Fortitude slipping with time
Disintegrating to nothing but fragments lost
The destiny of failure has succeeded in its goal
Rotting in essence, one more line left uncrossed
Your conviction, building and building
“Just know nothing truly ends and only time can heal this pain”
The oxygen fleets as I’m strangled by false hope
Once again becoming the victim
Calloused skin deluded endlessly
Fiction built up in a mind of naivety
A conscious sick of manipulation
Harrowed to shatter redundantly
Exposing the silent screams seeming impossible
No secrets kept, no screams are held within
Barren lungs suffocated by dejection
Once again becoming the victim
Calloused skin deluded endlessly
Fiction built up in a mind of naivety
Once again becoming the victim
Calloused skin deluded endlessly
Candor collapses as it all begins again
You can’t kill a man who’s already dead inside
Your certainty is crumbling
Just know nobody changes and time doesn’t heal a thing.
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