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I'm holding back a tide

Relentless surging, churning miasma

Holding sickness at stride, put aside your nightmares

Embrace infinity's grey eyes

They're burning right through you

The ringing, writhing in you

Forcefully derived, forging disregard

Seething, nurtured in flame

Once servant, now master

Slaving, oneself to oneself

Echo these words in vast caverns

Echo these words throughout the void

The stifling cold now subliming

Place distance betwixt us, I beseech you

Keep me at bay lest I reach you

To inflict pain, design your suffering

Becoming that I had studied

Which I had despised

Seeking an end out of spite

I was seeking an end, but I received life

Encrusting binds fall to the ground

Its breaking out, grinding the inside out

Encrusting binds fall to the ground

Its breaking out, grinding the inside out

I had longed for this

Wasting countless decades

Carving count lines in my skull

The walls wore thin

I would outlast myself

You caught me brooding

Moving the lines of self control

It tore apart the fibres

The substance of a whole

Scraping, removing the outer layers

Just beneath the skin

Just beneath the mind

Submerged in the lucid depths undescribed

It's the truth we all exonerate

Knowing we will each one day dissipate

Each born to fleet

Be joy, be suffering

Contradict all

All here for nothing