The Descent - Polaris

From the sky rained ash

Red hand and mouth of black

A voice that echoes from the deep

I woke up to silence in medicated air

I breathed in intoxicating essence

Disinfected clinical scents that cling to me like bleach (Cling to me like

bleach)

White walls, white tiles and white sheets

And all the looming faces

I saw the angel’s horns

I saw the devil’s wings

One beckons to the light

While the other calls me down

(Calls me down)

There are answers waiting for you underground

Down, follow me down

There is quiet, there is peace to be found

Malicious master of my destiny

What is it that you want from me?

What is it that you seek?

(What do you seek?)

And while the scavengers surround

I block my ears to stifle out

The siren’s call as it beckons me

As the flowers bloom from the snow

I have waited a long time to grow

You’ll never know what I kept inside

To be still here somehow alive

Despite my best attempts to leave

To leave it all behind

Leave me breathless

I long to believe

That there was virtue here

In the heart I hid from them

(I can’t pretend)

I can’t pretend I haven’t dreamt of you

(The shadow in)

The shadow in the cemetery

I know the grip, I shook your hand, too young

To ever comprehend

To leave this world with you, familiar friend

Would be such a perfect end

When time stands still

And your hands can’t feel

When the storm won’t pass

And you taste only ash

When the days draw on

And the nights grow long

Is it so absurd to ask?

Malicious master of my destiny

What is it that you want from me?

What is it that you seek?

(What do you seek?)

And while the scavengers surround

I listen closely for the sound

That echoes from the deep

Slow descent (Slow descent)

No light to be found (Be found)

Sin has clothed me in its shroud (In its shroud)

And in my ears he calls me down

End the suffering, lay your burden down

Follow me down

There are answers waiting for you underground