Ruins -

Drag me down with all you’ve got

with patterns and dogmas designed

to kill whats still alive

and we’re left to march through the buried

thirsty for status, hungry for symbols

amidst slogans echoing back in our ears

telling us to be dead is to be alive

and what more’s there to life than keeping out

functions, and closing our eyes, letting moments slip by,

with our heads bowed, with our hearts buried under

the ruins of our heavens in our minds.

i’m not here to save this world,

i’m here to save myself, and set it abiaze

i’m not here to save this world

i’m here to dance in ruins, as heavens and hells collide

i’m not here to save this world,

i’m here to save myself, with my heart bled dry

i’m not here to save this world,

i’m here to dance in the ruins of our heavens made of hopes.

As youthful ideals turn,

into jaded apathy extreme — is the path I take

towards the greater good,

the benefit of the self,

among lives to be led and lived astray,

astray — in the ruins of our heavens in our hearts,

ruins — of our heavens made of hopes

hearts — bled dry and what’s left untold

let it rise!

— let it rise!

— let it rise!

nightmare and dreams unite!

i’m not here to save this world,

i’m here to save myself, and set it abiaze

i’m not here to save this world

i’m here to dance in ruins, as heavens and hells collide

i’m not here to save this world,

i’m here to save myself, with my heart bled dry

i’m not here to save this world,

i’m here to dance in the ruins of our heavens made of hopes.

Dragged me down with all you had,

and our patterns and dogmas,

might have killed what was still alive,

and i was bound to march through the buried

yet among my thirst and my hunger,

and from the ruins of my heavens

i built this wall around — to keep myself alive

i built — this — wall — around — to — keep — my fuckin' self, alive