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Absent-mindedness
07:32
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As a shadow dancing on the wall, everything seems to be an illusion,
Beautifull memories of lies, everything spiraling into confusion,
Still images of happiness, everything feeds this delusion.
Even as the time stand still, world moves on without me,
No sound, no light, no touch nor smell, as if I have ceased to be…
These eyes don’t want to see...
My hands don’t want to feel...
I’m diving into the abyss...
Nothing matters, this existence is trivial.
Dreary life, pointless and material.
Egalitarian death, inevitable and ethereal.
Defiant slave punished daily, just for despising this reality.
No freedom in sight, the prison is tied to my vitality.
Everlasting torture, ancient tale of depravity.
So I just sit, still and frozen, this world can go on without me,
So lost in this absent-mindedness, as if I have ceased to be…
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Behind the Mirror
04:32
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Behind the mirror hides the shadow of the boy that never lived.
Estranged, he holds tight his pillow, his whole life he’s been deceived.
He cries but no one can hear him!
In his darkest hours instead of soothing words the voice of his guardian lashed out at him.
No place to hide from horrors, no shelter from the harm, even his mind wasn’t safe for him.
Didn’t matter what he did, didn’t matter what he said, his words were always used against him.
The sweet release of death, somewhere to be at peace, felt like the only way out for him.
He cries but no one can hear him!
Even after he tried to take his own life no one believed him!
Miserable, unworthy, broken, empty, he just wanted to scream!
Insidious emotions were building up, he just wanted to get out of his skin!
Resorting to self-harm to cover the pain inside, watch the blood flow down the arm like a stream.
Releasing all the horrors that we kept inside for so long and we’re fading away like our hopes and dreams.
Only he knows how damaged and beyond repair we are, watch the blood flow down the arm like a stream.
Regrets eating me alive every day because that boy behind the mirror will always live inside me…
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Defensive Measure
08:20
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Dehumanized, you judge everyone and it makes you feel superior.
Expelling your frustrations on everyone while hiding behind a terminal.
Forever blinded by self-righteousness you cement your ignorance.
Eventually you step away from the screen into your loneliness,
without realizing what you’ve done because you’re a psychopath.
Numb to reality you close your eyes and sleep sweet dreams,
where the cries of those you’ve hurt can’t reach you.
Suddenly your dreams are shattered by the alarm clock.
Instead of a crown, your life as a slave awaits.
Vacuous employee of the month, your duty awaits.
Even though you know how it feels, you still act as a piece of shit.
Malevolent, because you are jealous of their lives.
Epitome of futility, your existence is a burden to society.
All of this negativity unleashed into the world,
because you’re unable to find a better use of your time.
Secretly you wish to escape and change your life
but you’re too weak to break away from your own lies.
Ultimately your defensive measure will crumble.
Reckoning will be painful and unforgiving.
Everyone can see it coming but you’re too blind.
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Degeneration
05:58
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Digging in my brain, blood clouds my sight, this feeling of loss slowly drives me insane.
Every thought is wrong, can’t find a way out, can’t get through the days that are to come.
Gallows that I’ve built, I’m swinging on them, front row seats for the failure that is my life...
Enshrouded by this darkness I slowly fade away in nothingness.
No one can pull me out of it, this grave that I dug on my own, this coffin that I’ve sealed myself in, they’re all in my mind.
Every day I have to fight it, it’s getting harder to hide it, these scars are always there to remind me, that I’ll never be free.
Robbed of any hope, addicted to the pain, makes every bit of happiness feel undeserved.
Abandoned to drift away, sinking into the void, maybe this world is better off without me.
Take on everyone’s pain, feed my own empathy, yet I’m still unable to fill the void in me.
Infected with this parasite I slowly fade away in nothingness.
On this day it’s like I’m one with it, it’s getting harder to hide it, these scars are always there to remind me, that I’ll never be free.
No one can pull me out of it, these words are a proof of it, there’s no cure for this illness, this degeneration.
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Forlorn in the Autumn
06:01
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For a long time,
Odd and in grime,
Rejected by my own mind,
Locked up in an eternal bind.
Only pain in this daily grind,
Restless eyes are now blind.
Negligible as a leaf, I am forlorn in the Autumn...
Inside me, my world has died, rotted as a leaf in Autumn...
No hope, no life, no happiness, darkness of a dreary Autumn...
Tears flowing, I am drowning in them, rains of a lonely Autumn...
Hopeless as the tree, I am forlorn in the Autumn...
Every word cuts deep...
And deprives me of sleep.
Unknown shadows darken my skies,
Torture me daily with painful lies,
Until the hope in me finally dies,
Molested and suffocated by cries...
Negligible as a leaf, I am forlorn in the Autumn...
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6. |
Like a Leaf in the Wind
06:54
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(instrumental)
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7. |
Straightjackets
07:03
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Stubborn voices in my head telling me to escape,
This useless pile of flesh, be free without a shape...
Running all around me, doctors are in panic, unsure if they still can save me.
All the blood around me, I can’t move my body, am I ever going to be free.
In this chaos around me, I can hear them laughing, the voices are proud of me.
“Good lord, what have you done!” there’s no lord, this was my doing,
Hell and fire await my soul, if south is where I’m going…
The darkness fades I’m surrounded by the light...
Just as I thought, I’ve been tied up too tight...
Another failed escape, I guess I’ve missed my flight…
Creeping voices in my head telling me to escape.
Knocked out by the pills, I’m theirs to reshape...
Everyone around me is screaming in panic, we’re all in straightjackets.
Terror all around me, I can’t move my body, we’re all in straightjackets.
Suffering all around me, voices shouting at me, we’re all in straightjackets.
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Sneg Arbedo Castione, Switzerland
Sneg is a one man band from Switzerland.
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