The Descent

From the sky rained ash

Red hand and mouth of black

A voice that echoes from the deep

I woke up to silence, in medicated air

I breathed in intoxicating essence

Disinfected clinical scents that cling to me like bleach

White walls, white tiles and white sheets

And all the looming faces

I saw the angel's horns, I saw the devil's wings

One beckons to the light, while the other calls me down

There are answers waiting for you underground

Down, follow down

There is quiet, there is peace to be found

Malicious master of my destiny

What is it that you want from me?

What is it that you seek? (what do you seek?)

And while the scavengers surround

I block my ears to stifle out

The sirens call as it beckons me

As the flowers bloom from the snow

I have waited a long time to grow

You'll never know what I kept inside to be still here somehow alive

Despite my best attemps to leave it all behind

Leave me breathless

I long to believe that there was virtue here in the heart I hid from them

I can't pretend I haven't dreamt of you

The shadow in the cemetery

I know the grip, I shook your hand too young to ever comprehend

To leave this world with you, familiar friend

Would be such a perfect end

When time stands still, and your hands can't feel

When the storm won't pass, and you taste only ash

When the days draw on and the nights grow long

Is it so absurd to ask

Malicious master of my destiny

What is it that you want from me?

What is it that you seek? (what do you seek?)

And while the scavengers surround

I listen closely for the sound

That echoes from the deep

Slow descent, no light to be found

Sin has clothed me its shroud

And in my ears he calls me down

End the suffering, lay your burden down

Follow me down

There are answers waiting for you underground