Teeth clenching hard
Fists turning white
Blood running hot
And my thoughts are burning bright
Faltering hand
Weakening step
Confidence fades
And what else have I left
Ideals dispersed
Reason gives way
Wisdom blanks
And knowledge loses its taste
Heart writhing up
Empathy gone
Feeling goes dark
And song abandons my tongue
Stumbling down the slope beneath
Grasping at every branch and tree
Darkness looms, I cannot see
Whatever waits in front of me
Slowly does the steepness quell
But quickly does the rushing swell
Water's voice before me tells
A river runneth through this hell
I fall to my knees, groveling in mud
Anger bursting free, my hatred erupting up
Break the shackles of man and see
How far he gets on his own spirit
Until he finally collapses in
A pool of his own blood and tears
And collect all the sorrow and anger
And bottle it up and store it forever
Until the event horizon is reached
Over and over and over and over and
Break the shackles of man and see
How far he gets on his own spirit
Until he finally collapses in
A pool of his own blood and tears
And collect all the sorrow and anger
And bottle it up and store it forever
Until the event horizon is reached
Unleash it all and dismantle the whole fucking world
The whole goddamn world
The whole fucking world
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