I held hope in my own arms
And watched as it burned alive
Trapped in godless times
Separated by man-made lines
We watch judgement lead to harm
Letting the malice harvest
We stand divided, and fall regardless
In search of faith and none to harness
We’re all slaves to the fate speaker
The life taker
The soul seeker
The bringer of death
A constant cycle of hurting and mending
We’re only reading ‘til we reach the ending
Characters in a mind-numbing story
Nothing but filler between birth and glory
We’re all characters, how fucking novel
Perched in ivory towers or left to entreat and grovel
The line is drawn between gifted and earned
But everyone bleeds and everyone burns
What’s the solution when it’s all a problem?
A waning moment to escape the bottom
Trapped in a story that’s already been written
No wish to seek the inevitably given
Perplexities befalling in every thought
Hope dwindling, all leads to naught
What’s the solution when it’s all a problem?
A waning moment to escape the bottom
We’re all slaves to the fate speaker
The life taker
The soul seeker
The bringer of death.
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