Valhalla - Erra

Shed your skin, days on years, punished by pressured time

When underneath, you’re balancing all this hate and selfless misconception

What once was full is just the husk of a deceived creature of habits

Black ink can’t pierce this deep

By your side, I watched the birds of prey bind the skies and hold in wait

We cannot mend what is sealed by fate

No future, contentment with complacency, absorbing disappointment,

bite the hand that feeds

I gave up everything to make you feel complete

Drenched in cold sweat from lost comfort of safety, you

Resonate with hatred

My pulse is racing in my chest

I lie awake to imagine pathways of escape as they disappear

All these words mean nothing if we fall face first (if we fall face first) from

running away from something that we saw coming

Embrace this sunset as cloak and dagger for you to cower

Hidden by shadow, with filthy nails of gripping cowards

Shed your skin

Refuse to be loved by yourself to grow free from villainous vines

Refuse love from anyone else to sever ties that have grown intertwined

My failing mind has been oppressed, and I lie awake to embrace a

Pathway of escape

Disappear without a trace

All these words mean nothing if we fall face first (if we fall face first) from

running away from something that we saw coming

Rise through the wake, sliding through the pulse of the ocean tide

Rise through the wake, sliding through the pulse of the ocean tide

Shed your skin!

Shed your skin, I’ve always known what’s underneath

Rise through the wake, or be the crashing waves

Rise through the wake, sliding through the pulse

Of the ocean tide

Rise through the wake, slide

Refuse to be loved by yourself to grow free from villainous vines

Refuse love from anyone else to sever ties that have grown intertwined