Gladiolus - Flicker Lyrics

Tearing through the aether
World after world consumed by our vacuity
We're all just nothing more
Than a spiteful state of matter
This state we cannot sustain
As our cores render us insensate
It's blind guilt seeking a reason
So we tear at the strain
Our bones worn thin and brittle by our struggle to break out
Burning hot and bright is everything
Lest rage die out and I'm left empty
Watching it fade away
How'd it take so long to know
We need this pain to grow
The medicine we take
Makes its own way down
A cold collapse
To shut it out
Only echoes call to me
Down at the bottom
Locked up with all my problems
Engage the toxins
Locked up with all these goblins
Down at the bottom
Locked up with all my problems
Engage the toxins
Locked up with all this hate
Freed of rage and guilt I flicker
Ascended by this lack of violence
My malice turns
It's more that we deserve
Rip the shroud from your form
I'll shout it 'til my voice runs raw
Released by a simple change
Aeons in the making
Infinity in an instant
Hypergiant destiny
Freed of rage and guilt I flicker
Ascended by this lack of violence
My malice turns
It's more that we deserve
Down at the bottom
Locked up with all my problems
Engage the toxins
Locked up with all these goblins
There's no one left to tie it all together
To keep it all in place
Alone with all these weathered threads of fate
Untethered my intuition is sure to slip away
I don't wanna drift along
I don't wanna drift along
This way
We make our own way down
Travelling worlds unknown
Leaving you behind
I can't stay
Living this way
Shed my sin
Life begins
Strip back the border
Fold it all inward
Compressed to the center
Density defined
To witness nothing
Is better in the end
Liberate the stone
Beneath my ragged feet
So far away from where this all began
And as we grew I watched the gap expand
You told me you'd be there
But you drifted from my reach
So far away
So far above
Watch as it fades
Slowing to a crawl
Witness loathing turn itself around
We are remade
Devoid of all the hate
The gods will see that we did not back down
Let your anger go
Let your anger go