Break me down and let me drown
Send me to the deepest sea
I've gazed into the end without fear
Death is but a blissful sleep
Wake me just as I take slumber
Save me right as I'm set free
Savior, enemy, shapeshifter
Break me down and drown with me
"It's too late"
It says in its warm and soothing voice
"Erase what you can and cut your loss"
It beckons
"There's no use, not worth the cost"
And I listen foolishly
When the sun never rises, do you despise the dark?
Do you suffocate, when you're feeling torn apart?
Only black water rises, only ash rains down
If the sun never rises again, you'll never hear a sound
I can't tell who's in control
(Speaking in silence / Vessel of violence)
I can't tell who's in control
(Break me down / Break me down)
Relentless and regenerated
Back and forth with the force of the tide
Revisiting a past of discarded fate
Forever at war with the monster inside
With the monster inside me
If the sun never rises, bury me in the dark
Let the blackness consume me, we were never apart
If the black water rises, and the ash rains down
Let the mud take me, but don't let it take the sound
Midwestern prog-metal stalwarts go for the throat on their new EP, featuring a roiling cover of the Smashing Pumpkins' “1979.” Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 7, 2019