Brotherhood (feat. Sam Kohl)

I've been searching, seeking all these pieces that have long been forgotten

Can we stand on our own

We've been soul searching for who we are

For far too long

Solemnly, silently wandering

Waiting for the calm

We've been veering down a broken course of selfish skewed perceptions

Realign our paths and sight casting aside misguided ill intentions

No longer being led astray by the acts of their transgressions

A retraction to an endless cycle built on exclusions

Wane, let go we've always felt it, reach out grasp hold we are an illusion to ourselves

All our lives we have spectated yet never uttered a single word

Silently whispering incoherently

Continuing to squander away every little piece we've tried to overcome and to achieve

Malleable self deluded personalities

(You're not changing for yourself)

Buckling under the weight of mediocrity

(Or for any of them)

Enveloping their hearts in compassion and empathy, casting aside vanity and apathy

Illuminate these splintering fractured foundation encasing our tainted shattered glass souls

Break free from these rusted conducts that contain us

How long can we continue being a hollowed ghost of our real selves

These chains can no longer quell this malignant animosity we harbor inside

Excrement, we can no longer tolerate being force fed all of this fucking bullshit

We're seeing phantoms in our hallways

We're so concerned with what we aren't

Trading our souls for their cause

And buried our bodies in walls

A brittle foundation of self

The cracks in the face of our bones

Wane let go, we've always felt it

Reach out grasp hold we were meant for so much more

Are we alive are our hearts still heating barely clinging on, we're barely breathing