Death arrives at your shore, a tear in the sky
In your mind a cancer is born, you and the universe collide
Systems fail and reveal violent verbal absurdities
You fall deathly ill from vacant purple hyperbole
You lie awake trying to keep Black Care behind with vital lies
You move to find ways of escaping life, if only one last time
Spectres seeping in, the wraiths strobe your eyes
Human, all too human to will ourselves blind
You've lost faith in God, in grain, and making love 'til sunrise
Victim of a consciousness grown so overripe
You lie awake trying to keep Black Care behind with vital lies
You move to find ways of escaping life, if only one last time
You lie awake fighting the war in your mind with alibis
You move to find ways of escaping life, if only one last time