bestow me celestial rewards for all my putrid behavior [scour the earth] show us the upcoming attraction of our hopeless endeavors [the soil] send all the pretty little angels back to zero where they belong waiting to kill the big man upstairs may they be lucid and praying for rain send all the filthy fucking angels back to zero where they belong and wait to kill the big man upstairs may they be lucid and praying for rain [smoldering] only solemn pits of depression hoping for a change of heart stagnation's roots grow deep the neverending dread to start surrender your ego tumble downward with me cast thoughts into the void and find that once free [with ashes] the soil is already smoldering with ashes of the american flag

i can see you've lathered yourself up in algorithmic snake oil and burned yourself at both ends this epoch's eternal dirge waiting for an unction yet you ran out of gods to defend spare me your they saids your whataboutisms your gaslighting nail biting infighting virtue signaled trial by firefighting the shame in you is guilt cast unto me you've taken it all and undone what could be (the shame goes on and on on and on and on) now go tell 'em from your mountaintop in the era of introversion we're marred and mirror images of our own kind but you never met a secret you couldn't scream out loud mangled acrimony as divine spare me your they saids your whataboutisms your gaslighting nail biting infighting virtue signaled trial by firefighting the shame in you is the guilt cast unto me you've taken it all and undone what should be (the shame goes on and on on and on and on) now go tell 'em from your mountaintop behold, your redeemer an arsonist in cowardice you'd writhe in avarice he'd thrive

i can taste the cowardice slithering through this city's veins snakes, spiders, diamonds, pearls they can pick their claim to fame broiled in a summer of psychosis frostbitten in a winter's barrage the bitter, sarcastic uprising swallowed up in the mirage when we're razed from within visigoths and paragons, one and all will we still be standing? will we be at all? i have my doubts i have my doubts with freedom to shut your eyes why bother to pick a side i've heard the myths told of annihilation sold by idiots of the fucking fold vanguards to ostracize violence so intimate consequences so menacing and yet somehow all of you never saw any of this coming when we've been sacked from within visigoths and paragons, one and all will we still be standing? will we be at all? i have my doubts i have my doubts [goddamnnation] take it up with god take it up with your emperor your dukes, your doomsayers your heroes, your wayfarers your daytripping placaters your nagging naysayers the oh so quite contrarian with a quiet confederation the quintessential constant of this condemned cunt-cunt-country now quit your bitching when it's all ruined from within visigoths and paragons, one and all will we still be standing? will we be at all? i have my doubts i have my doubts

when the sky painted with a serrated edge its ethos forever obsessed choosing to suffer and reward bastards get to the good part and tell me how this ends while I'm living in this fucked up apology this loathsome hegemony this predetermined nightmare get to the good part and tell me how this ends while I'm living in this fucked up apology this loathsome hegemony this predetermined nightmare of nasdaq proportions i've married into the madness of my own design straight to every chakra Now feed me my half-hearted absolution with a silver spoon mantra when the sky painted with a serrated edge its ethos forever obsessed choosing to suffer and reward bastards get to the good part and tell me how this ends while we're living in this fucked up apology this lonesome hegemony this neverending nightmare get to the good part and tell me how this ends while we're living in this fucked up apology this lonesome hegemony this neverending nightmare of bailout proportions the lividity in my stomach settles just long enough to lose the rhythm circumnavigating circumambulation and i know a thing or two about self deprecating passive aggression i've got craters in my arm where cigarette burns should've been disowning disassociation when the sky painted with a serrated edge its ethos forever obsessed choosing to suffer and reward bastards get to the good part and tell me how this ends while we're living in this fucked up apology this lonesome hegemony this terminal nightmare get to the good part and tell me how this ends while we're living in this fucked up apology this loathsome hegemony this terminal nightmare of existential proportions

you, you've got your cocaine cousin and i heard jack and jill caught the plague i, i picked up the nastiest habits but all in all we like to think we're still the same we, we've chased every dragon's tail for so long now the serpent feeds on its own entrails in a failed coup against ether the timeline seems ever bleaker but it just feels like the world is testing our patience and it's all so temporary temporal and temporarily tempting temper, temper, i have no patience for it abandon hope find us a getaway from this state this state of mind just shove our heads between our legs as we wave wave it all goodbye a noose around the shadow's neck i keep dancing through moonlight the only fool who could still find solace turning the dial left and right i think i've lost it i think i've lost my mind let me assure myself that these yes these are blessed times running dry on facades to sell i'll just go and reinvent myself Śūnyatā a point of origin our subterfuge our vestibule a lovesick, deranged version of you the broken clock twice chimed with kaleidoscopic vitriol it rhymed to the beat of the milieu abandon hope find us a getaway from this state this state of mind just shove our heads between our legs as we wave wave it all goodbye but it just feels like the world is testing our patience and it's all so temporary temporal and temporarily tempting temper, temper, i have no patience for it but it just feels like the world is testing our patience and it's all so temporary temporal and temporarily tempting temper, temper, i have no patience for it abandon hope find us a getaway from this state this state of mind just shove our heads between our legs as we wave wave it all goodbye Śūnyatā a point of origin our subterfuge our vestibule a lovesick, deranged version of you the broken clock twice chimed with kaleidoscopic vitriol it rhymed to the beat of the milieu

