Embers to End

2020, was it all worth it?
Bodies line the years, doomed kin festers

Survive, survive this by screaming
Into yourself
Things can’t get worse, every year only
Seems to feel worse (when they come for you)

Are we all safe now? Are we all fitting in?
Assimilate to forget we never belonged
Dissociate to beset the nature
The nature of fleetingness, the fear
Will it comfort you? Will it comfort you?

Thе home we dreamt up, carriеd away
The home we dreamt up, carried away
The life we could have had
A promise never meant
The home we dreamt up, carried away
The home we dreamt up, carried away
The life we could have had
A promise never meant
(I thought I knew where I came from
Where I fit in, where I relate
The tides will change, the ground will shift
Nothing stays true, meant nothing)

You strive all your life to feel
Welcome in their world
Paying dues - used, consumed
When their walls come tumbling down
Who’d you think will be
The first blamed for the fall?

Fire feeds, panic swells (False sense security)
Desperate, take the bait
Fire feeds, panic swells (False sense security)
Desperate, take the bait

Chaos feeds, hatred sells (False flag civility)
Desolate, take the fall

(oh god)

You don’t know what you have till it’s gone
Stars won’t smile on you (stars won’t smile)
There’s no end in sight
Where you don’t lose it all
No matter when, no matter how

So fester, wound
Death kneels hardly still
Time ends on all
Fester, wound
We lost our home and so will you
Time ends on all still

Saving nothing, flailing down (Coward)
We’ll always get the last word (Choke)
Only time till we’re all displaced (Another war)
Who will get the last laugh? (One last laugh)

Frail obedient wretch
Swallow grievance from a millionaire's scorn
You're nothing more than an ember to the flame
The fires rage to your neighborhoods still

Coward
You’re nothing more than an ember to the flame