The Flood - The Haunted

Will you ever look past your self-sufficient illusions

The structure’s true foundations rest within you

The price we pay for sheer indifference

Surrendered self — you’re discount spare parts

You give up your rights for your limitations

and abandon all hope

One step further down the line as the flood begins to rise

You’re on your knees faking ambition

Now close your eyes and bleed

I know there are things from the past that should never be brought back

The ghosts of stale ideals and burning bridges

In simplified innane depictions of a different world

A lie to serve the fold and the forces in them

As you give up your rights for your limitations

and lay down your arms

One step further down the line as the flood begins to rise

You’re on your knees faking ambition

Now close your eyes

In the darkest corner of my mind I see a boy with a crooked smile

With a crown made of tinsel and glassbeads on a wire

Singin a song out of time

Now if you believe I’ll bleed for you…

and if I could bleed — so could you

Close your eyes and pretend it’ll go away

but you know that you’ve got nothing to lose