The Exile

from Between Lifetimes by Winter's Gate

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The drifting ghost of who you were haunts my every move.
Feeding my torture with this voided bliss, I’m lying to myself.
Lying to myself about each memory, I just won’t allow myself to see clearly.
I’d tear through my skin for a glimpse of your face, a mere second of your grace.
I’d beg for death but I know you’d be absent.

Stumbling through this tattered forest my mind slips through my grasp.
Amongst the fog of worry, swarms of loathing begin to creep forth.
My perception becomes blinded by the infectious disease.
The one your hand planted inside of me.

This wreckage is my home now, no stars hang above me.
No hope will be bestowed, clouded by my misery.

Every memory bleeds out
The meanings stripped away as I watch reality dissipate.
Each sequence vibrates forth and I’m sure it will never be the same.
I’m so ashamed of every action I take
How will it change if I let it slip away?
My dreams turn to nightmares as your presence fades away

Cold and isolation begin to take hold, nothing but a puppet
To my own mind, someone save me from my thoughts
I can’t control my failures, they continue to control me

We promised one day we would speak again
Through these broken doors my hope crumbles down.
Now I’m tearing out my own eyes, I can’t save this now
I can’t bring you back.

This wreckage is my home now, no stars hang above me.
No hope will be bestowed, clouded by my misery. x2

Lying to myself about each memory, I just won’t allow myself to see clearly.

The hollow echoes forth, your voice sings me to my sleep.
Where my nightmares slit my throat, with the things never seen.
The blade was built upon the hours in which I desired your grace,
Forged from the decay that I felt cascade down me every day.
And now I beg to see clearly x3

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from Between Lifetimes, released April 13, 2018

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