Elephant - Sparks Of Humanity lyrics
rate meWhat 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