At a Distance - IV. Deaths of Despair Lyrics

Part IV - Deaths of despair:
Deaths of despair
Leave behind surrendered minds
Swimming in anguish

We mourn for a past
Green and warm
As the sea rises to embrace its progeny

It was once our home
Cold
Deep
And dark

Perhaps it is a calling
Leading us back
To the depths
A homecoming
Crashing
Seeping
Inundating

It is a symphony
Bellowing with the screams
Of festering voices

Drowning lives

Mother will break this era
Mother will end the cycle

It was once our home
Cold
Deep
And dark

Perhaps it is a calling
Leading us back
A homecoming
Crashing
Inundating

Wasting away shores
And your meaningless borders

Drowning lives

It's a symphony
Bellowing with the screams
Of festering voices

Mother will break this era
Mother will eat its young
Mother will end the cycle

Deaths of despair

Break the cycle
End the era

Drowning lives

Deaths of despair

Break the cycle
End the era

Hearts racing
Pumping from exhaustion
Lips blue with yearning for better days
Gaping mouths swallow in full as they sink

Tears dissolve in the salty mix
Winds blow with circular rage and leveling promise
Waves wash away the screams
Deaf to their prayers
Bringing death to their heirs

Watch as the waves wash away their screams
Deaf to their prayers

Bodies pile as they sink below
A feeding frenzy for the sentient
Philosophical queries will dissolve
A puzzle for them that will evolve

Life nourishing the new minds
As a new cycle begins
Flesh for flesh

Watch as the waves wash away their screams
Deaf to their prayers