Panopticon, and more reinventing songs by Tori Amos & others. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 3, 2020