[Imago:] (I will never submit to all the things you've said god!) No!
We're breaching the core - we're breaching the core We're breaching the core - we're breaching...
To taste it To touch it Cut my hand To crave it Enslave it Pluck my eye
I can never submit to all the things you've said God If you want me dead, I'm right here God But fear is a funny thing God In that it gives you the strength to resist just about anything God And friend turns to enemy So easily When you defend your legacy with guilt And talk of blasphemy God You know You created a golden cage for you sheep A stage too wide and deep for us to even see the play But hey You know what they say about catching the bird But you can't make it sing? You lose the bird the second it loses its wings Just like I reckon you will lose your herd To choirs of "I am, I am, I am" And mountains and mountains of money and things!
We're breaching the core - all breaching We're breaching the core - still breaching
[Animae:] "Help me I'm starting to fade Save me I'm drifting away"
[Imago:] But we can change We can change...? I said we can change!
We can change, we can change - still breaching... We can change, we can change - still breaching...
I hold it I'm never Letting go I settle for rash rather than risk going to slow I sought it I killed it But now I know I'm left somewhat broken but I won't let it show Hear me now!
[Animae:] "Man is shattered I am shattered My shards have become shards of their own Pieces of pieces, impossible to put back together Spending their lives seeking a context they were always a part of And so, they leave the context And we shrink I fade And nothing more can be learnt or taught I have no choice but to leave them to their own devices I have come to understand one thing and one thing alone One little piece of understanding Glowing through this void of blankness and clean slates Like a beacon of hope Or just a reminder that I was always wrong:
"Searching for yourself is like looking for the house you stand in How could you possibly find it? It's everywhere It's all you know And there are no other points of reference"
[Animae:] Help me I'm starting to fade Save me, I'm drifting away Help me, I'm dying now ([Imago:] What are these stains? They stay, stay when it rains...) Curtains before my final bow ([Imago:] ...burning my skin. It's burning... burning... burning my skin!) Drifting, just drifting away ([Imago:] Burning... Take it away, it's burning me... Burning my skin!) Leaving with all that's still left to say ([Imago:] Now life... now life... fails our kin!) I failed I failed We failed We failed...
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