Everything is black and red
Whispers of everything unsaid
Falling into this boundless dread
Everything's all black and red
Responsibilities we pawned off to the dead
The oxidation of all that's been left unsaid
We need to look past this atrophy
Mustering everything that's left of me
To set my gaze back to the horizon line
Saddle down to this form we must obey
That, or prostrate and pray
Cause baby, we're fucked if we don't obey
So sit back, settle down, it'll be okay
How can we maintain our poise
When we're drowned in all this fucking noise?
When the rotten ether's falling down
One dead soul at a time
Their crashes to the ground sound of belching death and demon's shrieks
We can hate this all we want
But we caused this
And we'll surely end up the same
If we can't maintain our poise
We just gotta survive this flood
So just keep wading through this fallen decay
We might just make it out someday
We need to look past this agony
Conjuring everything that's left in me
To make a slit left to right in my field of view
I can't see where it ends for the life of me
I can't tell if I'm drowning or just falling asleep
Goddammit, this altar is all that's left of me
So here, you meatless motherfucker, let's pray
Grab your bound-up gem and say what you say
You shouldn't drown if you have something to hold
So hold on for dear life, hope it doesn't dissolve
It shouldn't if you don't believe it to
Don't fall asleep, don't you dare drown
Project your half-baked vision of a God and take one step more
It'll cause immeasurable pain, and you'll have to do it all again
Don't count on any respite
There's no time for rest in plight
Until you have something to say for it
Malignant bacteria infecting your lungs
You'd better breathe deep and find a pocket that's been left untouched
Cause you've got a lifetime to go
Learn to take control of yourself
Take dominion over this, turn it into nutrients
So that this abhorrent thing just might grow
Everything is black and red
Disinter everything unsaid
Take a dip into this boundless dread
Everything's all black and red
Admit it's your burden to bear, just another undead
Come back with something to justify this valley of dread
We have so much more to go
There's something out there left for me to know
A semi-existent purpose I came to let go
It's the only way I could ever hope to let it grow
I could never wrap my fingers 'round it anyway
Maybe then, it'll come back around and be here to stay
But until then, I've got two million years of debt to repay
I can't handle this agonizing noise
Just stay calm, maintain your poise
In the end, it's always a choice
Whether to pretend there's a God out there
Or to pine, leaving one more man-shaped vessel of rot for the next to come
They tell you it's a choice, so get up off your ass and run
Just maintain your poise
Push on through this awful noise
In the end, there's only one choice
Leave it all to rot, your values and expectations
Voluntarily embrace the only choice
It's all that we've got left in this godforsaken gorge
It might come back around, but don't expect a thing
You only get back what you bring
And all you've got is poise
So wade on through the noise
Until the day you've earned the right to rest
