This is the price you pay
I want to show you an empty world
An impending sepulcher
A pitch white realm of carrion for the vultures
Lonely it seems, like the sun never rises
Lonely it seems, when you live in disguises
Fallen down to the abysmal bottom
The inescapable absolute
You pray for sleep and then you beg for death
And it never stops lingering over you
My life as a ghost is infinite
Accelerate the imminent
I thought I ended my own story
Only trapping myself in perpetual purgatory
Blacklist, how did it end up like this?
An ever-enveloping fog
A muffled cry for help, life only lived in hell
So worried it would never be gone
It pulled me under
Now all I wish for is release
My life as a ghost is infinite
Accelerate the imminent
I thought I ended my own story
Only trapping myself in perpetual purgatory
I’m the one that asked for this life
A self-proclaimed poetic demise
Now I speak to the suffering mainstay
This is the price you pay
My life as a ghost is infinite
Accelerate the imminent
I thought I ended my own story
And now I'm trapped in purgatory.
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