Artifex Pereo - Hands of Penance lyrics

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(Verse)

These walls became a cage stretched with delicate wounds

That mark a dying day, the scraps of breath I take

Belong to someone else

The dirt is all I know, chained in line with the others

Sick forgotten souls stuck with lies they told

And wished they never found

What good is fear to a man

When he's lost everything else?

Trees need no bark once the core is hollowed out

When a mistake is just that transforming Eden to Hell

Such reflection will leave you beside yourself

There are days when death would be welcomed as a friend

But I'll live until we meet with my regrets

My life of moral decay was bound to damn me to this fate

Held in the hands of penance

What good are dreams when wake?

To find I'm right where I'll always be

Even if I don't belong