I've started breathing the water
I stopped drowning a long time ago
I think I'm gonna be sick
I can't seem to internalize this
Longing for distance erased
I feel time etching away
Back and forth once again
Familiar lullabies echo in this dark space
Falling on deafened ears
Open hearts, bleeding dry
This is the tale we weave
With our hands intertwined
Vicious meaning pours itself into
This empty vessel
Being is not enough to placate and satiate this gaping maw
You can help yourself, there's plenty to go around
Where the light doesn't reach
It's said that some may flourish and some may fall
I know we won't all make it
And the pain will certainly weigh us down
Why is the path we take, so obtuse, doubling back
Twisting into the night
Carefully, we mark our way with blood on the leaves
Running thin
Splattered across the land
Like being stretched paper thin
Torn by the wind
Stitched together in white hot pain
Not again, not again, not again, oh god
Not again, not again, not again, I can't take this
For what it's worth, it's said
That some may flourish, and some may fall
I know we won't all make it
And the pain will certainly weigh us down