Elephant - Sparks Of Humanity lyrics

rate me

What else can I do but stay alive? <br />

As a vagrant I wander the wastes<br />

Unhealing wounds upon my scarred heart<br />

A victim bearing the brands as trophies<br />

These are the years of transformation<br />

Of savage decisions and necessary cruelty<br />

Running out of a habit of danger<br />

Crushing beauty as if to feel beautiful<br />

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I wish I had not rejected the few who cared<br />

I miss them now like an echo of gratitude<br />

How I wept as those sparks were extinguished<br />

Still I dream of their faces through the dust<br />

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Night upon night, afraid to share my pain<br />

Ashamed to even ask, learning to be helpless<br />

Moonlight is harsh and full of memories<br />

Still the scream remains inside<br />

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I am the pallid light of pressure without grace<br />

Blank with despair, heated and weary<br />

I am a pale beast tamed by a lamb<br />

Mouth stretched like the stupid yawn of chattel<br />

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Treating myself as fragile, shattered by the wind<br />

A crawling, cringing, daunted coward<br />

Degraded by inveterate fear and retrograde guilt<br />

And the sudden tragic end<br />

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I am a blasted husk in this scorched landscape<br />

None remain to cry for the dead, no hope for what I once was<br />

I am this fallen earth of utter loss and barren spirit<br />

Dark emotions beneath an arch of hatred<br />

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Still I feel rhythms in the empty streets<br />

As vultures circle in missing man formation<br />

Searching this planet for the secret trove<br />

Eager to hear the voices of the ones I loved<br />

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Harshness, desolation, coldness, survival<br />

Stalked by disease, hunger and scarcity<br />

The stubborn reek of leprous stink<br />

What remains does not live<br />

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Likely, I will not see tomorrow<br />

Yet worrying about the future is another way to change it<br />

Tenacious, determined, and adapting<br />

As character is chiseled between extremes<br />

Every child is the only child<br />

A universe of individuals - each alone<br />

A warrior without weapons is a warrior still<br />

Shifting, growing, improvising destiny