overly medicated sleep deprived my days here have meant nothing we're trapped in eternity together, my dear our days here have meant nothing curb my drinking and reconnect when it's convenient for me trade your luck in for mine catastrophic thinking won't just let it be [face my reckoning] mistaking laisse faire for callousness a hostage to affection in the optic age another day with no sun hostage stroking captivation curb my drinking and reconnect when it's convenient for me trade your luck in for mine catastrophic thinking won't just let it be [face my reckoning] with my one eye gone and my hair falling out i can't trust my left arm and my voice won't be bothered to shout i don't remember a damn thing so far from humanity in a reality that supplants my dignity curb my drinking and reconnect when it's convenient for me trade your luck in for mine catastrophic thinking won't just let it be [face my reckoning] uppers downers all arounders there's enough to get me by repugnant solvent advent there's enough to let us fly so i'll never have to face this reckoning

her harshest rays the sinking dream with my head buried in your mullet distractions feels like a guillotine a fairweather fuckup generations defined by a car crash arterial roads of our lives are crawling with black cats so take it for what you will because i don't know how to feel I've dreamed of it all what came before and what comes next so take it for what you will because i don't know how i feel I've dreamed of it all what came before and what comes next and I can live with it is it the ending that we craved this wager on the apocalypse dashing hopes, chasing ghosts i need a drink to get through this scattered in the details the dark matter that we need space to hide behind radiant smiles so we'll never have to see so take it for what you will because i don't know how to feel I've dreamed of it all what came before and what comes next so take it for what you will because i don't know how i feel I've dreamed of it all what came before and what comes next and I can suffer it this situation sounds the same as the last of the static rings [over and over, over and over] new stations, voices of one name as they spinelessly shout [over and over, over and over] repent for silence before the frequencies, they start to roar through my plummeting ears but i'm far too gone and i was never really here no, i was never really here so take it for what you will because i don't know how to feel I've dreamed of it all what came before and what comes next so take it for what you will because i don't know how i feel I've dreamed of it all what came before and what comes next and I can harbor with it

there's that humor, it reflects that familiar, multifaceted self-indignant disrespect derealization a fire in your eyes you can always say you were just caught up in the riptide a cause that never had a rebel how did words become so malleable a wretch like you could learn a thing or two about what you should do when humanity's through and a wretch like you just can't get it through when we're all fed up and turning away from a wretch like you your lover's heart left lacerated they'll learn to like the taste of steel and lick their lips at the feeling of being hated macrocosmic a joke that makes everyone cry you should've known they'd never let you slide on by a cause that never had a rebel how did words become so malleable but a wretch like you could learn a thing or two about what you should do when humanity's through and a wretch like you just can't get it through when we're all fed up and turning away from a wretch like you i'm all but certain resilience will be futile this diatribe from corpses signifies nothing we'll soon find you buried among the meanwhile wasted flesh that festered in loathing a wretch like you could learn a thing or two about what you should do when humanity's through and a wretch like you just can't get it through when we're all fed up and turning away from a wretch like you

[forget our reflections] cold, cold fragility how i long to see you fly i fear the stars look much more brilliant from the other side voices echoing through the void arms raised up to the sky the rain, it finally arrives and washes away tears with a sigh but when my sky goes out and all the light is blotted out i feel you still stand by my side i know you'll be right by my side [staring at their reflections we won't look back] but when my sky goes out and all the light is blotted out i feel you still stand by my side i know you'll be right by my side [forget our reflections] let's set sail for the nearest shipwreck yes, let's fly south for the flames let's fight against our own rebirth and find a way to stay the same as far from heaven as the horizon sinks let's not wait for the earth to catch up to our falling feet since it was always you amongst the fleet the fleeting glimpse [forget our reflections] and when my sky goes out and all the light is blotted i feel you still stand by my side i know you'll be right by my side [staring at their reflections we won't look back] the fleeting glimpse of what was to come, and what could save me when my body feels like glass and my spine misaligned the current prescriptions can't fix my mind i've got a hunch that our friends are all drunk even when they're all stuck inside it's only when i turn over in bed and i see you in loneliness' stead that everything feels fine everything's fine with you by my side let the whole world just fuck off and die while it's just you and i you and i shove annihilation aside as we embrace and get by while the whole world fucks off and dies and when my sky goes out and all the light is blotted i feel you still stand by my side i know you'll be right by my side it was always you it was always you amongst the fleet the fleeting glimpse of what was to come, and what could save me from myself