Just As Real But Not As Brightly Lit

Creeping up a wall of glass

I'm entirely made of sand

Lurching up. Feeding back

What the canyon wants the canyon gets

And the canyon craves an apology

And a pound of flesh

I thought I felt. I thought I saw

I thought I knew. So much chatter

Let there be shade. Un-illuminate

Nothing will change if you don't lead with your shadow

Let there be shade. Un-illuminate

Exhale the plague. Cloud your vision

An unpainted corner, my kingdom come

Silence tells me I can't escape it

Now we write our names on the Moon in blood

I have set us back twenty centuries

All the letters sent with no address

Is he talking to or talking down to me?

They'll kill us if they have the chance

I hear their conversations

They'd kill us if they had the chance

I'll be the first to take it

I still feel like someone is watching

Though I'm not sure if that someone is listening

It don't matter much to my suffering

Because I know for a fact no one's answering

Let there be shade. Un-illuminate

Nothing will change if you don't lead with your shadow

I was on the shoulders of leviathans

But I couldn't see through the fog of anger

And I failed myself like I did before

My work is lost. All my reckoning

Back to sin. Back to shame

Back into the quicksand

Guarding an empty house

I have lost everything I had found

Sorrow will overcome