The Darkness and a Salvation Song
Spoken alone: When there's an ocean's worth of it Dammed behind your eyes Waves without words Storms held in glass bottles The fractures show But we hold it in, hold the pain in Nowhere to go Always alone I'll fade till I'm gone No, I'm not real The broken darkness It comes for us Crawls through the cracks Sets in Then swallows us whole Our fears shown true: Hope doesn't exist Everything is meaningless I will never be loved So that's all we'll know Our shackles are this A sinking stone Frayed fabric worn thin A puddle on the curb ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A song sung together: Roll off of me Roll off of me My gladness has been gone I’ve been bound for so long Roll off of me Roll off of me Roll off of me These burdens are our clothes Dark specters come and go Roll off of me Shake, shake, shake You chains Tremble before The Ancient of Days We’ve been enslaved These 400 years But the end ...
