Laments

Fuck your expectations/new breed manipulation

Propagating "paradise"/and selling devastation

CHOIRS OF DISCONTENT/sing refrains inside my head

Clearly im not fortunate/but I live with my mistakes

And the judgements that they bring/I'm reminded every day

A man can only take so much/before his mind degenerates

Before he can't take his own face/before he exercises rage

CHOIRS OF DISCONTENT/sing refrains inside my head

So foolish/foolish to dream

I was the only one

So foolish/foolish to think

The stars were lining up/GOD smiling down on us

Gave up a thousand times/but then I fell right back in line

Back to where the choices end/this cycle I can't defend

I condescend

Wake up and snap the fuck out of this

Half-assed desperate attempt

To fill the void within your head

To fill the void you created

DAMNED FROM THE START

Now all the lights begin to fade

And the cameras cut away

All the actors leave the stage

The curtains falling back in place

Suddenly anticipating

That same haunting refrain

Now with even GREATER HASTE

The SWAN begins to SING...

"Im not afraid, Im not afraid at all.

This reverie, a memory of when the sky was tall

And stars don't fall

But they rained down til there was nothing left

In the Heavens but the echoes of our questions."

LIFE IS FLEETING...

Find a purpose/find a reason/make this worth it

LIFE IS FLEETING...

"So often in the course of life's fleeting years,

A single pleasure costs a thousand tears..."