Skies

Cough, gasp, and sputter

Spinning helplessly down toward the earth

A loss of control, the sky swallows whole

Spinning down, down

Forever falling down, down, down

But is it entirely a flightless fall?

No deceptive currents, no rise at all?

Maybe it’s too naive to not jump ship

When deviating so drastically from the initial script

Tremble beneath the weight of inevitability

And all the casualties therein

Cower in the shadow of the ever-present sun

Witness eclipsing, eclipsing, eclipsed

Is it completely void? Or is the truth in shade?

Are all the facts before us a masquerade?

Suffering no deceit, no selfish lies

We stand in our own crypt and we mobilize

Waking up to blazing heat

And the stench of rancid meat

Don’t have the patience or the time to repeat mistakes

Like high, hot hauls, through highway tolls

With bigger brothers for hungry trolls

Each horn sharpened by eye sockets torn

Standing on the graves of the worn

Welcome to the place integrity is born

Heart in the right place, just missing the mark

Feigning exception is a shot in the dark

With no remorse and no regret

Is anybody listening yet?

Tremble beneath the weight of inevitability

And all the casualties therein

Cower in the shadow of the ever-present sun

Witness eclipsing, eclipsing, eclipsed

Bask in uncertainty

Strange things can happen when faced with adversity

Ask and you shall receive

Or swing frantic your arms

Fate is nothing but a nervous belief

I don’t believe the end is in pavement

I don’t believe there’s anything beneath

I don’t believe there’s death in the basement

No I don’t believe

No I don’t believe

Embrace the fall, there is no end

No ambiguous hypothesis to comprehend

No bruised and battered egos in descent’s entire ethos

No magnificent creation myth. No wind to pad the story with

Only I will never quit, or watch my brothers quit

But I’ll lower down a lifeboat if you’re abandoning the ship

True sailing’s dead, should have been the first thing said

Before the writing could be written, before the writing could be read

The wreckage was never found

But the black box was recovered

The message therein profound

In our final moments our true names are all discovered

So let it fall, fall. Even if it turns out to be futile

At least we couldn’t ask for a sky so clear or a day more beautiful

They’ll never find the wreckage, transcending all human languages

Just a promise and a final message: The descent is all there truly ever is

Just a promise and a final message: The descent is all there ever is

Just a promise and a, just a promise and a final message: The fall is all there ever is

Just a promise and a final message: The descent is all there ever is

Just a promise and a, just a promise and a final message: The fall is all there ever is

Stumble beneath the radar, big holes in each great city

Is all the evidence I need

Knowledge often beckons and can lead astray

Whisper release me, release me, release

Dive into an endless sea

No reason to falter no plan supersedes

Altering frequencies

But we welcome the change

Fate is nothing but a nervous disease

Cough, gasp, and sputter

Spinning helplessly down toward the earth

A loss of control, the sky swallows whole

Spinning down, down

Forever falling down, down, down