Elephant - The Arch Of Entropy's Fire lyrics

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To those who now listen, how did it come to this? <br />

At last I have arrived at truth and all the noise has ended<br />

Refusing my destiny by choosing to suffer<br />

Welcome this victim's legacy<br />

Changing perceptions of an infected past<br />

Constant exile became thundering lunacy<br />

Perfection and perversion, dystopia and decay<br />

There is no future, only this life<br />

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The minutiae of emotion crystallises to memory<br />

Ephemeral moments of a paradigm shift<br />

The tremendous density of a critical point<br />

Early conditions of a fundamental cause<br />

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The most important illusion to sustain is that I matter<br />

Interests and prospects damned by my own words<br />

Everything I do seems to remind me of a failure<br />

All trouble is permanent, an end in itself<br />

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After the final blast disfigured the landscape<br />

Born from above like a bomb<br />

I hid beneath the magnitude of trauma<br />

Most in fear of that which had already happened<br />

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The march of progress and paranoia<br />

Toward my doom with a beleaguered smile<br />

Practicing for my suicide<br />

No speech nor language for such a change<br />

All who live shall die alone<br />

Says the embittered to the idealist<br />

Hopeless, worthless, internalized<br />

A self-defeating gangled wretch<br />

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The archers beyond death with no enemy<br />

Impotent as their arrows broken<br />

Bows bent by age and muscle warped to fat<br />

Ability unchallenged reduced to complacency<br />

A shiver in the basement as I emerge from hibernation<br />

Time will not slow down for me<br />

Gasping as the soft rains fall<br />

I am the only human being to survive