This Spiteful Snake - Meshuggah

Reality, this spiteful snake

Rearing its ugly head

Venom dripping from its grin

As it tosses yet another obstacle in our way

If given a thousand years to collect

To process, to portray

We could never encompass the voracity

Of one single day

Trapping us in its winding

Its closing malignant cycles

A tightening coil to bind us

Hold us tight in unforgiving embrace

Its all-engulfing jaws, infinite, boundless

Biting down on the dying flesh of hope

Its fiery breath leveling, dismantling

Flattening, tearing down the structures of our dreams

Overcome, defeated

Terrified, shivering, mute

Reality is terror, this truth is absolute

Reality, this spiteful snake

Shedding its smothering veil

A shroud to asphyxiate

Exterminate, eradicate